Hi! Now that the conversation has started, what do you think of gendered spiritual energies in general (divine feminine, masculine)? As a very enby and Queer(TM) person it kind of makes me feel uncomfortable and also confused since the definition of the energies also sounds very heteronormative. I've heard of additions to this system like divine androgyne and chaosyne but.. I don't know, it still feels very weird to me either way
Oooh so this has actually been on my mind lately!
I think the idea of divine genders is a really interesting concept that just got mangled by historical biases, but I do think there's a way to salvage it.
I think trans and nonbinary people really help us understand what gender is on a deeper level. There is something that makes people understand and feel what their gender is, what it isn't, what feels right and what doesn't. It can be rock solid from birth, or very fluid, or some kind of mix. This gut feeling, whatever it means to us individually, is present in people of all genders and exists beyond preconceived notions of gender roles, presentation, etc. and I think that's really interesting. (That's how I percieve/define the experience of gender, anyway.) Also like it or not our experience of gender plays a big role in our lives and how we navigate society, and I think it's fine to want to have a relationship with the Divine that recognizes it if it's important to you.
The problem comes in when we try to make it binary or assign inherent personality traits and body parts to it. Some deities just don't fit a solid gender binary (Loki, Mokosh, and even HaShem come to mind right away) and we should be open to as many nuances in Divine Gender as there are in everyday human gender. Even within deities we typically don't consider genderqueer, each one gives nuance into what gender could possibly mean. There's so much potential here to find a deity or spiritual figure that captures what your gender (or lack thereof) means to you and explore that. I think that's really cool.
So yeah. I think with a lot of dedication to really explore it an apply it in a much more fluid, less binary, more personal, more open way (and not trying to slap it onto every other concept/object/person in the world) then it can be a really interesting and possibly even empowering thing for trans/genderqueer people especially. We just need to stop imagining/talking about it the same way the cishetties do lol
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