Private Ceremonies

When did the feminine get separated from leadership?

Somewhere along the way we were handed a version of power that only works if you perform it. That it means exerting control and force over others. That power lives in the loudest voice in the room. That you fake it until you make it. The feminine, meanwhile, was handed back to us with Her leadership removed. Along with much else. Soft. Receptive. Waiting to be chosen.

Both are distortions. Both are recent.

The essence of true leadership is not a technique you acquire or a confidence you manufacture. It is the wisdom you walk with. Wisdom retrieved in the darkness of the womb, inside the liminal space of ceremony, and across thresholds through rites of passage – in the dimensions of our world that have always been held by the sacred feminine. It is the nakedness of living your truth. 

Power is wisdom.

And wisdom has become a rare thing. We are not short of information. We are short of feminine wisdom keepers – the emergent class of leaders this moment is asking for.