The Soul of Motherhood - The Mother-line - The Heart of the Mother ! - Happy Mother’s Day to all who Mother –
So what’s the Her-Story of MOTHER’S DAY? - Of course the earliest mother’s day celebrations, can be traced back to the Spring Festivals of the ancients, honoring the Mother of the gods…& the Queen Bee…
Much later…in the 1600’s, England began celebrating a day called ‘Mothering Sunday’, honoring the Matriarchy…the Queens of England…
As Christianity spread thruout Europe the celebration changed to honor the ‘Mother Church’…
Here in the US, in 1870, Julia Ward Howe – the woman that actually wrote the words to the battle hymn of the republic, knowing all too well the horrors of war, called for women to rise up & oppose war in all its forms. She wanted women to come together across national lines, to recognize what we hold in common above what divides us, & to commit to finding peaceful resolutions to conflicts. She called it “Mother’s Day For Peace”
Her idea was influenced by Anna Jarvis, a young Appalachian homemaker, who, starting in 1858, attempted to improve sanitation through what she called Mothers’ Work Days. She organized women throughout the Civil War to work for better sanitary conditions - for both sides - & in 1868 she began work to reconcile Union & Confederate neighbors. Anna Jarvis’ daughter, also named Anna Jarvis, started her own crusade to found a ‘Memorial Day for Women’ when her mother died. The first ‘Mother’s Day’ was celebrated in West Virginia in 1907 in the church where Anna Jarvis, the Mother, had taught Sunday School. So to pay homage to her ancestor, her daughter began a campaign to establish a national Mother’s Day on the 2nd Sunday of May…the anniversary of her mother’s death…which just happened to be 40 days after Easter…as a day dedicated to peace.
And from there the custom caught on – spreading eventually to 45 states. Finally the holiday was declared officially by states beginning in 1912.
And in 1914, hoping to get the female vote & also as a distraction from his declaration of the 1st World War, President Woodrow Wilson, confirmed the first national Mother’s Day. So ironic as the original impulse was all about working to prevent war.
But what does it mean to us today…? You know I’m not taking about the commercialized happy-faced take-your-mother-to-brunch-cliché’s. Hallmark may not be talking…but this is heavy stuff…the concept of ‘mother’ is highly charged for most of us…we all have, or had, a mother…good or bad or in-between…We may be a mother ourselves…what does that bring up…plenty…right…& then there’s the whole archetype of The Mother to consider…
Maybe today we can try & access some of these impressions & feelings & memories…to pound out the pain…rattle the wonder…to sing our story…to dance Her-Story - to invoke a healing process…to mother ourselves… So choose your weapon of peace…your surgical tool…your pruning shears, or monkey wrench…A drum or shaker…a good intent…these will do…as we explore & experience our Mother’s Day anthem ponding in the heart-beat we all share… Blessings to all those who create & give life… xox ~hag Listen to the podcast for Mother’s Day on ‘I Think Speech‘
~Today I am - The thought of myself - In my Mothers forehead - Re-calling her song - Up from the dead - As I roll gold into life - Like the scarab - & stand with the flowering hawthorn by the altar-tomb… ~hag
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Saturday, 10 May 2025
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