As the creator of the divine feminine app, an online platform to find circles, events and resources to which an average of three women a day have found their way to for the past decade, I have been privy to quite a few opinions.
A large majority of the 12,000 women who have registered on the app are Circle hosts, course creators, retreat organizers, book authors, singers, product sellers and others that ‘She’ has tapped on the shoulder.
And I hear quite a lot.
‘Be careful about her.’ ‘Do you know what she did?’ ‘I would watch your back.’
‘Why do you have her work on your app?’
Ava Park founder and director of Museum of Woman did a very interesting video the other day about women leaving the Goddess Community to go back to Traditional Christianity. In the video, Ava mentions the small percentage of the world that identifies with Goddess Spirituality and how you had to be ‘Psychic Strong’ to be in this small minority.
When you reach down deep and find these tenets of personal belief, you may bring up some seaweed that comes along for the ride.
I try not to judge.
Because I was not in their world: these Foremothers of Goddess Spirituality who stopped when everyone else was walking and said, ‘Nope.’
“I’m going to go carve my own path.”
We owe them a lot I feel.
And one of those things is forgiveness for the blinders that you or I may feel they have retained in certain areas or mannerisms.
You see, the world is going to be changed by our children.
They are watching.
They are watching Mom and Dad and other adults in their lives and how they navigate their way. They’re observing and forming their own worldviews.
And you and I may have had to work really hard to change ‘the world’ we grew up in. And I am speaking of internally. But they are forming their own.
One of the most prevalent ways they do that is through mainstream popular culture.
Over the last 15-20 years, there has been a huge resurgence of divine feminine symbolism in media, especially in films aimed at young women.
Moana (2016)
- Te Fiti is a Mother Earth creator goddess who gives life to the islands.
- When wounded, she becomes Te Kā, representing the destructive side of the same feminine power.
- Moana restores the goddess by returning her heart, symbolizing healing the earth and honoring the feminine.
Beyoncé
- Her song Lemonade uses water, intuition, feminine rage, and healing.
- Black Is King presents Beyoncé as an African divine mother figure.
- Her 2017 Grammy performance portrayed her as a fertility goddess / Madonna archetype.
Florence Welch (Florence & the Machine)
- Her music often references: ritual, nature spirits and feminine transformation
And these are just a few amongst many:
- Frozen: Elsa reflects the ice goddess / elemental feminine power archetype.
Her arc centers on embracing suppressed feminine magic. - Avatar: Eywa acts as a Gaia-like planetary mother consciousness.
- Barbie: Barbieland resembles a matriarchal mythic world.
- The Little Mermaid: Ariel echoes the archetype of water priestess / sea goddess.
- Maleficent: Presents the dark goddess / protector of nature archetype.
- Princess Mononoke: Strong themes of nature spirits and earth goddess consciousness.
- Spirited Away: Includes powerful female spirits such as Yubaba.
This is the world our daughters are growing up in.
And this is why I say you cannot stop the world that is coming any more than you can stop a Tsunami wave.
A lot of my personal work has involved ‘flipping’ words and perspectives. The first was ‘Witch’ which I grew up thinking of ugly women caricatures in black hats with warts on their nose.
Today, a majority of my friends call themselves Witch, and I know the word to mean someone who lives within the cycles of the Earth and uses natural means to heal and to change.
The work that you and I have is one of focus: allowing differences, supporting, inspiring, lifting each other up and recognizing the gifts we each bring from those days when you had to be Psychic Strong to be Goddess friendly.
Because She is back. And she is going to need translation from popular culture into everyday ordinary ways we let the Goddess in.
The world needs us Goddess women in all of our forms.
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If ever the world needed the goddess it is NOW… it is true that she’s been around in the shadow world for at least 5000 years due to patriarchy’s rise and takeover – it is also true that overall goddess anything is looked upon with skepticism by the majority – but we must persist – ” Never give up”
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I agree with you Sarah, women are rising and witnessing trememdous push back from patriarchy, it is there last kick at the can.
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I think women are for the most part, not used to power and to be real for almost five thousand years women had none It was only around a hundred years that we were recognized within society/culture as being human, having human rights like the right to vote, have washroom is our name and so forth. I see how many women are not used to having power or sharing it with their sisters which is a first step, rather than sister’s going against each other which we have been well set up to do by patriarchy, which gains by keeping us separate. I see how we came such a long way in a relatively short time in herstory and it was not easy, our feminist sisters life purpose was to fight for women’s rights to the death even and many died. Today the word feminist is still seen by men and women as being…… having every slur hurled at us because they just do not get who feminists really are, go figure! Here we are again with feminists in the U.K. just winning yet another supreme court battle for the rights we fought and won a hundred years ago, for safe spaces, bathrooms of our own and now in many parts of the world women have lost bathrooms of their own to men who feel like women, with dicks and all in the name of “being nice” and we know about that, be nice and disappear. Women around the world are now meeting up to fight for rights already won, what are women thinking? I understand that women are only just learning about power and not to give it away, we have so much to learn about loving and raising our sisters, sharing our power with one another. To be honest is nothing new for men.
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Thank you for this perspective, Caryn. I am en-courage-d!
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