THE MASCULINE ENERGETIC OF THE STALLION -- -- AND WHY ITS RECLAMATION IS THE CURE
Deepest bow to wise-woman Christiane Pelmas for the gorgeousness and potency of her words....and to Sydney Culver for sharing both Christiane's words - and her own, deepening their truth with her own moonlit feminine remembrance.
"If you have ever had the great fortune to spend time around stallions, you might know why I would use this analogy. Contrary to most current belief (which is fearful of stallion energy and cages and isolates it as wild, dangerous, unpredictable, antisocial energy), stallions are the most necessarily and willingly social individuals in the herd. They thrive on social interaction, free of constraint and fear.
The mares in the herd regulate as a group to give the stallion clear messages about what is acceptable and what is not (women....this is our work to do as well). Because of this, the stallion can move among the herd protecting, playing, maintaining his critical status and experiencing himself as an integral interactive part of the whole.
If he is isolated and treated as a threat (how we treat him in domesticated settings), he becomes unpredictable, enraged, dangerous and antisocial. All the sophisticated mechanisms he is endowed with, for reading individual and group needs, for assessing danger, for play, for mating, for protecting his territory and his herd, are short circuited.
All the energy that is masterfully designed to enable him to be exactly who he needs to be, in service of his community, becomes warped and he is no longer vital, trustworthy or integrous.
IT IS ESSENTIAL THAT YOUR INNATE STALLION ENERGY BE A VITAL, INTEGRATED ASPECT OF YOUR EXPERIENCE; THAT YOU LIVE IN A STATE OF ALIVENESS AND ENGAGEMENT WITH THE WORLD WITHOUT SHAME, SHUT-DOWN, OR CONFUSION. BUT LET'S BE REAL. WE LIVE IN A CULTURE THAT IS DEEPLY FEARFUL OF YOUR PRIMAL EXPRESSION. AND THE PRICE YOU PAY (AND THE REST OF US AS WELL) FOR THIS FEAR AND ITS RESULTANT SHUT-DOWN IS CATASTROPHIC.
Without an intimate connected relationship with your wild self, the stallion energy in you, you cannot engage with the world in a way that has meaning, purpose or power. Instead, you are forced to either deny critical desires, longings and wisdom (thereby stifling your generative creative energy) or 'act out' in ways that jeopardize those people and things most important to you, like family, partnership, community and work.
There is much we don't understand about this stallion energy. We have neutered this energy to simply mean sexual desire for conquest, variety, multiple partners etc. Yet in my experience it is so vastly more sophisticated than this. Your multi-layered brain is designed to allow for, and require, a multiplicity of intimate connections that have extraordinary meaning to you. But in our culture very few speak to this, let alone teach this."
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Reading words like this (especially from such an esteemed Feminine leader + teacher) fortify me....her words grow my courage to continue to illuminate my own feminine / archetypal seeing and truth.
I will say it over and over, again and again -- 1000 different ways, but the same truth:
Reclaiming and re-wilding the inherent strength, benevolence, and integrated leadership of men and the inherent masculine aspect in ourselves and our world is life-affirming at its deepest essence. In my cosmology + lens, we do not need "less masculine energy" -- *it is AS essential as reclaimed and re-wilded Feminine energy* -- we need WHOLE masculine energy in integrity with its TRUTH.
When the stallion energetic is caged, forgotten, or misunderstood, it is each of us -- and the world we co-create-- that will continue to suffer, deeply and wildly.
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