The world is a living organism that is continually cycling through rebirth, growth, mass destruction, and reinvention. Life forms rise and fall due to cataclysmic events.
Major innovations, discoveries and advancements are lost forever and changes are not always for the better.
People, individually, are insignificant and it is questionable how integral a life form may be in the grand scheme of things. Perhaps the only reason we have the ability to reason and create is to create a reason to continue existing until such time as we will not, as a race.
It is a natural function of any life form to perpetuate its own survival and as humans are the weakest of all living things, our ability to reason is the only thing that enables us to survive. This means that as a natural consequence we have the ability to decide, collectively that there is no point at all.
Going back to the idea of rebirth and recreation, and marrying it with the notion that we need to have something greater than ourselves to believe in, we create the notion of divinity.
Long, long ago humans devised the theory of a single divine creator. As long as ancient logic can determine, it was a single earth mother type of deal that birthed all existence out of a void, often depicted as her womb. Matricentric (a word that spell check wants to reject, and with little wonder) society was strong in many ways but not equipped to withstand force. Their sole military arm was in the form of the Amazons and there is question as to whether or not they were what they are professed to be anyway.
When greed and thirst for power arose the female communal norms could not stand up against the rise of a patriarchal, war-based system of power. To cement its dominance, the first order of business was to destroy what they could and to vilify and subjugate what they could not obliterate.
Naturally, to remove the woman from a role of strength and leadership it was necessary to destroy her. The idea of the Goddess was intolerable. The Greeks could not erase all traces of her from power so they change the order of existence. They re-wrote history, transforming the more powerful ones, like Hera into evil, jealous shrews and others into weak, proud,and vain creatures who lived for self-satisfaction.
Even amongst the male gods not all were equal. Struggle and strive, quest for supremacy became normal and divine.
But here is another theory. Perhaps the matriarchal pagan system was also predated by a monolithic, female centric one. There is no way to tell. It was too long ago. Still, there is ample evidence to suggest that the female deities who predate the Titans and Olympians where really splintered off from just one female form.
Is it not systemic of a patriarchal society to state that woman cannot be all things? She cannot be strong, just, nurturing, self-sufficient, wise, sensual, creative, determined, and engineering, all in one! For a patriarchal society to gain any sort of legitimacy they had to prove that no one woman could be strong enough to replace an army of men, nor that it took an army to replace her.
Though Zeus birthed without a female counterpart this never indicated that he could do without women. He, the greatest of all the gods, was lustful, jealous, and punitive. His female counterparts were all his weaker.
Some say that the dawn of a new era is at hand. They predict that the 2012 winter solstice will herald the rebirth of the divine feminine. Others cite a quickening of the planetary pulse as impetus for cataclysmic change that will reshape life as we know it. Many will not survive and we are powerless to change is, just as pre-Hellenic society could not stop the onslaught of change that would last tens of thousands of years. Just as the dinosaurs and 70% of aquatic life forms did not survive that massive meteoric assault. It is impossible to assume that change is not upon us. But what is there to do about it?
Only one thing. You cannot change what is not within your grasp. So do that. Grasp those you love and love them. Be grateful for every millisecond that you have with those whom you love and who love you unconditionally. That is all you have. Breathe them in and hold those moments in your minds' eyes. When you touch them - when they touch you, think only of them and forget everything else.
Do you believe in the power of positive energy? Forget all that. Live only in the power of that moment. That energy. That energy is the only thing that matters. It has no polarity. No gender. No self-awareness. It just is. It is life's force and the only thing that unites all living things as existing and the only legitimate reason to fight for anything.
