Womb grief is rarely talked about in spiritual communities, creating a pandemic of ‘hardened’ women disconnected from the Dark Mother’s Wisdom. As we step into Scorpio season, the veils thin and our mystical and magical selves turn on, I’d like to invite you into the one of the greatest reasons why women are feeling disconnected and out of touch with the magic and beauty of life…..womb grief.
Embracing Womb Grief
As we step into Scorpio season, Halloween and Samhain, we step into the darkness of life. This darkness has been very misunderstood and misinterpreted even within the spiritual and feminine movement. Darkness is often related to trauma, to the unknown and to the uncontrollable. The parts of us that are not acceptable or approved by society.
But there is a long tradition in the Feminine Path of the dark mother; the one who regenerates, rebirths and brings forth new life from the very darkness of her being. From her unknown and uncontrollable parts, new life is created.
As the veils thin at this time, the portal energy accelerates and my body begins to feel grief, a sensation that for me has long been tied to the memories of my star lineages and my soul path. From the moment of my awakening, I have been navigating grief. I’ve learned that she’s not here to be healed or energetically removed, but she’s here to teach me something that nothing in the outer world can and my patience and acceptance of her is required in that process.
And yet, oddly enough womb grief is rarely talked about in spiritual communities, and if it is, it is talked about as something we must heal and overcome…which comes to quiet a shock to someone who has been navigating grief for over a decade…
Is there something wrong with me?
Have I been so traumatized I am not worthy of healing?
(these are the thoughts that run through our minds when we don’t know the Grief traditions and rituals of the feminine path)
It’s as if the only thing the ‘spiritual community’ is focused on is the light, the expansion, the growth, the intention setting, the activation, the acceleration; always looking forward, moving on to the next, letting go of what was to move on the next, the highest, the better. No wonder we are birthing a future generation with an incessant need to swipe and scroll for the next hit of adrenaline.
What I have come to realize is that our society needs the medicine of the very opposite; the slowness, gravity and acknowledgement of Grief – and it’s in woman’s tradition to do it because she carries the memories in her womb.
The incessant need to manifest and attract every new desire is leaving us fragmented, deeply malnourished and completely off centered/disembodied, not even knowing what makes us happy or content. There is a huge Blind spot in not acknowledging the consistent loss or letting go required for embodied spiritual evolution. This goes against the very nature and wisdom of life. It’s as if all we desire to do is inhale, expand and consume, without exhaling, decompressing and releasing.
As women we hold the past the present and the future in our womb and it is the movement between each that we must consistently navigate. We cannot move forward without sitting with our past. We cannot take on a new lover without integrating the lessons of the last one. We cannot build a new relationship with our bodies if we do not fully love our previous aspects. We cannot bring in more wealth if we are not fully seated in the complexity and the vastness of all that we have and come from.
There’s a deep grief that comes with every new version of ourselves, whether that be in relationship or in home, in career or in friendship, in birthing and in dyeing, but unfortunately there is no space or place for grief to fit into our normal day-to-day environment. This living intelligence of the Great Mother has been sugar coated with positive vibes and covered up with positive affirmation to help us quickly let go of what does not serve and get on with our next great big intention.
So as women we do what we know best – we get strong and move on. We conjure up the strength to keep looking forward without taking a moment to recognize and make space for the past, creating all kinds of imbalances within the energetics of our heart and womb. And I think the hardest part here is the following:
Our ‘past’ is not linear. Our grief is not bound by time. Our darkness is not logically understood. When we make space for grief, we make space for something completely out of this realm – and that’s why women are having a hard time with it. You can’t scroll to the next layer of grief. You can’t logically explain it. You can’t even make sense of it.
But grief is living inside of you. It’s living inside every magical, empathic, intuitive, gifted and sensitive woman I know – we just don’t know what to do with it.
This is creating a pandemic of ‘hard’ women – literally, women who cannot soften, be humbled or submit to the medicine of the unknown. And the ‘stronger’ we get, the ‘harder’ we get, inevitably cutting us off from one of our greatest sources of magic and quantum wealth – our body’s ability to feel and sit with the unknown, the darkness, the traumas the illogical – the aspect of us that carries the Dark Mother’s Wisdom.
Our inability to sit with grief means we’re not tapping into the regenerative dimensions of our body’s magic besides causing imbalances in our hearts and wombs which can lead to many hiccups in those energetic centers.
It is the job of women to acknowledge when the external world and it’s responsibilities have over taken our persona and not allowed us to create the proper space for the unseen mysteries, the intelligence of our body’s wisdom and the guidance of our soul, to be felt and understood.
This holy-day season governed by the Wisdom of Darkness in the northern hemisphere, take some time to sit with your body’s wisdom and notice what it wants to say. Have you been carrying grief in your heart or womb and not even realized it? Has grief been something easily overlooked that’s ready to show itself to you?
Start getting curious about what aspects of your life you’ve been so quick to ‘let go of’ and perhaps compromised the full wisdom of life’s mysteries because you were so ready to move onto the next ‘big and exciting thing’. Call in your ancestors or star lineages for support if it feels right.
WOMB GRIEF CEREMONY
Interested in sitting together for ceremony? I’ll be hosting a womb grief ceremony in Midtown, NYC this week. This is a wonderful opportunity to create space for an ancient feminine healing tradition very sacred to the priestess path.
JOIN me for a womb grief ceremony in NYC
In Devotion to your Sacred Feminine Initiatory Path,
Celeste Gluz, Creatrix & Divine Feminine Guide
Lemuria Rose Temple – A federally recognized ministry devoted to Divine Feminine Ascension
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