Masculine, Feminine & the Collective Wound
The cosmic principles of Mother Earth and Father Sky are found across Indigenous wisdom lineages — and echoed in the groundbreaking work of Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung (1875–1961), who founded analytical psychology. His work brought forward concepts like synchronicity, archetypes, and the collective unconscious — and emphasized the masculine and feminine not as genders, but as foundational archetypes of the human psyche and collective consciousness.
The above and the below.
Purusha and Prakriti.
Yin and Yang.
Anima and Animus.
Shiva and Shakti.
Yahweh and Asherah.
These dualities are meant to complement, not compete. Yet colonization, patriarchy, capitalism, and religious doctrine have systematically distorted this sacred balance — creating hierarchies where none were meant to exist.
UNICEF put it plainly:
“War and civil unrest also contribute to violence in the home, according to recent studies. Men who feel that they have lost the ability to protect their women may compensate by exercising violent control over them at home. The most severe impact often affects girls and women.”
Our ancestral lineages are dense with war, trauma, and deep division between the masculine and feminine. The effects are imprinted epigenetically and emotionally. We carry this fragmentation in our cells.
As Laura Magdalene Eisenhower once said:
“If the vibration of respect is missing, the Truth is gone.”
These distortions often get passed down through family systems: what we witnessed between our caregivers, how we were taught to relate to men or women, what we internalized about love, worthiness, power, and connection.
Add to this the media programming we consumed as children — from Disney fairytales to gendered expectations — much of which is stolen, distorted folklore. These narratives perpetuate illusions that divide us from our true nature, and from each other.
In my counselling work, this foundational fracture shows up in so many ways:
Fear of abandonment
Power struggles
Distrust in intimacy
Shame and unworthiness
Codependency
Anxious and avoidant attachment
Addictions (sex, porn, validation)
Empath/narcissist dynamics
Lack of safety in love and communication
At the root, I often find a longing for something deeper — what Tantra calls Divine Union or Sacred Union: where the beloved sees the other as Divine. Most people are not experiencing this… yet we yearn for it.
So, how do we begin healing this collective fracture?
We return to the centre of our own being — where the masculine and feminine converge. This union within is ancient and real, even if it sounds abstract.
It begins with awareness, compassion, and rebalancing.
We all carry both masculine and feminine energies — and each has a light and shadow aspect. At any given moment, we may be expressing from our wounded masculine/feminine… or from the healthy, integrated version.
This isn’t about gender. It’s about energetics. About embodiment. About healing the split at the foundation of our consciousness.
And that healing begins with you.
Ready to heal the inner split between your masculine and feminine?
In THE SOURCE, my 1:1 container, we alchemize the inner distortions that block intimacy, worthiness, and connection.
Let’s walk the path of Sacred Union — within and without.
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