I have been exploring the theory of courage and the contextualisation of Western society about this particular value/ human characteristic. It is interesting how we associate courage with strength, guts, will, act with bravery, and moving force… All very Mars-oriented, very archetypically masculine. What, in a way, blinds side another critical aspect connected with courage, probably an aspect that, although in the shadow of the light given to those associations previously described, brings a deeper level of understanding of the word and their characteristics.

I see courage as openness, as willingness, but not from a driven force, but rather a will from stillness, from pause, from receiving and being vulnerable, from being exposed to whatever has to come or arise from the situation, the moment or the interaction with another. I see courage from a Venusian and feminine archetypal connotation, as if courage has been composed within the womb. And as if the very first opportunity to express your courage is to be open to leaving your mother’s depths and be exposed and vulnerable to all that is outside the safety of her body.

That act of courage starts shaping our own understanding of the safety and dangers of this world. That same starting point brings us to feel the need to step out and be vulnerable and express our heart desires and belief systems, or rather to feel that this world is not safe enough and that our vulnerability might not be received or respected.

Either way, that courage, that heart, that vulnerability and openness are all connected with something very primordial, very intuitive, and spontaneous. Very Venusian indeed… maybe we need to ask ourselves how we want to express our courage, how we want to see and define courage in our inner vocabulary so that when we have those opportunities to express our courage, we do it from a place of openness to receive, and not from a place of wanting to impose.

Thank you once again, reader, for your curious interest.

Hari om tat sat.