Raise
your hand if you have ever been stabbed in the back by a female friend.
Raise
your hand if you have met issues in the workplace due to a female colleague.
Raise
your hand if you have been spoken about negatively by another woman.
Raise
your hand if you have received negative customer service from a woman because
you are a woman.
Raise
your hand if you have been held back or prevented from excelling in school or
the workplace by another woman.
Raise
your hand if you have committed one of the above offences yourself. (This one
is much harder to do huh?!)
The
Sacred Feminine, is an appreciation and respect for the innate feminine energy
which resides within both women and men. It is Divine and compliments Sacred
Masculine energy which is linear and often very determined to reach point B
from point A. Sacred Feminine energy prefers the scenic route, which may take
longer, but which would be more enjoyable.
Celebrating
your Sacred Femininity means recognizing this Right Brained way of thinking and
appreciating one’s emotions, intuition and need to create and nurture, in
yourself and also in others. Living in a patriarchal society has removed the
Divine Feminine from our conscious minds and locked it away in a box within the
subconscious.
We
have learned that being emotional is wrong, that we need to remove ourselves
from our own feelings and ignore the feelings of others. This cycle has reduced
our sense of insight and compassion for others, in other words, we have become
people who only think with the brain and not the heart, something which has
been reduced to flighty journeys of the spiritual, hippies and unsuccessful
persons who refuse to have ambition and climb the career ladder.
This
way of thinking is masculine and linear, based only on logic and not from compassion.
Masculine Energy is purposeful and determined, but without the Feminine becomes
cold, empty and loses the beauty and appreciation of the journey to point B.
Without the Feminine we only learn outcomes and not the lesson, we become
shells operating only on one plane of existence, for material gain.
This
brings me back to the much needed return to the Sacred Feminine. We often state
that in looking for a male compliment to ourselves we need a man who is strong,
a provider, someone that will stand up for you, and then the desire that often
eludes us is, that this man should be in touch with his emotions, someone who
is willing to talk and express himself and listen to your fears, voice his own
and give you the reassurance you need. Yet in raising our boys, we teach them
not to cry and to hold their emotions in - to repress the Divine Feminine
aspect of themselves.
This
unfortunate vicious cycle….sorry to say begins and ends with the woman! We
ourselves lack appreciation for our own femininity. We repress it and then when
we decide to use it, abuse its power. We fight another woman, rather than
compliment her on success, her happy marriage or relationship, her wonderful
children, her great haircut or her fabulous shoes or dress. What makes us
unhappy for the other? What makes us send negativity to another in thought or
action?
The
answer is our own imbalance and inner fight of the Sacred Feminine. We are so
busy complaining of the lack of opportunity for women, the need for greater
freedom, the desire for equality and yet we give none of these to ourselves.
What makes a man respectful of a woman and women in general? It is when he sees
a woman who is willing to embrace and balance both aspects of herself, one who
is determined and driven, yet passionate and emotional. A woman who has
compassion for herself and others, who sees the end of the tunnel but
appreciates the darkness along the way. How can we ask that of men, when we are
lacking it ourselves?
We
are on our way, more and more women are returning to the Sacred Feminine,
becoming more introspective, more compassionate, and more empathetic. But we
are still a long way from point B. It’s time to balance those aspects of
ourselves harnessing the Sacred Masculine energy to the purpose of finding
balance and actually getting there with Feminine compassion for others and
self.
