by Lady Sekhmet
The winds have changed… that’s the phrase I woke up with and the best way I can describe the suddenness of what just happened. For over a week, the air has been unbearably hot and oppressive. But the morning after the first thunder-storm rambled across the area, I noticed a definite shift. Was the change in the environment or was the change in me? Perhaps a bit of both…
The change in the air was accompanied by the certainty that this planet’s salvation is up to the females. We are the key to implementing true transformation–but only if we can master ourselves. We have the power to change the world for the better–but only if we integrate both the light and the dark within our being, always choosing to embody the highest power of each expression. The two are not mutually exclusive, but women tend to identify more with one over the other. We cannot embody the Light in every waking moment or the Dark either for that matter. The best we can hope for is to keep a balance of the light/dark aspects within ourselves and be mindful of which one we are currently expressing.
To accomplish this means we must resolve to do our inner work. To become empowered means we have to succeed in sorting through the truth of “who we are” which seldom coincides with our parent’s definitions of us. Our free-will always gives us the right and power to embrace a different definition of ourselves. We don’t have to accept any unexamined labels coming from those authority figures intruding upon our tranquility. All we need is the drive and the energy to follow through. It’s equally important to be able to identify what is real from what is indoctrination. It’s time to question those silent, unexamined and invisible understandings lying just below the surface.
One way to explain what I’m “seeing/feeling” in my mind’s eye is to reference the Egyptian images of Isis (Auset) and Nephthys (Nebt Het) jointly using their energies to balance Osiris (Ausar), who appears in the form of a Djed Pillar (a very phallic image). Together, they reorient him back into the correct alignment with the heavens. This is what we need to do for the men in our own lives.
How does one implement this understanding? It’s simple. Don’t react as you customarily do to the terribly stupid, insensitive, inane or hurtful comments/ actions made by the men we love. This means being quicker than your usual knee-jerk reactions. Remember, the man is out-of-balance, diseased. He’s not in his right-mind and hasn’t been for over 2000 years! He’s incapable of righting himself but can’t admit it. He desperately requires our assistance.
The next time he’s insensitive to your needs, instead of reacting with anger and hurt—thus tapping The Dark Goddess within you—choose to move your consciousness into the compassion of Isis. Isis perceives beyond his tactless slight to the source of the originating emotion and knows how to be disarming. Simply by choosing to react the opposite way than what the man was expecting, you exercise your Goddess power. Embody the light of Auset when you feel like calling forth the power of Nebt Het, and vice-versa. Suddenly, you are in complete control. You can either perpetuate the cycle of hurt and anger or you can transform it. Try it once. See if it doesn’t work wonders in immediately altering the dynamics of the situation.
I imagine the same exercise would equally pertain to men to internally balance the feminine parts of their psyches.
Tags: Power, Feminine, Auset, Isis, Nebt-Het, Nephthys, balance
