Cosmic Weather Report
May 2009: Sacred Sex
When external conditions get confusing it's a sign from spirit to look within. You've heard this a million times before, but what does it mean in this living moment?
All May the structural planet Saturn rests in 16 degrees Virgo, smack in the middle of the Virgin. What's a virgin? Probably not what you think, according to the original meaning of the word. In the 1,000-year period when the matriarchy ruled in the Middle East, the word virgin meant "a woman unto herself." Sovereignty. In that time virgins were sacred prostitutes, priestesses of the goddess, trained in the great secret of how to make love in a way that brought spirit to earth.
It was felt that men lacked the direct connection to the goddess that women had, so these virgins danced in temple gates to lure men in and make love to them. Sacred prostitutes could own land, conduct business, and held a very high place in society, but no man could own them. They were free to make love with whomever they chose, however many they chose, and it was a sacred path of redemptive healing for body and mind.
Later, when political Christianity came along it split the feminine into the profane and the whitewashed: Mary Magdalene, whore; and Mary Mother of Jesus, Blessed Virgin. From that time on a schism has persisted in our culture between the sacred and the sexual. We even have two words for them, making it nearly impossible to conceive of them as one. For some people the term Sacred Whore in itself will draw laughter and ridicule, raising age-old specters of religious conditioning.
Inside every Virgo is the ancient key for how to make love in a way that brings heaven to earth. With Saturn in mid-Virgo this month, we are all passing through the rays of the virgin, that is, the rays of the sacred sexual. The key to turning within at this time is to imagine that you're here to make love to life. No matter how challenging life gets, no matter how many burdens are on your shoulders, a deeper mystic avenue exists, which opens the gates to heaven on earth. There is a way to walk through this world as if every breath were a sacred act, every footstep a dance of union.
Most western sexuality is still caught in archaic and obsolete trappings-look at Hollywood's depictions. Why does every depiction of hot sex have to include something forbidden-like someone having an affair, or dying of a rare disease? Viewed in this skewed context, sexual freedom ends up reading like the freedom to have more than one partner, or the freedom to have intercourse in elevators, or to use sexual paraphernalia. I'd love to see a cultural vision of a happily married couple using sexuality to open deeper and deeper channels of sacred bliss between them, with nothing bizarre or taboo thrown in for artificial enhancement.
There is a great treasure inside you. Women carry one aspect of this, men another. The treasure is your Birthright of Bliss. When you dig beneath surface passion, a music of the soul springs up. A rhythm of the spheres aligns your body with the heavenly bodies. Laughing freedom, like that of an infant, restores an innocent virginal state. Earth existence becomes a renewable resource. Your inner environment regenerates body, spirit and mind. (Whoever thought of body, spirit and mind as separate anyway?) Practicing this form of worship as a way of love not limited to sexual encounters, the Lovers fulfill their age-old promise, that if we chose to leave the Garden, paradise would be restored deep within our own bodies.
True, learning the keys to sacred lovemaking won't eliminate the list of world problems facing us today. But it will provide a non-toxic, deeply sustainable, life-renewing human being who can come at those problems from a vibration of wholeness and healing. Lovemaking of this sort is not just a sexual, but a revolutionary act. It's hard to stuff your dreams in an office cubicle after exploding into the goddess. It's difficult to go along with the mass-trance, brainwashed, shutdown state, when your body is flooded with the ecstatic news of being.
Who are you really? What are you here to do? How much longer are you going to wait?
Forward!
Mark Borax
Soul Level Astrologer
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