The Celtic Way of Seeing by Frank MacEowen

Author:Frank MacEowen
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781577317845
Publisher: New World Library

EXERCISE

Set aside a few minutes each day, perhaps ten minutes to start with, gradually expanding the time to thirty minutes a day. Contemplate this question: What sacred life instructions does the wheel have for my life? How can I transform the things that prevent me from living according to the sacred instructions of my soul?

CENTER

SOVEREIGNTY AS THE DIVINE FEMININE

See, we used to worship God as a mother.

— SINE´AD O’CONNOR

Everywhere we hear a call to remember the divine feminine. From Riane Eisler’s The Chalice and the Blade to the book and movie The Da Vinci Code, in which ancient Christian concepts such as Sophia (the feminine expression of divine wisdom) and figures such as Mary Magdalene are brought to life in intriguing ways. It seems as if the modern world is responding to a deep calling for a wisdom that is nurturing and intuitive rather than forceful, that is compassionate and heart-centered rather than intellectual.

In the Celtic perspective, the divine feminine is a wisdom-bestowing goddess. The great Irish war hero Cuchulain learns both fighting techniques and the inner wisdom of a warrior-in-balance from Scathach, a goddess on the Isle of Skye. A number of poet-seers in the Irish and Scottish traditions experienced and related to the goddess Brighid as the patron of poetry and fire. She acted as a muse for those poets who endured sensory deprivation, often seeking their quickening verses alone in the darkness of caves.

In the Western world we have largely lost a connection to the feminine as divine and as an orientation point for our lives. The divine feminine tends life, yet in a world where the orientation of this divine feminine is not allowed to exist, an imbalance is spawned. This imbalance enables governments to turn a blind eye to the destruction of the planet; it is the same imbalance that enables individuals to adopt a stoical, self-deprecating approach to their own lives. In truth, it is a psychological schism, a disconnection from accurately perceiving the nature of reality as it is. If we truly saw the nature of reality — such as how our decisions affecting the environment will affect many generations yet to come, for better or for worse — then we would take great care to alter our course in many ways.

The same can be said regarding our relationship to our bodies. If we do not genuinely perceive the connection between our bodies and the earth, both are imperiled. The environmental crisis is not a crisis of the environment; it is a human self-esteem problem. We don’t truly value ourselves, our bodies, each other, all of life, and because our human bodies are extensions of the body of the earth, we take our low self-esteem, our self-hate, and create discord in the very thing that sustains us.

Sometimes we do need to draw on the intensity or bravery of the warrior in the Northern part of the Irish Spirit Wheel to get things done in life, but if life becomes governed by that energy without the balance of gentleness, somewhere along the way the divine feminine is forgotten.

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