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The Goddess Within – Ritual Fashion
I remembered you the second I lost you, the splitting of atoms and the cascading flashes of light. Worlds destroyed, the shattering of lives. In that flash I remembered us, in the pale blue light, the dark crystalline skies, and the deep dark sea of iridescent blackness. We held each other in the beautiful dive moment of LOVE.
Do you remember?
the moment we first felt each other?. Past, Present, and Future forever collapsing in on to its self, time never existing. A Love forged in the crucible of a star seed. Love lost and found over so many lifetimes, forever trying to collapse duality and bring balance back into this world. Creation and destruction destruction the eternal dance of the universe. How many times did we say goodbye? To sit across from each other lost in each other’s eyes, to find each other again over and over.
Life is the process of remembrance of who we truly are. Signs are all around us if we listen carefully.
To truly find one sovereignty and expression. We came from a world with two suns, and when we look inward we still see the two suns, which remind us of our spirit. A sprit that wants to be free to express its divine will. A sprit that is creator, dreamer, lover, friend, limitless.
Creation Destruction Cycles
One cannot be without the other. Why do we try to hold on so tightly.
Let go
I wept, I cried a thousand tears into the dust and then it formed the most beautiful stars which came back to shine down on us.
Then I destroyed it, I returned to the darkness, wept, those tears became a thousand butterfly wings which flew back to into the sky and became a thousands starlights.
I destroyed everything till only ashes were left and then those ashes carried into the wind returned as a thousand stars lost on my lips.
Love
I do not need anything not even you. As the beloved is always returning, creating, destroying,
It is only when we try to stop the cycle to hold on to, to not allow it to be destroyed to be reborn to evolve suffering returns. It is not the destruction that creates suffering it is the idea that destruction is loss , rather than rebirth.
It is not the ashes and the flames that cause pain but the idea that pain is something less than bliss. Yet we can only feel the depths of love as deep as the depths of sorrow
Therefore I dive headfirst into the darkness and soar above the clouds in the light.
Everyday I let go of both knowing they will both explode into a thousand stars which will be carried back on butterfly wings.
I will fall and think I will be alone forever and weep in the darkness until the day I find peace in it and then will come the sweet surrender leading to the kiss I missed arriving and leaving at the same time.
Let go
Let it burn
Let it be destroyed
So it can bloom,It can evolve
It can return back to you
By Jillian Ann
Designer and Visionary of Ritual Fashion is truly a renaissance woman. A musician, model, writer, environmentalist and world traveler she brings all of these influences into her fashion designs.
Modeling helped her launch her music career and as she toured the world, playing small venues to massive shows at Burning Man and EDC, she kept looking for the coolest clothes to wear on stage and off. While a great admirer of many fashion designers. she decided that her style was a bit different from what was readily available and Ritual was born.
Her passion for environmental issues, the ethical treatment workers and the endless search for style proved to be the foundation upon which Ritual was started and has since grown.
IG / @ritual_fashion
Photography: Clayton Beck
Photography: Jade Moon
Photography: John Dongara
Special thanks: Ric de la Rosa
