The Uncherished Feminine: The triumph and tragedy of The Woman King.

I thought The Woman King was an amazing story and an amazing movie about amazing, strong, heroic women.

And it broke my heart.

They were incredible women, with hearts and bodies that were designed to give life, fighting to protect themselves from the abuse of Masculine shadow with bodies that were no match for male muscle and bone.

Fighting to protect themselves from rape, beatings, being sold like property

to husbands and slavers.

They fought not for gain, or to conquer or dominate.. They fought for their own survival and for that of their community.

They fought because the Masculine broke their hearts, broke their bodies, and almost broke their spirits.

They found sisterhood in their pain and created a formidable force of warrior women, but at the same time annihilating the life-giving aspects of the Feminine: They blocked their Feminine natures, taking vows of celibacy, and putting their bodies in harms way.

Behind the strength and determination in their eyes, were tears of grief, always just one painful memory away.

There were Masculine Champion characters who helped in the fight.

They shared a common enemy- the rapacious, aggressive, violent Shadow Masculine, wholly disconnected from his heart.

I don't want women to ever have to fight men to protect her body, her spirit and her heart.

For those are her gifts to the world- AND TO HIM. The Feminine needs a Masculine Champion who knows that.

And the Feminine can remind the Masculine by being feelable to him with her joy and pain, her pleasure and her fear, her desire and her upset.

But first the Feminine must be feelable to herself.

When the Masculine dismisses our feelings, WE DON'T, and we stand by our truth anyway.

When the Masculine doesn't attune to our hearts, WE CAN, and he can see how that is done.

When the Masculine doesn't listen to our needs, WE CAN, and show him what that looks like.

The Masculine Champion we create WITHIN, creates the template for our relationships with the Masculine WITHOUT.

And it starts with CHERISHING our own Feminine being WITHIN.