Remembering the Feminine: Returning to Right Relation
Graphic & words by Therese Lowton
Across cultures and cosmologies, the feminine has always been known as a living intelligence—the force that gestates, weaves, remembers, and restores balance. She is not bound to gender, nor confined to symbol. She moves through land, body, lineage, light, and time, shaping life through rhythm, relationship, and deep listening.
In Tantric traditions, she is Shakti, the animating power of creation itself. In Mesoamerican cosmology, Teotl names the sacred, ever-moving energy through which form arises and dissolves. In Kabbalistic teachings, the Shekhinah is the indwelling presence of the Divine, dwelling within matter so that spirit may be known through lived experience. Celtic, Pagan, African, Persian, Nubian, Maya, and shamanic lineages all echo the same truth: life is sustained not by domination, but by right relationship—with the earth, with Creator, with one another, and with the unseen.
Within many Indigenous traditions, this way of living in right relation is known as the Beauty Way—a path of walking in harmony with all beings, where thought, word, action, and intention are aligned with balance. Beauty, in this sense, is not aesthetic alone; it is a state of coherence, where life flows without distortion or excess.
Across these traditions, the feminine was not an abstract philosophy. She was expressed through daily practice—how land was tended, how time was marked, how children were raised, how grief and celebration were held, and how community remained intact across generations. The Beauty Way was lived through care, reciprocity, and attention to the subtle threads that bind life together. The feminine teaches how to hold paradox, how to wait without stagnation, and how to act without force—how to move with life rather than against it.
The Time We Are In
We are living in a period long foretold across many wisdom traditions: a time of unraveling and rebalancing. Old structures—and inherited patterns rooted in separation, excess, and extraction—are loosening. What is emerging in their place is quieter, subtler, and more relational. This shift is not driven by force, but by attunement.
Astrologically, we are entering cycles that emphasize initiation guided by sensitivity, action informed by intuition, and leadership shaped by care. Momentum alone is no longer enough. Fire is being asked to listen to Water. Movement is being refined by wisdom. These skies echo what many prophetic lineages have spoken of: a return to harmony through humility, remembrance, and embodied awareness.
In this moment, the Beauty Way offers orientation. It asks not what can be achieved, but how we are walking—and whether our path restores balance or creates further fracture.
Blue Lotus and the Subtle Path
Within this remembering, Blue Lotus serves as a gentle yet profound ally. Long revered as a medicine of the heart and dreamtime, Blue Lotus works not by opening forcefully, but by softening perception. She quiets the nervous system, refines awareness, and invites us into a state of receptive listening—where beauty, truth, and clarity can be sensed rather than pursued.
Blue Lotus teaches the feminine art of subtle alignment. She moves through fragrance, dream, and devotion, reminding us that coherence is often restored through grace rather than effort. In times of acceleration and intensity, subtle medicine becomes essential for maintaining balance and right relation.
How We Walk the Beauty Way
To reconnect with the feminine is not to adopt a belief, but to change how we walk:
slowing the body so intuition can guide action
honoring cycles instead of forcing outcomes
tending what is already alive rather than chasing what is absent
offering gratitude to land, lineage, and life
These practices are simple, yet they cultivate discernment, patience, and inner coherence—allowing right action to arise naturally.
At Sesen Temple, the Beauty Way is lived through ceremony, ritual, silence, and presence. It is held in how we gather, how we move with the land, and how we listen for what is emerging rather than imposing what should be. Here, beauty is not decorative—it is relational, ethical, and alive.
The feminine is not returning—she was never gone. What is changing is our willingness to walk in beauty again, to release distortion, and to anchor harmony within ourselves and the living world. In this remembrance, we are invited into balance, coherence, and right relation—within our bodies, our communities, and the greater web that holds us.
