Aphrodite, Greek Goddess of Love – Venus to the Romans – is one of the most ancient manifestations of the divine feminine. She was associated with the much older Mesopotamian Goddess Ishtar, Inanna to the Sumerians, and like her considered to appear in the sky as the planet Venus, and the Phoenician Goddess Astarte. SheContinue reading “The Three Sons of Aphrodite”
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Why Men Have Nipples
19th century Hindu mystic saint Ramakrishna talked of a view of life that says “whoever has nipples is a woman.” “The material world is all feminine. The feminine energy makes the non-manifest, manifest. So even men are of the feminine energy. We have to relinquish our ideas of gender in the conventional sense. This hasContinue reading “Why Men Have Nipples”
Once the Peoples of Europe Danced with Dionysus
Once the Peoples of Europe danced with Dionysus, Saw Love as a Goddess and Pleasure as her Worship, Knew that mysteries of Sex, Gender and Intoxication were routes to Holy Transcendence, Ecstasy, Elation. . The Peoples of Europe once spoke with the Trees Danced and Made Love in Sacred Groves. The Armies of the CrossContinue reading “Once the Peoples of Europe Danced with Dionysus”
When Bacchus Came to Jerusalem
Antiochus IV (Epiphanes) was a Greek king of the Seleucid Empire (Syria), who reigned 175-164 BCE. He captured Jerusalem in 167 BC and desecrated the Temple by offering the sacrifice of a pig on an altar to Zeus (an act known as the Abomination of Desolation). At that time of history there were two factionsContinue reading “When Bacchus Came to Jerusalem”
THE ECSTATIC RITES OF SPRING
Equinox is the turning point – the inward pull of the Winter energies gives way to the growing, vital, impulse of the rising Spring. We can see in nature just how dramatic this shift is, and as humans we can learn from nature – to bring human minds, hearts and bodies in tune with theContinue reading “THE ECSTATIC RITES OF SPRING”
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