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.
(c) Lisa Sarasohn 2005
author of The
Woman's Belly Book
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