Goddess Archetype 6:

Hay-hu-ka (Meresh-arestu)

Goddess of reversal energy

She who embraces spontaneous experience

‘Hay’ means goddess, ‘hu’ means indwelling life, ‘ka’ means energy. Hay-hu-ka is the goddess of the energy of indwelling life. Her symbol represents an undercurrent since her influence is under the surface of material life. She works with indwelling life’s purpose to evolve awareness, through manipulating the outer currents. She is the teacher who tricks others into learning. She uses laughter as a teaching tool and is also known as the sacred clown. She uses the ridiculous and unexpected to break up stagnant energy and to keep us from becoming pompous and taking ourselves too seriously.

She jars our perception when it becomes too narrow by giving us the reverse outcome of what was expected. She is the custodian of the powerful force of reversal energy. Reversal energy is based on the concept of the pivot point – no matter how powerful the movement is in one direction, with knowledge about the pivot point, the same force can be reversed. Hay-Hu-Ka uses this knowledge to reverse the currents of existence when they deviate too far off course from the purpose of indwelling life.

At the same time, she is the Goddess of embracing spontaneous experience. The masculine illusion that there is a need to accumulate knowledge, rather than joyfully experiencing unfolding life, is dissolved by spontaneous living.

This is the Goddess that tricks into learning – anytime we are doing anything that seems tedious and mundane, it means we are not allowing ourselves to play. We are supposed to learn through games – that is how we do it for small children. Why do we think as adults we don’t need that anymore? Life is not about accumulating knowledge but about joyfully experiencing each moment. Allow yourself to make a game out of tedious tasks or things you have to memorize.

In addition to games, play-acting can be healing, because when we are pretending to be someone or something else, we can express things we wouldn’t normally allow ourselves to. “That’s not nice, I can’t say that” – but our puppet with the personality of a 2-year-old can, as long as we scold it and tell it that’s not nice. And at least we were able to say it out loud and express ourselves, instead of suppressing ourselves.

If we are in a bad mood, usually we can’t force ourselves to be happy, although we want to cheer up. We don’t want to act happy ourselves, but we can animate a character that is always in a good mood without feeling like we have to change our own mood. We end up feeling happier by being able to identify with the character we are animating, and sometimes are able to fool ourselves into feeling better. One of our team members shares: “My mother had her leg amputated, but the scar on the end of her residual limb looks like a smile, so we named the limb ‘Smiley,’ and it has a very cheerful personality. Once when Mom was in a terrible mood and was snapping at everyone, I asked Smiley if I could talk to her instead. She cheerfully answered, ‘Yes, I always like to to talk to you! Don’t pay any attention to “Bozo” up there!’ So we all laughed and even ‘Bozo’ felt better.”

Hay-hu-ka is the Goddess of provocative psychology, that heals through offending, irritating and angering the patient. Remember this any time you are upset or irritated – there may be healing going on! Sometimes people need not our care and lengthy explanations or lectures, but a swift kick in the pants or a severe cussing out. Other times, we are inclined to judge and react harshly, but what the person really needs is a tender word or a hug. In these situations, trust your inner knowing rather than your sense of propriety.

Any time we feel frustrated, stuck, like something is just not working, it usually means we need to change our strategy – perhaps use reversal energy. One of our Russian team members shares: “Once I was in a terrible mood, experiencing deep soul pain. Then I suddenly remembered spiritual practices of just changing your emotions at will, and told myself, ‘Hey, you can just snap out of this!’ and a voice from within answered back, ‘But I don’t want to!! I want to have my pity party!’ After recovering from the shock of realizing I really created these situations because I wanted them, I told myself, ‘Ok, then – ENJOY your pity party and stop complaining about it!’ And I really did feel better.”

Some police departments have started using shock therapy to diffuse domestic violence situations – anything that catches the conflicting parties off-guard will change the energy and the course of the conflict. Instead of pounding on the door in a threatening manner, they will perhaps knock in a “shave and a haircut” rhythm, and come to the door with their shirt buttoned wrong. The surprise of seeing a cheery police officer with his shirt on wrong will provide enough of a reprieve that the fighting stops and they can start to talk. If you need to divert someone’s attention or diffuse a situation, just doing anything dorky or weird should work – like sticking forks in your hair, or running around the room trying to catch imaginary flies all with chopsticks (including on the conflicting person’s shirt, or in front of their face). They get to the point where they can’t hold their attention anymore and ask, “What are you doing?!” And you just say, “catching flies,” as if it is perfectly normal and obvious, or “what do you mean?” as if you are not even aware of what you are doing.

Practical Recommendations:

If you have a situation in mind that seems stuck, that you want answers about, that you may need a different strategy to solve, focus your attention on that. If you do not have a specific situation, then ask for your next step, and what it is you may need to change in your life or use a different approach to. As you listen to the music, try to feel the essence of what the problem or situation is about on the level of indwelling life. If you are seeking guidance for your life, feel your purpse –what your life is about – at the level of indwelling life. Imagine, as a huge lever, the possibility of bringing about change. See the way you have been functioning, or the way you have been trying to deal with the issue at stake, as pushing on the problem directly. Now see that one arm of the huge lever touches your issue, and, if you push on the other end of the lever, beyond the fulcrum point, you have to push the opposite way to make the lever go the way you want. Try to feel what that means in your situation. How can you reposition and push the opposite way? What would that look like?

Do you need to change your polite, wishy-washy position to a more hardline, demanding one? Do you need to take a step back and stop micro-controlling a situation, giving others more autonomy and letting them solve their own problems? Instead of avoiding conflict, do you need to just let the conflict happen, come what may? Instead of being polite, do you just need to speak your mind and be truthful? Do you need to place firm boundaries instead of being the loving rescuer or allowing others to trample your space? Do you need to learn to yell at people instead of being the quiet mouse they expect? Allow yourself to question your accepted standards and what you think is ok. Try out different situations in your mind and allow yourself to imagine people bringing their lives into order because you finally blew up at them and refused to let them continue their old habits. Imagine others becoming better people because you deleted them from your contact list and stopped answering their calls.

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