“Reclaiming the Divine Feminine”
By shaman Alberto Villoldo
In the Andean tradition, shamans call the organizing principle in the universe “Illa Tici Viracocha”: the one who is everywhere and in everything. But somehow, the Sun Father and Earth Mother gave way to the Father and the Son in the traditions of the conquerors of North and South America. Around the world, the power of the feminine gets lost in stories about goddesses serving male deities, often relegated to secondary or tertiary characters.
With such mythologies guiding us, we shouldn’t be surprised that we no longer honor both our mother and our father, the masculine and feminine, equally. The divine feminine has many faces, but because she has been driven underground in cultures around the world, we don’t really know the extent of her powers.
Stories from Europe about women who were tortured and killed for being “witches” – meaning they followed an Indigenous spiritual tradition that honored the feminine aspect of divine power – are fairly common. The patriarchal diminishing of women and exalting of men can even be felt today, a remnant of the old myths that shape our perceptions in ways we don’t even recognize.
BUT…
Mother Earth and Father Sky don’t have to be at war with each other. The way to mastery and wisdom requires that we help them to reconcile. In the traditions of Andean shamans, Mother Earth, or Pachamama, hastens our evolution by helping us shed the past that confines us and to let go of our fears – fears of both physical death, but also the death of our preconceived notions about who we are and who we can become. Pachamama helps us become wise and to see our lives as part of a larger mythical story as we transcend the limitations of all myths, beliefs, and ideas about what is possible.
Evolution requires awakening to the self that remembers it’s all connected – us, Earth, nature and her creatures, our hearts and our heads, our energy and all the particles that make up the body we inhabit, at least for now. Evolution requires us to go beyond the brain, to take off the blinders that we inherited and have worn, unquestioningly, for too long and to open our eyes to a far broader view of who we are, who we can become, and how we can heal.
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