Sophie Bashford Quotes

The Goddess has called time on the age of punishment, brutality and violence towards the Body of Woman. She is ushering in a new age imbued with the ancient memories of women loving themselves with unrestrained passion and self-respect. Instead of seeing our bodies as battlegrounds that we must control and gain dominance over, we would honor them as the most divine givers of life, creative energy and spiritual sustenance to the universe.

The Women who have answered the call to the Mystery do not live within anyone's rules or projected ideas of how the Feminine should be. These Women have given up needing to be ' nice ' . They have given up saying Yes to each and every demand made upon them. They have walked away from the prison of living to please others

As woman gives birth to new life, so the Goddess gives birth to the Earth and the universe. As woman nurtures life, so the Goddess nurtures the Earth and the universe.

The Goddesses are embodiments of universal feminine consciousness who have a longing–and a sacred mandate–to connect with humanity.

There is always someone, something or someplace that can benefit from your immense Goddess gifts. Give and you shall receive. Give your soul energy freely and without fear of harmful consequences. It is safe for you to give: through pure giving you connect to pure receiving.

The feminine process is not based upon straight lines, fixed outcomes and solutions. You are not a problem to be solved. You are a manifestation of a primordial creative force that cannot be compartmentalized, rationalized or contained. Your journey to merging with the Goddess-force that is you will be circular, spiral and frequently open-ended.

Through many crises, many changes, many years of low-level depression, anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder, and–most poignantly–through living under the relentless weight of an unnameable, ungraspable sense that there was something I was here for, something I must do with my life that I wasn’t doing–I was gradually being taken through a deep spiritual awakening.

Organized religions place strict codes of conduct upon this element of the feminine, creating dualities such as ‘Madonna’ and ‘whore’, ‘good girl’ and ‘bad girl’. Women are told that they can be one or the other. Never both. One is acceptable, one is not. Because the total nature of the feminine spirit is so vast, so unknowable, so uncontrollable, so transformative–it has been necessary for the ruling elite of this planet to find ways in which to ruthlessly control It.

Each time life appeared to disintegrate, it was the trigger for soul-altering transformation: every phase during which I have wanted to remain in hard (masculine) control of things, and resisted letting go and allowing my feelings to surface, has always been when a hand from the Goddess has been reaching out to me, whispering her alternative plans for my life.

It is a patriarchal wet dream to have women in a state of constant judgement, hatred and belief that they are not good enough. Not only can you keep them in their place, encouraged to use all of their energy on despising themselves and battling with other women for attention, but you can also firmly prevent an uprising rooted in unbridled female self-love that will deeply unsettle the status quo.