Greeting the Goddess

The Goddess of Spring is passing through. Greet her with a breath of gratitude.

As you breathe in, open your crown to the sky, letting clouds, stars and full moon pour down through your nerves into the grail of your chest.

As you breathe out, let Winter go, melting, flowing through your marrow out through the soles of your feet, offered to fertilize Earth's dark loam.

Now with eyes hollow yet radiant as jewels, see your own pure awareness gleaming not only from within, but dew-sparkled on each swollen bud and blossom burst, and every particle-wave of robin song.

This is the ancient ritual called Greeting the Goddess, that you practiced often when you were eight months old.


Painting: Botticelli, detail, 'Allegory of Spring,' 1482