There is no doubt about it...women all over the world are on the move. Women, responding to a vivid inner calling to make a contribution, are finding a stronger voice. And that voice is the mighty voice of conscience, aligned with compassion. Compassion is the first and final solution for a fading civilization. Women, in a team approach, attend to the collective health by utilizing the collective heart. Many women who now awakening to this crucial period of human evolution are carrying within them the seeds of global transformation. Women of every generation, race, nationality, and ability are poised in potential, waiting for an inner cue to begin a peaceful revolution, to answer the impelling call of evolution. Modern women, utilizing the feminine skills of inclusive nurturing, team work, intuition, compromise, and attention to the long view are now stepping through the matrix of heart to personally model a new approach in every field of endeavor. Invoking the modern myth of the age: the activist of heart, we call forth a feminine precedence of motivation rejuvenated through compassion. It is simply time for "nice girls" everywhere to come out from crouching behind good manners, and standing up with dignity, evolve into women of honor.

In remarkable times, remarkable women are called to come forth. Events are now moving on Earth that require the superior response of feminine love. When the future summons her, the evolutionary woman as the footprint of unfolding destiny, will always respond. Never will she have to say later that she failed only because she had never tried. As 21st century women, we do not look to ancient roles to identify ourselves or our contribution to Earth, as human history is no longer adequate in determining the uniquely feminine imprint of our modern evolutionary work. Women need not search farther for a perfect model of performance than within. It is woman who, practiced at hosting gestation, bearing the seed of new idea, successfully transforms energy into life. We are the ones, who impregnable to all that seeks to hold us back, will now walk through the doorway of raw courage on every continent to birth evolutionary change for us all.

Women are now gathering in new nations of intention. The greathearted Mothers of Nations are now called forth to become the great-conscienced leaders of nations. The new birthing grounds of global humanitarian governance will be a "kitchen table diplomacy" where as good bread dough that gets passed around and well kneaded by the hands of many, every voice will have its turn to be heard. Powerful social movements beginning in discussions around the kitchen table of equality while passing the bread of opportunity, will set the new feminine pattern of change in every personal endeavor. Out of the wombs of hearts and hands and homes, women will weave our future story...a future free from hunger, inequality, violence and greed. Free because good women everywhere, who seated at kitchen tables of community, daring to dialog, daring to lead, will now rise up and leaving their houses of security, birth the compassionate heart out in the streets.

How do we change traditions that are entrenched in the ages? Understand that everything in creation, no matter how entrenched it appears, is constantly in motion. Nothing is fixed. Nothing is set. Everything is open to change, and when "RE-quested" by the passionate heart, everything is possible. At any moment, any entity or process is capable of unfolding, "morphing," blending, and refolding into vital new patterns, to reappear in radically modern and even astonishingly different form. And it is already happening. A few weeks ago I was part of a gathering of women of various generations, races, and nations, meeting in San Francisco to create together, using feminine models, a modern template of creative business, in which each participant had equal turn to be heard. Decisions crafted by teamwork were finalized in consensus. Like ribbons, we daily wove together, in the natural way of women: personal stories, spirituality, ceremony, and business discourse into a strong braid of creation. Silliness was encouraged and tears and laughter abounded. We even changed the language of how business is traditionally conducted. For example, our "business plan" is called a "storybook," and instead of a "CEO who led" us, we were all "co-creators" who "facilitated." From my personal perspective of 25 years in business, I witnessed that because the group had taken the time to first bond in heart, business decisions came quickly through the woman's way of seeking mutuality and compromise above all else!

How do we each personally make a difference, offer a unique contribution? In an interactive galactic dance we are all partners, who like constellation and quark, by moving, effect one another; and by turning, rotate the universe. When one woman in her small and seemingly insignificant life turns, the Great Gears of civilization are activated. No matter how inexperienced or how unknown, when one individual as one gear, turns, it gradually turns those in closest proximity, those it's immediately engaged with, which "in turn" effects a shift for each of its neighbors, and in this way finally alters the entire structure of the great mechanism of society. Yet someone must begin the revolution...a feminine "revolution," a blending of "revolve" and "solution." Someone must be the first in their community to turn. When you make the courageous decision to "turn" locally, you effect the lives of women who you will never know, all across the planet. Yet how many of us, approaching the threshold of our greater destiny, fearing we are not enough, draw back?

To those who say "I do not have sufficient skills or courage," I would respond: No matter how wounded or despairing you may feel, no matter if lacking in finances, education or experience, if you have the heart and the persistence of a woman, yet have ability the only size of a grain of rice, it WILL be enough. Let the tears come. Women have never been afraid of tears, but now we will use them to become a stronger warrior, as tears of grief, tears of anger, when forged by the strength of compassion, become the "armor invincible" of resolve.

So how does this global movement begin? It begins by each woman first finding and then allowing her voice. No longer shall the woman's voice be treated with indifference or derision in the home or in the profession.The evolutionary woman of the 21st century begins her personal campaign to change the world by strongly infiltrating feminine heart and feminine opinion into her daily field of endeavor. When in the past, you remained silent to aggressive ignorance, letting small indignities and large transgressions pass you by, you now no longer remain silent. When in the past, you allowed your womanhood to be in any way diminished, you now no longer tolerate condescension, abuse, or being "disappeared." They can lock us away and sell us as sex slaves, but lookout: WOMEN WILL NOW BE RISING IN DIGNITY. They can attack us in our homes and out in the streets, but watch out: WOMEN WILL BE NOW RISING IN FREEDOM. They can deny us access to leadership but understand: SPIRITED WOMEN WILL NOW BE RISING all the way to the White House! No matter how small a band of women we may appear, united we become a mighty global force. One woman, as a single drop of water, may appear ineffectual, but beware the powerful physics of cohesion. The rising evolutionary wave, whose time has come, is unstoppable.

Women who responding to the needs of the times are now moving to meet together at the headwaters of change. This new movement of women as personal tributaries of intent, are daily, steadily, merging to swell the swiftly flowing rivers of change. Everywhere all over the planet, the eager Women Nations of Earth overwhelming the banks of apathy and pouring down the slopes of discontent, now with both feet, are jumping into the invigorating waters of hope. In a chain of entwining arms and determined hearts, we cast out the great net of compassion across the waters of humanity, to gather in the planetary women. But we, the courageous women of the 21st century, must act now, for the headwaters of evolution which urgently beckon us to take our place in history, will no longer wait.

I challenge the women of the world, gathering together at the headwaters, to boldly cast out the net, the finely meshed fibers of the heart. In this way we will catch the best, boldest and most brilliant ideals and launching them skyward, light up the world.

Victoria Covell is the author of "Spirit Animals" and "The Evolutionary Woman of the 21st Century." victoriacovell@yahoo.com

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