Ooooh It Makes Me Wonder

Zepplin’s words ring true in my ears, “OOOOh It Makes Me Wonder,” about so many things. But lately I’ve been pondering male/female energy and the trans movement that can be involved with it.

First, it’s said we are made in God’s (Source’s) image, male and female. Hmmm. I guess the Creators (… “made in ‘our’ image”) are male and female? But since Creator is Spirit, He/She must have been talking about our image, made in relation to himself and herself, as male and female energies—equally placed in both males and females (since males and females equally manifest the image of God)!

And that makes sense considering that every person, given their chromosomal sexuality, has both male and female energy within them. So, you see there are some guys with a lot of male energy and very little female energy. Some women are very “female” in their energy with little masculinity to them. But then again, you see some guys with a lot of female energy, and some women with very strong masculine energy. All of us, whatever combination of male/female energies we contain, have both male and female energies in us—a reflection of our Creator. Typically, the right side is masculine and the left side is feminine.

Everyone has their place—strong males, strong females--(energies), strong female-males and strong male-females. All made in the image of God. We have to respect and love each other for that, even if it feels strange to us. We are to love the image of God in each other. Namaste’.

So that’s the first thing I wanted to put out there, and that’s a lot to ponder. But secondly, I wonder how being made with our various mixtures of sexual energies affects things like transgender surgeries.

But let me say first, if someone wants to get surgery to change their gender that’s their business. But it makes me wonder and here’s why. My belief is that before we entered this life, we all made a pre-life contract with the universe, with our spiritual mentors. We agreed who our parents and siblings were going to be--our extended family members, our friends, and even marriage mates. We even decided if we were coming into the world in a male or female body.

In my various incarnations I have been a male most of the time but I have also been a female. A mentor of mine explained that we typically incarnate more often as one sex than the other. BUT he added, we incarnate as the opposite sex to give us an understanding of what it is like to be the opposite sex.

So…if I come into this world in a male body but I have very strong female inclinations (energy), does that mean I should undergo an operation to change my sex? Here’s where I begin to wonder. If I came into the world having made a contract with the universe, to enter as a male, even though I have strong female energy, shouldn’t I keep my male sexual parts and hormones but work out what it’s like to be a male feeling very female through my lifetime?

Isn’t that the purpose of the contract? To learn what it’s like to be male but relate to feminine energy? Or to be a female and relate to masculine energy?

Let’s say in a previous life as a male I mistreated females (which if I’m going to be honest, I did, sadly and unfortunately). If I’m a male and getting in touch with my feminine energy, perhaps I can learn how females feel who are abused and traumatized. But if I trans to a female and move entirely away from my masculine body, have I lost my opportunity to learn? That’s what I wonder about.

I think sometimes we forget that we are all on a spiritual journey, that this life is not the end-all and be-all of everything. It is one slice of the pie, one facet of multiple lifetimes of learning. We need to keep stepping back and looking at our multiple incarnations and how they are slowly teaching us about ourselves, others, and our Creator. This certainly includes our sexuality and gender.

And yet, after reading this and all the thinking and agonizing that goes into making such an important decision, if you decide to undergo a gender transition, bless you. You are loved and supported.

 Thanks for reading this.