May/June 2011 Editor's Blog
Remember Your Inner Warrior
by Vicky Thompson
Editor's Journey 2011: Return to Balance
Step 3: Remember Your Inner Warrior
The divine feminine may be seen as soft and loving, but underneath that nurturing energy is a fierce strength, a powerful commitment to ensuring the health and well-being of her tribe on Earth. When you open to the inner feminine warrior energy, you unleash integrity and honor in a way not seen before in our world.
Since the 20th Century began, three streams of divine feminine energy have been slowly returning to change the world’s mindset: compassion versus domination, nurturing versus betrayal and strength versus corruption. In 2011, a fourth divine feminine energy is emerging: balance versus power. This final energy completes the four pillars of the divine feminine way: compassion, nurturing, strength and balance. Join us on the editor’s journey to create this new way of living.
Returning to balance takes six simple steps: 1) Open to the balanced heart. 2) Affirm your commitment to peace. 3) Remember the inner warrior. 4) Create a new personal balance paradigm. 5) Practice the way of compassion, and 6) Celebrate the reunion of the masculine and feminine.
Today, your task is to remember your inner feminine warrior. Picture the lioness, hunting for her cubs. She is fierce, strongly focused in providing for the pride. As she is stalking her prey, she is also alert to the dangers around her cubs. Would you mess with a lioness? She knows her power in the world, but she also knows her limits. She kills only what she needs to feed her family, knowing that to take more could threaten the pride’s survival.
Fitting perfectly in the natural flow of give and take, and embracing her role as the destroyer as well as the creator, the inner feminine warrior steps forth to guide us today. Who is your inner feminine warrior? She is the energy of fierce compassion that steps up when help is needed. She observes and takes considered action, never taking or giving more than is needed. She is balanced in her energy — she knows when to push, when to hold back, and when to roar and let her dominance show. She is your integrity, your compass of truth, and she is asking both men and women to look within to feel this power.
Try this today: Look for trouble. Do you see someone who needs help with the door or a hand with carrying bags? Does the salesperson at the counter look sad and in need of a kind word? Does your home-bound older neighbor need a few extra groceries? Trouble exists everywhere, from the minor to the extreme. Your inner feminine warrior knows that she can change the energy around her. But to do this, she has to engage in the world. She can’t close her door — she has to open to the suffering around her.
Invite your inner feminine warrior to guide you through your day by saying: Let me be of service to my community. Guide me to be where I am needed.
Now listen and feel the nudges, going where you are needed. When you spot trouble, step up in integrity and be of service. Act outside of your comfort zone as the inner feminine warrior, a being who is committed to the well-being of the tribe.
Join editor Vicky Thompson on this year-long journey to balance. Find past steps at www.newconnexion.net.