I give up. I've been promising a Sicily blog for TWO MONTHS, and I can't quite manage to write it. Therefore, it must not want to be written. I keep having ideas for a blog and thinking 'oh but i have to write the Sicily one first' - well bollocks! Sicily was great, everyone should go there. Fini.

One very cool thing did happen - I had the Goddess experience I've been after :o)

My friend and I had had a bit of a tiff, so we went our separate ways for an afternoon. I wandered into Taormina, had a gelati (best icecream in HISTORY), got caught in a short sharp shower....and a beautiful little old church caught my eye. It was, of course, a Catholic church, and the doors were standing open. An old man came out as I went in, and I was alone in the church.

The first thing I saw was a beautiful Madonna and Child statue behind the altar. As I looked around, I realised that this was to all intents and purposes, a church to Mary. There were statues of her everywhere, and only one of Jesus alone.

I sat in the second row of pews (didn't feel confident enough to sit at the front of the class), and I just looked at that Madonna and Child. As I looked at Her, a perception of Motherhood stole over me, growing larger and larger, until it filled my consciousness and beyond, encompassing all Motherhood - Mother Mary, Mother Earth, my mother, my grandmother, all mothers everywhere, and my own potential motherhood.

As with all esoteric experiences, it is so hard to describe, but I think the best way to put it is 'God as Mother/Mother as God'. But even that is insufficient - argh! Perhaps 'Mother God as all'...

Well, if anyone reading has ever had a consciousness-expanding experience, perhaps they will understand my poor words :o)