Is Feminine (Yin) Energy Realy Sacred as mentioned in Mainstream Media?
Recently, we’ve come across many ideas and shares under the theme of “awakening the sacred feminine energy.” The need for us humans to attribute sacredness to any concept has always existed, and it will continue for a while longer. With the new generation and the changing world, the belief in and search for the sacred will diminish, replaced by the boundless expansion of technology.
In philosophical terms, sacred means divine or celestial. The word “kut” (sacred in Turkish) also means something that brings happiness or goodness. By calling certain materials or feelings sacred, we declare their importance and hierarchical value for ourselves. The sacred requires care, brings respect, and is, in a sense, something that is protected. We search for sacredness in belief, religion, or realms beyond humanity, even beyond the world. Sacredness belongs to the realm of metaphysics; it doesn’t show itself or fit well within the boundaries of rationality.
So why do we feel the need to call feminine energy sacred?
What makes the feminine—the yin, the still, the essence of creation, the one that exists in emptiness and infinity—sacred?
In fact, we cannot attribute sacredness to any element of the polarity law. It’s as nonsensical as saying, "My left eye is sacred, but my right eye is not." Yin and yang exist by complementing each other; they create both wholeness and each other. When we call yin sacred, we must also call yang sacred because the two poles are, in essence, the same, and they cannot be perceived separately; one defines the other. Feminine energy cannot be sacred on its own. In fact, feminine energy cannot exist alone.
Today, we confuse feminine energy with ONENESS. We attribute oneness, unity, that zero point where duality merges into existence and non-existence, the center of balance, to feminine energy, and this causes a great deal of conceptual confusion. There are reasons for this, of course: the system is built on a masculine structure, and particularly in our society, there is a habit of belittling and devaluing the feminine, the womanly. Because of this habit, our minds think that the feminine must be called sacred in order to restore balance, and this is how we tolerate the imbalance.
However, exalting something that isn’t sacred and treating it as if it’s “more” than the other pole only fuels the imbalance further. We cannot correct an imbalance with another imbalance; to achieve balance, we need a realistic approach, a blend of rationality and intuition. It’s true that there is a widespread issue of deepening into feminine energy worldwide because the “world of doing and achieving” constantly expects us to act and make progress. While we move and progress, feminine energy encompasses our emotional, sensory reality, our essence and being. This way, our actions are not mechanical or rote but instead harmonize with the great order. Our actions serve our being, and our being serves our actions. One is not superior to the other, and we cannot exist on this earth without action. The world demands action from us.
This is why it’s important to understand and properly position feminine and masculine energies. Attributing too much meaning to feminine energy can lead to inaction and being stuck. Additionally, placing the term sacred solely on one side of the scale, on the side of oneness and the unity of the universe—or my own inner unity—can lead to distortion.
Action and movement are just as sacred as being. We reach our sacredness to the extent that we can integrate and complete ourselves. If anything on this earth is sacred, then everything else is also sacred. Everything we can see and perceive is part of us; from a broader perspective, there is no “other.”
Yet we experience duality in order to give this place the name of “matter.” So, neither feminine energy nor masculine energy is sacred. What is sacred is the relationship between these two poles and the ultimate outcome of this relationship—neutralization and the state of nothingness.