How the Masculine and Feminine Differ
The masculine doesn’t necessarily refer to being born a biological male.
Masculine in the context of this work refers to an archetype of traits
that define the habits, acts, and desires of a particular individual.
The masculine is very purpose driven. The masculine is about planning
clear, action oriented, goals and doing whatever it takes to attain
them. Often times this appears as being single task focused. This is
absolutely not a bad thing if you know how to manage it. Being laser
focused on a goal to ensure that you accomplish this task and being free
to move to the next task is an incredibly masculine essence.
Thoughts and feelings about the situation don’t matter here, only that the task is completed. The masculine will take time away from other tasks that
some may deem more important to ensure that he completes the task that
he has begun. That is not to say that the masculine won’t leave a task
unfinished. Instead, this is a situation where the masculine must train
his nervous system to be completely comfortable in his masculine essence
to be able to complete a task all the way through.
The masculine is often solitary. And this means that he needs time alone
to feel free and able to understand what he wants out of life and where
he needs to go and what he needs to do to achieve these goals. The
highest calling of the masculine is freedom. This is in all respects,
but when he is truly free in his core purpose, all other freedoms fall
into place. Freedoms with his partner, with his work, and with his team.
When the masculine KNOWS his core purpose, and is hell-bent on achieving it, he is a free man.
Similarly, the feminine does not refer to someone born a biological
female. The feminine refers to the part of ourselves, all of us, that is
about pure, unadulterated, pleasure. This can be in so many different
forms. You see it in dancing, you see it in group activities, the beauty
and fluidness of nature. When we amplify our emotion toward any event,
we are tapping into our feminine energy. And we are talking, pure, raw,
perfect energy.
The feminine is the part of us that wants to be seen and
acknowledged, for its highest purpose is love. The feminine in all of
us, by nature, is more nurturing, loving, and seeking to complement and
reward tasks by amplifying the emotion that comes along with succeeding
in such a task. When we have been goal driven and grinding in our
masculine and finally complete a task, the feminine energy in us is the
feeling of pleasure and reward when we are able to enjoy the fruits of
our labor.
The feminine is fluid and prone to changing its mind based on
how we feel about a situation. This can be misconstrued, particularly by
heavily masculine-identified beings, as not knowing what they want, or
even “lying”. But the opposite is absolutely more true. Meaning that the
feminine in all of us operates off of feeling and not necessarily logic
when operating from emotion.
The feminine in us follows the thing that feels right in that very moment. This might sacrificing something for your family or partner because they have a want and it feels right to give it even if it doesn’t “make sense” on paper. It
could be saying that you don’t want to go to dinner after you’ve agreed
to go to dinner because it doesn’t feel right NOW. Being able to embrace
that feeling and emotion is such a relieving feeling to the feminine to
know that they don’t HAVE to make decisions and doesn’t have to purely
exist in a rigid, action oriented, planned out, world. The feminine in
all of us excels by doing things through feeling and when the time feels
right.
Take some time to reflect on your nature. Do you feel like you’re more masculine, or feminine in general? How about just today? Are you more masculine-engaged at work, and more feminine-engaged on the weekends?
