Our society is not used to seeing and allowing for the empowered feminine vibration. Women in this world seek their empowerment by emulating men. They become hard and cut-throat business people, dressing and acting like men in order to feel some sense of respect or power. This is not true feminine empowerment. Women are told that their emotions are irrational and "crazy" and are seen as a weakness, when, in fact, that is one of our greatest strengths. It has been and continues to be quite a journey for us women to discover and embody our true power. The female body has been so over-sexualized in our culture that men tend to see us as an object to be owned and used rather than a sacred form for the goddess to work through. Patriarchal dynamics are so ingrained in our ancestral lineage that even if a man, in theory, says and thinks he supports equality between men and women he will still unconsciously play out patterns which subjugate, objectify, and suppress women into a societally conditioned female role. There is a whole belief system we are programmed with that supports these foundational beliefs that men are meant to be in dominant leadership roles and women are supposed to be seen and not heard. Especially men in america who have been genitally mutilated (circumcised) at birth have a particular disdain and resentment for the feminine who failed to uphold their trust in their vulnerable state at that very important first introduction to the world. This makes it difficult for them to trust women and be a truly supportive partner because they are still harboring this anger and resentment toward the feminine.
I am learning that as women we cannot force or teach our men how to support us in our flowering. We have to go ahead and do it without them. We need full independence in order to discover our own strength and rise into the benevolent power of the Goddess. There's no way we can truly bloom if we are under the thumb of a man who is constantly, although maybe unknowingly, suppressing us and forcing us into an inferior female role. This is part of our path of empowerment, to disentangle ourselves from this type of relationship, to lift ourselves out of the submissive female role and to know what it is to stand on our own two feet and be unafraid to embody the totality of womanhood. The time has come to learn what being a strong female is really all about. It is time to look and feel beautiful, to love and admire ourselves and our sisters, and treat ourselves the way we would want a man to treat us; gently, kindly and with respect and reverence for this sacred female vessel. We must rise together as warrior women, empowering and encouraging each other to bloom into own own unique expression of the goddess. We must prove to ourselves and the men in our lives that we are competent leaders and co-creators, paving the way for the new paradigm with compassion and honor for all life, letting our intuition guide the way. Only from our own stance of empowerment can we seek to create balance and harmony in sacred partnership. We have to get our own ball rolling so to speak and stop waiting for a man to push it for us. It is time now for women to reclaim their birthright as the receptacle for the love, wisdom and power of the Goddess, the giver and nurturer of life itself.
