12/08/2021
Beauty!
Celebrating Mana Tāne, the Divine Masculine, this week is teaching me how weird it is to describe energy! Everything contains a bit of everything else and so do all of us. Here is my painting "Horus," whose Victorian outfit is in stark contrast to his Moko Kanohi (face tattoo). Moko is an indelible link to whakapapa (lineage), going all the way back to cosmic origins.
Horus has the crucial ability to see with perspective, like a falcon in flight. He is the son of the great mother Isis and father Osiris; a messianic figure who parallels Christ. Horus grew up outside the kingdom in the underworld with his mother, alienated from his fundamental culture. Osiris was murdered because of his blindness to malevolence. Horus found the old king in the underworld and gave him his eye. Together, they returned to the world, embodying the best of past and present.
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I've just been listening to talking about the Divine Masculine as building, construction energy, with boundaries and structure. It is thoughts and ideas. My favourite description of healed masculine energy is "playful curiosity" courtesy of .
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I see the Divine Feminine as creation energy from the womb of darkness. It is the river flow. It is wisdom and the emotion that magnetically draws experience to us.
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To round off thoughts for today, I love what shares in her blog post about te mana o te wahine, te mana o te tāne'...
"If balance looks like 50/50, or like everyone doing exactly the same thing, that’s not what I’m offering here.... "equity” is giving everyone what they need to be successful. ”equality” is treating everyone the same... by whakapapa (genealogy, origins, nature) by environment (upbringing, experiences, nurture) and everything in between - we’re all different and should celebrate that, as well as all the similarities and connections that bind us together. I mean, if we were all the same pieces to the puzzle, we’d just have a lot of one piece + a very incomplete puzzle… Right?"
View "Horus" at https://loom.ly/4ifHWHY