The Sovereign
Monika Carless is an internationally published author, Certified Holistic
Divine Feminine
Nutritionist, Reiki and Luminous
Energy Field Practitioner, mentoring
RISES AGAIN
clients worldwide. She is a practicing witch, an EarthKeeper/WombKeeper - channeling the Pleiadian Being,
Aiden. Monika facilitates transformation in private and group sessions, specializing in soul wounds, the
mindful life and fearless authenticity. Connect with her via monikacarless.
By Monika Carless
Let us imagine something more
com, FB or Instagram.
can easily see that everything in na-
empowering for the Divine Feminine
ture operates through seasons. Noth-
turies by patriarchal forces.
life, death and re-birth mysteries. I
than having been banished for cenShe, the archetype and the wild, holy energy, has been activating in our
Western consciousness since the
heady days of the 1960’s. While we’ve been awakening to her call and recog-
nizing her signature within our DNA, the general assumption has been that the
Divine Feminine had been sent into the wilderness by the immature masculine
in the form of patriarchy - much like the demoness Lilith.
But what if she had receded to a time
of solitude and restoration of her own will? What if there was purpose and intention to her absence?
This is exactly the hypothesis of
Demetra George, as explained in her book “Mysteries of the Dark Moon.”
It all has to do with the cycles of the Maiden, Mother and Crone Moon.
If we observe the Great Mother, we
forward. Their dance is eternal.
Demetra and other students of the
ing and no one can escape the birth,
Dark Goddess surmise that the Divine
look to the moon each month to learn
new soil for us to grow in, while she
of my own psyche, womanhood and
against her will but has simply kept to
about myself, to recognize the phases sexuality. I follow the rise and fall of light and dark. We are creatures of cosmic illumination and shadow.
In its dark phase, Luna urges us to
Feminine has simply been building slept. She hasn’t been banished her sacred cycles.
Everything is written in the stars: the rise and fall of civilizations, thought paradigms, the lessons we are to
contemplation, to surrender… to
learn. Not only does each month have
sacred pause, the Crone beckons us
year (between Autumn Equinox and
us that to be in constant motion,
Divine Feminine.
decompose. While the moon is in its to lie down and rest. She reminds
achievement and aspiration is to be against our very nature. And so, she pulls the dark veil over her head and
disappears into the nether regions of the cosmos.
She is absent. She is the dark sky. She makes room for the mature
masculine to carry the Consciousness
its dark moon phase, so does each Winter Solstice), and so does the
That patriarchy has flourished in Her surrender to her own process has been painful and yet revelatory. It
would seem that She was destroyed, wounded beyond healing. But She
rises, as she always has, sometimes the maiden, sometimes the mother,
sometimes the crone. She teaches us to be sovereign, intentional and wild.
I look to the moon each month to learn about myself, to recognize the phases of my own psyche, womanhood and sexuality 30
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