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 became aware of a whole new perspective on feminine and masculine energy, and that’s when I realized the key that was missing. Instead of trying to fit my body and its biological rhythms into a paradigm clearly suited to male physiology, I needed to create a paradigm that included my physiology at the center.
And it dawned on me that I might have to change my inner thought patterns… that I would have to start believing in possibilities that I wouldn’t have allowed before, that I had been closing my creativity down to a very narrow, controllable scale… that things had become too familiar and I might have to disorient myself.
-Bob Dylan
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
... See moreI’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,
A woman’s issues of soul cannot be treated by carving her into a more acceptable form as defined by an unconscious culture, nor can she be bent into a more intellectually acceptable shape by those who claim to be the sole bearers of consciousness. No, that is what has already caused millions of women who began as strong and natural powers to become
... See moredaily practice is non-negotiable
“More hormonally one-note,” Jordi said, referring to the graph. “Imagine what it feels like to be a man. No cycles. No deaths-within-life. No transformation from one kind of person into another.”
we struggle mightily to do it alone, to prove ourselves to an unrealistic and unhealthy standard, when reaching out could make our lives not only easier, but better.
This is not the path of giving more of ourselves to the world at the cost of our deepest knowing self; this is the path of finally, finally learning to trust that we already know everything; we just have to learn to remember.