Women Who Future

Sande Hart

A Woman Who FuturesT is a woman who stretches the edges of the meaning of leadership beyond recognition to the degree that requires a new identity, and therefore a new title. Her existence in our narrative invites a new paradigm and also applies to every woman, regardless of her role in an organization, business, her family, or relationships.

We are all being called upon now to drop the confines of the old structures and reimaging how we move forward together, utilizing the very gifts our bodies and minds are entrusted with.

Her impact is time tested and proven, dating back thousands of years, with glimpses breaking through today in different hues. There are nuances and styles that are unfamiliar because they are appearing as brand-new. They could not have existed before because we were not ready for them until now. The timeless qualities that have never wavered in our natural world and that we embody, remain intact.

Women Who Future respond to the familiar evolutionary impulse and draw on the same wellspring of wisdom as our ancestor grandmothers since the beginning of time. Their seed is passed from generation to generation, carrying within it an intelligence of universal womb-wisdom. Characteristics of compassion, nurturing, healing, creativity, collaboration, architect, synthesizer, and intuition are stranded through every seed’s DNA. She shares a frequency with the cosmos and a heartbeat with planet Earth.  That seed of divinity is tucked in the womb of every woman who futures. We accept our sacred task to midwife the future into being. We know our past and accept that our future requires our full integrity with reverence. We root back to the nature of who we are and honor our relationship and relevance to the world. Within the ecosystem that thrives on all the organic, smaller touchpoints that are of the seed, is the divine feminine, ancient and new at the same time. It is our responsibility and our birthright. While our methods can be firm and determined, they are without rank and vigor because we know that violences is not the balance of justice. 

A Woman Who Futures is an archetypal identity, coming into inner-focus due to the outer realities of our world. She is being summoned by the tensions of the world, like a mother waking up to comfort and heal her suffering children. She must remember who she is to muster the strength, or simply listen to her inner guidance. She picks up her staff and pulls back her shoulders.

North American Indigenous prophecy declares that the staff has been passed to the feminine in this current shift of the ages. We hold our staff in our grip with authority, pressed firmly into the flesh of the feminine to anchor ourselves. As if plugging into Her energy source that she is, the staff is the conduit to provide us with the nourishment necessary to remember our authentic power.

The old, tired structures of hierarchy and power-over are replaced with actualized hierarchy and power-to with a feather’s touch. As is the example of feminine leadership, rather than the social stratification of power structures with choices made for the rest of us at the bottom by the few at the top, problems are solved in consultation and by consensus when possible. We operate in a manner of co-creation, in a circular manner, losing the vertical ladder, and looking across to listen to one another, never look down upon anyone.

Women Who Future today understand we have been working on addressing issues within the complex systems that were not designed for us in the first place. Therefore, it is natural that our limits of change are bound to the blueprint of those structures. It’s time to circumvent the old system’s scaffolding and get wildly creative and open. Women who future reimagine, question assumptions, and change our language and our story for themselves, and therefore the world. We are writing the Future ourstory.

We are in profound concert with our natural world. We carry the water of humanity in our womb and blood flows through and out of us giving birth to civilization. We are in sacred balance with our left and right brain hemispheres, divine masculine and divine feminine, lunar and solar, and all dualistic characteristics we embody. We are care-full with language and our behaviors that reflect and support the wholeness of who we are. We are willing to look at the parts of ourselves buried or distorted that need to be loved back into totality. This is how we can recongize, without attachment, the suffering of the world, and love it back into totality.

We are midwifing the emerging consciousness of a ethos that is turning and we are in service to the unknown place that is calling all of us.