Janie Rezner: The Journey Of The Soul Into The Mother

Word of vision from Janie “Oquawka” Rezner as we begin the New Year:

We can see how the patriarchy has taken this most precious and natural sexual connection between women and men–and perverted it into a horror on earth.   Where fathers and uncles molest and rape their own children and wives, where millions of children and women all over the world are turned into sexual slaves to be tortured,where illegal immigrant women being held in jail are raped;  the list is endless.   It happens anywhere that depraved and enraged men can rape and torture and get away with it. The possibility of rape is  feared by all women everywhere.

Although we here are among the privileged,  we are surrounded by  a violent, war-ravaged, fear driven world.  Many of  us have suffered child-abuse and sexual abuse in one form or another.  And still we  keep on going with our life’s tasks, not the least of which is to truly awaken to our enslavement by the patriarchal culture and to say, ‘no more!’.

Our birthright as creatures on earth is to live in peace, in harmony with the earth and with each other.  Our birthright is to live with open hearts and spirits,  living into our fullest potential, which is ever expanding. Our birthright is to have our ‘work’ be our own unique creative contribution – - – to the whole.

We are living at the edge of time . . .. .  .in a time like no other.  We are being guided and introduced into the greatest reality of all –that of the divine.  This is the  Journey of the Soul into the Mother  . .

One must come into a state of knowing one’s self in order for the curtain to pull  back; that   means  going deep and finding peace with and loving the inner parts of ourselves. There is no free lunch, however.  The journey for that “knowing” crosses  through the “sea of hurts and fears” that have been tucked away into the recesses of the heart. There is no way to go around it, it must be crossed.   Once one enters the seas of hurts and fears, perhaps with the help of a trusted companion, and begins to  uncover and  honor  and grieve the injustices, the shame and guilt and  the losses, amazingly the pain loses it’s grip.  The wound  becomes  soothed by a mothering hand. A healing can take place  . . a healing that opens the door to many things.  Once we have opened to our own pain, we can then  be fully present to another’s pain.

We can  begin to trust the wisdom of the Universe. We can gaze into the velvety  night sky and be touched by the beauty of the stars and planets above.  We  begin to see the amazing journey we are on and can find the courage and moral conviction to take a stand against the injustices of the world and say, “no more!”  We  begin to trust the wisdom of the Grandmother,  and our own wisdom, and can open to  what  Great Spirit has to teach us.  . . as She ushers us into this new age of Love in the Heart.

–Janie “Oquawka” Rezner