What would you ask for if your God/dess promised you anything you wanted? Who would pick Wisdom, as Solomon did, when offered that miraculous gift? How many of our leaders have asked for a wise and understanding heart above all else? Isn't Wisdom exactly what we need now to deal with this world-wide pandemic and economic crisis?
Do we ask for Wisdom as we sit home, watching Netflix and playing games? Perhaps we don't ask for Wisdom because we don't feel the burden of responsibility that Solomon felt for his people. But if we don't take responsibility for ourselves and our world, who will? Freedom implies responsibility.
Will we ask to be the Wise King, the Wise Teacher/ the Wise Queen and Wise Priestess? Don't you think this is necessary now? Each of us holds a part of these archetypes. The King or Queen archetype within us means taking responsibility for the people and the type of society we live in. Teacher and Priestess archetypes engender within us growth and awareness of many realities.
If there was ever a time in our human history when we need Wisdom, it is now. We are living in extraordinary times, a moment of supreme destiny where the human race can and must participate consciously in our own evolution. This evolution is both personal and collective, opening us to new capacities for co-creation and offering us new possibilities for cultural transformation. For the cultural paradigm that we live in is dying, but it is not going gracefully. We need a new way to understand our world and our place in it. And then we have to create a new and more viable way of living here on our beautiful planet, Earth.
It's true we live in chaotic and changing times, and so people live in fear not only fear of COV-19 but of war, disease, poverty, death, violence and the unknown. People have been content to remain unconscious of the damage done to our environment, but we are already living with the results of these misguided policies. This virus comes from Mother Earth's wounded biosphere. It is Her response to our irresponsibility.
But to allow ourselves to fall into more unconsciousness and despair is unimaginative and lazy.
We have been given the supreme gift of free will and so our choices do matter. What if, by choosing to follow Lady Wisdom's call, we learn to turn our god-like creative imagination to transforming our society and re-creating the world rather than going back to business as usual, with our machines polluting the Earth, our wars creating record numbers of refugees and our conspicuous consumption going over the top? Do we really need more junk from Amazon?
With all our innovation and creativity, we do have it in our power to create a 'heaven on earth' if we choose. It seems we might only have this small window of time to begin this process. Westerners are the ones holding the power now. Our patriarchal paradigm that shaped our worldview and brought us to this crisis point does not want to transfer its power to the children who will have to live in the future world. While the world has stopped to deal with this pandemic, we each need to imagine what we really want the world to do and be when we all come back from our self-isolation.
We who are living in these most interesting times have a challenge before us will we be strong enough and committed enough to change our habits and use our free will to create peace and plenty here on this beautiful Earth of ours? Or will we continue to allow the death and destruction that is rampant in our present world to rage on until we are all lost. Each of us holds the world in our hands through our choices. It is time to take responsibility for those choices and evolve into a greater vision of who we might become.
If we choose to take up our responsibility to all of life, then we absolutely have to be 'wise as serpents and harmless as doves' (Matthew 10:16). Unfortunately, the mystics who wrote about Wisdom say that although Lady Wisdom cries out in the streets for people to come to her so she can give us her gifts, most people ignore her. Could it be because Wisdom is always imagined as feminine?
Wisdom comes from our feminine right brain our
imagination, our intuition and our emotional intelligence. Since all
of us have access to both brains, let's start using them instead of
falling back into our reptilian brain of fight or flight, fear and antagonism.
Wisdom comes to us when we trust our body soul, our intuition, our gut feelings, our imaginations and then use our masculine left brain logic to decide what we need to do. And always, we have to take our values and virtues into consideration. It's interesting that we call it the 'corona -virus' corona implies the crown chakra, the place where we connect to our Higher Self and spiritual guidance as well as to the Crone the crown of feminine being and wisdom.
I would imagine that this means we have to re-connect with our higher selves to understand what this moment in time wants from us. We can discover messages in the books we read, the movies we watch, the inspiration that comes from being out in Nature. But most especially from our dreams and our meditation and our shamanic journeys.
I watched Frozen II the other night. It was all about change. The little snowman. Olaf, said something in the beginning of the movie about change. Change mocks us with her beauty. I love that! We say we want to change because we see the beauty and necessity in it. The need for it. And yet, are we changing our habits or just waiting to get back to them? Is change mocking us or are we willing to embrace her beauty?
The other night, the Taurus crescent Moon hung in the western sky with Venus shining brightly above her. Orion the Hunter rose up behind them, seeking his quarry. This Taurus Moon opens us to the Earth's imagination and with Venus, the Evening Star, they both embody the Wisdom of the Earth. Taurus' earthiness embodies the Spirit of Aries' primal fire.
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