Celebrating the Cosmic Egg
Or, Happy Mother's Day, Universe.
TGIF
Many of us think of images like the one above for Mother’s Day, due moreso to Hallmark and talented photographers like my late husband than to personal experience. And as with fairy tales, that’s the projected image we aspire to per the media and societal conditioning. As the mother of two children and grandmother of six (combined families), I can attest it sometimes looks like this, but mostly not so much.
Yet something that is captured in the above photo is the essence of motherhood: Love.
And I like to think Mother’s Day is about celebrating love, creation, and oneness.
I know not everyone is blessed with idyllic memories of a natural birth-mother’s love. Some received love from a relative or adoptive mother, and some grew up without feeling maternal love at all.
But love IS all around us and its source is the Cosmic Mother, the Divine Feminine…the Mother of them all, the Divine Creatrix. She is not a religious figure; she is the birther of the Univer…