Reclaiming the Feminine
Shadow Projections, Hyper-Rationality, and the Collapse of Civilization
If I look back towards my childhood me I never felt like a boy in any traditional sense. I never wanted to be some muscular figure. I liked my arms and body as it was and is now. We all have our own unique way to relate to ourselves I feel. I for one belief in reincarnation, and past lives. And I feel that I have been female in very many lives before this. Even the previous one before this. So I just don't feel connected to the whole male thing in the same way. That is just how I make sense of it anyways.
I also feel that what we feel is feminine or masculine is very soul specific. Should not be based on cultural stuff. That is often so distorted. For me feminine is like Artemis as fierce She-bear and Hecate and Freyja, or Feronia who throws thunder at those trying to mess with her trees. Traits of strength, fierceness, and nurturing are all part of this.
This is how I relate to femininity. Of course they are nurturing too. Like Feronia is too. But for me it is not reduced to just that. That is just how I relate to this.
And for me masculinity can be both logical and order oriented, but also wild, primal and chaos creating. But I feel they often project that onto the feminine. Their own shadow. Much like how the Apollonian people do onto the Dionysian. It creates a false binary. It is like the ego projects it's own shadow onto the feminine. Thus distorting it in the culture and creating a false dichotomy that does not exist and is an illusion. They are really seeing their own shadow there. It is a form of shadow projection and how Perera would say scapegoating. Pushing the shadow of society onto the feminine and women. As if they carry these bad things, and have to adhere to these rigid things society claims to be feminine.
Which for me this sounds like people playing Ra or some deity, as if they are the creator, and they determine how it ought to be. Reminds me of Kronos too.
In the age when Kronos reigned as the mighty ruler of the Cosmos, the world thrived under his dominion. Kronos, a Titan of immense power, held control over the heavens and the earth, governing with knowledge and order. The cosmos flourished under his watchful gaze, as he tried to control things to ensure harmony prevailed. Kronos, with his vast knowledge and commanding presence, was the embodiment of the second kingdom, representing the state of division and control. He upheld the principles of structure and discipline, fostering a realm where everything had its place and purpose, as he commanded it to be. Being very meticulous about how everything is to be and behave. Yet, there was a darkness within Kronos, a fear that gnawed at him.
It starts out as a need for order, and rationality, and it becomes increasingly hyper-rationality, till it becomes a spiral of control and purity and structure, everything has to meticulously be this or that way. Behave that way, look that way, etc. There is really something missing regarding the fact that everything is so clinical and cookie cutter, sameness in the medical view. Where every person is actually unique, with their ranges of human experience. It is like we all need to be genetically a certain way with our bodies, and how we are, instead of our genetics and natural expression of our soul being able to express itself naturally. Which is Hyper-Rationality becoming Solar Madness.
Though as I figured out Hyper-rationality creates chaos and destruction. They are thus two sides of the same coin. Which is how I figured how Kronos and the titans are both hyper-rationality and primal chaos. That being the duality of the masculine. Where the female titans, where just generally with Gaia like, yeah nope, we ain't having that. That is how civilisation actually ends up destroying itself. Civilizations that become overly focused on rationality and control faces a rigidity that stifles creativity, adaptability, and humane values. This can lead to systemic failures as societies become less and less capable of responding to complex, dynamic challenges. Hyper-rationality thus can create overly complex and brittle systems that are vulnerable to collapse when faced with unexpected problems or disruptions. This fragility can result in a cascade of failures that undermine the entire structure of civilization.
The exploitation and domination of nature, justified by hyper-rational ideologies, leads to environmental collapse. Civilizations that disregard the health of their natural environment will face resource depletion and ecological crises. Though that gets projected onto the feminine and the snake that is sent in ego-bound chaos myths. Oh no the feminine and nature is barren and withholds the fertility. How could she do that. Not understanding that it is the Sovereignty Goddess going like:
The Sovereignty Goddess, witnessed this transgression with sorrowful eyes. In response, she invoked the ancient serpent. The serpent slithered through the cosmic realms, stealthily approaching the pastures where the sacred Cattle grazed. In a swift and covert move, the serpent stole the Cattle, spiriting them away from the mortal realm. The once-lush pastures now lay barren, due to neglecting the sacred bond between gods and mortals. As she keeps the balance of life and death.
Or in Jungian terms they neglected the connection to nature and the unconscious. The connection to the soul. The Goddess in myth actually gives souls, and created humanity. She dwells within the woods, as a half-tree, half-woman entity credited with giving birth to humanity. That are our ancient myths. Before all this egoic stuff. As civilizations face collapse, there is often a crisis of meaning and values as well. A lack of community and inclusive social order that creates belonging. Which falls under the domain of the Sovereignty Goddess, and thus the feminine.