The feminine and the masculine are not singular and siloed energies-instead, they exist in balance. But if the sacred feminine doesn’t have anything to do with gender, why do we use gendered terms to explain it? We don’t have to! Systems built upon such beliefs fail to actually account for the wide range of human experience that lends to the balance of our communities. To base our spirituality in how our body is shaped is inherently exclusionary and limiting. It’s not body parts or reproductive function that leads to femininity, nor is it the other way around. "Some see worship of a Goddess as helping to rebalance negative cultural issues brought about by centuries of emphasis on a male God,” Hale says. Hale notes that in patriarchal Abrahamic religions, such as Catholicism, the Divine Feminine suggests a female component within the Trinity (some sects even acknowledge the Holy Spirit as feminine). In Hinduism, Goddesses are still worshipped and Tantric Buddhism and Tantric Hinduism both have a specific focus on female deities.”ĭr.
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