The Fire Inside
An inquiry - How are we are deconditioning from more masculine ways of being and leaning into our feminine sides? How do we cultivate the new generation of empowered and awakened women the world desperately needs to come into balance?
If you had hormonal constancy, as men did, you might not be taking your cues from your body about when to rest. You would have to build that in: Sunday is the day we don’t work, God’s day. But if what defined the days was you, your biological clock and calendar, then every day might as well be Tuesday. Perhaps you wanted to work for two weeks solid
... See moreConfusion of selflessness with inner poverty can be especially difficult for women. In our male-dominated culture, a woman can grow up feeling that she doesn’t really count, that she will not amount to much in this man’s world, that a woman’s fate and work is not of value. This powerful conditioning can lead to an identity riddled with depression,
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The extent of violation of women and violence to the earth perpetrated by men does not mean that all men are perpetrators. It is important to acknowledge that there are many forward-thinking males around the world who recognize these same problems and are working in collaboration with women to change them. While I am focusing on the need for the em
... See more“If you were wise enough to know that this life would consist mostly of letting go of things you wanted, then why not get good at the letting go, rather than the trying to have?”
― Miranda July, The First Bad Man
I’m noticing so many different frameworks map into the same “quaternity” (a cross, plus-sign, looking things, composed of two spectrums that criss-cross).
(direction) My word, Jung’s word, Gebser’s word, from Rooster’s diagram:
(up) Mindfulness, Sensation, Archaic, Sacramental
(down) Perspective, Intuition, Mythical, Gnostic
(right) Creativity, Feeling
Rather, the feminine way is about recognizing that the flow of abundance is around us always, and simply being open to receive.” It’s what life coach and “possibilitarian” Cherie Healey described to me once as: “allowing life to happen through you”—whereas the masculine approach is to make life happen “by you” (through sheer will and effort).