Man’s overabundance of hunger exists as a result of the vacuum of woman’s hunger, her identity. It will take waking up a woman’s awareness to begin to see the roots of real power, to see that she could change an entire system, not by attempting to get men to change, but by taking on her part of the bargain.
The most challenging step might be to name the elephant in the room. She is the one with the power. To date, it has simply been used passively. But it is always she who moves him, not the other way around. She holds the trump card.
Until she takes the mantle of that power, cultivates it, and expresses it, man will have no guidance. He will be left to build according to what he knows.
In other words, she has the power, but her unwillingness to claim it, and then engage in guiding men, creates a world where she is forever unhappy with the results.
To continue to absolve herself of her responsibility to guide, she contorts herself to ever-smaller conditions — making her body physically smaller, her identity more demure and spiritual, her emotions more “in range” and less sensitive, or turning her sexuality off or down, or saving it for a man.
She hooks her hopes and dreams onto a man, or onto the masculine value of success, rather than spending all that energy and focus on discovering and developing what a world on her terms would look like.
To reclaim her power, she must start where any spiritual journey begins—with the question, “Who am I?”