“Look at me…typing away on my machine while the world is burning down around me…” says those nay-saying thoughts in my head day in and day out.
A decade ago, I was on the front lines of everything.
Risking arrest, sitting in organizing meetings, engaging (and enraging) people with carefully worded Facebook statuses. I was IN IT. I was out to save the world.
Flash forward to today: I’m a single mom of a toddler. Risking arrest can’t be on my agenda. Organizing meetings aren’t on the agenda when I’ve got to get a little one in bed by 8 p.m. And I’m thoroughly DONE with the FB pings, and trying to “educate” problematic responders to my posts.
But with the state of things right now, I have felt pretty f***in’ useless.
I brought my thoughts to my altar, and lamented to my Goddesses. “What am I doing? What am I doing? WHAT CAN I BE DOING?”
I swear, I could hear them reply with an exasperated sigh and a bit of humming Tina Turner’s “We Don’t Need Another Hero.” My messages from the Divine usually comes through pop songs getting stuck in my head, randomly.
In recent days, while I try to figure out my role in all of this (*gesturing wildly*), and hearing others in my classes lament the same thing, I realized something important.
Goddess work IS resistance.
Building a relationship with a Goddess includes:
- Unpacking ego and developing self-actualization
- Without dogma, we are left with the liberating—and terrifying—opportunity to think and decide for ourselves
- Goddesses are built of nuance, not Right and Wrong, reminding us to approach situations and conflict thoughtfully.
- We can seek progress, not perfection—by looking at the myths we realize that even Goddesses are imperfect beings, vulnerable to errors in judgement and action, but also with the ability to correct their mistakes.
- We are NOT inherently evil, but instead are wonderfully human.
Remembering these things, and living through them, we resist patriarchal rhetoric designed to scare, control, and force us into boxes.
A Goddess-centered path is not an easy one, but walking it is itself resistance.
Of course, there is so much other work that needs to be done. But while we’re waiting on our next assignment (whether that means locking arms on the front lines of the protest or, equally as important, calling out the racist uncle at the family BBQ), we can build our relationships with our Goddesses and remember that is also resistance. POWERFUL resistance.
You’ve got this. We all do.
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