Years ago, and well into my seventh month of pregnancy in New York City, it occurred to me one day that, as I would be unable to run from a fast predator, I was lucky not to run into an urban panther. These weekly blogs will consider women's lives from the perspective of one who is now older.
Our world at the moment is rather too yang, don’t you think? Rather too bright, hard, fast, dry, hot, and aggressive. It seems to me that we are in need of more yin to achieve balance. A bit more simplicity, humility, naturalness, quiet could help restore harmony.
Is this the realm of women? Is it our natural energy that is needed now? It seems to me that intuition, emotional creativity, peacefulness are lacking in our world, and women can, even must, provide them actively and openly.
The female principle is missing from our culture. Not any of the versions sold to us -- ditzy, seductive, helpless, scheming -- but the actual power of internal wisdom and creation inherent in us. Women undergo transformation and renewal every month; is this physical rhythm an echo of the movement of the universe, of its transformation and renewal?
Ancient and modern mystics have said our planet right now is in a unique place in time, one that will allow for great change, a shift in vibrational frequencies -- and the heart is the transformer. In our culture so ruled by the head, can we bring our heart wisdom, our heart strength, to the forefront?
The energy of the heart -- love -- is the greatest alchemist and magician of all.
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