{"id":140,"date":"2026-04-11T01:58:48","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T01:58:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/herawaken.com\/blog\/?p=140"},"modified":"2026-04-11T02:08:04","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T02:08:04","slug":"may-has-always-belonged-to-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/herawaken.com\/blog\/divine-feminine\/may-has-always-belonged-to-women\/","title":{"rendered":"May Has Always Belonged to Women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Every major wisdom tradition in the world has a framework for two complementary energies. In Vedic teachings, they are Ida and Pingala \u2014 two currents that flow through the body, one associated with the feminine, one with the masculine. In Taoism, they are Yin and Yang \u2014 not opposites in conflict, but complementary forces that create wholeness together. In Greek mythology, they run through every story of gods and goddesses. In Jungian psychology, they are the anima and the animus.<\/p><p>Different languages. The same map.<\/p><p>What all of these frameworks share is a core understanding: both energies exist within every person, and health \u2014 emotional, physical, relational \u2014 depends on having access to both.<\/p><p>The feminine energy carries intuition, creativity, emotional depth, receptivity, and the ability to nurture and connect. The masculine energy carries clarity, structure, decisive action, discipline, and the courage to hold boundaries. One without the other creates an imbalance that shows up in real, tangible ways.<\/p><p>A woman living predominantly in her masculine energy \u2014 without access to her feminine \u2014 often looks highly functional from the outside. She gets things done. She is reliable. She handles everything. Inside, she is running on empty. Her body is sending signals she has learned to override. Her relationships feel transactional rather than nourishing. She has lost touch with what she actually wants because she has been so focused on what needs to be done.<\/p><strong>The body always keeps the score. When a woman cuts herself off from half of her own energy, eventually something gives.<\/strong><p>A woman living predominantly in her feminine energy \u2014 without access to her masculine \u2014 may feel deeply but struggle to act on what she feels. She may have extraordinary intuition but no structure to bring her ideas into the world. She may find herself waiting for circumstances to change rather than making decisions that change them.<\/p><p>Integration is the word we use at HerAwaken \u2014 but what it actually looks like in practice is simpler than it sounds. It is knowing what a moment is calling for. A difficult conversation at work might call for clarity and direct communication \u2014 masculine qualities. A friend going through a painful time might call for presence and empathy \u2014 feminine qualities. A big decision might call for both: the intuition to know what is true and the courage to act on it.<\/p><p>The woman who has access to both is not switching between two personas. She is one person, complete, using the full range of what she carries. That completeness \u2014 that is what we are building toward at HerAwaken.<\/p><p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every major wisdom tradition in the world has a framework for two complementary energies. In Vedic teachings, they are Ida and Pingala \u2014 two currents that flow through the body, one associated with the feminine, one with the masculine. In Taoism, they are Yin and Yang \u2014 not opposites in conflict, but complementary forces that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":143,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","tve_updated_post":"<div class=\"thrv_wrapper tve_wp_shortcode\"><div class=\"tve_shortcode_raw\" style=\"display: none\">___TVE_SHORTCODE_RAW__&lt;p&gt;&lt;!-- wp:paragraph --&gt;&lt;\/p&gt;\n&lt;p class=\"copy\"&gt;There is something about May that feels different from every other month. The air changes. Things that were sitting still start moving again. If you have ever felt a pull toward starting something new in May \u2014 a project, a practice, a conversation with yourself \u2014 you are not imagining it. You are picking up on something humanity has understood for a very long time.&lt;\/p&gt;\n&lt;p class=\"copy\"&gt;Long before any modern tradition, the Ancient Greeks dedicated May to Artemis \u2014 the goddess of life, nature and raw feminine power. She was associated with the untamed, with things that grow freely without being forced. The Romans followed with Flora, the goddess of blooms and new beginnings. They held festivals in her honour every spring, asking for everything in the world to flourish. These were not small observances. They were full cultural celebrations built around the understanding that this time of year carries a particular feminine energy \u2014 one that creates, renews and brings things forward.&lt;\/p&gt;\n&lt;p class=\"copy\"&gt;In medieval Europe, May 1 was marked as the official start of new growth. Communities gathered, rituals were held, winter was declared over. The feminine energy of the season was so widely recognised that it eventually became woven into Catholic tradition \u2014 and May became the &lt;strong&gt;month dedicated to Mother Mary.&lt;\/strong&gt;&lt;\/p&gt;\n&lt;p class=\"copy\"&gt;What strikes me about all of these traditions \u2014 spanning different cultures, different centuries, different belief systems \u2014 is that they all arrived at the same understanding. &lt;strong&gt;May belongs to the feminine.&lt;\/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;To creation. To the energy that makes things bloom.&lt;\/strong&gt;&lt;\/p&gt;\n&lt;div class=\"pull\"&gt;Every culture, in its own language, found a way to say the same thing. This month holds something that deserves to be honoured.&lt;\/div&gt;\n&lt;p class=\"copy\"&gt;We chose May 1 as the launch date for &lt;a href=\"https:\/\/summit.herawaken.com\/ss26\"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;HerAwaken Summit Series&lt;\/strong&gt;&lt;\/a&gt; for exactly this reason. There is something fitting about beginning a conversation about feminine power in a month that humanity has spent thousands of years dedicating to it. &lt;strong&gt;Artemis, Flora, Mary&lt;\/strong&gt; \u2014 different names, different traditions, the same underlying truth. The feminine force is a force of creation and renewal. And May is when it comes fully alive.&lt;\/p&gt;\n&lt;p class=\"copy\"&gt;HerAwaken is our contribution to that long conversation. Every Friday for 15 weeks, we are gathering women from around the world to explore what it actually means to live as a whole woman \u2014 in your career, your relationships, your health, your money, your sense of self. This is the Spring and Summer series. The Fall and Winter series follows. And then we begin again \u2014 because this conversation does not have a finish line.&lt;\/p&gt;\n&lt;p class=\"copy\"&gt;May is a beautiful place to start. And we are glad you are starting it with us.&lt;\/p&gt;\n&lt;p&gt;Nylah Razvi&nbsp;&lt;\/p&gt;\n&lt;p&gt;Host &amp;amp; Founder of HerAwaken&lt;\/p&gt;\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;!-- \/wp:paragraph --&gt;&lt;\/p&gt;__TVE_SHORTCODE_RAW___<\/div><\/div>","tve_custom_css":"@media (min-width: 300px){.tcb-post-list[data-css=\"tve-u-193737aa145\"] .post-wrapper.thrv_wrapper { width: calc(50% - 10px); }.tcb-post-list[data-css=\"tve-u-193737aa145\"] .post-wrapper.thrv_wrapper:nth-child(n+3) { margin-top: 20px !important; }.tcb-post-list[data-css=\"tve-u-193737aa145\"] .post-wrapper.thrv_wrapper:not(:nth-child(n+3)) { margin-top: 0px !important; }.tcb-post-list[data-css=\"tve-u-193737aa145\"] .post-wrapper.thrv_wrapper:not(:nth-child(2n)) { margin-right: 20px !important; }.tcb-post-list[data-css=\"tve-u-193737aa145\"] .post-wrapper.thrv_wrapper:nth-child(2n) { margin-right: 0px !important; }.tcb-post-list[data-css=\"tve-u-19c9d18a61f\"] .post-wrapper.thrv_wrapper { width: calc(25% - 15px); }.tcb-post-list[data-css=\"tve-u-19c9d18a61f\"] .post-wrapper.thrv_wrapper:nth-child(n+5) { margin-top: 20px !important; }.tcb-post-list[data-css=\"tve-u-19c9d18a61f\"] .post-wrapper.thrv_wrapper:not(:nth-child(n+5)) { margin-top: 0px !important; }.tcb-post-list[data-css=\"tve-u-19c9d18a61f\"] .post-wrapper.thrv_wrapper:not(:nth-child(4n)) { margin-right: 20px !important; }.tcb-post-list[data-css=\"tve-u-19c9d18a61f\"] .post-wrapper.thrv_wrapper:nth-child(4n) { margin-right: 0px !important; }}","tve_user_custom_css":"","tve_globals":{"e":"1","font_cls":[]},"tcb2_ready":1,"tcb_editor_enabled":1,"tve_landing_page":"","_tve_header":"","_tve_footer":""},"categories":[21,27],"tags":[44,30,33,35,43,38,37],"class_list":["post-140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-divine-feminine","category-spiritual-growth","tag-artemis","tag-divine-feminine","tag-energy-balance","tag-feminine-leadership","tag-mother-mary","tag-personal-development","tag-spiritual-growth","post-wrapper","thrv_wrapper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/herawaken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/herawaken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/herawaken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/herawaken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/herawaken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/herawaken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":145,"href":"https:\/\/herawaken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions\/145"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/herawaken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/herawaken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/herawaken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/herawaken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}