centuries. Whether you are talking about the Virgin Mary or Quan Yin, the Divine Feminine is simply the feminine face of God—the mother and the Cierce protector. David: In my Namaste Publishing audiobook Lessons in Loving—A Journey into the Heart, which unpacks the spiritual meaning of Antoine de Saint-‐Exupery’s 1943 story of The Little Prince, I comment on a scene in which the little prince asks the pilot who has crashed in the Sahara Desert why roses have thorns. You recall that the rose is the little prince’s love of his life back on his own planet. We learn that the rose has thorns so she can be @ierce when she needs to be!
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Marianne: Unfortunately what Christianity did with that Cierceness was delegate it to sexual prowess—and unholy sexuality at that. For instance, the Virgin Mary is deemed perpetually a virgin, while Mary Magdalene is made to carry the projections of a sexually ambivalent patriarchy. So within the Christian tradition we are asked to see women as either holy or sexual.
In the Eastern traditions such as Egyptian philosophy, feminine holiness and feminine sexuality are intertwined and complementary. The reason this matters is that sexuality is an ecstatic energy, and there can be no Cierceness—such an essential feminine quality— without this. The edginess of the authentically feminine—the “I’m not kidding about this” of a truly feminine woman—is a signiCicant aspect of the Divine Feminine. Without this Cierceness, the woman is diminished in a lot of the ways—and I’m including the ways she’s referred to even in the higher consciousness conversation of today. Again, how can we talk about the Divine Feminine and ignore the fact that 17,000 children die of hunger every single day? To me this is outrageous. It’s a total denial of the Divine Feminine, no matter how much we use the words. David: In our culture, many females seem to want a man to lead. They want someone to look up to. From where you’ve now come in your understanding, how do you see this? Marianne: I believe there’s a dance between masculine and feminine. Not a game, but a dance out of which all things thrive. If I’m dancing with a man