There is a palpable shift in the way in which women perceive their mind, body and spirit. We are witnessing a returning to home. Women are reclaiming the innate knowledge of their immense power.
This shift is taking place on a cosmic level as we are moving away from the Age of Pisces into the Age of Aquarius. A shift of this magnitude takes place every 2000 years. This transition involves us evolving from a state of illusion and deception into a state that is connected with our higher selves. The disruption and chaos that we are witnessing on a global scale currently, is a result of this transition and metamorphosis that often is painful and disruptive on many levels. Change is often very difficult.
This shifting of the collective consciousness is having an effect on the way in which we perceive the woman. The Age of Aquarius represents a period of ‘mixing of the waters’ from the heavens to mother earth. With this we are witnessing a merging of opposite energies – for example, yin and yang, and the divine feminine and divine masculine. This explains why we are witnessing a powerful and glorious re-emergence of the divine feminine.
The re-emergence of the divine feminine represents no less than our next evolutionary leap. Men and women both have a combination of the divine masculine and the divine feminine – each are beyond gender and each represent archetypal energies that the whole of human kind embody on different levels.
We have transitioned through an age that had a predominantly masculine energy. The main qualities of this energy are strength, domination, struggle, achieving to approve self–worth, predation, and protection. The ‘wounded masculine’ arises in a situation of fear, which many of us exist as our default state. The divine masculine in its unwounded form can be a highly creative and powerful source.
The divine feminine embodies all that is. The archetypal divine feminine personifies sensitivity, forgiveness, nurture, love of the body, mind and soul, procreation, non-judgment, intuition and compassion. We can see examples of the divine feminine throughout various spiritual and religious teachings of the past. The Vedic tradition in India, since the beginning of time, has given utmost respect and recognition for the female form. The Hindu feminine deity, Saraswati, represents the ideal guru. The name Saraswati translating directly as ‘the one who gives the essence of our own Self.’ Greek mythology covers the archetypes of the divine feminine, as does Buddhism (Kuan Yin, Tara), and Christianity (Virgin Mary, Our Lady of Duadalupe).
Although these images of the powerful divine feminine can be found in spiritual teachings, we have witnessed an undeniable erosion of this powerful energy. The divine feminine exemplifies being and allowing whereas the divine masculine represents doing and acting. Most of us would agree that we exist in a state of predominantly masculine energy where our whole existence is experienced in a state of doing and acting. Not only are we existing in this unbalanced and warped state of energy, but we live in a culture that rewards us for doing so.
We live within a society, which upholds this masculine energy as superior. It represents drive, ambition, doing and acting – all of which we are rewarded. The divine feminine energy, on the other hand, lost its value in a society that predominantly values ambition, career, collection and accumulation of money and assets. We have seen this escalate to the point of irreversible and unrelenting destruction of mother earth herself. We can only hope for an improvement in this area if we embrace the re-emergence and acknowledgement of this divine feminine energy as fundamentally important for the survival of humanity.
Not only has the divine feminine been degraded on the level of a highly consumerist and driven society, we see this degradation of the feminine by certain predominant religious institutions who dictate that women are incapable of being divine. An obvious example of this is the Catholic churches stand that ‘only a baptised man validly receives sacred ordination’.
The disparagement of the divine feminine has resulted in a wave of women who have lost confidence in their innate power. This is reflected strongly in the way we approach some of the characteristically female experiences such as pregnancy, birth and mothering. To reconnect with the knowledge that these experiences can be some of the most important, is true feminism.
We have seen a subtle but powerful denigration of the divine feminine. True feminism is reclamation of the understanding of the truth of the female body and its divine quality. The divine feminine is the ‘real strength’ and a re-mergence of this in both men and women, and a balance with the divine masculine, will result in a seismic shift in consciousness. It is there within us – it is time to rise and connect with this ultimate divine feminine power.
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