Aphrodite's Gifts of Sexuality and Attraction

Aphrodite's gifts of sensual enjoyment, beauty, relationship, and the ability to magnetize and to bond with others are precious. There are few sights as entirely seductive and charming as a little teenager who is beginning to feel this supremacy. She shamelessly flirts, she primps, she caresses others and she enjoys her intensity to charm. Others darling to be with her. Mothers adore to feel her combing their pelt, fathers worship to feel her cuddling up in their laps. She makes everybody around her feel good. Similarly, a developed lady's sensuality and her sexual scenery can be breathtaking. Her ability to interest is immense.

In the realm of the Shadow King, these gifts are forever associated with femininity and often viewed with mistrust. Wouldn't it be interesting if our world were to amount attraction more and if men, as well as women, were permitted to enjoy their Aphrodite character? What if we, as Brianne Swimme suggests in The Universe is a Green Dragon, paid more mind to what attracts us? What if we valued attraction and what holds us together instead of concentrating on our differences and what holds us distant? I would hint that the world might be totally different. Gravity, or the law of attraction, seems to work beautiful well in the real world.

This reminds me of an apocryphal item about a spot up here in Northern California. This part of russian matured the country seal traders. That is why we have a Russian River and there are towns with names like Sebastopol. Well, there came a time when this began to be a dilemma. The Mexicans held territory as far north as San Francisco and they were not too fortunate with the Russians so very close by. Now, if each had concentrated on differences, there would have been a war to reconcile mattering. Nevertheless, instead, Aphrodite came to the rescue. It seems as still the daughter of the director of San Francisco and the commanding executive of Ft. Ross, the headquarters of the Russians, destroy in affection. This led to some very affable negotiations and matters were advanced clearly. The citadel and the Russian wealth were sold to Mexico and all was peacefully settled.

In the realm of the Shadow King, however, attraction is to be used not enjoyed. Women have been educated to be ashamed of their Aphrodite type. Sensuality has been equated with sexuality and both have been demeaned. A lady's sexuality has been bowed into a commodity. It is used to push crop, movies, or even the women themselves. According to the laws of this kingdom in the shadows, sensuality and sexuality are to be controlled and ruled over by men and never to be enjoyed for their own sake by women. If the woman claims the right to this, she has left against ageless policy and her Inner Patriarch will be mighty saddened!

So we see that these traditionally female gifts have been bowed resentful. This has profound consequences for men as well as women. As these gifts have been trivialized, not only women, but men, too, have been discouraged from enjoying them. Thus, men have suffered this shortfall equally with women and many of the delights of being person have been denied to them as well. If they cared greatly about relationship, honey, and sensuality, and if they sought to participate in childrearing they would be admitting that the felt as women did, and this, according to the beliefs of the Shadow King, would be admitting their inferiority. Let us now converge the one who carries these beliefs, our Shadow King, the Inner Patriarch.