Little Goddess

Lately, I have been thinking about the young girls.  Primarily, those girls that are coming of age but not limited to them.  The age where the feminine cycles being initiating themselves feels like such a pivotal and influential time in a female’s life.  I know it was for me, at least.  I only now wish that I had had a wise woman mentor their to guide me through that initiation consciously, with grace.

I have been considering what it means to raise a young girl in this day and age – Raising her with openness.  With truth.  Openness and truth about her body’s rhythms, about her sexuality, about her feelings and experiences.  I have witnessed friends and women in the natural health community raising their little girls openly and what that looks like is magick.  A young girl without suppression?  That is almost unheard of these days.  But witnessing a young girl, with little to no suppression, freely expressing herself is incredible – Magnificent to say the least, knowing she will continue evolving in her power, helping others along the way.

I am just going to be honest.  I worry about the future of women sometimes.  Not often, because I am so trusting in our power and transformative abilities, though I do worry on occasion.  There is such a powerful movement of feminine energy that is spreading women’s wisdom.  Women continuing the wise woman tradition, educating about taking care of ourselves naturally, passing on the wisdom of our cycles and her-story.  At the same time, mainstream media continues to push to the forefront of culture these “iconic” women who supposedly symbolize women’s beauty, health, power, etc. today (think magazines you see in the grocery store, etc.)  To me, this image projects a message lacking authenticity, personality, meaning, power, and so on.  Personally, I feel that this image furthers the suppression of the divine feminine and women’s inherent beauty.  Headlines of these magazines highlight the dramatic personal lives of women, idealizing them and featuring them looking sickly and distressed.  Ads campaign across the TV channels, advertising tampons and pharmaceuticals to cloak and/or inhibit women’s natural bodily rhythms.  Women are getting sick from birth control.  Women are dying from HPV vaccines.  The truth is dark, but it is the truth.

On the other side, so much progress is being made in the de-programming and re-educating of the female populous.   More women than I sometimes am able to fathom are spreading our her-story and empowering women with knowledge and understanding of our natural cycles, our feminine capabilities, and the magick we are able manifest.  I witness miracles amongst women on a regular basis.  Several of my close girlfriends have given birth at home naturally in the past year.  Some with midwives, some unassisted.  Want to talk miracles?  Yeah, natural birthing is one.  I could name several women who are spreading women’s spirituality and empowerment like their lives depend upon it.  Women like ALisa Starkweather come to mind.  ALisa is a visionary and founder of many women’s initiatives, such as the Red Tent Temple.  Another woman who comes to mind is Isadora Leidenfrost, who is currently making a movie called “Things We Don’t Talk About:  Healing Narratives from the Red Tent” – This is a movie about women gathering together in sacred space for healing, ritual, and sharing.  It is spaces like Red Tent’s and Moon Lodge’s, holding space for healing that are helping women today find their power and knowing.  Women dedicating their lives to this work is a miracle.  I am dedicating my life to this women’s work.

The younger generations need education.  It is the maidens who truly need us, in that moment where she shifts from the innocence of childhood to the years of development where she begins writing her story.  It is the young girl coming into her moon time, prepared by society to plug herself up with a tampon – She needs us.  Let’s teach girls they don’t have to hide.  Let’s explain to them how their female cycles are not bad and wrong, and what they are feeling is natural.  Let’s continue being shining examples of authenticity so as to communicate to them that truth is where the beauty stands.

It is our influence on these young women that really impacts our future as women.  Let’s keep the tradition alive; the rituals, the ceremonies, the wisdom.  Spread it all like wildfire.  If you don’t know the tradition, learn it.  Find a wise woman who can teach you.  Where is there a young girl, ready and waiting for her Goddess mentor?  How can you support a young girl who is present in your life?  Perhaps it is that little girl who has looked up to you since she was a child.  Find her.  That is the girl who needs you.  She needs your consciousness, your sharing of our innate power.

Wake up a maiden near you -

Our future depends upon it.

Blessings,     ~Ali