01/25/2017
This is exactly what I have been experiencing this past year.
I know the value of forgiveness and have forgiven over and over again.
Yoga taught me to open my heart and it also taught me to have a spine.
I say FORGIVE ...AND PROSECUTE.
FORGIVE AND FIGHT for JUSTICE.
FORGIVE AND create boundaries of safety for your body, your heart and your soul.
We are in this pulsing , raging river of TRUTH as a collective. It is personal and impersonal.
THE DIVINE FEMININE IS RISING
Dear Ones:
When I told a neighbor this morning that I'd been at the Women's March in Washington over the weekend, and he said, "Wow — was it totally crazy?"
"No," I said. "It was totally SANE."
Because this is what sanity looks like right now: Hundreds of thousands of women saying NO to Donald Trump.
Please believe me when I tell you that there are very few forces on earth more powerful than a woman who finally starts saying NO to an overly-entitled man. But when millions of women gather to say NO at the same time? That's true might.
In fact, I believe that this word (NO) is the very definition of the "Divine Feminine".
See, it's like this....
Men will find their spiritual evolution in a different way than women. Men can only step into the "Divine Masculine" by learning how to be softer — by learning how to be humble, how to feel empathy, how to be self-sacrificing, how to put the needs of others before the raging demands of their own egos, how to share, how to forgive, how to be tender toward the vulnerable and suffering, and how to turn the other cheek instead of reacting with rage and violence.
It is essential that men learn to do this — how to SOFTEN. This is what every great spiritual teacher on earth has ever taught. It is absolutely true that — for the world to change — we need men to say, "Let us lay down our arms and live in peace."
But women — for the most part — don't need to learn this.
Women don't need to learn how to soften any more. (Trust me, most of us have got that "soft" part down already.) For the most part, the women of this world already KNOW how to be humble, empathic, self-sacrificing, sharing, forgiving, and tender. All that stuff is what we friggin DO — instinctively. So don't preach softness to us, dudes: We friggin INVENTED softness. Women have been putting the needs of others first forever. And heaven knows — women have been turning the other cheek since the beginning of time.
So when you try to teach peacefulness to women the same way you would teach peacefulness to men (by telling us to be more soft) you run the risk of teaching women how to be only MORE meek, MORE subservient, MORE compliant, MORE self-sacrificing, MORE humble, MORE accepting of abuses, MORE susceptible to exploitation and predation, and MORE enabling and forgiving of outrageously bad behavior from men.
Peace will not come to the world this way, people. What you end up with, in that situation, is extraordinary injustice, rampantly abusive patriarchy, and 12-year-old brides.
Peace will come to the world only when women say to men, "NO, you don't get to do this sh*t anymore. NO, you don't get to take everything you want, just because you want it. NO, you don't get to exclude, degrade, or disenfranchise any of us anymore, just because you have the power to do so. NO, you don't get to exploit the poor and the vulnerable, just because you can profit from it. NO, you don't get to live above the law. NO, you don't get to grab at money, land, power, or my body — just because you want it. NO, you don't get to teach bigotry, or encourage hatred and division. NO, you don't get to trample over justice. NO, you don't get to hurt my children — or anyone's children. NO, you don't get to violate my sisters. NO, you don't get to make up your own truth, just because you don't like the real truth. NO, you don't get to be greedy and inhumane anymore. NO, you don't get to incite violence anymore. NO, you don't get to mock minorities, the disabled, or the poor anymore. NO, you don't get to take advantage of women's kindness and forgiveness and softness anymore, by expecting us to forgive all your ugliest behaviors just because you're a man. NO, you don't get everything you want, just because you want it. No, No, NO. It all ends today, BECAUSE I'VE HAD ENOUGH OF THIS SH*T."
Honestly? I think the sentence, "I've had enough of this sh*t" is the last thing every woman on earth has ever said, right before she finally liberated herself from stupidity, violence, and oppression. You KNOW it was the last thing Rosa Parks said, right before she sat down on that bus and refused to move. And this is true on the personal level just as much as on the global level. "I've had enough of this sh*t" is the last thing every abused woman has ever said, right before she finally walked away from her abuser. Until we women say in holy unison, "WE'VE ALL HAD ENOUGH OF THIS SH*T", nothing will ever change.
In other words: It is not enough to ask men to become more peaceful; women must become MORE FIRM.
Men have to find their hearts, yes — but women have to find their SPINES.
This is not about men becoming emasculated, or women becoming shrill; it's about rebalancing a poisoned world through a combination of men's righteous peace and women's righteous anger...such that we can all meet in the middle, on the common ground of basic decency and grace for all.
What I saw in Washington this weekend was exactly that rebalancing in action — with hundreds of thousands of women saying, "WE'VE HAD ENOUGH OF THIS SH*T!", while tens of thousands of men in the crowd said, "WE ARE WITH YOU, WOMEN."
That's what sanity looks like. And it's divine.
The reason I'm sharing these four particular photos with you (which I took at the march) is to show you exactly what it looks like when women finally wake up to their own Divine Feminine power. These four statements were written by four unrelated women who — by their admission — have been asleep and complacent for years, but who are now awake and indignant. These are four women who have all had enough of this sh*t, and who are finally ready to stand up and fight.
There are millions more just like them right now — millions more of US — and all of us are saying NO.
So...if you're wondering what good might come of the Trump administration, I say it is this: The mass awakening of the Divine Feminine.
It's high time, too. Because we've all had enough of this sh*t.
Watch us rise.
ONWARD,
LG
