The Void Isn’t What You Think: The Paradox of the Masculine and the Feminine People often talk about the void of creation that women are intrinsically connected to... or should I say, feminine dominant energy. The feminine mysteries. The womb as a portal to infinite possibility. But check this out. One became two Before anything existed, there was only One. From that One came the illusion of separation. Every tradition gives it different names, but almost all of them describe two principles at the root of creation. A masculine principle and a feminine principle. Before we go any further: this is not about men and women. Every single person carries both. These are principles, not genders. In the Tantric traditions of India, they’re called Shiva and Shakti. Shiva is stillness. Pure awareness. Infinite potential. The space that everything happens inside of. Shakti is everything that moves. Energy. Form. Creation. Your body, the trees, the ocean, the sun, the words you’re reading right now. In Kashmir Shaivism, Shiva is described as the light of consciousness. Shakti is the power of reflection... the mirror that light uses to know itself. Here’s the part I love. The tradition says Shiva without Shakti is a corpse. It’s a play on words. Take the “i” out of Shiva (the “i” stands for Shakti) and you get shava, which means corpse. Pure potential with no reflection is nothing at all. Nothing exists on its own. Everything you have ever tasted, touched, smelled or loved exists because these two came together. The paradox Now let’s take the popular teaching and translate it back into the original language. The void. Infinite possibility. The mysteries. That’s Shiva. That’s the masculine principle. The earth. The body. Form. The building and the toil. That’s Shakti. That’s the feminine principle. So the teaching that says women hold the void and men are here to work the earth is actually saying the womb is a doorway to the masculine... and men out there building are in union with the feminine.

Just discovered Taylor on Substack. I’m at the tail end of a brutal and yet transformative cancer journey, now sitting with too many truths and a broken body and none of my old masculine energy powers can pull me up. In a swamp with my shadows, having no idea how to handle the collapse of my marriage and the invitation to reclaim my pleasure in a pain-ridden body. I know the anger/rage I have for my husbands selfishness and hedonism is an invitation to become more selfish and to learn to take pleasure too, rather than trying to prove to him how terrible his selfishness is, but I am so broken I just have to be broken right now. I bought an astrological chart reading of my shadow and it was incredible. But so hectic. I can see my “too much ness” has a face and an energy and the tile has come to learnt to love her. I have no idea how I’m going to get there… For now I am singing “this is me” daily to help me process and embody the grief and the power of my scars and my broken self. (Broken from age 4, cancer has just been helping piece her back together). I am tired of my rage against patriarchy, because the worst part of the patriarchy is the voice that lives in me, telling me how I should be. I am not sure what I want from joining this community, but I feel like I belong here.

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Thanks for being here.. be patient with me as I’m focusing on getting people In here… Please introduce yourself in a post.. what brought you here. What matters to you, what you feel, think and any questions on your mind right now. Also let me know what your hoping to get and areas your curious about and are excited to explore. Feel free to post ANY question you have or anything on your mind and I’ll use that to guide me in making videos. The focus for me is to stimulate a community rather than a hierarchy that treats me as authority. Don’t get me wrong.. I have embodied wisdom that has come through moving through deeeep shadow. But I’m a reflection.. that’s all. In Lakech Ala Kin. No Gurus. No Distorted Hierarchies. No outsourcing your power, intuition or discernment. ESPECIALLY to me. I’m happy to share and teach according to my perspectives. But I know you have medicine and wisdom that I want to see as well. A LOT! And you are safe to be seen. You are god/dess source energy incarnate. Perfectly on your path. ❤️ I see you. You are safe to fully express here!