Some of you may have heard of the Divine Feminine, and some of you may have not. In this piece of my writing you'll learn a bit about what it is if you haven't learned from other sources already, and even if you already have some knowledge about it, you might gain a new perspective. The Divine Feminine can take on many forms of experience, and people of all genders can experience this energy in their own unique ways.
Every human being on this Earth is made up of a mixture of different polarities including masculine and feminine energy, shadow and light (the unconscious and the conscious mind), positive and negative, and so on. The vast majority of people will contain more of one energy than the other when it comes to masculine vs feminine energy, but both energies will always be present. This is demonstrated through the yin yang symbol, which symbolizes the balance of different polarities throughout the universe. The white side, yang, represents masculine energy, and the black side, yin, represents feminine energy. All energy in the universe is Divine, because the entire universe is an infinite expanse of creation, evolution, and novelty.
Masculine energy is a beautiful driving force that lights people up, and gives them a certain type of confidence, courage, and strength that allows them to succeed. It's a powerful inner glow that provides people with the ambition to take the action needed to achieve their goals. It is planning, strategy, and a steadfast protection of self and others that comes from within.
Feminine energy is different. Feminine energy is powerful because it doesn't have to move in the world with outward action or force, although it is an energy that moves. You've probably heard of or read the concept about The Divine Masculine being the push and The Divine Feminine being the pull. This is very accurate, but push and pull are words that aren't really understood unless they're experienced and understood viscerally.
Sometimes the Divine Feminine can be felt through the heart, in the presence of loved ones, sometimes she can be experienced through simplicity, like taking in the beautiful scenery of a redwood forest, and other times through the alignment and flow with life we can find by being truly present and when we are fully ourselves. And in many other ways as well.
While Divine Feminine energy can show up in many different ways, the way I have found that is the simplest and fastest way to tap into the energy itself, although this may not sound like the smartest option to your logical mind, is through radical acceptance and surrender. So many of us fight against the currents of our lives, and some of us do it more than others. Living through difficult circumstances for long periods of time can cause even the people who used to have the most easygoing temperaments to fight for control or cling onto it, at least when they feel like they really need to, and it might not necessarily serve them.
This is a very human reaction, since we have to learn how to anticipate, react in intelligent ways to our surroundings, and survive. Those with anxiety disorders like GAD and OCD, and trauma survivors will really know what I'm talking about when I say this. Even those who haven't been diagnosed or don't identify with certain disorders or a history of personal trauma can most likely relate.
Humanity has been facing some very challenging times for the past 6 years, and even well before this, but a lot of human darkness and corruption has been brought to the surface and practiced much more openly in these recent years. It's pretty hard to ignore, or at least not feel the impact of in some sense, unless you happen to be particularly high in status. Even in that case, I'm sure the people who are higher up on this hierarchy can sense some of the heaviness in the atmosphere and operating in their own psyches, even if it's on a subconscious level.
There's no one, single answer I can give for overcoming the hardwired instinct to hold onto control and attempt to manage outcomes that just aren't possible to manage. Everyone has to live through their own conditions and overcome their obstacles in their own personal timing. And of course, no one is behind on this. But once a person is ready to let go of what they cannot control, and empower themselves not only through the positive action they can take to change their lives, but in the surrender to life's rhythms, they are ready to embrace their feminine energy.
This is particularly important for people with predominantly feminine energy. Usually this happens to be women (cis and trans alike), but men and nonbinary people can primarily have feminine energy as well. To resist your primary energy is to cut off the flow, or at least hinder the flow, of your life force. This blocks many opportunities and experiences and mostly the enjoyment of living, from reaching you. This goes for people who resist their masculine energy too, of course, but the feminine seems to be suppressed much more often in a mostly patriarchal world.
Once you stop resisting your nature and your circumstances and everything that isn't yours to shoulder, you free yourself, and you help free others around you with your peace and your living example. Once you start to practice radical acceptance and surrender even in small steps, (not by passively allowing anyone to cross your boundaries or accept things you can actually do something about, of course), you empower yourself in a very distinct way.
You'll know Divine Feminine energy when you let go of what is unnecessary resistance and fruitlessness that drains your energy, and you start to remember what it's like to actually live again. Instead of doing everything you possibly can to get the people in your life to listen to you or cooperate with you, or exhausting yourself by pushing yourself past your limits to ensure your life goes exactly as planned, you do the most powerful thing a person can do, which is to let go and trust Life.
You decide what you need to do to protect yourself, meet your needs, and focus on what really matters. This could mean cultivating the healthy masculine energy within you to strike a beautiful balance between the push and the pull, but ultimately when you are in your feminine energy you won't need to force anything to happen. Life will happen for you, because you won't block it from reaching your awareness. You'll notice a lot more ease, joy, and genuine empowerment.
The feminine is mindfulness. It is really experiencing the present as it is, without mentally traveling anywhere else, unless you're doing something fun like going along for the ride in a daydream or thinking of something funny that makes you laugh. It is listening not only to respond, but to experience someone else's expression and truth for the time being. It is letting yourself experience your own truth as well, and holding space for both to live harmoniously.
It is sitting with the moment and reflecting on what life just taught you, letting your mind wander, and weave in and out of the daydreams and the reflections it brings. It's noticing the bird that just flew by and the leaves on a tree moving in the wind. It's being so present with yourself and the moment that you harmonize with your surroundings enough for the wind to move a leaf off of the tree so it lands in your lap. A gift. And maybe a sign, depending on whether you choose to elaborate on it or not.
When you are in your feminine energy, and these moments, or even ideas and insights for your endeavors come to you, it is because you are in a state of flow. You might go about your life and start to notice all kinds of synchronicities because of that flow. The Universe begins to communicate with you because you are surrendering to it, and surrendering to yourself as an inherent part of it. The message lines open up. Your inner and outer world seem to align much more often, perfectly even. People and things and experiences find their way to you effortlessly. This is power.
The reason the Divine Feminine is Divine, is because it is the counterpart to another polarity, that when combined with itself, becomes duality. Duality is creation, and it is our world. Duality is what we come from and it is our essence.
When you are living in your Divine Feminine energy, when you remember you are here, right now, and everything and everyone is moving with you because you are a part of everything, the interconnectedness is simple, comforting, and it's just the truth. You are never alone. You are creation incarnate, and you are also a creator. You are a physical form that comes from Everything, and because of this you always belong. There's no forcing that. It just is.
