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Rally to decriminalise sex work in San Francisco on July 22 - Mary Magadalene Day.

tantricangel — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 23:55:50 GMT

The elections commission of San Francisco has apporoved a ballot measure for the voters which if passed would prevent the S. F. Police and DA from spending funds on the arrest and prosecution of people involved in sex work, and afford equal protection under the Law for sex workers.

A rally to kick off the campaign will occur on the Polk Street side of City Hall on July 22 (Tuesday) at 4pm.

July 22 also happens to be the feast day of (Saint) Mary Magdalene (on the Catholic and Anglican calendar of saint's days).

As Mary M. is often identified as an archetype for the "Sacred Prostitute" - I find this to be very synchronistic and auspicious.

Namste.

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Ostara Is Upon Us

Sizzle — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 21:32:25 GMT

Ostara Is Upon Us
Vernal Equinox: Tuesday March 20th 2007@ 8:07 pm est

The vernal equinox, the world is poised on the brink, suspended between the cold months and the new warmth of the growing season. The world is coming alive with green shoots and animals seeking mates. Ostara is one of the Lesser Sabbats, usually celebrated anywhere from March 19th to 21st. Some celebrated on the fixed date of March 25 (Lady Day), while others celebrate on the next full moon (a time of increased births). While the equinox is a solar holiday, Eostre is a lunar goddess. This may be viewed as symbolic of the goddess (the moon) and the god (the sun) coming together in completion. Other names by which this Sabbat may be known are Oestara, Esther, Eostre's Day, the Rite of Eostre or Rites of Spring, Alban Eilir, Festival of the Trees, and the Bacchanalia. The Christian holiday of Easter is determined as the first Sunday after the first Full Moon after the Vernal Equinox.

According to the Venerable Bede (673-735), the Anglo-Saxons called the fourth month "Esturmonath" for the goddess Eostra. Her festival became the celebration of Christ's resurrection when Anglo-Saxon and German peoples were converted to Christianity. While English and German Christians still attach the name of Eostra to their most sacred holiday (Easter or Ostern), other European languages base the name on the Hebrew word "pasah," to pass over, reflecting the Christian holiday's Biblical connection with the Jewish Passover.

All cultures living in temperate climates celebrate the coming of spring with rituals and festivals. This was one of the most important of spring festivals among pre-Christian Germanic tribes, dedicated to the goddess Ostara, a goddess associated with the "east" and thus "dawn" and "morning light." Ostara is a time to celebrate the renewal and rebirth of Nature herself, and the coming Summer. Light and darkness are in balance, as are masculine and feminine energy, yin and yang. Ostara is a fertility festival celebrating the rebirth of the God and the awakening of life from the Earth. Some Wiccan traditions worship the Green Goddess and the Lord of the Greenwood.

The Spring-cleaning tradition derived from the old witches who engaged in a cleansing each spring followed by setting up a hedge of protection. All motions involving scrubbing of stains or hand rubbing the floors should be done "clockwise." This custom aids in filling the home with good energy for growth. Another Spring tradition for ancient pagans and magicians was to dig a small trench around the outer perimeter of their home. At each quarter they would bury an egg. A modern practitioner might also add iron, old rusty nails, metal keys, old razor blades, pins and needles or witch bottles filled with the above items to diffuse magical attacks and spiritual negativity. (If you are unable to dig a perimeter, you can improvise by placing iron keys above your door, and pentacles and sigils drawn on pewter or parchment paper under your carpet or floorboards.

As a time of cleansing and renewal, Ostara is an excellent time to begin some new project. It is an excellent month for prosperity rituals or rituals that have anything to do with growth. Spells for improving communications, fertility, and abundance are especially strong at this time. Some Pagan customs include ringing bells and lighting new fires at dawn for cures, renewed life, and protection of the crops. A common belief in nineteenth century Germany touted the curative properties of water drawn early on Easter morning. One nearly universal craft is decorating hard-boiled eggs.

Eggs have long been a symbol of rebirth. They have been found among the grave goods of Anglo-Saxons, within the tombs of the Egyptians, and were placed on the fresh graves of the deceased Greeks. In ancient time, eggs were gathered for use in the creation of talismans and ritually eaten. The gathering of different colored eggs from the nests of a variety of birds has given rise to two traditions still observed today, the Easter egg hunt and coloring eggs in imitation of the various pastel colors of wild birds. Some believed that humankind was inspired by watching birds weave nests to begin weaving the first baskets. This is perhaps the origin of the association between colored Easter eggs and Easter baskets.

The custom of coloring eggs seems to be limited to the Germanic countries, Slavic countries, and America. In Scotland and Ireland, the custom is virtually unknown. Each spring in Germany, bakery windows are filled with elaborately painted eggs. Eggs are also hung from flowering branches to make "egg trees." Easter is celebrated in Germany more enthusiastically than it is anywhere else in the world with decorations up a good month before the festival. There are parties, egg hunts, and other celebrations weeks in advance of Easter itself.

In many places, it is traditional to keep Easter eggs or shells all year to ward the family and cattle against harm. They are also used specifically as a charm against hail and lightning. For this reason, great care and thought goes into the creation of egg decorations, egg-trees, boiled and decorated eggs for eating, and hare cakes.

Eostre is a goddess of the moon, an ancient measurer of time. The lunar month of 28 days gives us thirteen periods in 364 days, equivalent to the solar year. The hare, though viewed as a symbol of fertility, is also a symbol of the moon. Ixchel, the Mayan Goddess of the moon, midwifery and weaving, has a rabbit totem. Mexican panels of 600-900 AD show her giving birth to and suckling a rabbit, and another shows the rabbit representing phases of the moon.

The Egyptians called the hare Un, which means open, to open, and the opener. The month of April, the first month of the spring season, comes from the Latin “to open.” Un also means period of time. The hare as "opener" symbolizes the New Year at Easter, and fertility and the beginning of new life within the young. Since the hare can sleep with its eyes open, the Romans equated it with vigilance and believed that rabbits watched over everything. According to one story, Buddha placed the rabbit in the moon after it voluntarily gave itself as food for one of Buddha's hungry friends. In another, a rabbit jumped into a fire to feed a hungry Indra and out of gratitude, Indra placed the rabbit in the moon. Rabbits were significant totem animals however and eating them was prohibited in Britain and Egypt. A Scottish superstition suggested that eating rabbit was equivalent to eating one's grandmother.

In Asian myth, rabbits and the moon are virtually identical. The Rabbit in the Moon sweeps its surface clean with bound horsetails according to Japanese stories. The rabbit pounds rice into flour, making mochi which means both rice flour and full moon. The Sanskrit word, cacadharas also means both moon, and "that which carries the hare."

Rabbits also represent immortality and vitality. Pliny the Elder stated that rabbit meat enhanced one's beauty and radiance for a week afterwards, and Chinese myth believed rabbit meat was essential for vitality. According to Chinese myth, the rabbit is a symbol of longevity. Its fur turns white at age 100 and blue at 500. In Eastern Asian myth, rabbits created an elixir of immortality. The Algonquin trickster rabbit, Manabozho, is thought to embody all life-giving energy.

In Greece, live rabbits were popular love gifts, indicating sexual intentions. European wedded couples in the Middle Ages exchanged rabbit-shaped rings. Rabbit's popularity as a sex charm or fertility totem is related to its' natural cycle. A rabbit's gestation period is approximately one month, and it tends to be the first animal to give birth in the springtime, continuing to have litters of kits during the year. In Asian folklore, a rabbit may become pregnant simply by staring at a full moon, licking a male rabbit's fur under a full moon, or running across a moon-lit water's surface.

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Training to become a sexologist?

Tigris — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 11:21:45 GMT

Aloha,

Can anyone tell me what the best training to become a sexologist is? I have a BA in psychology and an MS in Journalism.

Tigris

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Seeking mentors/teachers/students/friends

Goddess Oshun — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 08:56:11 GMT

Greetings All,
I am returning to my path as a sacred Priestess of a sensual nature. I am looking for some friends to support me in this work, I am very interested in connecting with others who are doing this work. I am seeing a great need for it and I am returning, and re-learning what it is to be a vessel for this type of healing.
All communication is welcome!
Blessings and Love
<3

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Topic for discussion: Why?

lifeislearning — Mon, 15 May 2006 12:01:30 GMT

Let's share! This Tribe is a great opportunity for us to communicate and support eachother.

Why do you feel drawn to do this type of healing work?

For me, engauging in the healing arts just seems to be instinctive. I truely feel rewarded by the opportunity others give me to help them on their healing journeys. Health can become affected by so many influences and on so many levels. It only makes sense to me that healing encompases all types of energy interactions.

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Newbie Sacred Whore

Blackgrass — Fri, 12 Aug 2005 14:38:56 GMT

Hi all. I am a prof Dominatrix & Sacred Whore with 30 years exp. Also writer & artist for the empowerment of sexworkers internationally. As well as moderator for prostitute Warriors. Good to be here!

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conference to decrim prostitution in Las Vegas

Catherine — Mon, 29 May 2006 04:52:39 GMT

http://www.desireealliance.org/Conference.htm
I'm on the diversity committee for this thing--please go on to register. There are scholarships available for all sorts of diversities, and though it is past the deadline, there's a possibility you could squeeze through. Luminaries like Scarlot Harlot, Veronica Monet, Leslie Bull, and Jeanette Angell will probably be coming. Affinity groups will be formed--etc etc etc
Plus, it's all in Vegas, baby, vegas. I myself will be lecturing on psych incarceration; forced drug treatment; the conception of pros as pathology even though it's obviously a socioeconomic phenomenon; anti-pros groups like Children of the Night and their complicity with jails and prisons; anti-trafficking groups that muddy it for everyone--sex workers in forced labor who can't reach out for help b/c they make immigration laws harsher and are complicit with INS, pther forced labor workers who can't get attention to their plight b/c the newsmedia would like something sexier to tittilate their audience, and workers who choose their sex work who are presumed to be brainwashed slaves; and finally, john schools, classes tricks are forced to go to during the rare occassions they get caught, where an incarcerated prostitute is dragged out and forced to tell them how they exploit women.
Neeedless to say, it's going to be fun, and you can all say your own mouthfuls during your affinity groups.

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Podcasting the sacred whore love gospel

beaferreal — Thu, 13 Apr 2006 23:10:35 GMT

i was lucky enough to sit in on melissa gira's podcasting training last night....
it essentally opened up the world of where the web is heading, and gives me (we) the opportunity to show some loveleadership in the world...

she rocks. learn from her & support intellgent world domination (or at least crate some balance!)

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Newbie lover of Sacred Whores

never2late4 — Fri, 26 Aug 2005 21:43:47 GMT

Hi, I just joined this tribe and - after 60 years of life of which 45 at least have been enlightened by encounters with Sacred Whores [Sacred to me at least] - I can say that Sacred hardly does justice to the extraordinary gifts that providers have showered upon me for many years. Yours truly, David

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