Linking Meditation & Defining *My* Work

[qos]

I'm still feeling physically wrung out, but last night I was told in no uncertain terms that I needed to do something for evening practice. So I got up, took my position standing in my bedroom, and this is what happened. . . .


I stand to do my exercises, begin to the ground into the Underworld. Stop.

I root myself in this earth, I say silently. And then, even more silently, The living earth.

I feel how for all these months I've been grounding into the Underworld, bypassing all the life energy of the planet.

I ground in Earth: consciously, deliberately. Then I put down roots into the Underworld: to Ereshkigal, to LM. I reach deep to the source of my heart.

I feel the floor tremble beneath my feet as power answers my call - a truck passing by, or something else?

I reach up to Inanna, Queen of the Morning & Evening Star, Queen of Heaven. I connect with her, am surrounded by starlight.

Ereshkigal below and Inanna above.

I see in my mind the double loop of Ereshkigal-Inanna.

I am The Link.

I raise my right arm to Inanna, reach down with my left to Ereshkigal, let the energies flow -- and then reverse. Then I stand with my arms stretched out to each side.

I am the cross, reaching from Underworld to the Heavens, linking energies and then extending them across the living earth.

Now you understand, Ereshkigal says. And there is rare satisfaction in Her voice.




It is only as I review this entry before posting that the deeper understanding flows through me: this is my priestess work, the linking and mediation of the energies of the Great Above and the Great Below (to use the ancient terms).

There's a lot more to understand and unpack in that concept. But that's it. That's the basic essence of my task. That's what I'm here for.


* Image found online, no artist credit. If anyone knows whose it is, please tell me.

Comments

[saskia139.livejournal.com]

You've read some of R.J. Stewart's books, yes? I think it is particularly Stewart's The Miracle Tree that I have in mind.

This is what we *all* do, he says. This is an essential part of what it means to be human. The energies from above and below flow through us; we are a switching-station. The way I do the New Hermetics Grounding & Centering, which is a variation on the LBRP, includes drawing up power as well as drawing it down, and drawing in power from the give/take, send/receive polarities represented by the right and left hands. All of the charges a golden sphere at the heart which expands to purify, charge, and protect the area of the working.

Conscious contact with and connection of the two goddesses seems to me like a further refinement of this basic program. But the basic energy exchange is essential to humans, and IMO is one reason that trees are such important symbols in so many systems--because they do the same thing.

[shadowandstar.livejournal.com]

I didn't mean to suggest I'm doing something no one else does. I'm saying that I've been called to go very, very deep with this particular aspect of my path. To be a specialist, as it were. The symbolism of that task goes back to my earliest writing, to a part of myself struggling for acknowledgement when I didn't have any kind of framework to understand what I was struggling to become.

I have found myself, my Work, after a lifetime of wandering in the woods.

There are very few utterly unique callings on the spiritual path. I'm not sure that there are any.
But that doesn't make the discovery of the right path, the right fit, any less profound for the individual when it happens.

[saskia139.livejournal.com]

There are very few utterly unique callings on the spiritual path. I'm not sure that there are any.
But that doesn't make the discovery of the right path, the right fit, any less profound for the individual when it happens.

Indeed.

[queenofhalves]

"i am a child of earth and starry heaven, whole and complete unto myself." :>

[oakmouse]

You did it. I'm very proud of you, and so is J.

You've found your own unique way of making that connection. To make and maintain it consciously is central to the work you've chosen. Just as recently you found an awareness of the nature of your work (being the link), and several of the other pieces, so now you have the key to actually putting all of this into practice as a priestess. Your hard work is paying off. Congratulations!

BTW, I had a duh moment reading this: grounding into the living earth and the underworld. I had to make exactly that adjustment to my own practice to deal with a similar imbalance issue, and it never occurred to me to tell you about it. Still, I'm sure it was more powerful for you to learn it firsthand, so perhaps it's as well.

[rainstardragon.livejournal.com]

Yes, yes, yes, yes, YES! Sorry for sounding so um, dorky here , but it excites me to hear you put it into words... Even though it's what every priest or priestess does/is supposed to do, be the link.

Such a simple concept, and yet so intricate at the same time.

[bettywithin.livejournal.com]

Wow, that's pretty profound. Glad to know you've made such a connection. The picture is very apropos from what you visualized.