Ritual Cacao – A Reconnection with the Feminine Primal Power
In this article, you’ll discover how ritual cacao, as a heart-opening and nourishing plant consciousness, gently supports women in reconnecting with their femininity. Let yourself be touched and inspired by the ancient wisdom of nature, the magic of feminine spaces, and the power of feeling.
By Leni Glapa in Cacao Blog
June 6, 2025
Femininity and Ritual Cacao
In a world often shaped by speed, performance, and structure – the clear, goal-oriented energy of the masculine – many women increasingly long for softness, intuition, a deep exhale, and above all: for more femininity. For spaces where we can simply be, where we can relax into our womanhood, and gently sink back into what has so often been hidden for too long: our feminine essence – feeling, intuitive, cyclical, and connected.
It often doesn’t matter where we are in life – whether we’re mothers, single, young, older, or anywhere in between. The inner longing is often the same, even if it’s sparked by different reasons.
Ritual cacao opens a doorway to femininity and its qualities. It gently brings us from the mind back into the heart, from doing into being – guiding us back into our feminine power.
In Indigenous traditions, cacao is revered as sacred plant medicine. It is seen as a “motherly medicine,” lovingly referred to as “Mama Cacao” – a warm, embracing energy that opens the heart and reconnects us with our primal feminine power.
The energy of ritual cacao is often experienced as:
Heart-opening
Receptive
Intuitive
Connecting
Grounding
Nurturing
SINKING INTO FEMINITY - TOGETHER IN CIRCLE
Mama Cacao gently reminds us that we don’t always have to perform or function. She invites us to sink deeper – into being, into receiving, into the stillness of retreat.
It becomes truly magical when women gather in circle, journeying into their femininity with cacao, showing themselves and sharing openly. When femininity is no longer explained, but embodied and truly experienced – individually and intuitively.
This is how a healing space of connection and sisterhood is created – a space where women meet, heart to heart.
If you’d like to learn more about the magic of women’s circles, feel free to read on here: Woman Circle – A post by Rebeca & Luise
Nourishing Femininity in a Masculine World – With Ritual Cacao
Many of us live in a daily rhythm that constantly demands action. Appointments, obligations, and responsibilities sweep us along – we try to keep up with everything, but in doing so, we often lose the ability to pause consciously. In the chaos of everyday life, we lose touch with our own needs.
Does that sound familiar?
We rush instead of feel. Just as we try to slow down, the next to-do is already knocking. Our world emphasizes ambition, efficiency, and control – qualities rooted in masculine energy.
But when we suppress our feminine aspects, we lose connection to our inner rhythm. This disconnection can show up as exhaustion, overstimulation, sadness – or a sense of being ungrounded. Sometimes, we simply notice that we’re always "functioning," but somewhere along the way, we’ve lost ourselves.
Ritual cacao supports us in coming back to our center and reopening the gateway to our emotional world.
Cacao not only warms and grounds us physically – it also opens the heart chakra, our center for compassion, self-love, connection, and inner peace. With an open heart, qualities like softness, receptivity, intuition, and surrender can once again blossom within us – all expressions of the feminine principle. Cacao nourishes this inner space with gentle presence. It invites us to let go of control, surrender to the moment, allow emotions to flow freely, and offers us a safe, tender space for emotional depth – as well as reconnection with our feminine body and cyclical nature.
How Ceremonial Cacao Can Support You in Every Phase of Your Feminine Cycle
The female cycle is, in itself, a sacred ritual of the body – an inner rhythm of constant transformation, and often also a physical and energetic cleansing. Each phase of the cycle carries its own unique energy, and we don’t have the same resources available every day of the month. And that’s okay.
Ceremonial cacao can gently support and accompany each phase of the feminine cycle:
During menstruation, it offers warmth and holding, creating a sense of safety and inviting deep inner retreat. In the inner spring of the follicular phase, it supports lightness, creativity, and opens the heart to new impulses. Around ovulation, cacao enhances self-expression, sensuality, and outward connection. In the luteal phase, it helps lovingly hold emotional depth, balance mood swings, and encourages a conscious turning inward.
In the blog post “Loving Support During Your Period” you can dive even deeper into the wonderful power of this superfood.
Ritual cacao has become such an important companion for me as a woman – one I wouldn't want to live without. What I love is that cacao is never manipulative – it always gives me exactly what I need in the moment. And depending on where I am in my cycle, that changes. Cacao gently reminds me: I’m allowed to be different every day. I’m allowed to ask myself what I truly need right now. This softness toward oneself – that’s what I wish for every woman. And maybe cacao can offer that to you, too.
