Men, on the other hand, have been even more stripped of their feminine qualities, as they have been pressured to be more and more driven, go go go, productive and powerful. In a world that was already very controlled by patriarchal authority, the only way to rise up seemed to be to take on more qualities of the masculine energy. But it didnвЂ™t get us all the way there.ДЄlong the way of women fighting to gain equal power in this world, affluent white women have had most of the progress. This was a necessary step towards liberation and equality among all women. As women, our lack of rights, equal access, and physical barriers caused us a very valid reason to feel our boundaries were being crossed, and to get angry about it.

Anger is the emotion that is expressed when a boundary has been crossed. Thanks to feminism, we live in a modern society where men and women have much more equal rights and roles in the world than our ancestors.ДЇemale empowerment had to be initiated at first by anger. Women, and the feminine energy, have historically been oppressed in our patriarchal society. *IвЂ™ll use italics when IвЂ™m referring to these energy polarities rather than gender. What I really am referring to is the polarities (and the whole range of expression that exists between polarities) and how all humans contain BOTH polarities to different degrees at different times. I am NOT using them to describe gender, sex, sexual orientation, or gender identity (although they are the same words we use for these things).ДЄs humans, we use metaphors to describe non-material concepts вЂ“ to make abstract and ethereal concepts make sense in a way we can express and communicate about. When speaking about feminine and masculine energy, these are words I use to describe the polarity of expression of nonphysical human qualities. WomenвЂ™s retreats, and time spent in womenвЂ™s spaces and containers are a beautiful opportunity to discover the feminine energy, tap into it, and become empowered within your feminine energy.Д«ut you might be asking, вЂњWhat even IS this divine feminine energy?вЂќ вЂњWhy go to a womenвЂ™s only retreat?вЂќ Or вЂњWhy do I want to embrace my feminine?вЂќ I want to dig deeper into what this really means, the choice of language, and the way I believe this work is able to impact the world.ДЇirst, I want to clear up some language use that might be misleading or confusing.

The divine feminine energy