With this article I am hoping to foster an understand of the existence of a 5th wave of Feminism: a spiritual and energetic movement that goes beyond genders. A movement toward Unity and Harmony that truly empowers the Feminine within us all <3

Our world is in a state of imbalance: the Masculine is dominating over the Feminine that is lacking. As a result, men and women both are disconnected from their Feminine powers. Indeed, we are all victims of this imbalance that is present in our psyche, culture and collective vibration. We all have internalized (at least partially) this dominance of the Masculine. What this means is that Masculine traits are valued to the detriment of Feminine qualities. For example: doing vs. being, controlling vs. surrendering, sensitivity vs. physical strength. We need both energies of course. Both are valuable and our very survival depends on our ability to channel them.

I am writing this article to bring clarity around this dynamics. The imbalance isn’t to be understood as a battle between the genders; it is an imbalanced due to an excessive Masculine energy and a lack of Feminine energy. I have been on a journey to understanding what is the Feminine and what is the Masculine. I have done much research through Tantra and Feminine and Masculine Archetypal psychology but mostly by observing our society, our culture, our psyche, people’s behaviours, their trauma, their pain, their shadow, etc. At last, I have been receiving much psychic guidance around the Feminine and Masculine energies in our collective and I believe that it is part of my service to the world to bring clarity around this topic. This journey led me to understand many societal, political and cultural issues that we are facing today as an imbalance of the Feminine and Masculine energies rather than a conscious dominance and control by an elite of men who created patriarchal rules, beliefs, values, psychic and energetic patterns to dominate women. The current ill of our society is then not an issue between genders, but an energetic imbalance of the Feminine and Masculine that oppresses all and everyone. This was a huge realization for me as a feminist and Women’s empowerment leader; although it seems obvious to me now.

And, perhaps, as you read this, it might seem obvious to you as well. It is simple! Our intuition, inner knowing agrees. So why is our culture and the mainstream dialogue still obsessed with genders? Well, to understand that, we need to understand that the Masculine (the dominant energy in our psyche, culture and collective frequency) is limited to understand reality on the material level (e.i. genders). Without an understanding of subtle energies (the realm of the Feminine, the energetic, mystical, the unseen -- therefore, hard to scientifically prove, especially with our current technology) one cannot comprehend the fullness of our experience and our potential as human beings.
Furthermore, as our culture values Masculine qualities over Feminine qualities, it naturally defines strength and power accordingly: physical strength, ability to control and influence, to protect and win over. Many women who are as much influenced by this rhetoric as men, buy into this definition of strength as well. Feminist around the world (men and women) acclaim the coming into power of female politicians, athletes, “strong female roles” and “female empowerment stories” in the media. But these do NOT represent what Feminine strength is about. Instead, they embrace a Masculine view of strength and applies it to women leaders and other models to manipulate our collective understanding of the Feminine power. The Feminine is very powerful indeed. Its power in fact radically challenges the current mainstream and patriarchal paradigm. As a result many, many means -- especially cultural -- are meant to draw our attention away from what it is and are meant to DISTRACT US from finding and exercising Its power. Hold on to your device because I’m about to tell you what it is:

1) The Feminine is our ability to be emotionally aware
To observe our emotions and understand them, label them without identifying with them. This is called ‘shadow work’ and it is immensely healing. The Feminine initiates us into experiencing pain and sensations in general in our body (the example of this phenomenon into physical manifestation through the Female body being menstrual pain and childbirth). When we are able to do this, we stop reacting to situations when they bring up emotions (a shadow side of the emotional realm due to a lack of emotional awareness), instead, we are able to respond to situations.

2) The Feminine is our ability to tap into our subconscious
The conscious mind is the Masculine, the one we are aware of (like the material reality), the obvious, the one we can control. The subconscious is the Feminine, the symbolic, the mystical, the subliminal. Someone with the ability to tap into their subconscious mind to reprogram themselves has this Feminine power. E.g. hypnotists need to relax (Feminine state) the body to access the subconscious and reprogram it. Other ways to tap into our subconscious is by dream analysis, meditation, visualization, creative imagination and accessing altered state of consciousness (e.g. through psychedelics, orgasmic state).

3) The Feminine is the Power of the Heart
Love, Compassion and Unity. The Feminine is inherently inclusive, it is the whole, the all encompassing, the relational. In Tantra, women’s positive pole is their heart center. This is where they send energy from. To feed a child, women use their breasts. This is where the power of the Feminine lays: the heart. This nurturing power is able to melt any tension in our body (oxytocin, hugs, orgasm) and can heal any “evil” on the planet (darkness is due to lack of Love frequency).

4) The Feminine is our Sensual & Sexual Power
Our sexual energy is our most precious energy. It is our prana, our life force energy. Conventional sex is Masculine in a way that it is goal oriented towards orgasm. Couples use each other to relax through a process that uses much friction and creates tension in the body. Tantra is a Feminine form of love making. It is relaxed, embodied, uses subtle energies to create orgasmic states. It is about the journey of presence and embodiment that brings natural pleasure. The reason why many people (especially men) are addicted to pornography is to compensate from their lack of Feminine energy. They consume the Feminine through pornography (the female body, the sensual) instead of finding it and cultivating it within. Someone in touch with their sensual and sexual power would be able to channel their sexual energy for healing and creativity.

5) The Feminine is our appreciation for beauty
When we are empowered in our Feminine, we are able to see beauty everywhere. We become resensitized to beauty as opposed to tapping into our mind-conditioned way in which beauty is defined by the media. Once someone is resensitized to beauty, they can’t help but seeing it in themselves as well. If this Feminine quality was fully active in our psyche, we would not need cosmetics!

6) The Feminine is our intuition
Our ability to tap into our intuition, psychic guidance, our sense of inner knowing. Some people experience it as visions, messages, dreams, feelings, etc. I personally find that the most useful way to explain how to follow your intuition is by telling someone to focus on their heart center and practice describing how they feel. At first, this might be difficult. Someone might not even know what to look for -- look for sensations. Sometimes, we feel our chest congested, tense, closed-off. This is when we might be stressed, anxious. Sometimes we pick-up on other people’s state. Sometimes this is your heart telling you that you need to make a situation better. Other times, discomfort comes from releasing blockages. By turning our attention inwards, we are able to decode our heart’s guidance. When our heart feels open, this is a ‘yes’!

7) The Feminine is the Body
As opposed to the Masculine: the mind, reasoning; the Feminine is the embodied experience. Someone in touch with their Feminine power of embodiment is able to take care of their health because they value the body and listen it. For example, I started to practice intuitive eating. Meat doesn’t feel good for me to eat (energetically and in my body) but it might be different for someone else’s body. Body awareness leads you to know what and when to eat. It also guides to to have a better posture for example (very important to be able to channel energy). At last, by taking care of our physical body, we raise our vibration which makes us feel better, happier, healthier and it attracts more positive experiences into our field.

8) The Feminine is the internal world
In a way, this concept is similar to valuing the body and the home (Feminine qualities). But it is important to understand that the internal world holds an enormous power as, when someone understands how to tune inwards and influence their internal world (e.g. breath, thought, energy, etc.), they are able to affect their experience of life, their body and their external environment. Another way to understand this is by understanding that the Masculine way to initiation is by going out in the world and conquering external forces. The Feminine initiation, on the other hand, is achieved by conquering (by loving) our inner demons (emotions, pain, trauma, etc.). A common way to experience the Feminine initiation is by going through depression.

9) The Feminine is receptive and open
Much of the current debates, especially political debates, are the expression of two Masculine energies coming together: confrontation, violence, competition and aggression. Without the Feminine -- the receptivity, the openness, flexibility -- no party will ever change their mind. In order for change, growth and evolution to take place, we need a healthy amount of both Masculine (assertive, committed, decisive) and Feminine energies.

10) The Feminine is our creative power
Part of our our imagination, our sexual energy and our intuition. Creation is a fundamental power of human beings. In today’s society, many people are deprived from this potential as they spend their entire day and energy working for a money-focused entity or bureaucratic organization and are not allowed (or to a minimal extent) to express themselves creatively. The syndrome of the struggling artist is an expression of our society’s lack of value for art and creativity. In addition, by indulging in conventional sex or ejaculation, one release their precious sexual energy (same as creative energy) instead of channelling it for creativity.

Please note that this list isn’t exhaustive. There is much more to say about the power of the Feminine and I am currently working on a book about it. This list isn’t about diminishing the power and importance of the Masculine either.

Both Feminine and Masculine energies are currently in their shadow: the Masculine is in excess and the Feminine is in its lack form -- it has gone underground (e.g. occult groups, black magic, our inability to tap into our subconscious, etc.). The solution is for everyone to cultivate their Feminine energy (unless you have too much of it which is rare). By asking ourselves questions such as: Where in my life could I cultivate more compassion? How can I find beauty in the things that would otherwise repel me? How can I observe my emotions and sensations in my body without identifying with them? How to I tap into subtle energies to heal myself and raise my frequency? How can I channel my sexual energy for healing? Of course, at the end of the day, the process isn’t intellectual but experiential. And to experience the Feminine and cultivate this awareness, its energy and powers, nothing is better than mediation. Indeed, meditation is the most Feminine ‘activity’ that one can do: being vs. doing, observing vs. trying to control. Meditation also resensitize us to subtle energies and turn our attention inwards (e.g. body-scan meditation).
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To be clear, I am not spitting on the generations of Feminists who fought for women’s rights. I am not denying the right that all individuals have to identify with one gender or another or both, or none. I think that all of the political and cultural movements (feminism first wave, second and third, transgender rights movement, homosexual movement, etc.) served a purpose in our history and for our evolution. However, during my studies of these movements (I am a sociology, political science major and philosophy minor) and my forever on-going research, I have observed the way in which some of the rhetoric, tactics and dynamics of these movements use Masculine energies, traits, values, beliefs and, therefore, perpetuate dominance, division and oppression. It is about time to switch gears and unplug from this paradigm of Masculine dominance. It is time to embrace our full power of creation and birth a new paradigm (political, cultural, philosophical, relational, spiritual and vibrational) that honors the Feminine along with the Masculine. It is time to focus on creating alternatives that allow the Feminine to be equally valued and expressed.
Indeed, we have entered a point in our evolution where we are awakening to and embracing an even greater movement and spiritual cause, beyond the genders: awakening to and anchoring the Feminine in our psyche, culture and collective vibration in order to reestablish balance and harmony within ourselves and with the Planet (the ultimate Mother, Goddess and Feminine energy). Many have received this call and many are actively working to anchor the Divine Feminine. The fullness and full potential of both Masculine and Feminine energies will only be experienced once we have achieve this balance. Then, a powerful alchemy can take place, one that will transmute duality: both energies becoming one and creating this new paradigm, a new creation, a baby and a bright future for future generations, one of Unity, one of Creativity and Harmony.

This article was written by Clarity Bartleet for the internationally known online alternative News channel, Collective Evolution. Read this article on Collective Evolution's website here.

What is Easter really about? We all know the story of Jesus resurrecting and exiting a cave after three days of death, but what does this mean? And where did it story originate from? 

Like many Christian tales and celebrations, Easter and its symbolism and myth were borrowed from a formerly uncovered universal Wisdom. A Wisdom that was transmitted from the Earth -- from The Goddess Herself -- to tribal cultures from all around the world who worshipped Her. In fact, we find similar stories and symbols among many different, scattered and once remote cultures all around the globe. 

It is difficult to trace the exact roots of the original myth of Easter, for much Wisdom (e.g. teachings through stories and songs) has been lost due to the oppression that tribal cultures suffered and due their oral mode of transmission of knowledge. However, one of the most obvious connection that we nowadays can still trace to Easter comes to us from Ostara, the Germanic Pagan Goddess of Ancient Europe. To be clear, Ostara is connected to other fertility Goddesses found throughout the world and worshipped at different time in history (e.i. Astarte, Ashtaroth, Eastre, Ishtar, etc.). Ostara in particular represents Spring and the energy of fertility, love, sexuality and growth. Pagans worshipped Her to help Her bring fertility and growth onto the land. 

In relation to Easter and the story of Jesus, Ostara similarly emerges from the Earth and re-awakens after a time of deep sleep (or death) during Winter. Both stories then carry the Wisdom of the cycle of life, death and rebirth -- an important lesson about dynamics of Nature and life itself that every human being needs to learn. Why? Well, because, for example, our modern Western culture has us valuing constant growth and life over decline and death (that is essential to bring abouts life). As a result, we perhaps irrationally fear death and do not understand the importance of going inwards, retreating, taking time for ourselves and taking a break from the business of our lives in order to find balance and flourish again when the time is right. The main and important difference, however, between the Christian’s story of Easter and the myth of Ostara is that Jesus’ resurrection is masculine focused (androcentric) and anthropocentric. It ignores the role of Nature and our deep connection to Her, and it ignores the feminine aspect as the carrier of the potential for the cycle of life, death and rebirth. ​

The last day of Toronto’s Yoga Conference 2017, I was called to attend Seane Corn's workshop on ‘Yoga for Every Body’ during which I felt that Seane had a powerful energy and message to transmit. So I decided to go deeper in connecting with her and I attended her following workshop on ‘Yoga for Awakening’. Seane talked about the responsibility of being on the Path and answering the Call to share knowledge about how to heal ourselves through Yoga, and not only the physical aspect of yoga / asanas but the full experience of becoming the observer of your own life and transcending the suffering of duality that Yoga is truly about.
Most of us in the room were in fact, already resonated or vibrated to a frequency that drew us to in this workshop and allowed us to receive this download of information/frequency/vibration/energy and this transmission in order to awaken ourselves further and others in our community. Seane stressed the importance of finding the confidence, strength, courage and motivation needed in order to carry out our specific purpose and do this work. Before I went to Seane Corn's workshop, I felt lost and decided to leave the city to go on another trip. Since the workshop, I am more motivated than ever to offer my gifts, passion, wisdom and truth especially regarding the Power of the Feminine and its leading role in awakening in the collective. I am called to facilitate the empowerment of the Feminine for it to be leading men and women through the Shift that we are experiencing on a spirit/mind/body level.

Seane Corn's workshop was for me another initiation for, as a true teacher, Seane teaches through stories by making us experience feelings and emotions (some that we might have previously repressed). During her last workshop, in fact, the majority of the people who were there (mostly women) started to cry as Seane approached a old gentleman in a wheelchair. She apparently knew him from last year’s conference. Seane came to him and kneeled down to share an intimate moments of love and laughter with the man who was previously disrupting the workshop by speaking loudy indiscernible sentences. After their moment, the man quieted and watched the rest of the workshop in silence. I was amazed to see Seane’s ability to stay grounded, in her center, and embrace what had seemed to be a shadow (disruptive force) and transform its energy/frequency with the power of Unconditional Love.
For me, this is a perfect example of doing ‘Shadow Work’ -- what should be one of the main focus of our current ‘Spiritual’ work and movement. We need to find Peace in our relationships and in our life in general, within ourselves, and embrace all our different reflections (deep psychological work!). Whether these reflections come to us through our friends, enemies, strangers, TV, images, in our workplace or in our family. Our reality is a constant unfolding of lessons to broaden our understanding of the Universe and of Ourselves. Seane also stressed the need for us to FEEL the emotions that these reflections are bringing up and discharge/neutralize them through Yoga, meditation, presence, awareness (or by writing ‘f#ck you letters’ to the person that caused us to be triggered -- a great therapy according to Seane).
That day, I successfully released these emotions (previously blockages) in my body, by crying my eyes out. It made room for New Energies to come. I cried during most of the introduction and during the Sun Salutations that Seane made us dedicate to ourselves for forgiveness, to anyone in our life who taught us with Love, to anyone in our lives who needed healing and to anyone in our lives whom we need to forgive. Needless to say; I felt shifted after the workshops. I fact, I felt that I was in a ‘flow state’ for a while -- a higher state that we experience when we resonate at a certain frequency -- during which I was able to discern better, see the Truth more clearly and channel it. For example, I had a moment of Awe when, standing in Extended Side Angle Stretch, I saw lines upon lines of Warrioress and High Priestesses (mostly Yoga Teachers), ready to take on this mission of Awakening themselves to help the whole Collective raise its own vibration by practicing Yoga and doing deep Spiritual Work.

It also confirmed a lesson that I keep getting again and again: The Feminine -- that is overtly represented by women but that is within us all -- needs to lead, our intuitions and inner knowing needs to lead our actions and our Will (our Masculine). And this inner Wisdom and Truth needs to be protected by the Masculine within us all -- and that is overtly represented by men but that exist within us all. In fact, the Yoga conference was a means for the Feminine (mostly women) to gather and do deep shamanic work together. I envision the many festivals and retreats for us to continue doing this work and re-enchant the world: bring back the wisdom of the spiritual world, working with subtle energies, using plant medicines, being connected to Nature, working with Elements, Chanting, Dancing, Sharing Stories, etc. Here lays my passion and purpose.
What really hit me in Seane Corn’s spiritual message is that it was in fact completely grounded in the fourth dimension, which means that it is practical, it help us understand our everyday life and help us make better decisions as Human Beings functioning in this reality. The essence of the message is also grounded in a way that it does not bypass acting, making decisions, and choices for our life and relationships which is often the case with transcendental spiritual teaching -- a more Masculine approach to spirituality. Her massage is a message of Peace, to reclaim the power of Grace, Honor, Respect and especially the high frequency of Unconditional Love in our life by working with our actions and the wisdom of our body as well as with our intentions, with our prayers and with subtle energies.

Later on that day, my partner Darren bought be a beautiful Moldavite Crystal pendant that is to carry the frequency of this download and to remind me, every single day, to be of service to my community; to share the messages/information/energies that are coming through me and help others (especially my Sisters) in doing this work. Like High Priestesses of our modern time, we shall carry on this mission, we shall come together and find Unity within; Unity with our Sisters; Unity between the Divine Feminine and Divine Masculine; between the Light and the Shadow that dances Within and Without. For this is True Yoga.

I am Honored to be participating in bringing forth this Frequency and I embrace the Responsibility and the Power that such a Purpose brings. Fellow Brothers and Sisters, the time is now! Let this message inspire all of us to do our work, to create a viable Alternative to the current Paradigm and access our True Powers as Divine Beings.