Creativity - a feminine or masculine force?

How to become a Creative Visionary #1

On the whole we’re pretty macho with our creativity.  We don’t like the airy-fairy nature of the ephemeral.  We talk about wresting our creative demons to the ground and showing them who’s boss. We attend seminars in goal setting, focus and “taking massive action”.

For quite a while now, masculine energy has ruled the world.  At first this was a good thing.  To be honest, we were probably a bit bored in the agricultural age and were quite happy when men got all geeky and started inventing bits of machinery.  It’s one thing to look at rural pictures of loveliness on “beautiful boutique hotels of the world.com”.  It’s quite another to cope with the mundane routine of unchanging days where nothing new or different ever happens.

Masculine energy shakes things up a little.  It’s busy and purposeful.  (We only have to watch the journey of a sperm reaching an egg to know exactly how focused masculine energy can be).  It gets things done.

Of course one could argue, that over the course of the last hundred years, too many things got done and we are now looking at the side effects of all that “doing”.  This is the point where Mother Nature pops her head in the door and is slightly alarmed by the chaos and mess created by all those boy’s games.  “I turn my back for five minutes!”

But wait!  Creativity was supposed to be a feminine thing.  The muse is female.  If we want more creative solutions to the world’s problems (cleaning up the mess of the last hundred years) we need to put women in charge.  We need to go back to the harmony of the rural idyll.

Well no… not really.  We can’t flip flop from masculine to feminine.  “Tag you’re ‘it’… Your turn now.”  We are evolving creatures.  We can’t go backwards.  Funnily enough, in our current state, we can’t go forwards either – things are way too messed up for that.

But we can go sideways.

Cutting edge creativity requires a male and a female component.  Luckily we have both elements within us – obviously in varying proportions.  The idea (masculine) is incubated and birthed through the feminine.  But what happens if we have old wounds or faulty wiring?

If our inner masculine is wounded, he creates egocentric ideas without thought of the consequences. The ability to focus becomes narrow mindedness. Self control becomes controlling. Discernment becomes critical. Creativity becomes self-serving.

If our inner feminine is wounded, she has insufficient resources to love the idea and bring it to term. The container of the idea has leaky or porous boundaries. Intuition for the future is hampered by survival instincts from the past. Imagination of what’s possible is stymied by imaginings of worst possible scenarios. Love becomes neediness.

What if, as Joe Dispenza would argue, we are being run by the survival programs of old, outdated software, and by upgrading to a new perception we could create heaven on earth.

When I left primary school to enter secondary school there was a rubicon to be crossed. All parents were instructed to tell their children “The Facts of Life”. Teachers didn’t want to be saddled with the awkward conversation about sex, conception and the origins of life. It’s a strange phrase - as if the complexity and mystery of life could be reduced to mere facts - how masculine!

The feminine version might explain that we are all “A Facet of Life” rather than a fact. We leave the oneness to have an experience of separation so that we can use our gift of creativity to birth interesting or lovely things that can inspire or enchant our fellow travellers.

Unfortunately, rather than being part of The One, we’d rather BE The One. We want to be special, particularly if it involves wearing cool shades and a long swishy coat like Neo in the Matrix. Even his name is an anagram of his status.

Our old stories feature heroes and villains and the need to take sides amid battle cries of “Who is right!” “We need the facts!” “We need to know!”

In our new story this discord could be replaced by a merger “We are all right and wrong” “Facts are subjective we are all facets” “Knowledge is overrated - if we feel, intuit and imagine more, we might get to wisdom.”

Our old stories placed a high value on masculine attributes of doing, goal setting and “kicking ass” so obviously we try to “do” creativity. But creativity isn’t something we do, it’s something we are.

Our old stories viewed masculine and feminine as purely gender terms. A growing number of people feel they’re not “either/or” but are non binary. Others feel that changing their gender would make them feel more of a sense of belonging in their physical body.

But what if we saw this in energetic terms?

If we upgrade our programs from the physical (in which we are all just fixed particles or facts) to the energetic (in which we are all part of a wave of infinite possibility) we could unite our inner masculine and feminine energies.

And from this union we could give birth to Visionary Creativity.

In time, this could even become the new “Facts of Life” and hopefully something children learn before their 11th birthday.

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