What is Divine Feminine and Divine Masculine?
Energy is everything.
This is the groundwork for all that comes into existence in the 3D word—that it first exists as energy that is invisible to the naked eye.
If I wanted to I could divide all things into various categories of energy, but when I talk about humans specifically, we are made up of a dual energy system: feminine and masculine.
Each human is like the Taoist symbol of the yin yang. These energies blend within us, braiding together to create a unique individual.
It’s helped me to understand that in one system of thought, the Vedic, I’m composed of two sides, right and left, with a central energetic channel (meaning you can’t measure it with scientific instruments, yet) running up and down from the base of the skull to the base of the spine called the sushumna. On either side of this primary channel there are two smaller channels called the ida and pingala. The ida is feminine (lunar) and the pingala is masculine (solar). These two channels weave upwards toward the head around the sushumna channel. This imagery can be found in many ancient symbols like the caduceus and even the structure of DNA. The universe loves patterns and nature is full of them, including our own patterns.
First, a quick look at which energies are considered feminine and which are considered masculine.
To start, feminine energy is yin: void, darkness, the moon. And she comes first in an energetic system. She is creation and flow, waiting to be acted upon by the yang, also known as light, action, the sun. In our body, this is represented as our inner universe. Yang moves into yin and imposes structure and focus and discipline. He is assertive, strong, and protective. He is the force we direct outward, onto the outer world.
Yin is intuition and nuturing, compassion and empathy. Yang adores yin and wants to protect her, and create healthy boundaries to ensure that outside forces don’t take advantage of her and her beauty.
This dance of energy is going on within each human—the yin side of our being is beautiful and creative and the yang side is logical and ordered and when it’s balanced toward the healthy side (or divine, hence the divine masculine term), it will protect the yin.
When any of these energies are out of balance, they result in the more negative polarity of the energy (e.g. toxic masculinity). So, protectiveness can turn into control and aggression. Meanwhile the receptivity and flow of yin can become passivity and indecision or an inability to set boundaries (e.g. toxic feminity).
But where do these energies initially come from?
When each living individual determined the plan for their current incarnation, they also chose a path through it.
As far as I’ve been able to sort, there are several places that inform the way feminine and masculine energy are initially either balanced or imbalanced in each person.
One source of the dual energies that comprise our egoic makeup is sourced in the influence of the planets. At the time of our birth, the Earth and all the other planets were in specific locations acting as energetic channels that directed energy from Source to the planet. In this sense, the slightest degree of difference in how that channel of energy reaches the body as it separates from the mother and becomes its own unit can tilt the scales one direction or the other toward the polarity of each energy.
When a baby is still in the womb, its sphere of energetic influence is still part of the mother. But during the separation from the mother, the energy now flowing to it separates and imprints onto this new little creature, forming the fundamental template for its personality.
Hundreds of influences here catalyze to begin the process of energetic imprints—not just the planetary energy, but its name, the DNA in its cells, the energetic ancestral influence, the date of its birth, and the information carried in its soul.
In a sense, all things in our universe are numerical in nature—or in other words, vibrational and frequential. These terms, like all words, are not perfectly able to capture the principal. They’re the words we have to work with, however, so always do your best to understand the concept. Things will make sense for you when they’re meant to, and not before.
One way to understand, then, our personal feminine and masculine traits is to look at our natal birth chart. Most of us can’t read these on our own, but it’s relatively easy to grasp the basics.
Each planet governs specific energies, acting as a shepherd in a sense for that energy and how it shows up in our solar system. If you consider our solar system as its own body, what you’re seeing when you look at a map of ours is a body with nexus points of energy. The sun is the heart. It governs the solar system bringing light directly from source and giving direction to each planet and any lifeforms upon it.
Mercury, Venus, Mars, et cetera—each planet is in charge of specific types of energy and some of them are quite well known. Venus is love (amongst others) and Mars is survival or war. Meanwhile, Mercury is communication and Jupiter is abundance. When one of these planets is in retrograde from an earth-based perspective, this apparent backwards movement will impact how that energy is received in a body when its born.
So if, at the time of birth, Mercury is in retrograde, an individual with that in their natal chart will have a relatively unique way of communicating and processing information. Or if Venus is in retrograde at the moment of birth, that person will have a distinct way of processing love that feels different from the majority of people. During this planetary retrograde motion, it’s like the flow of energy is being pulled toward the other polarity of how it might normally manifest on the 3D plane of existence.
Fundamentally, each sign in our zodiac is a backdrop to describe where our solar system’s planets were at the moment of birth. The placement of the planets within the zodiac each have a feminine or masculine polarity. For example, Libra is considered feminine while Aries manifests as masculine. Additionally, the planets themselves also exhibit masculine or feminine energy. Venus is feminine energy and therefore when she is in the sign of Taurus or any other feminine sign, that energy would be directed inward and is amplified.
This is just one aspect of our natal charts, of course, they’re much more complicated and require a trained reader in the various systems.
For my purposes, what I want to illustrate is simply one facet of how masculine and feminine energies are initiated into our egoic personality. How do we communicate? How do we experience and integrate love? What ways do we naturally approach our fears and process our emotions?
Our template—at least one layer of it—can be found within the natal chart. This is yet another key to unlocking our personal understanding of what may have become obscure to us in the many illusions of a 3D life. When we can see and accept that we are not just a man or a woman, that we are a tapestry of inwardly or outwardly expressed energies, we can find the path toward balance and inner union. Inner union and acceptance of what we are, in however it manifests within us, causes an energetic shift outside us and we’re able to act upon the external world in a way that creates outer union. This is yet another path toward peace.
—Nicole, June 23, 2025
