(Originally a Facebook post - hence the emojis)
WAR IS FEMININE 🔥🌊
The Warrior is a masculine archetype. But war is feminine.
The chaos (feminine) of war is created when warriors battle each other. But what each side is ultimately trying to achieve the restoration of order (masculine).
The warrior’s job isn’t to create chaos necessarily, but to end it (albeit by fighting other warriors... which makes war 🤷♂️).
As those of us familiar with the work of David Deida will know, the masculine part of us seeks to overcome obstacles, cut through confusion and restore order so much that if we are truly masculine in our centre, then in the absence of an external source, we are likely to create or seek-out our own chaos just so we can bring order to it!
And so while it’s entirely possible that the dragon of war 🐉 of is given birth to by the same part of us that wants to slay dragons, it’s important to remember...
With all things being ‘pure’, the Warrior is summoned to bring an *end* to bad shit.
The sword cuts through chaos (clarity) and the shield blocks it (boundaries).
You, we, are warriors AND we are war 👹
And you do want to have both. You just don’t want either of them to get out of hand.
Warrior codes such as chivalry of the ancient knights, Bushido observed by the samurai, and ‘CDRILS’ taught in the British Army today, are there largely to prevent warriors becoming intoxicated with the feminine chaos of war. To prevent them using their skills outside of context, turning on the innocent, and to stop fueling the fire of chaos when they are supposed to be extinguishing it 😧
Because so many warriors in the past have failed to do this, because they have CREATED so much chaos, the emotional imprint we carry collectively of the warrior is a negative one.
And so we repress this part of ourselves.
And we have forgotten... that we need the warrior (within and outside of us) to bring an end to chaos (within us and outside of us).
📸 by Niel Krug
