“Let us give back to the masculine the flowering wand—the thyrsus.
Let him find the water in the land so he can protect it. Let the masculine use his wand to pour himself into other modes of consciousness so he can develop a matured ecological empathy. With the wand he does not have to prove anything through force. His job is to connect, to close wounds-his own and the wounds of other beings and landscapes. As he uses the wand, he will feel its vines begin to SNAKE into his own veins, the magic of the world reinvigorating his own sluggish circulation. And then he, too, can flower alongside his wand, outward, into a power that is soft, curious, connective, and celebratory.” — Sophie Strand, “The Flowering Wand: Rewilding the Sacred Masculine”