DEFENDING—Apprenticeship to Love: Daily Meditation & Practice for the Sacred Masculine, April 2 Masculine defensiveness is a thing. It's how I respond to another thing, feminine testing, when I haven't learned to hold space for my own heart. So She tests. Because She wants to blossom, to nourish me with everything. But it's not safe for Her to blossom unless She is safe. And so She tests. And so I close into defensiveness, or I open into holding and defending this holy space of Her flourishing, Her flow, Her never-ending gift-giving. ... More at apprenticeshiptolove.com To join Melissa Bloxham and me as we talk about #femininetesting on April 20, please email me at [email protected]. TODAY'S INSPIRATIONS 🌀Melissa Bloxham's Instagram post on "feminine testing" is too long to quote here. A recommended read for men —and women— who struggle with these ideas of safety, testing, blossoming. 🌀The Conscious Warrior honours and protects the feminine, both in himself, in women and children, and in the world. (John Wineland, Precept 8) 🌀...even between the closest people infinite distances exist, a marvellous living side-by-side can grow up for them, if they succeed in loving the expanse between them, which gives them the possibility of always seeing each other as a whole and before an immense sky. (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) 🌀You're not like that now. (She Who Tests Me) TODAY'S SUGGESTED PRACTICE See apprenticeshiptolove.com for a short practice to hold space for your own feminine, that you may hold and defend Her blossoming in your dance with this life. #apprenticeshiptolove #femininetesting #authenticrelationships #pathofthesacredmasculine #husbandman https://www.instagram.com/p/Cb2162KJItr/?utm_medium=tumblr
