The Future is Female: Honoring Divine Feminine Energy and the Matriarchy Rising

“The divine feminine is not a concept, but a way of being, a way of breathing, a way of loving.” 

Sofia Stril-Rever 

Across cultures, eras, and spiritual traditions, the Divine Feminine has symbolized life force, intuition, embodiment, receptivity, creation, and cyclical wisdom. While modern society has largely emphasized masculine models of success and growth, many of us are sensing a collective course correction or a rebalancing of feminine and masculine energies.

Exploring ancient cultures has helped me see myself—and womanhood—in a more empowered light. What is often shamed, dismissed, or misunderstood in modern Western culture is honored, protected, or interpreted with reverence somewhere within Indigenous traditions. These ways of knowing remind us that the feminine body, psyche, and life path were never meant to be problems to solve—but sources of wisdom to listen to.

Matriarchy isn’t women on top. It’s a circle with children and the vulnerable at the center. Power flows outward, guided by the needs of those who require protection the most. With this balanced model,harm is minimized, dignity is preserved, and humanity is sustained.

It's about Energy, Not Gender

Capitalized masculine energy emphasize

• linear growth

• domination

• extraction

• control

• conquest

• productivity at all costs

• disconnection from the body.

  
  

These forces have shaped everything from our economic systems, workplaces, healthcare models, and even how we understand time. And where has that actually led us? To a civilization plagued by war, disease, violence, distraction, dysfunction and greed.

"As a man I wish I lived in a matriarchy. The patriarchy is responsible for war and slavery and so much unnecessary death and suffering. This system hurts everyone that isn't part of the favored few."

The rise of the matriarchy is not a reversal or rejection of patriarchy or a transfer of power, but a redistribution of power, and a shift to a culture that honors cycles, care, cooperation, and embodied intelligence.

Historically, matriarchal or matrilineal societies were often organized around:

• Collective wellbeing

• Elder wisdom

• Seasonal and lunar rhythms

• Shared resources

• Care for land and community

The rise of the Divine Feminine is not about centering women alone — it is about centering life itself. It is rooted in care, responsibility, and collective survival. There is a understanding of universal principles

• Cyclicality rather than linearity

• Being over constant doing

• Intuition, feeling, and inner knowing

• Receptivity, gestation, and integration

• Relationship to nature, body, and spirit

There is now a growing hunger for these values — visible in movements centered on sustainability, trauma-informed care, somatic healing, and relational leadership.

Rather than dominance, this shift emphasizes

• stewardship over extraction,

• cooperation over domination

• interdependence over hierarchy

• wisdom over speed.

For millennia, humanity lived in relationship with the Great Mother—not as a symbol, but as reality itself. The Earth was her body. The seasons were her breath. Birth and death were her sacred rhythm.The great imbalance we face today began when the Mother was pushed aside.

EarthWisdom

The average female menstrual cycle is about 28 days. The lunar cycle  is about also about 28 days.

This similarity is why many cultures historically linked menstruation with lunar phases.

Across cultures, menstruation was historically called "Moon time"

In close-knit villages, women often bled together and rested during menstruation, or around certain moon phases.

Many cycle-tracking practitioners observe two common patterns:

• Menstruation during the new moon & Ovulation during the full moon is associated with outward energy, teaching, visibility, creation

• Menstruation during the full moon and Ovulation during the new moon is associated with inward energy, intuition, healing, creativity

Neither is “better.” Both reflect different energetic orientations, and cycles.

Traditional Chinese Medicine views the female hormonal cycle as a mini seasonal journey that repeats each month. When honored, these cycles support emotional regulation, hormonal balance, and deeper self-trust.

Menstrual Phase – Winter / Water Element

This is a time for slowing down, reflection, and honoring fatigue — not pushing through it.

• Blood is released; energy turns inward

• Associated organs: Kidneys, Bladder

• Themes: rest, intuition, deep listening

Follicular Phase – Spring / Wood Element

This phase supports planning, gentle movement, and new beginnings.

• Blood and Yin rebuild

• Associated organs: Liver, Gallbladder

• Themes: renewal, creativity, vision

Ovulation – Summer / Fire Element

This is a natural time for visibility, collaboration, and outward expression.

• Peak Yang energy

• Associated organs: Heart, Small Intestine

• Themes: connection, communication, joy

Early Luteal Phase – Late Summer / Earth Element

This phase invites simplification, structure, and gentle productivitity.

• Yang energy begins to descend

• Associated organs: Spleen, Stomach, Lungs

• Themes: nourishment, containment, discernment, boundaries, completion

Late Luteal Phase - Fall / Metal Element

PMS often arises when this contracting phase is ignored or overridden. Recognizing this internal seasonal shift helps explain why energy and emotions change—and why honoring it supports smoother cycles and fewer symptoms.

• Yin energy rishing, energy turns inward and downward, and the body prepares to release. Sensitivity increases, boundaries sharpen, and there’s a natural desire to simplify, rest, and let go.

Whales, elephants are humans are the three species that menopause. These are valuable years used to provide essential care and wisdom to the next generation in order to ensure the survival of the species.

Menopausal Years - Winter / Metal Element

In Western medicine, menopause is often framed as hormonal deficiency or loss of youth. In contrast, the ancient TCM perspective sees it as essential and natural evolution, a powerful transition from Blood-based energy to Essence-based wisdom and leadership.

A woman begins to shift from constant output to internal stability and reserve- built for longevity, clarity, and inner authority.

Uncomfortable physical symptoms are viewed as imbalances between Yin and Yang — not failures of the body, but signals asking for support.

• Release of old identities and roles

• Return to inner authority and spiritual depth

In Japan, menopause is called kōnenki, meaning “renewal years.” It is understood as a chapter of prestigious expansion, wisdom, and self-possession that you arrive to. Similarly, from a Lakota worldview, menopause marks the transition into the sixth of seven life stages: becoming a Winuhcala, translated as “fully bloomed, strong, treasured female source of strength.”

The Sacred Intelligence of Darkness

Held on the eve of the Winter Solstice, Mother’s Night is an ancient celebration to mark the beginning of Yule and the hope of returning light.

It is a night devoted to remembrance: of the Mothers, of the womb, of the heart, and of the feminine wisdom that once held the world in balance.

Mother’s Night calls us inward. It reminds us that winter is a necessary phase in the blueprint of creation.

Darkness is fertile. It is where life reorganizes itself before being born again.

To honor the Mother was to respect cycles—and to understand that life thrives through cooperation rather than domination.

Matriarchy knows. The feminine knows: A rising tide lifts all boats. We all do better when we all do better.

A Return to Rhythm

The reemergence of the Divine Feminine is not a trend—it is collective medicine.

When intuition and natural cycles are honored, entire systems begin to soften and recalibrate. Workplaces become more humane. Leadership becomes more ethical. Healthcare becomes more holistic. Culture becomes more relational.

The female body itself is a living teacher, offering profound reminders we’ve long ignored: that growth requires stillness, creation requires gestation, and wisdom is shaped through seasons and cycles—not speed or force.

Women carry an extraordinary creative power. The same energy that births life is the energy that builds businesses, creates art, leads movements, and reshapes the world. You have the capacity to bring your dreams, ideas, and visions into physical reality—again and again, in many forms.

At its core, the Divine Feminine is a remembering: That we belong to the Earth, and thus care and balance are the most important virtues of all.

“In the end, matriarchy isn’t the fear. Rather, it’s the idea that women will define their own value, and their own futures, on their own terms instead of by terms men have laid out.”

Anne Helen Petersen 

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Erin is a certified feng shui consultant, energy healer, wellness coach and holistic growth strategist.

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