Where’s Lilith?
Lilith is everywhere.
Everywhere.
In everyone.
Everyone is Lilith.
As everyone is every archetype we could talk about.
Except that the times in which we live now are calling for us to heal our Liliths, so I talk about her a lot.
Hey, you -
Stop believing that your true nature is wrong.
Stop believing that there’s something wrong with you because you have desires and visions that don’t fit the mandates of your environment.
Just go ahead and give that crap up.
(How?
You’ve got to do some of what’s often called “shadow work.” You’ve got to bring up and out parts of yourself you’ve been led to believe are dangerous, ugly, and raw - and integrate them. That rawness, it turns out, is your aliveness.
There are limitless ways to do this, as Lilith is best served in any activity that gets our primal juices flowing. Art and sex are two ready examples, but anything can be done from the place where the fountain gets switched on.
I ordered a cup of tea last night from that place. I noticed that I was pleased when a particular counter person at a particular coffee place was on shift, and when I ordered my tea, I felt the raw desire that I associate with Lilith and I sent it down into the earth. (A way of grounding one’s self in strong energy and not throwing it at those around one.) I knew she felt it because when I turned to leave, one word in her sentence to the next customer came out at about 1500% her normal volume. Her energetic footing was a little shaken when I withdrew all that Lilith-inspired attention.
[NB: The lunar eclipse yesterday squared my true Black Moon Lilith-Neptune conjunction in the 2nd house, at 3 and 4 Sagittarius, respectively - I got to see new things about what Lilith-Neptune stuff I hide or de-emphasize, and as it squared, it wanted action - squares require resolution.]
When we find Lilith in ourselves, we’re prone to remembering the injunctions against our raw intensity our families, clans and societies teach us in our youth, or have beaten into or raped out of us when we stray from their accepted norms. Here’s the beautiful part: Your rawness doesn’t have to be violent. Violence surrounding this raw energy is a corruption of the energy, a forcing of it into a tiny shape that can be swept out of the way…until it explodes. (And if there’s anything in everything that I teach for the rest of my life that is heard, I’d be honored if it’s this: Any energy in us suppressed is subject to explosion. Honoring our true natures, whatever corner we’re thinking or talking about, is vital to happiness, health and survival.)
After, of course, a lot of time feeling resentment and anger from the suppression. The best or worst thing about society, depending on how Saturnian or Uranian you are, is that you don’t have to teach every single person to do this or not to do that; people from their love, and from their fear, will spread the word on their own. Because of this, any of us can choose to support authentic expression in other people.)
Yeah, just go ahead and give that crap up.
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August 29, 2007 By Tom Jacobs
November 2nd, 2007 at 10:41 am
I just finished reading every thing you’ve got on Lillith. I am so amazed at how much I already knew about this archetype resonated with your entries. You’ve illuminated much on the topic while at the same time thrown light on my own instinctual (?) knowing, of the things I have yet to learn how to put into words.
This is just one fantastic blog.
Thanks a billion trillion times over.
Hazel.