Nineteenth in a series [gs *] There is a place in the underworld, down near Hades, where the unspent flaming rage of the active feminine pools, where the unseen tears of women’s history burn. My husband calls this the Chthonios, the timeless place of women’s suffering at the hands of men, masculinity, the masculine, misogyny…
DetailsEighteenth in a series [gs *] Twenty-four hours after I hoped that he meant to process his hurt feelings in private, I get another email from lunch-guy. I’m really wondering how he’s dealing with his wife and kids throughout all this – ‘Man!’ I’m thinking ‘this fool needs to slow the fuck down!’ Anyway –…
Details“There had been countless women like me in the beds of kings but no one ever heard their stories, because who would care?“ Jillian Lauren I didn’t start out intrigued. I started out, like most would, terrified – it was a threat, not a mystery. That “I know how you’re going to turn out” business…
DetailsSeventeenth in a series [gs *] Now, you’d think we might be done, or at least that I should ‘be complete’, that I’d had my say, got it off my chest, could feel better now. But that would be wishful thinking. If you’ve been paying attention, you’ve noticed I’ve left things out. His allusions that…
DetailsWhat do we mean by Active? A misconception I hear about the Active Feminine – that a female athlete would represent her – tells me we need to amplify this concept. ‘Active’ in the context of the Sacred Feminine is not about how much one moves one’s body, or how actively we pursue the goals of…
DetailsSixteenth in a series [gs *] My husband calls that ‘boy-noise’. That innocently misogynistic/immature masculine effort to shut out what a woman tells him, her feeling, meaning, message, with a cool pseudo-unemotional logic. That reductionist certainty that he understands everything there is to know about the situation. Rationalizing away the essential core of her truth.…
DetailsThe Girl With The Dragon Tattoo A friend asked me if the character of Lisbeth in the Dragon Tattoo trilogy is an example of the Active Feminine. I hadn’t contemplated examples, and probably wouldn’t have thought of Lisbeth on my own, but when asked, I realized – yeah, she’s almost perfect. Especially the aspect of…
DetailsFifteenth in a series [gs *] So where were we? I had done TK, [gs TK] uncovered more of my own stuff, got a sense of where it comes from & how to think about it for the future, and had a few moments of feeling clean. But none of that meant the lunch-guy business…
DetailsFourteenth in a series [gs *] So, I’ve sent the go-away email a few hours ago and we’re still doing TK, [gs TK] ferretting out what blocks me from preempting those goo-bombs. We’ve established that I flip my body-awareness switch to off when faced with an ego-incongruity, but not always. It’s not like I go…
DetailsThirteenth in a series [gs *] Shortly after hitting ‘send’ on the go-away email, I have a Transformational Kinesiology with my [gs TK] practitioner friend Saren. If you’re familiar with muscle testing (that weird arm-pushing yes/no? business), you’ll have an idea of what this is. But TK is about more than figuring out which Bach…
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