Return of the Divine Feminine
There is something
exciting afoot these days that has been percolating for decades.
For thousands of
years the divine feminine energy has struggled to stay alive in a male
It has been several
thousand years since the world has experienced a true Golden Age and a world
and to our divinity, where all life was revered were honored and celebrated.
Not since the Renaissance in Europe, have we known such a rebirth of art,
science, and medicine where many of the patriarchal values shifted allowing the
feminine to come forth once again. It has been foretold for thousands of years
by both the Mayan Calendar and Vedas that 2012 was the beginning of another
Golden Age, one that would last for 10,000 years. This Golden Age would be like
no other for it would be during this time that a new world would be born. This
world would once again bring into balance the masculine and feminine principles
of life allowing the feminine energy to lead the way, but not the feminine as
we have known it but in its new form, the Solar Feminine.
The Solar Feminine
began to stream onto the planet with the Venus Transit. We saw Venus in front
of the Sun which was blazing its light behind and through her. Venus, the
symbol of the love and the Divine Feminine, is now in front of the Sun which
has been traditionally viewed as masculine. The divine feminine is now in the
forefront of masculine energy but the masculine is supporting the feminine this
time. There is no need for the feminine to go underground to survive in a male
dominated world but rather to thrive, be fully seen and supported by all.
The world is now
ready to open its arms in a more loving embrace toward the feminine and has
begun to truly see that embracing feminine values is not only a more conscious
and loving way to live but a necessity if we are to survive. The New Divine
Feminine is allowing a renaissance, rebirth of feminine based values to lead us
into our promised Golden Age or The Age of Light.
The New Divine
Feminine is also bringing forth a new paradigm for women to live by. What I
mean by this, is that what we have defined as feminine has been based upon
masculine values and how men have interpreted what the feminine is and how they
would like women to be. We have been brought up with these misinterpretations
as have generations of our mothers and grandmothers. A new paradigm for women
has needed to come forth so that women can learn how to live in a new way with
each other. This new way of being encourages women to collaborate rather than
compete, trust each other rather than mistrust, to value each other as much as
they value being with a man and to honor and value themselves. When women
embrace each other as the Divine Feminine incarnate then the world will
follow.
above by
Luminessa Enjara
Paul H. Williams, Hospitality Jamaica Writer
Maroonage is a term in Caribbean history and historical discourses that describe the
total experience of enslaved African people who defy the whims and fancies of
European oppressors and carry out their own social and political lives in the interior
areas of Caribbean islands, and South and Central America.
The defiant enslaved people have come to be known as Maroons, and they are located
in communities all over the Caribbean region. The system of governance is different
from place to place, with some communities having autonomy from mainstream
governance.
In Jamaica, the communities are led by colonels who sit together on a Maroon Council.
Each community has its own council and colonel.
In Suriname, each tribe is led by chiefs, and a gaa'mang, who is the paramount chief.
The gaa'mang is a well-respected person in his community, where certain protocols are
observed in his presence. All the gaa'mang are men, but things became historic on
Sunday, when Jamaican chieftainess Gloria 'Mama G' Simms was installed as a
gaa'mang in a poignant ceremony in Charles Town.
It is a peculiar situation though, as the office of gaa'mang doesn't exist in Jamaican
Maroon politics. Peculiar, but historic it is as Simms is now the only female gaa'mang in
all Maroon communities, and up to two years ago, her rise to this unusual position was
not even a thought.
It came by chance in 2012, when Simms, leader of the Maroon Indigenous Women's
Circle, met Fidelia Graand-Galon, president of the Maroon Women's Network at the
Charles Town Maroon Conference. Simms was invited to Suriname on a cultural
exchange, which she did in 2013. Then she signed a memorandum of cooperation with
her hosts, but a gaa'mang would have to be informed.
The Saramka Maroons, gaa'mang was approached with assistance from the Ministry of
Regional Development, the ministry responsible for the indigenous tribes. By boat, a
delegation went to see the gaa'mang. "When we went there, the gaa'mang, when he
saw Mama G, in her attire, water came in his eyes because he said he saw his
grandmother, and the spirit that carried Mama G. She was like his own ancestral spirit.
He could connect with her spiritually," Fidelia Graamb-Gala, now the Surinamese
ambassador to Trinidad and Tobago, said.
The gaa'mang saw Simms as a leader, and not a follower of African traditions, and
immediately got the idea of elevating Simms to gaa'mang. A ritual was carried out as
the foundation Simms' installation, but it could not take place in Suriname. It had to take
place among her own people, and thus, a decision was made to journey to Jamaica.
Simms said it was when she was returning from the Saramaka gaa'mang by boat that
she realised how important the position of gaa'mang is, after she was briefed.
She approached Charles Maroon Colonel Frank Lumsden about having the installation
at the Charles Town Maroon Conference. He agreed, but months before the event, the
Saramaka gaa'mang got ill and was not able to come to Jamaica to install Simms.
Another gaa'mang had to be found.
The Ministry of Regional Development was instrumental in getting Gaa'mang Johannes
Ballong of the Okanisi tribe to come to Jamaica to install Simms. The leader of more
than 50,000 people, along with six other delegates, came to Jamaica last week to
participate in the historic event. "Not even in Suriname do we have a female gaa'man
and I don't think we will have that in the near future," Ambassador Graand-Galon.
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Video of Installation.
There is something
exciting afoot these days that has been percolating for decades.
This
“something” is a new way of being for women and all people everywhere.
For thousands of
years the divine feminine energy has struggled to stay alive in a male
dominated world. This
energy has re-surged throughout history for periods of time.
When it has
thrived we have called it a Golden Age, for music, medicine, science, art, love
and life
have flourished. The
old ideas of competition, might over right, private ownership, greed,
domination
and war virtually did
not exist. Peace and prosperity reigned during these times and
feminine based
values of collaboration, co-creation, connection to the natural world and to
each other.
It has been several
thousand years since the world has experienced a true Golden Age and a world
and to our divinity, where all life was revered were honored and celebrated.
Not since the Renaissance in Europe, have we known such a rebirth of art,
science, and medicine where many of the patriarchal values shifted allowing the
feminine to come forth once again. It has been foretold for thousands of years
by both the Mayan Calendar and Vedas that 2012 was the beginning of another
Golden Age, one that would last for 10,000 years. This Golden Age would be like
no other for it would be during this time that a new world would be born. This
world would once again bring into balance the masculine and feminine principles
of life allowing the feminine energy to lead the way, but not the feminine as
we have known it but in its new form, the Solar Feminine.
The Solar Feminine
began to stream onto the planet with the Venus Transit. We saw Venus in front
of the Sun which was blazing its light behind and through her. Venus, the
symbol of the love and the Divine Feminine, is now in front of the Sun which
has been traditionally viewed as masculine. The divine feminine is now in the
forefront of masculine energy but the masculine is supporting the feminine this
time. There is no need for the feminine to go underground to survive in a male
dominated world but rather to thrive, be fully seen and supported by all.
The world is now
ready to open its arms in a more loving embrace toward the feminine and has
begun to truly see that embracing feminine values is not only a more conscious
and loving way to live but a necessity if we are to survive. The New Divine
Feminine is allowing a renaissance, rebirth of feminine based values to lead us
into our promised Golden Age or The Age of Light.
The New Divine
Feminine is also bringing forth a new paradigm for women to live by. What I
mean by this, is that what we have defined as feminine has been based upon
masculine values and how men have interpreted what the feminine is and how they
would like women to be. We have been brought up with these misinterpretations
as have generations of our mothers and grandmothers. A new paradigm for women
has needed to come forth so that women can learn how to live in a new way with
each other. This new way of being encourages women to collaborate rather than
compete, trust each other rather than mistrust, to value each other as much as
they value being with a man and to honor and value themselves. When women
embrace each other as the Divine Feminine incarnate then the world will
follow.
above by
Luminessa Enjara
Here in Jamaica This energy of the Divine feminine has been anchored
with a beautiful Historic event, this took place on June 22nd 2014 after the
Summer Solstice (and a cleansing fire ceremony for the island of Jamaica)
Paul H. Williams, Hospitality Jamaica Writer
Maroonage is a term in Caribbean history and historical discourses that describe the
total experience of enslaved African people who defy the whims and fancies of
European oppressors and carry out their own social and political lives in the interior
areas of Caribbean islands, and South and Central America.
The defiant enslaved people have come to be known as Maroons, and they are located
in communities all over the Caribbean region. The system of governance is different
from place to place, with some communities having autonomy from mainstream
governance.
In Jamaica, the communities are led by colonels who sit together on a Maroon Council.
Each community has its own council and colonel.
In Suriname, each tribe is led by chiefs, and a gaa'mang, who is the paramount chief.
The gaa'mang is a well-respected person in his community, where certain protocols are
observed in his presence. All the gaa'mang are men, but things became historic on
Sunday, when Jamaican chieftainess Gloria 'Mama G' Simms was installed as a
gaa'mang in a poignant ceremony in Charles Town.
It is a peculiar situation though, as the office of gaa'mang doesn't exist in Jamaican
Maroon politics. Peculiar, but historic it is as Simms is now the only female gaa'mang in
all Maroon communities, and up to two years ago, her rise to this unusual position was
not even a thought.
It came by chance in 2012, when Simms, leader of the Maroon Indigenous Women's
Circle, met Fidelia Graand-Galon, president of the Maroon Women's Network at the
Charles Town Maroon Conference. Simms was invited to Suriname on a cultural
exchange, which she did in 2013. Then she signed a memorandum of cooperation with
her hosts, but a gaa'mang would have to be informed.
The Saramka Maroons, gaa'mang was approached with assistance from the Ministry of
Regional Development, the ministry responsible for the indigenous tribes. By boat, a
delegation went to see the gaa'mang. "When we went there, the gaa'mang, when he
saw Mama G, in her attire, water came in his eyes because he said he saw his
grandmother, and the spirit that carried Mama G. She was like his own ancestral spirit.
He could connect with her spiritually," Fidelia Graamb-Gala, now the Surinamese
ambassador to Trinidad and Tobago, said.
The gaa'mang saw Simms as a leader, and not a follower of African traditions, and
immediately got the idea of elevating Simms to gaa'mang. A ritual was carried out as
the foundation Simms' installation, but it could not take place in Suriname. It had to take
place among her own people, and thus, a decision was made to journey to Jamaica.
Simms said it was when she was returning from the Saramaka gaa'mang by boat that
she realised how important the position of gaa'mang is, after she was briefed.
She approached Charles Maroon Colonel Frank Lumsden about having the installation
at the Charles Town Maroon Conference. He agreed, but months before the event, the
Saramaka gaa'mang got ill and was not able to come to Jamaica to install Simms.
Another gaa'mang had to be found.
The Ministry of Regional Development was instrumental in getting Gaa'mang Johannes
Ballong of the Okanisi tribe to come to Jamaica to install Simms. The leader of more
than 50,000 people, along with six other delegates, came to Jamaica last week to
participate in the historic event. "Not even in Suriname do we have a female gaa'man
and I don't think we will have that in the near future," Ambassador Graand-Galon.
Video of Installation.
