a bizarre brand of patriarchy: persephone’s zodiac part 3

It’s a truism to say that the plight of the Goddess tracks in many ways with the plight of women in society. In order to allow the Goddess to return, it is helpful to get a grasp on how we got to where we are and why.

Of course the Goddess never left, we just lost the will to attune to Her, and we largely fear Her and the natural world, much to our demise.

The Goddess lives in our individual psyche, She is our animal instinct personified.

We cannot know the Goddess except as individuals. There will never be a collective awakening to Her nor can we be “saved”- rather, salvation to the Goddess is true immersion into this world as a conscious being.

This type of sociological analysis is only useful for the purpose of deconditioning ourselves and establishing a context- essentially to help us recognize the fishbowl of our own unconscious creation that makes us fear Her and despise our own animal nature.

Nothing can replace individual experience of the Goddess. We do not find the Goddess by swimming with the school of fish, nor by running with the herd. These are pathological manifestations of Goddess consciousness, they are ways to recreate the unconscious fishbowl.

As we begin to speak of patriarchy, we must first realize that the Goddess loves strong masculine men.

The Goddess works through polarity. The astrological planetary archetype, Venus, is polarized and opposed to Mars. This leads to passion and reproduction. This is a generative conflict. Hatred for strong masculine men is antithetical to the instincts of the Goddess in Her fertile aspect.

In Her destructive aspect, She consorts with Saturn. That’s a different story. She may “hate” Mars in this aspect, until she’s ready for him again.

And that’s OK.

The demonization of patriarchy has been accepted and dogmatically repeated ad nauseum by culture warriors in the feminist movement for many years. At its core, feminism was a natural and necessary response to institutional exploitation and injustice.

This type of dialectical materialist analysis only goes so far, though. Remember Venus and Mars…

The institutional exclusion (essentially apartheid) of women from public life and the relegation of women to the status of property is a historical fact, although this analysis can easily allow us to dismiss individual experiences that don’t jibe with our useful generalizations.

Religious monism has also been the rightful target of ire from these same feminist critics over the decades. Exclusion of women from public spiritual life had been an issue, historically, going back to the rise of Abrahamic religions.

The feminist critiques of religious monism were often based on exclusionary practices, much like feminist critiques of military service. Exclusion from degenerate and corrupt institutions like the Catholic Church is wrong, on principle, but the institutions remain degenerate and corrupt no matter who they use as their face to the world. Inclusion of people with different identities seldom leads to actual reform of the institutions.

This criticism based on exclusion may be misplaced and disingenuous posturing that plays into the interests of the institutions themselves, who then have an excuse to purge the senior employees or representatives in the name of “social justice”.

The Church, however, will not likely open up to women for reasons we will get into as this story unfolds.

The larger concept of secular monism seems to get a pass in these feminist critiques, probably because most contemporary feminists have accepted a leftist and materialist ideology. Leftism and materialism are ultimately monist ideologies.

The line between necessary critical sociological analyses and veiled victim mentality is always very fine.

Patriarchy has been a straw man for too long. Railing against it has not achieved much more than a change of seating assignments on the Titanic.

Here, I hope to lay down a more useful context than what has previously been available.

The patriarchal structures we have inherited have come some distance from their roots, but the roots remain intact and are still mostly hidden from us.

The practice of treating women as chattel is waning in the Western world, although (as if on cue) the adoption of open borders and Diversity, Equity and Inclusion policies in the West have opened the door to mass immigration of people from Islamic countries. Many adherents of the Fundamentalist Islam treat women far worse than anything that ever happened in the West. DEI makes criticism of foreign cultures into a criminal offense, tantamount to Nazism.

And, in a blink of the eye, the West suddenly is dealing with misogyny not seen since the Dark Ages.

The theatrical dying gasps of monist patriarchy in the West have been subverted and life support has been administered, all due to liberal policies that  aim to promote tolerance. Should we be surprised?

This is a bizarre part of a more bizarre story spanning thousands of years.