Part Two: Please refer to the May 30 blog post for Part One.
With all that, is it any surprise that women currently navigating the rushing rivers of menopause and all it’s secret tributaries, might have a few words, hand gestures and an emotion to express, or two or three? With social oppression the norm, the resulting self-suppression and a bit of research, it seems as though some of the more common emotional grounds are the very acceptable and masculine energies of anger, frustration and rage, except when it comes from a woman.
And here we are mostly in our 50′s, proving we are capable and powerfully outspoken, saying it like it is!
When women claim they are unmotivated, depressed, apathetic and feeling hopeless, underneath that is victim-related anger. Beneath that is deep sadness and grief. When women say they are worried, filled with apprehension and anxiety, this is often another manifestation of suppressed anger and aggressiveness. When women act out passive-aggressively, there is hidden rage at its roots. Even when women complain, judge, or act petulantly, they are often expressions born out of something long forgotten and buried deep inside the psyche. Suspicion is the mouth of what has been suppressed our whole lives and its vessel floats, adrift and moaning on the river of self doubt and fear.
Although these states of mind and being are shared by all humans, they seem more prevalent and visible within the demographics of menopausal aged women and they can be restrained no more. Like the suffragettes, we are driven by this cellular sense of imprisonment and yet we are actually the forerunners of change in our world right now, if only for the exposure of the common shadow and condition of humanity. With so many women living inside the symptomatic house of age-related projection, and whose spiritual charge, as they say, can light up a small city, we cannot dismiss the contribution middle aged women make to the evolution of our planet.
These are not just symptoms of physical menopause, or at the other end of the spectrum, a state of spiritual enlightenment. They are symptoms of growth, presence, change, transmutation, transformation, soul completion, attunement and healing. Menopause not only triggers deep changes in women, it evokes the gifts of humanity. If we can just breathe through this tiny sliver in eternity, embracing the full gamut of emotions, consciousness and compassion for ourselves, we can change the world, creating a planet filled with cooperation, love and respect for every facet of our human being-ness, and all that exists here.
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