the feminine by using the language “find your feminine self”, etc.
She admits it angers her, as it feels like another shade of patriarchy, keeping the feminine a certain way, instead of allowing women to discover the feminine within them- selves. Sera is weary of this – not that they might be helpful – but if there’s not enough space to go within and plum your own depths, she feels it’s just as abu- sive as what patriarchy has done to women. It’s a fine line of us- ing this trend and actually beckoning forth the feminine within women. And she admits some people might look like the false feminine and are really genuine. She doesn’t want to judge people, but she wants people to be aware of this shadow aspect.
To work with the feminine is to allow
the space and guidance of how you can connect with the feminine inside of you, which takes looking at where you haven’t connected, or haven’t been aware of Her. This inner work can take you to look at your family dynamics, and that has been the actual key for her. Anything that is outside of herself
keeps pointing her back to see within herself.
The New Generation
Sera is grateful for those who came before her, and acknowledges the path they forged, and what she’s learned. There’s been enough of a gap of time between the generations now that the younger generation is able to encounter the feminine on their own. It may result in the same truth and yet there is a different perspective, a different way of interacting with it, as the world has changed. Sera sees that the feminine is evolving.
Her generation has come amidst pop culture, so they’re going to have a dif- ferent perspective and many of them grew up with a new language. The old language doesn’t jive with her friends so she aspires to bring it down home to her peers in their language so that they would be interested in reading about the Goddess and the feminine.
She feels lucky to grow up after the heavy work of the feminist movement and acknowledges how women ahead of her bulldozed through so much. So this younger generation hasn’t had to break through the external layers. Although she learned from the path people carved out by others, she doesn’t want to be stuck in that para- digm. They’re walking differently now, so there are subtle layers to discern what is the feminine for them, not just what is the feminine. She wants people to become aware of their own experi- ence of Her.
Sera feels she can get caught in a trap if she gives dominance to the feminine outlined in the books already written over her own experience and expres- sion. Instead of trying to fit in, she’s had to work to stay true for how the Divine Feminine shows up for her, and at the same time be grateful to why she’s showing up this way for her because of the work done before by others.
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So there’s a dance, with great respect and gratitude, between what the women’s movement carved for others, and to allow her own experience of being a woman, even if it sounds regressive, especially for feminists, who might think young people have regressed because they talk about mini skirts!
Sera found she didn’t speak or dress like older women she’d be with, so she learned to value who she was and not doubt her connection to Her. Creating her own relationship with the feminine was like baggage removal – clearing out these things that people are telling her – who She is and who She’s not – so she could allow the feminine to show her organically who She is. Sera’s personal work is to speak authentically and transparently about who She is, and that gives permission for others to do the same. It’s her greatest joy and responsibility to assist others to find Her and create an intimate relationship with Her. She’s interested for women to create their own relationship, and al- low Her to show up as different forms. Their soul knows their exact prescrip- tion that’s correct for them, and She will guide them.
The Red Way
For Sera the feminine is showing up in a particular way – a red way. Red is the color and energy where she feels the most alive. It expands and opens her heart and brings the fire in her belly forward.
What does red have to do in this evolution of the feminine?
For Sera it’s the power, the fierceness, the radical expression of the feminine, the erotic, the sexual. The feminine isn’t always soft, kind, nurturing or the peaceful image of Kuan Yin. You might think of Kali as red – the fire, passion, and eroticism – which runs through Kali
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