Deeply poignant and poetic words Áine. I always feel that your articles have a passionate flow - for me, this is deeply insightful: I have an intellectual grasp of Yin and Yang but less of a ‘lived’ experience, if that makes sense. Please write more :)
Thank you so much Dave. I really appreciate your words. Integrating the Divine Masculine and Feminine in me has been and continues to be a life-long journey. I think most of us struggle with it, whether we're here in male or female form, unless we've attained enlightenment while in this realm - rare!
The key is being in tune with what is most supportive in any given moment but the world is so loud, it drowns out that voice of intuition.
I'm not so sure about you not having the ‘lived experience’. I often feel an embodied sense of Yin / Yang through your art. The mother tree in particular. Not sure if I've got the right name on that - I looked back through your posts and couldn't find the piece I'm referring to but I remember thinking you embodied Yin / Yang in that wildly imaginative painting of a tree - the embrace of Mother with the strength of Father…
Incidentally, while looking back through your posts, I realised how many of them I never saw in my Inbox when they were posted - odd 🤔
Perhaps by lived I mean being unable to experience what women go through such as menopause, menstruation and the physicality of being female :> As for the posts, It's likely the Substack pixies at play ;)
What a profound question—"Which came first?"—implying that the world's imbalance of Yang over Yin might not just be reflected in, but perhaps even originates from, the inner turmoil women are conditioned to carry. This topic is right up my alley; my profile has more deep dives like this.
Deeply poignant and poetic words Áine. I always feel that your articles have a passionate flow - for me, this is deeply insightful: I have an intellectual grasp of Yin and Yang but less of a ‘lived’ experience, if that makes sense. Please write more :)
Thank you so much Dave. I really appreciate your words. Integrating the Divine Masculine and Feminine in me has been and continues to be a life-long journey. I think most of us struggle with it, whether we're here in male or female form, unless we've attained enlightenment while in this realm - rare!
The key is being in tune with what is most supportive in any given moment but the world is so loud, it drowns out that voice of intuition.
I'm not so sure about you not having the ‘lived experience’. I often feel an embodied sense of Yin / Yang through your art. The mother tree in particular. Not sure if I've got the right name on that - I looked back through your posts and couldn't find the piece I'm referring to but I remember thinking you embodied Yin / Yang in that wildly imaginative painting of a tree - the embrace of Mother with the strength of Father…
Incidentally, while looking back through your posts, I realised how many of them I never saw in my Inbox when they were posted - odd 🤔
Perhaps by lived I mean being unable to experience what women go through such as menopause, menstruation and the physicality of being female :> As for the posts, It's likely the Substack pixies at play ;)
Ah yes, that part 🤣 I would say I’ve experienced my fair share for this lifetime 🙉🙈🙊
What a profound question—"Which came first?"—implying that the world's imbalance of Yang over Yin might not just be reflected in, but perhaps even originates from, the inner turmoil women are conditioned to carry. This topic is right up my alley; my profile has more deep dives like this.