Demeter Mourning for Persephone, 1906, by Evelyn de Morgan.
Thanks to Laura Bruno for pointing the way to this excellent article in Waking Times, “Is Matriotism the Future of the Divine Feminine?” by Ethan Smith and Lucy Morales.
This is an important read and reflection for anyone who’s concerned aboutthe horrible, Life-diminishing imbalances that have been crawling their way across the globe like some sort of living toxic-tar, whether that be what the authors call the poisonously violent “radical patriarchy” or the co-opted, “controlled opposition” feminism that the authors note and define.
It’ll also be an encouraging read and reflection for the many of us who’ve been changing our ways, radically simplifying, living into these questions, reclaiming the Sacred Feminine and thus tending the fertile ground for the Sacred Masculine, and embodying and seeding the shift to a healthier, more respectful balance.
Laura also mentions one of my Feminine Mojo Show episodes — series, actually — that I did a few years ago with John Lash.Though I don’t resonate with some of John’s more recent work, I still highly recommend his book, Not in His Image, some of the great resources on Metahistory.org, and the first couple of Feminine Mojo shows we did together on the Sophia Myths, Mysteries, and Gifts to us.
You’ll find the link in Laura’s post, but do click through to the Waking Times article she mentions as well — it invites some perspective-shifting.
I’m happy to see a creeping acknowledgement of the importance of a major shift in gender relations and a return to appreciating the Goddess energies. This latest post on Waking Times asks important questions and explores evidence of a much more universal Mother culture than modern society likes to admit. As the world teeters on the brink of annihilation, may more and more people begin to recognize this much needed shift.
This post also reminds me of an old John Lash interview on Feminine Mojo with Sophia’s Children blogger and Goddess lover Jamie Walters. I cannot say that I endorse everything John Lash has moved into in recent years; however, this 2011 talk beautifully articulates why –for the survival of humanity and any semblance of a healed, livable Earth — we need to reconnect with the living energies and Divine Wisdom…
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Jamie, The project of reclaiming the world from those who would destroy her is indeed challenging. I’m not sure how to move forward, given that so many in the West had difficult experiences with mothers. Trauma just gets passed along til it doesn’t. Still, one hopes and works and cares, as you demonstrate on your blog. Blessings!
Many thanks, Michael. And yes, it really is a challenging ‘mission’ and an open question we live into, about how to move forward. As you write about as well, there is also the ancestral-line trauma passed along because it went either unacknowledged and/or unhealed in many lines (e.g. Indigenous American, Indigenous Gaelic, etc. where there were violent displacements, genocide, etc.). But as you say, too, “one hopes and works and cares” and continues to ‘live into the question’, embodying the change, and so on. Perhaps as Rilke says, by doing so we’ll find ourselves living into the answer … or the renewed balance and healing. 🙂 Blessings and thanks so much for stopping by and sharing your comment! Jamie
Hi Jamie, I believe we help by offering peace, love and balanced male and female energies. I’m delighted you and others are encouraging the divine female energies to help balance our world. blessings, Brad
Thank you, Brad, and to you as well. Yes, I’m with you – embodying these beautiful qualities (or living and practicing into them!) is a powerful way to ‘seed’ them into this world … into the shared field, if you will. I just came across a bit of ancient scripture that said just that as well, reflecting the core of most traditions. Here’s to practicing it into being! Blessings, Jamie
February 27, 2015 at 1:03 pm
Jamie, The project of reclaiming the world from those who would destroy her is indeed challenging. I’m not sure how to move forward, given that so many in the West had difficult experiences with mothers. Trauma just gets passed along til it doesn’t. Still, one hopes and works and cares, as you demonstrate on your blog. Blessings!
February 27, 2015 at 1:53 pm
Many thanks, Michael. And yes, it really is a challenging ‘mission’ and an open question we live into, about how to move forward. As you write about as well, there is also the ancestral-line trauma passed along because it went either unacknowledged and/or unhealed in many lines (e.g. Indigenous American, Indigenous Gaelic, etc. where there were violent displacements, genocide, etc.). But as you say, too, “one hopes and works and cares” and continues to ‘live into the question’, embodying the change, and so on. Perhaps as Rilke says, by doing so we’ll find ourselves living into the answer … or the renewed balance and healing. 🙂 Blessings and thanks so much for stopping by and sharing your comment! Jamie
February 28, 2015 at 4:02 pm
Hi Jamie, I believe we help by offering peace, love and balanced male and female energies. I’m delighted you and others are encouraging the divine female energies to help balance our world. blessings, Brad
February 28, 2015 at 4:25 pm
Thank you, Brad, and to you as well. Yes, I’m with you – embodying these beautiful qualities (or living and practicing into them!) is a powerful way to ‘seed’ them into this world … into the shared field, if you will. I just came across a bit of ancient scripture that said just that as well, reflecting the core of most traditions. Here’s to practicing it into being! Blessings, Jamie