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Gene Key 2: the feminine essence, dislocation, and the slow return to trust

Writing about the Gene Keys each week is a different kind of work from writing my novels. When I write the Gaea Remembered series I drop into something quieter, where the words bubble up and I follow them. Writing these articles is more structured: listening, reading, taking notes, shaping ideas. More masculine in its approach. And this particular Gene Key is all about the feminine, where these days I feel most at home. I felt the tension between the two as I wrote. Perhaps this is exactly as it should be.

Gene Key 2 is called the great source of the feminine. Its shadow is Dislocation, its gift Orientation and its Siddhi Unity. It is, at its heart is an invitation to stop pushing and to come home. Home is not your physical abode, rather it is coming home to yourself, the inner you, that loves you and the world.

The Imbalance We Are Living

Today there is an imbalance between the masculine and feminine essences, and it is worth saying clearly that these essences are not connected to gender. Women are using too much masculine essence to compete and survive in the workplace, and this in turn leaves the masculine confused, unsure how to act, causing high levels of stress in both men and women. (I will write more about our essences in my next article.)

Richard Rudd suggests that the I Ching is one of the great transmissions of truth that has echoed across time, but like many things over the centuries its messages have been tampered with. The order of the first two hexagrams was swapped — probably when patriarchy and the suppression of the feminine became the norm. Today the first hexagram relates to the masculine and the second to the feminine, yet it is from the feminine that everything truly begins.

In the I Ching this key is called the Receptive and is yin in nature, where the first key is yang.

“The other thing that we discover right here at the beginning is that in the I Ching, and therefore in life, it is always the women who are in charge. As you enter more and more deeply into the mysteries of the Gene Keys, you will gradually begin to understand what is truly meant by this statement.” (Richard Rudd)

Feminine is ‘being’ and masculine is ‘becoming’.

“Every part of this Gene Key teaches us there is a purpose to everything in existence. At no point in evolution has anything ever occurred that was not part of a huge interconnected plan.” (Richard Rudd)

Dislocation

Dislocation suggests we have lost our way, but Richard suggests it is just a perception, determined by our own frequency and level of awareness. Modern western life is a prime driver of this feeling, as we are taught to see ourselves as separate from nature. Native tribal groups who still live in harmony with the land are less likely to feel it, because they are in unity with their environment.

Everything within this shadow is related to an agenda.

“In this shadow you think you are important, you think you have to help the world, you think there is something you can do to help. All agendas emerge from a mistrust in life.” (Richard Rudd)

“It is our perception that dislocates us from the truth. We can’t even leave the truth even if we tried, because we are the truth every step of the way. It is not possible for a human being to make a mistake, but at the shadow frequency we believe mistakes exist. We believe somehow that we know better than life. We believe we are in control.” (Richard Rudd)

It is this shadow that gives us the yearning for home. What we are seeking is not our physical home but our unity. A longing for unconditional love and happiness that keeps eluding us. It manifests as feeling lost and drives us out into the world to keep busy, to seek solutions outside ourselves, until we become aware, accept the dislocation, and begin to surrender and go within.

“We have forgotten how to receive. We have forgotten how to simply be. We have forgotten how to trust.” (Richard Rudd)

We have become dislocated from what is within us. We have forgotten that we are home, because home is inside us, its always with us, just like a tortoise carries its home on its back. This home is love and this is why we seek love, but we are usually looking in the wrong place - outside of ourselves. To truly love we first need to love ourselves.

This is not about not helping or doing. It is that when we do, it comes from a place of love rather than agenda.

“It is so rare to find a truly loving heart in this life. A heart that does not want to help you. A heart that does not have an agenda. Because the heart does not have an agenda. Only the mind and the emotions have agendas.” (Richard Rudd)

I am clairsentient, and since childhood I have had the sense that some things simply do not feel right, but I was often made to feel wrong, even stupid, if I aired those feelings. It has only been in recent years, after going down some very dark and uncomfortable rabbit holes, that these feelings have begun to make sense as I have learnt what sits closer to the truth. I’m not sure we will ever know what is truly true, so much has been corrupted and destroyed but I feel less dislocated now. I now just sit with a head of question marks as its getting harder and harder to discern whether what we are seeing or hearing is the truth or not. It is this learning that led me to writing the Gaea Remembered series.

Orientation

The Daoist I Ching asks:
How do we find our way in life?
How do we know what is right for us?

The very asking suggests we have lost our way. It offers answers like “be like water” and “act by not doing,” which sound rather nebulous until you experience them. As we allow life to flow and stop pushing, orientation happens.

My training in heart intelligence and the Art of Feminine Presence taught me to pause, to be in flow, to receive. Studying the Gene Keys has reinforced this with the encouragement to sit and contemplate. Life feels more orientated now. I am less caught up in other people’s agendas. I can spot them. My instincts are becoming more finely honed.

The message of this second gift is to trust everything.

I will be honest: this is where I still struggle, even with a head stuffed with question marks. I have learnt the hard way not to trust blindly. I have been told I am too trusting and have paid painful lessons for it, particularly where money has been part of someone else’s agenda. I have learnt to see these not as mistakes but as learning opportunities, though in hindsight, this lesson has repeated in various guises far to often, before I fully understood it.

The more we learn to surrender, the more orientated we become, and the more synchronicities occur.

My own Gene Keys profile centres on Key 10, with the gift of Naturalness and the Siddhi of Being. Surrender has been one of the hardest things I have had to learn and is one of the biggest shifters in my life. In the early days of practising it I went too far into flow and not much got done. Then I realised I still needed some masculine structure. It is all about finding the balance within our own unity, so that life can function both optimally and joyfully.

“Spend time this week exploring the many expressions of the feminine, in whatever form they take for you — female friends, intuitive decisions, following curves instead of straight lines. Contemplate this sacred current.” (Richard Rudd)

Unity

The Siddhi of this Gene Key is Unity, the oneness that needs the body, that completes the body. It is the divine feminine containing the masculine, merging Gene Keys 1 and 2. You are home, and in love with life.

“The Divine Feminine pole has a great mystery within it, because in a certain sense it cannot be said to be a pole at all. The masculine pole is very simple and straightforward, but the feminine is beyond any sense of reason and understanding. The masculine principle is really an externalisation of the feminine rather than a duality.” (Richard Rudd)

The most important thing to take from this Gene Key is that we cannot make mistakes. There is no such thing as a mistake. Life delivers what we need to learn. Everything is perfect even when it most certainly does not feel that way.

“You only need to melt into your own life to become one with it.” (Richard Rudd)

Writing this article in my more structured, note-taking, masculine way, I notice I am already practising what it is asking of me. The feminine does not need perfect conditions to arrive. It arrives anyway, when we stop insisting on controlling how.

What would change in your life if you trusted that you cannot make a mistake?

New to the Gene Keys start here: The Long-Locked Room: An Introduction to the Gene Keys

Daughter of the Solstice my first novel in the Gaea Remembered Series is coming soon.

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