Hi Rich,

Thank you for your reflections. You are most welcomed🙏.

What you have shared speaks to many dynamics in my life. Especially this

"Cultivating the masculine traits of rock solid clarity in who you are and a willingness to say things that might make people uncomfortable or lead to conflict can be quite scary (at least it has been for me in the past). But what is created from that way of being is totally worth it."

Yea, I totally agree. I had to confront certain people just because of a feeling of rightness in confronting which triggered many things in them. They stopped talking to me which made me feel like I did something wrong. Eventhough there is self doubt I could see the masculine traits coming alive. Am I ready to take responsibility of my own creations?. I would say I'm.

Thank you for pointing out the victimisation tendency in me. I can see it now. Yet, I would say, there was an yearning to make a statement - I'm not just that. You know, like the Kali. An ending statement to the idea of portraiting feminine in a particular way. But, it came distorted - here victimisation. I will look into it. 🙏

Your post is very synchronistic to an inquiry I was going through. Yesterday, during a contact improvisation workshop I could see that my left part of the body is very stiff and heavy and is not flowing in ease like/with the right part. After the exercise I started feeling pain in the left shoulder and hand. It felt like an activation of some karma. I think it also speaking to the dance of masculine and feminine. How it is getting blocked due to some karmic ties and other reasons possibly. I felt the need of conscious body movements and how it is helping to unravel those blockages. That's one best way to cultivate masculine traits, right?😊

Thank you

Soumya