Feminine Energy vs Masculine Energy

Characteristics of Feminine Energy:

  1. Creative

  2. Deep sense of morality

  3. Passive

  4. Acute awareness of others’ thoughts and feelings

  5. Tendency to sacrifice oneself for the health and happiness of others

  6. Patience

Characteristics of Masculine Energy:

  1. Aggression

  2. Analytical mind

  3. Assertiveness

  4. Impatient

  5. Strives for success

  6. Quick to make decisions (sometimes with little to no real thought on the pros and cons)

Reading a list of characteristics assigned to those with feminine energy would lead someone to believe that your feminine energy makes you weak or less likely to get in there and get shit done. On the flip side, the characteristics associated with masculine energy would have you to believe that a lack of this energy source is a lack of any real ambition or assertiveness. BUT that’s taking a very short-sighted view. That’s taking the limited viewpoints on traditional male and female roles that we’ve been spoon-fed since birth and regurgitating them without any real context. There are two points to remember when defining feminine and masculine energy for yourself:

  1. Feminine energy isn’t only for females; Masculine energy isn’t only for males.

    If you found your way here to Effing Spiritual chances are you’re pretty open-minded and liberal AF. It also stands to reason, then, that you’ve stopped thinking of human sexuality in binary terms. If not, perhaps it’s time to reconsider your limited thinking. Telling someone they have to fall under one or the other based on what your naked eye sees as their gender is just plain wrong. So stop the madness.

  2. You have control over the energy source you tap into…to a degree.

    Tapping into either energy source is almost always a subconscious decision, one that that big beautiful brain of yours makes without you ever realizing it. When you want to get your way and you know that honey will get you there 20x faster than vinegar, bring on the feminine energy. When you need to be assertive and take no prisoners, that masculine energy gets the chance to flex on ‘em. Your intuition tells your brain which source to call on based on past experience and the desired outcome. Now, don’t get me wrong. You can definitely figure out which energy source works for you in specific situations so that you can call on the attributes you need to in order to get what you’re after, but in general it’s not something that you’re really aware of. And that’s not such a bad thing. Who wants to program themselves to be so acutely aware of every little thing they say and do and how it comes across that they end up being a robot?

Whether you tap into feminine or masculine energy by habit, by choice, or by intuition doesn’t matter. What matters is that you understand the role of both in the making of you.