05-07-2020, 06:39 PM
I, like many here, have worked on consciousness. I have especially worked on the archetypical Magician aspect of mind, which as a reflection of the environment, was initially quite overbearing and dominating, which only throttled my capacity for creative insight. Once we work towards balancing the Magician with the Priestess (as Ray pointed out), then we may see how this may transform the Empress and Emperor dynamic.
It would make sense to have absorbed cultural expressions of gender dynamics in childhood, and see this play out in the very way we balance those penetrating and receptive aspects of Self.
Perhaps even more ripe for fruit, is to analyse what biases we have formed - what aspects disturb us the most about gender expression in society, and see how we may be mirroring that in the Self.
If one has any connection with group mind and universal mind, then we know that those deepest parts of the Self are genderless. Penetrating and receptive dynamics play out in all types of intercourse - be it procreation, social, discussion, project work, ritual, prayer, art creation... well any form of manifestation between two portions of the Creator.
But that is not what this thread started out being.
This thread was started out of a curiosity to see how portions of the Creator may have had a unique and different experience based on being in a female physical body, as oppose to an experience in a male physical body. I have attempted to do that to the best of my ability. You could say I was receptive enough to allow the question to penetrate deeply within. I tried to search for what I believe was the biggest difference in my life which was completely dependent on the fact that my body was female.
We are a dioecious species and I have shared what I have observed openly. Don't shoot the messenger.
It is far from the most important part of my life. My physical body and it's interaction with society has very little to do with the totality of me as a being.
Personally I don't like saying I have "masculine" traits or "feminine" traits. I think it narrows gender roles even further. Instead, I prefer to say I have penetrative traits and receptive traits, and I think I do both relatively well, as do others here.
I am genuinely interested in the male body experience, how it may relate or differ from my own. But hasn't it been said enough times that gender roles are illusionary at best, destructive at worst?
It would make sense to have absorbed cultural expressions of gender dynamics in childhood, and see this play out in the very way we balance those penetrating and receptive aspects of Self.
Perhaps even more ripe for fruit, is to analyse what biases we have formed - what aspects disturb us the most about gender expression in society, and see how we may be mirroring that in the Self.
If one has any connection with group mind and universal mind, then we know that those deepest parts of the Self are genderless. Penetrating and receptive dynamics play out in all types of intercourse - be it procreation, social, discussion, project work, ritual, prayer, art creation... well any form of manifestation between two portions of the Creator.
But that is not what this thread started out being.
This thread was started out of a curiosity to see how portions of the Creator may have had a unique and different experience based on being in a female physical body, as oppose to an experience in a male physical body. I have attempted to do that to the best of my ability. You could say I was receptive enough to allow the question to penetrate deeply within. I tried to search for what I believe was the biggest difference in my life which was completely dependent on the fact that my body was female.
We are a dioecious species and I have shared what I have observed openly. Don't shoot the messenger.
It is far from the most important part of my life. My physical body and it's interaction with society has very little to do with the totality of me as a being.
Personally I don't like saying I have "masculine" traits or "feminine" traits. I think it narrows gender roles even further. Instead, I prefer to say I have penetrative traits and receptive traits, and I think I do both relatively well, as do others here.
I am genuinely interested in the male body experience, how it may relate or differ from my own. But hasn't it been said enough times that gender roles are illusionary at best, destructive at worst?