A Year of Fire and Flow – A Guest Post from CC Smith
This guest post by CC Smith is part of a series celebrating the My Word Goddess Readings by honouring the gifts of the goddesses that stepped forward in 2014….
When I look back on the year, the flames were there all right, dancing, leaping alarmingly high, relentless at times, demanding to be seen and heard. Fire is hard to ignore.
My goddess for 2014 is Pele, the Hawaiian volcano goddess of fire. I was unsurprised to see her come forward – I’d been a bit afraid of fire for most of my life but in the last few months of 2013 I’d seen her softer, nurturing side. I’d become quite addicted to firewalking, and I’d experienced fire not as a hazard to be feared but as a warming, nurturing force that can serve to burn away what is unwanted, leaving behind fertile soil from which new growth can rise.
And now here was Pele, embodying all of that; reminding me that she and I are that, and we are so much more than that – we’re feisty, passionate, aware. We can dare to take risks and we trust that whatever the risk, whatever may be burned away, we can let it go knowing we’ll always have what we really need. Knowing this allows an unleashing of our wild nature. We can be who we are. We can burst into action when action is needed; we can flow like hot lava, easing a path through rocky terrain; we can rest easily in the dormant phases knowing that our flame will rise again when we need it. This flame can never be fully extinguished; it’s always there, even when it looks like it’s asleep, and it’s ours to use with creativity and compassion.
You could say I’ve had a tough year. In fact, in ways I could never have predicted, it’s been the toughest year of my life so far, and I needed that fire. To come through it intact and ready to grow into the next phase, I needed to find the power within me. I needed the fiery, feisty side of me to come forward and burn away everything that had to be released. I needed to be awake and alert to what I was bringing to the world. I needed to know when to rest, when to burn and when to flow easily down my rocky path. I needed to see, feel and honour my passion, and Pele showed me how.
Thank you Pele. Thank you Amy, for bringing her forward. It wasn’t what I expected but it was exactly what I needed.
CC Smith is an indefinable woman. Her passions, intentions and purposes flow like lava and are constantly in flux. She blogs at www.beingmrssmith.com and her book exploring life, death and the spaces between worlds is due to be released in 2015.
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