Have you ever heard of Cultural Reproduction?
It's a sociological concept that explains how culture is passed down not primarily through governments or laws, but through daily practices inside families and communities.
I believe this is how the matriarchy will take shape.
Not because men finally decide to hand over the keys to the Barbie Dreamhouse... but instead we simply build a new system from within while they burn themselves out in the process of grasping onto a crumbling system that is currently in an extinction burst.
So how do we start that? From the ground up. Which means the way we structure our days and manage our time and energy has to change.
Men are wired to operate on a solar cycle. Women are more in tune with the moon. Most of history has operated that way. Until about 500 years ago when men decided to muck it up. Because of course the patriarchy fucked with time.
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Moon Cycles + The Matriarchy
I was sitting across the table from my friend Amy at my favorite Tex-Mex place, the kind where the nachos arrive piled so high you have to carefully excavate them layer by layer to keep everything from sliding onto the table. Ours were loaded with vegetables, beans, cheese, and every good thing you could possibly stack on a plate of tortilla chips. We were deep in one of those conversations that stretches far beyond small talk, the kind where time seems to slow down and the world outside the table fades away.
You know the kind.
Amy was walking me through everything that was frustrating her about her business. Projects that wouldn’t quite come together. Decisions that felt strangely heavy. A persistent sense that she was working incredibly hard, but somehow nothing felt aligned.
I listened for a while, letting her untangle the knot out loud. Then I asked a question that has saved more conversations in my life than I can count.
“Do you want to vent,” I asked gently, “or do you want the answer?”
She didn’t even hesitate.
“YES,” she said immediately. “Tell me.”
So I did.
“Baby,” I said, “you’re trying to run your life and your business on patriarchal timelines. But you should be living in the matriarchal cycle.”
