Diwali and the Dark Goddess
Diwali & The Dark Goddess
**Long blog alert. Also, some of these words, concepts, and phrases may not make logical sense to you. That is OK. Trust that as you read your body will know what feels resonate. I encourage you to be curious about all the energy the words invoke. Feel free to reply and ask any questions.
On October 24 in various regions of India (and the world), Diwali begins as a celebration of Light over darkness.
The Light is consciousness. It is love. It is our divinity, our soul. It is the Divine Mother’s energy.
The Darkness is our ignorance - or the part of us that has forgotten our true nature. That we are more than this personality and our pain.
Through the Divine Mother’s blessings, we experience the illumination of our soul. We remember who we are and where we come from. We remember we are multi-dimensional.
Diwali starts on the new moon, and like the time before creation, everything is dark. The void...where there is nothing and everything.
The new moon represents the vast potential of a new cycle. During this time when the sky is dark, there is a natural tendency to go inward and self-reflect.
The Dark Goddess's energy helps with this process of going inward, of nudging us to choose Light - she supports us to fight the battle of darkness to Light. Of ego and soul. Of logic and intuition. Of ignorance to wisdom. This aspect of the goddess is found in ALL traditions, all over the world.
However, in modern times/cultures (for thousands of years now), she has been pushed away as something to fear, something we no longer accept.
She has been demonized and this relationship with her is something we have internalized.
We are taught to stay BUSY, and keep her away. Do not feel. Do not pause. Do not allow for "negativity."
It takes A LOT to keep her energy at bay if we keep going around and around HER.
Dark Goddess is in our bodies, we know and trust her, on a deep level, and yet she is unfamiliar and not talked about..."stay strong, don't feel."
It is only in our communion with HER in our hearts that we find our way back to the throne of our inner guide.
When we willingly move closer to the Dark Goddess we move closer to ourselves and to life itself.
We do not have to fear her - she is not a taboo.
The gift of moving closer to Her is moving closer to our human nature and that opens us to a connection and meaning that is deeper than we have ever known.
She welcomes us to the LIGHT as we dance our way through the dark.
She is HOLY and asks us to face the mirror to see the same in us - that we are both holy in our human experience of everyday life as we are in a spiritual class.
She is a dynamic, creative, and healing force that is beyond the physical. This force is characterized by receptivity, presence, kindness, and self-compassion. And a deep desire for Truth.
The dark goddess knows that we can turn trapped emotions and pain into wisdom -- and this is exactly how she works.
She nurtures and loves without boundaries. She requests all patterns be known. She holds up a mirror and doesn't look away.
Alternatively, she is also chaotic, emotional, wild, and free. She is an oracle in a time beyond time.
She is fluid and doesn’t like to be contained. Given enough time water always breaks free of its boundaries.
When we sink into her - we are back at the new moon - the void - the origin of WHO WE ARE.
We allow all of our names to drop. We no longer play by the rules of society. We know that if we embrace Her, we have an opportunity to create ourselves into the next rebirth.
We are initiated into a certain kind of wisdom that cannot be observed from the surface when we go down and into ourselves.
We cannot think our way through it. It is a full-body organic process that has many phases where it looks like NOTHING is happening.
It can lonely and scary. The whole point of being in a relationship with the Dark Goddess is not knowing. We are making a new map.
If we were aware of what was going on, we would disrupt or sabotage the process.
I have learned that the greatest wisdom of my existence does not lie in some ancient cave somewhere in the world but resides within me.
Happy Diwali, dear one.
I Light a candle for myself, my family, and ALL beings for our highest good.
May we be congruent and conscious in our wisdom of the many blessings on the Pathless Path.
May this LIGHT of Diwali allow us to turn ourselves to the cold and hidden parts, welcome them and allow the homecoming to be rooted in the Divine Mother - who is both the Dark and the Light.
LOVE to you,
Priya