Daring to break out of the mold of the “second sex” has carried social disapproval and rejection as a constant threat.Īll of this is well known, and the modern women’s movement has strived to redress the imbalances that society has tolerated and encouraged. As one psychologist wryly noted, from kindergarten onward boys are trained to be winners who wield power while girls gain their worth by attracting men who are winners and wield power. The choice to express masculine and feminine energies has been unbalanced for a long time. (They both wore shawls, a gesture toward women’s dress, and Gandhi sat beside a loom, which became the central symbol of India’s flag.) The most revered leaders were Lincoln and Gandhi, both of them repositories of peace and reconciliation. The most reviled leaders in modern history are Hitler and Stalin, neither of whom had the slightest trace of the feminine and whose pure masculinity doomed tens of millions of people to death and suffering. But the whole point of calling feminine energies divine is that they apply to everyone. If the ancient Greeks, Indians, and Chinese could identify and express all of the qualities, not to mention valuing them as divine attributes, how advanced are we who turn our backs on them? There is a concerted call for more women leaders because the rampant behavior of out-of-control masculine energies cannot be tolerated any longer. Peace, the impulse to live as a family in harmony.Inspiration, in the form of intuition, insight, and the muses that inspire art and music.Abundance, the freely given gifts of food and water supplied by the earth.Mothering, the source of tenderness, affection, nonjudgmental acceptance, and nurturing.The leading qualities of the feminine are: The most basic listing of the divine feminine indicates instantly what is missing on the world stage right now. But if you look at the Greek goddesses-Aphrodite, Hera, Athena, Demeter, and more-each symbolizes a divine feminine energy that must be included in a complete human being, no matter of what gender, or even without gender if that is a conscious choice. The pioneering psychiatrist Carl Jung called these concentrated themes archetypes, but there is no need for special jargon-at this moment every person taps into the same themes tht permeate civilization back to its roots.Īs modern people we see ourselves as beyond mythology, and in fact superior to myths, which feel superstitious and irrational. For at least 30,000 years, dating back to the rapid evolution of the higher brain, Homo sapiens has lived by themes and motifs that guide our actions. We find ourselves in a drastic state of imbalance because one entire half of the human psyche, the feminine, has been suppressed, violated, or ignored. The urge to fight and to turn competitors into enemies, nations into armed fortresses, and everyone into winners and losers won’t save a planet that needs emergency medicine. The arms race, world wars, civil conflicts, and an insane buildup of atomic bombs symbolize masculine aggression reaching some kind of apex that is also a dead end. Masculine behavior has run its course as the model for power.
The best hope for turning the tide is said to be the suburban women’s vote, which already showed its power in the 2018 mid-term elections.īut something much deeper is going on. This is a sign of our collective exhaustion with a president who expresses the most extreme and worst aspects of masculine behavior. When the New York Times editorial board recently split over which Democratic presidential candidate to endorse, the debate was over two women, and eventually both Elizabeth Warren and Amy Klobuchar were selected. The time has come to think about women’s power and not just women’s rights.
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