I've known since I was very small that I came for a reason--a big reason. But I never knew what. I even had dreams of being a "volunteer" to come--but for what?? I didn't know. As I became an adult, I began to work with Tarot, and found a partial answer--be a bridge between heaven and earth. I still didn't know exactly what I was supposed to be doing, but the idea of being a bridge has impelled me through my whole life--I've been a pastor, teacher, healer, author. I'm now 68 and your words validate something deep inside me that has been such a difficult question--I did choose this, I am here for this. And I've been part of the bridge all along. Thank you!
Johanna, I had full body tingles reading your message here. Everything you wrote felt deeply true, especially your dreams of being a volunteer. You are not here by accident - you come with great purpose. There are many of us who chose to be here at this time as the bridge builders - we didn’t come to live in the garden, but we came to plant it. Someone has to do that work, till that soil and plant those seeds. You clearly put your hand up, and you clearly remember. I’m so glad to be here with you now at this time, building this bridge for humanity. xx
I so want to stay, to see the cohesion, to feel the balance. I know that I have lived it before, I remember the harmony with the earth and all her natural systems. The nurture and nourishment from Mother Earth, the warmth and energy from Father Sun and the guidance and wisdom of Grandmother Moon. My siblings the animals and plants and my ancestors the trees, the seas the mountains and rivers My teacher and artist the Sky, full of signs and beauty.
My soul remembers and that's why I am here, the bridge between and your words resonate and inspire that soul knowing within. I so want to stay...
This message touched me deeply. You remember! And yes, the urge to stay is strong, though it's unlikely we will do so in this body. I suspect there are many of us who may return to enjoy the garden we planted, in different lives, different vessels. In the end, we are all one expressing as many anyway, so we will be there in some form or another. xx
This article is amazing and made me wish I could be here to witness the full transformation. I’ve been studying the divine feminine. Can you direct me to another one of your articles that defines the divine feminine and divine masculine? I’d love to read it. Thanks!
I’m glad this resonated for you. I have only written on this topic one other time, in a weekly Wrap-Up on 30 November. Most of this article was lifted from that piece, but there’s a little more meat on the bones in the Wrap-up that you might appreciate — https://www.wizard-withwords.com/p/wizards-weekly-wrap-up-ancient-wounds?r=3cr3ye
Thank you for so eloquently putting into words what I have been feeling and seeing in my meditations and dreams for the past couple of years. I’ve been told I’m a catalyst for my daughter to continue the work that we start - she is only 7 but I’m constantly in awe at her emotional intelligence, empathy, telepathy, and drive to make the world a better place. She tells me all the time her soul chose me to be her mama long before either of us came here. Time for us all to get to work! ♥️
Oh, the young ones coming in right now are made of something extra special. They will rise to be our leaders in the 2060's, growing up through the chaotic times, but wise to what's needed and wired to guide the way. Yes, in many ways, those of us here now are just paving the way for them, making their path as smooth as possible. We oversee the demolition, they oversee the rebuild. And yes, of course she chose you - children always choose the parent, and in many ways, they come in for us, more than we came in for them. They are the little guides who arrive half way through our journey, when we've usually stumbled off the path and forgotten who we really are, and they gently nudge us back on, usually by pressing all of our buttons! They are a gift! Thanks for sharing this - it made my heart smile. You get it! xx
Knowing I have the privilege of helping to prepare my grandson for what is coming, and knowing that he will experience the fruit of our labor, is even more hopeful than experiencing it myself! He will be 29 in 2045; how perfect! And he will likely live to experience the transformation past 2088. It's amazing when you think about it what he and his classmates will experience! What a gift as his grandmother to have this knowledge now! Thank you Wiz! 💖
I heartily agree, Marilyn. I often ponder the fact that my children will very possibly live to see the turn of the next century - and what things they will see over the course of their lives. It if a gift to be able to pave a way for them - to plant the seed they will water that will grow into mighty trees. Such an honor.
I agree with your framing of the divide. I absolutely believe that everyone suffers and that, as a people, we are deeply fractured, individually and collectively. I also agree that what we are seeing is brokenness rather than “evil,” and that the source of this great divide is an imbalance. You are right that a simple “struggle for dominance” will not fix us.
Where I depart from you is in how you qualify that divide. From my research, the oral histories I have listened to first hand, and my reading, the split emerged when the masculine principle was placed above the feminine. At first this was framed as a move toward “safety,” but it evolved into a strong preference for, and privileging of, the masculine principle and a dominance of it. Because of this dominance, women and the feminine in all people have been subjugated, and enormous violence has followed.
For that reason, I have to agree with many of the detractors on Threads. Your article misses the mark in a crucial way and lands on the other side of tolerable for me. I tend to love your writing and usually resonate with your takes, but this one erases the gendered nature of the wound at the heart of our culture. As a woman who has suffered greatly under that hierarchy, I cannot ignore that omission.
Thank you for taking the time to write such a thoughtful response. I want to start by saying very plainly: nothing in my piece is intended to erase the gendered harm women have endured. The violence, suppression, and psychological cost of living in systems shaped by patriarchal power are real, and I don’t deny or diminish that for a moment. Your experience matters, and I respect it deeply.
Where my framing differs is in the level of analysis I’m speaking from. You’re describing the social and historical hierarchy, where the masculine principle was elevated, the feminine was subordinated, and men held disproportionate power. That pattern is undeniable, and I absolutely agree that women have suffered greatly under it.
What I’m describing is the archetypal layer beneath that history - the part that predates patriarchy, predates agriculture, predates written religion, and sits in the psyche rather than the social structure.
You are naming the expression of the wound.
I am naming the origin of it.
From the level of lived human experience, the wound looks gendered because men have embodied the distorted masculine more visibly - physically, politically, institutionally, right across the board. Women have carried the impact of that distortion in deeply gendered ways, but from the archetypal perspective, the distortion itself is not masculine supremacy - it is masculine disconnection. And equally, the feminine hasn’t simply been “subjugated” - it has been fractured and unmoored, showing up as chaos, overwhelm, erosion of boundaries, and loss of centre.
Both wounded poles produced the system we live inside, but that does not mean men and women are affected equally, or that the harm isn’t gendered in its manifestation. It absolutely is.
The point I was trying to make - perhaps not clearly enough - is that patriarchy is not the cause of the wound. Patriarchy is the wound acting through a particular historical form.
If we approach healing solely at the level of “masculine dominance vs feminine subjugation,” we end up fighting over the expression instead of repairing the fracture that created it.
That doesn’t deny your suffering - it situates it inside a much older story.
I hear your critique, and I appreciate it. It helps me see where the language may have landed as erasure rather than zooming out. That isn’t what I intended, and I hope this clarifies the architecture I’m working with.
Thank you! I appreciate your thoughtful and complete response. When I have a few moments I am going to fully metabolize what you have written in response and get back to you with some complete thoughts. I appreciate you.
As richly detailed as ever and very uplifting. Makes sense on a soul level. However, not being an astrologer I was curious to know whether there is broad agreement of interpretation of the celestial map in astrology spheres. I shall always prefer the more hopeful interpretation but just wondering
I can’t speak for all astrologers, but what I can say is that the astrologers I look up to and respect (the ones who have been doing this for my whole lifetime) all seem to be coming to the same general read - we are at a major inflection point, and what happens in the next five years will dictate the nature of the next century. We can choose the highest expression of the energies that will be available, or we can choose the shadow - the details are really up to us, but the flavour, the general pattern being laid out, all speaks to a massive shift and a return to coherence. I’m working on a piece that explains in more detail how I’m getting the read I’m getting, so people can see I’m not just wishful thinking my take on the next 100 years…..it’s literally written in the stars. xx
Thanks. Yes I appreciate that we are at a huge portal but it’s the free will that concerns me given our choices to date. So am most encouraged to hear that there appears to be a consensus on a return to coherence. Thanks for all you do.
This! “We are the bridge generation - the souls who volunteered to stand at the fault line as the world shifts from fracture back into harmony. And though we may not live to see the full bloom of what we’re planting, we will feel the first light of it, the first warmth of it, the first rising hum of a world remembering itself.”
I submit for anyone’s consideration that there are gifts to being present for the harshness of the transition that those who come later will not necessarily receive if they hadn’t gone through it.
Also, I see this transition as a prism. We can look through it from the angle of masculine and feminine. We can look at it from the higher level astrology. We can look at from the detailed stories of souls incarnating multiple times. All of the views from the prism of consciousness have their challenges and beauty which I think means that we can bring our individual pieces/gifts to the new earth as we come together and feel our sovereign individuality contributing to the unity of the whole
This is powerful, Ben, and I especially like what you've said about the gifts we develop as a result of walking the hard road. That is so true - growth often comes through pain, and what readies us for what comes next is often a period of difficulty that evolves us to the place where we can receive the next thing. Such a good way to think about things as we navigate this decade of disruption ahead of us!!
I've known since I was very small that I came for a reason--a big reason. But I never knew what. I even had dreams of being a "volunteer" to come--but for what?? I didn't know. As I became an adult, I began to work with Tarot, and found a partial answer--be a bridge between heaven and earth. I still didn't know exactly what I was supposed to be doing, but the idea of being a bridge has impelled me through my whole life--I've been a pastor, teacher, healer, author. I'm now 68 and your words validate something deep inside me that has been such a difficult question--I did choose this, I am here for this. And I've been part of the bridge all along. Thank you!
Johanna, I had full body tingles reading your message here. Everything you wrote felt deeply true, especially your dreams of being a volunteer. You are not here by accident - you come with great purpose. There are many of us who chose to be here at this time as the bridge builders - we didn’t come to live in the garden, but we came to plant it. Someone has to do that work, till that soil and plant those seeds. You clearly put your hand up, and you clearly remember. I’m so glad to be here with you now at this time, building this bridge for humanity. xx
I so want to stay, to see the cohesion, to feel the balance. I know that I have lived it before, I remember the harmony with the earth and all her natural systems. The nurture and nourishment from Mother Earth, the warmth and energy from Father Sun and the guidance and wisdom of Grandmother Moon. My siblings the animals and plants and my ancestors the trees, the seas the mountains and rivers My teacher and artist the Sky, full of signs and beauty.
My soul remembers and that's why I am here, the bridge between and your words resonate and inspire that soul knowing within. I so want to stay...
This message touched me deeply. You remember! And yes, the urge to stay is strong, though it's unlikely we will do so in this body. I suspect there are many of us who may return to enjoy the garden we planted, in different lives, different vessels. In the end, we are all one expressing as many anyway, so we will be there in some form or another. xx
This article is amazing and made me wish I could be here to witness the full transformation. I’ve been studying the divine feminine. Can you direct me to another one of your articles that defines the divine feminine and divine masculine? I’d love to read it. Thanks!
I’m glad this resonated for you. I have only written on this topic one other time, in a weekly Wrap-Up on 30 November. Most of this article was lifted from that piece, but there’s a little more meat on the bones in the Wrap-up that you might appreciate — https://www.wizard-withwords.com/p/wizards-weekly-wrap-up-ancient-wounds?r=3cr3ye
Thank you so much for responding! I will give it a read!
Thank you for so eloquently putting into words what I have been feeling and seeing in my meditations and dreams for the past couple of years. I’ve been told I’m a catalyst for my daughter to continue the work that we start - she is only 7 but I’m constantly in awe at her emotional intelligence, empathy, telepathy, and drive to make the world a better place. She tells me all the time her soul chose me to be her mama long before either of us came here. Time for us all to get to work! ♥️
Oh, the young ones coming in right now are made of something extra special. They will rise to be our leaders in the 2060's, growing up through the chaotic times, but wise to what's needed and wired to guide the way. Yes, in many ways, those of us here now are just paving the way for them, making their path as smooth as possible. We oversee the demolition, they oversee the rebuild. And yes, of course she chose you - children always choose the parent, and in many ways, they come in for us, more than we came in for them. They are the little guides who arrive half way through our journey, when we've usually stumbled off the path and forgotten who we really are, and they gently nudge us back on, usually by pressing all of our buttons! They are a gift! Thanks for sharing this - it made my heart smile. You get it! xx
That is beautiful. Thank you for these words.💚
You’re very welcome. Thank-you for reading. xx
This is so beautifully written and articulated. Thank you for confirming what I've been sensing for a long time.
My pleasure. Thank-you for reading. xx
THISSS ❤️🔥👏🏼👏🏼
Thank you, Wizard - very inspiring and uplifting! I’m glad to know that our grandchildren will eventually experience a more coherent world.
They will walk in the garden we are here to plant. xx
Knowing I have the privilege of helping to prepare my grandson for what is coming, and knowing that he will experience the fruit of our labor, is even more hopeful than experiencing it myself! He will be 29 in 2045; how perfect! And he will likely live to experience the transformation past 2088. It's amazing when you think about it what he and his classmates will experience! What a gift as his grandmother to have this knowledge now! Thank you Wiz! 💖
I heartily agree, Marilyn. I often ponder the fact that my children will very possibly live to see the turn of the next century - and what things they will see over the course of their lives. It if a gift to be able to pave a way for them - to plant the seed they will water that will grow into mighty trees. Such an honor.
I agree with your framing of the divide. I absolutely believe that everyone suffers and that, as a people, we are deeply fractured, individually and collectively. I also agree that what we are seeing is brokenness rather than “evil,” and that the source of this great divide is an imbalance. You are right that a simple “struggle for dominance” will not fix us.
Where I depart from you is in how you qualify that divide. From my research, the oral histories I have listened to first hand, and my reading, the split emerged when the masculine principle was placed above the feminine. At first this was framed as a move toward “safety,” but it evolved into a strong preference for, and privileging of, the masculine principle and a dominance of it. Because of this dominance, women and the feminine in all people have been subjugated, and enormous violence has followed.
For that reason, I have to agree with many of the detractors on Threads. Your article misses the mark in a crucial way and lands on the other side of tolerable for me. I tend to love your writing and usually resonate with your takes, but this one erases the gendered nature of the wound at the heart of our culture. As a woman who has suffered greatly under that hierarchy, I cannot ignore that omission.
Thank you for taking the time to write such a thoughtful response. I want to start by saying very plainly: nothing in my piece is intended to erase the gendered harm women have endured. The violence, suppression, and psychological cost of living in systems shaped by patriarchal power are real, and I don’t deny or diminish that for a moment. Your experience matters, and I respect it deeply.
Where my framing differs is in the level of analysis I’m speaking from. You’re describing the social and historical hierarchy, where the masculine principle was elevated, the feminine was subordinated, and men held disproportionate power. That pattern is undeniable, and I absolutely agree that women have suffered greatly under it.
What I’m describing is the archetypal layer beneath that history - the part that predates patriarchy, predates agriculture, predates written religion, and sits in the psyche rather than the social structure.
You are naming the expression of the wound.
I am naming the origin of it.
From the level of lived human experience, the wound looks gendered because men have embodied the distorted masculine more visibly - physically, politically, institutionally, right across the board. Women have carried the impact of that distortion in deeply gendered ways, but from the archetypal perspective, the distortion itself is not masculine supremacy - it is masculine disconnection. And equally, the feminine hasn’t simply been “subjugated” - it has been fractured and unmoored, showing up as chaos, overwhelm, erosion of boundaries, and loss of centre.
Both wounded poles produced the system we live inside, but that does not mean men and women are affected equally, or that the harm isn’t gendered in its manifestation. It absolutely is.
The point I was trying to make - perhaps not clearly enough - is that patriarchy is not the cause of the wound. Patriarchy is the wound acting through a particular historical form.
If we approach healing solely at the level of “masculine dominance vs feminine subjugation,” we end up fighting over the expression instead of repairing the fracture that created it.
That doesn’t deny your suffering - it situates it inside a much older story.
I hear your critique, and I appreciate it. It helps me see where the language may have landed as erasure rather than zooming out. That isn’t what I intended, and I hope this clarifies the architecture I’m working with.
Thank you! I appreciate your thoughtful and complete response. When I have a few moments I am going to fully metabolize what you have written in response and get back to you with some complete thoughts. I appreciate you.
And I appreciate you, and this open exchange of ideas! Thanks for being so open to it. xx
As richly detailed as ever and very uplifting. Makes sense on a soul level. However, not being an astrologer I was curious to know whether there is broad agreement of interpretation of the celestial map in astrology spheres. I shall always prefer the more hopeful interpretation but just wondering
I can’t speak for all astrologers, but what I can say is that the astrologers I look up to and respect (the ones who have been doing this for my whole lifetime) all seem to be coming to the same general read - we are at a major inflection point, and what happens in the next five years will dictate the nature of the next century. We can choose the highest expression of the energies that will be available, or we can choose the shadow - the details are really up to us, but the flavour, the general pattern being laid out, all speaks to a massive shift and a return to coherence. I’m working on a piece that explains in more detail how I’m getting the read I’m getting, so people can see I’m not just wishful thinking my take on the next 100 years…..it’s literally written in the stars. xx
Thanks. Yes I appreciate that we are at a huge portal but it’s the free will that concerns me given our choices to date. So am most encouraged to hear that there appears to be a consensus on a return to coherence. Thanks for all you do.
This! “We are the bridge generation - the souls who volunteered to stand at the fault line as the world shifts from fracture back into harmony. And though we may not live to see the full bloom of what we’re planting, we will feel the first light of it, the first warmth of it, the first rising hum of a world remembering itself.”
I submit for anyone’s consideration that there are gifts to being present for the harshness of the transition that those who come later will not necessarily receive if they hadn’t gone through it.
Also, I see this transition as a prism. We can look through it from the angle of masculine and feminine. We can look at it from the higher level astrology. We can look at from the detailed stories of souls incarnating multiple times. All of the views from the prism of consciousness have their challenges and beauty which I think means that we can bring our individual pieces/gifts to the new earth as we come together and feel our sovereign individuality contributing to the unity of the whole
This is powerful, Ben, and I especially like what you've said about the gifts we develop as a result of walking the hard road. That is so true - growth often comes through pain, and what readies us for what comes next is often a period of difficulty that evolves us to the place where we can receive the next thing. Such a good way to think about things as we navigate this decade of disruption ahead of us!!