Inspirations: Archives

Yoshiko Matamoro wrote, “Each moment of this precious life is a treasured vessel, ready to be filled with every grace and many blessings.” Nietzsche wrote, “You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.”  Does not every mother give birth to a ‘dancing star,’ a shining soul worth everything she has to offer…. her Grace AND her chaos, her light and her dark?  Do you perceive yourself as a ‘treasured vessel’ filled with blessings?  Or, do you feel that you are more ‘a messenger of chaos,’ perhaps dark with drama and danger…a fallen star,  not a ‘dancing star?’  Depending upon mother’s perspectives, as well as our own, derived in part from ‘MOM’, we formulate ideas of what life is about, how we might lead it, and who we might become. Emerging from the embryo, re-defined in a new cellular structure, mysterious, in fathomless layers of re-formed DNA, we are born.  Birth is such a chaotic, creative, physical-meta-physical, spiritual, magical event.  From each cocooning womb emerges a life, the majesty of what the feminine offers the Universe.  There has to be chaos for new life to emerge.  There must be destruction, fabric torn, and emotional dissolution to create anew. If we could reconcile ourselves to our own chaos, we might re-align ourselves more readily to another’s, namely- mother’s.  She is after all but one of our own conduits for magic and crazy, Grace and abandonment, terror and forgiveness. Whenever we honor the dark gods within it allows others opportunity to meet theirs.  Mothers so wish their off spring to be perfect, to be happy, to be safe.  Our chaos is terrifying to them, as theirs was/is to us. Mother’s Day is but one day out of all others to honor her years of struggle, with herself-and with… Read more »