As much progress as we have made as a collective in the western world around gender equality, there still lingers an undercurrent of misogynistic patterning that holds us back from feeling completely at ease in our skin.
And it is up to us as women to re-pattern what keeps us shackled. Our western society has fallen prey to what I call the ‘Margaret Thatcher syndrome’. In order to play the game we adopted the rules of the patriarchal system. We put on ‘power suits’, we cut our hair, we adopted a sharp cold demeanour, we shut down our intuitive side for the much more socially accepted linear and logical left-brained point of view (Ms. Thatcher even learned to drop her voice several octaves to be taken more seriously). We lost our gentleness and capacity to move and flow with the phases of the moon. Instead we began to over-ride our feminine energy and suck it up, tough it out and get ‘er done.
We hardened and now we are beginning to atrophy and to burn out. We can’t keep moving through this world as if we are men.
All humans possess both masculine (yang) and feminine (yin) energy, but for the last several thousand years our society has shunned yin (feminine) energy and become overly yang. This has led to a great disparity within ourselves (both men and women) and it is reflected in the chaos we see playing around us as well as the desecration of mother earth.
But you know this – this is one of the reasons you are drawn to this this work, this page. You feel the imbalance and are longing for something deeper. This craving is not just spiritual connection, it is also a yearning for something you maybe can’t quite name. It is a yearning for your inner magic and wisdom. It is a yearning for an old way of being, like in the days when we honoured the Great Mother, the Goddess.
The ebb and flow of the feminine, her intuitive capabilities and her capacity to feel the world around her are calling to you. How can I slow down, how can I honour my inner rhythm? I cannot answer this for you. The irony is that the only way to find out is to slow down – stop and listen. Ask yourself, what do I need today to feel supported? How do I want to feel?
As you slowly begin to listen and then act upon your true needs, your feminine energy begins to be validated. She reawakens within you and reinforces what you know to be true. Slowly you may find yourself re-prioritizing activities and re-evaluating goals. In time as the feminine rises, your own inner power rises. For she is soft and fierce like the wolf, the bear and the wildcat.
