It is a powerful force when women come together to support, embrace, and inspire one another as we move through life’s cycles. When women circle up, especially in conjunction with the new moon, we collectively harness our ability to intuitively create our path forward from a place of clear intention.
Women’s circles are an ancient tradition that has survived the fluctuations of society’s pressures to quiet our voices. Thankfully, we are currently experiencing a feminine-rising movement that is fueling women everywhere as moon circles and women’s gatherings become a mainstream trend, regardless of one’s spiritual beliefs or personal practices.
We are finding our voice and becoming more outspoken, listening to one another’s stories with honest reflection, and experiencing a deep remembrance of where we came from. We are healing our broken bonds amidst a scrolling culture of reality TV that broadcasts a disheartening imbalance of the feminine – filled with comparison, competition, and gossip. Yet such traits are not inherently feminine. They were learned over time, as we shifted away from how our greatest grandmothers lived, into a more linear way of moving through the world.
Fortunately, the circle has reemerged.
The Empowering Benefits of Sitting in Circle
Women’s circles encourage the four C’s – community, communication, connection, and collaboration. As the bond of a circle deepens a feeling of equality and support is created, deeper healing is promoted, and our skills for manifestation are sharpened.
Gathering with women gives us the boost needed to return to our lives inspired and ready to start new, let go, keep going, accept change, shift perspectives, be seen, create more, slow down, or whatever it is that life may be asking of you.
Meeting in circle also teaches us how to sincerely feel and listen while dissolving any shame we may be carrying. Often times shame simply needs to be shared, or to hear itself in another’s story, so that we can be reminded, “I see you, I understand.” This honest reflection and acceptance is how we build confident beauty in its truest form.
No matter how intimate, sitting with women reminds us that it is safe to be vulnerable. It reminds us that we are linked, that there is power in receiving and giving support, that beauty lives in every shade of our being, and that our magic cannot be measured. This space allows us to be unapologetically ourselves through the tears and the laughter, while sharing our skills and our stories.
Moon circles also remind us that there is work to do, and that loving ourselves while reflecting that love back at the women who cross our path is a daily imperfect practice. When honored, this practice reaps huge rewards in all parts of our lives and on the planet.
Healing the Wounds Between Women
In both my work and personal life, I’ve experienced and have heard many women express how they struggle in their relationships with other women. Women can trigger women, heightening insecurity or competition. The reasons for this friction are endless. Yet it’s good to have an open discussion about it. Because simply put, imagine a world without it, where we are curious and inspired by her mystery and charm rather than comparing ourselves to it.
When women gather in circle with grounded openness, a container for healing and self-discovery is created. It gives us room to explore being free of habits and belief systems that drain our energy or convince us that we’re not good enough or that we’re ‘too much.’ This container can guide us to embrace our feminine nature – emotional, creative, reflective, and flowing – and can heal our relationship with ourselves and our relationships with other women by dissolving judgement as we recognize ourselves in one another.
Recently I heard an inner voice in my meditation say, “Be the woman you want to be received by.” For me, this means to be warm and welcoming with other women because I know how good it feels when women are that way with me. When we welcome one another in, meeting each other exactly where we are, it helps each one of us stand in our power. And a well-rounded woman in her power is the exact medicine our beloved planet needs right now to balance the scale between the feminine and masculine.
For many of us this is a practice – to reach out and to be received in this way. Some relationships may require more work or boundaries than others, yet holding this truth in the center of our hearts will soften the edges and create healing internally and globally.
Spinning off of the old quote “happy wife, happy life,” I’d like to reframe that into “happy woman, happy planet.”
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