In the ancient wisdom tradition astrology, Saturn was long considered to be the ruling planet of Aquarius, but the discovery of Uranus in 1781 led to this unusual planet being assigned the role. Uranus is unique as the only planet in our solar system that rotates on its horizontal axis. He literally rolls through theContinue reading “URANUS”
Author Archives: shokti
Conversation with God
In the year 2000 I was emerging from five years in a transformational cocoon called AIDS, wondering how to integrate the cosmic experiences I had been having with being part of the world and joining the living again. The series of Conversations with God books by Neale Donald Walsch were a vital source of insightContinue reading “Conversation with God”
Twenty Twenty OneNess
I’ve long dreamed of a holy Yuletide – a world at Peace and Oneness widely felt, since I discovered Sacred Presence for myself: long dreamed of humanity in deep appreciation of our part in the Divine Mystery and the miracle of Creation. . In 2020 we stopped, Christmas was cancelled for the first time sinceContinue reading “Twenty Twenty OneNess”
YULE 2020
Yule trees shine on silent streets, Within ourselves this year we have to find The Holy Presence of the Yuletide. For some that presence is found in a virgin birth, For others it’s found through Saturnalian mirth – It’s really about the return of the Sun/Son, The Divine Child, the Light of the Soul, TheContinue reading “YULE 2020”
Holy Suffolk: An Angle on the English
The Land holds the memories that people forgot, but when we rediscover how to speak to the earth, trees and sky, we’ll see that nothing is ever really lost. Returning to spend time in the town of my childhood, Stowmarket in mid-Suffolk, after 3 decades away, I am discovering an ancient connection in the landContinue reading “Holy Suffolk: An Angle on the English”
AIDS SHAMAN 3: Dimensional Shift
‘The great tides and strides of history all part of the Divine Plan: A species left to rule its world To build a divine sisterbrotherhood without the Goddess’s guiding hand. As we reach the point of unification voices of love and wisdom arise in every land, but they’re not the ones in power, this weContinue reading “AIDS SHAMAN 3: Dimensional Shift”
The Eternal Love of Diana
Diana was the name given to the people’s beloved Goddess, worshipped in Europe for over two millennia and still honoured by pagans today. The devotional love that she once inspired in the wider population reappeared in a very modern form as the almost cult-like reverence of Diana, Princess of Wales, who is back in theContinue reading “The Eternal Love of Diana”
The Metaphysics of a Virus
Diagnosed HIV+ in 1990 when aged 25, and Long Term Survivor of AIDS, I have lived most of my life with a deadly virus in my body. I have thought long and hard about what a virus is on a metaphysical level, why it affects some people and not others, why it has different effectsContinue reading “The Metaphysics of a Virus”
GODDESS PRAYER
THE WORLDS ABOVE & THE WORLDS BELOW At this time Humanity reaps what it has sown, We each find out how much we have grown in this year of rapid transformation at this time of evolution’s culmination. Religious fools are screaming “End Times” but the end that is due is of the delusion of separationContinue reading “GODDESS PRAYER”
Humanity’s Missing Mother
Since way back in prehistorical times humans have left behind evidence of a deep emotional, psychological and spiritual relationship with a feminine mother spirit which is noticeably lacking in the mainstream cultures and among the mass of the population around the planet today. For the majority of people in the confused and conflicted, frightened world,Continue reading “Humanity’s Missing Mother”
Our Most Ancient Original Ancestry
ONCE UPON A TIME all Love and Play and Sex between humans on planet earth was natural, normal and not-restricted-by-laws. We lived in the garden of Eden in the sense that we had not made some things right and some things wrong. We experienced the innocence of being a child of creation.. Every day weContinue reading “Our Most Ancient Original Ancestry”
Queer Spirituality
Queer Spirituality is the movement of lgbt+ people taking matters of faith into our own hands, making way for the discovery of the innate, magical flow of the divine gifts of the Soul. It is queer people finding our own ways to commune with and celebrate the Mystery behind all Creation, however we perceive that.Continue reading “Queer Spirituality”
Hanging with Harry Hay
Harry Hay (1912-2002) Here are some quotations and photos to assist communion with the spirit of Harry, gay activist and founder of the 1950s Mattachine Society and one of the three founding motherfathers of the Radical Faeries…. Harry was born in Worthing, UK, and lived his life in the USA. Give yourself permission to enjoyContinue reading “Hanging with Harry Hay”
Aurobindo’s Vision
From Sri Aurobindo’s masterpiece Savitri, published in 1940, described on wikipedia as being about “the transcendence of man as the consummation of terrestrial evolution and the emergence of an immortal supramental gnostic race upon earth” A giant dance of Shiva tore the past;There was a thunder as of worlds that fall;Earth was o’errun with fireContinue reading “Aurobindo’s Vision”
Samhain 2020: Paradigm Shift
SAMHAIN: the pagan new year festival of death and rebirth, when the dead are honoured and our place in the cosmic whole remembered. Across the world so many people feel the call to mark Samhain, whether in formal ceremony or the informal celebrations of Halloween. More ancient than any religion, this festival has deep rootsContinue reading “Samhain 2020: Paradigm Shift”
Peace in a Pandemic
All change on Planet Earth A new world going through a painful birth. If we take this time as a spiritual opportunity Seeing life as a journey on which we never stop learning We’re in this together and also alone This journey could bring humanity home. . The human race has been deep asleep inContinue reading “Peace in a Pandemic”
THE DEADLY ‘BELIEF’ IN SCIENCE
Science is the modern religion of the masses, one of the many opiates that have replaced traditional faiths and serve to discourage the general population from pursuing spiritual /magical paths of self-discovery. Science keeps the world asleep because certain fundamental principles on which it operates have infiltrated the collective mind, the shared belief systems thatContinue reading “THE DEADLY ‘BELIEF’ IN SCIENCE”
The Goddess and Christianity
The Great Goddess, worshipped by all of the many nations across the ancient European/Mediterranean/Asiatic world for thousands of years, gave birth to Christianity, in full awareness that her power would be eclipsed for the duration of an astrological age as the male gods took over the heavens. Her avatar, Jesus, knew this too, and spokeContinue reading “The Goddess and Christianity”
We All Come from the Goddess
Pleasure is a Goddess The Ancients knew Pleasure dissolves the boundaries Between Me and You . We All Come from the Goddess Every Body has her nipples Every Soul loves pleasure, joy and laughter the rituals of her presence. . The body is Her holy temple as is the Earth and all its creatures asContinue reading “We All Come from the Goddess”
Queer History – Queer Destiny
When we look at the past it is always through a coloured lens. Historians have always tended to reflect the values of the ruling elite of the time and record history from that viewpoint. Translators of ancient texts have always hidden things in order to not offend the currently dominating, acceptable morality of the time.Continue reading “Queer History – Queer Destiny”
2020 We Need Ecstasy
Stillness Ecstasy: two ways to expand the inner cosmos and feel the helping hands of love beyond the mortal sphere – as challenging times pressurise our minds, this presence can help us release fear. . Meditation builds mental muscle so we can see right through the mental bustle to where inner peace resides. Joyful ecstaticContinue reading “2020 We Need Ecstasy”
SPIRITUAL GAY MEN ON SEX
On the Spiritual Gay Men Group on Facebook somebody asked a simple question: CAN SEX BE SPIRITUAL? It’s turning out to be our most engaging post yet, with over a hundred comments, and over 90% of the men speaking up are absolutely sure it either is or can be….. ‘100% sex IS one of ourContinue reading “SPIRITUAL GAY MEN ON SEX”
Desire, Disease and Death
DESIRE, DISEASE AND DEATH are part of the DIVINE CREATION PLAN We have to learn to embrace them to become the DIVINE HUMAN . Desire was once a Goddess honoured as Aphrodite, Diana, Venus… Desire was also a God symbolised in the ithyphalllic penis. This was because in the days before the Cross people knewContinue reading “Desire, Disease and Death”
Men Loving Men
Men have always enjoyed erotic encounters with men on heaths, in woods, on beaches, in parks, cottages, saunas and secret sex dens this has been going on since humans walked the earth – communing with Pan, Eros, Priapus, Dionysus, we recall we came seeking ecstasy, union, bliss when we chose to undertake birth into humanContinue reading “Men Loving Men”
We Are the Old Ones
Human beings how lucky we are to be on this earth around this star in a solar system divinely designed to keep us blind to the rest of the cosmos and life on other worlds – until we are ready to accept what’s there to find; designed to keep us blind, as we evolve theContinue reading “We Are the Old Ones”
ONENESS
The Universe Is. Created by Oneness. Oneness becomes All That Is It becomes spirit, soul, mind, life. Oneness incarnates in individual living beings each having their own experience, each experience also that of the Oneness. On most worlds beings never lose touch with the Oneness, with the Source Of Life, Awareness and Love inside themselves.Continue reading “ONENESS”
The 7 Headed Beast
Ever growing numbers of people in the world are understanding and feeling that life is a unity: a cosmic dance of matter, mind, emotion and spirit, a journey of the soul with divinity the goal… …but they don’t work in the governments and they don’t work in the media, they don’t work in business …Continue reading “The 7 Headed Beast”
UNION
Sex is an act of worship Love is a game of mirrors… The ultimate destiny is union Of the genders we find within us. When we see ‘other’ We engage fear and distance To see all as ‘sisterbrother’ Is to lose our own resistance. The way to becoming one united conscious species, Involves dissolving theContinue reading “UNION”
Living Without Fear of the Future
The mental attitudes and beliefs we have in place in the mind frame and colour our experience of life, and in fact are calling those experiences to us. This is what the Law of Attraction is all about – our mental energies emit frequencies which draw similar frequencies to them, good or bad, simply basedContinue reading “Living Without Fear of the Future”
The Emotional Waters of Life
THE EMOTIONAL PLANE OF REALITY IS AS VAST AND MYSTERIOUS AS THE PHYSICAL. The elemental model of our human nature teaches us to give attention to, and to seek balance between, four aspects of our being. The four elements ‘manifest’ in us as body (earth), mind (air), spirit (fire) and emotion (water). We live inContinue reading “The Emotional Waters of Life”
THE GENDER SPECTRUM
The idea that male and female are two distinct and separate genders, into one or other of which everybody is supposed to fit, is a very modern, patriarchal model that, although now widely spread through the world, has no basis or grounding in history, or in biological nor spiritual fact. It is high time weContinue reading “THE GENDER SPECTRUM”
Everything Changes: LIGHTWORK
EVERYTHING CHANGES when you ACCEPT you are a Soul not a body EVERYTHING CHANGES when the fear inside turns to Love EVERYTHING CHANGES when you ATTUNE to the MUSIC of CREATION the Divine the Singer, the Universe the Stage and Us the Song. Politics, Scandal, Economics and Crime Keep most of the world asleep mostContinue reading “Everything Changes: LIGHTWORK”
Texts of Queer Spirit
LOVE OF ALL KINDS
Between adult Humans, various kinds of erotic love are possible love of woman and woman love of man and man love of woman and man sometimes the sex of the body does not reflect the active gender of the person . all forms of gender and love deserve respect and honour all deserve room toContinue reading “LOVE OF ALL KINDS”
The Great Maypole of London
“Depriv’d of Root, and Branch, and Rind, Yet Flow’rs I bear of ev’ry Kind: My Head, with Giddiness, goes round; And yet I firmly stand my Ground: All over naked I am seen, and Painted like and Indian Queen.” (Jonathon Swift, ‘The Maypole‘) The British quite naturally come in for plenty of criticism for theContinue reading “The Great Maypole of London”
