Living from the heart
A look at the Brave Warrior and the Sacred Feminine
The brave warrior today shows his bravery in his arms. He chooses ancient symbols, hoping that his heart will remember them. Yet, there is nothing original to his thinking. He is inspired by what he sees around him. There must be some feeling inside, but it might be fleeting, and then he convinces himself that what he did meant something for the rest of his days.
For the most part, we have become a society intent only on conforming to one another. Have we changed from adolescence, when being like everyone else was critical to survival? How many of us think anymore?
If the Sacred Feminine is key to his survival, how will the Brave Warrior find her again? She represents the creative energy of the universe and a return to meaningful rituals that reveal her. The Sacred Feminine is what we fight for and what gives significance to the Brave Warrior’s life. We associate the Sacred Feminine with woman and the Brave Warrior with man. So, how can we, as men, Brave Warriors, find the Sacred Feminine again in our lives? We assume there was a moment in our history when she was present.
As men, we must consider all women as our equals, perhaps our superiors. To think the contrary goes against our biological tendency, given the clear difference in physical size. We must go against centuries of misinformation where women are believed to be inferior. And men are meant to rule, again, based on their ability to conquer. Even our religious institutions have kept women from full participation and made her role secondary, at times casting her as the embodiment of evil and other times venerating her as the Holy Mother, but still subjugating her to a lesser status amongst all of humankind.
What can venerate the Sacred Feminine signify to us today? Undoubtedly, it is about leaving the male ego behind, but not losing the strength that is part of man’s biology. Nothing will change unless he can see all as created equal and worship that one key piece of understanding. He must learn to see with his heart, not just with his eyes. He must understand that what she can give him, he cannot give himself. She is the door to the other side of him. She is life without struggle and has a direct connection with an energy that changes the world order. It is the force of love, and it permeates her heart without her having to think about it. Where man must think about whether he wants love, she does not.
The Sacred Feminine in all women is her ability to feel the pulse of life itself in all creatures. That is why she is best suited to give our children the first steps of life. She will never forsake her sacred role with newborn life if given the opportunity, even if it doesn’t come from her sacred blood. Rare are the cases in which a mother abandons her child and where mitigating circumstances are beyond her control. Yet, man relegates this information to genetic and social history and forgets to look deeper. How can he value his existence if he can’t see the creation acting through the woman?
Man’s fundamental search for himself is about finding an everlasting connection with the divine. He knows that something beyond himself must flow through his veins. His thoughts must carry him there. Little does he know that he only needs to look at who is in his life, especially the women in it. Maybe it is why, as fathers, we long to have daughters who, though for a short time, remind us of the sacred lost in our lives. Unfortunately, it assumes that as girls become women, a host of factors change for us as men. It could be their loss of the Sacred Feminine in their lives. Or society’s injunction that they mainly fill in beauty and sensual roles. Or that they must compete with man to be his equal.
We don’t want them to compete with us; that is too painful. We want to look at women for what we cannot see about ourselves. Beauty includes love, harmony, and peace. When a woman knows herself, we men are at peace. If she is not asking, she is giving and only asks that we understand her nature. She naturally will bring out the best in us.
