of community, for when we live together we are nourished in those relationships. All parts of a community are given their place; all members are recognized for the gifts they bring.
With the power of beauty our soul has a place that can only be touched and moved and fed by things that are beautiful. With beauty we need to be authentic, stand by it, honor it and refrain from compromising real beauty in order to fit in. Beauty works closely with love, and has tre- mendous power to transform.
Hilary states one of the most important powers needed to activate and empower nourish- ment is longing. Longing draws us to what is needed and keeps our heart open and available. When we honor our longing for nourishment – our need to feel loved, our need to give to others and to know where we belong – we open ourselves more and more deeply to the energies within life that can bring us this nourishment and bring us into the depths where meaning waits for us.
For women, our longing to belong and to give and receive nourishment has a role to play in the restructuring of our outer world. We need to feel part of
a world that makes sense to us, in accord with our nature. So much of the patriarchal world goes against our nature so the nourishment we desire and need is not readily available. Women’s longing to live in a world in which care, love, healthy food, honoring of life’s sacredness and the beauty of the earth are consciously acknowledged and valued is a force for change. As we wake up to our longing, listen to it and make the changes it calls on us to make, the world itself changes.
It is up to every woman to hon- estly acknowledge what we truly need and what is truly needed from us. When we are honest in this way, we will be able to live our power with trust and cour- age. Life needs our nourishment, and nothing holds us back but ourselves.
Hilary states “Women’s power is the power of the earth, which is the power of the Mother, regard- less of how we honor or live it. The need is not for women to become powerful but to wake up to the nature of our power.”
The spiritual journey we are on as individuals and as a planetary community includes and requires restoring the sacred feminine, and healing the wounds that
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dominate our consciousness, our unconsciousness, and our habitual behaviors to each other, ourselves and the earth. For Hil- ary, this means women need to disconnect from the numbing and deadening patterns that keep us unaware of how we are partici- pating in our own oppression and powerlessness, and acknowl- edging both what our ongoing patriarchal world does to us and others and how we are complicit.
Women need to wake up to the nature of our power. We have forgotten our power and how it heals and sustains the earth. We need to comprehend what it would mean in our lives to truly live in power. That means fully living in our bodies as women have a power in our bodies and energy systems that creates life and allows spiritual light to come into creation for something new to be born, which many of us are eagerly awaiting.
Kris Steinnes, spiritual leader, meditation teacher, and author, is the visionary founder of Women of Wisdom Foundation and for 18 years has produced a life chang- ing, empowering conference for women in Seattle. She is the author of the Amazon best-seller, award winning boo: Women of Wisdom, Empowering the Dreams and Spirit of Women.
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