Like all things that are rooted in truth, accessing your divine feminine power is actually pretty simple. According to shaman LaOta Rassoull—owner of Of the Sun (not to be confused with us, Other Suns!)—women who are in need of increased power only need to “call for the power of the divine feminine to come back into our world.”

In my second interview with LaOta (click here to read Interview 1), she describes how the Earth, as the original mother of us all, can show us the way to rebalancing the divine feminine and masculine. “This means respect for nature,” she tells me. “We are afraid of nature. We’ve been taught to be terrified—and that’s our great-grandmother. Why are we scared of our great-grandmother? Because we haven’t been out there with her. So we should call back the power and let the power of the planet course through our veins.”

In my own experience, healing is always simple (not to be confused with “easy”). For example, yes, it requires discipline—and may at times be difficult—to do an extended juice cleanse or to leave that toxic relationship, but the way to get there is simple: just stop doing the things that are bad for you. As LaOta says, “Stop for a moment. Ask yourself, ‘What is in the best interest of me?’”

Below we talk about how women can get in alignment with their divine feminine power, the magic of choosing the highest vibration in any situation, and why we actually shouldn’t aspire to the “soft girl life.”

(Read Part 2 of this interview here.)

EMPRESS WOO: There’s a movement of women who are stepping into their divine femininity right now. They’re reading Sacred Woman and that book is opening their eyes, but I was wondering: How do you define “divine femininity”?

LaOTA RASSOULL: I would start with this idea of Mother Earth. She is a divine being, a God, and we are her direct descendants—not just women, but all of humanity. All indigenous tribes through all of time recognize the Earth as mother. Some of us are the color of the Earth.

As the principle of mother, there are two polarities—a divine masculine and a divine feminine. “Wombman” is the polarity of creation, the aspect that is mystical by design, the algorithm that is the life giver, the nourisher, the gestater, the protector of life. The divine masculine, were he operating in his [true] design, brings the line or lineage—he’s actually made like a line, and we’re made like a circle. He is designed for protection and support and he is 50 percent divine feminine, because there is no man who is born who has not come through a woman.

Original photo by Nikita Tikhomirov; quote by LaOta Rassoull

So we are all divine, but the wombman is something unique and different in the same way both sides of our brains have different functions; there’s no competition, but they don’t do the same thing. And there’s no equality. Language is not the same as motor skills. Frontal lobe is different than the permanent brain. None of them are wrong or incorrect—it’s really how they work together that creates the human experience to its greatest exaltation.

Male and female are complementary and different, and they serve the whole. But there is a level of congruity for optimal function which we have lost. Masculine and feminine on this planet are not congruent and not in honor of each other. So the solution is that balance can be gained through honor, respect, and gratitude to both parties. If women were given the appropriate honor, respect, and gratitude, it would already mean equal pay, it would already mean respect, support, and protection instead of being pushed to the point where the things that we do best—our sexual desire and our birthing of children, which is a biological function that we do without any necessary effort, like the subconscious—have been used against us. Our value has eroded. How many women think if they have children they now are not valuable? When in fact, in a world where women cannot have children, and in the last 40 years women have been unable to reproduce, we should be the most valuable commodity there is. Nobody else can do it but us.

EMPRESS WOO: In contrast, femininity today is seen as having a full face of makeup, big artificial breasts and butts, and fake wigs and eyelashes. How damaging is this superficial idea of femininity?

LaOTA: The part that you just described I think is devastating. Because there’s so much surgery involved now—this hatred, to hate yourself enough to cut your breast open and stuff something inside. And the horror stories about the Brazilian Butt Lift—not to mention that there is no muscle in your eyelid, certainly not for weight lifting [laughs], so if you carry things around on them, you’re going to have droopy eyelids. There is nothing wrong with beautification, but this is cartoonish. And what happens to self? To look in the mirror and hate everything you’re seeing. Hate whatever kind of hair grows out of your head, hate the fact that your lashes are the length they are. So now we want another woman’s hair—maybe that woman had cancer. I tell people all the time, you don’t want people’s hair. That’s where their brain is. You don’t want the illness that may have been in the person whose hair was cut.

EMPRESS WOO: What advice do you have for women today who want to access their femininity and be in alignment as a wombman, but don’t know where to start?

LaOTA: This is what I teach all of my clients: to call for the power of the divine feminine to come back into our world and to bring with her balance—with honor, respect, and gratitude. She is the mother of male and female, bring balance to her sons and her daughters. She’s been lost.

This means respect for nature. We are afraid of nature. We are afraid of the planet. We’ve been taught to be terrified—and that’s our grandmother, our great-grandmother. Why are we scared of our great-grandmother? [Laughs] Because we haven’t been out there with her. So we should call back the power and let the power of the planet course through our veins. Let us feel the power and that will show us the truth of who we are—that we’re not the cartoon. We’re the real thing. We have the ability to look at nature to see the roles of how we can contribute and to see the archetype. [Women and men] are both divine beings when we act in accordance with that.

Why is it that we don’t want to nurse our children? Why is it that we have now turned ourselves into something unrecognizable [through cosmetic surgeries]? Why is it that we don’t lean into honor of the divine nature of life itself? How is it that a cell phone is more captivating to us than watching a rose? The highest vibrational flower that exists is a rose, and it is a protector—it’s got thorns all over it. If you smell like a rose, you will bring people automatically into a higher frequency. Why aren’t we interested in learning that? Why aren’t we teaching our girls that?

EMPRESS WOO: There is a passage in your book, Call for the Truth, where you talk about free will, being the architect of your own destiny, and how choosing the highest possible vibration can be a course-correction for your path. I just love that idea of how choosing your higher self will keep you in alignment.

LaOTA: It is a solution. For example, you’re at a bar and some guy is talking to you. You have to get up and go to work tomorrow, and if you have one more drink, you’re gonna be drunk. Stop for a moment. Ask yourself, “What is in the best interest of me?” Not, “What will I do to get this person to keep liking me?”

The way the brain works is that the brain becomes what we do. So, I’m a clearer—if I walk through a space, I can feel the molecules move because I’ve been clearing for decades. You’re a writer, so you may have little notes everywhere, because you have a writer’s brain. Because our brains become what we do, we must guard our brains. We must not do things that are not in our exaltation, things that are in our detriment, or listen to people whining, complaining, and tear other people apart with gossip, or listen to music that degrades instead of uplifts. Choose the higher frequency, choose the rose, choose the best experience.

EMPRESS WOO: I feel like as indigenous Black Americans, we often talk about not having the privilege of knowing the ways of our ancestors because that lineage got cut off somewhere. And so I see people looking to Kemet, Yoruba, Indian spirituality, the Tao—we’re having to create our own ancient ways again. Do you agree with that?

LaOTA: I have studied world religions extensively and what I have found is that they’ve been here the whole time—Buddhism, Taoism—but this is where we [still] are. The Chinese have had Taoism…and where are they? The Africans have had Kemet, but what are they doing? Where is the evidence that this was inclusive of women and that this has been the balance? I don’t see it. I don’t see that the great ascended masters taught on more than one polarity. It doesn’t mean that I am not in respect of it, I just don’t see the evidence that it’s the way.

As I see it, life is what we should be working to support—not a person. We should come together to support life now and in the future—our own lives and the lives of those who will come after us—and we can work with nature.

Right now the Earth is in such poor condition because of what has been done. We need to be the caretakers again. And my guidance tells me that we will have to go backwards before we go forward. That we may have to be more on the land and be more in touch with the water. I call upon the winds. I call upon the Earth. The reality for me is that there is no Egyptian god that’s greater than the Earth itself. There’s no Buddha that’s greater than water or greater than air. I mean, how many seconds can you go without air? How many seconds can you go without knowing about Buddha?

We just came out of a pandemic. Where was it working? And now people who have been vaccinated are gonna have a problem. When I do soul plans now, I’m calculating how much of the vaccine they’re getting from just being around people shedding. Because the vaccine is contagious. If you’re sleeping with someone who is vaccinated, you might end up with it in your field. So now I’m actually clearing the vaccine out of people’s field—and then people who want it removed from the body are buying sessions just for that. All of that is part of my practice because it all affects the future. That looks like the end of humanity to me: They’re gonna be sick and then how can their sperm not be sick if they’re sick? And so what can you do with that?

EMPRESS WOO: Switching gears, on Twitter, a lot of women of my generation and younger are talking about how they’re stepping into their “soft girl era.” Have you heard of it?

LaOTA: No, tell me what it is.

Original photo by by Mike Von; quote by LaOta Rassoull

EMPRESS WOO: Well, in short, “soft girl life” means they’re being softer and less aggressive with men and allowing themselves to be vulnerable—letting men take care of them.

LaOTA: I think instead of “soft” we ought to be “respectful.” I don’t think anything beats honor, respect, and gratitude—to be with a man or a woman. I think whether you have a friend or whether it’s your mother or whether it’s your lover, that honor, respect, and gratitude is the appropriate thing. You don’t have to be soft. You don’t have to be hard. You can just be the truth. The truth says it all and being in honor of a person automatically positions you to lower yourself to let them come through. This idea of letting someone take care of you is not an idea that I am in harmony with. I’m in harmony with sovereignty. I teach the women with us to call for the divine feminine and become sovereign. Then you are the master of yourself. When a woman positions herself in anything less than sovereignty, the opportunity for things to go wrong is very strong.

So then if “soft girl” means to let him pay, well, that’s fine. I’m not saying you should fight over the dinner check. [Laughs] I’m saying that position yourself so that you have what you need to live your life. And that you’re not making decisions that compromise your integrity or your honor and respect itself. People I know got vaccine shots because they wanted to travel. I’m like, did you do that on a humbug? Really? If you had enough wherewithall, you could figure out a way. If anything pushes you to the wall like that, then you’re not sovereign. Create a world where, where you are is where you want to be—[instead of] compromising until you’re ready to be somewhere else.

I don’t know that you can do anything without the proper regard and worthiness of self. And it’s not something that others bestow upon you. It’s something you give yourself. Once you give it to yourself, you can’t be mad that somebody else didn’t, if you didn’t give it to yourself first. I guess it wouldn’t be trending if we called it like “worthy self life.” [Laughs] But that is the truth of it: Once you feel worthy, whatever you do is going to be full and will give you more robust experiences.

This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity.

Read Interview 1: Clearing Negative Energy and Restoring the Divine Feminine with LaOta Rassoull

Read Interview 2, Part 2: LaOta Rassoull on the Anti-Life Agenda of Artificial Wombs and Competition Between Women and Men

Shaman LaOta Rassoull on How Women Can Access Their Divine Feminine Power (Interview 2)