Birthing Pains

Picture this: A baby, in the birthing canal. Its mother is pushing by no choice of her own…her body is running this show. Her belly begins to pulse and contract and the baby goes from floating peacefully in warm, amniotic fluid to experiencing an overwhelming pressure.

This pressure bears down hard on the baby. It is the only way to move this being into its new existence; into Life.

It comes into the world in a shock of novelty. Everything is new. Nothing will ever again be the same. And it moves into a new life.

Just like a real woman pushing out her baby, this planet…this Mother, is birthing a new reality.

Her babies (all of us) have entered into the birth canal. We are no longer floating in the peace and warmth of her womb.

This labour began long before Covid came along, but was hurled into the spotlight 2 years ago.

Since then, we have been in the birth canal and the pressure and contractions are intense. Some have been fighting to get back into what felt like the safe space; the womb.

But as it goes with the birthing process, once it begins, it cannot be stopped.

We are emergent beings into a yet unseeded reality.

As we sit in the pressure chamber of the birth canal, the trauma of this birthing process can be felt all around us.

Some are still clawing for domination. Any utterance or whispers that point to another, softer, more collaborative reality are quickly silenced; cancelled; marginalized.

Friendships break up. Families fracture.

The old way is not going out without a fight.

But it’s too late. The birth has already begun. We are all in the birthing canal moving towards what, exactly?

To answer that, we look to who and what is birthing this new world.

It is the Mother, of course.

The Feminine.

Her voice, from the very beginning, has been demonized…WITCH!!!!….she has been seen as too wild, too dangerous, too something.

She was burnt at the stake, hung in the town square, held down while her babies were sacrificed, for knowing things; being different; using herbs; casting spells; being uncontrollable.

The dominant force on the planet, then, had to be the Masculine. And while there is nothing wrong with the masculine, when it is left unchecked, unbalanced by its feminine counterpart, it became manic.

It dominated, oppressed, ruled and destroyed.

In its imbalance, it sought to dominate nature through pesticides, herbicides, clear-cutting, oil spilling, nuclear reacting, pillaging.

Through its lack of feminine partnership it waged war on everything that it couldn’t control and as it turned out, it couldn’t control a lot.

It couldn’t control viruses, pathogens, cancers, weeds, bugs, wildlife, forests…and so it said, We must go to war with these things.

The result has been The War On Cancer…The War On Viruses…The War On Drugs…The War On ‘Unacceptable Views’…The War On Differences Of Opinion…The War On Weeds…The War On Natural Childbirth…and on and on and on.

In its final breath…in its death throes, it is doubling down.

But all on its own, as this labour intensifies, we are birthing a new reality onto this planet. One in which The Feminine comes on board.

The Masculine, in its terrible loneliness at flying solo, has forgotten what it looks like…what it feels like…to have its partner around. It is literally crumbling in its own exhaustion; in its own mania.

As the Feminine is birthed into partnership with the Masculine on this planet, as the Yin/Yang of this world comes back into sync with itself, certain elements of reality cannot persist.

Namely, our certainty that anything at all needs to be dominated will be recalibrated. After all, the feminine does not seek to dominate, but rather to feel, understand, hold and nurture.

Rather than wage a war on what we deem as “getting in the way of progress,” the Feminine will seek to support and nourish.

This will look like homegrown food, created and served with love; grown in the highest quality soil; soil that is not polluting the rivers, waterways, our bodies.

This will look like friends trying to understand each other through asking questions, listening, guiding, rather than demonizing through disagreement, cancelling and punishing.

This will include the use of life-giving molecules like herbs, structured water, nutrition, Shinrin-Yoku, also known as the Japanese art of Forest Bathing, sun therapy, hydrotherapy, laughing, playing, having fun…the nourishing elements that have existed on this earth for millions of years.

Will it also include medicine given in hospitals? Of course it will! But it will be inclusive of all other natural therapies that have been, up to now, known as ‘alternative’ therapies. Before conventional medicine hit the scene, these so-called alternative therapies were simple called Medicine.

We will embrace our own sovereignty within the matrix of this Life.

Choice will be a given.

We will understand our addictions to food, tech, sex, consumption…as the extreme evolutionary and spiritual mismatch from our fundamental natures.

We will abandon our computers and their hypnotizing apps for time spent together, face to face, to live, play and love.

We will hold birth AND death as sacred; transitions, not from oblivion to oblivion, but from one form to another. We will no longer run scared from death, but celebrate the movement from the manifest back into the unmanifest. We will understand that when the body drops, the soul flies free.

Does it all sound utopian to you?

Yet, where else can we go at this point?

This world is deeply troubled; deeply divided; and overtly dominated by a force that seeks extract as much resource from both this planet and her occupants at seemingly any cost.

But the souls of this planet are getting restless. The old way is no longer flying.

The Masculine is in full burnout and it is on the verge of collapse.

As we move through the birth canal, and as many of us hold both our individual and collective pain of suppression and oppression, please remember this…

We have all been sent here on Divine Assignment. What appears to be ‘one side against another’ is actually One Collective Soul who agreed to come here at this time to birth a new world.

We need to be willing to forgive. We need to be willing to hold the other in love. We might not keep showing up to get kicked in the gut, but we can understand that, on the deepest level, every Soul that is here at this time has come to help birth a new reality; to walk each other home.

This blog posted was inspired by a podcast that I recently listened to. The podcast is The Aubrey Marcus Podcast where he interviews Dr. Zach Bush and philosopher Charles Eisenstein.

I also wanted to share this beautiful and moving music with you. It is something that I listen to when I’m feeling lost or frustrated with the state of the world. It is a meditation, really, with a profound pointing to the essence of WHO and WHAT we are. I hope you enjoy it.

“And pretty soon you realize that all we’re going to do for eternity is sit around the fire.”

~ Jon Hopkins with Ram Dass, East Forest