Hello everyone!
I don't think this counts as sexually explicit as the language I'm using is very matter of fact. If I'm wrong about this, please let me know! I really don't want to break any rules and I do really want to talk about this with some other witches! I've been loving participating in the AWP real-time thread. It's so great to have a community to go through this again to help with accountability. I've been on and off with my practice for years, and each time I come back it deepens. One of the things that have been consistent every time I enter back into my spiritual practice is sexual energy. When I began doing yoga years and years ago, I would always become aroused at the end of my practice. When I was meditating and casting spells a few years ago, that same arousal would almost always present itself. I took it as a sign and started casting spells using that energy - I remember listening to one of Ariel's lectures about sex magic. I've decided to re-enter my practice very slowly this time around, and have been meditating on the elements every day. This time, the sexual energy seems connected to water. Each time I breathe deeply and relax and feel my emotions, it comes up! I've been doing various things with it in meditation, like praising God, connecting with a spirit from a dream, allowing it to rise and come to orgasm while visualizing swimming in the sea (like in Ariel's elemental meditation).
I've become so curious about it as it's such a consistent and surprising aspect of my practice. I know sex magic is a thing, but I don't know much about it. I'm waiting a while before I start casting spells again so for now, I wonder what it means for me outside of spellwork, particularly the connection it has to water. I'll be meditating on the elements, the sexual energy will rise up when I'm meditating with my chalice, then I'll shift to another element, it will calm down, and the water calls me back, I'll refocus on water and the energy will escalate again!
Sometimes I'll start thinking that the sexual energy isn't appropriate for what I'm doing, but I'm inclined to think that comes mostly from my sexually repressed culture/upbringing. What do ye think? Is sexual energy generally associated with water? What is sexual energy connected to? What have other people's experiences with sexual energy in your meditation been? What does this mean for me as a witch?! It's so exciting and so mysterious to me as the arousal has nothing to do with any person or sexual fantasy but purely with spirituality. Let me know what you think!
I think it will be the same for me - a man and a woman. And that doesn't have to be separate, exactly. I just want to be sure I'm actually connecting with deity. I think working with these questions in meditation might prove helpful.
I have the same questions!! I feel like that every time I bring this stuff into my practice. Is it ok if they are fused? If not how can we make sure we’re doing it for the right reasons? I have two, a man and a woman, and I don’t know much about deities. The sense I got is that they both are specific deities but that I haven’t reached the point where I can know who they are yet. I may ask for their god/goddess identities to be revealed to me in the future. But yes, hear you so hard on the separating your personal libido from your spiritual practice... because visualization is something I use everywhere in my life! Such good questions... I’m just thinking now that maybe it’s a matter of having an intention when engaging with these spirit lovers, so that it has a purpose higher than just wanting to get off, lol. Hmmmm!!! So much mystery.
I am so very glad that you initiated this topic! I really loved the lecture A Love Affair With Life. It was not at all what I expected it to be about. I don't think I'd ever considered a romantic relationship with deity but it makes so much sense! Especially at this time in my life as I'm really enjoying being by myself and learning to love me. I don't follow a tradition, I believe in God/Goddess, source, our divine parents and partners as love energy, as something beyond what we could ever imagine. So while I pray often, I don't often pray to a specific God or Goddess. While listening to that lecture, the idea was so welcome and sounded like a very inspiring practice. I got swept up and this beautiful woman sprang into my mind. My question is: how do I differentiate between a spiritual - romantic relationship with Goddess/God and my fantasy or desire? If I don't have a specific imagery of how Goddess appears, what is a good way to initiate this relationship and know that it is guided by divinity and not my libido?
The lecture I was referring to has popped up on Ariel’s channel! A love affair with life. Just re-listened to it. I highly recommend it for anyone, and especially if you find it happening naturally in your meditation. I’ve got a lot to work with!
Yes! I will eventually look into more spiritual practices that involve this energy, like tantra or kundalini yoga. Also if anyone has any books or resources about this sort of thing I’d love to hear about it!
I have so much to say about this that I can't even begin, but I'll just say that sexual energy seems so essential to magic, but that it doesn't have to be expressed in an explicitly sexual way. And if it is, that's fine too (assuming consent, etc.) I feel like magic energy, spiritual energy, sexual energy are all parts of the same thing. Does that make sense?
I have sometimes similar experiences and I love it. I don't think that it is inappropiate. It's just the way the energy expresses itself.