‘We are now in the midst of a sacred feminine resurrection that is restoring Earthly order and balance. The mission is to return the core elements of the feminine vibration: unconditional love, connection to nature, nurture, compassion, intuitive wisdom, emotional intelligence, sensitivity and receptivity.’ – from You Are a Goddess
Much of our current societal norms place high value upon masculine energy values, such as logic, reason, strategy, decision-making, solution-oriented thinking, linear processes and hard control. For many of us, we sense that our divine feminine energy – emotional, intuitive, spirit-led, flowing & cyclical – has been neglected and malnourished.
Typically, women have a higher quotient of ‘feminine essence’ than men, although this is not always the case. Many women are feeling the deep call back to their feminine energy, as a way to re-balance themselves and the Earth.
The following 5 steps can help you to begin igniting your feminine energy.
- Feel Your Feelings
Many of us expend enormous energy running from our feelings. Emotional connection and release are often portrayed as weak or purposeless in masculine-driven societies.
A disconnection from the divine feminine essence usually harbours a disconnection to emotions.
To unlock divine feminine energies, we need to access, fully feel, and release our feelings without judgement. Stagnant feelings become held not only in the physical body, they are also locked in the ‘spiritual body’. This blockage can restrict the flow of divine feminine energy.
Safe spaces are vital for the process of truly feeling your feelings and releasing deeply held emotions. You may find this safe space with a therapist, a counsellor, a spiritual mentor or a supportive healing circle. As you begin to allow yourself to fully feel your feelings without judgement, the true essence of the Spiritual Feminine can begin to flow through you once again.
- Honour Your Intuitive Impulses
Essentially, intuition is ‘knowing without knowing how you know’. It is a sense that bypasses the mind or logical reasoning. It is sometimes called your ‘sixth sense’, because it transcends the physical or mental planes.
In order to really access your intuitive sense, you must be in strong connection with your ‘feeling body’ – that is, the element of your Self that is based on emotions.
A key aspect to realising your intuitive gifts is re-developing trust. Your trust in your own intuitive nature may have been severely damaged or even broken during past lives when you were criticised, or even hurt, for using your intuitive gifts and openly displaying your spiritual, healing & psychic abilities.
Intuitive impulses are directions from the heart, and are for the highest good and growth path of all concerned. Intuitive impulses may sometimes take you out of your comfort zone and ask you to be firm and courageous, and yet they will never show you a route that is harmful to another person or living thing.
When you receive intuitive impulses they may be accompanied by certain sensations. You may have a tingling or ‘goosebumps’ feeling, or your heart may beat faster. You may feel light-headed or have a strong energy flowing through your body.
You may have none of these, but perhaps there is a feeling of heightened energy, or an ‘other-worldly’ awareness that momentarily surrounds you.
You may simply have a repeated urge or feeling, a deep inner knowing that will not leave you. Often, these feelings are accompanied by divine signs and synchronicity sent to validate your intuitive guidance.
- Create Ritual & Sacred Space
Your feminine soul energy naturally responds to beautiful, devotional spaces that have been created with love and intention.
On a deep level, when you create and take part in simple ritual and ceremony – just as easy as lighting a candle for yourself or another – your divine feminine essence wakes up.
This is where the fearful and hardened places in the psyche begin to melt and soften into the energy of the feminine heart. Sacred rituals have been used as a bridge between earth and spirit for eons. From lighting a candle before you meditate and pray, to orchestrating a ceremonial circle involving many people, any kind of sacred ritual is an intentional statement to your Higher Self that you are invoking an ancient, timeless connection to the Goddess.
- Connect with Your Body Wisdom
Your body is your most accurate barometer for sacred feminine truth and wisdom. Your body also gives you signals when something is ‘off’ in your life and out of alignment with your evolving soul energy.
Being in touch with, and healing damaging thoughts about, the body is a crucial step towards realising the inner power of the Goddess. Women still endure mass negative conditioning aimed at lowering their self-esteem and self-love in regards to how their bodies look, and the power inherent in female physicality.
Many Souls who are called to awaken Goddess energies hold emotional residues of past life abuse and trauma in their bodies. As the vibration of the Goddess stirs within the energy bodies, the physical body will desire to shake off and release old trauma held in the tissues and cells.
- Consecrate Stillness & Honour Your Inner Voice
Creating regular times of stillness, quiet, meditation and contemplation are vital components of activating divine feminine energy.
You have a wise inner voice that is connected to a source of guidance wholly invested in your highest good, and how you can contribute uniquely to the world.
The inner voice is linked to your sacred feminine contract to the universe. This means, simply, that you have a spiritual role to fulfil here on earth and your inner voice shows you how to step into it.
It is challenging to hear and feel your inner voice if you never create spaces of stillness, silence or reverence.
To activate the sacred feminine path, you will need regular sanctuary, so that you can begin to open your awareness to the ways in which the Soul speaks to you.
Stillness and meditation are not difficult or complicated, and there is no right or wrong way to practice. Essentially it’s just sitting upright, connecting with your breath and just being with whatever thoughts and feelings arise.
Stillness is not always a totally still body, in silent meditation. It can be a gentle walk in natural surroundings. It can be yoga, it can be reading poetry, it can be lying down listening to inspirational music or it can be a healing session.
What matters is that the intention to invite connection with the Infinite is at the forefront. To be willing to bypass the mind, release the grip of the ego, and nurture understanding that consecrating stillness is a vital pathway to reuniting with the Sacred Feminine soul.
© 2019. Sophie Bashford.
