It is hard, at this moment when high temperatures and extreme weather phenomena are daily news headlines, to go back about twenty years and try to imagine why I put the word "heat" on my list, "The Words of the Goddess." Around that time, I had already begun to envision enormous earth and societal changes in our future, but I don't think my reference was, per se, to global warming/climate change. So what was my thinking?
It may have been something like this -- that the Goddess represents the heat of passion. Sure, sexual passion, but more than that, the passion for life. For creating. For aligning with Love. For doing what you love and are best at. Warmth toward other people, life, and the planet/universe. Traditional images of God to me seem cool, aloof, at a distance. "He" communicates with us from above, from afar, and I never felt I could see or feel him. The Goddess, by comparison, feels immanent, rooted within us. When we feel our feelings, we sense Her presence. The warmth within us, our spark of life, is Her heat, Her nonverbal voice communicating the clearest and most joy-filled path. (This remains a valid path, even in these times.)
Still, in 2025, it is hard not to recognize some of earth's current tribulations, including heat, as almost literal medical symptoms. She is overheated, feverish, and inhabited by large populations of angry and combative people who spread this sickness far and wide. Her arteries are blocked and swollen, Her skin blemished, dug out, bombed, built into, burned. She can barely breathe smoke- and pollution-filled air, and Her beautiful animal species are disappearing or dying. (I have not seen one Monarch butterfly this summer! Not in the Northeast or in my recent trip to Duluth. This is horrifying.) How can we fully embrace the more positive aspects of "Heat" when we are literally melting?
I guess the only way to do it is to completely trust Her, and know that whatever melts may become more malleable, accepting of change. Whatever She is doing, in her earth healing and ascension, She must do. Seen from Her eyes, and from Her perspective as one whose physical body is evolving and whose own passion is to remain habitable for life, the weather phenomena we are seeing are not surprising. The paradox for us is to try to remain "cool" enough to function, but hot enough in our passion for serving Her that we in-spire the world. Breathe in, alchemize, and breathe out the new reality. Let the heat change us. Become more gloriously passionate, in a positive way. Move with the process. Let go of what we cannot hold onto.
