The sexual houses. Chart by Eric and Sarah, Blue Studio - New York.
What does astrology tell us about sex and sexuality? Astrology is organized by house — the ‘department of life’ where events occur.
The colored houses in the wheel are the ones that address sexuality directly. That would be about half the houses. For those new to the astrological system, a house is a basic division of the chart. The houses started with the signs, then became a wheel imposed on top of the signs; so that the two wheels make a unique pattern in each chart, and most houses comprise of part of at least two signs.
That aside, the houses have a certain philosophy that accompanies them; how do we divide up the subject matter of life? How do we think of the meaning of each house?
Part of the answer involves how far back the astrologer’s understanding of the houses goes. There are traditions involved in assigning subject matter to houses. In this article, I am assembling everything that I’ve learned both from reading and from working with many, many clients on actual questions. Here is a prior summary of the houses, not designed to answer the question of which houses address sexual subject matter. That page needs an update; the page you’re reading may be it.
It would be easy to find meaningful sexual themes in all the other houses, not colored in. Let’s start with them: the “non-sexual houses.”
I have left out the 1st house. The 1st is a crucial house of sexuality because it’s about identity — we all identify with our sex, our gender and our sexual identity group. Remember Hannah, the Book of Blue model who said, “It’s not about sex, it’s about self“? Wisdom from the mouth of a babe.
Sex and self are closely related. When you say, ‘I am a lesbian’ or ‘I am monogamous’, that is core 1st house material: how you experience yourself, describe yourself and the face you put on. One could write a whole book chapter called ‘Sexual Identity and the 1st House of Astrology’, and people would even read it. The 1st represents the self that does the sexing; the identity that is attractive to others or not; the presence in the world that exists and is noticed or alternately feels invisible and ignored.
We could include the 3rd house because so much of sex and relating involves language and ideas, from talking dirty to love notes to pillow books. Here in the BlackBerry Age, the 3rd is all those communication devices that have become sex toys, from video cameras to the digital keyboard we send those hot, pervy notes with. The 3rd is also the neighbors we flirt with; the roommate (or sibling) we play with. We could include the 4th house because one’s whole sexual reality is balanced on one’s level of security and grounding. So the business of the 4th house is strongly influential in one’s relational and sexual reality.
The 9th house isn’t about sex but it’s about either: religion, which impresses its sexual values onto people like nobody’s business (and for many, co-opts the whole issue); or spirituality/higher self, which is about sex because we have the theme of full integration of the psyche and the honoring of sexuality as a sacred ritual. In the Thema Mundi (the ancient chart of the world — a key teaching example from Hermetic astrology), Pisces is in the 9th house. Pisces is the cosmic source, the most watery water sign, the sign that embraces all, contains every trace element, swallows all differentiation, and provides a great deal in the way of direct knowledge and nourishment: and much that seems like mist and taken for granted rainwater. Pisces to human consciousness represents the headwaters of creation; the mouth of the river of creation; the River of Night and the ocean on which creation floats, and into which it will someday dissolve. That sounds like it could include sex.
The 10th house is the power house, and we all know that the more power and visibility you have, the more people are interested in you. So the 10th is full of sexual dynamics and if an astrologer is doing the chart of a successful or planning-to-be-successful person well, a check-over of those dynamics is vital.
The 11th house is about social groups: who we meet and where we meet them. The 11th would cover themes such as polyamory, because it’s a group activity in many different ways (poly people tend to create group environments in which to get together, their relationships are group environments, and they have different norms within their social groups — an 11th house theme).
But let’s skip that kind of house where a sexuality is implied or exists by extension, and initially cover the houses that specifically address material of a sexual or erotic nature, starting with the 2nd house and going in order.
The 2nd house addresses masturbation, as the house of self-value and self-relating. It is the resources we have that come from ourselves. You might call it the sexual/erotic/amorous bank account. It is the house of “you can only love others as much as you love yourself” and by extension, “your sexual relationship to yourself is the basis of your sexual relationship to others.” Contrast this with the 8th house in a little while. When you apply the Thema Mundi (the ancient chart of the world) this house is associated with Leo and the Sun, which act like a giant battery of resources that we access if we know where to start.
The 5th house is the house of play, pleasure, child-like fun, curiosity and risks. The 5th includes art and artists, and we know that these are among the most sexually interested and interesting creatures; we know how much art involves sexual, erotic or relational themes. For many astrologers, this is THE house of sex; just consider the themes. The ‘child like fun’ also includes children and the activities which lead to their existence. If you apply the Thema Mundi, you find out that this is the house that has Scorpio involved, which is the sign of the genitals, of sexual bonding and of deep surrender. So the superficial appeal of the 5th — fun, risks and pleasure — lead deeper, into the more emotional, karmic region of Scorpio. Isabel Hickey called the 5th the house of esoteric karma. She does not say what she means (and it sounds like she got this from a writer named Alice Bailey, but I cannot find it), but if you study the 5th, that is, if you watch what happens with 5th house events, placements and transits, you figure it out. There is that “other layer” that became evident when Project Hindsight unearthed the Thema Mundi.
The 6th house is the house of healing, service and wellbeing: bienestar. Most astrologers would not say this is a house of sexual or relational themes, unless they have a holistic orientation. First, a healthy sexuality and sex life are key elements in whether one is mentally and physically healthy. Looked at another way, much of the world is walking around with unaddressed sexual injury. Consequently, all healers (6th house role) are working with their clients on those injuries whether they know it or not. All healers, be they massage therapists, astrologers, psychologists or doctors, have to work out a system of sexual boundaries with their clientele and the 6th is the environment in which this is done. Then there are those who work specifically as sexual healers; there are more than you think. Some are working ‘undercover’ as nurses who lock the door and help out someone laying in traction; others are working as erotic massage practitioners. These are people offering sex in service. Anyone who is a conscious lover offers sex in service, and as a gesture of healing and self-integration (again, whether ‘consciously’ or not). The 6th is also the house that covers one’s workplace, and we all know how much sexual energy flies around the office; how many affairs; how many relationships start in the office.
The 7th house is the one that covers lovers and open enemies (the ancients either had a sinister sense of humor or were highly perceptive, or both). The 7th is where we engage with The Other directly, be it lover, spouse, boyfriend, girlfriend or mistress. The 7th speaks of the inherently polarized nature of relationships, and of sexual relationships in particular. It’s interesting that the 7th covers open enemies: how many of those does sex make?
The 8th house in the words of my astrology mentor David Arner is the sex you want. It’s also the sex you want specifically from others, so carries themes such as jealousy and possessiveness. From the earliest English characterization, it’s the house of death, dowry and the substance of the bride. In more modern terms it’s the house of other people’s resources, which would count for their sex, sexual organs, reproductive capacity, genetic material, genetic lineage/heritage and all matters of legacy that connect with sex (such as your father in law). The sexual psychology of the 8th is the fascinating stuff we usually glaze over. The 8th contains our concept of surrender; what prompts, or induces, or leads, or pushes us into surrender. We tend to keep this secret. It would be interesting to peer into your mind in those last 10 seconds before orgasm and see what, ultimately, allows you to let go. I think that is the 8th house at its most beautiful psychic depth. In some respects the 8th is the power game we play with ourselves (by granting or denying that thing that helps us let go); and at other times it is the leverage we use against others to concentrate power, or try to; but of course there is that point of frustration — dualism. Nothing that we do to others, are we free from. The 8th is also the house that covers specifically where money is exchanged for sex, so all matters of prostitution would be covered by the 8th, even if they have other themes covered by other houses.
The 12th house in Vedic astrology is the pleasures of the bed. In Western astrology it represents the fantasy life and has a close correspondence to both solo sex and partner sex, which can be equally driven by fantasy. It often represents the disowned material which we project onto others. See all those houses on the right side of the chart? They are called the zone of projection (a term that came to me through the Canadian astrologer Ani Black). Most of the houses of relationship and sexuality are covered in the zone of projection and the 12th is like this hidden projection booth from where the light shines. Once we call back the projection and enter the 12th consciously, all the rules change; indeed, they are all suspended, and we are free within the containment of our own minds. Yet if those minds reach out to one another, the 12th may be the most significant meeting place; call it the astral plane, call it the collective unconscious; call it what you will. It is the house where we are all equal before the power of creation.
Any questions?
maybe not very important… but just in case there is somebody who goes on a fishing expedition, looking for Eric’s summary of the astrological houses…
which he mentions in this article as (a dark red, clickable link) “prior summary of the houses”…
it is not here, where the clickable link takes you mistakenly:
http://www.planetwavesweekly.com/parallel/charts/astrological_houses_summary.html
but at:
http://www.planetwaves.net/charts/parallel_worlds_charts/astrological_houses_summary.html
Wow. I walk away from this thread for a few days and wow.
Eric, in your post you wrote “I think these compatibility type products are directed primarily at women as romance reports, following the longstanding tradition of veiling that which is erotic in that which is supposedly romantic.”
This is exactly what I was talking about before; women are raised to hide their real lustful passions behind the socially acceptable curtain of “romance.” In other words, where a man might ask “when will I get laid” a woman will hide her desire for sex behind “when will I find Mr. Right.”
I think it would be a far better and healthier society if women were not only allowed to express their sexual wants openly and without fear of censure; it would be even better if we could teach our daughters to not only express their sexual desire openly but to feel proud and empowered to do so to such a degree that it is no longer notable.
I got so tired of being villified by others of my gender because I was willing to admit my desires openly. It is time for women to be honest with themselves and say it out loud; “I want to fuck and fuck and fuck and have a mind-blowing orgasm.” If I were giving workshops I would have every woman get up and say that, even shout that out loud to the applause of every other woman in the room. I am pretty sure most men would prefer that kind of honesty over the games and maneuvers women do now. When I used to “pick up” guys I did it directly by telling them “here’s my number, call me.” I didn’t wait for them to ask me, I asked them. I would go to their place and only wait long enough for them to get comfortable and then we would fuck. That was it. I was there to “get laid” and I didn’t bother to hide it or play games. Even so, I still had to hide that I did that from people that I knew because of the social pressure I lived in. I felt like I lived a double life. It was not fun having to hide what I was doing or who I really was.
You also said: “I recognize that it’s easy to sell romance novels, because they are indeed feeding that need for an imaginary encounter, or for hope — and fantasy is fabulous stuff, for what it’s worth. That could be for fun, it could be habit, it could be to feed a vision for how you want your life to be.”
This is exactly the reason I have never allowed my daughters to read romance novels. These novels set up an unreal expectation about how romance is and how relationships are and how sexuality is. I didn’t want my daughters programmed that way or with that vision of how their life would be; I preferred that they have their OWN vision, not one prepackaged by romance novels.
I read romance novels, even the explicit ones, from the time I was 14 and they set up in me an expectation of how I wanted my life to be. Based on these novels, I thought women are passive, men are always sexually ready and that men talk to you after sex. I also thought that men preferred passive women that never asked for sex but were led into sex by the men. Imagine my huge disappointment to find out romance or even sex was nothing like those romance books! I was so young and innocent back then. I decided when I had my daughters that I would not mess them up so I have raised them differently. Romance novels are fine…for adults but not for young girls still forming their view of what life is all about.
I want to comment on sex and the 9th house. Being Sagg (9th), having Pisces in my 9th,.. having some of the biggest issues in my life revolve around sexuality,.. I’ve got to say, sexuality is an all-pervasive, tangible/conception, THAT, (if it were excluded), would dissolve this life-frame for all of us, AND, throw us back evolutionarily to reset. (Yes, I believe there are other ways to go about life but, within this ensoulment, these are the standards Life has set forth. THIS IS the material interface we are presented with, in order to work out/in the matter-planes our spirits have chosen to engage.)
Eric, (the compersion articles are the best, ever!),… When you feel the pressure, step back, realize a lot of cats have got your back. (You are well, my friend.)
Thanks for Being You.
Your friend, soul tripper, buddy,
Jeremy Nicholas Loscutoff
I am not sure what is so surprising about my comment. Most astrology websites offer a database-generated compatibility service, and provide exceedingly little astrological information for self-study. Most are selling some kind of quick fix or report, where the lurking question is: “When am I gonna get laid?”
In private consulting, the question often translates to: “When am I going to meet Mr. Right?” I am always relieved to find out that is not the subject of a session.
The question, “When am I going to meet Ms. Right?” seldom comes up in sessions with men. I think these compatibility type products are directed primarily at women as romance reports, following the longstanding tradition of veiling that which is erotic in that which is supposedly romantic.
Some of the better reports (meaning, created by more accomplished astrologers, who are also good writers, who have a sense of the ethical use of the craft) offer some psychological insight. Yet it would seem that sales are driven by the same questions.
I recognize that those questions exist. I am not a big fan of using astrology for compatibility or for predicting the development or outcome of relationships. My main objection is that the questions are usually stated passively.
Also the questions tend to be disconnected from the rest of existence.
I take a more exploratory or existential approach to these themes: a good example was the Compersion Series from early 2008, from which I’ll quote a brief excerpt. I recognize that it’s easy to sell romance novels, because they are indeed feeding that need for an imaginary encounter, or for hope — and fantasy is fabulous stuff, for what it’s worth. That could be for fun, it could be habit, it could be to feed a vision for how you want your life to be. It’s also possible to take a more grounded approach, using astrology or not.
E – Thanks for the clarification on the thread. It was odd (at least I found it so) for it to be left where it was. Best wishes, Hazel.
Hey, uh.
” At the same time most astrology websites capitalize on how horny everyone is, and how desperate for companionship. Planet Waves may be the only astrology site not selling compatibility reports or predicting peoples’ romantic prospects.”
If what you were saying here is that you think that this kind of “service” is an exploitation of the rest of the world’s desperation for a legitimate ( if imaginary) connection, and that’s how you really feel then…
well.
I have never heard anybody ever say anything like that before. I’m surprised because I’ve basically heard everything before, even when it sounds like nobody ever said it before.
That must be why I missed it. I didn’t reduce it, I just missed it. If I hadn’t missed it it’s possible this thread would be shorter anyway.
So.
Huh.
Sorry about that thing I said that one time about the other thing.
I would encourage my readers here to take a step back and acknowledge just how much space I dependably hold open for how much open discussion — of so many issues that are off limits other places. If you had a clue the intention and clarity and plain old work that it takes…well…some people here know.
Name the authors whose writing you have read in this space over the past 10 years: I could name twenty off the top of my head, all of whom take on challenging, relevant issues; all of whom I have personally found and brought here; and worked with to help them develop their voice, find their audience, and refine their talents.
It is highly unusual for me to step in and attempt to have any influence at all over the flow of the discussion in the comments area. So when you see me do that, you can be sure that I have an actual concern.
Hey E… my awkward use of the word ‘silence’ –as in ‘silence the discussion’– may have made my comment seem unfriendly. It wasn’t. I know you write to engender discussion :: I should have said, ‘you wrote to answer the discomfort.’
M
Eric, you are asking questions of me, and putting my replies in “moderation”. This is not transparent communication.
Thanks for restoring the discussion.
Elsewhere Eric, you opined that this thread did not have a single comment that responded to the article.
Seems to me that the discussion was a response to your declaration that you wrote it to silence the discomfort some felt about mixing sexuality and astrology.
Clearly, your writing can’t and shouldn’t silence anything. It was a spirited discussion, and helped clarify for me where several people stand on this issue, as well as your view.
Thanks,
M
Okay and…what are you saying about her ideas?
This is a discussion forum for ideas; what do you think of what she said? Why do you agree or disagree?
I suggest that replies be made promptly. It is true that the search system does not recognize quotes as part of what it searches.
As requested, here is the specific comment from Betty Dodson:
“Thank you Brother E,
I feel obligated to point out that when I did a search on “Betty Dodson” on this site, this comment did not come up–I had to find the *specific entry* in which she made this comment. When you require the quoting you should realize that the search capabilities on this site will significantly restrict the ability of participants to comment on “meta” issues altogether.
I have no control over the time stamp. I just edit. I believe the blogging system preserves the original time stamp.
You have referenced Betty Dodson. Please quote her.
…Clarification on my below comment: you did not “disappear” the comment (as in, “delete”), you just revised the content entirely keeping the old time-stamp, which conveniently paved the way for Betty Dodson showing up with a comment a few entries later decrying young women who supposedly did not appreciate the sexuality of their bodies.
Re: Gin Blossom
=== I will look into it.
Okay I just did. Here is what happened and this includes an explanation of our blog participation policy, at the end of this reply.
When GB did not reply to several requests from me or from Chelsea to identify herself, I informed my colleagues that we would suspend her account if we did not hear from her. Over the years we have learned to set a sensitive threshold for potential stalking or trolling. We consider this basic hygiene for running a public forum. We reserve the right to find out who you are, if you publish your words on our website.
Then she replied.
The signals between me and Anatoly got crossed in much other communication. I told Anatoly we would not be putting her account into moderation when she replied; checking now, he did not get that message, and put her account into moderation. Note, Anatoly is extremely protective of me and will err on the side of caution.
I was not aware that she was suspended until reading this comment just now (on Tuesday morning ET). GB and I spoke on Friday and based on that one fact, she is approved to comment.
Anatoly has restored her account.
The moral of the story is: when someone from Planet Waves writes to you, please respond. We are the owners of this website and we have one basic security guideline: we are entitled to know who publishes here. We don’t tell everyone (or anyone) who you are, but we most know who you are, if a question arises. Please make sure you use a real email address as your contact address, not one that you check once a year.
In short: anyone can participate here, and I reserve the right to know who is participating. My colleagues on our core team are solidly in consensus on this issue.
I strongly discourage the use of alias names because it tends to separate people from taking responsibility for their words. Nobody at Planet Waves writes under a pen name. “Eric Francis” is my well established pen name, with legal standing. It gets a half-exception because it’s based on my legal name and I’ve used it as a byline since 1983. I am fully identified by my legal name repeatedly on this website and in Wikipedia.
I encourage all commenters to at least use your first name, so you identify yourself with your comments. This will make you a more cautious, considerate and accurate writer here.
I have also added a new commenting guideline, which is that if you comment about my writing, you must reference my writing. (This is fair to apply all the way around: when you comment on a comment, focus on what you are talking about. When you comment on Len, quote Len.)
I may moderate any comment that refers to my writing without actually quoting me, or at least posting a link to the article in question. You are entitled to your opinion about my words — if you substantiate that opinion with a direct quotation. Therefore, commenters please note: I reserve the right to moderate or remove any comment about my writing that does not actually reference my writing. You have plenty to choose from.
HdW – Indeed. What happened here?
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Eric, since you lay great claims to integrity throughout your work, I will call you out on this. You have also gone back and altered your time-stamped comment–at least one time that I noticed (since that comment responded to me)–in your a thread showing dissent about your approach to sex on this site.
To effectively message integrity, you must live integrity. Trust me, we will know.
Eric, where did they go? Every last post written by Gin Blossom on this thread has evaporated. I know that several people have access to the commentary stream, so are you saying that someone else did it?
Whether you or someone else took down all of her posts, they are missing. And the coherency of this thread suffers accordingly.
Love,
M
Note, I did not moderate any posts by GB.
Whoa… What happened to Gin Blossom’s posts in the March 5 “Sex and Astrology” thread? I understand moderating belligerent commentary, but hers were reasoned, calm, smart, inquisitive. The thread makes no sense without them.
Please restore the discussion.
Thanks
M
Out late again!!
Liminali…you are of course correct……..my apologies!
Should have read “West Africa”…..which is where I have lived and worked for the better part of the last 5 years.. This is to the West of Morocco….Algeria…Niger and Nigeria; approx 95% Muslim….. and Christian refers to the practice of Catholicism. It is here, where it has been “relatively” peaceful for the last 40 years, that ritual female circumcision is widely practiced quietly in the desert and bush; Western Sahara, Mauritania, Mali, Senegal and The Gambia in particular!! The % falls of rapidly as you reach the coast of the Bay of Guinea; Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ghana, Togo and Benin are all much more multi-cultural.
Let me recommend “Amandla” to you all. Hugh Massakela describes this movie as a revolution in four part harmony!!
On a broader note…..I can only read the debate and stand here in awe! Awesome…. and some. The honesty, the individual journeys of guilt breaking through to freedom of choice, and perhaps a sense of where this can lead. My favourite expression…..
“Sex in practice is surely a flow of life force.
In relational terms, anything which blocks it is surely unhealthy while anything which unblocks it must be considered healthy; that is, when adults are making choices that affirm and celebrate life.
Sex, at its best, does that. Whatever soils that is surely something to be lamented.”
Half De Witte….applaud your hypothalamus…………!!
PH
::::waving::::: Hi, it’s me, carecare7 here. Care-Care is the nick-name my mom gave me and 7 is my favorite number. I decided to post under my own name. I also updated my profile in case anyone wants to know a bit more about me. I have been a reader of PW since 1997 and, until now, an infrequent poster here. I just thought, in the spirit of transparency, that I would be a bit more open about myself. It is something I am doing lately; daring to openly be myself so to speak.
Sorry for the interrupt; back to your regularly scheduled discussion.
This conversation is very appropriate on the verge of spring here in the northern hemisphere. Spring is all about sex, just listen to new birdsong out the window in the morning, and watch the flowers unfurl…
I’ve been exploring 1st and 2nd chakra material to heal cancer. I love GB’s imagery of wolf sex, and our genetic programming that drives sexual behavior and nurturing of children. It’s all about the kids on this planet. Our biological beingness cannot be denied. Sex is natural, it is important to integrate it, and feel unafraid to express it. Eric’s goal not lofty; sensible to me. There’s so much potential to exploring my own sexual being and how can I integrate it with my whole being. I’m close – I’ve always loved the sensual feel of my own body, and I am not afraid to admit that I am a natural born naked ape.
I love the explorations deep into the reds and oranges pulsing and throbbing to primal drumbeats. We need this right now, all of us. Doesn’t ever matter to me how you do your sex thing, with whom, how many, what structure. I love my life and look daily now for the joy and the love and the beauty. Sex is part of being fully ALIVE.
Cheers.
All forms of relationship are adaptive. People who can slip into the relative simplicity of one partner, one love interest, seem to have less need to adapt, but one’s relationship story involves many other facets of living, influenced by many factors: some are present in awareness, and some are not; some show up eventually.
What is called “polyamory” is a byword that summarizes a vast diversity of relational modes, including one-on-one partnering. Notice how quickly nearly all relationships triangulate.
Monogamy is a byword, covering an equally diverse set of potentials, which I make light fun of in this article linked below (that somebody once wanted to make a movie out of) and cover more seriously in The One and The Many (posted on the root page at http://bookofblue.com/ ):
http://www.planetwaves.net/contents/monogamy.html
I wonder where this theme finds its home in the astrological system — probably as my initial pass through the houses suggests, everyplace. If you are looking for the sexual/relational vortex in any chart you might find it anywhere, in any form, involving any planets. You might find a relational node and a sexual node, having more or less contact with one another. When you read charts for a while, you see that every person’s potential is actually unique, down to their minute of birth.
i guess darwin’s march was all i heard when reading posts this morning, and i wondered about the determinism involved when applying the idea to sexuality or using only one contextual analogy. then again, i tend to cringe when i get lumped into any kind of generalized theory of anything. cc7 summed it up essentially to say that there is no one way only perspective on the notion of survival, and i would add for that matter – on creation as well, no matter how dominant or dogmatic the notion. in that sense to me, it all depends on which story you choose to believe and live by as they are all stories in their own sense. thus, “I offer no comfort to religious fundamentalists or evolutionists,” (“Evolution, Creationism, and other Myths”, Vine Deloria, 2002).
Ginblossom,
You make a good argument but it doesn’t work because there are as many (or more) species that do NOT control sexuality that have also survived. This means that the scenario of controlling sexuality is but ONE way of survival. Any species choosing that way could change if they chose to, though it is not necessary that they do. That they don’t does say something about their perception of what constitutes survival. Seems to me humans and timberwolves are more concerned with survival of individuals and other animals are concerned with survival of the group or species. These are just different ways of doing the survival game.
I look at it this way; for a time, slavery was thought by many to be a God-given way of doing things. Religious verses and ideas promoted slavery as right and even natural. Scientists even pointed out that every great civilization in history had some form of slavery so it must be the way to go because it was working for all of these at one time or another. Their consensus about slavery and the historical record seemed to legitimize it to the majority of people over the centuries. Yet we now see slavery as bad and detrimental to the survival of humanity because of the way it demoralized and controlled whole populations. We see it is wrong, plain and simple.
My point is, history and consensus doesn’t make a thing good for the species, no matter how much the species may think it is. And just because a species does a thing a specific way doesn’t mean it is the only way or the best way. Only time will tell.
I am not saying monogamy is the best way or polyamory is the best way; I am saying that there is room for many different ways. When we as a society realize that, make room for that, and support that, different people will do things differently and damage will be minimalized. A lot of the damage that happens within the different ways of dealing with sexuality, relationships, and children raising are a result of societal pressures; removing those would help a lot in alleviating some of the strains that cause damage.
I don’t know why timberwolves control sexuality but I do know a bit about what scientists and anthropologists think about why humans do.
I think a clarification is in order. When I mentioned that I felt that monogamy is a dirty word on PW, I was referring to some of the comments I have read here about it, NOT to the actual articles I have read by Eric or others. I understood the word “culture ” (as in “the culture of PW”) to mean the people that read and post comments here; I didn’t include the writers of the articles because I don’t see them as the culture of PW. To me Eric and the other contributors that write articles at PW are just that, writers. They join the comments but I saw them more as answering questions or moderating the conversation, not as the “culture of PW.” Does that make sense? I think of the “culture of PW” as those people that are reading here and discussing things; they are the culture that has formed around the website and the articles therein.
I hope this makes things a little clearer so everyone knows what I was getting at. I also think that as we all read and post here, articles that may say one thing get morphed into another by we posters and it is not because the article itself says what we think it does but because it has touched a nerve and we defend our perceptions, correct or erroneous as they may be.
Storm, would you pitch your theory in a few sentences? I always get a little nervous when I near the name Darwin. Everyone here knows I am a strict creationist, right? Adam and Eve, and the Grand Canyon is just over 5,000 years old.
yea i found the same article, but that wasn’t exactly how i was thinking about it. maybe it’s darwinistic sexuality?
Congratulations Eric! You have obviously challenged some beliefs – core belief systems at that, when it comes to sexuality. When someone reads something that challenges a core belief that they have probably never examined, it makes them feel uncomfortable, inching close to those previously unexplored spaces, that threaten the so carefully designed and conceptualized world that the ego has created. And then, their very existence is threatened. If that thread can be followed, it will lead to evolution – growth- wow! Sexuality is probably as deep as one can go into core beliefs. Orgasm is known as “le petit mort” and sexual energy, once unshackled and freed up is the creative life force of the Universe. One can play with it, tease it, ride it, channel or guide it but one cannot control it. Think about it, it is so powerful that the church, among other institutions, has tried to keep it behind lock and key, for thousands of years. During this time of expanding consciousness and evolutionary leaps, that creative life force is bursting at the seams and ready to rock! It is time to honor it, respect it, and allow it to empower us, like the fuel tanks on the space shuttle, and lead us into a new paradigm.
Thank you for all that you do, with much love and gratitude.
Storm,
When I google sexual Darwinsim, I get this article:
http://dailyuw.com/2005/5/11/sexual-darwinism/
e – you got anything on sexual darwinism?
GB – Quote – ‘You can’t get mad at people for trying to survive.’ – Who is? What is that in response to?
‘Anyway, this was not meant as a criticism of you or anyone else. Just talking about wolfpacks.’ – How is this related to the topic above ‘The Wheel – Sex & Astrology’?