The Dark Feminine

We all hold her—whether you’re male or female. It’s the untamed, wild emotional side who holds his/her own pain authentically, who rebels from it, reacts to it, honors his/her truth.

The most famous archetype is Lilith who is seen in contrast to Eve. There are so many different descriptions that all feel equally mysterious and hard to define, varying across culture and myth. However, we all know black moon lilith when we see it, or we feel it. The dark feminine is someone who isn’t afraid to go into the darkness, to confront the reality in front of her or within her and to react authentically. Is it outrage? Sadness?

In our current western society, the feminine in the past has been cultivated to appear demure, kind, acquiescing, receptive while having no real needs of her own. But that isn't the reality. The dark feminine isn’t relegated to man or woman, it extends from cultures to the cosmos. Dark matter and black holes are just as much a part of the quantum fabric as light bearing stars and galaxies. They are two sides of our human nature and just like the polarity in the cosmos, it’s always seeking balance. The black moon means it's in shadow–in society and in self. It's what we can't see, when the moon traverses between the earth and the sun, its side facing the earth enveloped in shadow.

We can see the faint outline, we intuit it's there, and we must face it, express it and own it. Only then do we gain power over our whole self, the light and the dark, the two sides of existence.

Soul-Prompt: How can I embrace my untamed emotions instead of suppressing them? What are my wild emotions and what are they revealing to me about what I need to heal?