This civilization has lost the feminine principle it needs to remember — and you can feel it in how we live.
The archetypical, non-gendered energy representing receptivity, creativity, intuition, and interconnectedness. It emphasizes being over doing, focusing on nurturing truth, compassion for the pain of ignorance, and the wisdom of the unknown. Associated with the womb and space, it provides the background — or ground — on which growth is possible.
It is “the big picture” and fosters awareness rather than just reacting to content. It focuses on the intelligence of the body, embracing emotions and the wisdom of the unseen to allow for transformation.
What we call intuition is almost always misunderstood.
It is not instinct, not a “gut feeling.”
It is not mental or intellectual.
Many would want to develop it, to become intuitive. But the “muscle” doesn’t develop until we are psychologically, spiritually, and physically ready to carry it:
- the capacity to hold pain
- the challenge of knowing
- the compassion of understanding
- the humility of accepting
- the wisdom of discernment
The feminine principle is the natural cycles of birth, death, and rebirth, which are life.
It attempts to relate. Instead of breaking things off into parts that no longer speak to each other, it asks: What is real? Where is the love? Do you care whether you see me or not? Are you seeing your authentic self?
The feminine is difficult to talk about because so few people have experienced it. It is presence, not control. You have to experience it to understand it. It’s not an easy path.
There are things going on within you that take time, that need attention. That need to be felt, said, lived, grieved. All that comprises your authentic self. You are the author of your own self. When you live through that integrity, you become the sovereign of your own life.
Real power is presence, no matter where you are, who you are with, or what you are doing. It’s not power over others or yourself (= patriarchal power), but the courageous expression of who you really are.
In our culture, we learned to value the masculine principle: how much we do and achieve, over the feminine principle. It values quantity over quality. It sees horizontally rather than vertically. The traditional patriarchal principles have engendered war within, competition with oneself, colonization of false beliefs, consumption of information and material possessions, and precious energy resources within us that we squander for personal safety, fear-based needs, and borrowed desires.
Naturally, having distanced itself so far from the feminine principle, this civilization’s definitions and descriptions of it are also somehow distorted, partly lost (forgotten), domesticated in its ideas, altered.
- Love is not always kind, sweet, and nurturing. It is sometimes destructive, cruel (to be kind), and unaccommodating (so that we can individuate).
- The feminine principle is not forgiving. Nowhere in its “isness” is there condemnation (that would need forgiveness), an obligation of obedience (that would require punishment or reward). It doesn’t exile or separate.
This path is not intellectual understanding. It is what remains when nothing is forced, controlled, or avoided. Already here. Not to be defined, but to be lived.
