If you’ve been raised in strongly masculine traditions the ways of the divine feminine may come as a surprise to you, and may even seem iconoclastic.
Whereas the masculine approach is defined by rules and explanations, the feminine is about permission and mystery.
Where the masculine approach focuses on discipline and denial, the feminine encourages rest and sensuality.
While the masculine has an answer for everything, the feminine simply returns the question to you: Let it be.
Naturally, regardless of gender, we have both energies within us. If we had no masculine structure, we would not be able to pay our bills or get to work on time. The masculine structure also provides the protection required in spiritual infancy by proscribing boundaries, rules, practices, and disciplines. It answers questions to satisfy the anxious mind in need of reassurance, to help it make sense of a chaotic world.
But in spiritual adulthood, it is time to wake up to the chaos for which there is no explanation and the grace that is utterly mysterious.
In spiritual adulthood, there are no more teachers, no more rules, no more boundaries, no more reasons, no more prophecies. Nothing is guaranteed. Nothing is known for certain.
Osho described it as the progression from yoga to tantra. In the highest tantra, life itself is the teacher and there is no more need for ritual.
The path of the divine feminine is about tuning in and start listening: to yourself, to your body, to others, and to spirit.
To be in full presence with what is, whether you like it or not. To be fully embodied. To be here now.
The path of the divine feminine is to be in tune with energy: 1) the kundalini shakti or Holy Spirit within, 2) Ma’at or the divine order of things, and 3) the celestial energies, spirits of nature and angelic beings that are here to help.
In this path, the temple is within, all is holy, and nothing is too sacrosanct to be questioned.
Spiritual adulthood does not have the outward trappings you are used to. There are no more costumes, no more churches, no excessively light voices, no rousing speeches.
In spiritual adulthood, you forge your own path, you make your own choices, minute to minute, day to day, as you come into the fullest expression of your unique soul design in the context of the challenges of this life that you have chosen for yourself for your growth and service.
In spiritual adulthood you allow yourself to be moved and guided by your own desire to experience and participate in this reality, to play your unique part, to lend your unique voice on the world’s stage.
In spiritual adulthood, you no longer shy away nor hide away. Because you are no longer afraid of the truth, or of ridicule, or of being wrong, you become curious about who you are and the world around you — and you no longer try to fit in because you know you already belong.