Choosing to be powerful.

I decided to take my thoughts to a deeper level.  What does it mean to birth a new archetype?

For years now I have heard the voices of many women, they have been claiming for themselves change. They call it forth in their prayers, they speak of it in their circles and write about it everywhere. We are changing aren’t we? It is so much more than a change in dynamics it is a shift of consciousness. There still may be those archetypes of old, the one that comes to mind is that old commercial where the woman is being super mom. She is “bringing home the bacon and frying it up in a pan”  There is actually some current commercial replicating  that…mom is doing laundry, flinging cookies and treats to her kids while they watch tv and smiling through the process…let’s get real. None of us do that.

We are doing the juggling, we are earning $$, we are quite possibly even baking cookies…but there is no one single image of woman now adays. We have taken on so many faces that a singular image is impossible.  However, what I do recognize in the women that I see, know and communicate with is  a collective role in change. We usher it in through all of our conversations, our actions and the dreams and visions we have for each other. Change…what does that look like?

I have often thought…if we as a race of people…the female race….were to rise up and speak our true voice that it would literally shift the planet on its axis. That collective voice that longs for peace, knows that love is far more powerful than fear, knows that letting go and letting god is a journey not a destination and asking for help is paramount to survival, but dependance is the road to destruction…these truths we speak to each other in our numerous circles throughout the world, in the privacy of our own meditative spaces and in the air waves of cyberspace we speak these truths to each other. What happens, I wonder….if our collective voice begins to be heard? Because…in case you haven’t noticed the shift…I think it is. I believe we are channeling a new vibration of hope and wisdom. Of peace and love.

Yes, in the difficult moments of strife in our individual lives we might find the opposite to feel true. The weight of financial stress, jobs lost, health crisises, familes stressed…inside the plight of a world out of balance we might not feel this wave of change so clearly. But often, it is in the constriction of “what is” that we find it within ourselves to know what is possible.  It is in the dark moments when we reach for the light switch that we can trigger that change.

Our choices are powerful as women. Our influence far greater than we know. I am always pleading with my children….telling them, especially my daughter, that they are powerful beings. And please, use those powers for good. I say that to you as women, use that power that is inately yours and change the world. You don’t have to take up the torch and lead the pack and gather the energy to do it all alone. You see, that is the old way. Know that even in the small choices you make, the choices you make day to day…to love, to trust, to vision a healthier future for yourself and your families…those choices affect us all.

That is the thread that weaves the fabric of this new female archetype. Every choice to stay out of martyrhood, to stay out of victimhood, to love with boundaries, to trust life and the process of a greater love, to be abundant in your own existance. These choices are far reaching.

A new female archetype.

photo by Matt Zavadil.

I am thinking about a new female archetype. She is unfolding, I know right before our eyes. Many of us have been crafting her with our finely tuned instruments of growth and pursuits of wisdom. We…the collective voice we, the female voice that speaks from the hallows. We are an expression of a greater truth and we seek in oh so many ways to express these truths. We have found patterns and symbols to help us along the way.

An archetypal energy is contrived of the experiences of life. Those experiences that we have over and over and we weave them in and through our stories until they seem to have a life of their own. An archetype like….mother. We don’t need to struggle to summon up an image to match that metaphor. We have our beliefs, attitudes and individual stories that have emblazoned the energy of mother deeply into our souls. There are other female archetypes that have marked our paths and spoken to us through the wisdom of their experience. Queen, Princess, Goddess, Seductress, Nurturer, Healer….there’s even an archetype for women of different cultures and different generations. We’ve given enough collective energy to these roles in our lives to sustain them over time. They will always be available to us to embody and use for our purposes.

Today there are new “versions” of women. The archetype of a woman of the new millennium will be one that has her power. She is trusting of the knowledge of the women of old and aware how to use it. She is no longer dependent upon a male for survival but has learned to exist in co-creative partnership with them and all of life. She will call herself mother or daughter or friend but will not identify herself as such. Her identity goes much deeper, her connections to the cycles of time and season shape who she is far more than the roles she plays in life. She is a blend, almost ageless of the three faces of the goddess. Maiden, Mother, Crone….no longer living in separation from these other parts of herself, but dancing amongst them letting each facet shine in its appropriate time.

I know these new energies are not being forged easily. I hear you…..women…..I hear your struggles and your sufferings and the challenges there are to ushering in this new archetype. You are erasing the old ways of taking care of everyone else before you give to yourself, you are erasing the story of dependency upon our traditional roles of the past. You are teaching your daughters to believe in their unlimited possibilities, you are raising your sons to love openly without fear.  You are learning, teaching and living that abundance is an expression of love that you allow yourselves.

We talk a lot amongst ourselves about a new energy coming. What we often forget to do is stop and take stock of our contribution in calling it in. We are the thing we are waiting for. Look around into the eyes of your sisters….it isn’t just coming…it is here. We are shaping what the future will define as a woman of power. A woman self directed and balanced. Gracious women. Thank you for your divine contributions.