Awakening, Sprouting, Union - What a threesome!

We have arrived at the mid-point between the Spring Equinox and Summer Solstice, a day that has long been considered as a very sacred time. Legends tell us it’s a time when the veil between the worlds is thin and a time when riuals to ensure an abundant harvest are celebrated. Has the time leading up to this day, known as Beltane in old Europe, been a wild ride for you too? Have seeds planted long ago begun to sprout or regenerate in the past week? Some say the journey is more significant than the destination. Nevertheless I am so grateful to have returned to Center, the route hardly seems to matter.

 Still, I’d like to share a little about this journey, and place a few markers on this new trail I’m taking, so that I can find it again and perhaps you can too! If you’ve been reading these letters for a long, long time, you may remember that some time ago, after several years of working intensively with Jack Painter and his Pelvic Heart Integration trainings, I began writing a book about harmonizing masculine and feminine energies. Eventually, I started to call this book Inner Marriage or Sacred Marriage. I got about halfway into it, then got sidetracked writing a proposal and looking (unsuccessfully) for a publisher, and then put it aside because I sensed I needed to take my understanding to another level before I could finish writing this book.

 Recently, that level has begun opening up for me. Synchronistically, an old friend and former lover called to talk about a different, but closely related book idea he is working on days after I began writing again! Also in this time frame, I received email from at least a dozen people with a link to a short talk by Harvard brain scientist Jill Taylor discussing what she learned about the right and left brain hemispheres when she experienced a stroke. If you’d like to hear her incredible story, click this link: http://www.ted.com/speakers/view/id/203.

 Oh, and while you’re cruising the web, if you click on the following link you can hear Chip August’s podcast interview recorded in February. Honestly, if you only have time for one, choose Jill Taylor. But if you’ve manifested a both/and world, choose both! To hear more about my last book, check out

http://personallifemedia.com/podcasts/222-sex-love-and-intimacy/episodes/3547-dr-deborah-anapol-natural-laws

 If I were to put the shift I made into one sentence, it would be this. Inner Marriage is less about the union of what we imagine to be male and female within and more about the union of Ego or Rational Mind with Spirit. In relation to the Divine we are all female, whatever our gender. Said another way, the deeper meaning of Sacred Marriage, or Hieros Gamos, is the marriage of the personality with the soul. When this marriage is consummated, the third brain (usually called the Solar Plexus) spontaneously opens. This triadic linkage has too many implications to elaborate on here.

 What does this have to do with Beltane? In ancient times the Hieros Gamos ritual was celebrated on this day. It involved the King mating with a priestess who represented The Goddess. Not only did this ritual ensure the fertility of the land, but it was necessary for the empowerment of the King. Somewhat later, and indeed well into patriarchal times, the royal line in many places continued to be matrilineal. The Queen’s husband became King, and was often the official ruler, but his power derived from his marriage to the Queen and she groomed their son, the future King. Metaphorically, this translates into the right relationship between the human and the Divine being one in which the human (whether in a male or female body) is in partnership with the Divine to create a “new being” who fully integrates Divine Will with a human body/mind.