Thoughts on Energy

Sitting here, surrounded by grey gloomy skies, threatening to spill over at any moment. The house is cool, I should be studying, and yet here I am, reflecting, reflecting, reflecting. Lost in my subconscious, ever self-important. So let me share where I’ve ended up, because it’s on the tip of my brain and if I don’t get it out I think it might just float back into unconsciousness. I’ve seen discourse online lately, I’m sure you have too, “divine feminine” “leading with your masculine energy” this bogus concept, or dichotomy, borne out of traditional, faith based practices, repurposed as shiny new-aged advanced thinking. What makes an action or an attitude feminine? What makes a feeling masculine? Why do we assign these false dichotomies to everything, is it simply an easier way to process thought, neatly packaged next to concepts we already understand? I tried to break down these concepts further, what is femininity, what is masculinity? But why are we assigning qualities like “nurturing” or “driven” to false gender dichotomies, when in our modern society we are now able to view gender as a spectrum, why wouldn’t energy too exist on a spectrum? Being at harmony and having equilibrium within the self has less to do with gender, and gendered energy and more about balance, between emotion and stoicism, between ego and heart, between creativity and analytics, and so on and so forth. By gendering energy and qualities we simply give people excuses to live out of balance and continue to perpetuate harmful stereotypes that do nothing to serve us.