Mermaid or siren? It all depends how cowardly the sailor is…😏
Sirens got a bad reputation… Everyone welcomes the beautiful, kind, and gentle mermaid, but few can fully experience her magic because that entails embracing the siren 💀.
All of us have both within. The ying and the yang ☯️, but today the mermaid/siren is a metaphor for the feminine. It is beautiful, charming, captivating, but also wild, free, and beyond control.
It takes great courage and commitment to discover the fullness of a mermaid’s magic, hense why so few sailors succeeded. It is much easier to lable the wild feminine as a raging beast, louring sailor to their death, the killer of men.
Only the weak would dare to label her this way, those cowardly sailors, who have not yet discovered how to navigate their own turbulent waters, will inevitably suffer great pain and be defeated.
Confession: I have done the same. I was that coward. For years I saw the feminine as too wild, too uncontrollable, too unpredictable, too vulnerable, a killer of all structure and safety. It was not until I fully embraced the siren within me, learning to hold her, feeling her hatred, her sorrow, and her pain, only then was I fully able to feel her joy, her love, her innate sense of freedom, and her everlasting peace.
♂️For the men: I invite you to look at your relationships. What do you see in women around you, are they mermaids or have they all turned to sirens? Where is your role in this? Are you brave enough to go beyond the mermaid phase and embrace the siren in your lover? Are you able to navigate through your own emotional waters and face them courageously and authentically, enabling you to feel everlasting love towards both a mermaid and siren (they are one)?
♀️For the women: Can you love the siren within you? Can you allow yourself to fully be one with her? Can you see the perfection in the darkest parts of yourself? If you have not yet discovered her beauty, I invite you to set yourself free! Feel the rage, the anger, the grief, the hurt, the sorrow. Your emotions are your power. What do you really want? What is your heart longing for today?
All the best and much love 🙏💛
Anna
Hi Anna. We are in Veronica’s group together. However, I have not been involved recently. I’m in a transition phase of healing and reordering my life. One of your videos appeared in my feed and I have spent a lot of time watching your other videos and checking out your website. I am so impressed with the wisdom and insight you share. I have been contemplating the dark feminine lately. I have a side to me who acts more like a siren. She mostly came out during my years as an active alcoholic, but despite my sobriety, she is still inside me hiding. The last time, I let her come out, the man I was with was turned off by the feeling that I was dominating him. I have left that part abandoned and ashamed of being herself, because of fear of rejection. The thing I am realizing though is that although the mermaid side of me is accepted and what I present to the world, the siren part of me actually holds my power. I want to take back my power and integrate it into the whole me. I just don’t know how. Thank you so much for this blog post and for all the work you are doing.
Hello Kim,
Thank you for this powerful comment, it somehow got lost and only found its way to me now. I love what you shared here and want to emphasize that it is in the union of both of those energies that we find our power. How does creating windows of freedom for the siren feel like to you? A few hours per day to allow her her full expression.