{"id":518,"date":"2015-04-16T01:20:11","date_gmt":"2015-04-15T14:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/priestessyourlife.com\/wordpress\/?p=518"},"modified":"2015-04-16T09:05:50","modified_gmt":"2015-04-15T22:05:50","slug":"eroding-the-feminine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/priestessyourlife.com\/eroding-the-feminine\/","title":{"rendered":"Eroding the feminine"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A couple of weeks ago, at the potent eclipse Full Moon, I hand-wrote a letter giving great thanks for such a rich harvest, as I looked back over the last six months.\u00a0 Emailed it out to family and friends, to share my delight!\u00a0 I was particularly bearing witness to so much healing of the feminine within my own Red Thread \u2013 the ancestral line that connects me, my daughter, my mother, my grandmothers and all the women who came before us.<\/p>\n

This harvest is largely one around reconnection, evidenced in my daughter\u2019s embodied experience of stepping into womanhood being so much more supported and sung and celebrated than any of the women of my line in recent (and distant?) times. \u00a0And bearing witness to her new pathway\u00a0is such a gift of healing rippling back to me, my mother, my grandmothers and all the women who came before us.\u00a0 Hence my delight\u2026<\/p>\n

The irony, two weeks later, is that I\u2019m living from such a different place, under this Balsamic Moon, deep in the descent.\u00a0 What\u2019s currently arising is not the golden harvest, but rather, all the things that aren\u2019t working, that no longer serve, all the arenas in which I deeply desire CHANGE!<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been bewildered and grieved at so many things, great and small.<\/p>\n

Grieved I can\u2019t buy fresh\u00a0milk<\/a> from a local farm anymore.<\/p>\n

Grieved the homebirth<\/a> I had six years ago is no longer available for women who want it.<\/p>\n

Outraged that the tiny<\/em> minority of people choosing not to vaccinate <\/a>are being financially blackmailed into doing so.<\/p>\n

Scared my choice to homeschool<\/a> will be legislated against in the near future.<\/p>\n

Grieved women\u2019s bodies<\/a>\u00a0and experiences have been written out of history, in words and art.<\/p>\n

Grieved my country keeps acting out a terribly painful but oh-so-familiar familiar pattern of treating indigenous people<\/a> as second-class citizens, utterly failing to recognise, let along honour, their connection to the land.<\/p>\n

Outraged that honest news<\/a> is hard to come by, mainstream\u00a0media only sharing sanitised, politically-sanctioned pieces.\u00a0 That\u2019s not news!<\/p>\n

Outraged that peaceful protesting<\/a> is getting to be \u201cillegal\u201d in this democracy!<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been rageful all week at story after story.<\/p>\n

Despairing, feeling my smallness amongst what feels like an ocean of wrongness.
\nBewildered that simple choices are becoming so radicalised.\u00a0 I never set out to be an anarchist, but I am becoming one, as my values are pushed further and further out of the mainstream.<\/p>\n

Today it was a relief to remember the moon, this descent phase, and the \u201crightness\u201d of feeling all this, right now.\u00a0 All this shit.\u00a0 Right on track.\u00a0 Glad to embody and hold and live the pain and rage, for myself, and all those who are numb to these injustices. \u00a0To deeply feel whatever is arising…<\/p>\n

And a relief to articulate for myself\u00a0the common thread in all these griefs: the feminine principle embodied in all these situations being so overtly challenged, slandered and eroded.\u00a0 People and their choices dragged and whipped into the dominant (patriarchal) paradigm, which seems to tolerate less and less dissent.<\/p>\n

So\u2026
\nfresh milk = \u201cunsafe\u201d
\nbirth at home = \u201cunsafe\u201d
\nconscientious objection = \u201cunsafe\u201d
\nun-institutional education = certainly \u201csuspect\u201d, how long til \u201cunsafe\u201d?
\nlabias & vulvas = definitely \u201cunsafe\u201d, also \u201coffensive\u201d
\nindigenous people = \u201cunsafe\u201d and \u201cunimportant\u201d
\nhonest news = \u201cunsafe\u201d
\nprotesters = \u201cselfish rabble\u201d and \u201cunsafe\u201d<\/p>\n

And \u201cunsafe\u201d cannot be tolerated by the mainstream, it seems, and must be legislated against!\u00a0 Preferably immediately!<\/p>\n

Almost worse than anything is a fear that the feminine (in all of us) is too asleep\/lost\/numb\/overwhelmed to recognise these redefinitions and legislation as significant losses.\u00a0 Where is our fight?\u00a0 How do we claim our right to define ourselves and what\u2019s normal and how we want to live (in peaceful co-existence)?<\/p>\n

I\u2019m singing to the feminine, in myself, in you, in all things, and I know it\u2019s happening already, slowly, slowly: awake, Sleeping Beauty, awake\u2026\u00a0 because the world is so in\u00a0need of you\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n

Honouring this Balsamic Moon.
\nBeing in the moment, right now.
\nFeeling all the not-workings and the pain, my impotence and despair.
\nFeeling the fractal nature of this pattern, the witch-hunts of previous centuries, the annihilation of the feminine, the Herstory<\/a>, as an echo in my soul.
\nFeeling the ugliness of the patriarchy, within me and around me.<\/p>\n

Having to simply be in this death phase, trusting the new seeds, the creative responses, the energy and vitality to fight and shift and change, will come\u2026<\/p>\n

I let go of my fruitless rage, my broadsiding blame, my paralysing despair, my shrinking shame.<\/p>\n

Sigh\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n

And as I write, a gift, a tiny seed.\u00a0 I will hold it gently in this dark compost til the New Moon on Sunday, in Aries, no less \u2013 the \u00a0beginning of the zodiacal cycle, the impulse of life springing forth.<\/p>\n

I will embody, once\u00a0again, life calling to life in all its fullness and joy.<\/p>\n

Image (above): Constellation of Grief<\/em>\u00a0\u00a9\u00a0Rebecca Funk.<\/p>\n

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