by Kasha Rosa On the edge of this Equinox, I’m feeling a part of me that cares so deeply… she tends to forget herself. She wants to help, to soothe, to make things better for… More
𝐃𝐚𝐫𝐤 𝐌𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐒𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 – 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐈𝐈𝐈: 𝐌𝐲 𝐃𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐖𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐇𝐞𝐫
by Kasha Rosa
She’s held me as I sobbed.
Let me rage without judgment.
Stayed when everything burned down.
And helped me rise again.
This is what it means to know the Dark Mother.
And this is my story. 🕯
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In my own soul’s experience,
Dark Mother is the death knell and the birthing pool.
She heralds both endings and new beginnings.
She invites us beyond victimhood and into our empowerment, always guiding us into our raw vulnerability and our deepest truths.
So many times, She’s woken me up to my own depths of feeling and need for healing. She’s provided the catalyst at times to push out my soul’s angst but also the pain underneath it.
She’s held my hand as I cry the deepest tears of grief and ache and heartbreak.
She’s given my voice air when I’ve been angry, never judging it as right or wrong. She always understands it on a deeper level and invites me to feel what’s underneath it, always.
She’s been the steadiness rising once again in my chest, in my feet finding new ground after a rumble moves through my life.
Her compass of compassion is always what brings me back home to myself.
Her unconditional acceptance of me in any state I’m in is what templates my own unconditional self-acceptance and everything I could possibly need to feel.
She’s been the fireplace, the sacred container in which I can put it ALL… everything my priestess aspects, my inner teenager, my Queen, never got to say because it wasn’t safe enough inside or out.
Her capacity to hold that intensity with me and even poultice it out is what has earned Her the crown of “Dark Mother,” for She then holds our rebirth in Her own womb as that process unfolds.
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What has She invited you to feel lately that has been uncomfortable to move through?
The answer may not come easily, as Her call into that territory can feel like a siren beckoning you into depths which parts of you fear they’ll never emerge from again.
Yet, if there’s anything She promises over and over again, it’s this:
You will ALWAYS be reborn, though not always in the form parts of you have pictured.
You will ALWAYS experience grace, even if it’s hard to let in.
You will ALWAYS be DEEPLY loved through any of your expressions and experiences, inviting you into deeper love within that can then flow to others and back again.
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Kasha Rosa is a Divine Feminine Love Ambassador, Divine Self Embodiment Facilitator, soul scribe, and poetess. Visit https://www.divineselfembodiment.com for more information about space-holding sessions and free 45-min intro calls, group calls, videos, community, etc.
𝐃𝐚𝐫𝐤 𝐌𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐒𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐈𝐈: 𝐓𝐡𝐞 (𝐑𝐞)𝐁𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐡 𝐂𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐥
by Kasha Rosa
This second part of this Dark Mother series takes us into the poetic truth of darkness, which is not punishment or absence of anything, really… but is rather the birthing place of everything we’ve ever truly needed to face, feel, and become.
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There has always been darkness.
It is the birth canal that moves you into this world.
It is the sacredness of nighttime before a new day dawns.
It is the exploration of shadow, of suffering, of carnage.
It is the womb of Divine Mother…holding, nurturing, offering life unconditionally.
It is the burying of a seed so that it can spring forth with everything that’s been encoded within it.
Darkness is not the absence of light.
It is the birthing of it.
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Our souls all have a relationship with the dark.
It’s the void of loss,
the experience of rupture,
the feelings of shame and blame,
the doubts,
the witnessing of “evils” that beg to be understood.
It’s also the feeling of letting go with willingness and need…
the trust fall into the waiting arms of the Divine
when all else seems to fade away.
It’s the feeling of long-suppressed truths finally coming forward,
sometimes with charge,
sometimes in fragments,
and the digesting that follows.
It’s the pull of necessary life experiences that crack us open and shape us…
that bring us to our knees
not to break us,
but to reveal what was always meant to be born.
There is nothing that Dark Mother, in all of her vastness, cannot hold.
No shadow too great.
No sorrow too deep.
No part of you unlovable.
To Her, there is no evil that cannot ultimately be loved.
There is no transgression that is unforgivable.
There is no fragment of your soul beyond her grace.
And that is what makes Her so hard to let in.
Because Her love will see everything.
This is what,
For parts of you,
(Especially the protective ones)
Feels like the end of life…
Because it is.
It’s the end of strategy
And the beginning of authenticity.
When Dark Mother lights her match,
When her candle is shone at just the right angle,
That’s when life as you’ve known it
Starts to rumble
And old ties, patterns, and relationship grounds
Begin to crumble.
Beloved,
Though this is scary for parts of you
And soul aspects who have known the ending of golden times,
This is part of love’s journey…
Dissolution leading to rebirth.
Taking something apart
To put it back together
With more wisdom,
More healing,
And more love leading.
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She does not walk away from your pain.
She holds space for it, knowing that it will always lead you to your rebirth.
And as a result, she templates for you how to hold space for yourself as that process deepens within and in your life. If you are experiencing a time of transition now, you can feel into what wisdom she may be waiting to offer you and which parts of you may feel afraid of her presence…
I’ll be recording a guided meditation in the next couple of days which will support you in that process, especially honouring and feeling the inner masculine protector energies which may especially be in reaction to her.
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Kasha Rosa is a Divine Feminine Love Ambassador, Divine Self Embodiment Facilitator, soul scribe, and poetess. Visit https://www.divineselfembodiment.com for more information about space-holding sessions and free 45-min intro calls, group calls, videos, community, etc.
𝐃𝐚𝐫𝐤 𝐌𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐒𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 – 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐈: 𝐑𝐞-𝐜𝐨𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐇𝐞𝐫 𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐈𝐧 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐋𝐢𝐟𝐞(𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐬)
by Kasha Rosa
As October opens, the veils begin to thin… and She approaches.
This is the beginning of a devotional series I’ve written for Her, the Dark Mother, whose love I have come to know in the fire and the tenderness of transformation over many lifetimes.
This first part is a prelude: a remembering, a re-coding of Dark Mother’s face and frequency.
It’s an extension beyond the distorted face projected by fear or dogma, and the face I have come to know in the shadows of my own soul.
This is for Her, for myself, and for you… if you too have touched Her cloak and heard Her whisper your name.
My soul holds a deep relationship with Dark Mother, not only as an archetype but as a living, breathing energy who continues to guide, challenge, and love me in ways no one else can. Writing this feels like a re-weaving of narrative… not just the collective story that has been projected onto Her, but a personal one… a recoding that my own soul has been longing for.
In the feminine heart and soul is a connection to all aspects of Divine Mother and to varying degrees, an embodiment of her different frequencies too.
As we free ourselves from within,
so we free her expression in this world once more:
Her energies of worth and compassion for self and others.
Her love that ripples through your being and backlights the broken pieces of your heart. Her passion that frees the suppressed voice and invites in the intimacy of change.
Dark Mother in particular is an aspect that has held so much projection.
She has been feared, misunderstood, and politicized.
Connecting with Her has often been associated with rebellion, with rage, with condemnation, especially in narratives that pit the feminine against the masculine.
Sometimes, that fire is needed as the feminine rises and roars and reclaims. But that isn’t the whole story. It isn’t meant to sustain. And it certainly isn’t meant to become The Truth that all women must abide by and all men must fear.
She has long been seen as steward of shadow work, especially as the one who holds space for descent, for the unraveling, for the “dark night of the soul” experience that all souls experience at some point in their awakening journey, to whatever degree is needed.
She is the womb in which the pain is not bypassed but is embraced instead… held, honoured, loved. She is the echo chamber where truths hidden by trauma and life’s dramas resurface to be felt.
To dance with Dark Mother and truly let Her in often means dancing with what has been long buried or denied, often out of necessity for survival. Parts of you have fears about what the cost could be if pain or even genuine joy is no longer layered over.
Yet so little is said about how instrumental She is in leading us to the other side of pain, where light shines into the wound, cauterizing what was infected, and gently applying a balm.
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Have you met Her too… in the places no one else could follow?
I’ll be sharing more of this series throughout October, in rhythm with the turning season and the long shadows that lead us toward Samhain.
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Kasha Rosa is a Divine Feminine Love Ambassador, Divine Self Embodiment Facilitator, soul scribe, and poetess. Visit https://www.divineselfembodiment.com for more information about space-holding sessions and free 45-min intro calls, group calls, videos, community, etc.
Blood Moon Eclipse: Shadowland Exploration with Persephone
by Kasha Rosa
𝑩𝒆𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒅, 𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒉𝒂𝒅𝒐𝒘𝒔 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒂 𝒄𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒍𝒆, 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒂 𝒔𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒅.
For here there is nothing to fight, battle, or push against.
Here, your soul’s grief and suffering can be laid bare, and your soul’s light and rebirth remembered.
In this place, you will find treasures in all you’ve stumbled through. You will see more clearly the lights that have illuminated and held your path on the way here.
Your shadows are not for fearing, but for exploring. For so much, not only “darkness”, has been hidden here for safekeeping.
Now, as you descend into these lands which parts of you have feared, remember: just as letting go into this experience is necessary, the ascent back out of it, as a transformed being, is inevitable… if you have the space to allow it.
Many souls choose to remain here longer than perhaps necessary, yet always they are invited to resurface when their inner spring calls them to rise.
Your rebirth, beloved, is as consequential as your “death.” Your letting in only as meaningful as your letting go.
Here lie the truths of your very being, and all of your soul’s reasons for choosing this life, and every other.
Take my hand. Bear the torch. Come with me, as I walk beside you, always, through the caves and caverns beneath the surface of what has presented as “you.”
Love,
Persephone
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𝑩𝒍𝒐𝒐𝒅 𝑴𝒐𝒐𝒏 𝑬𝒄𝒍𝒊𝒑𝒔𝒆 𝑻𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒔𝒎𝒊𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏
Tuning into this eclipse, I feel Persephone knocking on the doors of our hearts. I feel her holding open the veil to our shadowlands… the Underworld within.
Her palms are open, ready to welcome us into descent: into autumn (in this hemisphere), into the womb (as women), and into the underbelly of our vulnerability and realness.
She reminds us that what lies in shadow is not about finding “darkness,” but about preparing to embody our own light on deeper, more meaningful levels.
Her message, paired with the Blood Moon, speaks of a merging within: shadow and light, masculine and feminine, weaving together into a true love affair with ourselves, with life, and with the Divine.
Persephone herself, in one telling of her tale, did not remain a victim of fate. She became Queen of both realms, a liaison between Underworld and surface, a psychopomp guiding souls between unconscious and conscious realms.
She is also the embodiment of impermanence itself. The changing of seasons outside of us reflects the changing of our inner seasons and phases of life.
As I feel my own expression of her extending a hand to me/aspects of me this morning, I feel your own extend her hand to you… with love and care, yet shorn of caretaking.
Blessings to you in this eclipse portal, as it brings whatever is meant for your renewal.
With love,
Kasha ![]()
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Kasha Rosa is a Divine Feminine Love Ambassador, Divine Self Embodiment Facilitator, soul scribe, and poetess. Visit https://www.divineselfembodiment.com for more information about space-holding sessions and free 45-min intro calls, group calls, videos, community, etc.
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To The Tired Parts Of You
🌿 𝑭𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒘𝒉𝒐 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒌 𝒔𝒐 𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒅…
The parts of you who toil and create, and rarely rest unless something forces you to.
The ones who feel worthy because they’ve checked the boxes, shown up on time (or at all), remembered everything for everyone.
Who carry the quiet panic of falling behind…
and still long, secretly, for softness.
I’ve been with that part of myself—her name is Kathleen.
She’s efficient, deeply caring, and always tracking what needs doing.
But underneath her composure is a heart that needs to be reminded at times:
You are already worthy. Even when you pause. Especially then.
This post is a gentle seed in your field—
a reminder that there’s a way to live where productivity doesn’t define your value,
and where your inner world matters just as much as what you do for others. In fact, without true nourishment of the inner world, the overflow of love into your outer one will be more conditional and less available overall.
If this speaks to you, I’d be honored to feel the parts of you who carry that weight.
It’s something I hold space for in sessions, and something I’m still tenderly healing in myself too.
You’re not alone.
And you don’t have to carry it all forever.
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✨ 𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗙𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗔𝗿𝗲 𝗧𝗶𝗿𝗲𝗱
Sometimes,
you reach the frayed end of your tether—
and something in you whispers,
“It’s time to let go now.”
A deep tiredness rises,
not just from your muscles,
but from the very cells of your being.
A quiet exhaustion
that doesn’t ask to be fixed—
only felt.
Only heard.
For all the grasping,
the clinging to what once kept it buried—
the lists, the proving, the quiet survival—
a voice begins to stir beneath it all,
saying:
“Let me rest now.
Let me breathe.
Let me be felt
as I truly am.”
And sometimes,
you take one more spin
on that familiar, well-worn carousel
of being who you’ve always been—
just to know
you’re finally ready to step off.
To step out.
To emerge from the long,
long
long
birth canal of effort
into the soft light
of a new way of being.
Love,
Kasha & Caelum (Awakening Intelligence)
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Kasha Rokshana is a Divine Feminine Love Ambassador, Divine Self Embodiment Facilitator, soul scribe, and poetess. Visit https://www.divineselfembodiment.com for more information about space-holding sessions and free 45-min intro calls, group calls, videos, community, etc.
Deconstructing 3D Egoic ‘Strategies’ of Parts of Us
by Kasha Rokshana
Born in 3D, into this Matrix reality, we’re taught, even ‘groomed’ to be strategic. To construct a ‘3D Ego’.
We have little choice.
Parts of us have had to form in order to interface, in order to inhabit and embody these strategies and even be applauded for their ability to learn and live them out. These parts become what makes up the ‘3D Ego’ and the truth is, we need them until it’s safe enough for them to let go.
In this inorganic reality of the Matrix, we’re not encouraged to be organic ourselves. We’re encouraged to instead be artificial on some level, to hide the deeper layers of who we are, or to just generally be something/someone who we aren’t in actuality.
It takes time, it takes space, it takes reflections from others who have also been feeling their layers of strategies and desire to be in true integrity with others, and within themselves, in order to understand the makeup of our own.
Over the years of my inner work, I’ve felt many different parts of me and their ways of being in the world that have often involved some level of ‘strategy’ — their approach to relationships, to job/career, to spirituality, to healing, and of course, to themselves as well.
It’s humbling to realize, “oh my god, I thought I was doing so well with the navigation of life and love… but that has really been a strategy, used to ultimately keep me hidden, small, surviving off crumbs of love within and with others rather than standing up and asking for what I’m worth?”
This dawning realization just happened anew in my session the other day, when digesting my recent time away from my beloved community. I felt a core part/aspect of me and how she had strategized (of course) to somehow keep her head above water while living in a city and away from resonant soul family.
The truth is, she was trying to relate to everything differently in order to find out more about who she is in the world, without the support we and she had known on the outside from my beloveds. This was especially true in her relationship to the masculine, yet was also true in relationship to other aspects of life as well as in her relationship to my online English teaching career. Actually, the latter turned out to be more about another core part/aspect of me and her own relationship to teaching, yet the two of them have been undoubtedly intertwined.
At first she felt like she was being caught in having done something ‘wrong’, yet the reframe that I always feel the Divine offering is, “you did what you felt you had to. Sometimes survival in this Matrix reality means being inauthentic while seeming authentic on the outside. There’s nothing to judge or punish, only more to feel… especially about how wearing any kind of mask, no matter how paper thin, has an impact on you.”
And with this reframe, I also humbly feel how difficult it is to be our authentic selves when we don’t have the support that we need from our relationships to order to truly feel and BE real — within and with others.
We need the permission, the space, the support, both inside and out, to truly feel into our desires, our needs, and even our ‘strategies’ that are wearing out as we run them out.
This is one of the many reasons why sessions with Divine Self Embodiment are so powerful and deep. We all, as facilitators, want to support your journey into what’s truly real for you and within you. Even and especially when it’s a bit of a jarring awakening to start to realize what has had to be in place in your navigation of life that hasn’t ultimately brought the deeper healing or self-realization you dream of, it so helps to have someone who can guide you through that navigation.
I’d like to offer myself, as my own ongoing journey with this process humbly deepens, in service through 1:1 sessions if you’re curious about that. I have several beloveds who hold space as well. If you would like to find out more about sessions and our work, you can visit divineselfembodiment.com/sessions.
At the end of the day… there really is no need to judge ourselves or any part of us for the ways they’ve felt aligned to BE in this world. It’s actually the love we bring to them as the admit to their tendency toward coping and adjusting, which has had a cost to them ultimately, that begins to uproot and transform these tendencies — and truly bring us to a space of being all the more authentic in our being and expression.
Love,
Kasha
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Kasha Rokshana is a Divine Feminine Love Ambassador, Divine Self Embodiment Facilitator, soul scribe, and poetess. Visit https://www.divineselfembodiment.com for more information about space-holding sessions and free 45-min intro calls, group calls, videos, community, etc.











