The Stone Child: Poem for Ascension

  "The original abandonment, the original abuse, the original horror has some reason and meaning in it. It is not senseless. Its meaning most often is the development of tremendous strength, tremendous intuition. And I will tell you frankly that most of the people who are the greatest healers living on the face of this earth are unmothered children. One of the great gifts of the unmothered child...is intuition."  ~ Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Warming the Stone Child

     This is a poem I wrote in 2012, during a ceremony to integrate my inner process during a year that life as I knew it ended. At that time I had no idea that the stone child is an archetypal symbol of the unmothered child. In a way, we are all unmothered children due to our disconnect from the divine feminine, which has been exiled for millennia. In this time of the return of the exiled feminine, many of us are going through an awakening process.  Part of this process is letting go of the garbage that we carry that no longer serves us. Sometimes the stuff we carry inside is so old, it's as if it has turned to stone. This poem is about releasing this old stuff.

The Stone Child  

     The heaving sobs that wrack my body, labor for the child of stone;

     the child within made of bitter gall and hardened resentments of the past.

     I give birth to her now, my own little child of pain, my stone child,

     my beautiful stone child.

     The labor past, I hold her up, my child of stone, formed within me,

     layer upon hardened layer.

     Her surface smooth as silk, ground against my inner roughness,

     the pressure of fear grinding against the fire of purpose,

     the inner alchemy that produced my stone child,

     my beautiful stone child.

     And now I lay her to rest upon the softness of the Earth,

     putting to bed the whispers of old losses and pain.

     Weary from the labor, I gather myself up and leave behind my stone child,

     my beautiful stone child.

 
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Why Surrender Doesn't Mean Giving Up

    "If turtle is your power animal: You move at your own pace, typically slower than others, taking your time to make decisions and being very deliberate about it." ~ Steven D Farmer, PhD,  Animal Spirit Guides

    I saw this box turtle on my bike ride today. He didn't move at all as I approached and then passed him. It reminded me of how I have felt like a turtle lately -- stationary and stuck on this path of life.  My small self voice has been nagging me with "you should be doing this." Or "you should be doing that." But my higher self voice reminds me that uninspired action takes me no where.  I choose to listen to my higher self...and surrender.

     Surrender is not the same as giving up. The turtle does not give up. The turtle knows it will get to where it needs to go in the exact right time.  There is no need to give in to a false sense of urgency. Its good to pause, reflect, and integrate. Life is so much easier when we let the energy of the universe carry us forward rather than trying to force an uninspired path on our own. And once we surrender and let go, the universe can indeed carry us forward in ways we couldn't have imagined.

   

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