The Devine Feminine

I’m told that being a man I can’t understand the feminine and that I therefore don’t have the right or ability to speak or write about it, but I can write from my own perspective and extensive studies in that area.

To me femininity is not just about sex or what men’s expectations are, but the gifts that nature bestows on the female.

The abrahamic religions talk about god creating man and that woman is made from a part of man, to me that’s the masculine hijacking the role of the feminine and it sits behind our culture of women’s power requiring women to become more masculine or ‘laddish’ as a demonstration of their ‘power’.

In reality it requires the female to give birth to and nurture the male. In the older religions in wheel of the year the goddess gives birth to the god in spring and he goes through the seasons dying in winter to be born again from her in the spring. The feminine is the eternal, the masculine entropic.

The feminine cycles bodily in harmony with the moon and the tides of nature, constantly in touch with their rhythms.

Creation requires the feminine, the nurturer, the healer, the womb, all of the yin qualities, patience, kindness, tolerance and compassion. It embodies the ideas of the ‘soft front’ but combined with the feminine ‘strong back’ of support, diligence, protection, and the resolute.

It’s the moon, the earth, the dark, the ocean and nature at its finest. The feminine is in touch with everything in nature that are in the shadows to the masculine.

The skills in martial arts are essentially feminine. Men tend to be ‘top heavy’ their centre of balance in the chest, whereas women’s centre of balance is in the lower abdomen making it easier for them to bring their power fluidly from the feet, to manipulate it in the waist and discharge it in the hands.

The feminine power isn’t arrogant and doesn’t bluster, it’s quiet, patient, and waits strategically to not rely on brute force but skill, timing and to strategise the opponent’s weakness.

Without proper feminine support the masculine fails. In ritual magic and in healing we always used both male and female in harmony to intensify the natural energy.

‘Making love’ is the perfect balance and an act of nourishment and fulfilment rather than a ‘sex act’ that is only self satisfying, unfulfilling and an abuse of both parties.

My power was increased by examining my ‘animus’, the female aspects within me that brought out the qualities I could not otherwise have nourished, it’s the small black circle in the larger white area of yang in the yin/yang symbol.

It also gives a small understanding and an appreciation of the true feminine qualities.

For our patriarchal society to be enriched I think that it needs the balance and qualities of the true female and goddess that has been suppressed for far too long.