What is dark feminine energy? The dark feminine is one-half of the divine feminine. She is not the negative, shadow aspect of the feminine but rather the dark, fiery, transformational aspect of womanhood. The birth, death, and rebirth cycle is at the center of our story as women and at the center of mother earth.

There is ice on the lake nowWhere swans used to swimI don’t know if I can standThis air of fear and isolationTheir ghosts right thereBefore my eyesGraceful Gliding Diving their headsShooting out of the water DrippingThey quiverFor a moment

"All in calmness --the earth with half-opened eyesmoves into winter..."

winter dreariness /until gray growsfaint pink, sky /thinks briefly oflove

Snow began falling late last night. Wet flakesdropping past windows, snow coveringthe skylights. We watched for a time, surprisedand happy. Glad to be here, and nowhere else.

In the new year my Dearly Beloved Husband will keep telling me what He demands of me.

On her knees and looking up at her Dearly Beloved Husband.Isn't that an appropriate perspective for His wife's New Year?