Is Matriotism The Future of The Divine Feminine?

Definition #2: (of an activity) befitting a man.
Example: "honest, manly sports".
Synonyms: virile, masculine, strong, muscular, strapping, well built, sturdy, robust, rugged, tough, hardy, powerful, brawny, red-blooded, vigorous"

Womanly adjective

Definition #1: relating to or having the characteristics of a woman or women.
Examples: "her smooth, womanly skin-- "her womanly virtues".
Synonyms: feminine, female.

Definition #2: (of a girl's or woman's body) fully developed and curvaceous.
Example: "I've got a womanly figure".
Synonyms: voluptuous, curvaceous, shapely, ample, opulent, full-figured, well formed, well proportioned, buxom, full-bosomed, luscious"

Courageous" determined" heroic"

Smooth" curvaceous" buxom"

Kind of speaks for itself, doesn't it?

Then, add to this kind of distorted language the weight of social norms, largely re-generated through media conditioning, and you embed an ideal archetype so unachievable that some spend their entire lives in its pursuit.

Such widely held expectations of feminine 'normality' undermine the very divinity of the true feminine nature. They treat femininity as a value that must be achieved through outside means, a goal, not a divine sacred essence. Today, women are socially encouraged toward the "masculine" roles of provider, competitor and protector, not only by an increased economic necessity but in part by the common interpretation of "feminism" as a woman's right to embody "masculine" roles such as military, competitive sports etc., rather than a broader opposed to a social movement to instil "feminine" values into our broader culture.

Radical Oppression and the Rising Ecocide

The definitions above represent one of the more subtle ways the divine feminine is undermined by the radical patriarchy. However much more overt oppression of the sacred feminine is evident in other extremes; in cultures like our own, where femininity has been objectified by popular culture into the realms of over-sexualized male fantasy, while at the other extreme, in certain Middle Eastern countries (among others) for example, women's value is considered to be far less than that of men -- and in some cases, less than that of the animals the family raises. There are cultures in which women are routinely given lashes in public" or worse" for causing men to rape them. And those where women cannot go anywhere alone, and remain hidden behind garments that conceal their appearance. In China, this perceived inequality of genders and chronic overpopulation results in countless female babies being discarded at birth. And let us not forget the great tradition of the 'chastity belt'. Or the practice of routine female genital mutilation, which prevents women from experiencing their whole sacred female sexuality.

Such practices don't just violate the individual rights (and lives) of females but pose a collective attack on the very nature of the divine feminine. They undermine the sacred gentleness, compassion and wisdom inherent to humanity's feminine nature, and facilitate the dominance of the decidedly un-sacred masculine.

The oppression of the sacred feminine is further obvious when we look at the psychology of systemic environmental destruction. The sacred feminine once kept whole communities intuitively tuned with our Mother Earth, valuing her as the nurturer of life, and honouring her need to be nurtured in return. By conditioning entire populations to perceive disconnection from their natural environment and the nurturing energy she embodies, the patriarchy has managed to undervalue the need for sustainable, compassionate thinking in our collective plan, and gained our ignorant but willing consent to destroy great swathes of our beautiful planet -- on our behalf but to their benefit -- and all in great the name of human progress. And while this ecocide continues, so too does our collective affront to the divine feminine -- to Gaia herself.

Writes Psychologist Steve Taylor Ph.D in his article Ecocide: The Psychology of Environmental Destruction:

Would a sane species abuse their own habitat so recklessly? And would they allow such dangerous trends to intensify without taking any serious measures against them?" Indigenous peoples were in no doubt that our attitude to nature was pathological, and would lead to disaster"

In my view, there are two main psychological factors. The first is what I call our "over-developed sense of ego," or intensified sense of individuality" The second factor is our "de-sacralised" vision of nature, our inability to sense the "being-ness" of natural phenomena. Our ego-separateness means that we don't feel connected to the "web of creation," the network of life on Earth.

Believing we are disconnected from our environment and each other, our unbalanced decision makers steer an unbalanced society toward unbalanced and destructive practices (nuclear for example). Those who have lost the essence of who they really are cannot function in a harmonious, high-vibrational level. Without balance -- the masculine and feminine, the yin and yang -- what we have allowed in its place is a radical patriarchy.

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