Letting Yourself Be Held—Awakening the Sacred Masculine Within
What if you didn't have to be the one holding everything together all the time?
So many of us women have become extraordinarily good at being strong, capable, independent, and productive. We've learned to push through, override our body's rhythms, and keep everything moving.
But somewhere along the way, have we forgotten how to soften? How to receive? How to let ourselves be held?
In this episode of the Vital Goddess Podcast, we're exploring the Sacred Masculine within and the beautiful possibility of reclaiming the cosmic love affair between our inner Venus and Mars.
The masculine isn't the problem. But when his gifts of strength, direction, and action become disconnected from the wisdom of the feminine, we can find ourselves caught in an exhausting cycle of striving, controlling, and doing.
As astrologer Caroline W. Casey so beautifully puts it, "When Venus is absent, Mars runs amok."
Together, we'll explore what it means to break the spell of patriarchal conditioning within ourselves, transform discipline into devotion, and invite our inner masculine into a new relationship with the feminine—one rooted in love, reverence, protection, and sacred partnership.
And we'll close with a simple, sensual, breath-led inquiry into a question that can open something profound within us:
What do I want, desire, crave, long to receive from the masculine?
Not a question to figure out with the mind, but one to breathe alive in the body.
Letting yourself be held doesn't mean surrendering your sovereignty.
Quite the opposite.
It means discovering that strength and softness can coexist.
And that your capacity to receive is every bit as sacred as your capacity to give.
🌹 Mentioned in this episode:
Sacred Pleasure Sex, Myth, and the Politics of the Body--New Paths to Power and Love by Riane Eisler — a deeper exploration of dominator culture and the possibility of partnership.
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With love,
Dianne 🌹
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