“From the continent of Africa, mounted on top of an elephant, Mawu comes, the great goddess, a supreme power that creates everything. It is also supported by the primary snake, which, once has completed the creative act, slides below the earth where he lives in stillness.
She is the goddess’s mother aspect – the one that gives birth to the form; We and the world are his daughters. It has authority as it was known in matriarchy, not as a power over the other that threatens individuality, if not as the innate understanding of the laws of nature. It is the female source of the universe: fertility, abundance, creative imagination.
Pagan rituals expressed reverence and gratitude towards the great goddess and social customs were based on this reverence. The mother not only creates a form, she also holds it – with all the love she feels her son or daughter, the universe and everything in it.
She nourishes, healthy and perpetuates. In human terms, this is the milk that flows from our breasts, or the tenderness that we give to our loves, friends, nin@s, artistic creations, or anything that is born of us…. ”
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One of the times that came out, what caught my attention was the elephant on which Mawu is mounted. I stayed a good time looking at his eyes, feeling all the force he conveys, holding this mother at the time of giving birth.
He immediately made me connect with everything that sustains and strengthens us in the moments of deep delivery, of intense creation, of love to the other … At the metaphorical level, the question emerges: What are my «elephants»?
I invite you to let this image resonate in you and all those things that strengthen and support you inside, nourishing the mother’s archetype inside you.
I share here some of the «elephants» that support me on a day -to -day basis:
* The conscious connection with nature: see a dawn, walk barefoot on the earth, stretch on top of a rock, follow the moon cycle …
* Cultivate the moments of pleasure in the day to day: enjoy the flavors of the food, the wave of the orgasms, the aroma of a massage oil …
* Having created a space dedicated only to rest in my house: a mattress on the floor, cushions and hand relaxing music … small stops every day, and when I have the rule, spend hours there!
* Take a bathtub with sea salt and lavender at the end of the day …