Women Push

2010-01-22T14:11:00.000-08:00

A Spirit House for Tiger

Cornmeal, turquoise beads and quartz will feed the tiger tonight.
Freshly painted, the house for Tiger is in the tree. It was no small thing, to follow through with a desire outside of what I normally do. I had to make it important so that all the other small details of my day didn't crowd it out.
The tiger will be fed tonight.

Gaela recently spent an afternoon with friends clearing away fencing that had bound an ancient tree for years. The fence had even grown into the bark leaving scars which they attended to with garlands of flowers and fruit. What a great way to spend an afternoon, in community with a tree.

In a new book, Living with Trees by Diana Wells, she talks about a ritual in Japan called forest bathing. I think I'll wait for summer as this bathing in the forest is done in the buff. It's reported to be very soothing. I'll let you know.

2009-02-09T07:41:00.000-08:00

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2008-11-12T13:42:00.000-08:00

pregnant for the second time

2008-01-04T09:07:00.000-08:00

This is how it feels to be pregnant again. Like standing out on a spit of land, over the wild sea, hair standing on end. Wonderful and terrifying.

Love is Longing for You

2008-01-03T14:32:00.000-08:00

Our ego selves don't really know how to get along and often when we get into a fight it is a battle between two egos. The ego part of ourselves always speak first and loudest. Quietly waiting behind this noisy know it all, is the true self.

Love is like a giant magnet, pulling us towards liberation.

Fairies

2007-12-06T16:38:00.001-08:00

On a recent trip in Northern California, I really spent some time hanging out with these beautiful grandmother trees. They are so powerful, radiating the sort of rooted compassion that our world needs now, and always. Perhaps it is just a play of the lens, but look at the ball of light just over my head. I think it was the trees shining heart- giving and holding ground at the same moment.

Mother's Cake

2007-11-03T10:08:00.000-07:00

This is a print Ashley and I made. Placenta means Mother's cake. We wanted to make this print as a trubute to the unspoken power of this miraculous process in a woman's body.

2007-11-02T17:29:00.000-07:00

As a great believer in creativity, I hope to hear back from you the reader,your views
about these ideas and how to activate them in society. I think we need many visions and energies to create this movement of push! Let me know what you think.

2007-11-02T16:27:00.000-07:00

We call upon women to embrace a balanced experience of their innate feminine identity using the womb as metaphor, in a way that is positive for each of us.

Welcome to Womenpush!
Share the knowledge and experience of women, especially through a view of femininity which includes the often undersold perspective of being “pushy”-- in its best sense.

The seed for our intention was planted by reading Genia Pauli Hadden. And to her we are most deeply indebted and grateful. Her book “Uniting Sex, Self and Spirit” 1993, Plus Publications, was a source of a new view of ourselves as women. Her excellent presentation of a view of gender modes based on our physical bodies has opened new worlds of understanding and experience for us. We highly recommend this book presenting a discussion of metaphorical meanings based on known body forms of male and female anatomy, physiology, and genetics; and yin/yang energies, archetypal and religious perspectives.

Women have wombs! (unless removed for medical reasons in which case we regard them as “virtual” wombs) Womb: a warm, dark, wet place which we as women experience in three major ways.
1)A womb that receives {HOLDING POWER} Receives a fertilized egg, then nurtures, protects and feeds the growing fetus. This act represents a view of feminine identity as receiving, including, nurturing, gentle, safe, containing. A beautiful metaphor for our unique intrinsic ability to include, care, sustain, heal.
2)A womb that pushes [PUSHING POWER] Pushing rooted in the context of a timely event. Expecting a baby to be the result, but not completely certain of the details of that child. An event as experienced by both mother and child as perhaps a matter of life and death—near death pain and exertion, loss of control to the pushing process and the unavoidable truth of seeing it through. This is a powerful view of one identity of ourselves as feminine—even if we have never given birth. We have available this inherent energy to birth, not only babies, but jobs, ideas, movements, nations, peace, and recipes!
3) A womb that bleeds [BLEEDING POWER] Our wombs either will, are, or have bled without being wounded--the monthly cycle of menses—sloughing of the uterine lining which is not needed for receiving during this particular cycle. Contrast this with the birthing womb which signifies timely bringing forth of new life. The bleeding womb represents disintegration, the throwing off of that which is no longer needed. In other words: transformation through death and loss to a new state of being.

The pushing womb helps us recognize our intrinsic power in these three major ways. We have available in our psyche a naturally occurring energy of push. When it is time for a new move or idea, we sit with the facts and organically “birth” a product which is just right and timely for the context. We may be called “pushy”. That is alright because this kind of pushy is natural, transformative, creative, empowering., and completely necessary in our world. We owe the women and men of the world this example.

On the other hand, it may be difficult to see the value of this self power. We may have experienced a cultural/familial imperative which denies the value of “push”. It is here where an entry place can be found through the metaphor of the womb that bleeds. If we can recognize that there are barriers to accepting our own feminine “pushy power”, we can use the bleeding womb metaphor to shed (or transform} those barriers. Click here for some of our personal experiences of this phenomenon and the relief and release that followed . (link to Lady Gadiva days and to Sally’s story, and maybe later to some “shadow work” thru dreams, journaling, art}

2007-11-02T16:00:00.001-07:00