The bright category goes from 12-18. If you belong to this category, and you are a working girl, you are in a strange dilemma. Even though bright colors look the best on you, you may be forced to wear muted neutrals and earth tones at work! Why do you think that is? I’ll tell you what I think – I think that conservative companies are afraid to have “wild women” running around, so they have to make sure you dress a little more subdued, a little more conservative! (More suppression of women, even today! They should be ashamed!)

What does conservative actually mean? It means that the old ways should be conserved. It means that they are not open to change. Women may finally be working side by side with men, but they are still working on their terms, so they still have to dress a certain way to fit in!

And, what exactly does your choice of clothing colors have to do with how competent you are and how you do your job? Absolutely nothing, actually. It is just another way to keep women in line so they don’t become a distraction to the other workers.

About 40-50 years ago, working women were stern looking spinster types who had dedicated themselves to being career women. They basically had to make a choice between being efficient working women and having a family life, so they weren’t focused on being attractive to anyone. But, it is different now.

Rebel, I say, it is time for things to change! There is no longer any need to make a choice between being gorgeous and being competent. Now you can be both, and if you are good enough at what you do, there is no way you’ll lose your job for wearing a red turtle neck instead of a camel suit. Dare to be vibrant! Dig out those bright colors that are hiding in the back of your closet, and let your true self shine through!
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Are these our ideals? I don’t think they should be! Women are supposed to be round and soft. We are supposed to have babies and nurture those babies. Tight, skinny bodies with no curves aren’t as soft and nurturing as someone with a few extra pounds here and there. We have to create our own ideas of what is beautiful – and it should be based on how nature has made us. We need to celebrate our differences, rather than trying to fit into a standard of beauty that doesn’t fit any of us.

So, we need a new approach. We need to start defining our own standards of beauty by discovering and celebrating each individual’s own beauty! We have to stop comparing ourselves to anyone else, and we have to stop criticizing ourselves. We are all different from each other, we are all beautiful in our own ways, so let’s celebrate our differences instead of trying to be all the same.

First of all, we need to work with the bodies that we have. We shouldn’t have to cut and suck, stitch and tuck so that we can all have the same bodies in the end. All we have to do is think how we can balance out what we have been given. This can easily happen with clothing. Because we all have different body shapes, each of us have to also develop our own individual clothing style.

Both the shape and the color of the clothes we choose can make a huge difference when it comes to balancing out the features we have been given. In the next week or so, I am going to write a series of posts about how we can create our own individually flattering clothing style.
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What if women refused to buy ugly shoes, or uncomfortable shoes that create hammertoes and aching backs! If we all rebel, they would have to listen and start making what we want, wouldn’t they! What if the shoe manufacturers had to start creating more shoes that could give us COMFORT, as well as STYLE?

If we consciously boycott anything that doesn’t feel right, things will have to change for the better because every choice we make can change our future. This is what the Age of Aquarius is about; choosing what we want in the future, and saying good-bye to anything we no longer want. We are all personally responsible for the change that is about to happen, and it has to happen on every level, not just politically. I say no to spiked heels, and yes to comfort with style! What do you say? What is your favorite brand of comfortable/stylish shoes?

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But soldiers weren’t the only ones who “followed orders.” Women have always had to do what they were told by authority figures in power, even when it was potentially harmful to their bodies. Just look at childbirth practices, and you’ll see what I mean. Did you know why women had to lie on their backs to give birth to their children? I heard that one of the French kings (Louis something or rather) loved to peak through a whole in the curtain when someone was giving birth. And because he couldn’t see very well from where he stood, he suggested that the woman lies on her back with her legs open, so he could get a better view. Since the doctors also liked this arrangement, it stuck, even though it is the worst possible position for any woman to give birth. The natural inclination is to work with gravity, to sit up, stand up, walk around or get on all fours. But, no, she was told to lie down and push, with no help from gravity. So, it is no wonder that births became complicated events that had to be done in hospitals instead of at home!

Hospitals have a lot to answer for, even though they are supposed to “help” people. Take a peak at childbirth practises from 50-60 years ago – not only were women on their backs, they were also completely anesthetized before giving birth. Then the midwife or nurse would push on the belly until the baby came out!!! Some great experience that must have been for baby and mom! Welcome to the world, little baby! Sorry about the violent entry!

A lady I was working for at some point, actually experienced this when she gave birth to her daughter. She told me that when she was in her late twenties, she had to go into the hospital for a severe belly ache. They “put her under” and when she woke up, she felt much better. Two days later, the nurses asked her if she wanted to see her baby. She said “What baby?” She hadn’t even known that she was pregnant! She had just thought she was putting on weight, without knowing why. I wonder how she could have missed the fact that she no longer had her periods for nine months! Or that the baby was kicking! Beats me! Maybe she thought it was just a bad case of indigestion? Poor girly!

So, why did we put up with this kind of nonsense? Why did we trust the so called “authorities?” Why did we allow them to make us into victims? Why didn’t we rebel? Why didn’t we tell the leaders of our countries to work things out on paper, instead of killing innocent people with guns and bombs to get their points across? And, why didn’t we tell our male docs that WOMEN are the authorities on childbirth and nursing practices, shocking as it may be, and that our bodies have their own internal wisdom that needs to be honored? It happened because we lived in a time of victim consciousness, and this is one of the things that has to change when we enter the Age of Aquarius. Now, the time has come to take our power back, to claim our rights as women, to become personally responsible for our own actions, as well as our health and well being, and to stop trusting authority figures with blind faith.

If you had a beautiful birth experience, and want to share your story, please comment below. I love to hear beautiful birth stories. (No victim stories, please! My vision for this blog is to share and put energy into the vision of what we want the future to be like. That is why I only want beautiful stories. Let’s leave the past and hold a more positive vision for the future).
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