Divine Feminine Awakening & the Path Toward Divine Union

The past decades have been full of intense shifts. A post-war world, built on rigid gender expectations and patriarchal systems, clearly had a lot of healing to do. This work has been slowly unfolding. It has brought many blessings to our lives, yet, as I'll explain below, may also have been distorted in some ways.

From the rise of feminism and the divine feminine awakening, to the growing call for a divine masculine awakening, we’ve been collectively renegotiating what balance really means.

In this post, we’ll explore some of the energetic dynamics of the past decades: how the feminine began to rise after being neglected for far too long, why the masculine is being called into healing now, and what the future may hold as both energies move toward divine union consciousness.

What is a divine feminine awakening?

When we speak of a divine feminine awakening, we refer to a collective or personal shift toward reclaiming qualities that have long been suppressed or looked down upon in patriarchal systems: intuition, creativity, emotional depth, sensitivity, connection with the body, reverence for nature, a sense of community over competition.

In your personal life, that may feel like waking up to your inner wisdom, learning to trust your cycles, and honoring softness and emotions as strength. Collectively speaking, we see the feminine give rise to compassion and equality, inclusivity, holistic health, ecological awareness, and new ways of creating and collaborating.

All of this doesn’t mean replacing masculine energy (we need both to live fulfilled lives), but rather restoring balance by bringing the feminine back into its rightful place of power.

How the feminine emerged from the shadows

A lot has been shifting throughout the past century, so let's take a look at what has been happening so far on a collective level – we could call it a timeline of the collective feminine awakening:

Pre-1960s: the wounded masculine era

Before the cultural revolutions of the 20th century, patriarchal systems were the norm. While many associate patricharchy with masculinity, it's worth noting that it isn't an expression of healthy masculine energy but much rather the wounded masculine at work. Industrialization, colonization, and war created systems that were... effective, but not exactly nice. They were built on hierarchy, conquest, extraction, and control. Achievement and competition were glorified, while feminine qualities were seen as less important or outright suppressed. Much of this was also a consequence of war: it makes sense for a world traumatized by conflict to lean on control and structure as survival strategies, leaving little space for connection, care, or creativity. The result was a society that was undeniably moving forward, but also deeply unjust and emotionally stunted.

1960s–1980s: the feminine awakening begins

The 1960s cracked open the old structures. Civil rights movements, second-wave feminism, environmental awareness, and even psychedelic counterculture all pointed toward questioning patriarchal authority. In those movements, we can see how the feminine began to re-emerge. What we repress, doesn't disappear; it just waits for its moment to return, and that moment had finally come. Creativity blossomed, communities organized themselves to stand up for inclusivity and peace. Practices like yoga, meditation, and holistic health entered Western culture, offering alternatives to linear ways of living. These decades planted the seeds for what many now call the divine feminine awakening.

1990s–2000s: an expansion of feminine energy

By the 1990s, wellness, spirituality, and alternative healing gained visibility. Emotional intelligence and vulnerability became more widely valued, even in leadership contexts. Corporate systems were still largely masculine-dominant, but there were plenty of people questioning precisely those systems. Conversations around work-life balance, holistic well-being, and more collaborative leadership hinted at a slow shift toward balance.

2010s: peak feminine awakening

In the past decade, we've seen feminine energy spreading widely. The phrase “divine feminine” entered mainstream spiritual and self-development circles, meaning the shift hasn't gone unnoticed. A lot has been happening: Movements like #MeToo called out toxic power structures and amplified women’s voices. Witchcraft, goddess archetypes, and somatic practices gained popularity online. And even the wellness industry kept growing with yoga trainings, plant medicine retreats, mindfulness programs. All of this points to a society craving the nurturing energy of the feminine. At the same time, masculine structures were increasingly challenged, if not outright rejected. This decade represented both the empowerment of the feminine and the destabilization of the old patriarchal order.

Has the divine feminine awakening gone "too far"?

As you know, both feminine and masculine energy hold a shadow; they become unbalanced when too extreme. We've witnessed the detrimental effects of a patriarchal, wounded masculine system in the last century; as we are currently witnessing some effects of the divine feminine awakening tipping into its shadow side:

• Over-sensitivity and cancel culture: Yin energy is rooted in compassion; it defends the weak. Yet it can turn into hyper-fragility when everything becomes offensive. Nowadays, we can see a lot of people tiptoeing around each other, afraid of saying the “wrong” thing, or shutting down others before listening. Real dialogue has become difficult, and, especially in times of economical downturn, society appears to be increasingly polarized.
• Over-policing language and correctness: Political correctness comes from good intentions (yes, we should care about including everyone), but when taken to extremes, it's not doing us any favors. Of course, genuine hate speech should never be tolerated, but it seems like we also need to relearn how to hold a healthy level of polarity and disagreement without collapsing.
• Lack of accountability: When emotions aren’t held in healthy balance, they can spill into spiritual bypassing, like using “therapy talk” as a weapon, hiding behind “love and light” culture, or avoiding conflict instead of actually working through it.

All of this points to a society still trying to figure it out. Many would agree we are experiencing a general sense of destabilization (or is it... recalibration?): identities shifting, values being renegotiated, the whole mess of the pandemic, a collective feeling of burnout... Leaving the old systems behind, but not really having a blueprint for what's ahead, leaves many people feeling both uncertain and on the edge of transformation.

So... what's next: Continued feminine rising? Divine masculine rising? 

With everything that has been happening in recent years, many people are now craving a certain sense of structure and stability again, while we are still working on embracing softness. We haven't quite yet embraced the divine feminine nor the divine masculine fully; and we’re still living with the consequences of the wounded masculine: so many feel burnt out by hustle culture and the constant pressure to be productive.

At the same time... things are shifting. Slowly, but surely. Not in everyone, but many. What I find really beautiful to witness is the rise of women and men’s circles, more honest conversations about healthy masculine and feminine energy, and people diving into archetype work as a way to understand themselves and others more deeply. 

The feminine awakening didn’t end, nor can it be “replaced” by a divine masculine awakening (even though it is much needed!). I believe our task moving forward is integration, a collective awareness that we need both polarities – in their healthy expressions, not the wounded qualities.

This could look like:

• Leadership rooted in both strategy and empathy.
• Work cultures that value creativity and collaboration, not just output.
• Relationships built on emotional openness and strong boundaries.
• Communities that honor cyclical wisdom (feminine) within reliable structures (masculine).
• Spirituality that unites intuition and introspection with discipline and discernment

Perfect balance is obviously difficult to achieve, yet, as a society, we should try to keep moving toward integration and learn to express and honor both opposing forces equally. Because whenever we elevate one polarity while rejecting the other, we end up back in imbalance. The feminine gave us healing, emotional depth, and reconnection to nature, but without the masculine, we risk lacking our inner fire. The masculine offers purpose, discipline, and protection, but without the feminine, it hardens into control and dominance.

The future, as I see it, isn’t about choosing sides. It’s about learning how to let these energies dance together (and if that interests you, I recommend reading the following article on balancing feminine and masculine energy, which explores this concept on a more personal level).

Collective awakening requires divine union

If there’s one thing I’ve come to believe, it’s that true collective awakening doesn’t happen by swinging between extremes but requires divine union. Neither feminine nor masculine alone can carry us forward. We need the vision and intuition of the feminine, and the structure and purpose of the masculine.

Without union, we repeat the same cycle: one polarity rises, the other gets rejected, and eventually the pendulum swings back again. Integration is what breaks the cycle.

This dance of dualities is something that's unfolding inside each of us,

• every time we balance compassion with boundaries,
• every time we make room for action and rest, and
• every time we allow softness to coexist with strength.

The collective shift is, in fact, the sum of millions of these personal integrations. When we embody divine union within ourselves, we begin to see it reflected in our relationships, our communities, and eventually, in the systems we live in.

I'd be curious to hear about your perspective, since this is just my interpretation of what's been happening. How do you currently experience feminine and masculine dynamics in the world? How has the rising of the feminine affected you personally? Feel free to share in the comments, and I hope you enjoyed the read.