Too much feminine energy would be “Barbarellas at the Gate” and they wouldn’t be knocking – they’d be immersed in their feelings, paralyzed that any action may offend someone. We need both the reason for being and the ability to make that reason a reality. It establishes a value system that imbues action with meaning. It is more relaxed, reflective, and facilitative. Feminine energy is all about focusing on the needs of others, rather than one’s own. The answer for those “Barbarians” would have been to insert a little “Barbarella” into the mix.

It was utter chaos for their employees, but those in charge had a desperate need for frenzied activity.

If no deal was to be had that day, they’d reorganize the office and change its reporting structure. The “Barbarians” at RJR Nabisco weren’t concerned with anybody or anything but the almighty dollar, and they were addicted to stirring things up. Someone sprinkled too much masculine energy on their Wheaties, and when masculine energy is out of whack it wants action solely for the sake of action. Johnson failed miserably because he and his cohorts were way out of balance. One of the biggest leveraged buyout attempts in history, the story became a book and later a movie called Barbarians at the Gate. When he took a run at RJR Nabisco in the late 1980’s, CEO Ross Johnson lost his hand in the high stakes game. Without this balance, though, your hand will never experience the riches available to it. When the feminine energy of intuition flows into the masculine energy of action, great things can happen. It has the intuition to instruct the masculine energy when to make its move. It goes for it! Feminine energy, however, monitors the flicker in the eye, the sweat on the brow, and the veins in the neck. Masculine energy knows the rules of the game it has a strategy and isn’t afraid to take a risk. We can all be winners if we play the hand we were dealt, and to do that we must access the masculine and feminine energy present in each of us. But if we throw away a card and draw another, we just end up with a different set of problems. Did you know that for each deck of 52 cards, there are more than 2.5 million possible poker hands? As the famous card player Wyatt Earp once said, “Every hand has its problems, but every hand can be a winner.” It is human nature to look at the hand we were dealt, see its shortcomings, and wish it were different.

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