We are standing on a precipice.  Everything we’ve known is behind us, and the horizon is a vast unknown.  This can feel dark and scary, but what if it’s filled with fertile promise?  What if everything we need is just waiting for us, in that dark unknown?  And what if SHE is showing us the way?  

Who is SHE?  For eons She’s gone by many names– Inanna & Erishkegel; Kali & Durga; Isis & Hathor; Mother Mary & Mary Magdalene.  She is the Divine Feminine, the Black Madonna, the Goddessss, the One who reminds us to feel in the dark, who remembers us into our night vision, whispering that maybe we already know how to navigate in the dark.   

To go in the dark with a light is to know the light.

To know the dark, go dark. Go without sight,

and find that the dark, too, blooms and sings,

and is traveled by dark feet and dark wings.

(Wendell Berry) 

In these times of tremendous upheaval and total unknown, we are being initiated into the dark.  In all the questions, the Dark Mother reaches through the void and takes our hand.  She invites us to use all of our senses, to deepen into our wildness, and to link arms with kindred souls on the journey.  

Advent, the beginning of the new liturgical year, is a time of stepping into the unknown, and learning to see and be and birth new life in the darkness.  

SHE is with us, every step of the way.