The necessity of creating sacred space.
Our life force depends on us creating sacred space to thrive.
Our life force depends on spaciousness to honor our mere existence. Our soul depends on sacred space for us to recognize it. Our well-being and our health — mental, physical, and emotional — all depend on us creating space that is for nobody except us.
Creating sacred space is creating space with intention and reverence for the sacredness of life. Our reverence for the sacred is what makes the type of space that I’m speaking to sacred. It's creating space rooted in honor.
This type of space is sacred because it creates space for the essence of life itself to come alive through our receptivity. It’s creating space for the essence of life within, and around to come to the forefront that is far beneath the chatter of accomplishment, consumerism, becoming, politics, work, responsibilities, or our mental interpretation of trauma, pain, struggle, dysfunction, justice, the past, the future, what may be, and what has been. This type of space is sacred because it grants the essence of what is right here, right now in both divinity and physicality the throne it deserves. It sets all the stories that can be splayed open for interpretation aside.
Creating sacred space is creating space for you to commune with the divinity of your soul, the divinity of your physicality, and the divinity and beauty of this life, and this earth. Sacred space is space to witness the profoundness of what is — and it’s space to listen. It's a space where our felt sense is granted permission to guide us.
Sacred space means seeing the sacredness of the space we occupy and offering ourselves to be moved by something greater than us.
Just like we must consciously breathe into our lungs to reach their full capacity, we must tend our lives to live out their full capacity as well. When we get swept up by the world around us, our breath gets shallow — both literally and metaphorically. We must create space to fully breathe, just like we must create space to fully live.
Sometimes creating space is an internal practice of shifting our thought patterns, regulating our nervous system, and calming our mind, but it’s also creating time and energy that is allotted to be acutely present with ourselves. It’s weeding out those falsely assumed obligations and responsibilities. It’s reconsidering what we believe to be unbreakable commitments, contracts, roles, and involvements. It’s reprioritizing what really matters, and it’s first deciding what that is.
Sacred space is space to tap into and nurture the vitality deep within us, and far beyond us.
If we don’t create sacred space in our lives we cannot root into our center, we can’t slow down, we can’t attune to the unseen world, or tap into the wild woman and the sacredness of our bodies. If we don’t create sacred space in our lives we can’t hear that wise woman within beckoning us where to go and where not to. If we don’t create sacred space in our lives, we can’t attune to what isn’t working, and what needs to be done, we lose our ability to take care of ourselves, and we lose our ability to bask in the love of our beloveds, or in the love we have for ourselves. If we don’t create sacred space in our lives, we’ll find ourselves severed from the authenticity of our spirit.
If we don’t create space for self-reflection and pause, our shadows will overpower us. If we don’t create space for stillness we will come unbound. If we don’t create space for gratitude, we will become blind to what we have and get lost in what we think we need. If we don’t create space for self-care, our precious bodies, hearts, minds, and souls will suffer.
If we don’t create sacred space for what truly matters — whatever that is, will be compromised.
If we don’t create space to question what is consuming our time, energy, and presence, our time, energy, and presence become vulnerable to be feasted upon by things that are not worthy of this one precious life we have.
If we don’t create space to feel, we cannot grieve, we cannot bask in pleasure, and our holy rage will bite its sacred tongue and taint our fire. If we don’t create sacred space for our clarity to settle, our truth will haunt us, our boundaries will swallow us whole, our capacity will not be honored, and we will fall last in line behind everybody, and everything else we are serving and we will end up giving ourselves, and our lives away.
If we don’t create sacred space to look within, we can’t truly address our shame, fears, and insecurities. If we don’t create sacred space for our hearts, the emotions longing to spill over and move on will stay at the bottom of the dark murky waters of our beings. If we don’t create sacred space to let go, the tendrils of the past that haunt us cannot say their goodbyes.
If we don’t create sacred space for our desires to speak, we will never know them. If we don’t create sacred space for the Goddess within to rise, that wildly uninhibited woman inside, will be left in the depths of our shadows. If we don’t create sacred space for our dreams, they will not have the support they need to flourish and take shape.
If we don’t create sacred space for ourselves, we will become severed from the magnificent woman who lives inside, and we will never get to truly know her.
If we don’t create sacred space in our busy lives, time will slip through our fingers leaving us bewildered by where it went, how we got where we are, and what happened to the innocence of possibility that once felt so resilient.
Sacred space allows us to commune with this world, and ourselves in awe and wonder, and it enables us to fully receive the magnitude of life. Sacred space allows us to claim this one precious life of ours, and this irreplicable precious being that we are.
We cannot go backward, but we can claim this very moment — so close your eyes and feel what’s closing in on you. What is grasping at you, and leeching from you? What have you given your time and energy, and your thoughts and beliefs to, that you are ready to take back?
What matters most, and how do you dedicate your life to that?
None of these questions are guaranteed black-and-white answers, or answers at all for that matter, but until we create the sacred space to ask, and listen will we feel the pull of where to go and what to let go of.
It is time to reclaim sacred space for ourselves in a world that incessantly tries to fill every ounce of it.
With love,
Abby and the Marigolds
