Re-Membering: Before the Eclipse

by Carlotta Tyler

Our work with women in weekend retreats has been deep and powerful.
One lens that they respond to is this one, shared with you all on the cusp of a time of radical change and call to consciousness for women.
See this as a context for what’s going on in the US election process.”

There was a time, in the long, long ago
Before we knew why there were eclipses,
Or why things went “thump” in the night,
When people dressed in the skins of animals.

You could see, there was a difference.
There was "the self", and there was" the other".

“The self”, who ultimately wrote it all down, could see that
"the other” swelled up every nine moons and gave forth a new tribe member,
Both "the self" and "the other".
This was seen as Powerful Magic.

When “the self” hunted wild boar in the forest and was gored,
“the self” bled and often died, was lucky if maggots set in.

"The other" bled every cycle of the moon and did not die.
This was seen as VERY Powerful Magic.

At the dawn of civilization there were only two responses to this essential difference.
One response perceived the universe as benign and egalitarian,
honored the cycles of nature and understood the creative life force as complementary, the conjunction of two powerful energies joining the masculine and the feminine.

The other was a "dominion over" response that established "father right" as the primary form of social organization and the male as “better than” the female.

Today we are living out the last days of this patriarchal worldview

As we try to balance our planet and our organizations.
People the world over are noticing the essential imbalance of this original split.
Truths previously seen as sacred are being questioned.
Deeply embedded assumptions & largely unconscious beliefs are being examined.

The way forward is being forged by you and me.
What a wonderful time to be living!.

Copyrights, 2000, Carlotta Tyler