When I lived behind a billboard for some real estate magazine / prosecco ad. It was a pleasant little shack with glass walls and the guy completely overcharged me for the electricity. I was driving around on a motorcycle in the middle of Uruguayan winter with strong winds and rains.
Living in a glass box made me feel like I was in a fish tank and provided me the proper container to confront parts of myself I was hiding invisibly behind. Barely noticeable but a few cracks revealed that all so soon.
A little snippet of my short film, Lía sobre la Orilla @liasobrelaorilla , featuring the main song, Somos la Tierra, written and sung by my soul sister @anejurado . This is an excerpt of Lia listening to the wisdom of Vegetable Band with Insect Fairy lead singer.
Un pasillo.
A passageway. Here’s an excerpt from a correspondence by a tree person friend of mine in Northern California, regarding Asherah, an ancient Mother Goddess considered as Yahweh’s wife:
As far as Asherah goes, I have been studying her for many years. I haven’t written a singular story focused just on her as she seems to be entwined with numerous trees and groves of trees (Oak, Almond, Date Palm, Olive, Laurel etc.) In her basic essence she is synonymous with the great earth mothers of Sumerian, Akkadian, Babylonian, Canaanite, Persian and Hindu etc. cultures as well as Greek and Roman mythology. Clearly she was “cut down” and diminished by the patriarchal belief in the one supreme male deity. All three monotheistic beliefs originally worshipped multiple male and female “gods” related to trees and the elements of nature. But as “laws” were codified these “old ways” were discouraged and only one supreme god could be the “one.”
I see this wounded story as our original wound of separation from nature itself and the true nature of our soul. Asherah for me represents that part of ourselves we have lost in both men and women of the sacred feminine and our own wholeness (holiness). Making the knowledge of nature forbidden created a great deal of fear and confusion which has led to dire consequences that reverberate today.
I also see Asherah as the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, which in truth is also the Tree of Life. It’s again the illusion of separation that trips us up.
