The Feminine Face of God......Our Divine Mother
by Shastra Luning
The Supreme Deity of many religions is spouseless, have you noticed? Yet, they espouse that we are all children of God? Is a father able to give birth to its offspring? How can there be children without a mother? This seems to defy the laws of nature.
In order to know your Self, the essence of who you are, it is important to grasp that there is also a Mother aspect of God. To understand how the male and female aspects of God operate and co-exist, you will not have to venture very far from ordinary human life to glean your first clues. As above so below, it is the law of the universe.
Everything in life is cyclical. The tides ebb and flow, the seasons change with exact precision, everything that rises must also fall. You have an in breath and an out breath. There is a natural rhythm and order to our universe.
What does this have to do with our Father and our Mother God? Everything! The Father aspect of God is about expansion. The Father is the joyful giver of life. The Mother aspect of God is about contraction, restriction, focus, about holding back. When you sit on the seashore and watch the waves roll in, this is the face of the Father. As the waves recede, this is the face of the Mother.
As the moon wanes, decreasing in light and approaching the day of the new moon, this is a time of contraction, as our Mother draws closer to our Father. This cycle is the time to go within, to be subjective, to clean house. This is not the time to start new projects. If you do, you go against the natural rhythm of life. You will find it more difficult to see your projects through to fruition. This is not the time to be signing contracts or initiating anything. The last three days just prior to the new moon are known as the dark of the moon. Anything initiated here will not come to fruition as you had planned. This period is the most powerful time to banish and clean house. I am speaking of cleansing on every level: spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical.
Each month on the new moon we have a fresh start. This is when Father and Mother God, symbolized by our physical sun and moon, are one in the heavens. Mother (like the moon) has no light of Her own. On the new moon She begins to drink of Father's light, His knowledge and ideas. These seeds are planted in Her womb on this day. While She waxes, increasing in His light, this is the time to be objective, extroverted, to set about nurturing what has been planted on the new moon. Here you sign your contracts while all rhythms are on an upswing. Now is the time for expansion, of initiating new projects and fertilizing ones previously begun. All of this activity culminates in celebration at the full moon when Mother is filled to the brim with Father's light and ideas. Our Father is pure idea, and our Mother sets about to bring these ideas to fruition.
This exquisite dance takes place between our Father and Mother God every single month, and whether we realize it or not it is taking place within ourselves, as well. This is but one of the natural rhythms of life. Our physical sun and moon are only the outer vehicles of the Inner Beings. In the same way that we are not our physical bodies, but are, in truth, the being within.
The Mother is the one that Father listens to as to the timing and manifesting of Their child's (you) heartfelt desires, just like the mother's role in a physical family. She cares for you, her child, and out of great love and wisdom does not give you everything you want when you want it. She is the One who causes physical manifestation to occur - matter is Mother. She is all manifested reality, and much, much more.
When you are feeling constrained, restricted, held back, it is the Mother aspect of God in all Her glorious wisdom that is holding you back. She says to the Father, "No, not yet. It is not yet time to fulfill this desire of our child. He/she must grow yet fuller, the time is not now." The Father in His great love, respect and adoration of the Mother listens to Her.
So you see, you must approach, understand and be on very good terms with your Mother. She rules the cycles of life. When you learn to honor them, you honor Her. Call to Her and develop a relationship with Her, for nothing is made manifest except through Her. Matter is Mother!
She, by the way, is the rising force on this planet. A Golden Age is in the process of being birthed. A new life filled with Her beauty, gentleness, sweetness, grace, kindness, peace and profound, unconditional love. As we awake and become more of Her we are as midwives assisting in the birth of this New Age. She smiles sweetly, and with open arms and eternal patience awaits your return home. God Bless your dear, sweet hearts.