There's so many ways to answer your questions, on so many different levels. Speaking for just myself, the call for me is to bring more fully present the manifested honoring of the Goddess through a more fully realized honoring of the feminine in the world - or really, what has been marginalized as "feminine" in both women AND men.

So, I learn Sanskrit - to explore translation and intention in the texts - and I pursue scholarship. As a jnana yogi, my heart joy is found in the diving deep into the material, and surfacing with the prized pearl of the sacred marriage of wisdom and devotion, each tempered by the other.

Part of it, too, is understanding the patriarchal position, and understanding it through compassion and historical context. I get pissed about it, sure, but the deeper question for me is... where can my anger give way to compassion and understanding, so that cooperation and transformation can really take place? How can I use the words and ideas that have been handed down for centuries, in order to transform them and dive through to deeper, more ancient intention?

The answer to patriarchy is not matriarchy - it is partnership. Honoring not just the divine feminine and masculine, but where they converge, intertwine, where the lines get fuzzy. Finding that balance and partnership in each of us, and realizing that at some point, they're all just arbitrary labels, anyway. Language is useful, as are boundaries and signposts on the path - but language is such a limited way of conveying spiritual experience! 

Anyway, random thoughts to what is surely a large question with many, many answers.
