Restoration, life, renewal, creation, birth, healing,
receptivity, openness, motherhood, nurturing, love, understanding, compassion,
insight, intuition, wisdom, forgiveness, the moon, connection, harmony and
sensuality. To allow the divine feminine within ourselves to surface, we need
to search for these aspects within ourselves. You will find that you are more
in touch with some aspects of your divine feminine nature and less in touch
with others. For example, you may be fully in touch with your own sensuality
but not in touch with motherhood. If this is the case, expressing the divine
feminine within you, means connecting with and expressing the latent motherhood
within you in your own unique way.
It is understandable how in today’s world, many of us would
have suppressed these energies in order to cope with modern day life
Many of us have built our lives and our image either in
resistance to the traditional idea of what “female” should be, or in support of
the traditional idea of what “female” should be. This is a problem because
neither course of action represents our true selves. Neither allows us to be
who we really are. Instead of being genuine to our true feelings relative to
our feminine identity, we spend our time either rebelling against expectations
or embracing expectations that we don’t actually enjoy because we desperately
want acceptance and approval. We should ask ourselves is there any part of the
traditional female gender role that we actually enjoy? For example, do we
actually enjoy wearing high heels or makeup? Are we using these things to
highlight our femininity? Or do we do it because we feel we are not adequate
without it, or must simply because we are female? Do we enjoy the idea of a man
being the “provider” because it is fun to experience a person loving us enough
to support our physical needs and wants? Or are we embracing the idea of a man
as a provider because we do not feel capable of providing for ourselves? The
answer will vary from woman to woman. We need to ask ourselves, does the answer
we receive come from a positive emotional space or a negative emotional space Allow
yourself to create. Women are natural creators. This is part of why we can
create life. When we are out of touch with divine feminine, we do not allow
ourselves to create. One of the best ways to awaken your creative energies is
to begin to do art. Any kind of art will benefit you as long as you enjoy it
Collaborate and come together with other women. Come out of
isolation. It is profoundly healing if you’ve been in resistance to your own
womanhood to gather with other women specifically to focus on healing yourself
and each other relative to womanhood. Several cultures in our ancient world
understood this. This is the thought process behind the red tent movement. You
can hold a woman’s group that is centered on a feminine subject such as periods
or motherhood and open up the floor for discussion. It is incredible the kind
of healing that can occur when women are opening up about their own struggles
and thoughts relative to womanhood with each other. There’s no right or wrong
way to do this and you can trust that when you gather women in a room, the
energy will always go in the direction of healing
Explore your sensuality. The divine feminine is known as
beauty incarnate. This means it is time to appreciate and celebrate beauty in
your life. Does your life reflect sensual pleasure? If not, it is time to re-decorate.
Surround yourself in aesthetically pleasing things. Allow yourself to enjoy
sensual pleasures whether it is a warm bubble bath or fragrances you like.
Surround yourself in color. And, it is time to begin exploring your own
sexuality. Our bodies should not ever be off limits to us
Explore, question and heal your ideas and feelings towards
motherhood and towards your own mother. It does not matter whether or not you
actually want kids; most of us still have unhealthy ideas and feelings about
motherhood. Either we are in an unhealthy state of resistance about motherhood,
or we feel that it is our only way to have significance and justify our
existence. Neither of these ways of being makes us healthy as individuals or as
mothers. Your first introduction to the divine feminine is none other than your
mother. If you have resistance to your mother, you have resistance to the
divine feminine within you. This means that one of the most important parts of
the process of coming into your own feminine essence is to examine and heal the
relationship between you and your mother.
Examine the current perception of womanhood in your family
and in your culture. Examine what you learned while you were growing up in your
family about what it meant to be female. Examine the traditional gender roles
and associations with femininity on your culture. This will vary even from
culture to culture in your own country. For example, where I live in America
the traditional role of being female entails:
Make up
High heels
Birth control pills
Concealing Periods with tampons and pads
Dresses
Wearing bras
Shaved legs and armpits
Becoming a wife
Pregnancy
Birth
Raising children
Cooking
Cleaning
Kindness
Caretaking
Not expressing anger
Allowing men to manage the household money
Having hobbies but not a career
Self-sacrificing to others in order remain virtuous
Shopping
Decorating the household
Allowing men do the heavy lifting and manual labor jobs for
us
Allowing men to open doors for us
Examine what it means in your family and culture to be
female and decide which ones you connect with and enjoy and which ones you do
not. Which ones do you personally feel reflect your divine feminine and which
ones do you personally feel suppress it
Another woman might feel as if she is not valid without a career.
She may try to force herself to enjoy a career in the same way other women do.
This is also the time to remind herself that the divine feminine expresses
itself in different waysGet in touch with your intuition. Listen to your
emotions. A woman who is run by logic is a woman that is profoundly out of
touch with the divine feminine within her. Womanhood is a receptive state of
being. Receptivity means taking down those walls that we have built around
ourselves. Receptivity is a state of profound openness and part of what comes
with that openness is receptivity to that which is beyond the physical
dimension.
Cultivate openness, love, compassion and gentleness towards
the world and towards yourself. I want to reiterate that this does not just
apply to others. It also applies to yourself. In our modern society we push
ourselves so hard every day, there seems to be no room for these qualities in
our lives. But we are developing breast cancer because of it. We are dying
because of it. Our delicate biochemistry cannot keep up with what we are doing
to it. It is time for a change. Choose three changes you can make in your
day-to-day life that would allow these energies to come through. For example,
you could commit to calling a friend one time a week just to practice listening
to them with compassion and without judgment. Or you could commit to doing one
loving thing for yourself each day, such as getting yourself a pedicure,
letting yourself go to sleep instead of finish that project or buying that new
outfit you can’t stop thinking about. Trust yourself to know what would benefit
you the most to do.Do meditations that are aimed specifically at connecting to
the divine feminine. There is no right or wrong way to do this.
“Dear Archangel Uriel, please help me focus my mind and receive all of the knowledge, wisdom, and understanding that I need.”
