While I was researching a topic today, which
arose from my quiet time, I was reminded of a dream vision I had a couple
decades ago. I'm not entirely sure whether it was a dream or clair voyant vision. Oftentimes just before I fall asleep or wake up, I
"see" things in that in-between time that I know are coming in
through my third eye. This vision felt less like a dream and more like an
encounter and thus a vision, but I can't be entirely sure of that. It came in answer to a prayer
about wanting to see the feminine aspect of the divine I had been studying for
a while, both for my independent study in grad school and for the women's spirituality group I had pioneered (WISPIR) in Asheville, NC. What I saw in
this in-between moment was a middle-aged woman with long, dark hair, which she
wore loose. She was standing at the edge of a forest and she wore about her a long,
flowing cloak that was indigo--dark as the night sky. She had energy that was
absolutely pregnant with possibility. I knew that she was the Mother Goddess, but
I wasn't sure which tradition until I came across her card in Doreen Virtue's
Goddess Oracle Cards deck today. While I've used this deck quite a bit, I've
never pulled this card. I came across it while I was browsing the deck, looking
for a different Goddess. I actually recognized this being from that vision. I
recognized her appearance, but more importantly, I recognized her energy. From
this energy, came this message:
Sige,
Goddess of the silence
from
whence came the Word.
The
Womb that gave birth to the World.
Mother
of Sophia, the Goddess of Wisdom.
Sige,
Goddess of darkness from whence
came
the Light--Illumination. It was Good!
The
Light of Knowledge and Wisdom.
From
this dark soil grew the Tree of Life.
This
Darkness is the darkness of Yin.
It
is the Mother of Ten Thousand Things.
Sige,
the source of all manifestation
arising
from the Silence of Meditation.
The
Womb of Gestation.
The
Stillness of Being.
Plant
a seed in this rich soil.
Tend
it with awareness, still, silent awareness.
"In the beginning God created
the
heavens and the earth.
The
earth was formless and void,
and
darkness was over the surface of the deep,
And the Spirit of God was moving over
the
surface of the waters.
Then God said, “Let there be light”;
and
there was light.
God
saw that the light was good;
and God separated the light
from
the darkness.
God called the light day,
and
the darkness He called night.
And there was evening
and
there was morning, one day."
~Genesis 1: 1-5 (NASB)
~Genesis 1: 1-5 (NASB)
Sige
was the darkness over the surface of the deep.
And
Sige was the deep.
And
Sige was the Spirit of God
moving
over the deep.
Then
God/Tao/Sige said: "Let there be Light
and
duality was born from that one Word.
From
then on, there was no Light
without
corresponding Darkness.
From
the ONE came the 10,000 things,
the
many faces of Divinity,
the
many manifestations of Eternity.
From
the ONE came
the
endless dualities of Existence.
All
the nameless things gathered names
unto
themselves from the stuff of words.
From
every word that was spoken,
came
the creation of a thing,
and
the no-thing too.
All
the words gathered nameless things
unto
themselves from the stuff of existence.
From
Awareness came Existence.
From
the Word came the Things.
What
is a word before it is spoken?
It
is potential.
"I
think therefore I am?"
"I
think therefore I speak.
I
speak therefore I am."
Speaking
brings forth manifestation.
Before
speaking begins, there is only Being.
When
Being becomes Conscious Awareness,
it
becomes Potential.
When
Conscious Awareness becomes Potential,
it
grows in power.
When
Conscious Awareness bursts forth into Speech,
it
becomes Creation and the Knowledge of Good and Evil.
The
Tree of Life is Pure Potentiality.
The
Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is Creation,
the
result of Speaking.
Sige
teaches us to embrace Silence
until
Silence becomes Conscious Awareness
and
Conscious Awareness becomes Creation.
Choose
well what you speak
for
in speaking, all Creation arises.
Spend
more time with Sige
in
Conscious Awareness.
Embrace
Silence before you begin to speak
and
unleash all manner of dualities
upon
Existence.
© 2014 Beth Mitchum
(with a quote from the New American Standard Bible)
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