The Blessed Eve
The Blessed Eve
While we honor Goddess in all of Her cultural diversity, it is first and foremost to Eve of the bible that our Temple is dedicated. Although Eve is not a considered a Goddess, she does however, symbolize the instinctive and divine feminine wisdom as well as the courage to dare to be our truest self. Through developing a strong spiritual sisterhood through Sister Spirit Sanctuary A Temple of the Sacred Feminine we believe that as we gather as women, encouraging and supporting one another we can do this.
The myth of Eve and her consort Adam in the Garden of Eden is one many of us know. Eve was punished through childbirth; it is, according to the myth, the reason it is excruciatingly painful. This is the most common accepted interpretation of this biblical myth. It is this misconstrued belief that has justified the horrors of abuse, rape and other violent crimes including murder that women have endured worldwide for centuries and continue to endure. Women have been forced to accept the limited roles given to them by the patriarchal society we live in but Women of Goddess are taking that power back!
Through Eve, we are reclaiming our birthright as women and rejecting the lies that are told about her. We reject the lies and the religions that propagate the idea that Eve or woman is the cause of the so called "original sin". Through Eve, our Spiritual Mother, we are rejecting the lies and taking back our birthright. We are honoring our bodies, honoring our "moon flow" (menses) as the sacred blood of life. Not as something "dirty" or "shameful" but as a natural, powerful process of a woman's life. We are embracing and honoring women's mysteries as they are uniquely ours as natural born women. We are in fact reclaiming our birthright as divine feminine beings.
Joseph Campbell on the mythology of Eve
"Woman brings life into the world. Eve is the mother of this temporal world. Formerly you had a dreamtime paradise there in the Garden of Eden – no time, no birth, no death – no life. The serpent, who dies and is resurrected, shedding its skin and renewing its life, is the lord of the central tree, where time and eternity come together. He is the primary god, actually, in the Garden… The Garden is the serpent's place. It's an old, old story, we have Sumerian seals from as early as 3500 B.C. showing the serpent and the tree and the goddess, with the goddess giving the fruit of life to a visiting male. The old mythology of the goddess is right here."~ Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth
Thousands of years before the advent of Christianity and other patriarchal religions, the Serpent and tree of knowledge have been recognized as a symbol of wisdom by the ancients. As Goddess women who are reclaiming the story of Eve, we reach beyond the imposed realm of knowledge (accepting these ideas of femininity given to us to us by patriarchy) and we are daring to reach for the juicy red apple of wisdom. We are reaching for freedom.
~The Goddess Blesses Her Women~