Moongazy

Another month has rushed by between blogs.   Family stuff took up a lot of my time.  Now the daughter’s move back to the family home is complete and I sit surrounded by her life again as the computer is in her room!

I have tried to continue to work out my ideas of the Feminine at odd moments and in my morning time (still getting up early), but thinking of what has been keeping me busy reminds me of one of the main functions of a woman which is to nuture and protect the family.  The problem comes when this is perceived as the only function and her own needs are not noticed or fulfilled.

We have tried for the past few decades to ‘have it all’.  A good job, a family, an empowered life, freedom and equality with men, where has it got us?  Often we are tired and weary and our own deeper needs have not been met.  We have been trying to fulfil the masculine order of doing and acheiving.

Elisabeth Serra summed it up in a fascinating article in South West Connections.  She talked about opening to the Deep Feminine by being open to her own and others intimacy, pain and vulnerability and touching a new unknown and inner strength.

“I discovered a fierceness in my belly - a fierceness far deeper than our idea of the feminine being only good, nurturing and soft.  A tender fiercness that, like the ocean, could destroy to create new life.  ……..Despite all the talk of equal human rights, every infrastucture on the planet was still pointing at the one and only judgemental male God, who was allowing little vulnerability, had next to no realtionship abilities, and was very frightened of all that is earthy and human and deep, dark and feminine.”

Her way of ’standing with the Feminine’ embraced not attaining, but ‘being and resting in the simplicity of being unravelled, open and available to life.’

This sums up the confusion that I have felt trying to bring my own ideas of the feminine within me into the world that I have seen around me.  There has been no part for me as a true equal in this life as the reality still overvalues the masculine perspective,  the ‘do something’ approach.

The world is starting to yearn for change.  People are looking for community and ‘green’ values and much is being done towards finding a more emotional way of living where we care for others and what is happening in the world, but this way of thinking is dismissed by the governments around the world who concentrate on the harder economic and scientific ways of leadership.

If women ruled the world, they would have to do it from a deep inner perpesctive, not just taking on a cloak of masculinity and they would have to teach the men around them to look at life through their own inner vulnerability which has a capacity for compassion and a need for justice.  We need to ‘let power and love stand side by side … and care more about the whole than  ….. our gender images.’

History has been made this week with the election of a black American president - many who fought for equal rights through the 60’s and 70’s never thought that they would live to see that day.  Perhaps, with the changes that are being made in the human psyche, we can bring the feminine perspective to life and use it to change governments, stop the persecution of women and heal the world.