How arrogant are we? Well, I’ll tell ya.
We are so arrogant that we think we have to “create sacred space” before we do any magical working, when we are actually living on the body of a Living Goddess. Western Magical Tradition is bound up so tightly with the Christian idea of the separation of the sacred from the mundane that it never occurred to anybody that … heh, practicing an “Earth Based Religion” and doing “Earth Magic” doesn’t require the sanctifying of a space to work in, because we are already on a Sacred Place. No matter where we are.
Think about it. Do you walk into someone’s house uninvited and start cleaning and moving all their stuff around? Do you explain to them that they are not cleaning their house right and that it isn’t clean enough for you so you’re going to clean what they’ve already cleaned so it’s clean enough? I’m going to assume you don’t, because seriously, I don’t want you anywhere near my house if you do that shit.
We live on the body of a Goddess. Every step we take, even if it’s on concrete, is on sacred land.
I’m trying something new. I’m getting up every morning and starting my day with this:
I honor the Land that holds me; I honor the Life that surrounds me; I honor the Sky above me. I am grateful for the Meshwork* that connects me to all Life. I ask that my heart be brought into coherence with the sacredness immanent in this Place.
Instead of “creating and imposing” the idea of some other kind of sacredness on an already sacred place, I am simply saying, I see the sacredness in this land, in this life, in this sky, and I ask that I be changed in order to harmonize with it, instead of me imposing my own idea of sacred on it.
Do you feel the difference there?
Sometimes it’s important to cast a circle to create a container for the Elixir you’re going to be making with the magic that you do. (By Elixir I mean the work, the energy, the frequencies, the flavors, the thoughtwork, the intention, that you put into the doing of the work.) Just think about how much better that work would go if you took a few moments to acknowledge the sacred life that is already there and asking to be connected to it before you start.
I would say, do this every day. Do it at home. Do it at work. Do it in your social spaces. Do it in the carwash. In the grocery store. In the mall. In the park. In the parking garage. Under the overpass. In the alley. What might happen if we made this a practice, acknowledging that we Live On A Goddess every day, and being grateful for all the strands of life-energy that connect us to each other and everything? I don’t honestly know, but I am going to find out. I hope you’ll join me in conscious acknowledgment of the Meshwork that connects us all.
*Meshwork is a Gordon White-ism that contrasts "network," which is a structure in which nodes are connected by wires, but it's the nodes that are where all the action is, with "meshwork," which is a freely and loosely woven net where the lines themselves are alive with energy and connections come together and move apart and come together again freely. Gordon White is an Australian writer that ignited the spark that created this post, and I dare you to seek him out. Double. Dog.