Man Up!

Sitting on a very affordable and charming sofa last night with an amazing goddess friend, eating raw kale salad and transformational chocolate :) the conversation turned to men...and where are the 'empowered' ones? ... Both of us having many stories to share about the men who show up in our lives only to reflect what it looks like to 'not' be stepping up, we wondered why this is?

There are so many men who 'say' they are spiritual, who 'want' to be empowered and living a life as their fullest authentic selves, but when it comes right down to it - not much is happening there...

A bit disappointing.

For me personally, I have the uncanny ability to see someone's highest potential and not how they are actually 'showing up'... a nice trait indeed, but it often doesn't serve me - especially when the person I am seeing in their highest expression doesn't see themselves that way, and starts to feel that I am holding them to some 'high ideal' that they can't reach. Hmmm?! Ok, so, this hasn't felt like a quality I am so ready to abandon. What? Start trying to see 'the real you?'...I thought I was. This you - the one you are expressing - is the one who tries, or wants to try, the one who feels somehow dis-empowered and wants to feel inspired, the one who says they are on the path, and yet keeps reverting to the 'old patterns'. I see you as your godself - and no less....please let me do that!

This is a call out to all the men who are saying they are stepping up, who want to, who wish to be....but still AREN'T! Man UP! Please!!! We women are starting to feel a bit lonely without our counterparts.

Now, at the same time I am saying this I am also fully aware that the reflections that are showing up in the male are just that - reflections of me ...and so, somehow, on some level - I am still needing to step it up, make myself more of what I am, and embrace the empowered, centered me that I know I am. Even more! ... Ok - I am ready. I accept.

'I do hereby now declare that I embrace myself fully and step into the empowered goddess that I am. I release those fears and patterns of old that held me back and now see clearly the me I AM!" ......ok, done.

Wait!!!!! The question arises from one of my dear spiritual brothers, " why do you women even need us?" and "what do you need us for?".... hmmm.... In all this work of 'self-empowerment' are we women scaring off the men somehow - as if to tell them that we don't need them?, That we can do it alone'?

Ok, so this is part of the evolutionary process, no doubt. In the not too recent past, women have been dis-empowered, feeling that they could not speak their minds, do what they want, and embrace the beautiful goddess within. So - hooray for the women of today that are doing this! It feels that we women have been sooooo long anticipating and wanting this shift that we are jumping in and embracing the empowerment full throttle...and the men, with their lovely way of being calculating and logical about everything in the past, (needful previously to balance the overly introverted woman) are now being 'left in the dust' so to speak of the beautiful and bold counterpart.

- Now let me make a note that this is NOT the case with ALL men. I know there are a handful of amazing, empowered Gods out there who know themselves, are connected to source and are not afraid to embrace their whole selves & power - ....but handful they are.

What can we women do to support the rest of the men in moving into this place of empowerment? Personally I keep holding the vision within of the male in me - treating with grace, beauty, strength and passion - the female within. That means honoring my cycles, my intuition, trusting myself. And the female within is also beginning to trust more the male aspects of me - the dynamic action, expressiveness, organizational qualities & strength. For if I don't feel the relationship within, I know I can never see it without.

But I must say ....if I don't call myself on my sh*t, if I am always 'soft' and 'gentle' with the way things unfold for me - sometimes they don't unfold. Tough love is needed here - and this moves in both directions - inward and out. The relationship within needs that type of honest evaluation and love... and so it is that I ask all the men OUT THERE who are on their spiritual path to PLEASE.....STEP IT UP!!!!! For the Love of the Goddesses in your life! Please show us the most empowered version of yourselves so we can love, embrace, dance arm and arm, together move mountains and smooch your beautiful faces with the kind of gratitude deserving of both sides of the equation.!!!

I think & feel that I can speak for all the spiritual goddesses out there when I say - there is nothing more sexy, more appealing, more inspiring than a man in his power (spiritual power that is). A man who knows himself to be divine, who surrenders his will to the divine, and knows when to act, knows the force moving through him is not himself alone - but from a greater Source of abundant bliss and beauty. GOD!!!!! YES!!!!! Let us look into your divine eyes and see the reflection of our goddess self and know that we - together - in divine bliss and gratitude (& don't forget divine ecstatic union) can do anything ANYTHING. !!!

This is the true meaning of leaving duality behind. Let two WHOLE and complete beings join together and inspire one another along the journey of continued greatness! Nothing excites me more! ..... so to each one of us I say 'Man up!'.... whether you are male or female!.... to myself included. Let us be the fullness of our divine selves and leave all that 3rd dimensional limitation stuff behind! and let's fly!!!

xoxoxo

Much love & Bliss

Stasia