February 2006    No. 1     [Print Version]

This newsletter is a 'call' to women to participate in the profound awakening of feminine consciousness.

What do we mean when we say feminine consciousness? Women are part of the web of life. Everything that we do in front of us, with our hands, with our attention, affects life. And life needs our help now. It needs women to reawaken our connection "to" life, rather than living the "separation." From the office worker to the homemaker, from the teacher and nurse's aid, to the executive, all can respond to this call; no one is more or less valuable than the other.

In months to come, I will be including in this newsletter not only my own writing, but also writing from other women, with the intention to explore the emerging language of feminine wisdom, and women's relationship to life and the earth.

Feminine wisdom arises when we come together, for we are learning to work in a new way, as one. It doesn't mean we necessarily have to be together physically, although it is helpful from time to time to meet in silence, in prayer, sharing our dreams and visions. But there is another way to work together, and that is through our individual attention as we each live our own lives. The more aware we become of our own connection to life, the more we are able to feel the web of our interconnections with other women in the world.

As Paulette Fox, Blackfoot woman and environmental scientist who has spoken at several DreamWeather events, explains, Women are the earth. Not like the earth. We are the earth. When we think about taking care of the earth, we must take care of ourselves. Our destiny is our common existence. We are all together now, all related.

The Healing Nature of the Feminine
I had several visions in 1993, preliminary visions of the new millennium. The first vision showed me that the energy of the spiritual feminine can heal the places on the Earth where there has been war or abuse. The second vision spoke of a swirl of humanity, in small groups, held in a feminine container of Love that connects heaven and earth, uniting spirit and matter. Men and women alike are learning to be receptive to the feminine aspect of the divine.

Yet there is a need for women, in particular, to recognize what the dreams continue to reveal: that women can work together in a new way for the sake of the earth. Our children, our families, all life, depend upon us now more than ever. When women claim their nature — and I know this is not easy — we bring the energy of real change into life. This is the magic that women have, for we live in two worlds. The feminine container of love unites spirit and matter, heaven and earth. This bond is sacred — it is our connection to life and to the Creator.

If we are identified with our 'doing,' we will miss the opportunity being given to discover the power of an emerging feminine way of being. If we are willing to live the unknown, to wait and listen and take the risk of bringing our light into the open, then life can change. The words from the soul tell us, do not fear.

The Ways of Oneness
We all know that a new energy of oneness is being given to humanity. In many fields — medicine, computer technology, physics, biology, spirituality — we are now seeing reflections of our interconnectedness. I love the example of the mycelium of mushrooms. The mushroom is the fruiting body of a much more extensive organism, the mycelium, growing in the earth. Overlapping mosaics of mycelial mats permeate all the landmasses on the planet in the first two to four inches of soil. One biologist describes mushroom mycelia as a type of planet-wide biological internet that transmits information, working as an organic whole.

The nature of mycelia is a beautiful metaphor for how I see women working together. Many different images have come in the dreams and visions of women about this new way of being. Here is one woman's vision:

I am standing in a room, the size of a bedroom. It has no windows or doors, but is very expansive. I don't feel closed in at all. In the center of the room taking all the space is a sphere that I feel is earth. The sphere is a web of inter-connecting lights and I can see the lines connecting the lights. Not all of the lights are lit. I'm standing before it and I understand that it is my responsibility to tend/nurture the lights. Each light is unique and the only place where I can get light bulbs is Home Depot....which if you remember, I love Home Depot!

We each have access to this web of light through our individual consciousness. Another friend from a different culture and country describes a similar organic structure in her vision.

I was lying in a wooded area, and my whole lower legs were just earth. I went from that image to seeing that this connection just below the earth consisted of many veins or roots, and suddenly I knew that through these roots, all women were connected. Some areas were filled with light, while there were areas of darkness where these interconnections had not yet formed.

This symbolic imagery reminds me of the mycelia—invisible, yet with a cellular intelligence that works as a whole. What is interesting to me is that an ancient way of women is being restructured to meet the needs of the time. This sacred network is made up of individuals, each with her own unique inner connection to the divine but also together as one.

The beauty is that the spiritual feminine flows across the boundaries of all cultures and religions. At the turn of the New Year, I had a dream that further deepened my understanding of the role of women at this time. I was told that, 'All women have the wisdom of pearl.' Then I saw a woman with a translucent jewel-like light shining from the center of her chest. I was told, 'This light is inside all women.' This is the pearl that belongs to each woman, an ancient wisdom that needs to be lived in our own, ordinary lives, each of us with our own unique pattern.

I know that many women have experienced great suffering and darkness. It can feel nearly impossible to claim our real nature at times when doubt, fear, and insecurity grab hold. But this claiming, this 'standing up' of each of us, I believe, will allow the healing energy of life to flow freely, in ways we do not yet understand.

Here is another dream sent by a friend:

I am walking among a crowd as they are singing, looking for something or someone. I finally come to a place where it is mostly women...Suddenly, as the next verse of the song begins, the women, one by one, then more and more, stand up as they are singing — and I realize that only the women are singing — and the sound grows and grows, and it's like nothing I've ever heard before.... All around, as far as the eye can see, women are standing up to sing this song together... the women have chosen to arise—to awaken.

Listening to the song of our own soul and learning to bring this song into our daily life are part of the awakening of feminine consciousness. I was recently invited to give a workshop at Shakti Rising, an innovative recovery home for young women in San Diego. At the end of the workshop the young women were asked what they learned from our time together, and their responses were moving and revealing: I learned that there is a place inside me that cannot be violated. I didn't know that. From another: I feel hope. I can now feel a real connection to all the women in the world doing this work, and this gives me strength.

And then, a young woman with a particularly difficult history spoke. So quietly, she said, I didn't know that I had beauty inside of me. This is what sticks with me. This is the song, calling to women in different ways, asking us to remember who we are. Each of us is needed, each song a part of the whole.

Anne Scott

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