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I believe that the biggest shift in the natural evolution of consciousness, is feminine energies coming into BALANCE with masculine energies. For centuries, masculine energies were necessary and important for our awakening and evolution. As a species we needed to understand how to protect ourselves, survive and even thrive in a world where even the four basic elements (air, water, fire & earth) held sway over our very existence. So, we honored and valued masculine energies such as action, building, aggression, competition, hunting, thinking and doing. We honored them for so long that we distorted them. Feminine energies have always been present too~creating, allowing, gathering, nurturing, feeling and being. They just have not been perceived as being AS valuable in the scheme of evolving. As a result, feminine energies have also been distorted… By being minimalized or under valued. I don’t mean to imply that they have not both been important in our evolving journey… It just seems to me they have been out of balance. AND just as importantly, gender has played a role. We all have within us, both of these critical energies. However, men generally, typically, or on-average have put their focus on doing, winning and conquering. Out-smarting the next guy. While women have usually been the ones who nurtured, inspired, empathized, supported and allowed. |
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And I know better than anyone… That these are stereotypes and DO NOT apply to all men and women.However… My whole reason for writing about this, is because right now it feels like women are under attack in this country. And it is personally hard for me to watch. As I witness these attacks and I think of them only from the perspective of politics… or current cultural trends; They makes no sense to me.However, when I remember that women represent the purest form of the Divine (healthy) Feminine, and that these energies are coming into balance for survival of our species (and the health of the planet). It is easier to understand how those whose “power” is losing some it’s influence are crafting barriers, blocks and trying desperately to hold on to what has worked so well for them in the past (few thousand years!). For many of the exiting “power-brokers” this “feels” like an extreme threat, as they can not imagine a world where they are not competing, fighting and winning. And they are willing to risk alienating over 50% of the population to hold on to what they perceive they have… “power and control”.
I want to hold on to compassion for those who are operating from this perspective of loss… Because, like any animal who feels backed into a corner, the instinct for survival is amplified, even as clarity of thought gives way to panic. This is how I spent my week… Wondering “What the hell is going on in this country”. As a gay man with a Mexican-American husband… You would think I would be grateful that these attacks on women, distracts from the attacks on LGBT and immigration and racially motivated discrimination. However, once you get use to being a target for these kinds of distorted attacks, it is hard not to experience someone else’s pain. How about you? Does it feel like we are going off the deep-end? Or, maybe this is all simply “business as usual”… Thoughts?
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