Sacred Feminine Tip 001: You hold ancient wisdom inside you.
This is a book tip. But also the lesson of my whole life tip. If you haven’t listened to Sabrina Vedete’s episode on the podcast yet, you should. The feminine is a dire need for all humans to take seriously. A part of our nature that has lived in the shadow for far too long.
Today is a full moon. We LOVE full moons.
The Conscious Feminine: A Journey of Spiritual and Personal Growth
Welcome to Season 2 of our podcast! We're back, full of life force energy and ready to share. Our plan is to release content on the half moons, full moons, and new moons, allowing you to expand your knowledge of moon cycles while exploring sacred topics crucial for life's journey.
My Spiritual Journey
When I began my spiritual journey a decade ago, I couldn't have imagined how leaving NYC, pursuing my soul's work, and starting a podcast and blog would completely transform my life. Through this healing process, I've learned that life often requires great release to move forward. And that part of the great journey is to remember. Remember the sacred feminine in which I was robbed for almost 20 years, and let the wisdom come back, into my heart, through my bones and my ancestry as a female on Earth.
Jung and the Anima/Animus Theory
In my journey, I've become an amateur Jungian analyst, reading extensively about Carl Jung and his work. While I deeply respect Jung's contributions to psychology, I've always struggled with his Anima and Animus theory. Jung posited that men have a female soul expression (Anima) and women have a male one (Animus). However, as someone who has been highly masculinized while being projected in man's image of woman my entire life, I disagree.
I believe that all humans have a female soul. And that our battle is with the denying of the sacred and divine feminine. For that is truly where our peace and connection to nature come from, and create harmony in our lives.
As a woman living in a patriarchy, I find myself needing to recapture the divine and sacred feminine more than ever. This journey has led me to question the traditional "female" qualities often projected onto women by men, rather than embracing the traits of goddess myths that predated patriarchy.
To Be A Woman: Birth of the Conscious Feminine
Recently, I read "To Be A Woman: Birth of the Conscious Feminine," a book from 1991 that deeply resonated with me. It's made me wonder how this knowledge might have impacted my life had I encountered it in my 20s or 30s. The book is so good. It explores the conscious feminine birth in all of us through 6 powerful parts. Retracing our Common Evolution, Re-Mothering Ourselves, Re-fathering ourselves, Resacralizing the Female Body, Reawakening the Divine Feminine, and Renewing the World. It is powerful but in a way that teaches us to come back to love as our core manifesting birthright. As articulated by Marion Woodman: "Consciousness is trying to move from power to love." This text really has birthed a new way for me. And I hope if you are reading this, you will dive in as well.
I reached out to one of the authors, Connie Zweig, hoping to have her on the podcast. While she declined, citing a desire to retire peacefully, this interaction highlighted the cultural tendency to sideline older women, often them doing so to themselves, when they really should be celebrated, able to receive, and able to go for decades in sharing their wisdom and leading us, stronger than they did in their working years. I was reminded of trees and nature. Trees, as they die, give resources out, for decades. By the time human women reach their 70s and 80s, they have been stripped like the Giving Tree. In a time when society needs them most, they disappear. I've vowed to remain engaged and contributing well into my later years and even though I felt she wanted me to fight for it, in the way the authors of Carl Jung’s Man and His Symbols, really fought for him to write this book before he died, I am just done fighting. I am in a state of attraction and receiving and as a conscious female, I will not fight anymore for things that do not feel aligned with my mission.
The Conscious Feminine Era
I'm entering my Conscious Feminine era, which is incredibly liberating. It challenges me to confront core values and goals I may have abandoned in pursuit of male ideals. This journey has taken me from contentment in a simple life, through destruction in a complicated one, to a hopeful and enlightened path forward.
I believe we're entering an era of the feminine yang, where we must reclaim our female cravings and nature while letting go of male ideals. This involves reconnecting with our goddess nature and creation-ary dreams that were stripped away when the feminine was eradicated from our religion and society.
Stages of Identity and the Future
The book discusses stages of identity, from the 30,000-year rule of the matriarchy (feminine yin) to the current 2,000-year era of masculine yang. We're now entering the time of the great feminine yang, which presents both challenges and opportunities for evolution. The last phase of this powerful 4 part direction of humanity would be the masculine yin. I think we are about 500 years out from that era, and that humans might not get there, but if we do, it would surely be a time to be alive. I think the final chapter of the culmination of all the eras would be utopia. If there could be one, it would be a time when humans have finally embraced wholeness and polarity. I read a Robert A. Johnson book called Transformation. In it he sites that human have only seen the color blue for 2000 years. How bizarre. That at the coming of the patriarchy, that part of our sight expanded. Imagine if in each era we gained more of our senses. Right now we visually see only one millionth of the electromagnetic spectrum. Imagine if we were to see and sense it all? Would that not be the completion of the human species evolution? And what then would we be called? Intergalactic light being travelers? I find it all so fascinating. What did the word look like before blue? Why did the matriarchy not need blue??
To truly embody divine feminine power, we must move beyond passive gestation and embrace the birthing power of expulsion - pushing out what no longer serves us and birthing a new consciousness. This involves protecting and nurturing our bodies, species, environment, and spirit. It involves us discontinuing the disconnection of male domination of the sky (all modern major dogma) and relegating women to nature and Mother Gaia. If we can fuse female into the sky back into the deity and man back into the Earth, then can we as a species come to our senses and value all things, heaven and Earth, as sacred?
Personal Reflections and Future Plans
I've stepped away from city life to live closer to nature, focusing on my dream of manifesting family and letting my creative energies fly. I pray daily for balance and harmony among humans. I hope we can find our way as a species through the masculine yang into a time of less collective suffering. But it won’t affect the rest of my life, if we don’t. And that brings me some kind of peace. We can only try so hard. But we also must recognize where we are in time, how time-sickness affects us all, and that when we live in our true purpose and genuine authenticity that time is really only a tool; it really isn’t even real.
Living in the mountains has allowed me to connect with nature's wisdom. The timelessness of nature and the many many ways we can use biomimicry to evolve and learn in our own pursuits and lives. I am now a declared Shinto, and I love this lifestyle. It took me my whole life to figure it out. It took an ego death, so that I could enjoy the rest of my life. These old-growth forests teach lessons of homeostasis, balance, commitment, and community. I wish for everyone to have more time in nature, connecting with the great Mother Earth and Father Sky, observing how they weave together to create portals of wonder in daily life. Blues, greens, yellows, reds, and all the other colors we are lucky enough to be able to see today.
Moving Forward - To divinity and beyond.
I plan to start a book club based on "To Be A Woman: Birth of the Conscious Feminine." I invite you to join me as we explore each topic and section, modernizing the concepts for the 2020s. Let's embark on this journey of growth and self-discovery together.
Stay tuned for our next episode, and I look forward to Howling and Healing with some of you tonight! I’m off to a sound bath at our local yoga studio, which I am so grateful for. Somehow going back to my stretching and breathing always brings me right to where I am supposed to me. Safely inside of myself tucked next to my favorite forest.
I plan to start a little book club off the book and if you’d like to follow along, please order you copy so that you can dig in to expand while I discuss my thoughts on each topic and section of the book, modernized for the 2020s. See you on the next episode! I can’t wait to Howl and Heal with some of you tonight!
