#ruth barrett

[pixiebiz]

Are any other Dianics going to be at the Daughters of Diana weekend in Southern California this Samhain? Just got my spot reserved for this year.

[sistermountain]

“Being “Mother” is a biological and psychological state during which a woman becomes “queen” of her life. She decides what she wants to do from her inner sense of sovereignty. Decisions and choices are not made randomly now, but with care for the consequences gained from the experiences of the Maiden, now transformed into wisdom and skills.”

-Ruth Barrett

[sistermountain]

Ruth Barrett *Women’s Rites, Women’s Mysteries*

[Goddess] is both creator and creation. She is an all-inclusive source, the one who is and contains all the parts. The Goddess doesn’t think things into being, She births into being. She created Herself through the process of parthenogenesis: the process of impregnation and creation without sex (as humans have come to define it), thus emanating diverse life forms from the center of Her spiral self. Millennium later She created a variation of Herself, which we call “male,” to add greater diversity of genetic material for the survival and evolution of Her many life forms. Propagandized over recent millennium as separate from Her, He is a variation of Her: not “other,” not the “opposite” sex, but a variation of the Goddess and Her creation.

[sistermountain]

For many Dianics, the Goddess is not an entity but the web of life itself. We use female imagery as a metaphor to speak of this. This means that when we address the Goddess, we are addressing the whole web and acknowledging our part within the web at the same time. We do not pray in the usual sense; rather, we focus our conscious awareness on the web. We invoke Her by aligning our personal will with the energies we call to conscious awareness within and without. When we do magic, we try to focus our awareness and will on particular strands in the web.

-Ruth Barrett

[haggishlyhagging]

I’ve been thinking about the implications of what it means when women say, "I want to live in my body" or "I want to get back in touch with my body" or "I need to get out of my head." This language describes a belief that a person's consciousness can exist independent of their brain, an organ attached to their body just like a heart, a lung, or a uterus. Some believe that it is more evolved or spiritual to "transcend" the body. To me, this is residue from patriarchal religions that rank our female bodies as less holy than God or Spirit. Even brilliant Christiane Northrup, author of Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom, exemplifies this linguistic disconnect as she writes, "In order to re-enter your body you have to experience it." What does it mean to "re-enter" your body, when it is impossible to leave it except in death? We don't live as independent heads bobbing suspended in the air. The language we use is dissociative and perpetuates this disconnect. The truth is that there is no separation between our minds and bodies. It is the words we use, and how we use them, that actually gives form to the perception, and thus the "reality" of disconnection.

Coming from the values of my female-centered cosmology that describes the great Goddess and all women as "She Who Is Whole Unto Herself," my body is my home, sovereign and holy. I have lived here since the moment of my conception inside my mother's body, my mother's "home." Why is it that so many women do not choose to consciously experience their own physicality, their own "home"? If you are not living inside your body, where are you living? And who has taken up residence inside you in your absence? Whose stories do you believe? And whose agenda does that serve? If you are divided from your body, you are divided against yourself. You are homeless in the direst sense of the word.

-Ruth Barrett, "Eve Was ‘Framed’" in Female Erasure

[haggishlyhagging]

Natalie Angier's research for her book, Woman: An Intimate Geography, confirms that "in the basic biological sense, the female is the physical prototype for an effective living being. Fetuses are pretty much primed to become female unless the female program is disrupted by gestational exposure to androgens." The Institute of Medicine study describes how our sex begins in the womb, and how the female is the primal matrix:

All human individuals—whether they have an XX, an XY, or an atypical sex chromosome combination—begin development from the same starting point. During early development the gonads of the fetus remain undifferentiated; that is, all fetal genitalia are the same and are phenotypically female. After approximately 6 to 7 weeks of gestation, if the fetus is male, the expression of a gene on the Y chromosome induces changes that result in the development of the testes. In contrast, fetal ovarian secretions are not required for female sex differentiation.

David Crews, of the University of Texas, describes the female as "the ancestral sex, while the male is the derived sex." Angier writes, ". . . eggs are inherently female. So in thinking about mirrors into infinity, the link between mother and daughter, the nesting of eggs within woman within eggs, we can go a step further and see the continuity of the chromosomes. No maleness tints any part of us gals, no, not a molar drop or quantum." There is no maleness in female- XX people, literally, and the culturally ascribed gender categories of masculine and feminine are clearly invented. Thus, females have no "masculine" side, as Freud or Jung would have us believe. This is just patriarchal gender jargon within a patriarchal frame.

If you are female, you have XX chromosomes in every cell. This is reality, a fact, not a belief or opinion, not a theory, not a feeling.

-Ruth Barrett, "Eve Was ‘Framed’" in Female Erasure

[crokitheloki]

I just. Second season of oc is so sad 😭 like sorry but they did a good job at making you feel for the Albanians, and Ruth Barrett and company did such a great job with the score reflecting that and I just. I miss organized crime man

everything about the season 2 score drives me insane it's so angsty but also sad and bittersweet and it fucking kills me everytime a Kathy motif shows up like that really just adds to the whole angsty sad bittersweet feeling 😭

like ok Ruth and Mark fuck it up I see you

[crokitheloki]

Listening to the organized crime season 2 score

I've been sleeping on this what the fuck???

also. I'm obsessed with the way Kathy motifs keep showing up it's gutting me