Living Yes Yes Yes’s

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1. First Draft from my old files:
   May 10, 2010 On my return from the UK Women In Power Initiation
   ALisa Starkweather

   I want to write something about power,
   women’s power,
   innate power,
   power that is not power over
   or belly up under
   but a sacred medicine
   a fiercesome rite of passage
   a collaborative phenomena
   the birthing grounds to our true yes and no.

   Power that when used rightly
   has the ability to restore us
   and rebirth humanity itself to a new dream,
   a new world.
   She is perceived dangerous
   The dragon woman’s transformative fire
   Throwing flames at outworn assumptions

   She is the freedom that moves effortlessly in body
   as tree tosses her leaves,
   snake sheds her skin
   moon moves ocean
   creating cylical tides of our own bleeding.

   I have witnessed this power
   Not on occasion
   but in each breath of us that tenderly holds our life force
   in the bone stories of ancestral wisdom held in the center of our own marrow
   in our grandmother’s swollen belly,
   her umbilical cord nourishing our mother’s developing womb
   holding the eggs of her daughters yet born.

   in the interwoven circles of wisewomen that are gathering across the lands

   She is true north on our compass
   never questioning our value or our worth
   while simutaneously destroying on contact
   old patterns in every lie we dare repeat

   Her power

   Breaks the template
   Disrupts habits.
   Destroys false identities
   Threatens belief systems
   And shall bring at last bring the fall
   of patriarchal structures that can not , will not, any longer
   hold her down.
   Once the slave, the victim, the prey,
   She is now the Sovereign of destiny
   And scared or not she is taking reign within
   woman by woman

   She cares no longer about what you think
   For she is now the responsible determiner her own fate
   Connected and in relationship to every living being.
   She would no sooner cease what flows through her veins now
   Than the waterfall would retreat before falling into great mystery

   One cannot refute the truth of her
   Nor contain the unparalleled pure beauty of her existence.
   She is our rock steady strength in the center of our vulnerability
   Our thunderous knowing breaking the too long silence
   And now she is choosing,
   though it no longer feels a choice
   but more a deep and persistent calling,
   what can no longer be denied saying
   “Risk”
   “Act”
   “Become the power you are Sacred Woman”
   “Believe that your time has come embody your birthright power of the Goddess Herself ,
   that always has, always does, always will,
   change everything.”

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