I am thinking of this very Kali phase of death and rebirth that we are all going through right now. I know I feel myself in the birth canal, feeling the contractions and the openings, the push and the retreat. Birth is a beautiful and bloody process. There is nothing quite so completely earthy and divine at the same time.
I remember asking a midwife once, what the single most important factor was in an easy birth. She told me it was the ability to surrender to the process.