Interesting perspective. Why did you pick an umbilical cord to cut as the ritual expression of creating sovereignty from the possessive mother? There is a lot of sensitivity and trauma at the birth portal from destruction of placenta, genital mutilation, and attacking the umbilical cord. I'd compare most adults as needing to turn towards their own form of sustenance. To create their own inner world of milk and honey rather than suckling it from the mother. Unless someone is so enthralled by the dark that they need to cut like a madmen in all directions because they don't know chord from vine from cord.
Thank you for your thoughtful reflection. You’re absolutely right to bring awareness to the sacred, and often wounded, nature of the birth portal: the placenta, the umbilicus, and the original severance that opens incarnation.
But what this ritual approaches is not a reenactment of trauma. It is a resymbolization of power. The word “cutting” here does not imply violence or rejection, but a conscious unbinding of an energetic tether that often stays active and unconscious long into adulthood.
This isn't about “the possessive mother.” This is about possessing oneself as Mother.
About transferring the emotional dependency from the physical, incarnated mother
into the inner Mother Principle: that vast, ancient matrix of nurturance, protection, and creation that lives within every human, regardless of gender.
In years of working with clients, women and men alike, I’ve seen how the astral umbilical cord, left unsevered, often blocks the flow of vital energy. Especially in the realms of sexuality, sovereignty, and soul-led creativity. That tether, when left unexamined, becomes a channel through which fear, karmic residues, and emotional inheritance continue to loop.
This ritual is not an act of destruction. It is a second birth. Not an escape from the mother, but an emergence from the identity that was formed through her.
We don’t sever to disconnect. We sever to reconnect differently. To reroot the experience of “being loved” from needing someone to being someone who embodies love as a living field. The “cutting” is not a death of connection, it is the release of fusion. So the individual can rise, not in rejection of their source, but in remembrance of the source within.
You spoke of milk and honey and yes, that is the goal. But true nourishment begins when we stop suckling from ghosts. Not everyone needs to cut like a madman. But those who are tangled in vines mistaken for roots they need clarity. This ritual is not for rage. It is not for violence. It is for maturity. For those ready to be the Mother to themselves. To gestate, nourish, and birth from within.
The cord is not the enemy. It is the map. And here, we redraw it. From dependency to presence. From echo to essence.
Interesting perspective. Why did you pick an umbilical cord to cut as the ritual expression of creating sovereignty from the possessive mother? There is a lot of sensitivity and trauma at the birth portal from destruction of placenta, genital mutilation, and attacking the umbilical cord. I'd compare most adults as needing to turn towards their own form of sustenance. To create their own inner world of milk and honey rather than suckling it from the mother. Unless someone is so enthralled by the dark that they need to cut like a madmen in all directions because they don't know chord from vine from cord.
Thank you for your thoughtful reflection. You’re absolutely right to bring awareness to the sacred, and often wounded, nature of the birth portal: the placenta, the umbilicus, and the original severance that opens incarnation.
But what this ritual approaches is not a reenactment of trauma. It is a resymbolization of power. The word “cutting” here does not imply violence or rejection, but a conscious unbinding of an energetic tether that often stays active and unconscious long into adulthood.
This isn't about “the possessive mother.” This is about possessing oneself as Mother.
About transferring the emotional dependency from the physical, incarnated mother
into the inner Mother Principle: that vast, ancient matrix of nurturance, protection, and creation that lives within every human, regardless of gender.
In years of working with clients, women and men alike, I’ve seen how the astral umbilical cord, left unsevered, often blocks the flow of vital energy. Especially in the realms of sexuality, sovereignty, and soul-led creativity. That tether, when left unexamined, becomes a channel through which fear, karmic residues, and emotional inheritance continue to loop.
This ritual is not an act of destruction. It is a second birth. Not an escape from the mother, but an emergence from the identity that was formed through her.
We don’t sever to disconnect. We sever to reconnect differently. To reroot the experience of “being loved” from needing someone to being someone who embodies love as a living field. The “cutting” is not a death of connection, it is the release of fusion. So the individual can rise, not in rejection of their source, but in remembrance of the source within.
You spoke of milk and honey and yes, that is the goal. But true nourishment begins when we stop suckling from ghosts. Not everyone needs to cut like a madman. But those who are tangled in vines mistaken for roots they need clarity. This ritual is not for rage. It is not for violence. It is for maturity. For those ready to be the Mother to themselves. To gestate, nourish, and birth from within.
The cord is not the enemy. It is the map. And here, we redraw it. From dependency to presence. From echo to essence.
Thank you for clarifying. I can see what you describe in the article more clearly now and the intention for the ritual.