The Cosmic Egg
The Divine Feminine
I hold the universe within me.
I am the force of an ever expanding love.
The cosmic egg is the core symbol of the divine feminine’s creative force. It is a spiritual motif found in the creation myths of countless cultures and civilizations. It represents a birth, a new beginning or an expansion of life.
In the Rig Veda, one of the oldest texts in any Indo-European language, the cosmos is described as a golden egg shaped womb. The entire universe is said to have emerged from it.
In Greek mythology the Orphic egg, hatched the primordial, hermaphrodite deity, who then created all the gods and goddesses. It is depicted as an egg with the serpent wrapped three times around it.
In Egyptian, Chinese and Polynesian mythologies among many others, creation begins with an egg. And in the Christian tradition, Mary Magdalene uses the egg to describe how life begins again after death.
In modern cosmology, it is believed that 13 billion years ago, the entire mass of the universe was compressed into a gravitational singularity, the so called cosmic egg. And from that singularity the universe has expanded ever since to its curtain state and continues in this moment to expand even further.
When your soul selects this card
Nothing needs to happen, everything is exactly as it should be. You hold the universe inside you. All life emerges from within. If you try to exert pressure for something to exist before it's ready, it won’t have the time it needs to fully form.
The cosmic egg is the essence of the divine feminine. It is the ultimate symbol of the creative force that exists within each one of us. It is the dark loving womb that holds and prevents all protects all creative expressions of life.
If we allow what's within us to emerge in divine timing, in
Kairos or soul time, then what's within us will transform us. The egg is the trust that what is ours can never be taken from us, so there's no need to answer the ego’s push to rush the process, to impress others, or to complete something on someone else's timeline. The egg is the faith that our process is sacred. That even in the midst of what looks like chaos or delay, or even death, there's a tendril of new life that needs only our trust to eventually take form. And the egg is the knowing that life begins again, after death from within.
Soul Voice Meditation
Where am I ready to expand?
Intention
I hold the universe within me.
I am the force of an ever expanding love