Blood
Mysteries
by Susun
Weed
In the beginning,
according to the Wise Woman tradition,
everything began, as everything does, at
birth. The Great Mother of All gave birth and
the earth appeared out of the void. Then the
Great Mother of All gave birth again, and
again, and again, and people, and animals,
and plants appeared on the earth. They were
all very hungry.
"What shall we eat?"
they asked the Great Mother. "Now you eat
me," she said, smiling.
Soon there were a
very great many lives, but the Great Mother
of All was enjoying creating and giving birth
so much that she didn't want to stop. "Ah,"
she said smiling, "now I eat you." And so she
still does.
We all come from the
same mother. We all return to her embrace,
bloody-rich womb place, when we die. Every
woman is a whole/holy form of her. Every
woman's blood is a holy mystery.
Blood mysteries teach
that women's blood is holy blood, healing
blood. The blood mysteries teach us to
remember that life and healing comes from and
returns to woman.
Every month we
remember: I am woman. I am earth. I am life.
I am nourishment. I am change.
As a woman, I am
blatantly and repeatedly confronted with my
changes: hormonal harmonics stirring moon
time visions, ovulatory oracles,
pre-menstrual crazies, orgasmic knowings,
birth ecstasies, breast-feeding bliss,
menopausal moods.
I am wholeness. I am
woman. I know the bloody places: the narrow
space between life and death, the mess of
nourishing life, the flow of letting life go.
The Wise Woman tradition is a bloody-handed
woman, a bloody-thighed woman, a woman who
sees to the other side of things.
All shamanic powers
are the powers of women's blood mysteries.
Shamanic powers are the natural powers of
menstruating, menopausal, and post-menopausal
women:
* Oneness with the
earth, with Gaia, as a responsive nuturing
presence
* Communication with
plants, animals, rocks
* Weather
making
* Shape
shifting
*
Invisibility
* Communication with
fairies, devas, elves, dragons,
unicorns...
*
Foreknowledge
* Acutely sensitive
senses of smell, taste, hearing, sight,
touch
* Healing
excerpt (modified)
from Healing Wise, Available thru Amazon.com
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