Lady's mantle-Alchemilla mollis

Lady's mantle

During one of the Star Remedies courses, I asked the course participants why Máxima is so loved by the vast majority of the Dutch population after all. Their answers included: her charisma, her charisma, her knowledge, her genuine interest in all kinds of matters, she is gorgeous, always beautifully dressed, she really loves Alexander and much more. I said that was all true, but then how come she in particular, among the royal family, still stands out so much. There was no immediate answer there.
My idea about her is that she is fully in touch with her own feminine power/quality and from there she feels and does everything with her heart in her daily life.
This is real, this is not contrived and when you do things as a woman, from your feminine energy, you get so much power to do it all.

Over 40 years ago, I graduated and the topic of our dissertation was: emancipatory work.
Together with a fellow student Carla, who later became one of my best friends, we set up women's work in our village.
For several years, we facilitated women's discussion groups, organised theme nights. It was in the middle of the time when the Dolle Mina's were making themselves heard.
It was a feminist group that campaigned for equal rights between men and women in the 1970s.
The starting point from the 1950s is that married women, and certainly mothers, need/need/can't do any paid work outside the home.
It was not until the 1960s that cracks appeared in the male stronghold of paid employment.
There is a small group of well-educated, ambitious women who, despite marriage and their children, want to have a good job.
With the baby boom generation, during the 1960s, the number of women with higher education rises rapidly and with it the breakthrough of women into the labour market.

Since the family I grew up in already did not "do" gender inequality (my mother always had a full-time job), I sometimes struggled with the fierce, but very understandable, struggles of the Dolle Minas.

A different understanding emerged in me about feminism and emancipation.
Not only women had to emancipate, men had to do the same.
My lotto was: revalue "masculine" norms among men and women and upgrade "feminine" norms among women and men.
Generally, "male" means"
Ratio, assertive, analytical, organising, doing, left-brain, sun,too much,
logical, the giving principle and many, many more wordings
'Female' means:
Emotion, the subconscious, intuitive, caring, receptive, right-brain,
moon, too little, surrender, structure, the receiving principle
And also many and many wordings
Personally, I still have a bit of a problem with the wording "male" and "female"

Back to Máxima:
Because, in my view, she is very much in touch with her "feminine" power and also able to integrate her "masculine" power very well from her "feminine" power, she is very much in balance with herself. And an example of how the positive quality of the flower remedy Women's Mantle is.

Women's mantle people are very competent and confident (to the outside world). They seem to be our born leaders and they will never admit prior insecurity and/or weakness. Those around them may find that this makes them dominant, unscrupulous, inflexible and unfeeling. You pride yourself on working so hard and being able to be so strict. You feel that the end justifies the means. After all, you do it for the good of the other person?
Women's mantle people will never admit their state of weakness and insecurity. It may also be possible that the person is completely unaware of this state, as it may be far in the past or may have only occurred for a very short period of time. It is also irrelevant whether the person cannot remember whether this has ever applied to him. Sometime during the course of therapy, these symptoms will come back into the field of vision of consciousness anyway.
Towards those around them, they show themselves to be: strict, self-assured, hard-learners, dominant, ruthless, unscrupulous, unscrupulous, inflexible, unable to conform to others, devoid of feeling.

Women's mantle gives women the power (from their feminine side) to fulfil her ambitions from within herself. You no longer need to deal with "masculine" energy
Still women are made sky-high demands. And still many women make sky-high demands on themselves: a fantastic career, a very busy social life, a great mother, a "femme fatale" for her husband, nurse for the whole family, a top chef. You name it. A sky-high set of demands . You see more and more "burnout" among women too. Women need such "behaviour" to "hold their own" in the men's world.
Women's mantle gives men the power to share better, engage more in consultation, rely more on their intuition and listen more to their feelings, so they can also be in balance with themselves. This makes this remedy perfect for men.

So that men and women, together and in full respect to each other, can face life.

In children, this state of mind often shows itself that even when they are very small they are constantly trying to impose their own will
If other children do not play the way they want then they very quickly become aggressive and try to use violent, mean things - biting, scratching, pinching - they try to force their ideas on others
Towards parents and teachers, even in the face of drastic punitive measures, they behave inflexibly.
When they don't get their way at home, they have violent tantrums and in extreme cases they even lash out, kicking at their parents, slamming doors.
In their anger, they may even destroy their parents' belongings or their own toys.
They often try to tyrannise the weak, with their perceived power giving them satisfaction.

Madeleine Meuwessen

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