Before you feel alienated because you are a bloke, let me reassure you this writing challenge doesn't require you to be a particular gender at all!

No matter how you identify your sexuality, we can connect to the divine or the sacred feminine because it's more about an energy - the more intuitive, nurturing, empathetic side of who we are as human beings. Everyone carries both masculine and feminine tools - and we use them dependent on the situation at hand. An excess of one or the other, of course, might be problematic - many argue it's the oppression of feminine qualities that have let to the world being how it is and us believing we have to compete in a cutthroat way to survive. The inner self is forgotten, and relationships are neglected, when archetypically feminine qualities are supressed.

This challenges asks us to look more closely at 'typically' feminine qualities and examine, celebrate, or acknowledge them.

As usual, you can interpret this topic in any way you like. I've put some suggestions below that might form a starting point, or you might throw those aside and formulate your own response to the topic.

• Have you ever been part of a woman's circle or club? Why did you seek out this experience and/or how did you benefit from being part of it?
• Do you feel you embrace feminine qualities as valid ways of being in the world?
• Why might feminine qualities be needed in particular situations or in this world climate?
• How do you nourish your feminine side?
• Is there a dark side to the divine feminine?
• How might world acceptance of feminine energy be part of a revolution?
• Who do you know who seems to completely embrace this concept and what impact do they/have they had on you?
• How does the divine feminine appear in art, literature, mythology or literature?
• How does the moon embody qualities of the feminine?
• How does the sacred or divine feminine appear in your life?

GUIDELINES

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The Moon Circle:

Encounter with your Inner Being
Re-encuentro con tu Ser

This is a calling to the women in the Hive to elevate our prayers and intentions, together, in a Sacred Woman’s Circle.

Moon Alchemy - Alquimia Lunar - by @neyxirncn will bring to all of you, women, an space to gather, embrace and celebrate your divine, sacred feminine energy.

In Encounter with your Inner Self, with facilitator Paola Cedeño from Venezuela, you will be allowed to feel vulnerability, pain and sorrow as well as bliss, ecstasy and love. This is for cathartic healing, gentle healing, tribe healing, lineage healing.

The invitation is for this August 8th at 23:00 pm UTC on Natural Medicine’s Discord. The tribe will allow 8 women and both Spanish and English will be accepted.

Follow @adiwathrive’s posts this week to find out all the details and how to reserve your spot!

Because united, we are stronger.

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Please consider delegating to help keep this collective going. For any questions, come ask in our friendly Discord here !