How To Be A Patchwork Prophet. Part 7

Reclaiming the Divine Mother

You really can’t miss the levels of misogyny in right wing politics; it’s a vital part of patriarchy. And it is strong in the right-wing women too. They get the payback of being ‘the right kind of woman; the sort that understands’ and can feel smugly superior to their ‘woke’ sisters.

I’m not forgetting the huge amount of trans-hatred and LGBTQI hatred too - and, in a way, that is also a kind of misogyny - because both communities are far more comfortable with exploring the feminine - and it is the feminine that the patriarchy fears more than anything else on the planet.

How so? It can be hard to understand that because most women (and even more men) have forgotten what the feminine is. And without our stepping into the full power of the feminine then what we offer is a shallow imitation, apologetic and small or, even worse, bitchy, manipulative and cunning.

The feminine is the creator. The idea of a male god creating the universe is really rather modern - and it is completely contradicted in the Bible.

‘In the beginning Elohim created the heavens and the earth.’ Genesis 1:1.

‘Elohim’ is a feminine plural noun. Some scholars say it has a masculine ending (not really feminine then!) but the Hebrew word meaning ‘women’ is nashim which has the same ending. Why plural? Because all the ancient matrilineal religions believed that the World was born from the equivalent of ‘the Sky Mother’ and her daughter who gave birth to a son. Parthenogenesis (reproduction without a male), is a very definite thing in nature.

The Hebrew Testament supports this myth (remember a myth is a perennial truth told through story; it isn’t just a fantasy). Most folk know the Hebrew God as ‘Yahweh’ and assume he’s the driving force behind creation. But no, Elohim begins the work and ‘The Spirit of Elohim’ carries it on. They only become ‘Yahweh Elohim’ only when They create humanity and Yahweh alone only takes any reins at all in chapter four once Adam and Eve have left Eden in chapter four.

Elohim (God), the first They/Them - creates all that is. Yahweh (LORD) appears to be the God of humanity. You can spot the difference all the way through the Testament. Correct me if I’m wrong but I don’t think Yahweh creates anything at all...

So if you worship Yahweh alone you are denying the God of nature - Mother Nature herself. Such worship, as we can plainly see, turns the beauty and glory of nature into a machine to serve people’s needs. MAGA and the Right Wing hate the feminine because the true feminine would never allow the destruction of the Earth. She must be despised, denigrated and dismissed so that patriarchal power has control.

And yet … the role of the male is to protect and serve the female as she creates.

It’s possible that the above sentence will cause a certain amount of shock and incredulity. I shall say it again.

The role of the male is to protect and serve the female as she creates.

Seems like a bit of a demotion for the men? Well how about that? You think it’s an unacceptable role to protect the Creatrix? To hunt for her, to provide for her, to take care of her while she does the feminine stuff? How very odd. Almost as though you might be programmed to believe that taking care of things is ‘woman’s work’ and less important than the male.

It’s going to be a big task to turn this one around but the role of the patchwork prophet is to start seeing it as it is - and to start calling it out.

The patriarchy hates and fears the feminine for two reasons.

1. We know and understand the darkness. We understand the role of the womb. We are the ones who give birth - and that includes other kinds of birth as well as natural children. We are the mothers of God because God is creation.

2. So many of us have forgotten and denied our power because of conditioning. Worse, when we remember it, we try to recover it through the masculine tendency to fight. It’s not our job to fight and the masculine hates it because it makes a mockery of the true male as it makes a mockery of the true female.

NB: Both men and women contain masculine and feminine. Many women are inherently masculine and many men inherently feminine - and there is nothing whatsoever wrong with that. Men also create but they create from their feminine side. They fix from their masculine side.

And many women fix and many women do all the so-called ‘male’ things and we do it from our masculine side. I’ve got a lot of masculine in me but my power comes from the feminine.

So, a patchwork prophet tells it like it is: The Creatrix is feminine. We realise that the feminine is not second-class; it only becomes second class when it believes the lies that birth, nurture, education and caring are less important than making money. It becomes second-class when it supports those who would oppress or deny the weaker, the lost, the lonely or the hurt.

The suicide rate among young men in the Western World is horrific (you can search for the figures if you want to know how bad) because men don’t know who they are any more. It may be ‘feminist’ to object when a man offers to open the door for you. But it is a just and correct acknowledgment of your Queenship and his respect.

If you don’t see that; he won’t either. We have to stand tall in our feminine power so that men can recover their true masculine power. A man in his true power is utterly magnificent - and we deserve more of you.

‘One day an army of grey-haired women may quietly take over the Earth’ — Gloria Steinem.

Creators are leaders. Sisters, it’s time…

Final comment from American herbalist Susun Weed:

The future is female.

It will be in beauty.

All acts of beauty are in honor of Her.

It is a giveaway.

Gratitude for your endless gifts Mother of All.

Our hearts beat as one with your heart, oh Mother Earth.

May I be of service to you, dearest Goddess.

Even in my rage, let joy be my center.