Healing The Witch Wound

The Rise Of The Divine Feminine & The Awakening Of The Sacred Masculine

Since it's Halloween week, my utmost favourite time of the year, I've decided to write an article regarding the witch wound, how it shows up and how to heal it.

I've recorded an episode for those who have open ears and love to listen: You can listen here

And I also have a very special gift for you all at the end.

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But firstly, I'd like to highlight that this article isn't about polarity.

It's not about pointing fingers or blame.

It's about understanding, balance and integration, where the divine feminine and sacred masculine energies unite, restoring the dance of harmony and alignment within each and every one of us.

It's about the shift from a matriarchal to patriarchal society, and where we are now, in this day and age.

It's about the pros and cons of both of these- as I always like to see both sides on the search for a deeper understanding. And how we can heal both our masculine and feminine wounds and unite them harmoniously.

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This article is a dear tribute to all energy alchemists, witches, shamans and shamanic guides, Earth people, healers and healing guides and anyone who knowingly and unknowingly works with energy for the greatest good.

I especially wanted to address the witch wound in this episode, as it's something I still work on every single week. A deep fear of being seen, of expressing my truth, intuition, a fear of being rejected, or judged, which is something a lot of people, especially women, carry today, consciously or unconsciously.

The witch wound term refers to a collective emotional ancestral trauma connected to the prosecution of women and some men who were accused of witchcraft.

It's linked to the idea that, centuries ago, mostly women but some men too, who were intuitive, outspoken, healing, or nonconforming were punished, silenced, or even executed as "witches."

Even before that, long before recorded history, in the earliest civilisations, the world moved to the rhythm of the feminine principle, a time of reverence for the cycles of nature, the body, and the Earth herself.
This was the matriarchal era, where women weren't dominated or suppressed, but a culture of balance, intuition, and nurturance, was honoured, and life was a sacred creation, seen as the divine expression of the Great Mother.

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The Age Of The Great Mother

In the earliest civilizations, from the goddess cultures of Old Europe and Anatolia, to early Egypt, Crete, Sumeria, and the Indus Valley, the feminine was revered as the source of all life.
Archaeological findings show countless figurines of Earth goddesses, round with fertility and abundance, symbolizing birth, renewal, and the cyclical nature of existence.

Life was organised around cooperation rather than competition, community over hierarchy, and intuitive wisdom over rigid structure. The people lived in close communion with the land, celebrating lunar and seasonal cycles, and honoring both life and death as sacred transitions within the great spiral of being.

This wasn't about female rule, it was about the feminine consciousness: receptive, creative, nurturing, inclusive, and deeply connected to the mystery of existence.

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The Rise of Patriarchy

Around 3,000–2,000 BC, the collective balance began to shift.
Various factors such as population growth, warfare, scarcity, and new social structures, led to societies valuing control, order, and conquest, overflow, emotion, and connection.

With the rise of patriarchal empires and monotheistic religions, the feminine was gradually suppressed, and the divine mother archetype was replaced by a distant, masculine god.
Spirituality became institutionalised; the body became sinful, and intuition was replaced with dogma.

Women who once held sacred power as healers, priestesses, and midwives were silenced or demonised.
Nature, once seen as a living spirit, became a resource to be used.

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And humanity entered what some call, The Age of Separation, separation from the Earth, from each other, and from the divine within.

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Let's go deeper into what the Witch Wound is:

The Witch Wound Represents:

• Fear of expressing your truth or intuition
• Fear of rejection or judgment for your gifts
• Self-silencing to stay safe or be accepted
• Distrust among women (a residue of historical division)

If You Are Someone Who May Feel:

• Afraid to speak their mind in meetings or relationships
• Hesitant to share creative or spiritual ideas
• Disconnected from their feminine or intuitive side
• A sense of shame about being "too much" or "too different"
• Competition or mistrust with other women instead of support

Well then, you might identify with having a "Witch Wound"

It's often described as a kind of collective memory or pattern passed through generations of women.

The Witch Wound: A Collective Memory Of Silenced Power

The Witch Wound is not only a metaphor, but also a spiritual and ancestral imprint that lives deep within the collective psyche, especially within women and intuitive beings across the world.
It speaks to the generational trauma of persecution, suppression, and fear carried by those who were once punished for their wisdom, intuition, and connection to the unseen.

Where It Began: The Fear Of The Feminine & The Unknown

The roots of the Witch Wound reach back to the late Middle Ages and early modern Europe (roughly the 14th to 18th centuries), when fear, superstition, and political control converged into one of the darkest chapters of spiritual history: the witch hunts.

During this time, thousands, primarily women, though men and children too, were accused of witchcraft, tortured, and executed. The reasons were complex but interconnected:

• The rise of patriarchal religion and governance sought to control spiritual and social life.
• The disempowerment of women threatened established hierarchies, especially those who were healers, midwives, or herbalists, the wise women who served their communities outside church authority.
• Fear of the unknown of nature's cycles, sexuality, and mystical power, led to mass hysteria and persecution.

What was once sacred intuition, healing through plants, communion with the moon and Earth, became labeled as dangerous or evil.

The Psychological & Energetic Legacy

The Witch Wound was not just historical, it became energetic.
Over generations, the trauma of those burned, silenced, or shamed for their gifts seeped into the collective memory of humanity.

It manifests today in subtle but familiar ways:

• The fear of being seen for who we truly are.
• The hesitation to speak our truth or share intuitive wisdom.
• The self-doubt that arises when we step into our creative, healing, or spiritual power.
• The people-pleasing and perfectionism that seek safety in conformity.

For many healers, teachers, and spiritual guides, this fear doesn't make logical sense, it feels ancient, as though it belongs to another time.

That's because, in a way, it does.

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Healing The Witch Wound

Healing this wound is both personal and collective — a reclamation of the voice, the body, and the inner flame. It asks us to remember that what was once punished is now being reawakened as sacred.

Ways of Healing:

Remembrance: honouring our ancestors who carried the wisdom before us.
Reclaiming our voice: speaking truth even when it trembles.
Returning to the body: through grounding, breath, and ritual.
Creative alchemy: transforming pain into art, fear into empowerment.
Sisterhood and community: healing in circle, where judgment dissolves and love restores.

The Modern Meaning

To heal the Witch Wound is to undo centuries of conditioning that taught us to distrust our own power.
It's about remembering that the feminine — in all beings — is not weak, dangerous, or shameful, but deeply wise, intuitive, and creative.

Every time someone speaks their truth, trusts their intuition, or chooses love over fear, the Witch Wound softens a little more.
And through this collective healing, we honor not only the witches who were lost — but the wisdom that lives on through us.

The Long Shadow & The Awakening

For thousands of years, patriarchal systems shaped the world, bringing structure, science, and progress, but also war, domination, and imbalance.
The feminine voice was pushed underground, surviving through myth, art, and the whispers of the heart.

But nothing truly sacred can be destroyed, only forgotten for a time.

In the past century, we have witnessed the slow but certain rebirth of the feminine principle. The rise of women's rights, spiritual reawakening, Earth-based practices, and holistic healing all signal the return of the matriarchal essence, though not as reversal or domination, but as restoration.

The Return: A New Matriarchal Consciousness

Today's "return to the matriarchal" is not a return to the old ways as they once were, but a rebirth of balance.
It's about integrating the sacred feminine and divine masculine within us all, structure and flow, logic and intuition, action and receptivity.

The Divine Feminine is rising again, through art, through voice, through healing, through the collective remembrance that love and connection are our true power.

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We Are Returning To:

Collaboration over competition
Cycles over linearity
Intuition over domination
Feeling over suppression
Creation over control

This rebirth is not about one gender reclaiming control, it's about restoring harmony between the two polarities that sustain life. The matriarchal energy that is rising now invites us back into wholeness, where both the feminine and masculine energies serve love, balance, and evolution.

The Era We Are Entering

Spiritually, we are moving from the Age of Power into the Age of Wisdom, or the Golden age, where leadership is rooted in empathy, sustainability, and unity.
This is the heart of the new matriarchal consciousness: a world led not by fear or hierarchy, but by compassion, cooperation, and remembrance of our sacred interconnectedness.

We are the bridge, between what was and what's to come.
The children of the patriarchy, awakening as the healers of the new Earth.

The Matriarchal & Patriarchal Eras: Lessons In Balance

Throughout history, humanity has swung like a pendulum between two great archetypal forces, the Feminine and the Masculine, the receptive and the active, the intuitive and the rational.

Neither is superior; both are sacred. But when either one dominates, imbalances arise.

By understanding the gifts and shadows of each era, we begin to see that our present awakening, the blending of both, is part of a greater cycle of remembering wholeness.

The Matriarchal Era

(approx. 30,000 BCE – 3,000 BCE, depending on region)

A time often described as the "Age of the Great Mother," when humanity lived in close harmony with nature, honoring the Earth and her cycles.

Pros (Light Aspects):

Connection with Nature and Spirit
Life was seen as a sacred web. People honored the moon, seasons, and the cycles of birth and death as divine.

Community & Cooperation
Matriarchal societies tended toward equality and collaboration. Leadership was shared, and survival depended on mutual care.

Reverence for the Feminine Principle
Creativity, intuition, and emotional intelligence were celebrated. The feminine body, as the source of life, was sacred, not shamed.

Cyclical Understanding of Time
Time was seen as circular, not linear, a reflection of the natural cycles of life, growth, decay, and renewal.

Holistic Healing & Spirituality
Health was viewed energetically. Rituals, herbs, and ceremony were used to maintain balance between body, mind, and soul.

Cons (Shadow Aspects):

Potential For Stagnation Or Passivity

In prioritising flow and intuition, some matriarchal systems may have lacked the drive for technological or structural progress.

Deeply peaceful and community-centered, these societies sometimes struggled to defend themselves against more aggressive civilizations.

Overemphasis on Emotional or Mystical Knowing
Without balance from the logical or strategic masculine, decisions could become overly emotional or lacking in discernment.

The Patriarchal Era

(approx. 3,000 BCE – present day, though dissolving now)

The rise of hierarchical empires, monotheistic religions, and systems that valued reason, control, and order over emotion, intuition, and the mystical.

Pros (Light Aspects):

Structure & Organisation
Patriarchal systems brought law, architecture, and social structure, essential for managing growing civilizations.

Technological & Intellectual Advancement
Reason, logic, and exploration flourished. Humanity learned to harness the elements, build, and innovate.

Development of Individualism & Identity
The rise of the ego, though often misused, allowed for self-expression, independence, and personal vision.

Discipline & Focus
Patriarchal order cultivated goal-setting, determination, and mastery, qualities that propelled evolution forward.

Cons (Shadow Aspects):

Suppression of the Feminine & Nature
Emotion, intuition, and embodiment were devalued. The Earth was seen as a resource to control, not a mother to honor.

Dominance & Hierarchy
Power became externalized, expressed through control, conquest, and separation rather than unity and cooperation.

Disconnection from the Sacred
Spirit and matter were divided. The body was seen as sinful, and spirituality became institutionalized.

Exploitation & War
Competition replaced cooperation. The masculine energy, unbalanced by the feminine, manifested as domination and destruction.

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Where We Are Now: The Great Integration

Humanity is now at a sacred turning point, the merging of the two polarities.
We are remembering the nurturing wisdom of the matriarchal age, while keeping the structure and discipline learned through patriarchy.

We are learning to:

Honor intuition and intellect.
Embrace emotion and logic.
Combine compassion with clear boundaries.
Create from love rather than from fear or control.

The matriarchal and patriarchal eras were not mistakes, they were teachers.

Each era offered a mirror: one showing us unity and flow, the other showing us individuality and power.

Now, we are being invited to evolve into the Age of Balance, where the sacred feminine and divine masculine dance together, not in opposition, but in co-creation.

Reuniting the Divine Feminine and Divine Masculine isn't about gender, it's about balancing two complementary energies that exist within everyone.

It's the union of intuition and logic, flow and focus, receiving and giving, being and doing.

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A Witch Wound Healing Self-Coaching Workbook, including Divine Feminine & Sacred Masculine Energy Balancing techniques.

Thank you so much for being here,

Sending all my love,

Sarah 💕

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