At some point, throughout a vacation on the house of Italian buddies within the province of Lazio, some forty-five minutes by prepare from the centre of Rome, I skilled a robust impression of the Sacred Female. She got here to me within the Vatican of all locations, centuries previous male stronghold, and energy centre of the Roman Catholic Church.
Much more surprisingly, her presence was extra outstanding within the Sistine Chapel, the Pope’s personal place of prayer, the place Cardinals sit in all male conclave. However there she was, shining via the restored color on that well-known ceiling via the brushstrokes of Michelangelo. I used to be selecting up loud echoes immortalised for hundreds of years via his artwork, tuning into the soul of the artist, seeing his inspiration when it comes to angels talking in color and light-weight. However then he was known as after an Archangel whose title means Who is like God. God is inventive, He created heaven and earth based on the scriptures, however now it was wanting like She may need created it with him. One way or the other over time in Christianity, the true Sacred Female has been hidden away, negated, became a virginal statue with little seen life power from earth.
In St. Peter’s, after my stroll across the museum, I stood earlier than La Pieta a masterpiece sculpted by the identical artist, which moved me so deeply I turned tearful. It issues not whether or not you might be spiritual. Magnificence corresponding to Michelangelo created has beautiful qualities, which might encourage, join, and even elevate the notice of those that care to take their time viewing it. It’s how the artist might see a imaginative and prescient of life encased in a block of marble after which chisel away till that soul was launched, to be born shining into the world of type. The compassion on the Madonna’s face as she cradles the lifeless Christ, the lifeless physique of the son to whom she as soon as gave start. The marble seems fluid, transferring, expressing each the great thing about Christ’s life and the ache of his merciless demise in each muscle, bone, and sinew. The sculpture evoked a robust picture of that Divine Female. I had begun tuning into, a starry compassionate Mom Goddess who cradles us at start, then via our lives with all their joys and challenges, till the transition of demise.
Though maligned and marginalized by centuries of delusional fears which have prompted witch hunts, inquisitions, torture, and abuse, the Goddess has by no means abandoned her youngsters. She nonetheless seems for me energetic, clever, and nurturing, dancing in equal partnership to type a much-needed steadiness of energy with my imaginative and prescient of a loving, inventive masculine God. Collectively they create concord and steadiness to the Universe. Collectively they’re inventive knowledge.
We are able to discover her shining via the weather, within the mild of solar, moon, and stars, in addition to in each act of kindness and compassion in direction of one another on our lovely blue planet. Ensouling our human artwork, she provides start to the life enhancing tasks we’re impressed to create, reflecting our risk like a picture of the moon on water.
My Italian buddies stay in a city the place there’s a sacred nicely near the church. Water sources in nature additionally join us to the Sacred Female via the panorama. The Goddess was giving me a day of artwork and soul – human creativity, and nature. And so it was, sitting on a handy bench in that Latina panorama with its acres of kiwi fruits, well-tended gardens ample with ripe lemons, and the mountains within the background, I felt the pure world and pictures of sacred artwork from my day within the Everlasting Metropolis, mingling within the golden rays of late afternoon sunshine. It jogged my memory of the unbroken curves of Celtic knotwork, patterns in my creativeness, flowing with my stream of Awen to encourage a poem known as The Language of Angels. This language of color, knowledge and light-weight has impressed a lot larger artists than me down the centuries. However on that afternoon, it was mine as a poet because it conjures up skills nice or small.
That poem was step one in direction of a e book written and printed by O-Books within the spirit of Awen, the stream of inspiration, or Holy Spirit flowing via all life. I discovered my inventive coronary heart path after I slowed my tempo and retired to Wales. It got here to me via a imaginative and prescient of an angel or being of sunshine related to the total moon’s silver path on the ocean exterior my condo in Wales. It was as if the Moon Goddess, utilizing the knowledge of this brightness I known as an angel, lastly birthed TO SING WITH BARDS AND ANGELS – A Journey into the Inventive Coronary heart – first conceived in Italy, within the hyperlink I discovered between Michelangelo’s artwork and nature.
Within the magic of daybreak and twilight, the areas between day and evening or evening and day, the veil begins to carry, because the Otherworld weaves its delicate ethereal threads into the material of fertile creativeness. At such occasions, I’ve typically skilled a wierd feeling that I’m standing in a portray. Since I’m a spiritually motivated author, I’m taking duty for creating my very own life and that’s the reason I take into account the event of affection to be so essential. The angel realm seems in my inside panorama as a website of beautiful color and light-weight the place phrases come up as notes from a celestial ocean, breaking in waves of sound and a flurry of shiny wings upon the shores of human consciousness. We’re a poem, a narrative, a tiny legend recorded within the huge e book of humanity, a single be aware within the Nice Music. With our love we are able to create a greater world collectively, illuminate the distinctive track of every soul, singing with bards and angels.
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BIO: Iona Jenkins writer, author and poet exploring development and alter via creativity.
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