Can we go ancient with feminism ?

Western feminism is all about equal rights. And while this for sure is an important movement that we are allowed to vote and to work I feel it is a very colonial approach. It seems very genuine to us that women now are allowed to do the same work like men do and that by working we are finally acknowledged and valued as strong. Yet our menstruation still is afflicted with shame. Do you remember these moments when asking a friend for a tampon instantly feeling your face turning red? And why do we call it empowernment when motherhood is only protected for 8 weeks by the state after birthing a child? Why are there so much doctors that easily prescribe the anti baby pill to young teenagers to stop their menstrual bleeding ? And why do we live in a society in that the female body is still over-sexualized and used for marketing purposes but censored when it comes to show breast and nipples digitally.

While I sat a lot with plant medicine, I opened up to indigenous ways of feminism. In these ancient traditions women are seen and celebrated as powerful beings by nature. When bleeding they are freed from daily tasks so that they can just rest in a Moon Hut, focusing to cleanse their bodies and the environment. In indigenous culture the womb is the most powerful organ, as it is the portal for life to be born into this Earth Realm. The womb holds infinite potential to create, not only life, but also to birth projects, visions and ideas into physical matter. Bleeding is a sacred practice where women connect with their cleansing and creation force. In most indigenous tribes women live their lifes topless, openly breastfeeding their babies as it is a natural practice. Indigenous women mostly home-birth their babies as they are very connected with the birthing-shaman that every female body naturally internalizes. After birthing the mother carries the baby close to their body - mostly for years so the physical independency can happen organically and non-violent.

Is it a consequence to colonialism that we lost our natural instincts as women ?

My own Womb Path

I started to connect with my womb with the age of 35. There I started to wear period underwear and i just felt my cycle very differently. I rest when I bleed, the pain I used to have is gone. Later on, in the powrful setting of a plant medicine ceremony I received the message “ You want to be a mother” and I was shocked at first. But when I felt into it, I understood that trauma didn´t allow me to even think of becoming a mother. The last two years I did intense work on my womb. All women store a lot of transgenerational trauma in the womb due to patriachial oppression, abuse and persecution. Today i am 39 and even though I do not have a partner yet, the spirit of my baby boy already says “Hello” in dreams and I can`t wait for the physiacl experience of pregnancy and birth. I recently started to drink my moon cycle blood. It is an ancient practice and a very strong medicine. It helps to heal internalized trauma that is held unconsiously. Our body tissue stores events - better to say their emotions. Our moon cycle blood holds transgenerational trauma information. Here is why: The overies and all available egg cells that can be fertilized already grow in the embryo state at months 3. Meaning the egg cell that you arised from already existed in your grandmothers womb when she was pregnant with your monther. Can you imagine how much information is stored in our egg cells ? And can you guess now why drinking our menstruation blood is a healing practice?