Flow
The Feminine Polarity
Are we both polarities? By intelligent design, yes. By lived experience, not quite. Our experience often tells a different story. At the heart of this balance lies flow—the essence of the feminine polarity.
To visualise, consider some archetypal examples of flow.
Continuous? Feminine polarity.
Ocean? Feminine polarity.
Waves? Feminine polarity.
Moon? Feminine polarity.
Eggs? Feminine polarity. (Just in case anyone is confused about eggs.)
Receptivity? Feminine polarity.
Generosity? Feminine polarity.
Chaos? Feminine polarity. (Science, not suppression.)
Listening? Feminine polarity. (Why? See receptivity above.)
Willpower? Feminine polarity.
Mystery? Feminine polarity.
Abundance? Feminine polarity.
Should we all integrate both polarities? Certainly not to dilute our individuality or beautiful selves, nor to become "more male" or "more female." But, until we begin to raise, respect, and reframe the fear humans feel and become a world that honours the wholeness of both archetypes – we will continue to build a distorted world.
We are living, in real time, the consequences of imbalanced programming and toxic distortion fields created by systems of patriarchy, colonialism, and capitalism – each of which extracts identity and, by design, suppresses, controls, and violates the feminine polarity. Here, we’re discussing an energy, not a gender.
There is nothing in nature devoid of the delicate, humbling, and often majestic expressions of how the two archetypes weave together to create. However, the last 2,000 years of control-obsessed, fear-driven, violence-excusing, feminine-erasing, and masculine-diminishing control structures have been a system design intent on harm.
Artificial & Synthetic
So, you do not want to be mistaken. The synthetic, artificial, and unnatural system-design brainwashing has existed for quite some time.
This present moment – this wave of AI technology advancement – is not its beginning. Rather, it is the clarion call for a healthier, more balanced, and emotionally embodied humanity.
The demand for evolution is not a "nice to have," not some luxury the systems intent on harm might want you to believe. The balancing contains essential ingredients for a more expansive and elevated future.
Why?
Because we now have access to the consciousness needed to stop perpetuating the harm – so it is time. We are called to be brave. To lead from the freedom to say "it" out loud. To discuss openly. To co-create healthy, balanced, and progressed modern systems.
In the workplace.
In your leadership.
From your heart.
With a backbone.
Actions, not words.
Realness, not performance.
Truth, not masks.
Embodiment. Not bra-burning or cosplaying.
Not as programs, trainings, brand exercises, and phony culture wokeness. As principled ways of being. As the highest expectations and expressions of leading. Of dignity, respect, and integrity.
For the kids.
Complexity
I do not want to hear too much talk about complexity right now. I'm so tired of it.
Unless people are demonstrating the level of commitment and depth of work demanded when truly pulling the levers of complexity as leaders – which has everything to do with flow, and therefore with the feminine polarity – it's merely more nonsense.
Stepping into vulnerability is complex.
Seeing difference without fear and with love is complex.
Understanding your own divinity and worth is complex.
Living through the eyes that everyone is sovereign is complex.
Unless you are willing to serve and suture the collective wounding, you aren't working with complexity.
If you are not actively contributing to healing in every micro moment, you aren't working with complexity.
If you aren't willing to confront the systemic distortions as an instrument of change, you aren't working with complexity.
Unless you are breaking the antique and modern systems that ask or allow humans to willfully operate inside tiny boxes, you are not working with complexity.
All you are doing in these cases is working to perpetuate ignorance – and further programming that undesired future.
Multipliers
The feminine polarity is also the multiplier. The multiplier effect stems from flow, which as we’re discussing here is feminine. Women are biological multipliers. (Just in case this biological power escapes you.)
Power – specifically the multiplier effect – lies in the feminine polarity. Structure (not the same as control) lies in the masculine polarity. Polarity, not gender. Hooking into flow is what fuels the multiplier. And, flow without the right constraints leads to issues of direction and coherence. Prematurely imposing structure – without first seeing, understanding, and learning to move flow – blocks vital energy and stifles creative potential while also choking innovation at its source.
When you've experienced the magic of flow, you understand it can stand on the head of a pin – a divine balancing act, a tender orchestration of seeding and sowing, often a momentary glimpse.
Art and music give this magic to us most frequently. It is why freedom and the arts have such an important association.
When we build system designs intended to be – and behave – in more evolutionary ways, we design for the multiplier effect. We architect to catch flow, not to control.
We bring in more art: the science of intuition and iteration; pattern and possibility; risk and rigor.
Transcending
We do not design for structure when our aim is to create the magic of flow. As designers, we learn to optimise for one or the other. As leaders, we steer systems away from the dangerous precipices of control-based actions and interferences. As practitioners, our learning trajectory is to seed, harness, and move system energy into the multiplier effect.
Mastery comes through the convergence of
deep cognitive learning across disciplines,
applied, ongoing practice,
somatic understanding,
and a layered, dimensional toolkit of instruments.
Yet true mastery is found in the willingness to discard the antique and modern systems built and conditioned for control, harm, and mediocrity – systems meant to block and interfere with flow, systems blind to their own misogyny, arrogance, and ego. These are the systems that put this future –and AI adoption – at its greatest risk.
Transcending what has been and what currently is is the call. Push yourselves to develop beyond your current skills, your current capacities – and your deep attachments to your imbalanced worldviews and outdated mental models.
It's a system design we're elevating and an energy we're expanding, not a word or gender battle. Remember this.