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During the axial age, 800 to 200 BCE, there was a major shift in philosophy across the world. This shift brought to life the more modern religions and figures, such as Jesus Christ, the Buddha, and Confucious. Before this shift, the celebrated philosophies of the world revolved around the Profane Masculine: the idea of conquering, destroying, taking what is not yours, because you can. In this age, the strongest meant muscle.

After the shift, however, philosophy favored Divine over Profane: the idea that there is a world outside of yourself, that to abandon the body and caring for others was holy. It's important to remember that Profane and Divine are not opposites, but instead they are polar to each other, like a magnet. Up until this point, this information has been from the perspective of a man: notice how the only figures from the axial age mentioned were men. Did you notice of question this? Where did these men get these ideas that there is a world outside of conquering and taking? Their wives, daughters, friends, mothers. Women.

Women, instinctively, are more caring and empathetic than men. For a man to become Divine from Profane, he must forget himself. But for a woman to become Divine, she must find herself. This becomes tricky when a figure like Jesus or the Buddha teaches women to abandon their body to become holy. This can have the opposite effect, creating a Profane woman from a Divine woman.

To get a better understanding of this, let's discuss what the Profane woman looks like. A profane woman is one who gives and gives, and does not know how to stop giving to keep herself grounded. Often we see an imbalance of Profanity between women and men in abusive relationships, when the woman does not stop giving, and the man does not stop taking.

We often forget that we were trusted with a body to keep sacred before we are given children, friends, pets, and others to take care of. Women should always put themselves first, to battle the patriarchal assumption that as a woman, you are to give all you can. Take time for yourself, remember that you are sacred and Divine, and tap into that, for yourself and for those around you.

Outside of a bodily, mortal sense, the Divine feminine is abstract, vague, and generally outside of human conception. Historially, metaphysical concepts are explained through metaphor; the Divine feminine commonly being explained through triple-faced Deities, such as the Maiden, the Mother and the Crone. (Some also include the Magga, in between the Mother and the Crone, to better perceive feminine cycles.) If you have not heard of the Maiden, the Mother, (the Magga) and the Crone, it essentially splits up the life of a woman into distinctive parts as you grow older, representing ideas such as development, maternity, and wisdom.