Gaia and the Divine Feminine

Mother Gaia—the fertile, sustaining Divine Feminine—is the Green Christ’s Mother. She is virginal. That is, she is complete within herself, and she alone defines herself. Her home and deepest reflection is the virgin forest.

The Judean Jesus (based on the thin and biased records we have of him, at any rate) was almost exclusively concerned with his Divine Father. He had an earthly mother, Mary, but spiritually he presented himself as descended only from his Father. The Father lived “up there” in the sky, remote from the everyday world of men and women eking out a living from the bare, long-deforested desert lands. Although the biblical Jesus was known to wax poetic about the love and consideration of his Father, the aloof Father God was already present to the people of that time, respected and even feared by them. His strict justice and retributive vengeance were legendary—and no wonder, in that stark land of relentless, glittering skies and vast, empty earth. Reflecting the doctrine of the all-powerful heavenly father, the society in which the biblical Jesus arose was a deeply patriarchal one.
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The Green Christ is of the green land—all green lands—but particularly the virgin forest.

A virgin forest is a forest that is fully itself—complete and self-perpetuating, with all the constituents needed to keep supporting and generating the vast, varied riot of life it contains—from the tallest trees to the tiniest flowers, from the largest animals and birds to the smallest micro-organisms. The light of the sun arrives from above and unites with the waters of rain and dew so that the plants can photosynthesize their own and all creation’s life-giving energies. At the same time, the mycorrhizal fungi in the soil below are using the light created from their own chemical processes to nourish the trees’ roots. Held between earth and sky, from the forest floor up into the canopy, animals, plants, insects, fungi, water and air are constantly combining and recombining with one another in a fecund cycle of creation, birth and growth, decay and death, and re-creation—the endless round of life. Bathed in light from above and below, and nourished by the dynamic interactions of all the living beings that inhabit it, the virgin forest is a generative, sustainable and sustaining green world.
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