The Beauty in Darkness: Embracing the Dark Feminine Energy
THE DARK FEMININE: mysterious, deep, intuitive, sensual, creative, powerful.
These qualities can be repressed, demonized, and marginalized in society. Feminine energy does not just simply contain the good, light, and soft aspects. Feminine energy contains universes to discover. The dark feminine challenges society expectations of what is woman, what is feminine. Society teaches women to be “nice” and “polite”, even if it makes them uncomfortable and waters down their feelings or voice. The dark feminine energy embraces assertiveness, sexuality, anger, passion, and magic. It encourages women to reclaim all aspects of themselves, of their shadow side. For there is no light without the darkness. When women reclaim their dark feminine, they empower themselves and others. They regain their strength, their voice, their divinity. The dark feminine encourages women to explore their desires, fears, strengths, and passions. It implores them to harness their intuition, inner wisdom, and infinite power.
LIGHT FEMININE VS DARK FEMININE
Light Feminine: Emotional, Nurturing, Empathetic, Peaceful, Compassionate, Graceful, Gentle, Patient
Dark Feminine: Mysterious, Seductive, Assertive, Fearless, Powerful, Confidence, Magnetic, Persuasive, Protective
HOW TO EMBRACE IT
Self-Exploration: take time to explore and understand yourself; reflect on your desires, fears, creativity, and intuition without judgement. Knowledge is power, knowing yourself is the key to your magic.
Explore Sensuality: embrace your sexuality and sensuality. We are sensual creatures. Do not suppress this creative energy. Within our chakra system, the sacral chakra governs our sexuality and creativity because they are deeply connected. Embrace your sensual nature, unlock your creative expression (and vice versa)
Express Creativity: Engage in activities that make you feel joy, pleasure, and self-expression. We are creative beings that need a creative outlet. We are ALL creative beings. Whether that’s through art, music, dance, words, thoughts, science, technology - we are creators. Dress how you want, style yourself in whatever way feels good to you, say what you want - let your self expression shine through you.
Embrace Intuition: Your intuition is your truth. You always know what is best for you, there is an inner voice, an inner knowing. You may need to strengthen or rebuild this like a muscle, especially if you are
JOURNAL PROMPTS:
-Reflect on a suppressed trait of your personality. What fears or insecurities are tied to it? How can embracing it empower you?
-Recall a recent time you listened to your intuition. How did it feel? The more you listen to it, the stronger it will become.
-Is there any creative outlets you’ve been wanting to try? How does it make you feel? How can you further explore your darker side creatively?
-What fears are hold you back the most? How has it impacted you? How can you transform it into strength?
