Women are powerful. If you look back through history and through spiritual texts, you see it clearly. Women have always held strength, wisdom, and influence. There have always been women who stood in their power, who carried vision, who led with courage. That thread runs through time, and it shows us that women were never created to be small.

So why would God give women sharp intuition, strong senses, and the natural ability to nurture and protect, if not for us to stand in positions of power? Why would we be created with these gifts only to be silenced, boxed in, or stripped of leadership? That is not Spirit’s doing. That is the human ego twisting words. Ego wants control. Ego wants manipulation. Ego wants power. But ego can only twist truth, it cannot destroy it.

And that is where reclaiming comes in. Standing in your power as a woman is not rebellion, it is alignment. It is choosing to live in the strength and wisdom that was always placed inside of you. When you know your power, you stop allowing the system to keep you boxed in. You stand in what you already are.

Every major religion shows the same pattern. The original texts uplifted women, honored our wisdom, and recognized our role as leaders and protectors. The human ego stepped in and rewrote the story. And when I say ego, I mean the human ego that clouds our spiritual and intuitive truth. It has not only been men. Women, too, have gone against their own power. Some chose to align with the voices that said we were weak, helpless, or only meant to serve. Some repeated the lies until they sounded like truth. This is not about blaming men or excusing women. It is about naming ego as the force of control and greed that pulled us all away from Spirit. Now it is on us to return to the source and reclaim what was always ours.

Christianity

In the Bible, Proverbs 31 is one of the clearest examples of how God spoke about women. The “virtuous woman” is not sitting quietly in the background. She is buying land, planting vineyards, trading in the marketplace, making clothes to sell, managing her household, and giving to the poor. She has help, she leads, and she is praised for her wisdom and strength. That is not the picture of a woman silenced or diminished. That is the picture of a woman standing in her power.

And it does not stop there. In the New Testament, women like Lydia are shown running businesses and financing ministry. Priscilla taught alongside her husband and was trusted as a teacher of truth. Women were prophets, leaders, and vital to the growth of the early church. The text is full of women who were recognized for their wisdom and their authority.

Over time, men reshaped the narrative and cherry-picked selected verses to push women into silence and submission. Women were called to be empowered, yet were reduced to limitation.

When you look at Proverbs 31 in its truth, you see validation for women working, leading, delegating, and providing. You see a woman whose strength and wisdom are celebrated, not suppressed. That power has always been there. It was only twisted. And what is twisted can be untwisted when you stand back up in your truth.

Islam

In Islam, women were given rights that were revolutionary for the time. The Qur’an affirmed that women could inherit property, own land, and run businesses. Khadijah, the first wife of the Prophet Muhammad, was a wealthy and successful merchant long before she married him. She is honored as one of the most respected women in Islamic history, not because she stayed hidden, but because she stood in her power.

The text itself never denied women the ability to lead, provide, or own. It opened doors that were previously shut in the culture of that era. Over time, interpretations shifted. Men reshaped the narrative and placed limits on women that were never written in the original word. Women who had been empowered to participate fully in society were reduced to silence and restriction.

The truth is that Islam’s foundation carried space for women to be leaders in their own right. Remembering that is reclaiming what was always intended.

Judaism

The last of the three major monotheistic religions is Judaism. In the Torah, which is also carried into the Christian Bible, we find Proverbs 31. Here the “woman of valor” is praised as a leader, provider, and protector of her household. Her worth is declared to be above rubies, and her wisdom is seen as strength.

Judaism also honors Deborah, who was both a prophet and a judge. She guided Israel at a time of great conflict, leading with wisdom and courage. Her leadership was recognized and respected, showing again that God empowered women to stand in authority.

Over centuries, rabbinic interpretation and cultural practice shifted the narrative. The women who had once been honored as prophets, judges, and leaders were gradually reduced to silence in ritual and authority. What began as empowerment became limitation, not because God wrote it that way, but because ego reshaped the story.

Women in Judaism were never meant to be hidden. They were called to be leaders, visionaries, and protectors from the very beginning.

Hinduism

In Hinduism, women are reflected in the divine itself. Goddesses are not background figures, they are embodiments of strength, wisdom, and prosperity. Durga represents power and protection. Saraswati is wisdom and knowledge. Lakshmi is prosperity and abundance. These images show clearly that the feminine is honored as sacred and essential.

In the early Vedic period, women were also respected in practice. They had rights to education, they composed hymns, and they could hold spiritual authority. The same culture that lifted up goddesses also gave space for real women to lead and learn.

The original balance was lost. Cultural shifts and systems of control narrowed the role of women, taking away freedoms that were once recognized. The divine image of the goddess never changed, but the way women were treated no longer reflected what had been written in the beginning.

It is crucial to see that Hinduism’s own foundation makes the feminine powerful and sacred. Women were always meant to carry wisdom, creativity, and authority, just as the goddesses themselves do.

Buddhism

In Buddhism, women were present from the start. The Therigatha, some of the earliest Buddhist writings, are poems written by female nuns that describe their spiritual journeys and teachings. Women were welcomed into monastic life and were seen as capable of reaching the same enlightenment as men.

Yet as Buddhism spread and different traditions took shape, that original equality was slowly pulled back. Some schools of thought taught that women had to be reborn as men to reach enlightenment, a distortion that was never in the earliest teachings. The voices of women who had once been respected teachers were pushed aside in favor of male authority.

Recognizing that the foundation of Buddhism never denied women’s spiritual power. Women carried wisdom, discipline, and enlightenment within them from the very beginning. That truth cannot be erased by ego-driven interpretation.

Pulling the Thread Together

When we look across all religions, one thing is crystal clear: women were always meant to be revered, uplifted, and honored in positions of power and strength. Women were called to carry themselves with integrity, honesty, selfless hearts balanced by clear boundaries, deep empathy, dignity, and honor. That’s more than a story, it’s a blueprint.

The same golden thread weaves through Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, and Buddhism. It shows that women were never meant to be silenced or diminished. We were meant to stand in our intuition, creativity, and strength. We were meant to be leaders, visionaries, and protectors. That thread never disappeared. Humans tried to twist it, but it never broke.

Seeing that thread in every sacred text changes the way I experience my own power today. I’ve been fiery and strong-willed since I was a little girl. Blunt. Intimidating to some. But over time I learned not to take that personal, I learned to embrace it. My power is that strong. I’m blessed to know my power. I am proud to be a woman.

When women don’t recognize or reclaim that thread, they lose so much. Self esteem. Direction. Groundedness. Even safety, the kind that comes from being able to be vulnerable, trust your intuition, listen to your inner voice, and stand firm in what you believe. That is why it matters so much to know your power and strength.

I am not going to tell you it is always easy in the world we live in to stand in your power as a woman. There are obstacles that do occur. But do not ever tell yourself that you cannot do something or have something because you are a woman. You have power in you.

I have lived this truth. I have been told that I did not deserve to get paid a certain amount of money. I have been chastised by men. I have been sexually harassed. All of those moments tested me for sure. But I never gave way. I stood strong in my power.

That is why it is so important to know who you are as a woman and to know the power that is within you. It is important to learn about yourself, to learn to love yourself deeply. And make connection with your intuition. Really know it. Trust it. Learn to trust yourself. Because when you are rooted in that, no obstacle can take away what God already placed inside you.

And here’s something magical about being a woman. It’s not just spiritual, it’s cosmic. Women aren’t wired to a 24 hour circadian rhythm like men. We run on an infradian rhythm, our second inner timekeeper that moves in cycles longer than a day. It carries our creativity, our intuition, our emotional flow. It is tied to the moon, to cycles of renewal and change, and it’s part of how we carry power in our bodies and in our connection to the universe itself .

When we stand in that truth, we stop seeing our differences as limitations and start recognizing the sacred rhythm inside us. That is the essence of being a woman: magic, alignment, and divine design that ego can never take away.

xo Jessica