off with the blindfolds!

Do not be so alarmed by the vision of fright when the Dark Goddess descends on your light!
She is here to strip off the blindfolds of our own darkness, awaken us from our slumber. When we can relate to Her presence as a blessing and to our journey, even if it holds pain, as an adventure, we are never in complete darkness.

"Her act of fierceness is a mystic metaphor for relentlessly giving up the superficial."

 Yogini Shambhavi

She is present to dismantle the traps of the lower mind, its ego attachments, and the ways in which our life holds us captive in darkness and illusion. The illusion is that we even don't know we're in the dark! Yes, this is frightening to the parts of us who resist awakening to our own bright light of Inner Divine.  However, once it is recognized that She is here to love us, care for us and nourish us, in ways the world cannot; once this is known in the heart, Her blessings fill us from within.

Reflect back in time to that child that was you. The growing pains in your body, the aches that may have brought tears, the physical form literally re-forming through growth spurts. Growth is rarely comfortable.  Change brings challenge!  Then see your first love, followed by your first heartache. The pain of an innocent heart opened so big, to allow another so close.  But it is that love and it's pain that became a teacher for your future, for your character, for your path of becoming.  These changes in your being, are part of life's journey.
With each new life, new you, an old passes away.  There was fear, pain, but they cannot be separated from the inherent joy and continual re-birthing.

The Mother of destruction, is also the Mother of birth. The Mother of dark is the Mother of light.  We live in a plane of polarity and one will not exist without the other. It is only the mind, what the mind has been taught to believe, that labels one 'good' and one 'bad.'

When the Soul begins to stir, when it begins to long for the Unknown, when it begins to weep for that hole within to be filled, we can be assured, if we continue to stay present with its ache, it will lead us to the Divine.  For some this may be through Jesus, others Buddha, and others the Divine Mother.  Her presence pre-dates the others, yet, She still remains the most frightening, particularly in her destruction mode.

The Mother has been split, dissected, fragmented from her Whole of being.  She is alive in the air we breath, the water of our rivers are the streams of blood in our veins.  The soil and rock of Her Earth is the skeletal foundation of our bodies.  She is propeller of our growth from physical to Soul.  She is the light and the dark, the inner and the outer.  She is creation, but she is also destruction.  We can not have one without the other.  

All of life is this dance of cycles, 

death ~ 

birth ~ 

death ~ birth.  

We live this cycle unconsciously. Our cells are dying and regenerating daily. 
We live a life that is in the process of dying.  
New opportunities are created, while the old outworn aspects of life are transformed ~ Through the new.

Often, we feel forced into changes, usually by circumstances. Too many of us can be rooted in stagnation of movement. We bemoan and wonder, "Why did this person need to leave?  How could this tragedy have happened to me? What will happen to me now that I have lost this?" If we are rooted in stagnation, we will miss the signs pointing, "This way to your new life! Your Joy returns Here! Deeper wisdom over there! Greater freedom right here, right now!"

The Mother says to us in our hearts, if only we listen, "My Child. Do not fret nor worry. All things pass away in their due time! We must make room for the new joys to come.  We must shed like a snake the out-worn skin, for it is time to don the new beautiful costume of your next expression of being!  Take heart, take shelter that the dark is simply to strengthen your Light.  Your pain is necessary to know your Love.  Your longing is to help you realize, that what you seek is not found in the mortal world. What you seek is the Wholeness and Truth found within, the beauty of your own Being, forever connected to God, to the Mother. Once you know this, your hole will be healed!"

The journey is long for some, arduous for many. Particularly if we are blind to 'something bigger' or in the big sleep thinking we are awake! The struggle is to awaken beyond the forms of this world believed as truth, to continually awaken from the roles we each play, mistaking them for who we are and releasing the stories we live out, convincing us of this limited reality.

She that comes as darkness, baring teeth and growls, is our ally, She does battle on our behalf. She is ready to strip of us our blindfolds, ready or not! As the darkness is ripped away, we See! Sometimes this new sight is gradual, sometimes it is brilliant and all at once! She knows what is needed, what our heart need to open to a higher love, and what trials we must persevere to make this so.

So, take heed, have faith, be courageous and resilient! Don't turn away in blind fear, explore with the heart and let Her love awaken within. There refuge can be taken to the journey within!

Jai Kali Ma!