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I’m searching for words to reference “divine masculine” and “divine feminine” that feel neutral, rather than charged w gender baggage. any suggestions? metaphorical preferred. like “waves / islands” is to “anxious / avoidant” my ideas so far: wood / leaves, or vessel / liquid.
@relic_radiation from my post: https://t.co/FV0bZx77ZG
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@relic_radiation you'll be reading for a while! should be worth it though ;-) https://t.co/OPHa3JPxib (would be happy to hear your thoughts, positive or negative. hmu anytime)
@ElodesNL @relic_radiation this reminds me of linguistic gendering too; in German, clocks are feminine and days of the week are masculine. It's about dealing with things in categories, not imputing gendered concepts onto clocks https://t.co/a2K9i8Cs9r
@ElodesNL @relic_radiation gender as in masculine/feminine is the most readily cognitively available 2-pole classification system because the dichotomy between men & women is a polar system encountered by everyone, daily, for the last 50,000+ years this is not in any way a political tweet
@ElodesNL @relic_radiation it isn't arbitrary, rather it's universal across culture, religion, space, and time. Consider yin/yang or waves/islands (other suggestions in thread). These are distinctly *not* universal across all of those human experiences & cultures https://t.co/m6149MBI7U
great question about “why?” am I searching. helped me clarify it for myself. essentially - I deeply feel this polarity as real and meaningful to my life, and also that it has 0% to do with gender. calling it masc / fem feels as arbitrary as green / purple https://t.co/HPCXGrLd1f
tbh I suspect my struggle here is: I'm more interested in the middle of the polarity,the 'union of distinct poles' of it, than what the poles are. poles differ in every case,hence our struggle naming them. it's the alive pulsing alchemizing attractive union bw them that persists
@strangestloop “vital pulse” resonates in me for this. maybe I’ll keep using it till it catches on ;P https://t.co/XUmqKda6lW
Hmm sitting with this, I choose to change my wording from “cycle” to “pulse” - the pulse of life. I also rephrase the “life/death” oscillation to “birth/death,” and “growth/decay.” Life doesn’t feel like the opposite of death - life feels like the whole pulse!
@relic_radiation it's a good phrase! could you share how it might come up in conversation? this whole exploration is great too. i recently saw some diagram that labeled the inhale as female and the exhale as male and i was like huh? says who?
@strangestloop in conversation - so far it’s mostly a reminder to myself. in particular, it’s helping me leave breathing room in my calendar :P “no elena don’t put back-to-back travels and hangouts, leave space for the generative vital pulse”
ok after a month the dust has settled, and I’ve converged on “holding / yielding” 😊 yay! if I reaaaaally must, I refer to “classical feminine” and “classical masculine” to avoid drawing conclusions about the future. that’s mostly to refer to culture tho, not my own cosmology
@relic_radiation yin/yang comes to mind although ofc that comes with a lot of cultural context already too. shinzen young favors expansion/contraction. also i haven't read this book but it suggests "congressive/ingressive" https://t.co/9RRQ2rkXPJ