04/01/2024
Scottish legend holds that there are women - grand, ethereal, magical women - who live in the depths of the sea. They appear as seals, but are really selkie - half woman, half seal, able to shed their skin to dance under the moon and commune with the stars.
I believe that all women are selkie.
We are all made of land and sea.
We all dive deep, run hard, dance free. Until we lose our skin.
When a selkie loses her skin or stays too long on land, she dries up, dries out. Her dreams become brittle, her relations become dusty, her fierce will and wild inner flame grow dim. The moist heat of her soul goes cool and dries to a flake.
Sound familiar?
Let me tell you something. It’s not just you. And it’s not just now.
It’s an epidemic, happening to millions for women for hundreds of years. Only it seems to be amping up in the western hemisphere, and in this generation, as we put our masculine “land force” ahead of our feminine “water depth.”
We work hard, try harder. We push, we prove, we produce.
If at first we don’t succeed, we force it.
And we think. A lot.
We spend inordinate amounts of time trying to think our way out of a situation that feels too small, too demanding, too “not right.”
What am I doing wrong? Why aren’t I happy? How can I fix this? What is wrong with me? Where can I turn? What have I left undone? What can I try next? How ‘bout this? Or this? Or this?
Thinking, forcing, pushing, proving, producing? They are all masculine energies. And they’re awesome energies, once we have a soul-fed direction in which to apply them. But we’ve been leading with the masculine energy of life so long, and so consistently, we’ve become prettier versions of men.
You, me, our sisters, our friends, our tribe…most of us are men with lovelier shapes. We’ve crawled on land and stayed too long, and forgotten who we really are, and from what depths we come from.
The Divine Feminine has been calling you for years. Down, down, in the watery depths of your soul, her voice cries out like a siren song. She wants you - us - to find balance, to swim the depths of psyche and dance on the beach of ordinary life. She wants us to use the feminine principles of listening, intuiting, receiving, feeling, dreaming and divining. She wants us to LEAD WITH THE FEMININE, to heal the patriarchy inside ourselves, to restore balance, to revive our soul skin, to keep our lives juicy.
You, sister, are one of us. Where is your skin so we can recognize you? In what condition is it? How can we help you find it, nourish it, oil it, don it, love it, belong to it?
-Angi Sullins-
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