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10th August 2014, 00:44
Root and Heart Connection – Grow in Love
How many of us truly know what darkness is? What are we seeing when we compare “love and light” to “fear and darkness”?
Imagine a world which should be a natural dance between the polar principles of light and dark, but where one principle has become dominant. We live in such a world. The masculine principle has become so dominant within the ego space of humanity that it and it alone is all most of us see. What most of us think of as “darkness” is nothing but the worst impulses of the light principle mediated by ego, and projected upon the dark principle. These are correctly labelled “fear”, but they are a product of imbalance within the masculine field, not an inherent principle of the feminine. Fear is not the polar opposite of love, because love is all that is.
Imagine a world where one principle has demonised and enslaved the other. We live in such a world. The dark principle within us is disempowered by a culture of fear perpetuation via our infrastructure and media. Unconsciously, when we have an aspect of the self we cannot deal with, or a trauma we cannot process, we hide it within the darkness inside and place warning signs so we will never disturb these injured parts of ourselves. We shut them in the dark, we starve them of love, and we attach all the fear that society generates within us onto them. What was an injured fragment becomes imbued with the energy of fear and so becomes a huge and powerful monster or demon that must be shut away. We seed our culture with words that describe the feminine principle in a negative or pejorative way, so our very language perpetuates the division. We talk of black hearts, negative situations, and darkness, and with each repetition, separation is consolidated.
Sex as an act is an analogue of divine union, and an affirmation of life, yet we are told it is bad. Our sexuality is twisted and perverted, and natural sexual impulses are tied to our injured aspects and consigned to unloving imprisonment. Menstruation is a fertile bed for the seed of life, yet throughout history, cultures dominated by the light principle have told us it is dirty, or a punishment for the inherent evil of the feminine principle. Blood is the very essence of the feminine, it is rich earth for the seed, it holds nutrients for growth, it nurtures and nourishes, and it flows through us all. Blood is the primal substance, the root of us, which always returns to the heart.
The root and the heart are complimentary energy centres whose colours are interchangeable. Love can be red or green, and so too can our vision of earth, growth and connectedness. Because of this connection, as we move toward higher consciousness to encounter the true nature of love, we may choose not to ground ourselves to the earth, but to plant our feet squarely in the heart, and so grow in love.
How many of us truly know what darkness is? What are we seeing when we compare “love and light” to “fear and darkness”?
Imagine a world which should be a natural dance between the polar principles of light and dark, but where one principle has become dominant. We live in such a world. The masculine principle has become so dominant within the ego space of humanity that it and it alone is all most of us see. What most of us think of as “darkness” is nothing but the worst impulses of the light principle mediated by ego, and projected upon the dark principle. These are correctly labelled “fear”, but they are a product of imbalance within the masculine field, not an inherent principle of the feminine. Fear is not the polar opposite of love, because love is all that is.
Imagine a world where one principle has demonised and enslaved the other. We live in such a world. The dark principle within us is disempowered by a culture of fear perpetuation via our infrastructure and media. Unconsciously, when we have an aspect of the self we cannot deal with, or a trauma we cannot process, we hide it within the darkness inside and place warning signs so we will never disturb these injured parts of ourselves. We shut them in the dark, we starve them of love, and we attach all the fear that society generates within us onto them. What was an injured fragment becomes imbued with the energy of fear and so becomes a huge and powerful monster or demon that must be shut away. We seed our culture with words that describe the feminine principle in a negative or pejorative way, so our very language perpetuates the division. We talk of black hearts, negative situations, and darkness, and with each repetition, separation is consolidated.
Sex as an act is an analogue of divine union, and an affirmation of life, yet we are told it is bad. Our sexuality is twisted and perverted, and natural sexual impulses are tied to our injured aspects and consigned to unloving imprisonment. Menstruation is a fertile bed for the seed of life, yet throughout history, cultures dominated by the light principle have told us it is dirty, or a punishment for the inherent evil of the feminine principle. Blood is the very essence of the feminine, it is rich earth for the seed, it holds nutrients for growth, it nurtures and nourishes, and it flows through us all. Blood is the primal substance, the root of us, which always returns to the heart.
The root and the heart are complimentary energy centres whose colours are interchangeable. Love can be red or green, and so too can our vision of earth, growth and connectedness. Because of this connection, as we move toward higher consciousness to encounter the true nature of love, we may choose not to ground ourselves to the earth, but to plant our feet squarely in the heart, and so grow in love.