Lillith: The Damned and Shamed

When I first came across Lillith it was from a mythological and astrological point of reference. However, Lillith is very much a conscious being making herself known to all who begin their work in deep shadow work. I had come across an entity that perpetuated constant victimization caused by the Goddess Lillith which is simply one of the many manifestations of the Divine Feminine. This entity had consistently painted a picture that Lilith was an outlier and unwelcomed within the framework of how pure goddess energy is embodied. Lillith is oftentimes revered as holding dark feminine energy. Dark feminine energy can be cultivated but it is also the shadow aspect of the feminine principles attempt to co-exist under the Patriarchal consciousness. Depending on the karmic inheritance of your ancestors, this energy will be more or less intrusive on your life. This energy can also be trapped from use, abuse, and unprotection from Black Magic. These are some of the origins of true generational curses and hexes. The wisdom of shame, betrayal, and castration are the light at the core of this dark feminine archetype. It is your relationship with self-compassion that manifests this energy as self-destructive or liberating. For me Lillith brought liberation.

The journey back to Self is not for the faint of heart. I truly believe that sentient life is about understanding love in a deeper and more expansive way. Life is about understanding ourselves and learning to love what we find. Once karmic inheritances are needed to be cleared. Old timelines will collapse and deep reverence of all that you and your ancestors have endured can occur. What can the Goddess Lilith teach us about shame and sovereignty?

There are multiple myths about Lilith and only she is ordained to reveal her own story. The common thread I found in the various versions of her myth was the emotion of shame. She has been shamed by religious dogma for expressing a wild, empowered expression of womanhood. So much so that Adam ordered a mail-order bride to replace her. In other myths, she was a Sumerian Sex Priestess who had been raped by a patron, abandoned by the High Priestess, and disempowered by the Priestesshood. That myth claims that a child was born from the rape and taken from her against her will. All of the myths about Lilith have all resulted in stating that Lilith became vengeful even potentially demonic; out to make all others suffer in the way that she had. Suffer? Or understand the pain that shame provokes in those who have been condemned by the collective as unworthy of honoring the unique truths we hold about our experiences. Why are her truths and experiences ultimately being judged by us (the spectators) as a means to vilify her; when she has a right to her autonomy, regardless of the paradigm the story is being veiled under. Those same rights to her free will are ours to hold and protect as well. Our relationship with the myths of Lilith deeply reflect where we are with self-acceptance and self-compassion.

In astrology, Lilith is represented by an imaginary point on the dark side of the Moon. The Moon represents our subconscious emotional identity. Being a Leo Moon; I discovered that my sense of self and pride is felt on a subconscious level. Meaning that those who have Fire signs as their Sun sign their sense of self is conscious but they can have a completely different sense of self on a subconscious level. The subconscious is the feminine principle within the mind; it is the life-giving and creative force that governs our ability to construct or disrupt our reality.

On a conscious level, our sense of identity may be completely different from what has been imprinted within our subconscious mind. That is the beauty of understanding our Moon signs and what planets are in our 12th House in our natal charts. As human beings, we hold an enormous amount of shame when it comes to our emotional bodies and the darker side of our nature. Especially if that darkness is not readily seen as acceptable or forgivable in society. Shame is binding and experienced as an emotional charge that contracts our consciousness from being in its expansive experiential state. This is a state of being open and unattached. It is ultimately a state of joy that is reflected in children. Open and mutable states of existence are truly aspects of love and any aversion or clinging are born from fear.

Shame is a social emotion that separates us from the truth of our experiences. This is the first and often times continuous fracturing and fragmenting of our identity which results in the deterioration in our ability to be authentically intimate with life. Intimacy with life is not about a surplus of harmonious experiences and the avoidance of disharmonious experiences such as sadness, fear, grief, or anger. Once the gap between who we are and who we think we are is created, the imprints of social emotions begin to dominate our lives over the intuitive desire (divine will) to be both full and expansive. These imprints assist us with survival within the group but when you have chosen to walk in your individualized divinity. The tribal and collective mind becomes a cloud casting shadows over the suns of the divine Mother. Essentially, when we have outgrown the tribal mind we must individualize (inward divination) ourselves and in turn, we have the gift of discernment to liberate and serve the collective.

The energetic signature of shame and guilt comes from a projection (impressions/imprint) of emotions from another being that has been accepted as our own truth. A falsehood. The acceptance with identification of any projection can be an imprint on our emotional and mental bodies. Any separation or distance from your truth will cause fragmentation or freeze aspects of you within karmic loops.

Hard lessons do not mean you are failing or flawed it means that the cosmos can share with you a deeper or more expansive relationship with all life. A deeper, expansive, and often complex relationship with the divine spirit that connects all expressions of sentience. Duality is but one of many manifestations of reality. To experience happiness you would in turn have to be familiar with emotions that hinder your ability to experience happiness. Lillith can teach us about the shame we hold both personal and ancestral. She also teaches us acceptance by validating that our Truth is the only true light that can illuminate and transmute any attempts to cast us out of the garden of eternity.

Channeled, Intuitive Guided Notes from Conversations with Lillith