Corona as a Woman
If Corona was speaking what would she say? I drop my attention to my roots and feel into my connection to the ground beneath me. The ground that speaks of the feminine mystery. She says, “Enough! Stop with the taking. I have fed you, clothed you, housed you. I cannot do this alone. I need your help. I need reciprocity.” Have you bent your ear to the ground and listened to what is needed? She has been showing us for decades, centuries.. have you listened? She has asked you a million times through the language of fires, floods, tornados, brown skies, oil spills. She is the voice of your mother, your wife, your sister.
How many women around the world feel this same disrespect, taken for granted, unseen, unsupported, stepped over, forgotten? Ignored, replaced, laughed at, blocked, silenced, undermined? In our communities, in public, at work, in our homes - ESPECIALLY in our homes. Some of us feel this as a deep anger, an underlying current of rage that at anytime, given the right conditions might erupt like and earthquake, a volcano, a hurricane. Some may feel it as grief, tears like monsoon, tsunami of sadness, rivers of emotion flooding the banks. And still others may not feel this at all - untouched, suspended between mind-body-spirit without ever touching any of them - safely fossilized and unmoved.
Mother. Mother. Mother. Although we truly love her gifts, we ignore her need, only demanding more. She becomes immune to our toxicity. Protects the children and begins to call names. We continue to spit and sputter our disease, our entitlement, over everything we touch. Every thing we pass. Every surface we share. This invisible killer shared unconsciously. As we say, “more, more, more.”
We are all guilty. We can’t continue to ask and not give. We can’t continue to give and not ask. How do we strike a balance?
Uplift the ones who are ignored. Meet their needs. If you are a giver, tell us what you need. If you are a receiver, give without hesitation. We must balance the scales and right our misdirections before we emerge from this quarantime. The place where work needs to begin is in our hearts, in our homes, in our families both born and chosen, in our circles. Then, we take this work into our communities, our cities, states, country, world.
We are being asked to stay at home right now to tend to our most essential. Our deepest root and center. May we get our own house in integrity right now so we can emerge full supported and empowered when the time comes to emerge. The world we want to build begins with the relationships closest to us. Let them reflect equal exchange, listening, responsibility, accountability, cleaning up, reconciliation, forgiveness, and love.