A meditation on cycles, rebirth, and the eternal feminine force that sustains creation.
She devours herself to become whole,
The snake that eats its tail—
Not destruction, but transformation,
The oldest story ever told.
In every ending, a beginning waits,
Patient as a mother's love,
Fierce as the blood that flows
Through generations of wombs.
The patriarchy fears the circle,
Preferring lines that climb to heaven,
Hierarchies that stack and rank—
But we know power spirals.
Like crypto returning to its genesis block,
Like markets that crash and rise again,
Like the moon that dies each month
Only to be reborn, luminous.
We are the ouroboros—
Women who have learned to feed
On our own becoming,
To find nourishment in change.
The old systems consume themselves now,
Bloated on their own excess,
While we plant seeds in the ashes,
Knowing the garden always returns.
This is the secret they never taught us:
Destruction and creation are lovers,
Dancing in eternal embrace—
And the music is written by women.
Reflection
The ouroboros has been co-opted throughout history as a symbol of infinity and eternal return, but its deeper meaning speaks to the cyclical wisdom that patriarchal societies have tried to suppress. Linear progress—the myth that we must always climb upward—has brought us climate catastrophe, endless growth capitalism, and the devaluation of care work.
Feminist economics and Indigenous wisdom traditions both teach us that true sustainability comes from circular thinking: regeneration, reciprocity, and respect for natural cycles. As we build new financial systems with blockchain technology, we have a choice—replicate the extractive patterns of the old world, or encode circular, regenerative values into our protocols.