We aren’t okay. However we can be. We now have not recovered from the shockwaves of final Tuesday. The bottom has but to settle. The mind will not be but totally again on board. The physique must shake, wail, and account for the wreckage.
Could we give ourselves a second.
Not too long ago we launched Black Moon Lilith within the CHANI app. Initially we had been going to take action in July, however we felt that she was extra wanted within the fall. We needed to ensure that she was out there to assist us by way of this second (simply in case of this worst-case state of affairs — gestures broadly). To remind us of our energy. To affirm our rage within the face of injustice. To have a context to put ourselves inside.
Lilith, first spouse of Adam. Lilith, who was informed her place was beneath her husband. Lilith, who selected self-imposed exile over dwelling a life with a person who didn’t see her as his equal. Lilith, who upon realizing God was in on this, uttered the Holy One’s ineffable title and left the Backyard of Eden for good.
Lilith, not of The Father, however for her freedom.
Lilith leads to a cave within the desert, a spot of meditation if you’ll. Desolate. Barren. Stunning. The desert was as soon as the ground of the ocean. And it’s right here, on the backside the place we discover ourselves.
It’s essential, I feel, to take this time to understand the depths we’ve got descended to. Bottoming out, as they are saying in lots of a restoration circle, is a present. There’s nowhere else to go. However up. Rebuilding ourselves one breath, one primal scream, and one brick at a time. With out shedding the depth.
I imagine that it’s Lilith who returns to the Backyard of Eden because the snake that tempts Eve with the apple within the tree of information of excellent and evil. Lilith whispers to us by way of the ages, “Depart this place. It doesn’t know you. It doesn’t need you in your entirety. It seeks solely to decrease you. Chunk the apple. Incorporate this knowledge. Depart right here and uncover who you actually are.”
That is how we save one another, and in flip, save ourselves.
We’re far, removed from our rebirth, however that isn’t the purpose of this second. This second is for feeling our approach by way of. Stomach to the earth, snakelike on the backside of the ocean. Tending to our wounds, gathering with our family members, and dreaming of what fullness may really feel like. This second is for remembering that we’re a part of a lineage of resistance and recreation that stretches again to and much past concepts of supremacy and domination. Lilith is older than god, than gardens, than time.
So are you.
If, at any time you overlook this week, please keep in mind that we want you. Your wildness, your vitality, your flaws, and your friendship. If at any time this week you overlook, please re-read these phrases and keep in mind that there are numerous individuals who have gone earlier than you, who go alongside you, and who attain again from the longer term able to information, defend, and encourage you ahead.
I’ll attempt to do the identical.
By no means miss a memo.
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