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?
I tried to remember how Pinocchio had become a real boy. It had something to do with being in a whale, maybe saving his father’s life; I hadn’t done anything like that. But surely a woman was more complex than a puppet boy and she might become herself not once-and-for-all but cyclically: waxing, waning, sometimes disappearing altogether.
”I have done nothing all summer but wait for myself to be myself again.”
- Georgia O’Keeffe
We’ll learn how to meet and call on the Mother through practicing rituals and by strengthening our intuition. We will explore true internal beauty and restore the grace in becoming wise, older women. Many women have gone down this path before us, and we will also call on their guidance and wisdom to direct us as we proceed. We will offer compassion
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The story we are told of women is not this one. The story of women is the story of love, of foundering into another. A slight deviation: longing to founder and being unable to. Being left alone in the foundering, and taking things into one’s own hands: rat poison, the wheels of a Russian train. Even the smoother and gentler story is still just a
... See moreRather, 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).
a reference point in all religious traditions with a prominent feminine presence is an integration of spirit and matter, spirit and the body, which leads to spirituality being inseparable from daily life and to the divine as immanent rather than transcendent.