“Psychologically, the central point of a human personality is the place where the ancestors are reincarnated.” C.G. Jung

I believe the feminine energy in men and women comes through the embodied red thread of the motherline. This red thread is a channel created by the mitochondrial DNA passed down uniquely through the maternal lineage. Like a tuning fork it resonates through each member of the motherline connecting us viscerally and psychically. At the heart of our motherline is our clan or tribe.

This embodied resonance is the eternal soul that comes from the earth and through each generation. Matter doesn’t think, it feels. Jungian analyst, Marion Woodman spoke about the dark goddess and Black Madonna being,

“…the goddess who has chosen to hide herself in order to protect humanity from the devastating consequences of killing her.”

In the same way we have cut ourselves off from nature and are destroying it, we have cut ourselves off from our ancestors. This is catastrophic on an individual and collective level.

We cannot hope to make a better world for our children if the traumas of the past are still rippling through each generation individually and collectively. We need to do the inner work of re-aligning and reconnecting with our ancients, re-igniting the spark of belonging in our cells.

I believe that the time has come and the feminine is rising through our motherlines – it is urgent that we heal the traumas held there and clear the channels so we can help the sacred feminine to emerge through us. This is not just a personal journey to heal ourselves but a collective and ecological necessity.

Western women have been fighting since the sixties to reclaim child-birth. We are now beginning to take back the language, the definition and the experience of menopause. Now is the time to remember that we hold the ancestral line, the clan in our DNA. This is our birthright, an aspect of the feminine that has been so expropriated that we don’t even realize it is the very essence of the feminine.

Elinor W. Gadon, an American cultural historian said,

“... there is a growing awareness that we are doomed as a species and planet unless we have a radical change of consciousness. The re-emergence of the Goddess is becoming the symbol and metaphor for this transformation of culture. With the return of the Goddess, the new power of the feminine is being expressed in all areas of life.”