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Gaia and the Divine Feminine

The principles of the Sacred Feminine reflect those of the Sacred Land: inclusion, interconnection, diversity, reciprocity. Nature is understood as a circle, spiral or web, a vast living system that comprises all that is and excludes nothing. In contrast to a patriarchal divine father up in the sky somewhere, the deep feminine is immanent, in Nature and inside ourselves. Both women and men can reclaim our most authentic, creative selves when we explore and surrender to Gaia’s deep feminine nature, within us and in the land.

Grandmother Gaia’s Essence

August 12, 2020 by Fowler

The Feminine is a very different story than the Masculine. In the deepest esoteric sense, feminine and masculine are polarities, perhaps the most important polarities that form our physical and spiritual reality. But this in no way means that they are merely “opposites.” The feminine isn’t just 180 degrees different from the masculine; it is in another dimension completely.

I learned more about this recently in a dew-drenched green meadow surrounded by tall, dripping pines and firs up in the mountains east of here. I had spent the previous day sitting by the river singing and praying. My intention was to deeply attune with the sacred, overlighting, undergirding being of the land—the Green Essence of Gaia. She revealed herself over and over to me as Grandmother. [Read more…] about Grandmother Gaia’s Essence

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