Episode 201- Owning Ashes, Owns the Heart

Send us Fan MailWhen we are in a hurry to move on from an intensely brutal situation, we tend to leap out of the ceremony before the ritual fire turns its glowing embers into ashes. we're often tempted to circumvent the space and time it requires to heal. It is natural to want to run, jump out of the ceremonial ground. But  while early escape may find yourself in a different landscape, the same lesson remains. Healing of heart is an odyssey that requires sitting in stillness until the last ember crackles and transforms your feminine  ancestral legacy. Rising too early may console the soul, but don’t be surprised when a parallel encounter of the same ironic nature butts it’s horns into your chest. You will find  that the heart is still ribbed in its cage, albeit with gate wide open. The virile emotions of love’s deep longing once again pelts out without guile, raw, and untethered -part of the immortal beauty of love. But alas, the brutal lesson when we do not wait for the signal of ashes before rising, the heart  once again feels unsupported, vulnerable, set up to be trifled with, to be harvested. Solution, unfinished. Evolution does not happen in the claim of being free or taking a detour from feeling trapped. It happens in the fire where we are forged. We stay in the roaring silence, stilled by faith until the fire burns to ashes and every trace of the ancestral trap is vanquished.Presence is not passive. Stillness is the most austere form of activity. It alchemises pain not into numbness but into fertile transmutation. It does hurt. But this is hurting that deeply heals. When we sit inside this hurting, when we do not seek bypasses to avert it, only then can we fully cremate the ancestral vasanas that live unloved in fear, and self-rejection, where emotions are easily baited.  In the yet unhealed in-between, each encounter reminds us that we are living on the outer perimeter of love- that brilliant mystery of  universal love that is necessary to coalesce Shiva-Shakti primordial feminine- masculine connection. Only then can wholeness thrive, and awareness flourish. Only then is the heart prepared for its sublime adventure. So listen up, goddesses, be still. Allow the sacred ashes to bless and adorn your feet before rising. Support the showMay Peace Be Your Journey:Maya’s approach transcends modern feminism by advocating for a holistic restoration of balance, moving beyond the fight for basic rights to reclaiming the innate power of the divine feminine, which includes procreation, forgiveness, nourishment, and cosmic creativity. She stresses the importance of kindness, inner stillness, and compassionate self-  tools for healing individuals and society. www.mayatiwari.comwww.facebook.com/[email protected] Maya’s New Book: I Am  Shakti:https://www.collectiveinkbooks.com/o-books/our-books/I-am-shaktiAmazon.comBookshop.org