Unifying male-female balance
The electrifying power of male-female balance united attendees at the Center of the One Heart’s Homecoming Festival 2015 this past weekend atop Afton Mountain at Swannanoa Palace. Many speakers presented about the dynamism that is male-female balance, as well as the inner and intra-dynamism necessary to manifest that electrifying power in the physical world.
The work of Walter and Lao Russell, Akasha Gnosis, the body-mind connection, Aura Photography and epigenetics were just some of the topics covered throughout the weekend. What’s interesting, is that the Homecoming Festival 2015’s weekend theme of male-female balance, seems to encapsulate an energy surge, or a movement that is already in motion “out-there” in the real world.
Both male power and female power inform their opposites, and without one or the other, there can be no male-female balance. Male and female energy are a gift and a potential completion to their opposite. Yes-AND! both have value, and both journey the same work-path of self-discovery and acceptance.
The age of goddess energy, or the valuing of the feminine mystique seems more prevalent now, during our current modern times that it has been for millennia. The Swannanoa Palace Homecoming 2015 zeroed in on that notion of male-female balance in a very timely and coherent fashion.
Self-knowledge facilitates male-female balance
For our Grounded Relating Music Challenge this week, we will zero in a little finer, with a lighter and slightly more playful focus on the women themselves and the role they might play in facilitating that male-female balance emergence into the space of the physical world. In order that there be “The Electrifying Power of Male-Female Balance” in the world, two things have to happen, at the same simultaneous moment. First, men have to recognize in themselves, and in the women around them, a spiritual equality, or an “equality consciousness” as John J. Oliver spoke about in his Homecoming Festival 2015 presentation “The Power of Love”. Oliver stated there is a distinct difference between “sameness,” “equality” and “equality consciousness.”
And the second thing that needs to happen is that women have to remember, and claim, their own divine heritage of “equality consciousness.” Both female and male “equality consciousness” are flip-sides of the same coin; and both sides need to be accessed or available in order to create a true spiritual equality. Both male power and female power inform their opposites, and without one or the other, there can be no male-female balance. Man and woman energy are a gift and a potential completion to their opposite. Yes-AND! both have value, and both journey the same work-path of self-discovery and acceptance.
The “Older Ladies” role: divinity!
As in all spiritual processes, you can BE HERE NOW, or you can be here momentarily, gone momentarily, and then back again momentarily. And there are many steps and stages in between! The Music Challenge this week is a very cute, catchy and timely song by Donnalou Stevens called “Older Ladies,” posted on YouTube by Donnalou Stevens:
In a very matter of fact way, Stevens uses her song to claim what is, and what is no longer true about herself (or older women in general): “Well, I ain’t 16, not a beauty queen. My eyes are baggin’ and my skin is saggin’….”. And then in a very Yes-AND! way, Stevens still upholds, and pronounces or claims her own immense value. To do this she only needed a little bit of curiosity: “And if that’s the reason that you don’t love me, Maybe that’s not love.” Stevens creates value for herself by the choices she makes, not by the beliefs other people suggest she hold.
Stevens’ “Older Ladies” captures one of the very first baby steps on the many-stepped path to realizing “The Electrifying Power of Male-Female Balance” in a very practical way. Women need to play a role in helping the men around them see the truth and voracity of older women’s divinity and wisdom. How to women do that; how do women play that role? By being the change they want to see; by knowing themselves as they already are, in every aged piece of perfection that time crafted. The male role is to go softer, to be more open, to be less conquering, to be more in awe, and to allow the divine wisdom of older women impact them and shift their perspective, at the cellular level.
See, I’m no longer desperate. I’ll only have a man
If he has the smarts to see how HOT that I still am.
If you want a younger model, I wish you well sweet pea.
If you can’t see what it is you have, you ain’t having me.
Society’s false claim that only youth is desirable
Men need to do this opening and softening, even while society continues to promote youth and a certain youthful female ideal. Both male and female energy benefit by discovering how they flow in relation to the social ideal of youth and the reality that aging actually is a fact of life. That idea of youthful femininity is very sexy and tempting, much like many other temptations a spiritual novice might encounter on the path to enlightenment. The man can open to the temptation or to the wisdom, in equal measure, each in the appropriate time or season. And the divinely aged woman can know her own inherent value, or she can be fall into doubt and self-deprecation when seduced by society’s false truth of youthful ideal.
There is no right or wrong answer. There is only a choice, which has to be made over and over again.
However women, by their very act of aging, create an incredible gift for the men around them to perceive a deeper truth than the myths of youth promoted by society. And it all starts individually, with each woman as she ages, claiming her “older ladies are divine” status. As each woman claims it, men around them can be informed….and thereby receive initiation to claim their own manhood divinity. And then the two, male and female, when so aware of their own equal gifts, create in the world that electrifying power of male-female balance.
What’s your “Older Ladies” relationship?
This Monday Music selection challenges you to contemplate your own relationship with “older ladies” whatever that might be, and then to look for the place within yourself that holds the ideals of male-female balance, where you are strong in your beliefs, and the places that might need a little lens of curiosity for a piece of time to shore up your equality consciousness beliefs. Enjoy the music, and use the Grounded Relating Monday Music Challenge to stay present to yourself today.
Full lyrics for “Older Ladies” as posted on Donnalou Steven’s Facebook page:
“Older Ladies”
Well, I ain’t 16, not a beauty queen.
My eyes are baggin’ and my skin is saggin’
And if that’s the reason that you don’t love me,
Maybe that’s not love.
I ain’t 20 either and I don’t care neither.
My hair is gray and I like it that way.
And if that’s the reason that you don’t love me,
Maybe that’s not love.
If you don’t think I rock, well we ain’t gonna roll.
If you don’t think I hung the moon, my hot just turned to cold.
If you wanna younger model, I wish you well, sweet pea.
Cuz if you can’t see what it is you’ve got,
Then you ain’t getting me.
I got cellulite and achin’ feet
My thighs kinda jiggle when I giggle and wiggle
And if that’s the reason that you don’t love me,
Maybe that’s not love
My tummy ain’t tucked or liposucked.
It’s a little poochy, but I still Hoochy Koochy
And if that’s the reason that you don’t love me,
Maybe that’s not love
See, I’m no longer desperate. I’ll only have a man
If he has the smarts to see how HOT that I still am.
If you want a younger model, I wish you well sweet pea.
If you can’t see what it is you have, you ain’t having me.
Older ladies, older ladies, older ladies… are DIVINE!!!
I gotta chicken neck and I love it, by heck
It makes a double chin whenever I grin
And if that’s the reason that you don’t love me,
Maybe that’s not love
WellI got little breasts that droop from my chest,
purt near down all the way to my nest.
And if that’s the reason that you don’t love me,
Maybe that’s not love
Older ladies, older ladies, older ladies… are DIVINE!!!
Older ladies, older ladies, older ladies… are DIVINE!!!
