EP 130: Petra & the Divine Feminine: Ancient Goddess Wisdom of Jordan

What's a story that the land has told you about your own ancestry?

That the feminine was forgotten.

And that if I trace this back to Petra and how the stories of the goddesses and the ancient feminine wisdom was kind of buried underneath the kings and the trade routes and the more kind of masculine ways of relating the land that is more about domination, about power, about control.

and the softness of the feminine wisdom, the relation to the goddess, the honoring of the sacred through the divine feminine, it was all forgotten and put behind.

And this has translated into society, into culture, into how women were seen as less than in comparison to men and women.

Yeah, the power and control they have over economy, over policy, over everything that has to relate to the way that we live.

It's an unfortunate story.

We probably all have this, you know, picture of Petra where you literally see the entrance, the entry like through the rocks, which to me is really like this birth canal in itself, like that feminine entrance into the womb in both ways.

And Guide us a little bit into that ancient city of Petra.

What do we find when we open the veil and bring forward all of these or remove all of the layers that you just mentioned about the kings and go to the origin as far as we might remember the origin?

Yeah, so it was from a book that I read called Conversations with a Goddess by Dorothy Atala that made this parallel between the Sikh which is the entrance into Petra and the birth canal and after reading that I realized like how much that actually makes sense so then the next time that I went I was walking with that consciousness and what you meet when you come out of the birth canal which is by the way accompanied by the waters just like the womb the first thing that you meet is the great mother It's the treasury, which was a place to honor the goddess.

And the figure that is in the middle has been said to be Isis.

Even in the museum, when you can go visit, it's not like a conspiracy.

They write that the crown on the treasury belongs to Isis.

And so Isis is the great mother.

Another goddess that they used to worship in Petra is Al-Uzza.

which can be a personification of Isis as well, because they both gave birth to, as virgins, they gave birth to great, the sun, the sun god, which is Jesus, or which is Dushara in the case of Petra.

So it's like this, after leaving the canal, you open into this new reality and new consciousness, and the first thing that you see It's the great mother, just like the birth of a child who leaves his womb and then comes to meet his mother, the source of where he actually comes from.

I'm just envisioning us walking in there and having that experience.

You know, I bet that when you travel to these places as an architect or like a landscape architect, you might also bring a very different perspective.

perspective and lens.

So how do you see that? I mean, it's just incredible when we look at these buildings, how they were and probably I'm even gonna say it wrong, but like carved into the rock.

So it's really like this blending that you described earlier also of like, this is all one.

And I feel when we come into these places, there is no other way than just really recognizing that we are also part of that landscape.

So what is that perspective that you bring or maybe take us a little bit through your lensing I'd be curious to, yeah, what you pick up on.