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qosOnce again -- for the umpteenth time -- I have started on a routine of daily spiritual practice. The difference this time is that I am doing it with the guidance and encouragement of a teacher who also thinks its important. (I always expected this to be something I did with the guidance of my spiritual director, but it's not part of the dynamic between us.)
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oakmouse has given me both a basic, cornerstone practice and a series of devotions and meditations that I can move through over the course of the week, balancing repetition with variety. My consistency isn't perfect yet, but already I've been far more consistent than at any other time that I've embarked on something like this.
The cornerstone practice is called The Rising Light Below, from RJ Stewart's Earth Light. Instead of drawing down solar or stellar energies from above, you raise light and then lower light from the underworld up and then down again through the four zones of the body: feet, genitals, heart, throat/head. These four sites correspond to the four elements and directions.
I've been working with this for more than a week now, and this morning I went back and reviewed the actual text of the exercise. It helped me refine what I'd been doing, and for the first time I had a distinct sense that performing the exercise had changed something within me. I felt more energized and balanced when I was done.
I'm also feeling closer to the Divine than I have in ages. My spiritual work is being done under the patronage of three goddesses who have both underworld and astral associations (and it wasn't until I started on this path that I realized how close those two realms are associated spiritually): Isis, Inanna (with whom I have a long history), and Arianrhod.
Right now, I am especially close to Isis, who usually takes the form of the nurturing, loving mother, especially when I'm grieving. She takes me into her double embrace -- arms and wings -- and holds me close, and I feel her love and encouragement flowing into me. Frequently I feel LM there as well, and he holds me as she holds us both, and I am utterly surrounded by love.
oakmouse has given me both a basic, cornerstone practice and a series of devotions and meditations that I can move through over the course of the week, balancing repetition with variety. My consistency isn't perfect yet, but already I've been far more consistent than at any other time that I've embarked on something like this.The cornerstone practice is called The Rising Light Below, from RJ Stewart's Earth Light. Instead of drawing down solar or stellar energies from above, you raise light and then lower light from the underworld up and then down again through the four zones of the body: feet, genitals, heart, throat/head. These four sites correspond to the four elements and directions.
I've been working with this for more than a week now, and this morning I went back and reviewed the actual text of the exercise. It helped me refine what I'd been doing, and for the first time I had a distinct sense that performing the exercise had changed something within me. I felt more energized and balanced when I was done.
I'm also feeling closer to the Divine than I have in ages. My spiritual work is being done under the patronage of three goddesses who have both underworld and astral associations (and it wasn't until I started on this path that I realized how close those two realms are associated spiritually): Isis, Inanna (with whom I have a long history), and Arianrhod.
Right now, I am especially close to Isis, who usually takes the form of the nurturing, loving mother, especially when I'm grieving. She takes me into her double embrace -- arms and wings -- and holds me close, and I feel her love and encouragement flowing into me. Frequently I feel LM there as well, and he holds me as she holds us both, and I am utterly surrounded by love.
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Date: 2007-07-24 04:53 pm (UTC)Also delighted to hear about Isis and LM. *hug*