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.
Jamie is an inspiration partner and lantern-holder for her fellow transformation leaders, change catalysts, and creative nonconformists who are living, inspiring, and (intentionally or not) leading the way in these chaotic times.
When she's not tending and stirring the Sophia's Children cauldron, she's following research trails, and serving as the Director of a Repro-Justice-oriented women's health center in her community, emphasizing in-person compassionate care.
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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
Hi Lia.
Thanks for stopping by and sorry for the delay – this was one of several comments that got lost in WordPress purgatory and just made it into my Comments queue today.
I have great appreciation for John Lamb Lash’s book, Not In His Image, and so many of the amazing writings that have long been available at the https://metahistory.org/ web site, and of course the dialogues he and I had that I shared via The Feminine Mojo Show.
I have no catalogue or list of points where I disagree with JLL’s work, other than I resonated less with the Planetary Tantra and Sophia’s “correction” than the earlier work. That’s about it. 🙂
Hoping that you’re well and continuing to find inspiration in JLL’s work and others.
Blessings to you,
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
January 22, 2022 at 4:51 am
On what points do you disagree with John Lash?
March 19, 2022 at 5:34 pm
Hi Lia.
Thanks for stopping by and sorry for the delay – this was one of several comments that got lost in WordPress purgatory and just made it into my Comments queue today.
I have great appreciation for John Lamb Lash’s book, Not In His Image, and so many of the amazing writings that have long been available at the https://metahistory.org/ web site, and of course the dialogues he and I had that I shared via The Feminine Mojo Show.
I have no catalogue or list of points where I disagree with JLL’s work, other than I resonated less with the Planetary Tantra and Sophia’s “correction” than the earlier work. That’s about it. 🙂
Hoping that you’re well and continuing to find inspiration in JLL’s work and others.
Blessings to you,
Jamie