The Feminine Within

 

 

 

“A sensual woman is a conscious woman. A conscious woman is not triggered by anything because she has done the inner work that allows her to be the temperature and not the thermostat”
― Lebo Grand

When we speak of “feminine”, we are inferring emotional patterns such as creative thinking, nurturing, mothering, passions, desires, connectedness, instincts, spiritual energy.  Although we have moved to a time when the stories of the gods and goddesses are seen as myths superstitions, poetic stories, dramatic stories, thematic stories, but we have not honored the psychological truths that were, once, a great aid in dealing with life as female.  It is a spiritual power.  We are, many of us, ‘woke’ and we are beginning to understand, for ourselves, the gifts of the goddesses and the comfort of the Divine Mother.  We have risen from the conditioning to believe in the patriarchal side of our spirituality and are healing ourselves with the sense of The Great Mother within. 

What was lost as we forgot, or were taught to forget, is harmony and security and within all this is ‘trust’.  Many have lost the sense of worthiness of the dual creators; the father and the mother and the balance of the roles of both.  The feminine has been belittled and the struggle is ongoing to find some sense of equality in that we crave mothering, nurturing, guidance as women in a men’s world.  We are, and have been, wounded from the time that the divine Feminine was revised, erased, seen as unimportant in spiritual ways.  In fact, we are afraid and left out in the wilderness of having no feminine divinity to lean in to as we have been degraded and devalued as has she.  Yes, all of us are spiritually wounded because of the imbalance of spiritual duality and importance. 

For thousands of years, women have been conflicted and some are so wounded that they have no fight left in them to maintain a connection with the Divine Feminine.  We have, so many of us, at certain times, or most of the time, accepted the Patriarchal lot.  It is the same as if a child has been brought up by a father (by no means am I speaking of blame as conditions in the Patriarchal world has not prepared most men to be both father and mother and have developed their own feminine within).  The longing for a mother has been there.  It began with the Greeks, made normal by the early Christians, and we are living in a world where it has been seen as the one and only way, to have a totally Patriarchal divine figure in charge. 

We are wounded, all of us, in some way left ‘wanting’, but not really sure what it is we long for, because of the thousands of years of suppression, oppression, and depression (even a low level, we might not be aware of, that is a spiritual depression).  There are ways to recover that sense of the divine Feminine within.  We can heal that fractured feminine within and it is the most worthy of work, personal work; research, deeper thought, and beginning to honor that which we learn.  This is the beginning.  It is worthy work indeed.

©Carol Desjarlais 5.13.22