I recently had an experience that reminded me in a soul-touching way of the power of a community of women.  I was struggling with a challenging situation involving the health  of one of my adult children, and it had begun to feel as if there were precious few places I could turn for support myself without burdening someone else with concerns that could be tough to get out from under.

In my most recent posting we looked at what happens when a woman allows her own feminine energy and the gifts inherent in her to be overshelmed or diminished by the masculine energy that may be all around her. 

I recently spoke to a group of professional women who work in a markedly male dominated industry.  They had asked me to talk with them about how women can thrive and be successful in an environment that, in subtle and not so subtle ways, discounts and dismisses the natural inclinations of women.

Through history women have served as sources of great wisdom for those in positions of power who recognized that profound wisdom and insight are natural gifts of the femimine.

QUOTE OF THE DAY

Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry. — Gloria Steinem

Women have often learned to think of themselves as “less than” when it comes to the opportunity to create the lives they want to live.

According to the latest polls of government-sanctioned NGOs, women have a larger and larger space in the power hierarchies if the world. We can all be part of this shift if we discover our own power.

While there are those who will disagree, I believe this is due to two crucial shifts in both our perceptions and our awareness.  First, as women choose (and it is a choice) to think of themselves as expressions of the Divine Feminine and Its gifts, they are naturally moved to step forward in new and perhaps deeper ways than in the past; second, on a largely unconscious level, society is beginning to recognize, although reluctantly in some circles, that we as a species have been out of balance for some time and that by creating space for the considerable gifts of the feminine to be brought to the global table we are choosing to move back into the balance that can bring true healing, resolution, and peace to a haggard planet.