Motherless
2026
I've been thinking about the heavily-loaded, deliberately chosen word Motherless and the undermining of our very foundations as women and humans. I haven't found words to express my grief yet, but I read an absolutely piercing Substack piece by ELAYNE KALILA entitled What Happens When the World Is Motherless.
"On the archetypal level it means…
The Great Mother, who for tens of thousands of years was the central image of the sacred has been exiled from our cosmology.
The feminine has been cut out of the very shape of the sacred, and so has the body, and so has the earth, and so has everything we are made of.
On the spiritual level it means…
We do not know how to die well.
We do not know how to be born well.
We do not know how to grieve, or how to descend, or how to rest, or how to belong.
The body is treated as an obstacle to holiness rather than its temple.
We are ashamed of what makes us alive.
We have severed the cord that once connected every human being to the earth, to the ancestors, to the dark mysteries, to the rhythm of the moon, to the knowing in the blood.
We have a generation of seekers who are spiritually starving in a world where spirituality is a booming industry.
We have built an entire civilisation on top of a wound, and called the wound normal, and called the civilisation progress.
That is motherless. That is the air we are all breathing. Motherless.com did not invent this. It is just the loudest part of a song we have been humming for a very, very long time."
