feminine power
Reclaim the Sacred Feminine
If you were taught that God is only male, seek the stories that were erased. Speak the names of the goddesses who were cast into shadow. Remember that the divine exists within you—not outside of you.
Ask yourself: If I truly believed in my own sacred power, how would I move differently in this world?
Unfortunately for the feminine, essentially all major religion traditions were created for the masculine. Taught by the masculine to the masculine using the words of the masculine.
“Women are sacred manifestations of Spirit. In most ancient cultures, women receive intuitive feminine tools when they transform from adolescence to womanhood, from there to motherhood, and eventually crone grandmotherhood.
Our body is a spiritual tool — connects us to the sun, the moon, the sacred hoop of life, and helps us remember that we come
... See moreAnd so we let our hearts guide us. We let our bodies guide us. “When we align ourselves with our deepest prayer, the next right thing unfolds,” Cynthia discovered. This is the way of the feminine mystic.
Mirabai Starr • Wild Mercy: Living the Fierce and Tender Wisdom of the Women Mystics
Feminist historian Riane Eisler describes how our Neolithic and Paleolithic ancestors imagined a woman’s body and pussy as a magical vessel. As she explains, our ancestors marveled at the way it bleeds in rhythm with the moon, miraculously creates life, and produces milk to feed its offspring. Not to mention the magical way a woman can cause a
... See moreRegena Thomashauer • Pussy
There was a time when the divine was not confined to the image of a man.
For tens of thousands of years, the Sacred Feminine was honored in the temples, whispered in the prayers of healers, warriors, and mothers alike.
She was Inanna, Queen of Heaven, sovereign of love and war.
She was Isis, the weaver of magic, birth, and resurrection.
She was Gaia,
... See moreI like to think of goddess practice as a form of sacred feminism—not political feminism, but feminism of the soul. To my generation, feminism was not only a movement for women’s economic and political equality. It also involved a deep and fearless self-exploration, a commitment to looking beyond our conditioned assumptions about masculine and
... See moreSally Kempton • Awakening to Kali: The Goddess of Radical Transformation
In order for the masculine to move from degraded —> divine, it must give up the self.
In order for the feminine to move from degraded—> divine, it must build the self.
Why Religious Tools Don't Work for Women