A Practical Philosophy for Life Within a Female-Led World
The Thirteen Commandments of Aetas Deae are not metaphor, mythology, or aspirational values. They are the governing principles of a living philosophy and the ethical foundation of a female-led order.
They articulate how power is held, how authority is legitimised, how erotic energy is understood, and how individuals are expected to conduct themselves once patriarchy is no longer treated as a default organising system. They do not describe personal beliefs; they establish shared standards.
Aetas Deae does not approach ethics as a matter of individual preference or abstract morality. A society organised around care, embodiment, erotic vitality, and non-domination requires discipline, structure, and clear lines of authority. These commandments exist to prevent the quiet re-emergence of patriarchal dynamics through habit, entitlement, or unexamined desire.
What follows is therefore not symbolic. It is prescriptive. It defines the conditions of participation in Aetas Deae.
The Thirteen Commandments of Aetas Deae
Adapted from work by Sister Mary @TempleofMary
- The Feminine Leads
Aetas Deae holds that sustainable governance begins with women and the Feminine principle as the primary source of direction, values, and legitimacy. The Feminine is source energy of creation, embodied wisdom, sensitive perception, erotic vitality, and inner knowing. - Women Hold Structural Leadership
Women hold final decision-making authority in Aetas Deae because patriarchal systems have shown themselves unfit for purpose. This leadership is corrective, not punitive. Female leadership draws on the grounded presence, embodied authority, and relational intelligence women bring, including the transformative energy of the erotic as a source of power. - All Genders Hold Equal Dignity; Roles Differ by Design
Equality of worth does not require symmetry of power. Men and masculine participants engage in supportive, accountable, non-dominant roles to prevent the re-emergence of patriarchal patterns. The dynamic interplay of Feminine and Masculine energies, however they are embodied, recognises that erotic tension is a source of creative power. - Ending Patriarchy Is a Collective Responsibility
Patriarchal systems rely on erotic repression, shame, and control. Liberation requires reclaiming embodied, erotic agency. Aetas Deae centres the erotic and commits to dismantling systems of domination, exploitation, and gendered hierarchy through structural redesign, education, and cultural transformation. - Alignment With the Feminine Is Chosen, Not Imposed
Participation in Aetas Deae requires active support of women’s leadership and authority, is voluntary and grounded in recognition of the Feminine as a stabilising and organising force. Alignment arises from resonance, felt truth, the pull of embodied presence, and the awakening of one’s own erotic vitality. - Depth, Self-Inquiry, and Accountability Are Required for Participation
Members must engage in internal work to prevent the re-creation of domination dynamics within themselves and within the movement. All adherents must explore their desire, shame-patterns, conditioning around erotic energy, and how those shape their relational behaviour. - Structure Is Necessary to Prevent the Return of Domination
Clear boundaries and governance maintain non-domination and protect against the resurgence of patriarchal influence, both on an interpersonal level and societal one. Clear relational structures allow erotic vitality to flourish safely and ethically. - Embodied Practice Is Recognised as Transformative
Ritual, somatic, creative, and contemplative practices are recognised as means to shift consciousness, heal domination patterns, and build collective coherence. Erotic embodiment is a source of insight, and erotic energy is a creative, spiritual, and political force. - Contribution Determines Responsibility and Access
Participation, trust, and influence grow in proportion to demonstrated alignment, integrity, and responsibility. Sustained emotional presence, embodied honesty, and the courage to meet the Feminine with openness, including one’s erotic truth, are prerequisites to adherence. - The Feminine Acts as Mirror and Regulator
Women-led councils assess alignment, readiness, and integrity. Responses to Feminine authority through desire patterns and fears of surrender reveal patterns that inform placement, responsibility, and role. - Women Cultivate Capacity, Not Dependency
Aetas Deae rejects rescue dynamic structures. Women lead by developing the competence of participants, not by absorbing their burdens or centring their needs. The sexual is vital energy whose use is intended to awaken creative, service-oriented, erotic, and emotional capacity. - Female Leadership Generates Devotion and Support, Not the Reverse
Legitimacy arises from women’s structural leadership, competence, and alignment with the Feminine principle. Devotion arises because Feminine leadership touches deep, embodied, instinctual and life-giving energies. Supportive participation follows from recognition, not from entitlement. - Entry Is Voluntary; Continuation Requires Evolution
Adherents remain in Aetas Deae only when aligned with its principles. Evolution and growth rely on the reclamation of embodied, erotic agency and the release of internalised shame and repression.
How These Commandments Function as a Way of Life
Taken together, these commandments describe a lived discipline rather than a belief system. They govern how authority is recognised, how desire is engaged, how responsibility is earned, and how power is prevented from reverting to domination.
They are intentionally incompatible with patriarchal norms such as entitlement, hierarchy without accountability, erotic repression, or extraction without care. Participation in Aetas Deae therefore requires more than intellectual agreement; it requires behavioural alignment, relational maturity, and ongoing self-examination.
These commandments are not enforced through coercion. They are enforced through coherence. Those who cannot or will not live by them cannot meaningfully participate in the world Aetas Deae is building.
To live under Aetas Deae is not to surrender autonomy.
It is to accept that freedom without structure reproduces domination, and that a female-led world requires shared ethical ground, embodied accountability, and disciplined participation.
These commandments are foundational. All other teachings, practices, and structures within Aetas Deae proceed from them.