This system could not survive in an environment where women were revered for their mystical power, men had to be seen as the source of all power, and as such everything that was held as sacred was destroyed. Thousands of years ago, but especially compounded by the birth of the Roman Empire, Patriarchy took over. If we were to allow ourselves properly to feel pain, to feel the Earth’s pain, we wouldn’t be able to make the decisions we do…” Of course the intellectual and rational is also important - but there is way too much of that in the world right now. If we allow it to come through in ourselves, as women, to manifest it honestly in our lives, then we give permission for it to come through in men, and that very necessary rebalancing of male and female energies can take place. So we need to bring in the feminine quality, the capacity to feel. And that’s how corruption sets in: coeur-ruption, a rupturing of the heart space. It pushes down our ability as a civilisation to feel, and especially our capacity to feel great pain.Political and corporate decision-making is based on numbing out. And the suppression of feminine energy is a huge part of the problem in the world right now. We need both perspectives, both energies in balance, to make whole decisions. “I do think that men and women have a different approach and a different energy, but the critical thing of course is to find the right balance of both masculine and feminine energy in each person, in each situation. Polly Higgins, when speaking to Sharon Blackie (see more below) says: It sounds like the thing of fairy tales, but the loss of this has shown that its reality was essential, and the breakdown of such a world has led us to where we are today. Women were (are!) the healers and the life givers, and Mother Earth continued to provide because this sacred partnership was preserved. The Yin and Yang partnership of the Masculine and the Feminine was held to be of great importance, and both men and women held their equal (although different) places in society. It is difficult to imagine now, but women used to be revered, by most cultures, and their connection with Mother Earth was seen as vital for the harmonious relationship between humans and the planet to be maintained. But what does this actually mean? And how do we go about re-balancing the energies?
What if one of the main reasons relationships struggle, and sometimes fail, in today’s world, and indeed in turn, that humanity is messing up our relationship with this planet so monumentally, is because we have lost the essential balance between the Feminine and the Masculine? Everything I have learnt over the last couple of years suggests to me this is very much the case.