The healing of the sacred masculine is inextricably linked to that of the sacred feminine. One cannot heal without the other. Let us hold space, not contempt for one another. Encourage the healthiest side of our masculinity to be expressed.

If nothing else, last week's Lunar Eclipse has distinguished just how trapped and dissonant our private, inner-child experiences have become from everything being drummed into us by the grown-up world of social, religious, academic and political influence and indoctrination.

The spiritual journey is never a happy one. It is always painful, ends in tragedy because in its essence it cuts a lonely path for its seer or prophet - one which individuals must eventually take alone, if somehow later followed by fanatical groups, movements and entire societies.