Understanding the two primary stages of a woman’s evolution :

There are two primary stages that a woman moves through on her journey into womanhood, and her masculine energy matures and evolves in a specific manner. Throughout girlhood, her energy begins to rise and build from her root, which is the place within which we hold raw, primal, life-force and vitality, which contains a reservoir of the energy we need to grow into each phase of our existence. By the time she reaches adolescence she begins to experience that energy in was that can at times feel subtle, delicious, mystical and profoundly healing, and at other times, quite overwhelming, uncontrollable and scattered. What makes her journey into womanhood that much more complex than a man’s, is that she is working with four different seasons each month, causing fluctuations and subtle shifts which carry a different favour, texture and movement with each season that she enters. This can cause emotional upheaval, confusion in her identity and disembodiment as she struggles to find balance within herself. Because modern living has disconnected most men and women from knowing how to direct and use their primal energy efficiently, the common tendency is to burn through our vital reserves of energy, long before we’re into our early thirties.

Women do not necessarily have the same impulsive out-pouring of their sexual energy in the same way as men, (of course there are no rules to this and there are exceptions), but the disconnect from their own body and the lack of understanding of what is needed in each stage of their cycle, can cause quick depletion of their sexual vitality, leading to burn out, exhaustion and the inability to harness their energy to manifest their dreams for life. She needs to be ever so careful to tend to her inner-world and nurture herself according to each stage of her cycle and feminine evolution, in order to sustain her vitality and use it to build and harness more energy.

The White stage (maiden) :

This is the stage of a woman’s evolution, she is somewhere between girlhood and womanhood. Not in the youth of girlhood anymore, but neither close to womanhood. There is an interesting in-between space that women enter into when they are int transition. And although a woman will go through many many transitions in her lifetime, the white phase of her evolution is perhaps the most delicate and fragile of states she will ever encounter. In this stage, she will have already begun to bleed, and will still be in the early stages of becoming familiar with how her cycle and each season of her growth is influenced by her ability to turn inwards and listen to the subtle energetic shifts occurring in her being. This requires space, reflectivity and separation from the noise of the external world, all things women are not given the privilege of being able to do for the most part, and perhaps this is the biggest threat during this stage of her development. A woman needs stillness, silence, space and depth to flourish. Her growth as a feminine being is often dependant on her growth as a feminine being is often dependant on developing her intuitive, wildish senses.  

And when she is bombarded, flooded and infiltrated with the voices and pressures of people that attempt to intefer with her development and growth into her feminine power, she can - unknowingly - begin to stifle, reduce and oppress the external manifesation of her power, for fear of criticism, attack and slander. What women often absorb and learn in the stage of ‘maiden’ from the culture and the people most involved with their life, is that the full expression of their feminine is neither accepted nor welcomed. There is a slow but steady repression and withholding of her energy that occurs as she begins to drink in the fear of other people’s projections, and learn to fear the power of her own femininity and sexuality, gradually shutting down and closing up, and when she does, this is when the expression of her feminine begins to disort, retreating into her shadow and taking up residence in the form of sorrow, bitterness, resentment, rage, jealousy, exhaustion, confusion, vulnerability, fear, and rejection towards her own femininity.

In the maiden phase of her existence, she is extremely susceptible and impressionable to the influence of others. Our female ancestors that carried and held the wisdom of the feminine and knew the way to a woman coming into her own, would gather together, guiding and nurturing girls in their maiden, somewhat cocooning and shielding them from the harshness of a man-made world, until they were wise and connected enough to their own inner wisdom to transition out of the cocoon and into a more embodied expression of their power. Women do not receive the wise medicine of their elders, and the guidance to help them navigate challenges that are exclusive to being a woman alone. Unfortunately, most women must grow and emerge out of their maiden phase through enduring unnecessary trauma, heartbreak and a diminishment of their strength before they begin to awaken to how much power they actually hold. The other tricky aspect of navigating this part of her existence, is dealing with people, and particularly men, that recognise the power she holds, long before she does herself, and seek to ‘consume’ and feed themselves with her youth. It sounds quite dark, but wherever a woman is in her phase of growth, the most important factor that will determine her evolution and her succeeding in all that she does, is that she recognises the power she herself holds to create magic and miracles in her everyday life. But when she becomes distracted or dependant on male admiration and attention to catch a glimpse of her own worth, there is a cycle that begins that hooks her into an energetically misaligned relationship with men, with beauty, with ‘becoming enough’, in order to prove her worth. This cycle can often go on for years, if not decades, until something shakes her out of the illusion that she is not already more than enough, and awakens her to the truth that she was born inherently powerful. And this is where she tends to become stuck…….

Where she get’s stuck in White :

When there is an over-dependence upon the opinions and feedback of others in order for her to feel recognised and of value, she becomes consumed with how her life looks, rather than how her life feels. How much power you can extract and enjoy from your feminine energy is dependant on how well you can attune yourself to how you are feeling. And even deeper than that, how well you can attune yourself to the layers of feeling that each contain their own healing wisdom and potent medicine to keep you in right alignment with what is required for every phase of your becoming. The maiden phase in which woman and man’s greatest risk is losing their sense of direction to shiny distractions and external pleasures that promise of lasting fulfilment, only to eat away at their precious life-force and keep them from focusing on what is of true value.

Nobody tells a woman that finding and claiming her authentic expression is the most important and valuable pursuit above all else. The maiden phase of her existence should act as the training ground within which she learns to distinguish herself from the crowd, to separate what she has been told from what is true, to develop a relationship of intimacy with her own expression, to drive that expression outwards and proudly proclaim “this is who I am and this is who I am becoming, and nothing will interrupt that process from occurring” - Unfortunately, the nature of the way the world is set up for the feminine, is that it does nothing but disturb, disrupt and interrupt her from becoming a fully-fledged woman that knows her own power. And this is another place that she might tend to get stuck in maiden, struggling to develop beyond girlhood consciousness : She doesn’t believe she has permission to be wild. And as far as society is concerned, she doesn’t. She must give herself that. But if she does not, if she allows the voices of everyone else to shout loudly over the voice of her own authentic expression and those voices permeate deeply enough into her psyche, she might retreat back into the cocoon from which she came, in an effort to protect herself from further injury and outside interference. She might stay there a long while, muddling through the inner disturbances and sorting out what is authentically hers and what is merely other people’s trash, strengthening her ability to deal with the violence of the world before re-emerging more capable, more solid, more certain of who she is and how to handle unwanted interface. If she struggles to re-emerge due to fear of re-experiencing more disturbance and interruption, she will get stuck somewhere between maiden and almost woman, not quite safe enough to begin embodying the fullness of her womanhood, which will naturally invite all kinds of criticism and unwanted attention . To truly be a woman in this world, who knows her power and what she is capable of creating, means to be a threat to everyone that wants to continue participating in a world that keeps feminine energy under control, boxed in, squashed, limited, oppressed.

There is a fight that she must go through just to exist freely, fully embodied in her womanhood. It would be much safer for her to stay in the maiden era of her existence, to silence her own voice, to limit her own expression and the ever growing and expanding capacity that she naturally has to create miracles, to start revolutions, and create the world anew. She knows that she risks a great deal stepping out, and if she can find the courage to do so, she will enter into the next stage of her evolution, where she begins to harness some of her authentic self-expression…….

The Red stage (Priestess) :

When she enters into priestess, she is at the early stages of learning to harness her power. She is still testing the waters to see if it is even safe for her to do so without risking losing so much of the life that might have become familiar to her. In the red era of her growth, she is learning to really anchor herself in the world. To build roots, to create an existence that aligned with the person she knows deep down within that she has the potential to become. She might be looking for allies, partnerships or romantic relationships that will support her journey into womanhood. This is also the stage in her life in which she will experience firsthand what it means to “choose who you spend most of your time with,” and “keep your friends close but keep your enemies closer”. Like most women, she will have to learn the hard way of whom she can put her trust and faith in, and whom is trying to get access to her energy with less aligned intentions.

One of the most important choices she will make during this stage of her evolution is whom she keeps close. Not everyone will be the loyal friend they present themselves as being (most will not). Even her own mother and siblings might begin to display signs of jealousy and envy as she attempts to find her voice in the world and establish her rightful place. She will need to be perceptive, wise, shrewd and protective of her energy. This does not mean that she needs to walk through the world feeling paranoid, fearful and defensive. As long as she knows that she has power, and that she has the option to say ‘no’. Because no doubt during her maiden era, she has already been made to believe that she has no choice or say when it comes to her own autonomy. As if she is here to appease and entertain everyone else’s idea of who they believe she should be. Hence why it is so important that she chooses the company she keeps, with the understanding that so much of her personal success and fulfilment will be subtly or grossly impacted by the energy of the people around her. The feminine is designed to pull in energy and expand and enhance whatever she is given. If she is pulling in limiting beliefs, disempowering notions and other people’s insecurities and jealousies towards her potential, her own spark towards her endeavours will quickly be dampened. This we must understand, because it is a fundamental principal of how feminine energy operates :

If she is not regularly emotionally and energetically nourished by the presence of the people around her, she would do better to pull away and extract her nourishment from places that will fill her up, without asking her to sacrifice any part of herself in return for what she has received. This is why nature replenishes women so deeply. The earth, the rivers and the sun will not ask anything of her in return. It will give freely, supporting her growth and evolution. In her priestess era, she will have the desire to blast her energy outwards into the world with the desire to be seen, heard, acknowledged and find belonging (even more so if she did not find these things during childhood and amongst her family members), and this is where she will need to tread with care : In shining our light, we attract all kinds of things. Good things, nourishing things, challenging things, and sometimes things we’d rather never have to encounter : Light thieves and energy vampires are exist in our world, and in shining out her light, without a mature understanding of the consequences, she risks attracting things into her reality that seek to only take and take, and benefit whatever they can from her power. Feminine power is the most precious commodity upon this earth. And everyone knows it. 

For this reason, she must become conscious of when it is the appropriate time and place to shine out her light, to activate her sexual aliveness and use it to create the life of her dreams, and when it would be wiser to become a little more secretive, a little more protective, a little more cautious of how she is using her power, and what signals she might be sending out based on what events, people and situations she is pulling in. For example, when she is in a public setting full of all kinds of people, perhaps it is not the best of places to turn up her light and blast her power out into the room in order to announce her presence. There is an art form and a way to which she must harness the power of her femininity, so she can enjoy the natural expression of pleasure, potency, softness and beauty that emanates from her being, without everyone else trying to latch on, snatch at her, and take a piece of the pie they were never invited to have.

When she is in her own contained, safe space, this is the time for her to blast out her light, surrendering into the arms of the universe and calling out to the lover, the money, the people, the projects, the creative dreams she wants to birth into existence. When she is out in the world amongst all sorts, beggars, light-thieves, the lost wanders, the souless, the dejected, the unconscious, she must walk with more care. She must find balance between using her voice, expressing her truth, dancing freely in her own light, outwardly directing her power, and then withdrawing inwards, retreating for inward reflection and re-consideration

Where she gets’s stuck in Red :

The red stage of her evolution is also known as ‘the priestess era’. A woman in her priestess era is usually between the age of 34-48. I say 34 because at age 30, a woman is only just beginning to explore and harness the depth of her power. By the time she reaches 34, if she has dedicated several years of her life to self-healing, self-development, defining her purpose in the world, and reclaiming her sense of power and self-worth, by the time she reaches 34, after having come through her first Saturn return (as astrological event that marks the significance of her womanhood), she will begin to understand and recognise the depth of her power. The era in which she truly begins learning how to harness and access her power, and find out what she is truly capable of creating when she works to consciously harness her energy.

A priestess is associated with having access to ‘forbidden knowledge’ ‘higher magical intuition’ and direct access to the divine organising powers of the universe. This has always made a woman in her red era a threat to the male structures and powers that be. She has access to wisdom, knowledge and power that they themselves might struggle to harness. In the past, this will have caused women to work with their magic and creative power in secrecy. The imprint of fear for being seen as powerful and masterful in her womanhood runs deep. And this wound of being attacked or harmed might become activated the moment she begins to step out and allow herself to seen in a different way. This time, a more embodied, sexually-expressed, defiant and formidable version of herself. People can feel when they are in the presence of a woman VS a girl still becoming a woman, and her presence will be triggering to those that have not yet learnt how to be comfortable within their own feminine expression. It isn’t necessarily that she makes people uncomfortable because of what she is doing, but rather because of what she has embodied

If she has managed to fight off the voices of oppression outside of her and within her, she will begin discovering the depth of her creative power and what this looks like when she begins manifesting that power in the physical world. This stage is about priority. Will she be swept up, consumed and distracted by what her family, friends and society think about her life choices? Or will she begin to accept the standard of what she will, or won’t accept in her life. Boundaries become even more important during this phase. If she is to build and harness her energy and use it to consciously create her reality, she needs to re-consider who gains access to her energy, her life-plans, her deepest dearest dreams, maybe she needs to stop sharing the intimate details of her inner-world and start sensing what is happening at a subtle energetic level within her relationships. In her priestess era, she will begin to grow her psychic and intuitive abilities to read the subtle energy around her.

To distinguish between what people tell her, Vs what is the truth of the matter. This is one of the most important gifts she can develop, and that gift will grow to become her greatest asset if she is ruthless in creating strong boundaries and monitoring what she is allowing in to her reality. Where she tends to get stuck in this era, is over-absorbing everybody else’s opinions and energy, and no longer being able to distinguish between what is hers, and what is other people’s stuff. This can deeply impact and hinder what she manifests in her reality, because naturally, if she holding other people’s fear, shame, limitation or lack, it will deeply impact what she begins to believe is possible for her own life. She can avoid getting stuck in an unnecessary cycle of lack and limitation, fear and discouragement, by clearing unwanted energy from her reality. By stating aloud “I release all energy and fear that does not belong to me, I align with the dreams that are mine for this lifetime,” and moving towards these visions fearlessly. She must keep on reclaiming and reclaiming her power and energy and clearing out any chaos or confusion blocking her from re-gaining absolute creative authority over her own life, so she can design however she desires it to be.

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