As carriers of ancient feminine wisdom,we have been chosen to be here at this very challenging time.
When I was first called to serve the Sacred Feminine in 2001, I could not have imagined how rapidly the old paradigms based upon domination, greed and power would come tumbling down all around us and how much trauma they would inflict upon the Earth and upon the heart of humanity as they fought to retain power. This is the moment in which we live.
As patriarchy crumbles, I see something amazing coming into focus: a complex and beautiful pattern of feminine wisdom growing each day as women connect and weave and remember and dream and pray together.
I see how our service at this time is deeply nurtured and brilliantly guided by a spiritual force larger than us all. Women who call upon the Divine using many different names and who represent many diverse spiritual traditions are waking up to their true wisdom and power, united by their vision of a better world.
Ours is not the old ‘power over’ model of leadership but one that relies on compassion, intuition, inclusion, interdependence, mutuality and collaboration guided by Spirit. Most importantly, our divine assignment is to use those strategies in service of our beautiful Earth and for the good of all life.
“When order crumbles, mystery arises.” — John Shea, Stories of God
“When order crumbles, mystery arises.”
— John Shea, Stories of God
As carriers of ancient feminine wisdom, we have been chosen to be here at this very challenging time. We are being called upon to simultaneously hospice all that is dying on this planet and midwife all that is being born. In this magnified moment of endings and beginnings, the Sacred Feminine is calling each of us to rise up and BE something bigger than we have ever been.
Over the many years I have been doing this work, I have seen so many wonderful women struggle to know their own worth, to acknowledge the miracle of their own incredible gifts. I have witnessed a thousand different ways that women deny themselves the gift of grace.
It is essential now to let go of all the stories written in our bones that keep us small. Some of these are family of origin stories; some of these are stories of wounds inflicted by other women; and some of these are stories of ancestral trauma so cruel that it is tattooed on our souls. Such stories have kept us frozen in fear and riddled with self-doubt.
If the feminine is going to rise up and be what the world needs right now, it requires each of us individually to do the rising. We each need to lean into self-love so hard that we remember what we came here to do. And we need to trust the voice of our inner wisdom to tell us how to do it. There is no doubt anymore about the urgency; we need to make the radical choice of reclaiming grace now.
Only then can we stand in our own spiritual authority and be guided by Spirit how to serve at this time with exquisite perfection. Only then can we re-dedicate ourselves to our true calling. Only then can we restore balance to our planet by restoring the Sacred Feminine wherever she has been silenced and burned, buried and erased. — Kathe Schaaf
Kathe Schaaf’s leadership of Women of Spirit and Faith is so effective because she embodies and balances the Sacred Feminine and the Sacred Masculine. She listens deeply to her inner voice and is receptive to any messages she receives from Source. Then she is capable of bringing that creative force into form without ego and/or an agenda. She skillfully manifests what is needed. Her dedication and commitment to healing and strengthening the Divine Feminine in our culture today is admirable. Witnessing her support of women’s Truth and her ability to cultivate confidence in women of all ages has been a great privilege for me over the eleven years of our connection.
— Virginia Matthews
