You may already know that the vibratory ascension of planet Earth is a catalyst for our personal ascension. In other words, we do not go up in vibration individually. Our ascension does not happen merely because we are starseeds, or worked so much on ourselves. Rather, it happens in synchrony with planet Earth and the cosmos. We are part of a bigger organism, within a collective shift. And the driving force of this shift is the rise of the Divine Feminine.
In Kabbalistic writings, we can read the story of the diminished moon. The gist of it is that the Sun and the Moon used to be equal at the creation of the world, and ruled together under the same crown. Yet their equality was incomplete. They were not facing each other, but rather, were connected back-to-back.
This means that the Moon and the Sun were not seeing each other for who they truly were, except as a narcissistic extension of the Self. It was an immature relationship in which one only sees an idealized image of a partner. And like every immature relationship, this connection had to be severed for any growth to occur.
The Moon was carrying sparks of unactualized potential within her. But in order for this potential to be actualized, it had to become dark, to descend and diminish.
In any close relationship, romantic or not, there comes a time when we have a choice to see the other side of a person. When their “evil double” comes out. When their shadow emerges and shatters into pieces the idealized image we had of them. The quiet and polite guy flips 180 and becomes a rude monster. The honest hard-working friend runs away with your money. The nice girl yells at you. The love of your life betrays you.
In the story of the Moon, she complained that “two kings cannot be under the same crown”. The somewhat unfair response from the Creator of the Universe was to tell her to go, and “become small”. This initiated a surgical uncoupling, a separation, of the Sun and the Moon. This separation brought about the immediate collapse of the Moon, who became unable to receive any lights of her own.
Her diminishment concealed the Spirit of God, and the subsequent 6,000 years became a cosmic night, the time of spiritual darkness. More specifically, the Divine became hidden, hard to find, concealed beneath unassuming appearances. We might find the Divine on occasion, in flashes of insight during prayer or meditation, but often have to contend ourselves with silence and not knowing.
This is the direct result of the diminishment of the feminine principle. In Kabbalistic tradition she is called the Shekhina, but we also know her as Sophia, or simply the Divine Feminine.
Yet these times of darkness are coming to an end.
And we are witnessing this change with our own eyes and feeling the shift in our own bodies. As we see the religious structures around us collapse or transform, we are also witnessing an unprecedented rise in energy sensitivity, prophecy and connection to Spirit. The world becoming less religious does not indicate a collapse in spirituality. It just shows that Spirit is becoming more accessible on an individual level.
This shift was predicted in 16th century Kabbalistic teachings that tell the story of the diminished Moon. And according to them, it is precisely the Moon’s capacity to diminish, to grow small, which makes it a greater luminary. According to medieval Kabbalists, those who refuse to grow small because of their misplaced pride, who refuse to descend and go into the depths of darkness, will have their stature diminished when the world to come turns everything upside down.
In modern times, we are collectively beginning to realize the importance of growing roots and finding nourishment in the fertile darkness. We are recognizing how toxic can endless positivity be. We are recognizing that we need rest, that day has to give way to night, that we need to grieve and be angry and stop pretending to be good and happy all the time. We know that we need to descend in order to rise.
When the cosmic Day comes, the Moon will not only rise, but supersede her former stature and grow beyond the Sun, now shining brighter than he. The journey of the Divine Feminine is tied to the story of the Moon.
In kabbalistic terms, the Rise of the Moon was explained as a transition from a back-to-back to a front-to-front relationship. In a back-to-back mode of relating either party only sees the Other as an object whose sole purpose is to satisfy his or her own narcissistic needs.
These days, we are witnessing the Masculine and the Feminine gradually transition into a front-to-front mode of relating, where neither of them needs each other. Yet it is this mutual independence that releases them, for the first time, to meet in freedom, based on choice, and not manipulation. Now they can be eternally evolving and eternally fruitful.
All our gender confusion, twin flame obsession and failing relationships are in fact an indication (and a consequence) of this massive cosmic shift. Our collective ascension is the ascension of the Lunar, feminine aspect of reality. This is the work that we have been waiting to do for eons.
On an individual level we are working on releasing old dysfunctional relationship templates. Or rather, we are working through them, descending into them, like the Moon, to then rise to new, previously unknown ways of being and relating. When we descend, we can get stuck and lose our way, having eaten the pomegranate seeds of the underworld. No wonder this lifetime is so challenging! But what we do on this journey is not ours alone. It is part of collective ascension. Of anchoring the Divine Sophia into the planet Earth.
