Me & the Hag

Me and the Hag, in the place where I truly felt God for the first time. Well, the feminine aspect of God. ⁣

This is Loughcrew. Also known as Slieve na Calliagh, it is the place of the Cailleach. She is the hag, the crone, the ancient, the wise woman. She has gathered her medicine and awaits in stillness at the highest point in County Meath.⁣

In Ireland, my apprenticeship sisters and I were taught how to properly approach each ancient ceremonial site. In the way of Loughcrew, it meant that I was asked to assist my teacher up the mountain. ⁣

Y'all... it is steep. So here I am with the very precious cargo of my teacher, barely able to walk it myself, assigned to keep her from rolling down the hill. 😳 ⁣

I adjusted myself with each step, keeping myself just below her so I could stop any potential fall. And the realization came that if I didn't have my own solid footing, I would be of absolutely no help. *cut to both of us rolling down the hill*🤸‍♀️ ⁣Being sure in my feet, sure in myself, is how I could be of greatest service. ⁣

🖐 Hi, life lesson.⁣

When I got to the top and moved closer to the main cairn, I felt everything shift. The energy of the Cailleach was palpable, and she began attuning us to her. Allowing myself to be open to it, I was wrapped inside and out with the deepest, softest, wisest, stillest, oldest, most nourishing love. And without thinking I whispered, "So this is what God feels like." I'd felt the masculine, the fire love. This was the balance that I'd never fully experienced. So different, and yet the same. ⁣

⁣Until then I hadn't realized how deeply I had craved to know God in the feminine. To know God as resonating within me, to know God's face was in my face too. That being a woman did not mean I was further from God than a man, did not mean an existence of being less. Because She is within me, too. ⁣

Btw, substitute any word for God -- the Universe, Source consciousness, etc. it's all the same IMHO. ⁣

So that was the day I got to meet Her. ⁣ And no one fell down the hill! Truth be told my teacher probably didn’t need my help to begin with. But I got the lesson and that's what was important. ⁣

Be sure in your own feet. And may we all know God in the feminine.