Valuing the Female Experience

How do we value something that is not considered value-able by our culture? How do we make worthy of our attention whole sections of ourselves that this consuming culture considers worthless… primarily because no one can sell it to you…

The Female Experience… a vast and mostly uncharted lands deep within every woman walking around… that would be over three and a half billion perceptions of the inner landscape… and then, when you consider that every man is walking about with his very own Anima that makes for over seven billion versions of the Female Experience.

There was  a time in our race’s past where we honoured women, the blood, birthing, becoming crone… we were in profound relations with the Earth and all her bounty. We understood the healing within so much of her plants, we were in relations with Her cycles… then things changed. This account, Herstory by Jane Hardwicke Collings, helps us put it into context, understand that this is where we have been, what has happened, and perhaps what we can do from here.

Valuing the Female Experience… making room, space, time, attention… upon that which is inherently of the power from within, the feminine feeling nature capable of ALL human beings, but mostly women are biologically hooked into the source, if  indeed they haven’t plugged up or medicated down. I don’t want to make any woman wrong for doing so, but the impetus  to do so, to shut off our Female Experience, can be related to the part of us that would just conform, do what most people expect. Same for the menfolk, just ignore that desire to nurture your own children, shut of the feeling part of your being whilst you directly negatively effect the environs, for dammit, there is money on the line.

Valuing… finding worth…. this is part of the key, to truly understand our inner landscapes, find peace and power within our stillness and our deeply guided action. How do we make space, create time, open our lives to this part of ourselves?

Turn off the noise. I mean ALL of the noise, ALL of the broadcasting noise that will tell what to value, how you should be acting, what you must be purchasing if you are a “good… mother, wife, woman, father, husband, man…”  Don’t be fearful of not knowing when the next world war is about to start, I am sure someone will tell you.

In the silence that will ensue, insert quiet time. Instead of having emotionally engaging one sided conversations with the characters in the soap opera, try having an emotionally engaging conversation with those that mean something in your life… about how you feel, how they feel, about how feelings are important, about how to make more room for feelings in your lives.  Perhaps there are sisters in your world you could set up circle with, menfolk that would be open to building some space together?

Essentially, this current culture is not going to make this happen for you. YOU will need to claim the space to value your Female Experience. Please Do.

The next StarFire and Harnessing the Fertile force will be held both up in the hills at Selby, and at CERES too, please join me in making some power-filled space to honour the Female Experience.