Hips


Don't just unwind your solar plexus. Don't just relax your belly. Release your hips, closed doors with rusty hinges built to swing open and dance, celeste designed to rotate like a galaxy of golden pollen. Honor your lowdown seed pod milkweed silk and toss it in the breeze. Cherish the ley lines of your darkest valley, harrowed and plowed, fallow wilderness of blessed yearning. You will never expand your mind if you don't unbuckle your pelvis. Only then can you transcend, celebrate the cosmic dissolution of your silhouette, evaporate the veil between flesh and spirit. The whole cosmos is your climax, gently exploding, just as it is. No need to attain anything. No performance, no anxiety. If you want to wear a thousand-petaled crown, then sink your stem in the loam and channel up rose sap. Be your own furrow. Breathe through bone marrow. Green your physiology. A nurse log lying in a lost ruined temple, overgrown with blackberries and trumpet vine, boiling with ant hills, tiered with turkey tail mushrooms : visualize your soul as That! If you want to fathom the depths of interior prayer, contemplate the juice of gurgling microbes. What is lectio divina? To linger over hieroglyphs of fungi in your lymph nodes. If you listen more deeply to the silence in your chromosomes, and tend the priestly flame in your pineal gland, what you call "the mind" will glitter with jewels of darkness. Now enter the year of the serpent, the season of hopeless beauty. The Goddess Kundalini undulates through compost. Mother is Matter and Matter is holy. Thank everything you smell.

Engraving by William Blake

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