Goddess or Truth?
"The very essence of the Feminine is LOVE and TRUTH - not aggressive rebellion, or armouring by playing dress up as a Goddess."
~ Nicole Barton
One of the objections I notice in some women drawn to Invoke Your Feminine Mystery is that they've previously felt they've already done a lot of work with Feminine embodiment before.
In fact, often, whilst many of my women come to me dismissing their Feminine body and her signals entirely and not feeling feminine at all, I notice these particular women can often have reached a point where they've done so much work on themselves and their bodies that they become hypervigilant about their sensations - so much so that this is their only focus and they become quite fearful about not getting their aligned-actions "right", fearing their body's responses if they take aligned action, feeling that "not choosing" something is the way of the Feminine. I've been there too, as I visited both of these islands along my journey.
And unlike the women who suppress their bodies entirely (who are usually like "wear a dress? God, No, thank you!"), these women may even have come from a previous "Goddess" embodiment route, too. I've had women from this path tell me they're riding a wild dragon and sticking two fingers up at anyone who crosses them, whilst playing dress up in pretty clothes.
And all I want to say to that is that what's on offer in the healing remedy of the Feminine that I'm guiding women into is NOT that.
The very essence of the Feminine is LOVE and TRUTH - not aggressive rebellion, or armouring by playing dress up as a Goddess.
In fact, prior to birthing this crucible I had a intentional and expansive conversation about naming it "Invoke Your Feminine Goddess" with a soul sister who helped me see just how unserving it would be to jump on the gimmicky band wagon of the Goddess trend. Yes, that might be the easy options of attracting more women who are familiar with that work, but it wouldn't be serving them deeper into Truth and Love. It would be incongruent.
Because to embody the Goddess herself is the deepest of work, it is most certainly not something that can be done in 8 weeks, and it's certainly not something that can be done by dancing around in a pretty dress, wearing a rebellious armour, and avoiding being fully in our bodies, with fear and hypervigilance around taking aligned-action. I am not embodied in the ultimate Goddess, and my own Soul Guide (who I'd describe as the most embodied woman I know as a Goddess) is not even claiming to be - and so anyone that is teaching her can rarely be Truth.
I choose Truth, to embody what I teach. And so, if you feel the same fear that you've already embodied the Feminine, know that it's likely you've embodied a shadowy version of her, grounded in armour. And that the deep work on offer here, is that of lovingly illuminating *all* of the fear and shadow - of going into the darkness and liberating it - alchemising it, consciously, into love and truth. Into your unique expression of your Feminine soul.
This is the deep and healing work of integration so that you can relax, open, soften and become your unique expression of the Feminine, which often is missed in other paths. You can take off that armour and sink into yourself, courageously and vulnerably. And it's the work that will have you come to take aligned-action and make choices consciously from soul and love, rather than hypervigilence and fear.
And there will be embodiment, and there will be archetypal work, and there will be wildness and there may even be dressing up; but this isn't random or shallow. It is intentional, to guide you lovingly into some of the deepest, most healing work of your life, yet.
That of embodying Love, Truth and Soul.
Are you ready to go even deeper? We begin Invoke Your Feminine Mystery next Wednesday 22nd, so book your Alchemy call now to explore if the one remaining space is for you:
if you've any questions, send me an email.
Nicole x
