Honouring the Feminine & International Women's Day

International Women's Day is an opportunity (as is any moment of any day), to honour women and the feminine, in the world and in our ourselves, and the feminine principles that exist in all, irrespective of form (and gender). This project embodies a feminine approach and the love and wisdom from so many women that continue to co-create the evolving energy of this platform.

A wave of honouring women’s rights continues to grow globally, coming more and more to the forefront (mainstream examples with accompanying hashtags like #metoo). Here’s to the continued awakening and deepening of love, respect, justice, equality and freedom for women, and the feminine.

This International Women’s Day I'm supporting my mother who recently had a hip replacement op. I just spent the weekend with her and my two sisters also as it was her Birthday. We got to be together, nurture our mother, and to witness her receiving, and enjoying and allowing that receiving (something she is not always comfortable with). Both being nurturing and receiving nurturing is a feminine experience, as is receiving per se.

I was going to explore some feminine principles in summary here. I am not finding the idea of writing summaries of feminine principles appealing right now, however. I realize that is because it doesn’t feel feminine to do so. It feels kind of rigid to create structured sets of potentially limiting definitions. It feels confining of what is not to be confined. Yet just feeling this I realize I am having an experience of the feminine. I am listening to my feelings, to what this experience in this moment feels like, and I enjoy that. That is the feminine. That I honour. That I celebrate. That I wish to cultivate. That brings me a sense of substance and connection with myself and life.

I am also aware of times and ways I don’t honour my feminine side, and beliefs, stories, conditioning, wounds, and family patterns connected with my relationship with the feminine.

How are you with the feminine in your life at this time?
What diminishes, blocks, or stifles the feminine for you?
What opens, nourishes and blossoms the feminine for you?

Mothering, in whatever form that takes, holds so many of the feminine principles that can gift ourselves, others and the world. The core essence of motherhood brings with it unconditional love. An unconditionally loving embrace exists for you always from the Divine Feminine. You can allow yourself to ‘be’ in and receive that all-encompassing loving embrace. (Miranda McPherson’s nourishing post on Infinite Holding offers a reminder of the unconditional love that is ever there for you).

Some timeless insights into feminine principles are explored by Amy Peck, founder of the Goddess Studio, in her beautiful post on the Sacred Feminine that integrates spiritual perspectives.

Here are some qualities of the feminine without definitions to allow those qualities to be as open as they can be to receive and reflect on in whatever way you experience them at this time (as always, only accept that which feels true for you):

Being, feeling, receiving, intuition, flow, listening, reflection, nurturing, compassion, openness, vulnerability, empathy, collaboration, sensing, sensuality, mystery, surrender…

Perhaps you can think – and feel – many others, including some beyond words.

Through all manifestations of women, and principles and expressions of the feminine, the Presence of Womanhood emanates as an energy to be experienced beyond any kinds of definitions and conscious understandings.

Much love,

Aine Belton