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The Garden After the War

Reclaiming the Sacred Masculine and Feminine

By THE HONED CRONEPublished 2 months ago 3 min read
Art by Victoria Lynn

Across the ages, we’ve played out this wound—the fall from Eden, the wars of gods and lovers, the burning of witches, the crucifixion of truth. But the myths are shifting now. The garden is not lost; it waits within us. Every healed heart is a seed, every honest union a bloom. We are rewriting the story of creation—not from power over, but power with. This is the new genesis.

Men are raised to “be men” in a world built on patriarchal rules: suppress, dominate, ridicule, abandon. They are taught to fear their own empathy, deny tenderness, and crush the feminine within themselves. Boys hear, “Boys will be boys,” while little girls are taught to shrink, to accommodate, to survive quietly.

By the time they reach adulthood, many men can overpower, control, and harm. Some become predators, acting out unresolved rage and abandoned vulnerability. Others simply grow lost—disconnected from their own hearts, unable to honour their gentleness, their empathy, their full humanity.

A man who has not cultivated his inner feminine will seek a woman to mother him. He will resent her, because he cannot face the shadow of his mother, his society, or the unhealed parts of himself. He seeks wholeness externally, and in doing so, he cannot see it within.

Women, too, are conditioned—to sacrifice themselves, to nurture and protect, to mirror the unhealed masculinity around them. But many are waking. Women are learning to heal their inner masculine: discipline, structure, boundaries, sovereignty. They are holding their soft, tender, blazing feminine fire. They are becoming whole. They are becoming sovereign.

And the world resists. Some men whine about loneliness. Some rage against women claiming their autonomy. But this is not strength—it is fracture. It is the echo of what has been denied.

The truly sovereign men—the ones who’ve done the work—rise differently. They hold integrity, humility, and presence. They know themselves. They’ve confronted the shame, the fear, the ego, the lies. They honour life, they honour women, and they honour their own hearts.

A healed man does not blame women. A healed man does not project fear onto the innocent. He knows the gift of his masculinity—the responsibility it carries and the power of his presence. He is fierce yet gentle, firm yet open, steady in movement yet calm in stillness.

The world needs men like this. The world needs women like this. And together, they awaken the new sacred union—a world where sovereignty, respect, and balance are not whispered ideals but lived reality.

This is not fantasy. This is the call across the ages: to honour your inner light, to face your shadow, to rise whole, to walk the path of integrity.

To the unhealed men: your path begins with recognition. Begin within. Heal what was silenced. Stop seeking wholeness through another. Stop using the feminine as mirror, servant, soother or sex toy. Your freedom depends on your courage to feel, to integrate, to honour what society told you to crush.

To the women: your sovereignty is your shield, your fire, your reclamation. Hold your boundaries. Cultivate your inner masculine. Trust your heart. Witness the truth. You are not responsible for the unhealed—you are responsible for your own becoming.

Together, when hearts awake, when fire meets fire, the world shifts. Predation falters. Integrity rises. Shadow meets light. Rage transforms into wisdom. Pain becomes action. Love becomes revolution.

This is the rebirth of the sacred masculine and feminine—the living alchemy of truth and grace. We are not enemies; we are reflections. We are not broken; we are remembering.

We are not victims.

We are sovereign.

We are fire.

We are becoming.

We are unstoppable.

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About the Creator

THE HONED CRONE

Sacred survivor, mythic storyteller, and prophet of the risen feminine. I turn grief, rage, and trauma into art, ritual, and words that ignite courage, truth, and divine power in others.

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