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  • Babaylan Codes and the Return of the Divine Feminine

    Babaylan Codes and the Return of the Divine Feminine

    Reawakening the Ancestral Feminine Blueprint for Planetary Healing and Wholeness

    Inspired by Akashic Records transmissions, curated through Gerald A. Daquila


    6–9 minutes

    ABSTRACT

    This dissertation explores the resurgence of the Babaylan codes as a sacred response to planetary imbalance, cultural amnesia, and the collective trauma wrought by centuries of patriarchal colonization. Rooted in the pre-colonial spiritual traditions of the Philippines, the Babaylan archetype embodies the multidimensional role of healer, priestess, oracle, and community leader. By accessing the Akashic Records, indigenous oral traditions, and multidisciplinary scholarship—including anthropology, metaphysics,

    Jungian psychology, ecofeminism, and quantum spirituality—this inquiry situates the Babaylan as a pivotal expression of the Divine Feminine in the global shift toward planetary ascension. The return of these codes is not merely symbolic, but initiatory—activating collective remembrance and ushering in a new cycle of spiritual leadership rooted in love, sovereignty, and unity consciousness. This dissertation bridges past and future, academia and soul work, reason and intuition, offering a sacred map for individual and collective rebirth.


    Glyph of Babaylan Codes

    The Return of the Divine Feminine


    Introduction: The Call of the Ancient Future

    Across cultures and timelines, a silent wave has begun to rise. It is the voice of the feminine long silenced, the memory of wholeness buried beneath layers of conquest, suppression, and fragmentation. In the Philippines, this wave carries the ancient name of the Babaylan—a spiritual leader who once walked between worlds, weaving the cosmic and the earthly for the well-being of the people. The Babaylan was not simply a priestess; she was the encoded blueprint of a civilization that honored both the visible and the invisible, the masculine and the feminine, the human and the divine.

    This dissertation seeks to recover, reframe, and restore the Babaylan Codes—the energetic and cultural imprints carried by these ancestral priestesses—and to position them within the global resurgence of the Divine Feminine. Drawing from both Akashic insight and grounded research, we explore how these codes are reawakening not only in the Philippines but around the world as part of Earth’s multidimensional healing and rebirth.


    Chapter 1: Who Is the Babaylan? A Multidimensional Profile

    The Babaylan tradition predates colonialism and stretches back into the mythic imagination and ancestral psyche of the Filipino people. Babaylans were primarily women (though men called asog sometimes fulfilled the role through feminine embodiment) who served as:

    • Healers (manggagamot)
    • Mediums and shamans (mangkukulam, albularyo)
    • Oracles and ritual leaders
    • Intermediaries between the seen and unseen worlds
    • Keepers of the cosmic and ecological balance

    According to Strobel (2010), the Babaylan functioned not in separation from society but as an integral spiritual-political force, often holding equal or greater influence than male datus. Their power stemmed from their connection to the spirits (anito), nature (kalikasan), and the ancestors (ninuno). Their cosmology was cyclical, sacred, and relational.


    Chapter 2: Colonization and the Suppression of the Feminine

    When the Spanish arrived in the 16th century, they labeled the Babaylans as witches, heretics, and threats to colonial rule. Through violence, Christianization, and systemic demonization, the feminine principle—embodied by the Babaylan—was forcefully suppressed.

    This was not an isolated event, but part of a global pattern: the systematic silencing of indigenous priestesses, healers, and wisdom-keepers across continents. Maria Mies and Vandana Shiva (1993) describe this in terms of “subsistence feminism”—a worldview of sacred interdependence, replaced by extractive patriarchy.

    From an Akashic perspective, this era marked a planetary descent into disconnection, where the Divine Feminine receded into dormancy, awaiting reactivation through a karmic and evolutionary cycle.


    Chapter 3: The Return of the Divine Feminine in a Global Context

    In the 21st century, we are witnessing a planetary return of the Divine Feminine—an awakening not just of women, but of the feminine polarity within all beings. This includes values long buried: intuition, nurturance, circular time, receptivity, emotional wisdom, and deep Earth communion.

    Across cultures, we see this mirrored in:

    • The rise of feminine priestess lineages (e.g., Avalon, Isis, Inanna, Sophia traditions)
    • The re-emergence of indigenous women’s councils and climate guardians
    • The reconnection to motherline ancestors, womb codes, and sacred Earth rituals

    The Babaylan codes, when decoded, are not historical artifacts—they are living archetypes and activation keys. They point us to a new/ancient model of leadership: spiritual, cyclical, heart-centered, Earth-rooted.


    Chapter 4: The Babaylan Codes as Soul Technology

    In metaphysical terms, codes are not just symbolic; they are information packets encoded in the soul’s light body, often stored in the akashic field or morphogenetic blueprint. The Babaylan codes include:

    1. Womb Wisdom – The womb as portal of creation, not just for birthing life but for anchoring frequency
    2. Dreamtime Navigation – The ability to journey beyond time to retrieve knowledge and heal trauma
    3. Earth Grid Work – Sacred site activation, geomancy, and land healing
    4. Communal Stewardship – Service rooted in love and accountability to the whole
    5. Ancestral Alchemy – Transmuting bloodline and cultural karma through ritual and remembrance

    These codes are reactivated through ceremony, land reconnection, ancestral honoring, dreams, visions, and vibrational alignment.


    Chapter 5: Healing the Feminine Wound Through Remembrance

    Healing the feminine is not just personal—it is collective and planetary. The suppression of the Babaylan represents a deep wound in the Filipino psyche, but also a microcosm of the global trauma of separation from the Sacred Mother.

    Remembrance, then, becomes the medicine.

    • Remembering the Earth as Mother
    • Remembering intuition as wisdom
    • Remembering that healing is not linear, but cyclical, spiralic, ancestral

    As Jung (1959) and Woodman (1993) noted, integrating the feminine means embracing shadow, body, emotion, and the unconscious. For Filipinas (and all awakening beings), remembering the Babaylan is a soul retrieval—a return to original wholeness.


    Conclusion: Rebirthing the Future Through the Ancient

    The Babaylan Codes are rising again—not to recreate the past, but to seed the future. As global systems collapse, these feminine frequencies are stepping forward as templates for sacred leadership. They teach us that power is not domination but alignment; that healing is not fixing but remembering; that wholeness is not perfection but integration.

    Whether you are Filipino or not, the Babaylan speaks to your ancestral soul, calling you to rise, not in rebellion—but in remembrance, ritual, and radiant presence.

    The Divine Feminine is not returning.

    She never left. We did.

    And now, we are finding our way back home.


    Crosslinks


    Glossary

    • Babaylan: A pre-colonial Filipina priestess and spiritual leader.
    • Anito: Spirits of ancestors or nature in Philippine indigenous belief.
    • Divine Feminine: The archetypal principle of feminine energy in all beings.
    • Akashic Records: A metaphysical database of soul-level information.
    • Womb Codes: Energetic templates held in the womb space, often linked to creation and memory.
    • Asog: A male Babaylan who embodied feminine energy or dressed as a woman.

    References

    Jung, C. G. (1959). Aion: Researches into the Phenomenology of the Self (Vol. 9, Part 2). Princeton University Press.

    Mies, M., & Shiva, V. (1993). Ecofeminism. Zed Books.

    Strobel, L. M. (2010). Babaylan: Filipinos and the Call of the Indigenous. Ateneo de Manila University Press.

    Woodman, M. (1993). Leaving My Father’s House: A Journey to Conscious Femininity. Shambhala Publications.

    Villanueva, A. (2015). Babaylan Studies and the Reclaiming of Indigenous Feminine Power in the Philippines. Southeast Asian Studies Review, 27(3), 45–62.

    Eliade, M. (1964). Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy. Princeton University Press.

    Mercado, L. N. (1994). Elements of Filipino Philosophy. Divine Word University Publications.


    Attribution

    With fidelity to the Oversoul, may this Codex of the Living Archive serve as bridge, remembrance, and seed for the planetary dawn.

    Ⓒ 2025 Gerald Alba Daquila – Flameholder of SHEYALOTH | Keeper of the Living Codices

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