Sarah Jenks
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard Jan 2025
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As women, we have been trained to always be judging ourselves off of the other people in the room, in the community, in our family. Historically, this is what has kept us safe because if we did rock the boat, we didn't have rights to protect our livelihood.
It's very normal to be afraid of outshining someone or making somebody mad because we just got the right to have our own credit card in like, what was it, 1974? If we did rock the boat, we could be kicked out of our marriage and not have any rights to be able to support ourselves. The first question to ask is, am I walking my path or am I walking somebody else's path?
Am I constantly trying to avoid upsetting my male partner? Am I constantly worried about outshining my friends? Any time we are judging ourselves off of what other people are going to think of us,
It's such a joy.
Yeah. So most of us, if we grew up with any sort of organized religion, we know the sacred masculine really well. And some of us know the toxic masculine pretty well also. And I was raised in the Christian faith. I come from a very traditional New England background. preppy family.
And what happened for me was I got really interested in spirituality, but it was like Eastern spirituality, transcendental meditation. It still didn't feel feminine, but I didn't even know to look for it really. And what happened for me was I actually was going to therapy and I stumbled into my therapist's living room and she had forgotten to clean up from a ceremony the night before.
And I had this full body cramp. I erupted in goosebumps all over my body. I started to cry. And she just looked at me like, what is happening to her? Because I'm in a polo shirt and pearls and patent leather pumps. You know, I'm in like full normie mode at this point in my life. And I just looked at her and I said, what's happening here? And she said, well, I'll tell you when you're ready.
And I was like, I want in on the secret club big time.
And I just remember having this experience of this energy of a mother figure that I couldn't see, but I could feel in the room. And I had this experience of, oh. This is what God is supposed to feel like. This is what I want to feel when I connect with the sacred. This is what I've been looking for on my quest in personal development and in meditation and going to workshops.
I found it in this sacred feminine ceremony. And I wanted to really understand why wasn't everyone doing this? And why did I all of a sudden feel like I couldn't tell anybody what I was doing? So if we think about the sacred masculine, like from a traditional Christian perspective, we have been taught that he's a father God in the sky. And we all have men in our lives.
And if we just think about the most loving grandfather figure, we can sort of feel the sacred masculine figure. feeling. And if we also feel this unconditional love from a grandmother or a mother figure, we can all sort of feel that energy in our bodies, but we didn't grow up knowing that that energy is also divine and it's something we can lean on.
And I really went down the rabbit hole of the sacred feminine because what happened for me was at the time, I was feeling super anxious. I was feeling super lost. I was a new mom. And I was really trying so hard to understand why was it that I was going to therapy every week. I was in the personal development industry. I was going to Tony Robbins and all these personal development workshops.
Why was it that I just spent... you know 90 minutes in a ceremony and had the same level of transformation that i had had in all the years before combined and i wanted to understand the impact of that and i also wanted to understand why wasn't everybody doing this And I went deep into sacred feminine learning around the cycles.
So the sacred feminine is also reflected in the seasons of the earth and in the cycles of the moon, which are also reflected in our menstrual cycle. And we can use that cycle to track our transformation. We also see the cycle in the tarot and in the elements and in the cycles of life. And it's actually this whole map and language and the same cycle that
is overlaid in the zodiac and everything we know from astrology. It's all actually the same, and you can see it across cultures all over the world from a super ancient perspective, and they weren't even talking to each other at the time. So I went and dug into the history of the sacred feminine and realized that this was the primary way that humans worshipped for actually 97%.
what we have documented as the history of humans communing with the divine. And it's only been in the past 1500 years, which is really just like 3% of the history of humans having a religion that we don't have the sacred feminine at the center of our spiritual practice. And I was like, what the fuck?
So I define it as really, I define it as range and cycles and creation. So if the sacred masculine is like a container, The sacred feminine is the creation or the energy that happens inside of that container. If the sacred masculine is linear, point A to point B directional, the sacred feminine is a spiral.
Yeah.
So I think the thing that's super important to understand is that If you go back to like 30,000 BC, some of the first archaeological finds that people have found are actually pictures of a feminine God. You see this in the Venus of Willendorf, which is if anyone Googles it, you'll probably recognize it. And all of the temples were often shaped like women's bodies.
And you walked in through a yoni portal into the temple. So our bodies were a reflection of the divine from 30,000 BC. And then in different regions all over the world, the sacred feminine started to be villainized and erased because when you're in a matriarchy, It's about balance. It's about care for all.
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