The Witch Hunts + The Inner Punisher
The thread that weaves through us as Women is engrained in all that we experienced within the Witch Hunts.
Whether you believe in past lives or have an understanding around how trauma is past down from womb to womb, woman to woman.
Our fracturing from Body & Earth was birthed through the Witch Hunts.
The Vilifying of Earths Medicines as that of the Devils work.
That a Woman fully expressed and in Her Body being deemed as a carnal sin.
When everything that makes a Woman innately WOMAN is deemed punishable by death of course this becomes embedded in the psyche of all Women.
It was, and still is in many parts of the world dangerous to be Woman.
By definition Woman is:
Connected to the Earth
A cyclical being
Deeply connected to her body
Sensual as part of her innate nature
Expressive
Connected to her emotions
In tune with those around her
Powerful
Wise
Wild
When we step on to the path of Awakening, we are actually stepping onto the Path of Remembering.
Coming into Remembrance of all we have lost touch with through our disconnect of the Divinity that lives WITHIN the female form.
When this entrenched fear of punishment has lived within the psyche for hundreds of years (+ longer if we take into account Patriachal religions) it's not hard to see why Women are so hard on themselves, that a Womans innate expression meant they could be burnt at the stake or drowned created a deep fracture within the blueprint of all women that lives on today.
The Inner Punisher was born through the collective psyche for all that it means to be a living, breathing, embodied, expressed woman.
It manifested outwardly to others also in the following ways:
The Sister Wound
Gossiping about other women
Catty-ness towards other Women.
We wound and get defensive around other women, because we hold this wound within ourselves.
So not only is this work powerful for our own relationship with ourselves but also within our Collective + our connections to other humans but in particular, it's so deeply potent in this instance with other women.
This is a deep and tender spot to meet within our individual + collective psyche and when we allow ourselves to meet it with devotion to Alchemy, we create space for a new narrative to be born through us and for us and our daughters and granddaughters.