Women are the only means of transportation to reach land. We are divine portals, honor the feminine in you! UHUM, CER
This has been a phrase often conveyed by some women who sympathize with or study the philosophy of the sacred feminine and that deeply bothers me for dating a sexist religiosity, such is the danger of determinism behind the statement.
It could be that there really is a religious belief involved in choosing who shares these types of phrases out there. Maybe it\’s even an unconscious conviction, shaped by patriarchal parameters. Yeah, I prefer to believe that, like me, these women seek self-knowledge in the sacred feminine, empowerment through the study of women\’s archetypes and the connection with our ancestral roots and natural cycles.
In this way, no attention has been paid to the contradictions contained in this far from simple passage, which always accompanies the image of a pregnant woman and which leads me to a series of questions.
In fact, woman is the only way a soul can come into the world (assuming you believe in the existence of something beyond the physical body). But the placement using strong words like honor and divine is almost a subliminal threat with a Christian character to those who do not follow their duty to populate the Earth.
It is interesting to think that: would this not be one of the means by which patriarchy reduces women to the mere condition of procreators and thus reduces their value, power and controls their freedom?
Even more interesting, or outrageous, is to think that from this angle the philosophy of the sacred feminine, which also seeks to unite women in sorority by understanding that we are all connected by the same essence, would automatically end up punishing those who cannot or do not want to have children, generating distinction and segregation.
In this context, I still reflect: where would be the respect for the unique nature of our individualities, which promote creativity and the richness of diversity? Or does nature mean only the female body, the biology represented by the womb? Wouldn\’t that be an extremely mundane view of being a woman and therefore disconnected with the energy coming from something greater, wise and true? Where would our sexuality fit into this vision? Would it be merely a result of hormonal metabolism moved by the need to generate a new fruit? What would become of freedom to be, to choose, of self-acceptance, of self-love that we seek so much?
It seems very contradictory to me that love can cause so much limitation. It is simply controversial that a woman who loves her nature, her self, who seeks to look at her deepest instincts and listen to her intuition, feels so superior to others, judging right and wrong in a choice that is not hers, repressing the freedom to choose from the other.
There is no way to see myself as a whole or connect with me making a distinction between me and other women!
The natural cycles, outside and inside the woman, in the sacred feminine are nothing more than the representation of the force of the universe within us, of the existence of the energy of life in a broad way. Therefore, I feel it is impossible to search for my essence and freedom while classifying the feminine by the simple existence of a reproductive organ and the implicit obligation to use it for this purpose!
It is worth remembering that the energy of women is also present in men, who have the enormous barrier of machismo to express it. However, we have trans women, extremely sensitive, who in their conscience are no different from those born in a womb.
Worshipers of archetypes can take as an example the son of Aphrodite and Hermes, Hermaphrodite, symbolizing the expression of masculine and feminine energies in a single being.
Feminine energy and the ability to generate must be looked at more meaningfully and comprehensively. Honoring the feminine is respecting internal processes, listening to yourself and feeling free to create and mother whatever is important to you, an idea, a project, a dream, not just a child!
We have to be very careful about the women\’s empowerment movement. If we do not deeply question, individually and socially, limiting and reductionist concepts, instead of waking up to our power and freedom in unison, we will continue to walk towards a false evolution, in an individualistic way, which is at odds with a real complex nature, conjugated by the its essential and complementary odds.
We are a divine portal yes, but for knowledge, for the expansion of our consciences and the search for freedom to be, peacemakers and extinguishers of a repressive and violent patriarchal society.
My body cannot define me. My uterus is used by ME, in an increasingly awake way, integrated with who I truly am and with everything around me.
Listening to and respecting my most intimate and real desires is only possible when I do the same with other people\’s choices. This is how I take hold of myself, without forgetting the other. That\’s what makes me my own divinity!