When Feminism Floats Off Course: Why Goddess Circles Miss the Point
Modern feminism has given women language, rights and opportunities our grandmothers could only dream of. But let’s be honest: much of today’s feminism has drifted into performance — a checklist of talking points and identity badges that often leaves women no closer to real power in their own lives.
And the goddess circles? Too often, they float in the wrong direction. A sea of flower crowns and soft chants but very little raw, embodied power. A room full of women who can cry together but not necessarily claim their voices in the boardroom, the bedroom, or the halls of power.
It’s not that softness and community are wrong. They’re essential. But without power, without the spine, goddess circles become bubbles of comfort — not catalysts for transformation.
1. The Problem With Performance Feminism
Mainstream feminism today often tells women that empowerment means sounding powerful, looking powerful, branding yourself as powerful.
But true power is not performative. You don’t need to wear the right slogan T-shirt or have the perfect Instagram caption to be powerful. You need to know how to direct attention, command with your voice and claim your desires without apology.
Feminism that forgets the body and the nervous system is feminism that never lands in reality.
2. Goddess Circles Without Ground
Too many goddess circles offer transcendence but not transformation. Women float together in incense and mantras but they don’t come down to earth with the tools to negotiate a raise, set a boundary, or dismantle a toxic dynamic in their actual lives.
Sacred sisterhood is beautiful — but only if it builds capacity for action. Otherwise, it becomes spiritual escapism dressed in velvet.
3. Power Is Not Just Healing Wounds
Another mistake: confusing healing with power. Yes, many women carry wounds — of neglect, invisibility, abuse, silencing. Healing those wounds is necessary. But power is not the same as endlessly processing your pain.
True feminine power begins after the wound. It’s the moment you use your voice, your body, your attention, not just to recover — but to create.
4. The Feminine Is Not Always Gentle
Today’s goddess culture often worships softness, surrender, and receptivity — but forgets that the feminine is also feral. She is Kali as well as Kuan Yin, the storm as well as the stillness.
When circles deny rage, when feminism discourages desire, when women are told to only be nurturing and never commanding — they are stripped of half their arsenal.
A woman fully in her feminine power does not only soothe. She disrupts. She terrifies. She births new worlds.
5. The Redirection
Feminism must return to the body. Goddess circles must return to the spine.
We don’t need more theories. We need women who can walk into a room and command attention without raising their voice. Women who can feel their desire in their bones and speak it without shrinking. Women who can receive deeply and also cut sharply.
The feminine does not float away from the world. The feminine roots into it so deeply that the world bends around her.
Closing
Today’s feminism is not wrong in intention. Goddess circles are not wrong in spirit. But both risk becoming hollow when they forget the point: power.
Power that is embodied. Power that disrupts. Power that heals and creates.
The feminine is not just a circle of women holding hands in the candlelight. The feminine is also the woman who takes that flame, walks into the dark, and sets the world on fire.
