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FORMER Fremantle milliner and author Miranda Green has launched a new book exploring the interaction between feminine and masculine energies, yin and yang, and how the imbalance between each has had a global impact. 

Insights from the Big Picture Narrative of a Sewing Machine Activist is Ms Green’s second book and is a meticulously crafted collection of musings, activism, and observations about society through the lens of feminine and masculine energy. 

Throughout the book, Ms Green analyses the role of feminine and masculine “energetic patterns” that live in everything, including ourselves. 

“People don’t have a real sense of all the wonderful aspects of feminine energy,” Ms Green said. 

“My sense with the feminine is that uploading the feminine is about bringing balance and empathy into our society.

“It’s about bringing all the things that are missing from our business world, and all the things that are missing from our institutions.”

According to Ms Green, this dynamic does not refer to men and women, “it’s yin and yang” between the left and right hemispheres of our brains. 

Nervous

“Some people are nervous about the ‘feminine’ and ‘masculine’,” Ms Green said. 

“I’m was really keen throughout the book to make sure that people know I’m not taking a side, I was actually talking as a citizen who has both feminine and masculine qualities.”

Through her title of the “Sewing Machine Activist”, Ms Green addresses the impact patriarchal corporation structure has had on global society, which she labels as “the root cause of global crises” including catastrophic climate change. 

“The problem is we have very powerful, polar masculine people in charge of our worlds.

“The ‘corporation’ was once an actually wonderful institution, a wonderful entity in the 1800s it was only the last 100 and 150 years that it’s actually become like a psychopathic entity.”

Ms Green stresses the book is not intended to ostracise men when writing about the pitfalls of an asymmetrical system, saying feminine traits do not “belong to one gender,” she said. 

“I don’t want it to be divisive. 

“The feminine is about the ‘we’, about ‘us’, and I want people to unite and find our commonality and support each other.

“I want men to step back and take time and let their hearts open, because they’ve been forced to shut them off from feeling emotion,” she said.

Ms Green, a milliner by trade, says her most “startling” ideas often come while she’s working

“My pen and paper is ready for me to write it down,” she said. 

“That’s why I call myself an activist, because, in a way, my writing is my activism.

“I’ve been writing every day since 1989 and I’ve used that as a tool to help me move through life as well.” 

Uploaded

The hope, Ms Green says, is that the feminine energetic patterns are “uploaded into all of our institutions of power” so human-caused catastrophes like climate change can balance and reverse. 

“Then, the unhealthy masculine will start to dissipate, and the healthy masculine will come and sit beside the feminine and between the two of them and their set of healthy values, will have a much better world in so many ways,” Ms Green said. 

Insights from the Big Picture is available to purchase from most online portals such as Booktopia and Angus & Robertson.

by KATHERINE KRAAYVANGER