~May 5
Moon and sun rule the sky above.
Here on earth, the goddess rules.
Here on earth, the seven goddesses.
O goddess, pure and cherished one!
We sing sweet songs over and over,
inventing pleasing rhymes for her.
Oh, our songs are so sweet that she
forgives us anything to keep us singing.
-Sri Lankan song
We can find the goddess everywhere, if only we know how to look. It is easy to find her on a sunny day in spring, or in the happy look on a new lover’s face. But she is there in the dark storm clouds as well, in the late frosts that nip the budding flowers, in the ungainly and the frightening. Anything that exists partakes of her, participates in her. There is nothing that is not part of her.
We must let go of judging this world if we are to truly understand the goddess’ truth. We cannot pick and chose, controlling life so that we only see what is pleasant to our prejudices. We cannot have birth and love but not death; we cannot have the flower and the honey without the stinging bee. We need not claim to enjoy pain in order to accept it as part of life. We need only feel it, accept it, and move on, knowing it to be part of this life with which the goddess blesses us.
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