Note to the masculine – Cody Bret

This generation doesn’t understand.

Most men in this generation doesn’t understand its not about giving her the world, but it’s actually about making her feel like she’s a priority in yours.

It’s about surprising her with a sweet text throughout the day to remind her you’re thinking about her.

It’s about coming home from work and asking about her day because you genuinely care about the answer.

It’s about going to the refrigerator to get yourself a drink, and you get her one without even asking.

It’s about driving down a backroad and you pull off to the side to pick her some beautiful wild flowers.

It’s about cuddling on the couch in sweatpants and binge watching your favorite show on Netflix together.

It’s about taking her to her favorite restaurant unannounced.

It’s about slow dancing with her in the rain to a song that was written by George Strait.

It’s about calling her randomly and asking how she is doing because you care about her mental health.

It’s about laying her favorite dress on the bed with a note that says “put this on and be ready by 7pm”.

It’s about knowing the smallest details about her, like the way she likes her coffee in the morning, or her favorite smell, or what movies make her cry.

It’s about going to a local ice cream parlor on a Saturday afternoon to talk about your life goals together over a couple hot fudge sundaes.

Take my advice and remember…… it doesn’t always have to cost much money, it just needs to catch her off guard.

~ Cody Bret

Who she is

“It was lunar symbolism that enabled man to relate and connect such heterogeneous things as: birth, becoming, death, and ressurection; the waters, plants, woman, fecundity, and immortality; the cosmic darkness, prenatal existence, and life after death, followed by the rebirth of the lunar type (“light coming out of darkness”); weaving, the symbol of the “thread of life,” fate, temporality, and death; and yet others. In general most of the ideas of cycle, dualism, polarity, opposition, conflict, but also of reconciliation of contraries, of coincidentia oppositorum, were either discovered or clarified by virtue of lunar symbolism. We may even speak of a metaphysics of the moon, in the sense of a consistent system of “truths” relating to the mode of being peculiar to living creatures, to everything in the cosmos that shares in life, that is, in becoming, growth and waning, death and resurrection.”

― Mircea Eliade, The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion

Countless are her aspects, here are three: Selene, Luna, Hekate. All incorporate two distinct and specific attributes: Woman and Moon. Her monthly lunar cycle is implicitly linked to both a woman’s menstrual cycles and the three phases of womanhood: maiden, mother and crone. The most visible symbol of feminine energy in our cosmos, she represents water, emotions, oceans, mists .Represented here as Luna, She is inconceivable mystery, gentle but capable of commanding oceans and always faithful to her nature. She is the luminous numinous, and Her power is never diminished.

In Greek mythology, Selene was the Titan goddess of the moon, often depicted as a beautiful woman riding a silver chariot across the night sky. She wore a crescent moon crown and long robes.

Selene’s name means “moon” or “brightness”. She was sister to Helios, Titan of the sun, and Eos, the dawn. Selene fell in love with the mortal Endymion, casting him into eternal slumber so she could be with him forever.

Selene embodies the divine feminine qualities of intuition, cycles, magic, and visions. The moon’s phases reflect our inner landscapes – shadow and light held in balance. To alchemists, Selene represented the alchemical process and pursuit of the philosopher’s stone.

Selene invites you to embrace your hidden aspects and unconscious wisdom. Explore your dreams, creativity and emotions by her light. Selene signals it is time for spiritual nourishment through meditation, journaling, and nature communion.

When Selene graces your consciousness or calls to you, it is time to reflect on mysteries longing to be illuminated within you. Heed her call to honor your deepest intuitions and longings. Let Selene be your guide to see beyond the veils of illusion and welcome your becoming

“Selene”

Mixed Media

2024

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She is Powerful!

Here is my truth you often don’t hear:

Traumatized women have the potential to become the most powerful people in this world. The most ignorant members of society call this type of woman “Wounded .” But she is the most powerful type of woman there is. What they forget is that survivors have the most dangerous advantage of all: RESILIENCE!

When you try and you try but you can never bring a woman down, you’ll know there is no going back. Don’t fool yourself. You could never defeat her. You never will.

This is the woman who will always rise from the dead; Lady Lazarus, after going through hell and back. This is the woman who has burned her feet in the flames time and time again and always lives to tell another tale – even if she has to crawl back to life. She was never given love or approval on a silver platter, so in order to survive, she had to love herself in a way others could only dream of. She fought tooth and nail for her own self-acceptance. No one cuddled her as a child or told her pretty things; she had to fend for herself each step of the way. She knows she can survive because she already has and will again.

When someone tells her, “You can’t do it,” she says, “Watch me.”

She is fiery light birthed out of wintery darkness. Brought into the underworld by Hades, Persephone brings ll forth spring and rebirth when she reemerges finally from the cold. She owns her shadows and seamlessly weaves them into the fabric of her freedom, creativity, imagination and independence. All of her life, she was given every evidence of human cruelty and the evil people were capable of. She understood early on that the monsters people dreamed of existed in human skin.

She lived all of her nightmares in high definition. She was given every reason to give up, handed every justification to never believe in herself or anyone.

But there is raw magic in the ways in which she cultivates a faith in herself, to manifest the dreams her soul was meant to bring forth. Despite it all, she still conquers. She still survives and thrives. The “damaged” woman is capable of immense manifestation not just in spite of, but because of the traumas she has gone through. There is no one more motivated than a woman who has constantly been told what she cannot do or who she cannot be throughout her lifetime. There is no one more determined to succeed than someone who has nothing left to lose.

The “damaged” woman doesn’t sign up for the hardships of her journey – but she plays the hell out of the cards she’s been dealt. The “hurt” woman is not damaged at all – she is wounded, and in channeling and healing her wounds, she becomes the source of incredible energy, the site of unbelievable potential for abundance and change. She possesses the power to use her wounds for the greater good and her highest good. She builds her own success and becomes her own rugged hero; tends to her own scraped knees. She uses every stone thrown at her to build the foundation for her empire.

Brick by brick she builds – and despite every attempt to tear her walls down, she rescues herself again and again. Despite it all, this type of survivor may still face hatred, envy, greed from those around her. They try to tell her she is too damaged to soar. See, when the women society call too “damaged” perform better than those who never were, it tends to upset the status quo. As a result, she becomes the survivor of countless witch hunts, the target of many persecutors. Yet when they try to burn her at the stake, she does what comes naturally: she resurrects herself.

After all, nobody suspects that it is the wounded woman who has more power inside of her than the bullies who appear to overpower her. They laugh and ridicule the mute warrior, the one who seems to never fight back. But here’s the thing about this type of woman: she observes. She learns how to pick and fight her own battles. Her spirit may be broken, but it is relentless. She perseveres, bit by bit. She takes it all in.

Perhaps she stays voiceless for years. For her soul, it may seem like for centuries. This is an ancient wound, one that seems to follow her from generation to generation.

Yet at some point, it comes time for her soul to fight back in order to survive. It comes time for her to rise.

She stays silent for so long that when she finally speaks, the world erupts and cracks wide open. Her pent-up magnificent energy, born and bred in the pressure cooker that she calls life – is that of lightning. Where once hopelessness was her default, now abundance becomes her birthright.

Where once she was timid, she now unleashes thunder in every action and word that she wields like a sword – and with it, she always brings a storm. Now when she creates, she creates new worlds and transforms and manifests on a level that cannot be recreated by someone who never had to struggle to survive.

When you hear the voice of a powerful survivor and the will of a warrior – there is nothing you can do but to stop and listen. She is the voice of a million lifetimes lived.

She is the voice of the hopeless and the powerless when the fire is brought back to their eyes. She is the harbinger of the justice that the voiceless have longed to hear and feel and touch. Regardless of how much you try and how it may seem, you can never truly bring a survivor like this to her knees; she already knows the value her scars bring.

She knows how to fill the cracks between her wounds with gold. She knows how to transform each bitter word cast upon her into an iron-clad will that will set her and other caged birds free. You can’t ever defeat a “damaged” woman, because she knows exactly how to save herself.

I Am.

You Are.

We Are.

Oneness.

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