The Ongoing Disconnect with our Feminine is the Driving Force of the Destruction of (Mother) Nature.
The solution of the climate crisis isn't what you may think.
There is a big focus on the crisis that currently ensues in the world today.
The climate.
And while this is very present for a lot of people.
Endless back and forth on solutions, debates, opinions.
There is another crisis that runs deeper among us all.
A crisis that has caused an unnecessary amount of unhealed trauma.
A crisis that, it could be argued, created colonialism, religion, any form of oppression, inequality, racism, and any other imbalance experienced in the last few hundred, if not thousand, years.
And that is the imbalance of our inner feminine and masculine.
Or in Jungian terms, anima and animus.
I believe that there hasn’t been a war on women for centuries, but a war on the divine feminine that resides within us all.
The divine feminine, when empowered, is an unstoppable creative force.
Where the divine masculine holds a space.
A container of safety.
The divine feminine flourishes and has an unmatched radiance and power.
All humans carry both of these architypes within.
And we all have the responsibility to keep both in balance.
Repress one too much and we’ll either look to fill it outside of us or repress any sign of it elsewhere.
In the dynamic of male/female, there has been an out of balance masculine for many years.
Dominance - colonialism.
Aggression - war upon war, whether with armies or gangs.
Control - tyrannical governments.
Competitiveness - modern-day obsession with sport.
Criticism - lackluster leadership.
Instability and abuse - addiction.
Woke culture calls this toxic masculinity, but there is nothing toxic about it, just a part within ourselves that is lacking love.
And once again, not just men.
Everyone.
However, label someone as toxic, and you’ll get the frank but expected response of,
“go fuck yourself”
But what has this got to do with the climate?
Well…
This instability that has raged within us wasn’t just a ‘man thing.’
Yes, the masculine has been out of balance, wreaking havoc in the world.
The wounded masculine.
But there hasn’t been a divine feminine expression, either.
It hasn’t been allowed to be expressed.
A couple of thousand years ago, patriarchal powers and the church went to war on the feminine.
It was an incredibly successful PR campaign that ran for thousands of years, from the days of Isis and the High Priestesses to the Salem Witch Trials, and to more recent times.
Men couldn’t handle the feminine within them, the power they can tap into to intuitively create from a place of balance.
And the few truly empowered women that existed were seen as a threat to the aggressive, out of balance masculine within most.
And from the perspective of a man who grew up in Britain.
Who was told he couldn’t and shouldn’t cry or show any emotion.
Who grew up repressed through familial and societal narratives.
It’s safe to say not much has changed.
In the modern-day world, the oppressed feminine has affected all of us.
We subconsciously continue the same narratives of oppression.
A tacit complicity.
Unaware.
An inability to slow down, to heal, to be still, to look inward.
We distract ourselves constantly. No one gave us the tools to deal with anything.
This war on the feminine has affected our ability to love.
To heal.
To create.
To nurture.
To build loving connections and communities.
To see our inherent oneness as a human species.
The wounded masculine has asserted its dominance for years and years.
It created the industrial revolution, capitalism, greed, and continues the confrontational me versus you energy that is seen in identity politics, the ‘woke’ movement and polarized USA of today.
The avoidance of dialogue and allowance of opinion.
“If a man has rejected his own feminine nature, he may abhor the feminine in other men while expecting his female partner to completely carry his concept of the feminine”,
Eastern Body, Western Mind.
But this was about the climate, wasn’t it?
Well…
When we reject the feminine within, we suppress the feminine in other areas. Nature is embodied feminine. The earth provides and is creatively abundant. She nurtures Her children.
The earth has been seen as our Mother by many cultures.
But have collectively demanded from our Mother (Nature) that which many men have, historically and stereotypically, demanded from their wives.
Unwavering support.
A meal on the table.
Constant output for their desires.
In repressing the feminine within all of us, we have turned our back to Mother Earth.
The giver of life.
The very provider of that which we need to survive.
It makes sense that we plunder.
It makes sense that we can’t stop taking.
It makes sense that we engage in judgement of other people’s sustainable choices.
It makes sense that we call out big business and government in hate and not approach in love.
Because we are engaging, still, in the masculine.
The wounded masculine.
But I’m not one for pointing fingers and playing the victim.
Change doesn’t happen from either of those things.
Change happens from doing differently.
Not just powering our houses differently.
Or creating our food differently.
But operating as humans differently.
Much like the cleanliness of your house is a direct representation of the cleanliness of your mind, the state of the planet has a direct correlation to the imbalance within us all.
It is our duty, first and foremost, not to clean beaches.
Not to develop green tech.
Not to rally behind sustainable movements.
But to ask the balanced masculine within us all to hold an internal space..
To be courageous.
To create the discipline of slowing down.
To stop the incessant filling up of our calendars.
So that the feminine can be embraced.
To allow us to surrender.
To be sensitive to our truth.
To listen.
To nurture ourselves.
To gives us the grace to make mistakes.
So that we create solutions from a whole, healed, compassionate place.
Not from a “they’re fucking up the planet, screw them, they’re wrong, fucking capitalists, you’re the devil” kind of place that you see in activists and the sustainability movement today.
Once we slow down and listen, we can invite our shadow to the table.
Invite our fears, anxieties, anger to the table.
Give them space. Hear them out.
Then offer them a calmer, more grounded way of doing things.
Only then, when we start to flourish within, can we expect that which we touch to flourish.
We’ve all experienced what happens when we get into relationships in an unhealed state, acting in old traumas or as our inner child.
The results are pretty fiery.
We’re shown a mirror to our shadow and have an opportunity to heal in order to not attract the same relationship, just with another person.
(we alllll have the one friend that seemingly has the same painful relationship experience again and again - unhealed trauma)
As unhealed trauma runs rampant in western society, so degrades our ability to heal the planet. We choose not to take responsibility for our personal psyche, so to take on something much larger than that is totally unrealistic.
We have such an incredible opportunity to create lasting change, and rewrite this relationship with our Mother, and the way we interact with ourselves & others.
To invite the assertive energy of the divine masculine to be responsible, to be a steward, to focus and be stable, we can start to tend to our own gardens, allowing the passive, creative energy of the feminine to flourish, to create from a place of loving kindness, and to nourish our Mother throughout the whole process.
We will look after Her not because temperatures are rising and the clock is ticking, but because we will naturally tend to and respect Her once we tend to and respect ourselves.
Happy Mother’s Day.
PS - For all the amazing things to have come out of the last few hundred years, even during the out-of-balance masculine, it’s pretty exciting to think what the world would look like with more of a feminine touch.
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