The Radiant Woman - June's Archetype

June is the first full promise of summer, the long days are fully here and the world is glowing with early, hazy, heady light.

So, naturally, this is the month of The Radiant Woman - the archetype in The Women of The Wheel here to remind you of your own inner light.

So, where do we start?

She comes with many gifts.... namely, the awareness of your true light, the one that shines simply because you are you and because whatever you do or however you feel, your glow can always be seen by those who deserve to see it.

But she is also a strong reminder of the ways we have been taught to dim ourselves.

Most people simply aren't comfortable with a woman who shines at full brightness. It's a society-wide message that to do so makes you a whole host of unmentionable things - selfish, self-centred, imposing, challenging, uncomfortable, threatening even.

But most of all, a woman who isn't afraid to shine her own light is stealing the limelight from everyone else. As if there's not actually enough to go around.

And so, women....from when they are still just teeny tiny little girls, are shamed for glowing. And quickly it is learnt that to radiate your own light at full volume is simply not OK.

It's created generation after generation of acceptance that this is what women should do. And still, we learn it, and we do it, and we get so good at swallowing it down that it becomes normal.

Yet every time we enter a room and automatically adjust our brightness, our nervous system knows it. Our energy knows it. Our BODY knows it. And we know, somewhere deep inside, that our light is desperate to shine whilst we hold the cap over the source for the comfort of others.

But don't be fooled into thinking you simply learned to swallow your light. Because the opposite is not wanted either...apparently! God forbid you're seen to be moping or sullen, or struggling. Thats not acceptable either.

And so we learn the only acceptable glow is the curated, performed and socially comfortable one. Not too bright, not a weight for others to carry.

And from that inner disruption comes a saying that I KNOW you know well....

'I'm fine'

Because you've been taught it's simply not OK to be anything else.

And so, The Radiant Woman arrives to show you the possibility of shining just as you please. Of allowing yourself to believe, and know and genuinely accept that your light has the right to shine. It's one of the most beautiful things about you. There is always enough to go around.

And those that can't handle the brightness.....well, that's their problem, not yours.

You just need to learn how to be comfortable sitting within your own radiance.

Because when you do, you give every other woman in the room the permission to do the same.

And the world needs soooooo many more women that are not afraid to glow.