THE MASCULINE ASPECT OF A WOMAN'S SOUL ~ AND WHY THIS HOLDS THE KEY TO FEMININE POWER

THE ANIMUS

If you are a woman/ Feminine-essenced being, you carry an internal imprint of the energetic principle of the "The Masculine". This undifferentiated / unconscious *inborn archetypal aspect of your Soul* informs and guides how you relate to men and the energetic channel of "the Masculine" throughout your lived experience.

This "internal other" of the Masculine within the Feminine psyche / soul is called the ANIMUS.

"ANIMUS POSSESSION"

"Animus possession", per the below quote, is the heartbreaking and all too common psychic state in which women have come to internalize an internal masculine "tyrant aspect" / Dark King. These women become the iconic "ball-buster", that is paradoxically, often rewarded within our ego-dystonic culture.

She has been psychically possessed by her own tyrannical masculine aspect, leaving her Feminine in a harrowing, hardened state of depletion and instinct-injury.

This distorted, shadow-inflected, tyrannical animus has but one goal: to pull her away from the teeming mess and beauty of LIFE, to drive her into her head, to cage her within judgement, to massively and asymmetrically over-develop her capacity to over-function, to control, demean, and rule.

(The myth of Medusa carries aspects of this wound.)

Feminine softness, wetness, and vulnerability become abhorrent to her....instead, she controls, sources in "power-over", and gets off on her own righteousness.

Just like many men in inflated states of power addiction, she becomes an instrument of power *without* Eros -- which is the greatest shadow of the Western world (my lens).

A deep and profound aspect of the Heroine's Journey is one of differentiation -- of making CONSCIOUS the way our multidimensional Feminine systems HOLD the energetic imprint of "The Masculine".

This is initially imprinted through our earthly Father which is then (of course) holographically projected onto our relationship with men and per organic law: onto our Holy / Cosmic Father.

This is a quintessential **CRITICAL** aspect of women being able to step into right relationship with their power. The masculine dimension (animus) of our Psyche MUST be made conscious and DIFFERENTIATED. This way, we can be in CONSCIOUS, illumined RELATIONSHIP with "it", instead of being consumed / possessed / dragged into the Underworld-by-our-ponytails BY it.

THIS IS REAL -- and often, as in the myth of Inanna, begins the journey towards true Feminine sovereignty. The initiation however, REQUIRES the Dark Night of the Soul, which can be symbolically and/or literally lethal, depending on Soul type, and how you roll in this lifetime (to use a clinical term )

Mythologized drive-by of what this might look like:

Step 1: ALLOW THE PENETRATION of DIFFERENTIATION

Bring Light and Consciousness to how it is that your psyche and entire multidimensional energetic body TRULY HOLD the energetic imprint of "The Masculine".

(Hints:

Observe your relationships with men (obvi), Money, and God.

Observe your capacity to TRUST IN THE UNIVERSE and HAVE FAITH.

Observe your capacity to be excruciatingly vulnerable. Observe your capacity to enter the hinterlands of HIGH-STAKES INTIMACY. Observe your capacity to SURRENDER TO *CERVICAL* ORGASM.)

Step 2: ENTER THE CRUCIBLE

Once the animus has been differentiated / made conscious, we can then enter into an extremely tender, potent alchemical crucible of "healing" the traumas encoded within our relationship to our animus (masculine aspect of our Soul.)

This occurs in the single flash of forgiveness, within the baptism of revelation, and over *years* of UN-learning and releasing the templatized imprints of separation and vilification and symbolic castration of the Masculine -- DESPITE OF AND INCLUDING the very real footprint of 3D harm they might have caused /created.

DO NOT PASS GO

This one is a mothertrucker, but in *my personal lens*,

there is no sidestepping Step 2 until we can say *AS A BASELINE* to those men it is MOST DIFFICULT for us to forgive and perfect and exalt within our own soul:

"Thank you for the SERVICE OF YOUR VILLAINY."

(This is not for them -- this is FOR OUR OWN DESTINY. )

Step 3: ETERNAL COSMIC INNOCENCE:

Re-member the Masculine aspect of your SOUL at the level of DIVINE CONSCIOUSNESS.

Step 4: HIEROS GAMOS: SEX OF THE GODS

The Masculine and Feminine aspects of your Soul enter

into Mystical Marriage, Divine Union.

This is the TRUE Sex of the Gods.....where everything you create, every word you speak is a celebration and demonstration of the eternal infinite womb being inseminated with the cosmic seed of the Masculine principle, INFINITELY. This is Zero point:

when our life is dripping in golden creation codes, Eros, and potency AND we are still present with that which is challenging, and **can be with IT ALL as perfect.**

Here is the quote that was shared with me that inspired this little throw~down. Its quite the run-on sentence, but illuminates something deeply life-affirming.

"If a woman is freed from the animus possession by *UNITING WITH* the animus instead of *BEING HIM*

ie: by relating with her *feminine feeling* to the spirit, she becomes both more consciously masculine, by accepting and developing her masculinity, AND AT THE SAME TIME, MORE FEMININE because the accepted animus does not sit anymore on her femininity, twisting or destroying it."

~ Edward Edinger, Jungian analyst (1922-1998)

AND HERE IS THE MOST SIGNIFICANT REASON WHY ANY OF THIS MATTERS:

"We cannot birth the fullness of our Shakti (our Feminine), UNTIL AND UNLESS we exalt the Masculine."

~Erica Jade

(This is the best summary of this life-affirming alchemical process I have found TO DATE.

Being in conscious relationship to how we hold the energetic of the multi-dimensinal masculine principle within our (Feminine) systems is THE key to Feminine power.

This is not an easy path.....and......in my world, this is the way.

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