There’s a shift happening—and it’s not about one energy rising above another, but about restoring a much-needed balance. For centuries, feminine energy has been pushed aside, buried under systems built on control, hierarchy, and suppression. But now, a quiet rebellion is turning into a powerful awakening.
This isn’t a war of the sexes. It’s a remembrance. A return to qualities long undervalued—intuition, emotional wisdom, collaboration, and connection to nature. It’s a call to reawaken the feminine in all of us and create a world where both masculine and feminine energies dance together in harmony.
But to understand where we’re going, we must first look at where we’ve been.
What Is Feminine Energy, Really?
Feminine energy is not about gender. It’s a way of being—an energy that flows through everyone, regardless of sex or identity. It is about becoming aware on how we flow between both energies, as and when we need them. It’s soft but strong. Quiet but fierce. Often overlooked because it doesn’t shout the loudest, feminine energy is rooted in presence, in care, in connection.
It’s the deep knowing that comes from intuition. The creativity that births ideas, art, and solutions. The nurturing that sustains life, communities, and healing. Feminine energy listens before it speaks. It receives without needing to control. It weaves webs of relationship and trust. And while masculine energy thrives on direction and action (also essential), without the feminine, we lose balance, rhythm, and wholeness.
When we suppress the feminine, we disconnect from the heartbeat of life itself.
The Long Shadow of Suppression
History has not been kind to the feminine. For thousands of years, many societies have exalted masculine values—logic, control, dominance—while pushing the feminine into the shadows. What once was sacred became shameful.
In ancient times, many cultures worshipped feminine deities: Isis, Inanna, Gaia, Artemis. Women were priestesses, oracles, healers, and leaders. The feminine was honoured in temples, in nature, in the cycles of the moon and life. But as patriarchal systems gained power, these roles were stripped away. Goddesses were replaced by male gods. Wisdom traditions were dismantled. And women—carriers of feminine energy—were silenced, feared, and controlled.
Goddesses from various religions across both Eastern and Western cultures embodied essential strengths in society—fertility of the earth and people, healing, unconditional love, creativity, intuition, and wisdom. They represented a fierce and independent energy then, and they still do.
In more recent centuries, the suppression took on legal and economic forms:
Women were denied education and barred from voting.
They couldn’t own land or inherit property.
Until the 1970s in many countries, women needed a husband’s permission to open a bank account or apply for a loan.
Spiritual gifts like intuition were ridiculed or labeled as “witchcraft.” And I think many are familiar to what happened to some “witches” in certain parts of the world.
One of the most well-known examples is the Salem witch trials. Spiritual gifts like intuition, healing, and connection to nature were often ridiculed or condemned as “witchcraft.” Many women—often those who lived independently or displayed wisdom beyond their time—were persecuted, silenced, or killed. It’s a sobering reminder of how deeply society has feared feminine power.
This wasn’t just about excluding women. It was about suppressing an entire way of being—a way that prioritises connection over conquest, community over competition.
The Cost to Society
When feminine energy is diminished, we all suffer. Societies built on pure productivity and progress at all costs become disconnected—from emotion, from nature, from soul.
We see it in:
Burnout epidemics, where endless doing leaves no space for rest and reflection.
Environmental collapse, as domination over nature replaces harmony with it.
Loneliness and division, in a world obsessed with individual success rather than collective wellbeing.
And this isn’t just a “women’s issue.” Men, too, are wounded by this imbalance. They are often taught to suppress their emotions, reject vulnerability, and always “be strong.” This robs them of their full humanity and contributes to rising rates of depression, anxiety, and isolation.
We’ve tried living in extremes. The pendulum has swung hard toward domination, disconnection, and doing. But now, it’s slowly swinging back—toward balance, toward wholeness.
The Return of the Feminine
We are witnessing a quiet revolution.
It’s in the rise of conscious leadership that values empathy. In the celebration of emotional intelligence in schools and workplaces. In the revival of sacred feminine traditions, goddess circles, and nature-based spirituality. In the conversations about trauma, healing, and self-worth that ripple through social media and modern psychology.
Movements like feminism, ecological activism, and the return to slower living aren’t just social trends—they are signs of the feminine returning. And they’re not here to erase the masculine. They’re here to meet it. To walk alongside it. To bring balance to the chaos.
Why Balance Matters
When we honour both the feminine and masculine within ourselves and society, something beautiful happens:
We become more whole. No longer forced into rigid roles, we can lead with both strength and softness, action and awareness.
Our systems evolve. From schools to businesses to governments, when empathy and collaboration are prioritised alongside innovation and logic, more sustainable and inclusive outcomes follow.
How do we flow between the feminine and masculine energy? We are tapping into our feminine energy when we lead with intuition, create from emotion, hold space for others, nurture yourself through rest, or foster connection within a group. And we flow into the masculine when we bring structure and strategy, make clear decisions, set boundaries, take bold action, and lead with focus and purpose.
The planet benefits. Feminine energy calls us back to our connection with the Earth—leading to more conscious consumption, regeneration, and respect for the natural world.
From Suppression to Celebration
It’s not about flipping the power structure. It’s not about making the feminine dominant. It’s about weaving both energies into every part of life—within us, between us, and around us.
Because the truth is, we need both.
The world doesn’t need more dominance. It needs more dance. A dance between the grounded action of the masculine and the fluid wisdom of the feminine.
A Gentle Call to Reflect
As we navigate this shift, we’re invited to pause and ask:
Where in my life have I suppressed the feminine within myself—my rest, my intuition, my creativity?
How can I honour both doing and being, giving and receiving?
What kind of world do we want to co-create—one built on domination, or one that values balance, flow, and harmony?
“For a long time, I didn’t have the words for what was missing—but I could feel it. A kind of disconnection, a deep exhaustion from always pushing, doing, and holding it all together. What I’ve come to realise is that what was missing wasn’t strength—it was softness. Not productivity, but presence. This blog isn’t just about feminine energy in theory. It’s about my own slow return to balance—where intuition, creativity, and rest are no longer luxuries, but essential parts of being whole.”
Let this not be the rise of one energy over another, but a return to wholeness.
Whispers of the Goddesses
Throughout history, many goddesses across cultures have embodied aspects of the divine feminine:
Isis (Egyptian) – Goddess of magic, motherhood, and healing
Saraswati (Hindu) – Goddess of wisdom, music, and creativity
Brigid (Celtic) – Goddess of healing, poetry, and the hearth
Freyja (Norse) – Goddess of love, fertility, and battle
Kuan Yin (Chinese) – Goddess of compassion and mercy
Aphrodite (Greek) – Goddess of love, beauty, and sensuality
Demeter (Greek) – Goddess of agriculture and fertility
Durga (Hindu) – Warrior goddess of strength and protection
Hathor (Egyptian) – Goddess of joy, dance, and motherhood
Amaterasu (Japanese) – Sun goddess, representing light and life
Each goddess symbolises a thread in the tapestry of feminine energy—intuition, strength, nurture, wisdom, and deep inner power.