PREGNANT at BIRTH

pregnant in a lake

Pregnancies are prophecies. They are stories of people and events to come. Pregnancies announce change and rivalries depending upon the nature of the house, the union of man and wife. Pregnancy exposes the true character of a variety of people and the houses of knowledge and being they come from. In the Western world the number of heterosexual and homosexual men who express and act out their disgust for the sight of pregnant women and the vagina are hidden in the open, but their perception and their presence in the world creates storms and shifts the earth elements beneath the waters violently. I’ve learned, as a Keeper of Stories, how to listen to these men and the unseen elements of birth after calling them out into the light. Some of the Christian men finding shelter and solace in my sacred space speak of the contempt for the sight of a pregnant woman, and others plot ways to ‘fuck’ (their words) other women until their expectant wives are able to reciprocate their passion. The homosexual men I’ve talked to and seen on television who speak of their contempt for the sight and the thought of a woman’s vagina get excused from public outrage during this era of Gay activism. Why? I am not clear on why, but I focus upon the one’s in my presence and to date haven’t had the conversation that opened the wounds, the source of their black emotion.



But as Life moves on the necessity for sacred union between man and woman lives on relevant to the past, the future and the present. The complex relationship that produces lives buzzes with excitement each time a woman knows Life has sparked within her by the sound of Life she hears and recognizes. That sound harmonized with her joy, her worry, her hopes and concern for the pain of birth is carried by breath. Central to the core of being alive her breath moves in and out in the patterns that sustain Life, birth Life, give Life and take Life. She, the Mother Earth, breaths as any mother does, and the way and how those song stories, and rhythms relate to each other and dance with rhythms of all that sustains Life in the Womb is the radiance of expectation. These were the creative workings within Beyoncé Knowles when she announced her pregnancy during the MTV VMA show in August of 2011.


"Feel the love that's growing inside of me," she exclaimed during an incredible performance. – Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories

Read more: http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-moms/pictures/best-of-2011-pregnancies-of-the-year-20111412/19347#ixzz1l2qnZBOr

Beyoncé Knowles pregnant in 2011