💃🏻 The Dark Feminine Rising - A Sacred Storm🔥

Written by: Duchess Daring

Started Jan 2025

Published July 2025

You’ve felt it, haven’t you? The quiet hum of change, coiling beneath your skin. Maybe that's what brought you here. The feeling that things are shifting. Rapidly, irrevocably. And yet, here we are. Still tangled in our mortal coils, pretending the ground beneath us isn’t moving. All of us have witnessed lots of change or changes, but there is one I'm actively witnessing this year, and that, I predict, will persist for the next few coming years.

Sensing a Collective Shift

Though I am a divination witch, I never proclaim to be a future-seer. I pick up on what is being put down in a moment. Then I can then feel out any predictions or draw educated guesses about possible outcomes from these perceptions.

This is not seeing the future. It's more like trying to think ahead in chess. Looking at all the pieces & possibilities.

Even though I cannot see the future, I feel what the future can bring. The prospects that are ripe within it. But most importantly, presently, I can feel a building swell of how we will get there.

There is a spark of energy, at this moment, within the hearts and souls of those that have bore the brunt of change for centuries. We have been reliving cycles of patriarchal oversight and dominance that have permeated every element of the 21st century. Now, we are abruptly becoming aware of this to a new degree, on a collective level.

As a claircognizant witch, sometimes I just know things. Like someone's birth month or favorite color within the first 5 minutes of meeting - if it takes that long. Or the tenderness & pain that bleeds into your eyes & how it got there.

One thing that I have come to know & feel deeply this year, is that women are getting mad. Not just women, of course, but all those who have been oppressed, marginalized, and used for centuries by various in-groups and dominating cultures. This all can happen to someone, despite their gender, sex or identity, but we see these things happening more frequently BECAUSE of someone's identity. Chosen, or otherwise.

The Wounded Femme

Feminine things, or qualities have long been used as slurs, or to degrade. Female. Woman. Girl. Girly. Sissy. Bitch. Words used against us like a ruler smacking out our sins. Words we have slowly been reclaiming and renaming.

All these words crashed around me on a nondescript day in 2024. A day I just felt angry. I don't even remember what I was angry about anymore, but it bubbled beneath my skin and blistered me.

As I always do, I reached out to my friend, who I knew would understand my feelings as a woman who also lived on this earth. She too, was angry. Fed up and frustrated, who knows what with. Something that is still bothering her to this day, I am sure.

Over the next few weeks, I was given more and more examples of women on the edge of a society that had pushed them there.

None of this is to say that society doesn't push all of us around at one point or another, but particularly female identifying, or even feminine-perceived members of society are treated different.

Just like how people with different skin tones are treated differently, and people with differing levels of abilities are treated differently. This writer is only talking about her own perspective as a white cis-fem person, but also as someone who strives to talk to people purposefully to broaden her views, and learn.

As I connected with even more, deeply marginalized people over the next few months, I realized just how mad and fed up everyone was. We are all reaching this collective point of being done with the level of bullshit we are putting up with. And then I noticed a shift. Almost like an ear pop.

Reawakening the Sacred Storm

I saw women subtly taking back their power. Standing up for things and questioning more. Talking to each other differently. Doing what they want and pursuing their dreams, despite the arguments thrown in their faces. Telling men they would rather have the bear, and why.

These small actions themselves are not dark, but show a rise in dark feminine energy. What this energetic shift is, is women having gone through dark periods for ~centuries~, and now, are starting to process it, and move with it. We recognize that we deserve more and better, and those we love deserve the same. So, we are going to demand better.

There are many tales, and stories of the dark femme. What she is, and should be. We see this archetype echoed throughout times & places, yet she still remains elusive. The dark femme has a raw ability to call forth the parts of ourselves that we'd usually rather ignore. The parts of ourselves we keep hidden behind doors and wrought iron.

Dark feminine energy is that love that is so deeply rooted, you can't help but be mad with someone when you watch them harm themselves. This is what we tap into when we stand up for ourselves and our boundaries. It is a strong unwavering voice with no hesitation. It's the wrathful compassion of a mother on the sidewalk, gripping her child's arm to keep them out of traffic.

Feminine energy is a source of deep creation, and healing. Think of the process of birth and what it entails. Those who embody dark feminine energy means recognizing that with birth comes death, pain is a part of life. With health comes illness. In darkness, comes light. All parts of life are a part of a cycle and balancing act, and the dark femme embraces these cycles.

The Rising Dark Feminine

In a world that deems power a hot commodity and a demanding woman a threat, the dark feminine is dangerous. Because of her power, because of her truth, and because of her ability to see through the masks.

Because of the radical truth becoming more comfortable in our mouths, things will keep shifting. With knowledge more accessible (and dangerous), and the quiet, but steady return to community we are nurturing, the dark femme will reawaken.

We're rediscovering this ability to advocate for ourselves, even though we may be questioned. To communicate that we will no longer accept being treated that way, and telling people how we need to be treated, and how they make us feel.

All of these things will help us heal. As we patiently, yet so impatiently, continue to try tipping the scales in our favor. Because as we learn to work with, and accept the darknesses that reside in all of us, and all corners of our communities, we get better at accepting the light.

If you read this and felt some level of comfort, or maybe a desire to become more familiar with the dark feminine for yourself, you might check out my Instagram. If you're ready to ignite your own dark femme energy, let's start with your aura reading, shall we?

Lots of things begin with a spark. My love for magic and witchcraft came in a spark of lightning. I love the way it split the sky, and glistened and made the earth rattle. I love the natural destruction that lingers in the air during a good thunderstorm.

The thunderstorm may seem like a big scary event to some, but really it is just a natural part of life, and is in fact, vital to the process of life. Of course, when the clouds pass, the rain stops and the sun comes back out, the thunderstorm is over, yes? Or does the static electricity still hover in the air? The smell of petrichor remaining for the following days.

I think of the dark feminine energy we are about to be hit with as a thunderstorm... We can smell the approaching drizzle, and feel the distant thunder in our bones. Some people are scared of what the storm might bring, others know it's a part of nature that brings the soothing rain.

For now, just take a moment to breathe in to the calm before the storm. And remember, you are the storm.

xoxo Duchess Daring 💋

The Mystic Mistress 🔮✨