In our continuing search for the meaning of the Feminine Divine and how it balances the Masculine Divine, let’s take a look at a few different points of view.

From the Male Perspective

Here’s a very enlightened viewpoint from a male, Bryan Reeves, who’s done his homework in the article “6 Things An Evolved Man Wants From A Woman.”

I love the classic paintings he’s used throughout. In essence, he describes the evolved man wants her to be herself, not bend to match expectations; to be truly happy, to be wildly in love because she is, not because it is demanded of her or may bring reward; to communicate openly, to surrender in trust and sex which has come up a few times in our Mercredan sessions (even though it took me a while to calm down and really understand what was being said). I like the way it’s written. Good fun.

From the Feminine Perspective

Alex Myles posted this description of “Traits of an Awakened Goddess” on the elephant Blog Site.

She speaks of women losing their inhibitions, finding their inner beauty/wisdom and using it for the benefit of all. She has no problem emphasising the importance of sex – this ideal really needs a major overhaul in the Western world. Judgements about women being sluts and whores if they are free in expressing themselves in that manner just have to go. We would never have judged a woman that way unless we were taught to.

The Tantra Perspective

Below is the video featured in Alex’s article which I’ve nested here for quick reference. It is the Tantra description of the difference and balance between ultimate masculine and feminine.

I love this description below the YouTube video…

“Once, Parvati asks Shiva to chose the one form among her 10 forms which he likes most. To her surprise, Shiva reveals that he is most comfortable with her Kali form, in which she is bereft of her jewellery, her human-form, her clothes, her emotions and where she is only raw, chaotic energy, where she is as terrible as time itself and even greater than time. As Parvati takes the form of Kali, Shiva lies at her feet and requests her to place her foot on his chest, upon his heart.Once in this form, Shiva requests her to have this place, below her feet in her iconic image which would be worshipped throughout.

The Shiv tattava (Divine Consciousness as Shiva) is inactive, while the Shakti tattava (Divine Energy as Kali) is active. Shiva represent Brahman, the Absolute pure consciousness which is beyond all names, forms and activities. Kali, on the other hand, represents the potential (and manifested) energy responsible for all names, forms and activities. She is his Shakti, or creative power, and is seen as the substance behind the entire content of all consciousness. She can never exist apart from Shiva or act independently of him just as Shiva remains a mere corpse without Kali

i.e. Shakti, all the matter/energy of the universe, is not distinct from Shiva or Brahman, but is rather the dynamic power of Brahman. Hence, Kali is Para Brahman in the feminine and dynamic aspect while Shiva is the male aspect and static. She stands as the absolute basis for all life, energy and beneath her feet lies, Shiva, a metaphor for mass, which cannot retain its form without energy.“

How interesting is that? So the masculine – Shiva – represents mass. In the atom this is the chemical element that makes it different from the next one – e.g.. carbon vs hydrogen. The only thing that expands the mass of the atom so it can exist at all is energy and this, in Tantra terms, is the feminine Shakti.

So it very much matches with the studies we’ve done here so far. Not just that Shakti has conquered Shiva’s heart by his own admission, but that he cannot survive without her creative energy.

The video images are a bit repetitive and do have some disturbing ones in there. Without reading further (yet) my observations are:

• the severing of her own head might be to remove the brain/thinking side of ourselves and be pure in consciousness / intuition in what we share with others.
• there are a lot of symbolic snakes in the images which may be to do with the Kundalini energy which spirals up the spine to the head in a divine sexual act.
• the images have a continuous connection with nature, even one image there with roots down into Mother Earth
• The half and half image – half dark half light being the fusion of Shakti and Shiva (male and female) – something we humans can look forward to in the future dissolving duality.
• I love the image at 2.11 and 2.20 where she becomes like the sun. All encompassing, with less material form.
• Some images decked out in all the material trappings of fabulous gowns, thrones and jewellery, then others pure and simple with only flowers and pearls to decorate.
• The vast majority of poses are with the thighs open – so very different to how we Western girls have been taught to sit by constricting ourselves.
• Shakti is often elevated off the ground, levitating, no longer held down
• Would love to know what the moon and the tongue are about
• The third eye on the forehead showing sight into intuition just like the Egyptian Eye of Horus.
• Love the wild dancing image at 5.22

Another article from Elephant: Learning Yoni massage to find the Feminine Divine.

So there are a few perspectives on the Feminine Divine and how it balances – is not equal to – the Masculine Divine. They are not the only perspectives but the more we view any topic from as many viewpoints as possible the more deeply we will understand it.

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