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                       I'm the bitch from hell.
                                   
                       I think you know me well.
                                   
                         I am the dark goddess
                                   
               kali, hecate, medusa, lilith, ereshkigal.
                                   
     These faces of the feminine are much less easily acceptable
     than those of Aphrodite the Goddess of Love or Demeter the
     Great Mother. But it is in the energy of the dark goddesses
     that a vast store of feminine power lies.
     
     kali is the creator and the destroyer. She is depicted as one
     who cuts off the heads of men. Scary stuff! But this is a
     symbolic representation, it is not actually their Life she is
     after, simply their Ego.
     
     The dark goddess lives in us all. Often suppressed and denied
     she will eventually leak out in hostility and sarcasm, with
     sly cutting digs, nagging, gossip and put downs. She reveals
     herself at her most ugly in our closest relationships. Liz
     Taylor in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolfe" plays her out
     admirably. Jung calls her the 'animus suppressed'. She is
     everything that nice girls are not. Suppressed too far she
     turns her destructive energy inwards and creates depression
     and disease.
     
     The energy of the dark goddess brews and bubbles in the belly.
     Suppressing her simply adds bite to her words when they do
     manage to escape. If the energy of fermentation in a bottle of
     rich wine starts to become more than the cork can contain the
     wine will ooze out. If we ignore this and shove the cork back
     down harder the build up will become greater and next time the
     leaks will become spurts. Finally the pressure will shoot the
     cork off completely and the precious liquid will be lost. This
     is the path of denial, of refusing to acknowledge the truth
     that needs to be spoken. The alternative is to appreciate that
     bottle, to nurture the rich gift that is brewing, turn it and
     tend to it and to choose when the cork should be removed and
     the sweet dark flavour be offered to the world.
     
     Accepted and celebrated the dark goddesses give us the
     strength to overcome the fear of rejection and to dare to
     stand in our truth and tell it how we see it. This is an
     enormously empowering experience.
    
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