Hail, Great Mother! 🌍
This month’s edition of The Goods (things that make me blissfully happy, divinely contemplative and gratefully soothed, which I want to share with you) is all about the Divine Mother!
Today is earth day, and in honor of mama Gaia— thought by some to be the living organ of the divine mother creatrix herself, and undeniably the great mother of us all— I’m inspired to share some expressions of the Divine Mother to inspire your heart and your life .
May these practices, songs, contemplations and invitations be a portal into a deeper experience of what it means to be a human born of Mother Earth herself.
🎶 [Song] Mother by Gaiea Sanskrit
An unspeakably beautiful mantra honoring the many faces of the goddess.
jagadambe: Mother ("ambe") of the Universe ("jagat")
mā/mātā: Mother.
Listen. On repeat.
🎧 [Playlist] Springtime Healing
In The Four Fold Way, author and anthropologist Angeles Arrien presents the archetype of The Healer as the key archetype for Spring. I’ve created this playlist for this divine season of the springtime. May it bring playful, light and heartfelt tidings of healing to your heart and body.
✨ [Podcast] The Emerald: For the Divine Mother of the Universe
Wow. WOW. wow.
I can’t sing the praises of this podcast enough. But I’ll keep trying.
Every episode I listen to blows my freaking mind.
Start with this one.
If you’ve already listened, listen again.
📖 [Book] The Mother, Sri Aurobindo
I’m not sure how many times I’ve quoted this book. I’ll keep doing it. The sections on prosperity in this tiny little book will shake your entire understanding of money and capitalism. I accept any invitation to integrate my understanding of the divine mother into such things as my bank account.
🌏 [Practice] Earth Offerings
Inspired by episodes of The Emerald podcast and posts I've read by my dear friend and soul ally Katerina Satori (whom I’m with in the Sacred Valley of Peru at this moment!) I’ve been making almost daily offerings to the earth. With these offerings come silent, spoken or sung prayers. It feels really, really good. Make it simple. Don’t overthink it. Find a quiet spot, a patch of grass, the base of a tree, a sprinkling of sand. Bring along flowers, create earth mandalas, shed tears, offer water, speak prayers, sprinkle spices, pray with herbs. What you offer matters not. What matters is that you do it wholeheartedly. Hold your gratitude and awe for our divine mother ini your heart, and you cannot do it wrong.
Blessed earth day, dear one!
Find some time today, if you can, to put your bare feet on the soil, the grass, the sand, in the water.
Feel the pulse of her heart.
Listen to her bird-song and the breeze in the trees as her breath in your ear.
Feel the wind across your face as a gentle caress, reminding you of your deepest, truest belonging.
You are held. Literally.
You are loved.
Jaya ma!
Victory to the Mother!
In reverence,
Britta
