Tending to the Feminine

Greetings dear woman,

This evening I was wowed by the silvery moon climbing the pastel pink blue sky. It reminded me of a Tarot card from the Osho deck Trust. A woman falling through sky toward cushions of soft pink.

I wanted to share this image with you. I find it really powerful. So where ever you are at within yourself and your place in the world see yourself arms spread falling into this deep embrace of love and kindness.

Western culture has not been so kind to the feminine. A misunderstanding that started long ago that led to an inequality between gender, age, race and class.

A culture that does not give value and space to feminine presence is a system that is not sustainable and leads to neglect, burn out and the idea of abundance not being for all.

A linear culture without curves dries up resources and reserves fast, pleasure and relaxation is put last and bodies become slaves dragged around to keep up with the mind.

Recently I interviewed women over 35 about their relationship to the feminine. I asked what the biggest challenge has been for them as a woman in the world. A common answer was feeling a sense of disvalue in 'male modelled' systems of work. Not being able to listen to their bodies, having to be like a man, less access to promotion, creative freedom and in verbalising their views. These women felt if they showed emotion they were crazy, if they expressed from intuition it was mocked because it had no proof to back it up.

When I listened to what women wanted it was time and space to tend to the feminine. They wished they had had more support throughout womanhood from other women and the community in tending to their body, cycles and transitions.

What I was most surprised with was how much women valued our call time and were thanking me for asking these questions. Expressing how these conversations were deeply nourishing and healing.

When we tend to and create space and time with other women magic happens. We don't have to stand on our heads in meditation sutras for hours (only unless you find that fun). Women meeting with focus and held heart space is indeed good medicine.

Creating a kinder culture to the feminine starts with ourselves. We are the change agents. We, one woman at a time can create a cultural shift that will give rise to a world that is more kind, loving and values equality and abundance for all.

Tending to things like our bodies, our homes and our life energy become rituals in our life that grow a living well, a reserve of goodness to draw on when we need it. There you go true sustainability.

Tending to our female energy field, our heart centre and our root changes patterns of wounding, self neglect and conditioned overriding of the feminine. Travelling lighter in life.

My work with women reminds me of this need for Sacred balance as I hear the longing for women to connect to, feel, know and experience for themselves, the Sacred Feminine so they can then remodel their world and how they live in it.

This Full Moon asks us to slide gently down into those places within that require tending. Be gentle and curious. Look for the areas of your life that feel dry or not visited for a while.

I love watching clients deepen into self tendering. It is really exciting because your boundaries get clearer and healthier. You know where you end and another person begins. You feel more energy in your body, more pleasure and spontaneity. You feel more connected to yourself, your womb and your sexual energy (Kundalini). You make decisions with greater ease and you trust and adhere to the wisdom inside.

Take care, there is not another like you. You are a vessel for the feminine to bring her presence into the world. The Moons Fullness is like the Light of the Soul fully embodied, glorious, a celebration of the bounty, beauty and bliss of being a spark of life. There is always time to tend to self and in tending to you more space naturally arrives.

Love and tenderness to you,

Simone