The best compliment I’ve ever received was being called “fearless”. Not because it’s true of course. I collect fears like river stones in my mental basket, even as I try to toss them back into the stream as often as I can. But I think it’s more about the possibility of it, or maybe the impossibility of it. It is the way it settles on my skin, almost forbidden and beckoning.
This is a good point! I think of it in the sense that the masculine and feminine aren't particularly gender specific. So maybe there are elements of both masculine and feminine that come together during childbirth? It seems like with such an incredible feat that there must be forces of both present, the raw power of the masculine coupled with the intuitive wisdom of the feminine.
Wow! What seems so obvious to you was not apparent to me at first. I do agree that masculine and feminine are not gender specific and recognize this in my own self, but I didn’t connect it to childbirth and parenting. There is definitely a masculine energy in childbirth , as I can report from personal experience ;-)
Thank you for sharing✨️ my fiance and I will be beginning this process here shortly and before I met him, I was always the carrier, but this time around I feel I will be doing just as much of the chopping and cutting as he does. It makes me a little nervous, but I too have been called fearless over the recent year, due to life's circumstances, so this really hit me where I needed it.
I truly enjoy all of your writings, they are very inspiring.
I love that this task is calling to you too, it feels like an initiation of sorts, a testament to all of the things you've overcome and faced head on. We have everything you need in our own hands. Best wishes for your wood cutting season! May your saw be sharp and the trees fall true. And thank you for being here :)
“Maybe it is this element of danger that divides the feminine and masculine, not the work itself”
This is a brilliant observation! I’ve never thought of it that way.
I’m not sure how to weave childbirth and child-tearing into that, but it is a very interesting take.
This is a good point! I think of it in the sense that the masculine and feminine aren't particularly gender specific. So maybe there are elements of both masculine and feminine that come together during childbirth? It seems like with such an incredible feat that there must be forces of both present, the raw power of the masculine coupled with the intuitive wisdom of the feminine.
Wow! What seems so obvious to you was not apparent to me at first. I do agree that masculine and feminine are not gender specific and recognize this in my own self, but I didn’t connect it to childbirth and parenting. There is definitely a masculine energy in childbirth , as I can report from personal experience ;-)
Just thinking out loud as I've never had kids myself, but I am in so much awe of the women who do!
Thank you for sharing✨️ my fiance and I will be beginning this process here shortly and before I met him, I was always the carrier, but this time around I feel I will be doing just as much of the chopping and cutting as he does. It makes me a little nervous, but I too have been called fearless over the recent year, due to life's circumstances, so this really hit me where I needed it.
I truly enjoy all of your writings, they are very inspiring.
I love that this task is calling to you too, it feels like an initiation of sorts, a testament to all of the things you've overcome and faced head on. We have everything you need in our own hands. Best wishes for your wood cutting season! May your saw be sharp and the trees fall true. And thank you for being here :)
Loved this story! To me you are fearless- living outside of the stereotype.
Thank you so much for the kind words my friend! So grateful to have you along for the ride.