Restoring the Feminine Podcast

Deconstructing the over-masculine in your inherent programming? Or maybe religion? Faith expansion? The way you were raised? Lean into your dream time. . .. . I'll show you what I mean.

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This is a poem written by my previously-Christian-self as she was grieving deeply the lack of Mother God and Goddess in her church, and the realization that there was complete permeation of patriarchy, harmful to women, throughout the church I once loved and deeply trusted.

9.28.23

© Elizabeth Langston, 2024

Five Famines of the Feminine 

I once walked the streets 

That Jesus did sweep

He was calling his disciples;

Calling for his sheep 

I followed where they walked,

And I heard what they did speak:

They said, “There’s twelve apostles”,

I said, “No, there are thirteen……”

First famine of the Feminine:

No Mary Magdalene.

—-

I went to church on Sunday,

I took the Sacrament.

I sat with all my babies, 

The Bible in my hand.

I opened to the pages 

Seeking God to lead, 

But all I found were verses

Subjugating me:

“Let woman keep silent in church,

she is not permitted to speak” 

Good old first Corinthians,

chapter fourteen.

Next famine of the feminine:

Unchecked Patriarchy. 

——

They told me to believe 

That Adam did make Eve,

when all humans on earth 

Woman did conceive…

I thought they could not lie,

Until the Voice Inside 

Told me that their story 

Was unjust gendercide. 

Third famine of the feminine:

Denying women their power of creation. 

——

They told me I had choices, 

They told me I was free. 

They said my final judgement 

Was tween’ God and Me. 

But then they have inserted 

Men and authority 

In place of my own conscience 

And my Sovereignty. 

Fourth famine of the feminine: 

Line of Authority. 

——

They say there is a Mother

In Heaven; that she’s true.

But when we speak about her,

They hush us at the pew.

They say she is too sacred;

To pure to speak her name—

I say that I am starving

In this drought of Feminine.  

——

This daughter wants her Mother 

Included in the prayer 

This daughter wants her Mother 

Represented fair. 

I don’t want to have to piece Her 

Like a puzzled game of Clue!

I want to Speak about her 

Like men their Father do. 

The problem with this famine 

of the Feminine Divine 

Is that women have to leave

parts of themselves behind. 

How can they be expressed 

As only women can,

When the only God that’s spoken 

Is one that is a Man?

This buries parts of women, 

it buries them alive. 

Don’t ask us to abandon

The feminine inside. 

How can I, as a woman,

How can I choose to stay 

When as I am here staying, 

I give parts of me away?

© Elizabeth Langston, 2024

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This is the first poem I wrote when deconstructing patriarchy in my religion, gender and culture.

Original poem copy below, ©Elizabeth Langston, 2024

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Dear Patriarchy

By Elizabeth Langston

I wanted to be a nice girl

Until I learned that you killed my sisters 

I enjoyed being a quiet girl

Until I learned that you took their voices

I wanted to be a compliant healer

Until I learned that you overtook women’s healing arts

I wanted to turn the other cheek 

Until I saw so many women hurting and frozen under your grip, I couldn’t look away.

I wanted to be a domestic woman, 

Until I learned my feminine ancestors were domesticated.

I wanted to be a clean woman 

Until I realized my sensuality is Holy.

I didn’t want to disrupt anything

Until I learned how disrupted my matriarchal line has been

I was willing to do what you told me 

Until I was shown my Inner Temple and Authority

I didn’t want to be disobedient

Until I realized that disobedient women are behind some of the greatest freedoms we know today—

I tried. 

I tried to stay out of the way. 

I did. 

I cleared myself of all magic and powerful yearnings

I dedicated my Self to domestic identity

But then the Goddess came to me... 

She came into my home full of pregnancy and babies 

And She wrecked into my Mind. 

She stole all my perfectly stacked identities 

And she whispered to me while I slept, “You are Wild.”

When I awoke one day from Motherhood, I saw: this is not all of me. 

I felt the Missing of my Pieces. 

Depression ensued. (Depression is the Initiation of the Goddess.)

–There were ambulances 

There were new homes and letting go of old friends

There was darkness, 

Then a splash, 

And a Rebirth

Of Me. 

Elizabeth. 

Priestess of the Cave 

Awakener of Women

On Mission for the Goddess

To Heal the Feminine in All Beings. 

—-

I slaved for you in religious callings. 

And Now, I demand that my Women be set free. 

I am opening their cages 

I am unclipping their magic wings 

They are unfurling their beauty and sexual selves 

They are showing their shoulders. 

–

I am torturing those organizations who tortured Woman

Who stuffed her wild parts so far back into Her psyche, the collective ‘She’ almost forgot them. 

But I won’t let the women forget. 

‘Woman’ may be Endangered, but she cannot and will not be Extinct. 

Because Woman is a heartbeat, a living thing

She is alive inside every woman

And the Goddess is awakening Woman, the full spectrum of woman, 

Through visions, dreams, night wakings, depression, havoc and chaos

Women are being Reborn into Feminine Ways. 

—

We call our Pagan ancestors up from their graves

To teach us of their ways.

We are Restoring the magikal, 

mystical, 

psychic gifts of women.

You. Should. Be. Scared.

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Soooo this show launched in January, 2024, but then I didn't come back for a while. Here's why.

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Join me as I cruise through my past life as a Christian woman, to discover what my most important internal strivings were, what I valued and cherished most, and the way that impacted my beliefs about myself, my worldview and most of all, my behaviors. Yikes and woohoo! This will be fun hahaha

Are you deconstructing or have you deconstructed Christianity, awakened or are awakening to the Sacred Feminine? If so, we'd love to hear your story and hear of your gifts, too. Contact me at: [email protected]

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Original Text

© Elizabeth J Langston, 2023, 2024

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I Hear the Goddess Coming 

I hear the Goddess coming 

She is brooding in the winds

She is in the mists of ocean

Taking form: The Feminine

She callls into the winters 

Gathers women like they’re sheep 

She bands our forms together 

Sacred oath made in bare feet 

She calls us from within our chests 

Like fire her voice is hot 

Her message quakes with chaos

Listen or you’ll rot:

“I am clawing through the darkness”

“I am swarming through the seas,

I am calling up my witches

Bringing bad men to their knees

I am ripping open justice

I’m unspoiling Liberty 

For the ones who have been honest 

In their searching and their pleas

I have heard cries long enough 

[Of women] caged with broken wings 

I’m unlocking all their powers 

And sacred earth codings .

You won’t see me; I’m in darkness 

Huddled up for far too long 

But I’m awakening my witches—

To the woods! Let’s sing our songs!”

There’s no reason,” I hear them saying 

“There’s no reason to be mean”

“Just be peaceful” I hear them calling 

Just be peaceful and be clean.”

But how my anger rises when denial they do bring 

And how my rage ignites when they say I’m being mean 

For they stripped us of our wildness 

They ripped it from our seams 

They have stolen our libations 

Crushed with Christianity 

So I’ll scour this earth’s surface 

for the Magic that’s still there,

And I’ll conjure up my queens and let their songs ring in the air 

For those that want us quiet

Need to know this one thing: 

The Feminine brings redemption 

It is Her that this world needs!!”

The Feminine does not desire 

To take over everything, 

The Feminine seeks Balance 

In restoring those lost things.

So raise your voices, sisters, 

raise your wands and raise your kids 

To heal the Witch wound magic 

And Restore the Feminine.

© Elizabeth Langston, 2023, 2024+

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Restoring the Feminine - The Book Club: https://www.lizzielangston.com/book-club

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