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Yeehaw! The elections are now over and its on to the task of reorganizing our world, moving from a consumer driven economy to a heart based economy. Just how will we take on this task? I feel this is all about our movement as a people energetically from the Divine Masculine to the Divine Feminine. Don’t get me wrong, here, guys, I see Masculine energy as a good thing, only we , as a society, have taken it to its extreme, and in doing so have created a good bit of dysfunction in our world. But, we had to take the Masculine to its extreme for us to have the full experience. So now we are swinging the pendulum back to heal ourselves and our Mother Earth by consciously retooling how we operate into exploring more of the Feminine aspect of ourselves.
Let’s look at defining these two energies. Divine Masculine in its balanced state reflects the active principle, that of doing and moving forward; paraphrased popularly as ” get ‘er done” in our society. This energy can also be protective in nature, sometimes aggressively so, exhibiting its power overtly to the world. At this point in our evolution, we have taken it to its extreme in the form of wars and violence, and oppression against women, due to it not having been properly balanced with the expression of the Divine Feminine. In our thinking, it is also the logical, rational “age of reason”, state of mind, and when allowed to run unchecked it becomes mind-dominated and ego driven. This Masculine thinking energy gone wild is the mind which tries to run us continually, and its expression is the confusion and mess of our outside world. Divine Feminine in its balanced state reflects the receptive principle, that of being and allowing, working with the energy fields to draw energy and form into itself, allowing what has been set into motion by the Masculine to be birthed. It manifests by magnetic pull rather than action. It is the gentle, intuitive side of the human experience, nurturing what has been created. In the past, the Feminine also dominated our societies and went out to its unhealthy extreme, and then the pendulum swung back to allow the Masculine to take precedence in our lives in order to balance us out, But now its time for us to explore more of the the Feminine again, to begin using both the Feminine and Masculine to create the perfect balance of being and doing in our lives.
We must focus on our own inner work to bring ourselves back into a truly balanced state with our Masculine and Feminine sides, so that we can begin to reform our outer world. Creating a daily life focused on a state of being more than doing and living a heart-centered philosophy will begin our transition into a more connected life, bringing our world into a balanced state using both the Divine Masculine and Divine Feminine energies. Any ideas on this?
Train Man
Here’s a movie we’ve been talking about this week, its called “Train Man 
ensha Otoko””. Made in Japan ( now, that’s a good cliche) , its a story about a virgin geek who meets a girl on the train and his romantic pursuit of her. The cool thing about the story is how he creates a support system for himself by connecting with people through a chatroom. They totally counsel him on how to approach and romance this love interest. Its downright hilarious, and symbolic , I feel, in that he will never meet his support team in person. They are all out there in cyberspace, consoling him when he encounters roadblocks and cheering him on when he surges forward in his courtship effort.
I can clearly see the next step in this process as the Train Man being guided fully by the also unseen higher self or spirit guides , the only difference is they wont be texting him anytime soon. Or will they? Are the chat room advisors in this movie really non existent in 3 dimensional reality? Any opinions out there?
Seems like the topic of the day here is about boundaries and unconditional love. This morning, I was talking with one of my Life Coaching clients about this. She was struggling with the concept of unconditional love, she was feeling it means there are no boundaries to be set. Love is Love, she said. I was talking about how Unconditional Love is always loving but also loving someone enough to create those boundaries , for we all need them in our relationships for them to be healthy. Loving is not allowing others complete free rein over us. It is about loving them enough to let them know appropriately where our own personal boundaries are, with loving kindness, sometimes with firm loving kindness. Occasionally, it takes a whole lotta love to set and maintain those boundaries, especially when the other person (or animal) is having hard time with it. I use my horse Rubicon, as an example here. He is coming off a one year layoff, he has not been ridden much during that time. So now that he is being worked regularly and is adjusting to his new (old) routine of being ridden again, he’s testing me and looking for some boundaries about who is in control, he likes the attention of being ridden but would like to stay on vacation, so to speak. So he resists being seriously worked ….he needs me to say, yes you do need to do this. This is our agreement, for you to be ridden one hour several times a week, the rest of your time you have to yourself and can do as you wish….. My part of the agreement is to care for him and further his training by riding him. He really needs to know I love him and honor him by setting the boundaries of our relationship , much as I would do in a relationship with another human, although the boundaries for a human relationship would have another flavor than the human -horse one does. So, how do you feel about unconditional love and boundaries?
