Kundalini

Oils on Masonite

This is the Two of Fire in Lane's Greenwitch Tarot Deck:

The Lovers dance! Fiery Kundalini energy is rising to seek heart-centered sacred Tantric connection. It’s about being present in our bodies and in touch with our spirits to create with the magical gifts inherent in us during this incarnation. It’s also about nurturing deep soul connections to the Fire Magic aspect of what we became embodied for. Manifesting. Healing the Earth and all its creatures.

For you it can indicate either the Sacred Masculine and Sacred Feminine within one’s Self or a literal physical lover. Maybe there really is such a thing as a Twin Flame. But perhaps more importantly, how do you discover and dance with your inner heart flame? How do the opposites merge within you? Perhaps you can use Fire Magic to tune into the Songs of the Spheres to heal yourself and your community and thus change the collective and our world? Maybe even the cosmos!

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Written for the Out of the Ashes Show, North County Rec Center, January 2004

The work, of course, is not only done solo.

Pairing together is one way to raise kundalini – that mysterious and powerful serpent fire that rises along our spines. It is the wild green energy of Pan and the exposed vagina Sheila-na-gig of the Celts, or Shiva and Shakti of India. It is more than sexual energy. It is cleansing and healing. Working/playing/dancing with this energy, often in a sexual union of opposites, is to become one with Spirit – to become whole. To reach the stars. Essentially it is a spiritual search and process, which Eastern cultures call Tantra. It is a particularly potent sort of union, the knowledge of which has been cruelly buried in our culture and, thus in our bodies.

This painting was done in a fit of frustration with my own stagnated sexual energy. I have since come to recognize it as part of a deep longing for true connection. It is a dance I am only beginning to barely understand. My fingers with a paintbrush in them certainly know more than the rest of my body does.