I am Amazon

I Who live the Cycles of the Wheel of Life, I am and have honored the Divine Girl-Child/the Daughter, the Maiden, Mother/Creatrix, and She Who Sustains and Nurtures Her Creations. Now I discover She Who Protects, She Who Defends, She Who Activates, She Who Fights for Life, for Women, for WomanKind, for Humanity, the Earth, and the Universe.

I am no longer the protected, but the Protector. I Protect that which has been Created, Sustained, and Nurtured. I will valiantly defend all that is innocent, and especially the Daughter, the Girl-Child energy of the World. She is the source of all my/our inspiration. I will defend Life-affirming ways and those who Create from that Place. I will watch over as She Sustains and Nurtures Life.

I am also the scout. The pathfinder, the trailblazer. I am She Who will stand up and be counted. I insist on being heard and won’t take no for an answer. I have single-minded concentration when needed and enlist my deepest resources and will fight to the death for freedom.I am your wild nature, She Who must have Freedom.

I am the Woman Who takes her powers of freedom, activism, strength, and independence. Doest that sound “man-like” to you? Ha! Only those who do not know what a woman is and can be would say such a thing! I know the ways a woman can be!

The fruits of self-determination suit me for a special kind of leadership. I am inspired by Spirit to be truly and wholly myself, and as such, I become truly inspirational to others. Now, that, my dear friends, is true Power. Not power-over, but the power to inspire others. Inspire means to give breath or life to and I do that just by being myself. Who I am. Therefore, I must know who I am. One must know oneself in order to wield power effectively and responsibly

.I lead by purity of intent. I encourage forthright self-expression in everyone I meet. I urge others to take their power, as I have, to benefit all.

Unlike leadership in the nurturing and sustaining phase of the Cycle, which laments imperfections and seeks to repair what is troubled or broken, leadership in my phase is simple and direct, based on telling the truth and taking action and moving on. Personal integrity is the only real foundation for helping others. And I embody that for wimmin.

There is a time, you know, for moving beyond nurturing. There is a time that other than nurturing actions are called for. Mine is the time for that.

I seek and find egalitarian relationships, where I remain at the center. I may be in relationships but that is not my only focus. I am not a virgin in order to be alone, but in order to be with others without entanglements. Partners and sex are for self-realization and growth, not procreation. I am lusty. I am Lusty for Life.

I form and forge new bonds, friendships, and intimacies with wimmin.

I go beyond the “normal” definitions of reality to find both freedom and support.

I appear at all ages of life. I often appear during the second half of life. A time of rebirth. I recreate my independent nature. To fully embrace the potential of all that I am I must transcend social constraints that keep wimmin forever in the nurturing role. I do that by setting aside time for myself and by remembering all my reasons for being here. I am the one Who whispers: you need time alone to think, time to focus on self.

I am also here to right wrongs. Especially wrongs done to wimmin. I love woman, women, wimmin, WomanKind. I am her champion and unashamed of this! Woman is worthy of my allegiance.

You can see why the patriarchy fears me…and has sought to destroy me…not only physically, but to wipe me from your psyche...and make you despise me, mistrust me, to see me as selfish, not a “real woman,” and so on…

But I tell you, I am here out of Love, fierce love, for you, for myself, for the girls, for all womankind, for the planet, and the world. And, I will not be denied. I will not be relegated to myth or to name-calling. I am and always will be.

Blessed be!The Amazon(A poetic response by WomanWhoFollowsHerHeart based upon reading about the Amazon in The Woman’s Wheel of Life: 13 Archetypes of Woman at Her Fullest by Elizabeth Davis and Carol Leonard.)

Kim Duckett, Ph.D., Pr. (aka WomanWhoFollowsHerHeart) is founder and Priestess of WHISPER, a non-profit organization, and affiliate of the Reformed Congregation of the Goddess, now in its 12th year, that offers classes, events, performances, and rituals that explore and honor women’s spirituality, and particularly, feminist and goddess spiritualities. She is also the Director of WHISPER’s Sacred Mystery School for Women, one of just a few formal programs of its kind in the country, which includes monthly celebrations honoring the Seasons of the natural world (also known as the Wheel of the Year) and the corresponding “seasons of women’s lives.”

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