Return of the Divine Feminine-Tom LaRotonda

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March 13, 2006 Topic – The Return of the Divine Feminine-Tom LaRotonda


“The denial of the feminine as partner and friend has robbed us of ecstasy. The wounded male, seeks his lost ecstasy in all the wrong places - violence, power, materialism.” - Margaret Starbird


Something is emerging that gives me great hope for humanity. I’m seeing a quantum leap of feminine consciousness heralding the return of the divine feminine energy to earth.

This emergence is not happening the way I thought it would. I always believed I would see my male brethren adopting more and more feminine energy and qualities. While there has been some shift occurring among men, to my pleasant surprise the unquestionable evidence of this transformation is appearing in women.

I’ve always been a man who’s been attracted to very strong, confident and independent women…as friends, colleagues, lovers, and partners. I was called to a passion and vocation that is dominated by women…the spiritual, personal growth, and holistic healing field. I spend my life around many incredibly gifted and talented women who have been highly successful and powerful in their lives, in large part due to a unique blend of feminine and masculine energy.

Many of these women came into the world with a harmonic mixture of masculine and feminine energy, fulfilling soul contracts to be the leaders that usher in the divine feminine energy. Others believe that their assimilation of the masculine energy was motivated by a path of being thrust into self sufficiency caused by divorce epidemic of the baby boomer generation. As these women were forced to build careers to survive, they had little choice but to adopt the masculine energy demanded in a male-dominated work force. Unconsciously their divine feminine nature fell ever so gently and silently into a deep abyss.

Men did not face the same pressure to assimilate the feminine energy. Some shift did occur for men as women inspired them with their natural feminine gifts and talents they brought to the workplace, but the assimilation process for men moved at a snails pace. One might even argue that the rise of the masculine energy in women may have caused a detour for the emergence of the feminine energy in men. Instead of embracing the feminine energy, the threat of the women’s rise in power may have triggered a primal fight or flight response…which created a huge polarity between men and women that never existed before.

I’ve always been a man who has embraced the beauty, power, and grace of the divine feminine energy and is what I deeply admire about a woman. To be around a woman who is compassionate, nurturing, caring, creative, open, and vulnerable IS the face of God expressing as Goddess energy. The feminine energy epitomizes the spiritual nature and potential of life. I believe the Goddess energy is the feminine-yin expression of God and stands in equality with the masculine-yang expression of God. As a man, I’ve found that the divine feminine energy is what empowers and calls forth my divine masculine energy. We know too well the destructive side of the masculine shadow energy which has dominated the world scene for thousands of years. Unfortunately, that which has been forgotten on this dark side of the journey is the positive masculine energy…which I believe epitomizes the human nature of life…those gifts that expand the will and substance of our human existence.

For decades many of us have been trying to find the right balance of inner yin-yang energy as separate, individualized human beings. What if we’ve been going down the wrong path? What if the more direct path to God is for men and women to fully self actualize by embracing the effortless dance of the natural core divine natures inside them? What if the way we best facilitate the return of the healing yin-yang balance into the world is through union, partnership, and collaboration? Instead of men becoming more feminine and women becoming more masculine, what if we reclaimed our true divine natures and embraced the power of pure divine union between fully divined men and women? What if a fully divined human being is simply the combination of the masculine and feminine energy that God placed in each of us when we were born?

I recently had coffee with one of those very powerful and successful women. It turned out to be a conversation that touched my soul and rattled some of my core beliefs. This is a woman who has been on a very enlightened spiritual path for many years. A woman I respect and admire…as well as a woman who I feel carries a strong balance of masculine and feminine energy inside her. The conversation we had was truly a divine intervention in my relationship path.

In essence, she told me she is moving beyond the spiritual-centered path that has been the focus of her adult life. She told the universe that she is ready to receive pleasure and love…and to experience it in form…not just in spirit. She’s tired of the struggle and now believes that God is most easily recognized by fostering deeper, loving relationships in her life. She has more and more moments when she just wants to be held…to be the ultimate receiver of God’s love through a partner…to ‘be’ a divine woman. She also said that in order to receive her request she knows she has to be willing to let the universe break down every corner of her ego identity…and for the first time in her life she is willing to allow that. Up until now, she admits she was playing a game of power and control, especially in relationships with men. She feels the breaking down process has already begun. I agree…I saw a softness and tenderness in her that I’ve never seen before and it reached down and touched my soul.

The most profound thing she said that stopped me in my tracks was, and I paraphrase…“What makes us think we can have a close intimate relationship with God if we can’t even do that with one another.” She believed up till now that the ultimate relationship with God could be found individually and therefore she had for the most part bypassed the relationship stuff in search of that relationship with God. In that moment I realized I’ve been doing the same thing. Suddenly it hit me…God is as close to me as the next person I meet. God was sitting right there across the table from me drinking an iced coffee!

Almost word for word what my Goddess friend spoke that night I’m hearing from many other strong and powerful women these past few weeks. There is something HUGE looming…and what I believe it is…is the divine feminine energy circling the world, enveloping it, penetrating it, and now is beginning to break down the masculine energy…not just in men…but also the masculine energy that is equally as strong in women. Practically every deeply spiritual woman I know…very strong and independent women…are asking to be held and loved….that at times nothing else matters…not even their mission in life…not because that connection is bigger than their life mission…but because it is part of their lifetime mission…it is part of a woman’s soul purpose for being in human form. I’m being told that what matters the most is love…and the simple pleasures of life that love inspires.

The power of vulnerability that the divine feminine energy is unleashing is pure beauty in my eyes. It’s one thing to see a man’s vulnerability. But to see a woman’s vulnerability, from a masculine perspective…IS the face of God. The divine feminine energy is asking both men and women to let go and allow everything to break down…to let go of everything we steadfastly hold onto that is old. The old ways will no longer work no matter how hard we try to force it. That is why so many of us remain in pain and struggle in our lives. We continue to force old ways into a new energy. The old is never going to work again. We must find new ways of living and being. We must embrace the entry of a new type of love into the world…or maybe it’s the resurrection of the Goddess love that once existed.

It is my belief that as the divine feminine energy reawakens in women it will activate the divine masculine energy in men. I also believe it will activate the sleeping divine feminine energy in other women. As this activation occurs, divine union will reclaim its sacred role of cleansing the earth of the patriarchal beliefs that have dominated for thousands of years. This doesn’t signal the return to dominance of a matriarchal society. I believe there will be a new society born of a ‘uni-archal’ energy symbolized by the yin-yang image of two separate pieces forming a perfect circle. There is no question in my heart that the divine feminine energy is returning in full force to the world.

My inspiration today is for both men and women of the world. Embrace the return of the divine feminine energy with all your heart and soul. Women, bring the power of your pure feminine energy to the men or other women in your life that recognize and appreciate it, for they will be the ones whose heart and soul will be activated. Men, encourage women and other men to step into the divine feminine power that is inside them. Do not force it on those who reject it. Their path must take a different course. Let go of them and leave them to their path. Embrace the Goddess energy that will transform the world and bring it back into divine balance. This is one man’s request…a cry for help…to all my brothers and sisters.

Till Next Time – May You Empower Your Life!
Tom


Tom LaRotonda works with collaborative partners across the world through his organization, Core Matters, to help transform people, organizations, and communities. He is a speaker, transformation mentor, writer, facilitator, visionary and a former internationally known internet radio talk show host..

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