The Lotus Bloom

It is time for the Lotus Project to become The Lotus Bloom. Arriving to the wise woman years, I feel like Bloom it is. The Art of Being a Woman has been my tale. From the first time I saw all the lotuses bloom on my pond in their fullness. I knew I was one. I thought so long ago, I will make money on the lotus flower somehow. it will matter in my life in a big way.

At this point, it has impacted me in the deepest way possible. She is the Queen of Flowers in the flower world. It's bloom only a day, its fragrance intoxicating, its stately, commanding way of being in the pond is the culmination of a journey. Lotuses live in the water and deepen their roots into the muck and mire. The stinky, smelly soil that is just mud. They powerfully rise above the water with the most beautiful leaves to collect the sunlight Round, large, like fans....... magnificent. 

The buds get really big. They swell and we would whiff them and get high on the intoxicating scent right before they bloomed. You could squish the flower like a perfume sprayer made of nature. Sexual scent really, just rapturous. Then they bloom soooo big. Bigger than you think they will be with the golden center with eyelashes of pollen. Magical really.

10 years ago I published my book, The Lotus Project. As my teacher Maria said in her broken English, You Realized. I have embodied the feminine wisdom of this flower and our journey as the flowers of humanity. The art of being a woman. The nooks and crannies we ride only to be the most majestic bloom there is. I am in the bloom phase now. The wise woman is the time of greatest opening. 

There is a sense of value that comes with age as a woman. We have sought it the wildest places that never net total fulfillment. We learn in the bloom stage, you are your acceptance and value you are seeking reflected back to you. We've looked outside our whole life. But as the feminine mysteries offer, fill yourself first with the shakti energy then flow it forward in feminine grace to others. We reverse it most of our lives and look to take in this value from outside. You realize that only you can value yourself in the most magical way to be the true you expressing. 

That bloom feels so good. I am not sure how I will bring it to the world yet, the pedals unfolding. On another level I still feel in the mud.  It is the height of the flower to that adds to its magnificence. It can be blooming and the roots are managing in the mud. We can be both places at once. We can know all is well, each part of us  just doing it's job to promote the bloom. 

I share my wisdom from that book for it changed my life. To revel in  heart centered living that woman innately are. To honor that, see its magic, I don't have to add any more too it.

The feminine has a divine form too. The Christ Sophia. The many forms there are of Source, God expressing on the world, whatever name you choose. We are the feminine form so compassionate and powerful. That is what I learned from the feminine mysteries. It has supported me through all my changes in life. 

Step into your bloom. We are enough ladies. We always were.

When we start to value ourselves, give ourselves time with ourselves, slow down, dance and giggle, playfully be our version of a woman., we find more health and ourselves truly. It really starts there. We are the flowers of humanity, not the bees. They have different jobs and we blend them but we have scent, color, architecture, form, a song that is planted in the earth. it doesn't move about, it draws to it what it needs. This is like the centripetal (toward the center)  force. The opposite way, the yin, the attraction, the magnetism. This is us. We already are the mystical girls of the world. 

It is time to honor  this femininity. When we gather and dance, play and do whatever is fun, we empower each other, we clear ourselves and we clear each other of the emotional woes we carry for the world. We just clear them and get back our sparkly eyes. It is easy. it is fun. It is reminding each other of the artistry we are. How we bring in the light beauty to life.

Let us bloom in unison!

Photo by Terree Lorraine Oakwood, www.themomentphoto.com