The Integration of Masculine and Feminine Energies

A great friend, who has also been a teacher, asked me during an intense conversation, "Amazonia, when do you digest everything you've experienced in these last few months? Have you taken the time to integrate the people you've met, the experiences that have shaped your evolution, and the daily decisions you've been making?" She ended by saying, "I still see you in the doing, my dear."

Knowing when it's enough for me is part of my personal work. My masculine energy easily activates, the energy that invites action, decision-making, and reasoning. It automatically and effortlessly activates within me, and this has an explanation: the absence of my father and having a maternal lineage where women have been very masculinized, always solving everything from changing a light bulb to painting the house while being mothers and working.

The masculine energy has many positive aspects because it's a force that possesses perseverance and the ability to achieve many things. However, as an adult with a higher level of consciousness, I must find balance between these two energies and return to my center, to the present, to that intuitive, creative Amazonia and to connect with the nature of the wild woman again and again.

This week and the coming ones, I will take the time to digest what I've lived, to activate my feminine energy that invites me to the subtle, to receive, nurture, and gestate what is already in my life.

In Japan, I remember feeling very balanced, connected to that intuitive feminine energy—through my daily meditations, rest, and care for my body, nature, and creativity. Visiting the Onsen was a great practice that led me to activate my feminine energy.

Now, in my current routine, where doing takes up 90% of my day, I must be very conscious and create spaces for self-love, activating those nurturing moments. As my wise friend Gabriela would say, it is within this routine where the greatest learning lies in these moments. It all starts with applying body lotion with mindfulness, from a place of calm, giving thanks for my hands and body. It's buying those flowers for my home, even if I'm leaving Cambridge. It's returning to my daily rituals that lead me to connect with my purest intimacy, with that naked woman within.

This week, a coworker told me, "You can't be so emotional," trying to imply that I should be tougher and more masculine in my business approach. I responded, "I'm sorry, my emotions stay with me, and that doesn't question my actions, nor my ability to assert my rights."

So many important things have happened this week that I've ended it completely drained but with immense gratitude. It has been an evolutionary week, the women's circle was a successful event that filled my soul. I had exciting encounters, let go of doubts, engaged in uncomfortable yet enriching conversations, did plenty of physical activity, and walked barefoot to connect my being with nature—that nature which invites me to ground myself. It has been a week where I said no to red flags, where I recognized and discovered that I'm entering a new phase, and where balancing my two energies is essential to continue my evolution. A book that has been accompanying and guiding me in this process is "Women Who Run with the Wolves."

A phrase shared in the reading club of the "Huerto del Lector" deeply resonated with me: "Understanding the nature of this Wild Woman is not a religion but a practice."

Thank you for reading, leave your comment. How do you activate your feminine energy when it's imbalanced?