“Welcoming Lilith: Awakening and Welcoming Pure Female Power”, by Theresa C. Dintino
‘m always happy to see a new book by Theresa, and although this is short, that’s deceptive: there’s a lot of wisdom condensed here.
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The Healing Womb
I was inspired to paint ‘The Healing Womb’ art installation for the Glastonbury Goddess Conference 2012 by my personal experience of mothering three children, two of whom were born with life-threatening syndromes and multiple disabilities. During the months I lived on neonatal intensive care and paediatric surgical wards, I heard many stories of womb wounding. Stories of sadness interwoven with abortion, of grief from miscarrying, of the trauma of still-birth. Stories of failed IVF attempts, of childless women, their wombs over-flowing with lost dreams. Stories from overwhelmed and frightened mothers nursing ill and disabled children. And stories of motherhood and mothering in the community, its challenges and its rewards.
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Arm in arm you come to me
Wild Goddesses awakening now
Returning from your darkmoontime
Reclaiming your sensual divinity
Wriggling up the bed
“You may approach”
Permission in shrill from the unmanned one.
And I, the well-trained bride, am cold, paler
than the bellied silken desert tent,
trembling in fear and readiness to love.
