Some people see her as a picture of Mother Mary or Quan Yin.
Some see her as Isis or Sofia, even a nun.
Some people see her as an energy  found only in female bodies.
Fundamentalist Christians might see her as Eve.
The Taoists see her as the Yin side of Yin-Yang and all that Yin might encompass.
Some see it as one aspect of the Christ consciousness; one of the other aspects being masculine.
Some people feel her in church or speak to her their prayers.

I see it as one half of the essence of Universal law or truth. It seems as though most of the energetics in Universal law are founded in opposites, polarities, or in balancing those same principles. For example, some of these laws include:

Active & Receptive
Gender: masculine & feminine
Cause & Effect
Polarity
Relativity
Abundance & Lack
As Above, So Below
As Within, So Without

I also see that our bodies are reflections of our spiritual energies, and this is where the “As above so below” comes into play. Inside us we have an etheric-spiritual template that s neither male nor female, yet contains the beauty and mysteries of both principles of feminine and masculine, Christ & Sofia whose symbolism is both balanced and individuated, one within themselves. This template emanates from within every human being, though it is connected to the one, originating in the spiritual web. Linked to our subtle bodies, anchoring in our physical bodies, it reflects both spiritual and physical energies.

There are many ancient universal symbols that tell this same story: the six-pointed star and the yin-yang symbol are but two. The elements reflect this potential as well in fire & water, earth & sky (air), as do the directions and seasons. Humanity is a reflection of spirit, plain and simple and we are forever holding it all in balance.

Where there is a God there is a Goddess, and even though we see the external icons as separate entities, they are one inside themselves. Much like the avatars that have walked the Earth over our eternal lifespan, they are filled with both Christ and Sofia, mother and father, God & Goddess, Sun & Moon, Fire & Water, masculine and feminine. And like the Gods we humans have the same make-up.

So why is the Divine Feminine such a big idea right now, and why is it important for us all to embrace this principle?

Here are my thoughts on this matter. These are all the expressions I left unsaid the other night during the roundtable, all the things I wanted to say and didn’t, for any number of reasons:

Simply put, I feel it’s important to embrace and integrate the Divine Feminine because the feminine principle is part of our human design, and one half of the Universal Law of Unity as well. Without it, we are not only disintegrated, we cannot find oneness or autonomy on any level.

We need more receptivity to meet the masculine energy of extreme stress which will assist us in balancing ourselves and finding a place of non-resistance to what we’ve created here on planet Earth: our lives.

Receptivity: The feminine principle is receptive. As a country, even as a species, we’ve anchored ourselves in the masculine side of the yin-yang coin for thousands of years, valuing output action, outgo, overt displays, control, achievement and containers, just to name some of the human qualities the collective unconscious admires. Like in the Matrix, we are ever-ready batteries running hard until we die. As a whole, we simply don’t recharge; there is no receptivity.

Stress: And that begets stress, a masculine principle. And lack of receptivity—all those qualities just mentioned–creates stress on all levels. Environmental stress (or anything that comes from outside of ourselves) is absorbed into our beingness: we see it, we fear it, we block it, we think about it, it courses through our bodies in the form of endocrine hormones, it becomes an emotional memory, and then we own it for later use. On a physiological level, stress is the masculine part of us. Even though men can handle more of this energy, it is very damaging cycle of ill health for both women and men. We need to integrate more of the feminine principle to create balance so that we can relieve ourselves of stress.

Balance: A balance of masculine and feminine are needed to survive. Currently we are overflowing with masculine constructs and whether men or women, there seems to be a proliferation of masculine-style resolutions within our socioeconomic and now broadly blanketed, Westernized constructs. We need to bring more of the feminine principle into the mix to balance the masculine and to enhance our ability to integrate anima or animas, depending upon the person…I say person because there are many women who carry loads of masculine energy and men who are more feminine than masculine. It’s not really a gender consideration. Without balance we often find ourselves taking a stand on one side of the teeter-totter or another. These stances only exist in the realm of resistance.

Non-resistance: Fluidity, compassion, cooperation, empowerment, ease, curiosity, openness and balance–these are all states of non-resistance. Almost every solution we see in relation to global issues these days contains action, resistance, oppression, control, harsh boundaries & invisible walls, all suggesting more separation and a lot of exclusion. So many of us speak to boundary issues in the context of personal growth and empowerment, including me. Lately I’m finding a very different approach these days: it’s called ownership and it’s a lot like higher responsibility, yet more self-empowering.

A friend of mine recently said to me with great certainty and neutrality, “I don’t really have boundaries.” I’ve been exploring this idea ever since. There is a concept I learned a couple decades ago that I like to call transparency: it’s non-resistance to our life mock-up, or in other words, fully embracing what we created at the threshold of this lifetime, and what we create every day we breathe on this planet. I don’t know this for certain, yet I believe many marshal arts masters practice this in some way.

Evolution: Evolution is why we are here. It’s in our human genetics, it’s part of our souls and threads through our common spiritual energies, to grow through eternity. In order to evolve, we are given the gifts of openness and willingness, to somehow create and embrace new experiences and ultimately new ways of being.

Because our world is “stuck” in old patterns right now, so rigidly stuck that everything is crumbling down around us, we have yet to go all the way toward evolving into our next incarnation as a group of beings called humans. The masculine will either continue to tip the scales until we entrench ourselves completely, or maybe, just maybe, with lots of awareness and focus, we can meet this imbalance with feminine energy, gradually equalizing the pressure and finding stasis. Here, at rest, is the place we will actually integrate our lessons and create the new paradigm. There’s a lot of stress in this process as well, though with consciousness, discipline and conservation, it’s potentials are transmuted and alchemized for proper digestion and integration.

The Energetic Connection and its local Santa Fe partner Sacred Bodies, Sacred Rhythms, focus on the balance point of masculine & feminine; offering single sessions, classes, courses and programs, both online and in Santa Fe.