by Kasha Rosa
As October opens, the veils begin to thinโฆ and She approaches.
This is the beginning of a devotional series Iโve 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 Motherโs face and frequency.
Itโs 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 youโฆ 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 narrativeโฆ not just the collective story that has been projected onto Her, but a personal oneโฆ 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 isnโt the whole story. It isnโt meant to sustain. And it certainly isnโt 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 โdark night of the soulโ 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 insteadโฆ held, honoured, loved. She is the echo chamber where truths hidden by trauma and lifeโs 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 tooโฆ in the places no one else could follow?
Iโll 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.
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