When I was a child, I wanted a bottle like Jeannie’s in I Dream of Jeannie.
Her round couch. Her candles and incense. Her pillows. Her magic.
All that purple- the combination of calm blue and firey red. Just like a woman.
Her beautiful inner world of pleasure, sensuality, inspiration and renewal.
Outside of her bottle, Jeannie's entire identity was responding to the needs of others. Her own needs and desires pretty much stayed in her bottle.
She was not free to express her fullness. She was owned by someone else.
I have been exploring the path of the Divine Feminine genius.
An idea that I used to think was "cute", but didn't take seriously. Because this modern, masculine world doesn't take it seriously.
And I drank that Koolaid.
The masculine genius of rational, linear, go-go-goal-oriented, competitive, crushing, slaying, winning, forcing, mind-over-matter. That challenges the body to overcome its needs and to conquer its emotions.
But the feminine genius is intuitive, emotional, inspired, sensual, collaborative, passionate, meaning-seeking, soulful. All of which are born of our bodies.
Masculine: The blade: a straight line heading towards its goal, shedding, overcoming, conquering. It is the realm of the mind.
Feminine power: The vessel: a swirl of feelings, intuition, desires, gathering, holding, brewing, transforming. It is the realm of the body.
The masculine world has shut it down, called in inferior and shamed it.
Somewhere along the way, the Divine Goddess, magically brewing her powers of creation, turned into the Evil Witch stirring her cauldron of evil.
The human race owes much of its survival to masculine genius.
But the world was built on by male ideas of success, sexuality, spirituality. It distrusts the feminine as unreliable and chaotic. It tells us to work, think, act, speak like a man. To "man up".
When we do, we disconnect from our power that lives in our bodies. The home of our intuition, truth, desire, inspiration, desire and love.
The vessel of wisdom and truth that is our body.
The conduit to the Divine.
Our Jeannie bottle.
I had so much fun bedazzling this bottle.
I like to have it around to remind me of the riches I have within.
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