The Rise of the Divine Feminine: Returning to Innocence, Creativity, and God Within

For centuries, our world has been shaped by a dominance of the masculine essence. The masculine is structure, clarity, logic, and forward drive, necessary qualities that help us build, order, and organise. But when the masculine becomes unbalanced and disconnected from its partner, the feminine, it tips into control, suppression, and rigidity.

The feminine essence, by contrast, is fluid, intuitive, creative, nurturing, and deeply present. It is the energy of trust, openness, play, imagination, and embodied wisdom. The feminine is about being, not just doing. And yet, for thousands of years, the feminine has been silenced, diminished, and shamed.

We see this imbalance everywhere. From schools to churches to political and social institutions, the very systems that are supposed to guide us, the masculine has overshadowed the feminine.

Schools and the Loss of Creativity

Sir Ken Robinson, the great educational thinker, once said: “Schools kill creativity.” He pointed to how our education system has been designed to prioritise conformity, obedience, and intellectual output, while stifling imagination, play, and the unique gifts of the child.

This resonates deeply with me, because for 30 years I worked i the education system, guiding children in ways that bent the rules to allow their imaginations to flourish. I insisted on child-led play, creativity, and passion-driven exploration, even when the system pushed for structure, uniformity, and measurable outcomes. And what I saw again and again was this: when children are allowed to follow their passions and natural curiosity, they come alive. Their imaginations open the door to their innocence, presence, and connection to something greater than themselves — what Jesus pointed to when He said, “Unless you become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.”

That same remembering now shapes my work with women in my current business. I see how the systems we live in have taken us further and further from our feminine essence, disconnecting us from our bodies, our intuition, and ultimately from God. I support these women to release the trauma that keeps them locked in masculine-driven survival, and to return to their feminine essence.

The Witch Wound

Historically, the Church played a major role in this suppression. A woman who was deeply connected to her body, her intuition, her imagination, and her wisdom was once called a wise woman. She was a healer, a guide, a midwife of both life and spirit.

The Anglo-Saxon word “wicca” originally meant “wise one” or “seer”, someone who worked with the cycles of nature, herbs, and spirit. These women and men were seen as essential to their communities, guardians of embodied knowledge and intuition.

But as the patriarchal Church sought to consolidate power, this word was deliberately twisted. Wicca and witch were rebranded as dark, evil, and threatening. The same women who once held positions of respect were demonised as dangerous, ungodly, and aligned with the devil.

What followed was centuries of persecution, with women burned, drowned, or silenced for embodying the very gifts that connected them to God. This witch wound lives on in our collective memory, still making many women afraid of their own intuitive and spiritual power.

The Invisible Suppression of Midlife Women

The suppression doesn’t end there. As women move through menopause, a profound spiritual transition takes place. It is a time when women naturally move closer to God, their intuition sharpens, and their inner authority grows. Yet our patriarchal systems have labeled menopause as decline, invisibility, or loss of value, when in truth it is a sacred rite of passage, a rebirth into wisdom and deeper connection.

From schools that shame creativity, to churches that silence the inner kingdom, to institutions that diminish women as they age, we see the same story repeated. A patriarchal world seeks to control by shutting down the feminine essence.

Believing in God vs. Knowing God

An essential part of reclaiming the feminine and our inner authority is understanding the difference between believing in God and knowing God.

To believe in something suggests a reliance on something outside of yourself, a distant authority, a doctrine, or a set of rules to follow. Belief can create devotion, yes, but it often keeps us looking outward, searching for answers outside of our own experience.

To know God, however, is radically different. Knowing God is an inner experience, a direct relationship with the Divine that arises through presence, intuition, and embodied awareness. It is a living, intimate knowing that doesn’t require external validation, ritual, or hierarchy. To know God is to live in alignment with the Divine spark within yourself, to feel the sacredness of your body, your imagination, your emotions, and your intuition.

The Time of the Rising

And yet, something is shifting. Around the world, women are remembering who they are. They are reclaiming the feminine, healing trauma stored in the body, and reconnecting with their imaginal, intuitive gifts. They are rediscovering the truth that the kingdom of heaven is not outside of us, but within us as the Gospel of Thomas teaches.

The Gospel of Mary Magdalene offers us a profound guide here. Though much of the text was destroyed, the fragments that remain reveal Mary as the disciple closest to Jesus, the one He entrusted with His deepest teachings. After His departure, when the male disciples were fearful and uncertain, Mary reminded them of His words and shared a vision she had received directly from Him.

In her vision, Mary saw the soul’s journey of ascent: moving through realms ruled by Desire, Ignorance, Wrath, and the powers that keep humanity bound. One by one, the soul sheds its attachments, illusions, and fears, until it is free to rest in union with Spirit. This is the path of inner liberation, taught through the imaginal faculty, not the intellect, but the deep, inner knowing of the heart and vision.

What Mary was taught and what she taught others was radical:

• That we each carry within us the capacity to rise beyond the powers that bind us.

• That liberation is not given by an institution, but discovered within the soul.

• That the feminine qualities of vision, trust, and inner listening are essential to meeting God.

The Gospel of Philip echoes this, describing Mary Magdalene as the one Jesus loved more than the other disciples, and as the one He kissed often, not as a gesture of romance, but of transmission. In ancient mystical traditions, a kiss symbolised the direct passing of spirit and wisdom. This tells us that Mary was seen as the bearer of intimate, embodied spiritual knowledge, the feminine keeper of Christ’s deepest mysteries.

It is no wonder the institutional Church suppressed these gospels. Mary’s teachings affirm that women hold spiritual authority, that the imaginal and intuitive are as valid as doctrine, and that God is not reached through obedience to an external power but through turning inward to the Divine spark.

This is why the Gospel of Mary Magdalen is so important for us now. She restores the feminine essence to its rightful place: as the bridge between the human and the Divine, the womb of creativity, and the seat of spiritual authority.

This is the time of the rise of the Divine Feminine. As Rebecca Campbell has written: “The feminine is rising, and she is calling us all home.”

I have lived this journey myself, through loss, rebirth, and deep healing. From thirty years of championing the creative innocence of children, to now guiding women back to the creative innocence within their own bodies, I have seen how the feminine essence is the doorway to God. When trauma is released from the body, when imagination is honored, when intuition is trusted the feminine rises. And when the feminine rises, balance is restored, both within us and in the world.

The systems may still be patriarchally driven, but change begins one woman at a time. The Divine Feminine is calling us back, to presence, to authenticity, to creativity, to innocence, to love. And as we answer that call, we remember what was never lost: that we are whole, we are powerful, and God has always been within us.