Feminine Moon and Masculine Sun
Out of the Oneness emerged the two primal powers: the yin and the yang. The Universe is ruled by the law of gender. It is built up from the complementary masculine and feminine energies.
Six thousand years back, there was a shift in gender relations when matriarchal cultures were overthrown and replaced by new patriarchal warrior cultures.
While our hunter-gatherer ancestors of the Ancient Darkness had always worshiped dark goddesses in the gloom of the forest, the Great Civilizations born under the scorching sun of the desert started venerating light in the form of sun gods…
The ancient worship of the sacred feminine (Moon) shifted into predominately masculine power (Sun). The older lunar religions of matriarchal cultures were replaced by patriarchal warrior solar religions.
The yin-yang polarity came to be portrayed as a ‘battle’ between light and dark, between day and night.
Light came to be seen as a symbol of life and birth and the expression of joy, happiness, cheerfulness, and positivity… = the masculine.
Darkness came to represent death, suffering, ignorance, superstition, the devil’s realm … a place to be feared and best avoided… = the feminine.
Staying forever in the light and banishing darkness has been the obsession of patriarchy.
In this 3 hour interactive talk, we will discuss:
- how patriarchy’s obsession with light has affected our collective consciousness;
- how patriarchy has seeped deep within our Psyche;
- how the transition from Oneness (yin/darkness) to Duality (yang/light) has traumatized us beyond anything we have experienced thereafter;
- what does it mean to reconcile the yin and yang. In nature, all cycles honor, contain and integrate antinomies/oppositions as each transform into the other in a continual cycle of change.
- discover the beauty of darkness and journey to the dark goddess;
- rediscover women’s spirituality after centuries of repression.