Patriarchy & Your Vagina with Sanaa Green

This Podcast Serves Divine Feminine Soulfood! On This Episode: How priestess spirituality informs patriarchy Last month I created a short video sharing my thoughts on the Supreme Court reversal of the Roe Vs. Wade law. All of a sudden, I saw the correlation between the Yoni and the power that feeds the patriarchy.  Today I want to explain the correlations. In the video, I was trying to be brief so the details were left out. I have read several books that talked about the fall of female led spiritual communities, but did not make the connection until I intuitively recalled the sacred connections available through my vagina. While reading When God Was a Woman by Merlin Stone, I couldn’t completely relate the magnitude of what happened to women in the past because I was still wedded to Christian thought. I didn’t see myself practicing some “pagan religion”. Such was my indoctrination into the colonial system in which I was acculturated. The reality is, the Bible is a recount of the desecration of female led religions. Why is this important? According to Mama Zogbe in her book Mami Wata: Africa's Ancient God/dess Unveiled Vol. I Aryans and priests of Amon wanted a share of the lucrative trade routes established under the matriarchal temples in Egypt, Ethiopia and Libya. After the invasion of Amon, more invasions came by the Assyrians, then the Greeks, later the Persians, Turks and Romans. The invasion included raping the priestesses. When women are defiled, it impacts not only women, but the community. That’s why this tactic was used and continues to be used in modern warfare. What would later become the patriarchy, learned that certain priestess, used intimate sacred practices for multiple reasons, not just birth. Marguite Mary Rigoglioso, PH.D in her book; The Mystery Tradition of Miraculous Conception: Mary and the Lineage of Virgin Births, she posits that Mary, the mother of Jesus, was a priestess from a long line of priestesses who practiced virgin births. Eventually, priests infused themselves into these sacred practices taking control of not only the trade routes, but women’s ability to choose to give birth or not. It became men who lead the priestesses and the men wanted to control the businesses and the transfer of property. In ancient times, property was passed from mother to child. Men of this time wanted to change that. Later women were devoid of knowledge of the powerful priestesses they once were and became servants to the colonial patriarchal system. Women were told that the miraculous event of giving birth was meant as a painful punishment. Or that the only functions of a vagina are to have children or to have sex.  Even if you don’t have sex with men, what we have come to believe is that what we can experience through our vaginas has been limited to purposes that serve the patriarchy.  Either way, we have been taught to see our vagina for a very narrowly focused purpose, centered on the desires of the patriarchy. Now the country is in the process of a spiritual awakening and women and others who have been oppressed under this system are waking up to our true divine nature. This is one of the key reasons a woman’s right to chose has been called into question. Whether you are Pro-Life or Pro-Choice, your right to control your body has been limited by this Supreme Court decision.