Women’s Circle

"Before Eve, there was Lilith. She was made from God. Breathing, pulsing, alive. Not beneath Adam. Not behind him. Beside him. And when she refused to submit to something that dishonored her truth, she was not met. She was cast out. Rewritten as dangerous. Demonized. Distorted into something to control and something women should never become. 

Lilith was never the problem. She was the part of the feminine that will not abandon herself to be chosen. So another woman was created. Eve. Soft, open, devoted, able to love, able to relate but separated from her eros. And this is where the distortion began. Men were never fulfilled by submission without soul. They feel it when a woman disconnects from her body to keep the peace. They love Eve, her warmth, her openness, her devotion. But they crave Lilith: her truth, her edge, her eros. They don’t want one. They want both. 

But she was split. Be desired OR be real. Be soft OR be sovereign. Be the woman who is loved OR the woman who is free. Never both.

And this is how the Garden of Eden was lost. Not because of sin, but because of separation. Wholeness was fractured. Truth could no longer move freely through the feminine body. And WE are living the consequences of that split now. In our bodies. In our relationships. In a world at war with itself. Because when the feminine is divided at the root, humanity is divided at the root. We must become the place where Lilith and Eve meet, where truth speaks through the body.

This is the return of the feminine into the body: the reunion of innocence and eros. Where nothing inside you is exiled."

— Shona Keeli Rose, @theroselineage