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I Figured Out the Answer
Oct. 1st, 2008 06:35 amI'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 Lohain. 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.
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 Lohain. 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.
