Becoming a mother is the most challenging and meaningful labor of love that exists. The temporary state of pregnancy and the impending task of transformation is full of pressure. Modern day women may struggle to navigate this time of unpredictability. But for many today there is a maleficent narrative that having a child is selfishly harming the Earth (another kind of pressure).
Let’s just sit with that for a moment.
If the womb holds the maternal knot of existence, and if it’s prepared to make room for the next star to seed within it, nearly every month...how could one be selfish for accepting it to take place? How is this anything but earth reverence?
I encourage all women today to remember the pathway of their inception by tracing their life cord through the naval of each branch of their sacred and Ancestral Tree. You know, that one sturdy wood that founded your place in the world.
This Tree is a stand-alone symbol of Earth itself.
Participating in the budding and fruiting of Life is our oldest memory of creation.
Denying a part of the self which holds this kind of wisdom is antithetical.
Artwork: Suhbat — Aiyana Gali
The professionalism that oversees this decision making is maintained by the power of a health system monopolizing scientific knowledge and obtaining the opposing liberating force that says we should: fear our fertility.
There are ways to remove this kind of energetic from the system. I have successfully used