Silence helps to access something deeper that is trying to be heard, and we cannot hear Her if we are always filling the silence with our own words. So, I withdrew for a while. And in that time of withdrawal I listened, let go and grieved.

Your rage is not the enemy. Patriarchy is. Your rage is not ugly. The consequences of patriarchy are. Your rage is not dangerous. Patriarchy is the true killer of humankind. And it is quite possible your rage can save us.

The word virgin, so often misunderstood, does not mean physical purity or the narrow ideal so prized by patriarchal thinking. The Maiden’s virginity speaks to sovereignty. To independence. To being wholly one’s own. No one rules Her.