female chauvinism has really been getting me down. i want to encourage my sisters to continue to bolster each other's femininity, taking pride in what makes you different from masculine people and claiming your ancient powers as warrior-peistesses. on the other hand, please read this post about what i have experienced through the ages and realize that there are millions of people like me who do not incarnate as a consistant gender and who value female power dispite their unfortunately externally placed genitals.

there is definately a gender struggle at hand. what we are percieving right now is a massively suppressed backlash of female sexospiritual power against millenia of male dominance. the backlash has only just now begun and could continue for centuries.

i believe that all of our truly civilized faculties come from a prehistoric tradition of matriarchical power structure that developed from the female ability to produce life from her own flesh. early males regarded this phenomenon with a mixture of fear and reverence. while the female instinct to provide for the child fuelled her intelligence, intuition, and intention, causing her to innovate tools, develop speech, and observe the growth of plants, the men, confounded and mystified by the female ability to give birth, split into two camps: the reverents and the fear-eaters. The reverents were able to remain with the life-givers, while the fear-eaters rounded up the weakest women and split off. generations later, the reverents, led by orders of warrior priestesses, had developed agriculture (including the hunting of specific game), religion, and leisure, establishing great garden-temples of song and bliss. meanwhile the fear-eaters survived by the skins of their teeth, scavenging the kills of wild predators and indescriminantly massacring small populations of creatures. when the two populations reencountered each other there was a brief period of integration until the massive influx of fear-eaters overwhelmed the priestesses, who had not taught their people how to fight or to deny kindness even in the face of abject cruelty. this gave way to centuries of brutal warfare. most of the garden temples became overpopulated and eventually turned into the city-states that we are now taught to recognize as the beginnings of western civilization; the Goddess temples that survived became known as strongholds of evil sorceresses and were eventually decimated.

now the ancient warrior priestesses return. some of us incarnate as men to better understand how being male impacts the psyche. others choose again to be female to demonstrate that Goddess-power is not yet dead. most of the ladies i know meet regularly in gender-exclusive groups to practice their spiritual powers and to breathe life back into the flesh of their Goddesses. We all know that a great reckoning is at hand and we all wonder what part we will play.

is it time for the Horned God to lower His great rack to the Huntress? will She bring Him down like game and feed Him to Her Children? will She breed, tame, and groom Him? is He strong enough to acquiesce to the object of His desire, or is He so weak that he would rather devour Her?

i know this is running kinda long so i'll wrap it up.

if we want to heal the breech between genders we must first strive to heal that breech within ourselves. please realize that the spirit has no gender. we are each composed of a vast myriad of different aspects; some aspects are male, others are female, and only by uniting them all in loving embrasure can we be fully who we are. think of the horned god Baphomet, who is niether male or female, but posesses both yoni and lingham. today being a man means being strong enough to accept all of our aspects with confidence and vigor, esp. those aspects we have been denied based on our gender, while simultaneously rejecting with stength and integrity all the behaviors, stereotypes, and emotional conditioning that have been socially imposed upon us. women want to see us do this, and they want to rise up and reclaim their ancient power as spiritual and sociopolitical leaders, resurrecting the Goddesses within themselves and the universal powers we identify as Godesses, simultaneously reforging the broken utopia reflected in the shards of our shared memory of the garden-temple. the more power we put behind our ladies for this endeavor, the more love, beneficence, and abundance the Goddesses will grant us. it is up to each individual to decide how this should fit together & play out in each of its relationships.