Margot’s Reviews > Jailbreaking the Goddess: A Radical Revisioning of Feminist Spirituality > Status Update

Well, this is a how to book. How to be an accomplished woman of the Goddess... I've finally, after 8 pages of learning that this will change my life and make me great, found some information on how. I'm supposed to Journal... Is this from Ira Progoff? I haven't done his book in ages...

Anyway, the 5 faces I'm to work with are rather simplistic... but I'll keep reading. Maybe I'll learn more.

The latest ch., Ritual Elements and Templates, simply goes through how rituals can, generally, be handled. I like the idea of contracts with goddesses and deities. Although, I haven't been allowed to make these, in the past, when I've been called to service. Which has lead to sadistic problems. I, myself do not feel called to respond to those who cross my boundaries in their quest for power.

Now, I'm reading about the magic that has been lost by the lack of transfer from generation to generation. This is so true! Women have not been trusted and valued so they neglected to pass their magic to their children. We need to look to our elders and find what they still hold.

I'm finally reading about an ability that I've learned a great deal about through how other people have acted around me. Spirit possession is something I've been experiencing in a variety of ways. I would definitely like to know more about it. Also, the fact that there are so many ways to connect with the Goddesses in literature and life. My experiences are not unique and I need to learn more about them.

Antigua... the aging female. There are many scary stories of older women waiting for children and scaring them... Yet, it's a fearful time when a woman becomes forgetful and loses power that she had obtained as she demonstrated her wisdom. In these times, many old people are put in homes because it's hard to insure that they have the proper care at home. They need to be with people... not alone.

Okay, the ch. on Sapiens, to me, feels more like an appropriate place for trans issues... Here is where women/ trans people identifying with the feminine can become adults... People who focus on their work as a way of presenting themselves to the world rather than as mothers... Only, to me, it needs to include the feminine approach to science and math rather just a male approach.. Lastly, it means being developed

This chapter, again, makes motherhood less important by insisting that women need not be mothers as the highest form of becoming a woman... Motherhood takes 9 months... It's a definite transition period. Yet, women can be adults without being mothers. Other animals can't seem to do this. Thus, we have heifers vs. mothers in herd animals. The issue of creatrix needs more thought than has been allowed in this ch.

I'm on the Ch. on Creatrix. Having been in a war where I clearly identified with Durga, I feel very torn. I'm a teacher, first. Nurturing children and giving them the roots to become strong, intellectually, and move into life realizing that education is the key to a better life. Yet, I lived a bizarre war where I was fighting to continue creating and enjoying the fruits of my labor... My anger kept me struggling

Ch, 4 on Potens.... Sexual issues in the Goddess tradition... Whatever your need and belief system, you can stay a virgin or, you can become a temple prostitute. Your needs, your desires, your sense of morality regarding sex. Only, remember, sex isn't considered dirty, it's just another manner of of honoring the Goddess....

I am reminded that Laura Ingles Wilder wrote about the childhood represented in this book, in "Little House in the Big Woods"... It's not that unique for American girls to have such a childhood.