A privilege of the heart, a privilege that transcends all time and space.
I saw, felt and spoke to both of my daughters before they were conceived. A relationship beyond time and space. I knew that they were my children, my babies and that they were privileging me, to be called their mother. My greatest teachers are my children!
Whether you are a mother of children or ‘childless’, it is irrelevant. Many mothers in this beautiful world may not have birthed children but birthed their energy, love and creativity into this world. They have felt both the pain, the frustration, the love and the surrender, a deepening of trust, a deepening of the intuitive heart. Our ‘mother’ archetype is the relationship not only with ourselves but with the world and the cosmos.
The mother archetype is part of our collective unconscious. The relationship with the ‘mother’ is our first relationship in this human form and this powerful relationship is how we form our loving attachments. We learn how to communicate and how to respond to the world. This is our first experience of ‘love’ and this relationship transcends all others.
My journey of the ‘mother’ changed my entire life! It was not what I called an easy transition but a journey of the ‘intuitive’ heart. This journey cracked my heart wide open, like shattered pieces of mirror, revealing and reflecting the deep jewels of my soul, it was my intrepid journey into the unknown. This journey revealed my strength as I learnt to release expectations and surrender by trusting my ‘divine’ self as I intuited my child’s needs. “Let go, let God in and feel your intuitive heart”. I learnt on that day, that the mother’s heart is both fierce and gentle, like a lioness.
I clearly remember that day, the 12th of November, as if it was etched on my soul. The day I unleashed my ‘lioness’, she came out roaring as my sick daughter lay in the hospital, after a long and traumatising birth which resulted in her being paralysed down her right side (Erbs Palsy), bruised and not taking food. I roared for my daughter, I roared for the pain and I roared as my intuitive heart exploded knowing what she needed and knowing what I needed to do! It felt like the ‘ primal roar’ for all mothers!
“Intuition is your capacity to respect yourself and to listen and trust your interior voice to the exclusion of the chaos and to be humble enough to follow it.”
by Caroline Myss: Anatomy of the Spirit
The embodiment of the mother archetype is the calling to be of total service, to be both the nurturer and the protector. To know the pangs of heartbreak, to feel the journey and walk with both sides of the sword love and fear, a deepening of the soul.
This ‘deepening ‘was something I had never experienced before, it was like I was being reborn! What I have learnt, as I continue my journey with the mother archetype, is radical surrender, to unapologetically trust the intuitive intelligence by privileging the heart, transcending all lifetimes, beyond galaxies, stars and the cosmos.
Yes, to be called a mother is a privilege….