Sarah Jenks
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Are You Living in Alignment with Your Feminine Energy? - with Sarah Jenks | EP 73
As women, we have been trained to always be judging ourselves off of the other people in the room, in the community, in our family. Historically, this is what has kept us safe because if we did rock the boat, we didn't have rights to protect our livelihood.
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Are You Living in Alignment with Your Feminine Energy? - with Sarah Jenks | EP 73
Yeah. So one story I love talking about is back when we were hunter gatherers, we know this from archaeologists looking at cave drawings where the female shamans of the community would go into deep meditation and the goddess would tell them where the animals were. And they would talk to the animals. They would attune to the animals.
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Are You Living in Alignment with Your Feminine Energy? - with Sarah Jenks | EP 73
They do a ceremony for the animals and they would send out the hunters and the hunters would know exactly where the herds were. And then of course they would only take what they needed. They would, you know, kill the animals in ceremony. And I just love this team of like divine direction with embodied action and out in the world in order to create thriving for communities.
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Are You Living in Alignment with Your Feminine Energy? - with Sarah Jenks | EP 73
Totally. And the other thing that I really love talking about is, you know, when priestesses would run a temple. So in some societies, mostly in Europe, like if you look at the Temple of Avalon, which is current day Glastonbury, England, a lot of what is said and remembered about this time is that there was a circle of priestesses that held the temple and they sat in a circle as equals.
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Are You Living in Alignment with Your Feminine Energy? - with Sarah Jenks | EP 73
And they would come into deep meditation, deep relationship with the goddess to really understand what was best for the community. And so we actually orient our team this way in my company because the way it used to be was like I was, you know, normal team is like a triangle. Hierarchical. A hierarchical where the CEO is at the top and everybody else supports the CEO. Right.
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Are You Living in Alignment with Your Feminine Energy? - with Sarah Jenks | EP 73
But now how we orient is the mission is at the center of the circle. And we all sit on our pillars around the mission. And we each have a different responsibility in order to support the mission. And I trust the members on my team to really hold their pillar of expertise and know better than me about what's needed for our mission.
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Are You Living in Alignment with Your Feminine Energy? - with Sarah Jenks | EP 73
It's such a joy.
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Are You Living in Alignment with Your Feminine Energy? - with Sarah Jenks | EP 73
So this was such an interesting process for me because I was really a diehard feminist for so long and super independent, very much independent.
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Are You Living in Alignment with Your Feminine Energy? - with Sarah Jenks | EP 73
in equality with my husband and then i had a baby and all of a sudden i was like cleaning the house all day and wanting to put dinner on the table at night and feeling all of this pressure to be the perfect mother and to not have the baby crying when jonathan came home from work and also i was the primary breadwinner also during this time
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Are You Living in Alignment with Your Feminine Energy? - with Sarah Jenks | EP 73
So I knew that it wasn't some sort of like, I was taking more responsibility for the home and, you know, he was being the primary breadwinner. It was, I was in a situation where I could take that out of the mix. And I just remember looking at myself thinking, well, what am I doing? Why do I feel this way? I have spent my whole adult life being pretty outspoken and pretty independent.
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Are You Living in Alignment with Your Feminine Energy? - with Sarah Jenks | EP 73
Why am I all of a sudden acting like a 1950s housewife? It was wild. And then I started really getting into the study of internalized And I think something, it happens for people at all different phases. When I look back, I can definitely see how when I was a teenager and growing up that I felt a ton of pressure to fit in.
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Are You Living in Alignment with Your Feminine Energy? - with Sarah Jenks | EP 73
that I felt a ton of pressure to make my parents proud, that I felt a ton of pressure to really follow the traditional path of success, to follow the path that was laid out for me by my family, to fall in line with the people that I went to college with. And this is a really clear way to know if you have internalized patriarchy is, I mean, we all do. And it comes up in like so many different ways.
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Are You Living in Alignment with Your Feminine Energy? - with Sarah Jenks | EP 73
Yeah. So most of us, if we grew up with any sort of organized religion, we know the sacred masculine really well. And some of us know the toxic masculine pretty well also. And I was raised in the Christian faith. I come from a very traditional New England background. preppy family.
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Are You Living in Alignment with Your Feminine Energy? - with Sarah Jenks | EP 73
But I think the first question to ask is, am I walking my path or am I walking somebody else's path? Am I primarily concerned with how people see me? Am I always thinking about or worried about others? making someone mad? Am I constantly trying to avoid upsetting my male partner? Am I constantly worried about outshining my friends?
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Are You Living in Alignment with Your Feminine Energy? - with Sarah Jenks | EP 73
Am I worried about being too big or being too loud or being too visible? Am I worried that people are going to think that I'm weird for being spiritual? So anytime we are judging ourselves off of what other people are going to think of us in a negative way, it is almost always grounded in internalized patriarchy.
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Are You Living in Alignment with Your Feminine Energy? - with Sarah Jenks | EP 73
Yes. So as women, we have been trained to always be judging ourselves off of the other people in the room, in the community, in our family. And historically, this is what has kept us safe. Because if we did rock the boat, we didn't have rights to protect our livelihood.
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Are You Living in Alignment with Your Feminine Energy? - with Sarah Jenks | EP 73
And so it's very normal to be afraid of outshining someone or making somebody mad because we just got the right to have our own credit card. And like, was it 1974? And so if we did rock the boat, we could be kicked out of our marriage and not have any rights to be able to support ourselves.
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Are You Living in Alignment with Your Feminine Energy? - with Sarah Jenks | EP 73
So it's important to understand that if we have this feeling like we're going to die, that is epigenetics and can be stored in our genes. And when we do sacred work, which is so cool, it actually reprograms our genetic makeup to see ourselves differently.
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Are You Living in Alignment with Your Feminine Energy? - with Sarah Jenks | EP 73
And there are things that we can do somatically with our body that we have evolved to use as humans, like drumming, like singing, like sitting in circle. Like being in certain energetic frequencies that help us to remember the truth of our safety as opposed to being always attuned to like our remembered fear of being unsafe.
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Are You Living in Alignment with Your Feminine Energy? - with Sarah Jenks | EP 73
The core is the safety. And the thing that I always try to tell women is to remember that you aren't dying. You're just uncomfortable. And cause we can really feel like we're going to die.
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Are You Living in Alignment with Your Feminine Energy? - with Sarah Jenks | EP 73
And what happened for me was I got really interested in spirituality, but it was like Eastern spirituality, transcendental meditation. It still didn't feel feminine, but I didn't even know to look for it really. And what happened for me was I actually was going to therapy and I stumbled into my therapist's living room and she had forgotten to clean up from a ceremony the night before.
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Are You Living in Alignment with Your Feminine Energy? - with Sarah Jenks | EP 73
If we tell our group of friends that we're going to go to a ceremony or that we're quitting our job, or we tell our parents that actually I'm not going to walk this path that I thought I was going to, that you also walked, I'm going to take my own path and we can feel like we're going to die, but we're actually just uncomfortable.
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Are You Living in Alignment with Your Feminine Energy? - with Sarah Jenks | EP 73
So the piece that I think is important in what I teach women to do is that instead of judging ourselves based on the people around us, we actually come into ceremony. We learn who our soul is and we get information around the fullest expression of our soul. And we begin to judge ourselves based off of our potential. based off of what it feels like to be in our fullest expression.
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Are You Living in Alignment with Your Feminine Energy? - with Sarah Jenks | EP 73
It's very normal to be afraid of outshining someone or making somebody mad because we just got the right to have our own credit card in like, what was it, 1974? If we did rock the boat, we could be kicked out of our marriage and not have any rights to be able to support ourselves. The first question to ask is, am I walking my path or am I walking somebody else's path?
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Are You Living in Alignment with Your Feminine Energy? - with Sarah Jenks | EP 73
And we can then see, oh, like I am a very specific puzzle piece on this planet right now. And so how can I be the most me, the most unique puzzle piece? And when we do that, when we're trying to come when we come into our center, into our soul, we then realize that everybody has a role and that there isn't competition.
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Are You Living in Alignment with Your Feminine Energy? - with Sarah Jenks | EP 73
And then we can create situations where, and groups of friends and communities and family systems where our differences are celebrated instead of having safety be grounded in sameness.
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Are You Living in Alignment with Your Feminine Energy? - with Sarah Jenks | EP 73
Yeah.
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Are You Living in Alignment with Your Feminine Energy? - with Sarah Jenks | EP 73
Well, we don't have a ton of examples on the planet right now. But the thing that I always like to look to nature to really understand how we can set up society and culture. And the indigenous cultures that are alive and well, like if you go deep into the Amazon, there are matriarchal societies.
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Are You Living in Alignment with Your Feminine Energy? - with Sarah Jenks | EP 73
And I think it really touches on what you just said, which is when we all tap in to our own authentic power, it is clear what our role is in the community. And just like if you go to a forest, the trees have a role, the mushrooms have a role, the bees have a role, the flowers have a role, the pollen has a role, the bugs have a role. And everyone works together in order to create an ecosystem.
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Are You Living in Alignment with Your Feminine Energy? - with Sarah Jenks | EP 73
And the flower's not better than the tree. The flower's not better than the tree. That's not better than the mushrooms. It's not better than the bugs. It's an ecosystem. And so I think if we can just start with our families, start with your partner, start with your friends, start in your workplace. and really try to get to know people. What makes people different? What makes people interesting?
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Are You Living in Alignment with Your Feminine Energy? - with Sarah Jenks | EP 73
What's their special blueprint, special talent? It's usually the thing that people are hiding. It's And so when you get in there and you find that special sauce and you celebrate it and you amplify it, I really believe that you can create systems of care that are much more sustainable and in service to all thriving.
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Are You Living in Alignment with Your Feminine Energy? - with Sarah Jenks | EP 73
And I had this full body cramp. I erupted in goosebumps all over my body. I started to cry. And she just looked at me like, what is happening to her? Because I'm in a polo shirt and pearls and patent leather pumps. You know, I'm in like full normie mode at this point in my life. And I just looked at her and I said, what's happening here? And she said, well, I'll tell you when you're ready.
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Are You Living in Alignment with Your Feminine Energy? - with Sarah Jenks | EP 73
And when I say matriarchy, what I really am talking about is not women being in charge, right? But not this system of an ecosystem of non hierarchical community building. It's a circle.
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Are You Living in Alignment with Your Feminine Energy? - with Sarah Jenks | EP 73
Yeah, so we've been working on this a lot this year. And the thing that we've been doing the most is really working on women's inner masculine. And because I think that we can exercise sort of toxic masculine traits as women where we're just like we're pushing really hard and we're hustling. But that's different than connecting with your inner protector, right?
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Are You Living in Alignment with Your Feminine Energy? - with Sarah Jenks | EP 73
And so I've been really asking women to, in ceremony, to close their eyes and to find the part in them that is their protector, that will stand up for themselves, for their inner warrior. And then who is the part of them that feels clear and
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Are You Living in Alignment with Your Feminine Energy? - with Sarah Jenks | EP 73
about the direction that they're going in, and isn't afraid to tell people, I'm busy because I have something that I'm working on, that isn't afraid to put ourselves first and to hold a boundary for who we are. Because I think that we outsource that really often to the men in our lives. And And then we bring in the sacred feminine. What is the part of you that wants to create something?
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Are You Living in Alignment with Your Feminine Energy? - with Sarah Jenks | EP 73
What's the part of you that's connected to the divine? And how can we bring your inner protector and your inner creator into a partnership with each other right in here? And this has been such an important thing for me because I realized that there were so many things that I just wanted Jonathan to do for me. And that I was outsourcing the creation of a lot of my dreams.
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Are You Living in Alignment with Your Feminine Energy? - with Sarah Jenks | EP 73
And I had to really sit with myself and say, if these are my dreams, I have to know how to bring them into fruition by myself. I have to be willing to do that. And when I did, you know, of course, he joined me with his own medicine and magic and I I couldn't just be the one to have the vision and then say, go for it, dude. You know what I mean?
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Are You Living in Alignment with Your Feminine Energy? - with Sarah Jenks | EP 73
And when I did that, I realized that there were so many, I'm the one who knows myself at the end of the day. There are so many more boundaries I had to have with my time inside of work and with my friends and with my family and with my husband. that I am the one who had to protect my time and what I knew was important.
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Are You Living in Alignment with Your Feminine Energy? - with Sarah Jenks | EP 73
And then follow through with the things that I said I was going to do for myself. And that's how we really build trust with other people is first learning how to build trust with ourselves. And I find that doing that Inner masculine, inner feminine partnership work within us is the place to start.
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Are You Living in Alignment with Your Feminine Energy? - with Sarah Jenks | EP 73
And I think the thing that I really use, I think we all have a physical tell, right? When we are meant to be in allowing or we are in this invitation to be a sacred warrior, I am always in this dance of like, am I meant to really go for it right now or am I meant to have it just arrive? Yeah. And for me, I'm touching my throat because –
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Are You Living in Alignment with Your Feminine Energy? - with Sarah Jenks | EP 73
And I was like, I want in on the secret club big time.
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Are You Living in Alignment with Your Feminine Energy? - with Sarah Jenks | EP 73
When I'm pushing too hard and I'm not supposed to, I get anxiety in my throat and I start to have fantasies of being liked by other people. I know. It's because like that's my core wound. Like we all have a core wound. Mine is I want to be liked in order to be safe. So whatever our thing is, is like, I want people to see me as smart. I want people to love me.
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Are You Living in Alignment with Your Feminine Energy? - with Sarah Jenks | EP 73
I want people to think that I'm funny. I want people to think that I care about them. Like my whole thing is like, I want to be liked. And so when I'm like unconsciously fantasizing that the thing that I'm going after means I'm going to be more liked by other people, I know I'm on the wrong path.
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Are You Living in Alignment with Your Feminine Energy? - with Sarah Jenks | EP 73
And I just remember having this experience of this energy of a mother figure that I couldn't see, but I could feel in the room. And I had this experience of, oh. This is what God is supposed to feel like. This is what I want to feel when I connect with the sacred. This is what I've been looking for on my quest in personal development and in meditation and going to workshops.
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Are You Living in Alignment with Your Feminine Energy? - with Sarah Jenks | EP 73
And I think the important piece around that is that to me, the divine is super real. The goddess is my best friend. She is my lover. She is my mother. She is really... Number one in my life. And she talks to me because I take a lot of space to listen and to ask her questions. And it's something that we can all develop a relationship with and have a direct experience of.
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Are You Living in Alignment with Your Feminine Energy? - with Sarah Jenks | EP 73
Like I was just walking down the street an hour ago. And I was just thinking about this next chapter and this next year and how I want to show up differently. And it hasn't been super clear to me. I have some blank spaces and I was feeling sort of frustrated with myself. And all of a sudden I looked up and I realized I was walking on Rose Avenue, which I didn't think much of.
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Are You Living in Alignment with Your Feminine Energy? - with Sarah Jenks | EP 73
And then I just turned back towards the sidewalk and And there's a woman wearing a sweatshirt that just said Avalon, which is where I got ordained, which is where one of the last standing priestess temples were and the lineage that I'm a part of, they believe was originated in Avalon.
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Are You Living in Alignment with Your Feminine Energy? - with Sarah Jenks | EP 73
And then like one block later, there was a fence with a triple goddess, you know, with like the crescent moon and the full moon, the other crescent moon, which is the sign of the goddess and then a solar cross, which is the sign of the priestess. And I was like, hi. Yeah. Thank you for just saying, I'm here. You know, magic is really real.
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Are You Living in Alignment with Your Feminine Energy? - with Sarah Jenks | EP 73
And I know for me, as someone who always looked outside of myself for validation to instead of trusting my inner knowing, for me connecting with the divine and then having the divine speak to me in symbols, in signs, in knowings, in my head, in visions has been so important for me cultivating trust. Yeah.
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Are You Living in Alignment with Your Feminine Energy? - with Sarah Jenks | EP 73
Yeah. And just with your eyes up, not on your phone, you know, just like, you know, you just have to be waiting for it.
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Are You Living in Alignment with Your Feminine Energy? - with Sarah Jenks | EP 73
Yeah.
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Are You Living in Alignment with Your Feminine Energy? - with Sarah Jenks | EP 73
So I have like a tiered system in my life. So I do a sacred start every morning. And that is just a simple like drop in pulling cards, imagining my perfect day. And I will, and then I also talk to trees. So I will sit with my trees almost every day outside, outside in the grass, even when it's freezing. Cause you know, I live outside of Boston. It's like a lot. And so I talked to the land and,
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Are You Living in Alignment with Your Feminine Energy? - with Sarah Jenks | EP 73
And I also have a practice of emptying out. So like really feeling other people's energy that is maybe stuck in my body, the things that I'm worried about, the things I've just like picked up throughout my life, just really feeling it all empty out, being an empty vessel and then asking the goddesses or anything you want to tell me. And so I'm really doing those sort of touch points all day.
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Are You Living in Alignment with Your Feminine Energy? - with Sarah Jenks | EP 73
You know, I'm a professional priestess. So that's maybe like more than most people need to do. But this is my job. Just like if a lawyer is going over paperwork all day, it is my job to talk to the trees. And so that's my daily practice. And then I do a new moon ceremony every new moon with my community. So that's like a 90-minute ceremony that we do.
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Are You Living in Alignment with Your Feminine Energy? - with Sarah Jenks | EP 73
And then I believe in having larger, you know, three day, week long ceremonial touch points like once or twice a year, because that way we can have like the deepest experience. And then when we're in our sacred start in the morning, we can draw on that. We can remember. We have a somatic remembrance of what it feels.
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Are You Living in Alignment with Your Feminine Energy? - with Sarah Jenks | EP 73
It feels like to be our soul instead of just our normal human self because it feels different. It's a different vibration when we're leading with our soul self than when we're leading with our human self.
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Are You Living in Alignment with Your Feminine Energy? - with Sarah Jenks | EP 73
And people have to like find their medicine. You gotta try different things on. You gotta try different things.
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Are You Living in Alignment with Your Feminine Energy? - with Sarah Jenks | EP 73
And what was so cool for me is like when I discovered my lineage was the 13 moon lineage, when we do ceremonies together, you know, we are like all dressed up in the same color. The altars are really beautiful. There's like crystals and flowers everywhere. It's deeply cathartic and really magical. And you see shit, you know, and you feel like you're on a spaceship to another realm.
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Are You Living in Alignment with Your Feminine Energy? - with Sarah Jenks | EP 73
And it's very active and very beautiful. And it's done in community. And so for me, I was like, yes. This is exactly what I need. It's just like so juicy and parts are fun and parts are really hard.
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Are You Living in Alignment with Your Feminine Energy? - with Sarah Jenks | EP 73
I found it in this sacred feminine ceremony. And I wanted to really understand why wasn't everyone doing this? And why did I all of a sudden feel like I couldn't tell anybody what I was doing? So if we think about the sacred masculine, like from a traditional Christian perspective, we have been taught that he's a father God in the sky. And we all have men in our lives.
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Are You Living in Alignment with Your Feminine Energy? - with Sarah Jenks | EP 73
Yeah.
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Are You Living in Alignment with Your Feminine Energy? - with Sarah Jenks | EP 73
So the way I define the goddess is all that is. It is the great unknown, what many of us grew up calling God. I just see her as a woman. I also commune with God as like a sacred, masculine, divine presence. I have learned in my teachings that shamans are really connected to the earth element. And as a priestess in my lineage, what we are doing is we are channeling archetypal frequency.
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Are You Living in Alignment with Your Feminine Energy? - with Sarah Jenks | EP 73
So what I'm actually doing is vibrational frequency work. It's basically like astrophysics. And so what I'm learning how to do is hold a certain frequency in my body and in the temple space. So it's like, I become the tuning fork. You are the medicine.
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Are You Living in Alignment with Your Feminine Energy? - with Sarah Jenks | EP 73
I am the medicine, not me, Sarah, but the archetype that I'm trained to hold in my body as a vibration that you actually, if you brought in the right tools, you could measure in the room, you know, just like We're all vibrating all the time. We're all electromagnetic fields. Sound has a certain vibration.
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Are You Living in Alignment with Your Feminine Energy? - with Sarah Jenks | EP 73
Color has a certain vibration, which is why when I lead temple, I've been trained to have one color saturation because like burgundy has the same frequency as the feeling of the great mother. Blue has the same frequency as the archetype of the priestess. Green has the same frequency as
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as sovereignty and you can feel it in your body when you walk into a room and it's all bathed in one color and everyone's wearing the same color. And then there are certain sacred geometry that we can use that holds that frequency, certain tools, certain metaphors, certain ways of doing things, certain music. And so if you create this immersive experience in a certain vibration, um,
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Are You Living in Alignment with Your Feminine Energy? - with Sarah Jenks | EP 73
We take in that vibration in ourselves and then we can learn how to harmonize with it, which I think is why I got coherence. It's a coherence. Yes. And that's the tool that I've been trained in how to create in a room with a group of people.
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And so when you can feel when people come in, they're nervous, they're in their human selves, they're in some sort of vibration that they picked up at the grocery store and And then my job is to get everyone into this coherent field in this one frequency. And then the work that we can do in it is like really impactful.
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Are You Living in Alignment with Your Feminine Energy? - with Sarah Jenks | EP 73
And it's great because I can set the vibrational frequency in a space and we can have, you know, 10 people in there. We can have 150 people in there. And then you, it's those two experiences are really different. When we have 150 people in, in one temple, it's off the fucking hook.
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Are You Living in Alignment with Your Feminine Energy? - with Sarah Jenks | EP 73
Yeah, that's a really good question. You know, I think the work of epigenetics is a really valuable thing to understand and study. And I think the thing that's really helpful for people, we so often will just like blame our parents, but they're swimming in the same soup that we are. Thank you. They are also victims of this culture and they had it way worse than we did. way, way worse.
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Are You Living in Alignment with Your Feminine Energy? - with Sarah Jenks | EP 73
And if we just think about the most loving grandfather figure, we can sort of feel the sacred masculine figure. feeling. And if we also feel this unconditional love from a grandmother or a mother figure, we can all sort of feel that energy in our bodies, but we didn't grow up knowing that that energy is also divine and it's something we can lean on.
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And so I say, look for the places that they healed and really honor them for their specific assignment. And then really dive into what's yours. What's yours to heal? How can you take the baton and say, thank you so much for doing your part.
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Are You Living in Alignment with Your Feminine Energy? - with Sarah Jenks | EP 73
Beautiful.
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Are You Living in Alignment with Your Feminine Energy? - with Sarah Jenks | EP 73
Yeah. Because I think you just have to go, you have to go back, you know, like keep, go back as far as you can so that you can really see and understand the oppression that has been, um, just systematized into our family systems. Yeah.
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Are You Living in Alignment with Your Feminine Energy? - with Sarah Jenks | EP 73
And I think also for me, it's so beautiful for people to look at where were my parents actually trying to protect me, you know, within the society, the way that they understood it to work. how can we reframe different patterns as protection? And it's not always true. I mean, you know, everyone has a wide range of what our experience was growing up, but I think that's a good place to start.
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Are You Living in Alignment with Your Feminine Energy? - with Sarah Jenks | EP 73
I really feel that the first part for people to go is to ask themselves if I had all the money I wanted. what am I afraid would happen? Am I afraid that someone wouldn't like me anymore? Am I afraid that people would say X, Y, Z? And it's just such a good way to point at where our internalized patriarchy is still alive and well, and to really handle those shadows and to be able to
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Are You Living in Alignment with Your Feminine Energy? - with Sarah Jenks | EP 73
withstand those fears because a lot of those fears are valid and will probably happen. You know, as I have become more expressed and more myself, I have lost so many friends. I've had a lot of people misunderstand my intentions. I've had a lot of people who've been really excited to take me down when I fuck up, because of course I do.
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Are You Living in Alignment with Your Feminine Energy? - with Sarah Jenks | EP 73
And I have to know that I'm actually willing to stand in that fire. And so I find that the path of... holding abundance is really just the path of self-expression and being visible. And then I think the other piece that's really important is that there are so many people who are great at their work and it doesn't always mean that they're going to make money doing it. I really wish it were true.
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Are You Living in Alignment with Your Feminine Energy? - with Sarah Jenks | EP 73
And so with that, I think it's so important that people understand that the wisdom and the magic of how to run a company can be super fun to figure out. But to do it in a way that lights you up and to have it be part of your purpose and to... get in there with it and to not be afraid of it. And, you know, women have been brainwashed to be told that we're not great with money.
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Are You Living in Alignment with Your Feminine Energy? - with Sarah Jenks | EP 73
It's like fifth grade math. Most of the time, not all the time, but just get out your calculator, do some budgets, do some math, get excited about what you want to create. Really understand how much things are going to cost. Really understand how much, if you want to be an entrepreneur,
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Are You Living in Alignment with Your Feminine Energy? - with Sarah Jenks | EP 73
And I really went down the rabbit hole of the sacred feminine because what happened for me was at the time, I was feeling super anxious. I was feeling super lost. I was a new mom. And I was really trying so hard to understand why was it that I was going to therapy every week. I was in the personal development industry. I was going to Tony Robbins and all these personal development workshops.
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exactly how to run your company and notice along the way it's that self-awareness piece where are you telling yourself that you can't or you don't want to or you're not good at it it's actually if you just take some time to teach yourself how to do it it's it's not that hard to figure out you know just realizing that this whole conversation has been about power
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I mean, there's so many other better ways to make money besides being an entrepreneur. I just like, let me be the first person to say that. And I want to go, I actually want to correct something that I said, because I actually don't want to paint a picture that having your own business is easy. I find that it is actually really difficult and not everyone is actually wired to do it.
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And I don't think it is the path that everybody needs to take.
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I mean, it has to be the path of awakening. Every day. Every day. I know.
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If you're going... To choose it because, you know, the thing that I experience a lot are projections because so much of, especially if you are wanting to build a company, companies like we have, like we're very visible as people. and people project onto me all the time. And I just have to know that that's actually part of my job is to be a mirror for other people.
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And the only way that I can move through that and stand in that is that if I'm an incredible integrity in my own life. So a lot of what I pay attention to, and I really do use this in relationship with making money is, um, I really prioritize what is happening when no one is looking.
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Those are the pieces, like my innermost thoughts about myself, the way that I'm running my company, the way that I'm in relationship with people, the way that I am leading behind closed doors, the way I am in my friendships. I need to be in full integrity all the time.
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Because when those projections come, I need to either know that they're really not true and I am good with me, or I have to love myself enough to be like, oh yeah, I'm totally doing that. You're totally right. And I'm going to be humble and clean that up and be better. And you kind of like have that flexibility in that dance.
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Why was it that I just spent... you know 90 minutes in a ceremony and had the same level of transformation that i had had in all the years before combined and i wanted to understand the impact of that and i also wanted to understand why wasn't everybody doing this And I went deep into sacred feminine learning around the cycles.
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And I think there's always this, and it's like all women everywhere have been doing that, you know, for over the past few thousand years. Yeah. So we just have like that is the soup that we are swimming in and we have an amazing opportunity to learn how to do it differently. And it is just like.
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It's all those opportunities just right in our own partnerships, I believe is the perfect place to start to look at where are you holding hierarchy in your marriage if you're married? Like really start there. Because if you are holding hierarchy in your marriage and you are putting your male partner over you, you will never be able to step into leadership in your own life.
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Yeah.
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It is my absolute favorite thing. It's like... taking a bath in the cosmos. It's just so yummy. And we don't do plant medicine. First of all, there's so many different types of ceremony. You can do plant medicine ceremonies. You can do ceremonies in many different lineages.
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So the type of ceremony that I lead, the way I do it is it's a mix of my lineage, which is the 13 moon lineage, and a mix of my own medicine that I've brought in. So the way that we do it, it's very ritualistic. And first of all, I'm setting that vibrational frequency in a temple space. So The temple is bathed in a color. There are certain symbols in the temple.
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It's filled with flowers, their sense. It's very sensorial the way that we do ceremony. And the first thing people do is they come in through a gate and it's always me and the other priestess, like my assistant priestesses that come and we hold gates. And we have embodied the archetype already of the ceremony that we're using the archetypal frequency for.
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So the sacred feminine is also reflected in the seasons of the earth and in the cycles of the moon, which are also reflected in our menstrual cycle. And we can use that cycle to track our transformation. We also see the cycle in the tarot and in the elements and in the cycles of life. And it's actually this whole map and language and the same cycle that
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And when someone comes to the gate, they look us in the eye and we ask them a question. And the question that we have for the great mother ceremony, just an example is I am the gate of empty presence. What do you need to lay down beloved so that you can enter this temple fully empty and they have to answer out loud.
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But what happens like 90% of the time is people come to the gate and they look me in the eye and they just start to cry. Because I am being the great mother. And it's just that first experience of the vibration because we remember it's in our cells. And then we come into temple and we sit down and we do a drop in. And then we do this really cool thing where we open our eyes.
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We do an open-eyed meditation. So everyone has eyes with another woman in the room. And it's, again, it's that presence. It's that heart opened love. And so then we're activating the love and connection with each other. And then people start seeing stuff and it's so cool. And then we name what we are aware of.
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And there's animals in the space and colors in the space and deities and beings that come in and women who never have identified as being spiritual, you know, think this is the weirdest thing in the world are like, What the fuck is happening? This is wild. And so that's why I love it because you can come in at any sort of phase. You don't have to practice.
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You can just come in and be in the space if you're willing to be present. It's just incredible. And then we do the work of what's needed. You know, whatever the ceremonies around, you know, I do, I do a lot of ceremonies around discovering your soul's purpose.
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And so I'll bring women through a process that will help them really discover why they came to planet earth over the course of a couple of days. Um, I do ceremonies that are around touching the edges of our aliveness and of our joy. I do ceremonies around leaving the path that we thought we were meant to take and coming onto the path of our soul.
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We do a lot of work around releasing heaviness of meeting our shadows, of surrendering, of deep remembrance of our gifts and the tools that we came into. And then we just get to like dance and be the magic of everything. And then a lot of what I'm doing is I'm listening to the goddess and I'm feeling for what's real in the space.
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And I'm trained to feel where someone needs to speak, where there's a wobble. And what's cool is that it's an electrical field. So if there's one circuit that's off, the electricity isn't running through the whole group. So I can feel when a circuit is off and I just will... go over there and like touch it or tweak it or invite her to say something or ask her to like soften her shoulders.
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And you can tell she comes into more presence. She comes into her authentic self. And then you can just feel like the in the whole circle and something just goes, and then I can tell, okay, now we can move on to the next sort of piece that we need to do. So it's this real symphony of energy and transformation that happens. And it's just so fun.
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It's really, it's such a fun process. And you know, and I've been studying how to do this for 10 years.
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Yeah.
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Wow. So it's just really, it's my art and I love it.
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is overlaid in the zodiac and everything we know from astrology. It's all actually the same, and you can see it across cultures all over the world from a super ancient perspective, and they weren't even talking to each other at the time. So I went and dug into the history of the sacred feminine and realized that this was the primary way that humans worshipped for actually 97%.
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Well, Instagram is the best place. I'm Sarah Jenks on Instagram. And my membership is probably the best place to start, which is called Holy Woman. And that's where we do new moon ceremonies every month. And it's just a great way to like... Taste test.
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And it's super affordable. And it's a great way to just like...
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Am I constantly trying to avoid upsetting my male partner? Am I constantly worried about outshining my friends? Any time we are judging ourselves off of what other people are going to think of us,
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what we have documented as the history of humans communing with the divine. And it's only been in the past 1500 years, which is really just like 3% of the history of humans having a religion that we don't have the sacred feminine at the center of our spiritual practice. And I was like, what the fuck?
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So I define it as really, I define it as range and cycles and creation. So if the sacred masculine is like a container, The sacred feminine is the creation or the energy that happens inside of that container. If the sacred masculine is linear, point A to point B directional, the sacred feminine is a spiral.
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Yeah.
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So I think the thing that's super important to understand is that If you go back to like 30,000 BC, some of the first archaeological finds that people have found are actually pictures of a feminine God. You see this in the Venus of Willendorf, which is if anyone Googles it, you'll probably recognize it. And all of the temples were often shaped like women's bodies.
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And you walked in through a yoni portal into the temple. So our bodies were a reflection of the divine from 30,000 BC. And then in different regions all over the world, the sacred feminine started to be villainized and erased because when you're in a matriarchy, It's about balance. It's about care for all.
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And there were people emerging on the planet that wanted to have power over instead of power for all. And one of the places when I was going through history to try to understand where did the The place that I focused a lot of my attention that seemed to really jump out at me glaringly was during the Crusades in the Dark Ages, you know, started around the year 1300, where the Catholic Church came.
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decided to take over all of Europe and also spread into Asia and then enslaved people in Africa. And that was actually the same movement that colonized Turtle Island, which we now know as North America and the United States.
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So the thing that I realized was when the Crusaders came into a village, the first thing they did was burn the sacred feminine temple and kill the leaders, the spiritual leaders of the community that were mostly women. And this also led to the burning times, which we know is the witch hunts and the witch burnings.
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And what they did was they used Christianity and Jesus's supposed word, which most of us now know was not what he meant. to take over large groups of people, to get the masses really fearful for their lives, for their well-being. And anytime we're scared, we look to the person in power.
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And I just thought it was so interesting that the tool they used was to erase sacred feminine spirituality in order to take the power away from the people. And so when I learned that, I really asked myself, well, what would happen if we put it back? How could we actually really change the way women saw themselves and saw their own power?
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If we just put in this practice because they must have been onto something on some level, if that was the primary thing that they were after.
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So I love that you use the word brainwashing because I use that phrase and that context a lot to explain to women like what's happening in us. Yeah. And if you take away the metaphor of powerful, sovereign women in religious stories, in talking about folklore around the fire, and you replace it with only a virgin, pious mother and a whore, then
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Then we grow up, if we live in a, you know, a predominantly Christian society, even if we aren't grown up Christian, these archetypes, these metaphors are really baked in to our culture. Then we only have two archetypes to see ourselves in. And what can happen is that naturally, I believe as women grow, we have the magic in us.
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You know, we were all super wild when we were little girls, but we've been taught to be afraid of that wildness of being ourselves, of that authenticity, because we've been living in a culture. And I do believe that it's changing where we were going to be made fun of for being different and
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where we would maybe be shamed for being different, where we wouldn't be able to fit into the culture, to fit into school, to fit into a traditional job. And that's the best case scenario. And that comes with a lot of privilege. And a lot of people in different societies around the world and also in this country, if they are different, their lives are at stake and their thriving is at stake.
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And so there's really a range of internalized conditioning, externalized conditioning, and And, but I really see it all going back to this brainwashing and this culturalization about what it means to be a woman and what's considered appropriate.
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Well, when I go back and I look at history before this happened, it's been really fun for me to study what they believe was happening inside of priestess temples, inside of matriarchal societies, where women were leaders. I'm like, tell me all the things.
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Where they were leaders, where they were the healers, where they were who were coming together in council and making really massive decisions for huge areas of land, both large and small communities. And When we go and look at that in history, we can remember, oh, I'm capable of that.
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Because since so much of that history has been deliberately erased from what we know and mostly rewritten to be in the narrative that men have been in charge the whole time, we don't know what's possible for us. So that's why I think it's so important for women to learn about and understand about matriarchal communities and
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you know, what it meant to be a magical woman and what it meant to be sovereign, what it meant to be in our wildness. And back on a time when everything was, when we were celebrated for being authentic. And of course it wasn't never, it's never been perfect, you know? And I believe that we can borrow from a lot of these, um,
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stories in order to think about, you know, how to give ourselves permission to rock the boat, to color outside the lines, to forge our own path and not just default to what our belief systems are telling us we can do.