Sacred Feminine
“Sacred feminine” tells of my experience of shamanic initiation with a group of women led by the shaman and anthropologist Morena Luciani Russo. Together we explored the energies of the feminine, activating the intuitive and sensitive part of the subtle energies. And we retraced the symbols and meanings contained in the ancient European tradition of the cult of the Great Mothers: a culture brought to light by the research of Marija Gimbutas between the 1960s and 1980s. With the publication of ‘The Language of the Goddess’, she showed that the culture of ancient Europe had much deeper roots than the Indo-European culture we are accustomed to believe in, going back to what scientists call prehistory. A culture of men and women who lived according to a principle of non-separation from nature, from which they learned laws and teachings.
The research showed that there was a real symbolic language linked to the sacred and that the concept of the sacred was to be understood in the daily rituals of relating to nature, in the celebration of its cycles, in which life, death and regeneration were an integral part of the natural process of life.
Through this ecstatic and intellectual research I discovered that the symbols of this ancient culture are still present in our society today, and how their meanings have been changed or even overturned by the dominant culture over the centuries.
If before the life force was expressed by the pregnant female body united with nature, in which the forces of the feminine were united with those of the masculine, afterwards there was a separation: of the feminine from the masculine, of man from nature, of the sacred from the profane, and finally of nature from the divine.
The rediscovery of the ancient meaning of symbols makes us aware of the existence of an “other” past, expressed by an egalitarian, peaceful society strongly connected to nature, from which we can draw in order to reformulate a cultural paradigm that once again “holds together” and rebalances the feminine and masculine, understood as complementary forces.
Rediscovering the sacred feminine means returning to the value of intuition, care and respect for time in natural processes. It means reconnecting with those shamanic energies that bring us back to living life in an ecological way, in a sacred and everyday dimension, allowing us to re-establish a conscious relationship with nature and enabling us to embark on a path of individual and collective healing.
