As you may know, I have been sashaying about Holland lately, mostly for work, but I manage to get in a little exploration time too. Whilst out and about recently, waiting for a street light to flash green to walk, I noticed instead of the usual man, there was a woman, complete with pony-tail.
I then heard a story about another Dutch street light with a somewhat more surprising depiction. Apparently that was short lived as people kept pressing the street light to see it, causing traffic to slow down and more than a few car accidents with people being rear-ended (coinciding with the image on the infamous traffic light actually, further evidence that our chosen symbols do condition our reality).
Then I was reading a Dutch youth magazine that discussed the new (and apparently improved) role of Maid Marian, played by Cate Blanchett in yet another movie version of Robin Hood. The magazine contrasted a fierce Cate with sword with what was considered a more passive history of Maid Marian characters in film.
Of course, demonstrations of physical strength have their place, and can be inspiring, but we would be selling feminine power short if we were to decide that women being able to fight was an expression of feminine empowerment.
A woman, or a man, can choose to play by the rules of the system in which they are operating, or they can become energetically larger than it and begin to grow it into more consciousness. It takes strength of spirit and an ability to align with greater forces spiritually than oneself to activate this potential feminine power within us.
Saints, sages and spiritual masters over the ages, male and female, have had strong repositories of feminine power because it emerges through unity. Feminine power is the ocean that moves the wave. The force of the wave doesn’t come from the individual droplets, it comes from their oneness with the ocean. Unity, connection and relationship brings us potency. It can be so much more than an exercise in human resources. It can become humans flowing in alignment with each other and with the Source. You can’t get more power than that!
So whilst I am all for surprising Dutch street lights (with public safety in mind) and for women owning their physical strength and power, I invite you to ask yourself if you would like to live with the miraculous rather than the strenuous? We don’t have to wilt like dry daisies, but we can let go of some of the fight and align, allow ourselves to be moved and our actions to gain more efficacy in the world because of it. It is the power of synergy, the whole being greater than the sum of its parts. This is feminine power in action. When you add spiritual awareness and energy to it, we have the miraculous becoming possible right before our eyes.
Sounds good? It is! And whilst I am in Holland, there are plenty of workshops (feasts) and mini-workshops (snacks) to help you find your way there (with others). You can find out more at www.alanafairchild.com
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