Creative space
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Thank you so much, Jen. I love your sharings and your unconditional honesty. You are a wonderful woman!
I wanted to share some wise words out of a book by Hilary Hart, "Body of Wisdom", as I feel what she communicates here has so much to do with the creative space of the Moon circle.
"On all levels, creative space is an in-road to and out-road from the sacred. Space is sacred because it is empty of our own personality and needs, and alive with the ineffable, unceasing, eternal energies of life. But creative space is not just absence; it is a cauldron of life forces beyond our own personal will or intention, like unconditional love, peace and other divine energies.
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Spiritual transformation seems to always depend on creative space, on knowing when and how to watch and protect space for transpersonal and divine energies to emerge. In individual practice, meditation and prayer are containers for just this kind of process. Both require a time and space to turn inward, away from outer distractions of the day and inner distractions of mental chatter. They open our being to what flows from the inner worlds.
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Through honouring space, we allow miracles to happen. Grace can be given, love can grow, and life-force can build in creative momentum. These forces are beyond what we can create on our own. They require a devotion to the unknown, an attunement to magic, a love for possibility, a commitment to give despite not knowing what will ever be given in return.
Because the living template of pregnancy and birth is present in every woman, our instincts are attuned to working with the power of creative space. This power is highly connected to women's power to purify and to restore harmony, as we do this in our bodies every month.
This power is also highly linked to women's recognition of life's sacredness. We recognise life's sacredness because we are part of it during the miracle of birth, and we honor and live that miracle through unconditional love.
In the modern world, the last thing women should do is take a back seat to men and the patriarchal destructiveness taking place all around us. But we do need to remember our power and live it in any and all circumstances, and the power of creative space, which is as invisible as the power in the womb, demands that we develop deep trust in inner, hidden processes that might or might not be acknowledged by the outer world we live in.
For many women, the imperative to work with creative space will feel natural. We already long for what takes place in this space, just as we long for love, just as we long to be ourselves."
Here is a link to a short interview with Hilary Hart in which she introduces her book, which is a treasure-house and absolutely life-changing.
