First of all I'd like to extend my greetings and blessings to all of my sisters, for today is Women's Day. And acquintance of mine bitterly commented basically that why should he greet women on this day when no woman remember or even greet them on "Men's Day". It made me smile. He kind of forgot that women have been exploited and abused through history, and this day marks a particular day when women stood bravely against discrimination and fought for their rights. They were brutally murdered, but thanks to the example settled, as well as the fight of many of our mothers and grandmothers and those women - and also men - who believed in us, we now can take part of the political life, have equal rights in the labor world and are no longer regarded as property, but as people.
This year's Women's Day, however, coincides with a Full Moon, which is particularly curious, as in many Pagan religions and believes, the Moon has been linked to the Woman - directly or indirectly through the image of a Goddess - and, if I'm correct, current Pagan religions, like Wicca, often relate the Full Moon with the aspect of Mother of the woman or the Goddess. (The Goddess, as I've understood from my readings, has a triple image: Maiden, Mother and Crone.)
The coincidence made me think a bit about this aspect of women, and how could the Full Moon or even Motherhood itself be represented in those of us who have no children - whether we plan to have one or not. Well, if we make a loose correspondence of the tree stages with those of the seasons, Maiden being Spring, Mother being Summer and Crone being Fall (I believe I've read some of that in a book, probably Thea Sabin's but I'm not citing nor refering for I'm not sure, and here I'm going on simple likeness), one could establish a sort of productive cycle, seeing then the Maiden and Spring as the preparation, the awaking, the planing, in Mother and Summer seeing the working, action, the seeding and grooming of the land, the tending of the crops and herds, the long labour, and in the Crone, the reaping of the fruits of labor, the reflective work, the meditation. Thus, in a Women's Day that's shone over with a Full Moon, I think about the hard work we still have ahead of us.
We've come a long way, but there's still much work to do. As women, we still have to work to ensure our rights, to make them available for our daughters, but also to our sons. Yes, as women we must not forget that men are equal to us, just as we are equal to them. Our fight isn't about excluding them, taking their rights for ourselves while stripping them. Our fight isn't about establishing a new world order ruled by a Matriarcal System, but to live and work and love and laught WITH our brothers, not as "equal but different", but as people, undiscriminated and equal in every single aspect.
As women, yes we are goddesses all of us, beautiful and divine, but our brothers are gods in their own right, equal to us in every single aspect. Yes, we had it rough and we still have it rough here and there, but life isn't a bed of roses for them, nor has ever been. Our brothers have been forced to take responsability for us, to support us, to carry with us. They have been forced to mask their feelings, swallow their tears and "man up".
Today, as we celebrate our gender and our achievements, let's also remember our brothers, for many of them fought shoulder to shoulder in this fight, and though none of them might have died burned in that factory in Chicago, they have still been at our side one way or the other. Let's burry the manhating attitude that handpick a few dicks and judge a whole gender by them. That's unfair, just like it is unfair to judge us from the example set by golddiggers.
In the aspect of Mother, let's remember our work and the fight still ahead of us. "Mother" is our productive force, our capability to work, to create, to make things happen and come to life. Be it a project, a smile, our daily work, the result of a hobby. Show your innate productivity in working better, in breaking from depression through finding yourself a new hobby. Work and achieve that hard position that has always given you a headache at yoga, find a fabulous book and make the best remarks at your book club, roll a bead between your fingers and create a breathtaking necklace out of it. It's in us, we are that wonderful, that fantastic, that marvelous. Our brothers are still tied down by our society and they can't, just like we do, pick something pretty and arrange it in their hair or make a fabulous new necklace and wear it with pride, with formal or informal clothing. Don't believe me? Just look at the tv show "Bones". We, ladies, can pull it! We could wear a chicken head in our neck with an Armani suit and all people would say is "how trendy!". But a guy puts a small murano glass in his neck and everybody looks at him like his lost his marbles.
Yes, we have the power, but let's use it wisely, let's share, let's embrace our brothers in our day and tell them that the fight for our rights is for their rights as well.
Blessed Be All my Sisters and Brothers!
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