The Sarcastic Shaman's Table

09/13/2024

04/08/2024

VIRGIN actually means something different

"Ancient moon priestesses were called virgins. “Virgin” meant not married, not belonging to a man—a woman who was “one-in-herself.” The very word derives from a Latin root meaning strength, force, skill; and was later applied to men: virile.

Ishtar, Diana, Astarte, Isis were all called virgin, which did not refer to sexual chastity, but sexual independence. And all great culture heroes of the past, mythic or historic, were said to be born of virgin mothers: Marduk, Gilgamesh, Buddha, Osiris, Dionysus, Genghis Khan, Jesus—they were all affirmed as sons of the Great Mother, of the Original One, their worldly power deriving from her. When the Hebrews used the word, and in the original Aramaic, it meant “maiden” or “young woman,” with no connotations of sexual chastity.

But later Christian translators could not conceive of the “Virgin Mary” as a woman of independent sexuality, needless to say; they distorted the meaning into sexually pure, chaste, never touched. When Joan of Arc, with her witch coven associations, was called La Pucelle—“the Maiden,” “the Virgin”—the word retained some of its original Pagan sense of a strong and independent woman."

- The Great Cosmic Mother, Monica Sjoo and Barbara Mor

01/23/2024

Prayer is a present state of gratitude, not a request for what you don't have. It's a recognition of what you have. Instead:
Acknowledge what you have, not what you don't have
Appreciate what you have fully
Allow what needs to come next that needs to be there.

When you are on the vibrational level of "not having" then that is what you will, nothing. In other words, if you are so focused on what you don't have or so focused on something you want then you won't get it. Focus on gratitude of what you do have and blessings will flow.

10/12/2023

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