Integrating Mind with Heart

Jul 19, 2020
This Venus in Gemini cycle gives us an opportunity to strengthen our ability to empathize with another's experience. Integrating Mind (Gemini) with Heart (Venus), we can use our imagination to understand another's experience through empathy, by putting ourselves in that experience and allowing our heart to open.
I am keenly aware of the importance of this particular Venus cycle as we are shifting ages during it. In our ancient story of Inanna, the power of empathy is what opens Ereshkigal's heart so she wants to give a gift. The magical beings who are empathizing ask for Inanna's body (currently dead and hanging on a hook) and restore her to life.
Last night on my feed was a post from a man sharing his experiences of being grabbed by women sexually at concerts and how icky this feels. (Check my timeline if you want to read it.) He used this experience to imagine a woman's experience being objectified and boundaries violated regularly. This opens his heart to believe women who share their stories of sexual mistreatment. In the light of the victim-blaming that I am seeing around recent stories of sexual misbehavior by powerful "spiritual" men in the artistic and astrological world, his post touched me.
We can do this with any kind of injustice, knowing we can never truly know what it's like to live day in and day out in another's experience, we can taste it and use that to increase our sensitivity towards that reality.
I continue to feel the connection between racial injustice and violence against women with women of color, and most especially indigenous women, being the most vulnerable to violence in this county. Humans who have been born into a brown or black body of a woman and through the challenges of that found their power and heart leadership have a particularly important perspective as we re-envision an equitable society.
Just as we all have unconscious conditioning around race, we all hold negativity towards women. When we turn and face the way we diminish the feminine, within and without, we connect with a great opportunity for healing.
I welcome your thoughts and feelings on the intersectionality of sex and race and how empathy can assist us to understand the experience of those in society that have been intentionally excluded from power.
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