This virtue speaks to the restoration of sacred balance between the divine feminine and masculine energies, both within us and in the world around us. In African cosmology, the God and Goddess are not faraway deities but forces of nature, ancestral intelligences, and cosmic principles that animate all of existence. This virtue calls us to remember that divinity is immanent. It lives in our breath, our choices, our bodies.

Today’s world bears the consequences of what happens when we do not honor this balance; a society shaped by patriarchal dominance, exploitation, emotional repression, and disconnection from the Earth. The divine feminine has been silenced, and the masculine has been wounded, expressing itself through domination rather than divine protection. This imbalance gives rise to ecological collapse, gender-based violence, broken families, and systems that reward control over care.

To honor both the God and Goddess is to decolonize our relationship with power. It is to heal the fracture in our own spirits, reclaiming softness as strength, action as sacred, and wholeness as holy. It’s a call to embody both nurturance and discernment, intuition and wisdom, stillness and movement.

The artwork features a pregnant African woman holding a cutlass, which is a powerful visual metaphor for the union of creation and protection, softness and strength. Her body holds the mystery of life; her blade, the precision of purpose. A tattoo of the Ankh, an ancient African symbol of balanced life force, adorns her arm, affirming that we are all divine vessels capable of holding both light and shadow in sacred harmony.