In the Midst of Her Grace
by Lisa Sarasohn, author of The
Woman's Belly Book
Last fall I was visiting friends in Boston. Before I'd left
home in North Carolina, a friend instructed, "Go see
the glass flowers at Harvard's Natural History Museum. Don't
miss it! Just go--that's all I'm going to tell you."
My friend is a glass artist; I was guessing she wanted me
to deepen my appreciation of her craft.
I found my way to the exhibit on the museum's third floor--and
spent one of the most erotic hours of my life there.
The
flowers in bloom, their petals, stems, and leaves--all rendered
in exact detail--were exquisite. How could any human hand
replicate nature's intricacies with such precision, with such
a fragile material? The craftsmanship was magnificent.
As marvelous as the flowers were, it was something else--something
totally unexpected--that drew me into communion with the Sacred
Feminine.
Displayed next to the modelled flowers were small circles
of glass. These circles soon absorbed my total attention.
Their fading labels read "transverse section of the ovary."
Peering into case after case arranged along the six or seven
aisles, I must have seen more than a hundred of these sections.
Each was unique in its shape, its patterning, the way the
incipient seeds were grouped, arranged, attached to the ovary
wall. They embodied rhythms of three and five; their beauty
coded the essence of regeneration; they made the Sacred Feminine,
her pro-creative power, manifest.
I left the exhibit feeling infused with Her mystery, Her
immanence, Her immediacy. I felt as if I had been drenched
in Her presence and was now soaked through with Her truth,
every cell bathing in the liquid light of Her being.
The Goddess is in our midst; that hour placed me in the midst
of Her grace.
©Lisa Sarasohn 2005
author of The
Woman's Belly Book
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