WE HOLD THIS POSE

Spring Greetings my Beloveds. I hope this finds you celebrating the new growth, beauty and promise of abundance that Spring brings. Here on Westlake Island, the roses are blooming as big as my face, in colors so saturated, cameras can’t record them. Amazing what a long drink of water (after years of drought) does for flowering plants, WOW!!

We have moved out of Aries season and into Taurus. Aries is the first sign, the top of the wheel, the thrust into form after the dream-state of Pisces. Aries is the energy of spring; it takes an abundance of force to break through the ground, from dark earth to pure sunlight. When the seed of our ever-evolving self is ‘underground’, it’s gathering energy for the coming thrust as well as dreaming the future by infusing the seed with desire; that desire literally tells the seed how to bloom and what to bloom into. In Taurus, the newly emerged plant grows deep roots. As it’s reaching upwards, it’s also reaching downwards, stabilizing itself for a sustainable bloom. In Taurus, the dream gets grounded for the long haul.

We’ve long known that this time on planet Earth would be a time of great upheaval, as we took the collective concepts, structures and thought forms of the Patriarchy (deeply nurtured by the lower aspects of the Piscean era) to their enth degree, playing it out as far as it could possibly go. For me, electing a US President who is so blatantly and unapologetically misogynist and racist/white supremist is a pure demonstration of this. No more words needed on that. And as this last wave of the Patriarchy reveals itself (in plain sight now, for we are in the era of transparency thanks in part to technology), so also is the Feminine wave gathering strength and momentum. The Feminine wave is not at all about feminine versus masculine. The Feminine wave is about all humans reclaiming an understanding and relationship with our feminine natures. The Feminine is inclusive, non-hierarchical, holistic, creative, emotive, passionate, compassionate, loving, real, grounded, holy, sacred. We have not been living in a world where this energy was welcomed or celebrated. We’ve been living in an era where women (and men) were killed in horrible ways for daring to embody the Divine Feminine, for expressing the immovable strength and boundless depth inherent in the Feminine. The Feminine needed to be suppressed so that the Patriarchy could arise. And clearly we all dreamed it into being collectively, for the lessons it brought, in service to God’s evolution. And so we’ve been living – and adapting – to a masculine-driven world in every sense of the word. Recently I saw a snippet of footage that reminded me of something I would have seen in science class as a kid. It was a time-lapse film of a tree blooming, with a man’s voice narrating in the background, a very dry, factual explanation of Spring. It kind of made me giggle because it was such an exclusively masculine expression. I asked myself what a feminine version would look like and what came forward was a classroom in a park, children leaning their backs against trees and meditating, interacting with and celebrating the flowers, dancing around giving thanks for the Sun, soil, rain, bees, wind and everything else that contributes to the Earth’s rebirth each Spring. Giving thanks to the Earth for it’s boundless bounty that feeds us, literally. Each child would have the opportunity to express about how Spring was also happening inside of them, in their own lives as well as in the collective. A sharing circle. This is the Feminine. Probably the ‘right’ way to teach kids about Spring lies half-way between these two paradigms, incorporating both energies. This is the new world we seek to create – a balance of both.

How do we serve this emerging paradigm? Let’s begin with how we don’t serve it – by vilifying and emasculating the Masculine, or pounding a Feminine agenda into their faces. So much of the ‘Women’s Liberation’ movement I witnessed as a girl was about women embodying their masculine in order to gain a seat at the table - Hillary Clinton comes to mind. That movement ultimately failed in truly liberating women because as the end of the day, they were still women, trying to win at a man’s game. The toxic feminine also plays the game, seeking to rise by (covertly) engineering a Masculine fall. Forced underground for centuries, the toxic feminine evolved into its lowest expression - creating drama rather than possibilities, emasculating rather that coming up under in support, gossiping and undermining one another, in competition for the male gaze. Vying for rather than sharing power.

The rise of the Divine Feminine is a much deeper engagement – it is the conscious embodiment of the Feminine Principle, against nothing and no one, no competition, no game. The Feminine rises alongside the Masculine, as its necessary counterbalance and co-creator. This is a process that occurs internally, within each of us; as we each forgive the toxic masculine within ourselves, forgiveness reigns in the collective. As we each forgive the toxic feminine within us, forgiveness reigns in the collective. As we locate, remember and embody the Divine Feminine within us, the Divine Feminine reigns in the collective, thus birthing the rise of the Divine Masculine, in ourselves first, and then mirrored in the world. As women, we lead this era. It comes through us as EVERYTHING IS BIRTHED THROUGH THE FEMININE. So we serve this by doing Women’s work. We release our individual and collective anger from a sense of responsibility, not victimhood. Nothing happened to us, we subscribed to it energetically or we wouldn’t be here. We broaden our perspective as far as we can, take in as much of the story as we can hold, acknowledge our part in it, forgive ourselves and all other players, ground the anger into the earth (as opposed to projecting it onto perceived ‘perpetrators’) and clear our shit. And at the same time, we enter into a seriously committed relationship with the Divine Feminine. We actively seek to understand and embody the aspects of the Feminine Principle (see above) and we devote ourselves to this relationship, understanding and holding its nature as holy and sacred in our lives. We hold ourselves as holy and sacred. We learn to emote, to dance, to invite in the fullness of any situation, softening our bodies in the face of everything, so that our sacred hearts are leading – and showing what Love does. We hold this pose regardless of what’s going on around us. We hold this pose. And when enough of us are doing this, embodying this frequency, allowing the Divine Feminine to flow through us into the world like life-giving blood, the world will awaken. The sustained frequency will demand it. In the blink of an eye, we will all know Oneness. In the blink of an eye, we will be unable to harm one another, unable to harm Earth’s creatures, unable to harm Earth itself. In the blink of an eye, Love will reign, unequivocally. This is what we work towards. This is what we came for.

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