Lilith Star, Goddess of Perimenopause

Meet the Dark Goddess of Perimenopause, the Lilith Star, Algol.

Lilith Star is Feminine Rage. 

She is the Destroyer. She is unleashed Fury. She destroys monsters that would destroy the world.

She is the Great Mother. She is the Great Lover. She is the Crone at the gate of Death.

Mother Durga, slayer of monsters

She is everything patriarchy loathes and desires – for itself.

Patriarchy usurped the feminine powers of the Goddess and attributed her powers to a singular male god, attempting to delete the feminine divine from our consciousness.

Lilith’s story was left out of the Old Testament Judeo-Christian Bible. The remnant of her tale says that Lilith left the Garden of Eden rather than submit, lie down, and deny her divinity. 

Unable to control her, patriarchy turned her into a demon. Erased from monotheistic mythology, she haunts our repressed memories in her fearsome and bloodthirsty aspects. She lingers in fairy tales as the wicked witch, the evil step-mother, the loathsome hag who eats children and tempts men to sin.
 

Why do I call Lilith Star the goddess of peri-menopause?

The changes of peri-menopause unleash your rage, lust, giving no fucks, and taking no prisoners.

When you wake up your inner Lilith in your womb, blood, and bones, you release the vast energy of the Dark Goddess. 

• You throw down the mask of obedience and compliance.

• You stop tolerating everyone dumping all the emotional labor on you and counting on you to handle things and get dinner on the table.

• You stop tolerating men stealing your ideas and getting paid more for them.

• You stop faking orgasms, or having sex you don’t want.

• You stop tolerating injustice, abuse, and regimes that starve families while dropping bombs on their towns.

• You let your rage burn and spill off your tongue.

This is scary sh*t. It goes against everything you learned about being a good woman and being SAFE.

I’m old enough to remember when women said: I’m not a feminist because they are so ANGRY! I see it now when women posting on social media about what’s happening in the world are criticized for being too negative or too angry.

I learned as a young girl that my anger was sinful, and I had to repress it. When it exploded from me, I would leave my body, and not remember what happened when my anger valve blew up.

Anger and rage feel like violence. Men fear our anger. We fear our anger. Throughout history, women who expressed rage and anger have been locked up, lobotomized, or killed.

Anger in women is unacceptable, so we learn to swallow it rather than express or channel it. This repressed anger turns into violence toward ourselves. It makes us sick. It’s inflammation that raises blood pressure, damages the hearts, roils the guts, swells our joints, turns into depression, grows fibroids and cancer.

I know my mother died of disease brought on by her lifetime of repressed anger.

I’ve spent the last 25 years learning to express mine. It’s not easy. The suppression mechanisms are hard wired.

Thank Goddess she designed us to go through peri-menopause so we can pop the cork on our anger. It is part of the life cycle. It’s necessary, and necessary to learn how to BE WITH ANGER.

Necessary Anger
 

Lilith Star, the Demonized Goddess, bursts from the shadows in this time of crisis. It is not a mistake that a critical mass of women in the West are reaching the age of menopause and cronehood at this time.

Lilith Star finds her voice through us. Our anger is PASSION. Passion energizes creation and change.

Passion cycles through rage that destroys the real demons and monsters and transmutes into eros, the creative, orgasm, live-affirming power of the Goddess.

Lilith Star, aka Algol shows us how to embody this fearsome aspect of the Divine Feminine. This point in Dark Goddess Astrology is a fixed star. The Greeks identified the star as the Eye of Medusa, murdered and weaponized by the hero Perseus. The ancient Hebrews said she was the evil eye of demon Lilith, hence Lilith Star. She is outside our solar system, channeling energy Earthward from the galaxy.

Lilith Star calls you to create the world you want to live in. She calls you to grow into the person who can live in this world. She calls you to become BIGGER than the shrinking good girl of patriarchy. She calls you to be the goddess on Earth.

Where in your life is she inciting your ferocity? Where does she catalyze change? Where have you repressed her in the past?