ACCOMPLISHMENT

Marysol Castro, CBS newscaster

Achievement, the subject, and the work one employs to become successful leaped out at me when I first saw Marysol Castro on CBS news this morning. Her Hispanic name, the way she enunciates, and confidently moves on camera, and around the set made me sit down during her performance, and watch. I habitually tune the weather and sports out. It is too much dribble. The secrets of the day's temperature call out to all the senses if you go outside and stand still listening. I admit the vast loss of our instinctual nature; animals and forests have made it more difficult to discern the moods of seasons, and temperature. Indifferent to us, the air tells its own stories as always but people, sheep like, have relinquished the ingenuity of knowing themselves through their Mother, our Earth, and have no idea what I’m talking about. A reliance on machines, the lead of white men taught to us since birth, and the Western downplay of intuition has created a culture phenomenon: disconnection.

These news anchorwomen who are married with children I pay attention to. I listen to their banter. They talk of their children and how they balance their lives in a masculine way. In these times the nurturing required of mothers is quartered off into timed segments out of synch with their children’s rhythms. Their conversations around home life are often spoken in the tones of sportscasters flipping through subjects of vital importance with studied nonchalance. It is too masculine. Without the presence of the sacred, and the cadence of tranquility disrobing the harsh lights, and the scrutiny of millions of disconnected people placing judgment on their choices female professional women often lose the deep sense of the priestess’ craft much a part of an ancient tradition with its rituals, its depth of ceremony, its connection to the Earth, our Mother, and the vulnerable quality of mother's immersed in the ancient teachings, songs and stories, and chants about the Sacred Feminine, the Sacred Woman, the Wild Woman Songs, the Old Wise Women, the Punany, and Blood stories, the Life Sustainer, Creation stories, and their important role as Keepers of the Womb their men need to become better men. Without these how can a husband hold his Sacred Dream in the light of their wife’s energies?

How modern beliefs, and Lifeways sacrifice the depth and mystery of Womanhood is the legacy of Europe’s Inquisition, the pride of the Conservative movement, and the second wife of Adam in the Hebraic tradition. This is history. What is her story both husbands, and children ask by action more than anything else? - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories

 

Marysol Castro,(r) on ABC news set with Kate Snow