Love Note & The Woman's Rite Project Update:
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August 22nd Journal Entry - A Message from the
Firs:
Surrender and Let Go
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Itâs early in the morning here in the forest. Iâm still in my robe sitting in my backyard listening to the sound of the fir trees around my home releasing their cones to
the forest floor, plop, plop, bang, plop!!!!! These beloved Fir tree beings are offering an exuberant lesson in letting go. I wish you could hear the sounds! The trees are showing me something I need to realize at a deeper level. Perhaps it will serve you too.
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Be honest about how you really feel. Welcome, accept and embrace be it pleasure or pain, fear or peace. Often, when the time is right, surrender and letting go will happen effortlessly.
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Itâs just a few days before my rite-of-passage ceremony into conscious Wise Woman elderhood, for myself and as a stand in for all
women going through this life transition. I feel excited and anxious in equal measure about this upcoming event while simultaneously aware of the intensity of everything else going on in our world. Itâs allot for everyone! Through the field of our interconnectivity, we are all in a collective pressure cooker.
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Thereâs been many details to attend to as we
prepare the ritual space outside, my home, and for the celebration afterwards. Thank Goddess my friends are here to support and help on so many levels. Because the ceremony is being filmed there has been planning and prep with The Womanâs Rite team and crew too.
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On the inside, I feel like Iâve been in a sweat lodge ceremony for weeks. For a
naturally sensitive introverted forest monk like me, the idea of this much visibility and focus on me takes me outside my comfort zone but I want to be of service. The most challenging part of this dynamic process has been staying present with the waves of resistance, fear and anxiety flooding my system along the way, regardless of what I know to be a deeper truth.
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I understand this necessary purification and transformation phase of initiation into a new phase of life and being is to be expected. But, at times Iâve been frustrated with the emotional disturbance when I know, consciously, all is flowing in divine right order beyond my control and itâs all beautiful!!! Â
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Listening to
the Fir trees merrily letting go of their cones reminds me that sometimes even, as much as âIâ want to surrender and let go, this too can be out of my human control for a time. But, I can trust, when the disturbance is faced and embraced and the time is ripe, letting go will happen naturally.
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Today is a letting go day
for me. How about you? Are you in the purification lodge or is it time to open your hands, relax and simply let go?
â¤ď¸- Georgette Star MA, D.Min
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P.S. By the time you read this I will have just passed through the Wise
Woman Elder ceremony threshold. I promise to share more about it with you in the September blog post.
In the meantime, I send you love.Â