08/20/2023
Get woke women‼️‼️.
In my attempt to understand Barbie’s current meteoric rise to fame in this summer’s blockbuster movie, I’ve read a variety of articles, queried friends and listened to podcasts. Although there were many interesting anecdotes, one article in particular resonated for me, ("Barbie" is the new Inanna - The Wild Hunt). Inanna has returned! Inanna, queen of ancient Mesopotamia, and her descent into the underworld some 4,000 years ago, is the original heroine’s journey, and the root of modern mythology as the first epic poem ever recorded.
Myths are stories that recur throughout the ages as expressions of the collective unconscious. The epic journey of the heroine / hero of these stories offer keys to our evolution as we journey through life. In the repeated patterns of archetypal energies spanning the thousands of years of human experience, we see similar themes emerging again and again in the mythology of diverse cultures across the globe. Myths express wisdom that all humans relate to, speaking directly to our hearts and souls through the universal language of symbols.
From the depths of our collective unconscious, in this time of great shifting on our planet, in the most unlikely of guises, Inanna has returned once again in Greta Gerwin’s Barbie. Barbie is speaking to the hearts and minds of women specifically, and people in general, across all sections of society. Inanna, returning through a modern symbol, as great myths do, encourages us to question what gives us power, who, why and where does our agency come from? Barbie / Inanna, is calling us to wake up from auto-pilot and bring more conscious awareness to the stories we tell ourselves and the assumptions we hold about how the world works and what our place is in it.
In our community meditation this weekend, we used the story of Inanna as our energetic entry point to journey. In Inanna’s descent she passed through seven gates, and at each gate she had to relinquish objects of power, such as her crown, scepter, shield, etc, in order to pass through.
In our group journey, we traveled through the galaxy of our energy body, passing through the seven worlds of our chakras. Like Inanna we too relinquished what we once took to be our power, but have grown to see as our defenses—strategies we used to keep ourselves safe, and which we no longer require.
We called on the higher frequencies of the Lions Gate* to support us in this process of transmutation. The Lions Gate energies were highly activating, literally dissolving old beliefs and habits with what felt like ease. I’ll include a brief outline below if you’d like to do a solo venture. The Lion’s Gate is exact on 8/8, and continues through mid-August.
Grateful, as always for the power of our sacred circle, and broader SHJ community! Appreciate each and every one of you and the light you bring to the world. 🙏🏼💖💫
Lynn
*https://wildhunt.org/2023/07/barbie-is-the-new-inanna.html
*for more on Lion’s Gate, see link below in comments
If you missed our community meditation healing journey, feel free and use the notes below for a solo journey. ✨
The Journey…
Crown—RELEASE what gets in your way of Spiritual Connection. Old strategies of playing small, confusion, hanging onto old spiritual beliefs that no longer fit who you are and what you believe, etc. OPEN TO your spiritual gifts, guides, beliefs and rituals that resonate with who you are now.
Third Eye—RELEASE what gets in your way of trusting your inner knowing, insight, psychic abilities and intuition. OPEN TO trusting your spiritual gifts, your Self, synchronicity, signs, messages, inner knowing, etc
Throat Chakra—RELEASE what gets in the way of living from your essence. Old strategies that stem from believing you have to be different than you are in order to be worthy; that there’s something wrong with you, etc. OPEN TO expressing your highest truth, being the truest version of yourself, and expressing what you really want, need, and how you feel.
Heart Chakra—RELEASE what gets in the way of loving yourself 100% unconditionally. Old beliefs of unworthiness, undeserving, unlovable. OPEN TO receiving the unconditional love that’s streaming onto this plane from the celestial spheres, from your spiritual connection, spirit guides, angelic beings, and light beings who guide your path. Open to feeling the love that’s here for you from this earth plane—from the beings in your world who love you. Open your heart to a willingness to love yourself, to discovering the beauty and wonder that is inherent within you. And perhaps most importantly, attuning to your heart's desire.
Solar Plexus—RELEASE what gets in your way of healthy power. Strategies you once needed to protect yourself but are no longer relevant… playing it small, not having a voice, abuse of power, etc. OPEN TO accepting the powerful being that you are, understanding and working from your agency, feeling the power emanating from the center of your being, moving from a place of grounded (below) and connected (above).
Sacral –RELEASE what gets in your way of essential worth, shame, habits of repressing emotions and blaming yourself. OPEN TO acceptance of your emotional nature, attunement with your emotional body, tenderness towards yourself, and your innate sense of flow.
Root—RELEASE what gets in your way of connection with your physical body and grounding to earth. Old beliefs that are unloving towards our body, a lack of compassion for our body, anger or hatred towards our body. Old habits of disconnection from the body. OPEN TO full embodiment of consciousness via connecting deeply and lovingly with your body! Practice feeling your feet on the ground, feeling your breath in your body, and energetically sending roots of white light from your energy field down into mother earth.
