Balanced
Energies
“Nature
is not dumb. Humanity is dumb when we can't hear or when we forget
how to communicate with nature. Nature is very much alive.
Intelligent, living beings and vibrant energies are all over this
planet.”
Sun Bear
(Walk in Balance: The Path to Healthy, Happy, Harmonious Living)
Sun Bear, the Ojibwe
teacher from the White Earth Reservation in Washington state, wrote
several books on Native American spirituality. He always ended his
writing by saying, “It is good to have spoken.” Most of his work
had to do with earth energies, with the medicine wheel, and with the
balancing of masculine and feminine energies. I do not mean men and
women, male and female humans, I mean the energies of the feminine
and masculine that exist within all humans. We have lived in a
predominantly masculine energy driven world for a couple of
millennium now—in fact, since the dark ages. Don't hear this as a
terrible criticism. Humanity needed the linear thinking of the
masculine to advance civilization and to inform and direct its
evolution. Masculine energy, if you look at it geometrically for a
moment, goes from point A to point B to point C and so forth. It
moves in straight lines and angles. It gets things moving from one
level to the next, from stone age to iron age, from hunter-gather to
agriculture, from oral tradition to printing press, from hand-picked
to harvester, from leeches to MRI's. We needed that kind of energy to
move forward, and we still need it today to be innovative and
progressive.
But masculine energy is
not relational. It contains no curves or swirls. For that we need
the feminine. To have deep and sustained consideration for the
effects of the robust masculine, feminine energy is required. It is
first and foremost relational. It weighs consequences, considers
equality and justice; it nurtures and sustains. Feminine energy moves
only in curves, and circles and swirls. It brings color and nuance,
moisture and lushness, it is expansive, egalitarian and creative. Without the
masculine, however, feminine energy is irrational and ungrounded. United with masculine energy, it brings compassion, depth and wholeness.
Masculine energy without the feminine is hard, harsh and
inconsiderate of impact; it is shallow and driven, it takes without giving. But together, and in equal measure, masculine and feminine energies bring balance and wholeness
to this planet. We need both. Right now, we
especially need the balance of feminine energy. It is good to have
spoken.
In the Spirit,
Jane
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