In today’s email, Planet Waves subscribers will be receiving a new edition of the Chiron Files – a monthly series that we have recently added to our subscriber content. In this edition, Eric Francis explores the connection between the current Mercury retrograde and Chiron in Pisces.
Mercury retrograde in Leo is about consciously making choices to feel safer expressing yourself, realizing that the past is gone, and you don’t have to act like you’re still in the midst of it. As Mercury moves back into Virgo, Chiron in Pisces brings this expression to a level that transcends this lifetime and offers clear answers to the questions that are stirred up during this retrograde period.
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Thanks, shebear! Both of you have made my day because I needed to hear that!
Carrie, I too, along with Fe, want to commend you and say how much I admire and honour the boundaries you are willing to push and explore *and discuss*, along with your loving and supportive husband. You are an inspiration to me here tonight and I applaud the both of you and send the love that I feel for the courage you have expressed here this evening.
Sun, Mercury, Earth and Venus in alignment – lovely.
Thank you to the both of you.
Thanks, Fe!
Carrie:
Your frank and open sharing of information has been such an inspiration to me. I hope you continue it. It frees others as well as yourself.
Thank you for writing this. Especially this part:
“You would do that by consciously making choices to feel safer expressing yourself, realizing that the past is gone, and you don’t have to act like you’re still in the midst of it.”
That is so apropos in my life right now. This weekend a young woman created a safe space for both of us to discuss our sex lives, sexual exploits and feelings while we were in front of our husbands. We talked about our desires, the explicit sex we had when we were younger and before marriage, and how we were called “slut” (mostly by other women) for being so openly sexual. I had never done that before (in mixed company) and it was so freeing. I had to have a couple of glasses of wine before I felt brave enough to do that; she drank very little which means she was far more comfortable with the subject and the setting than I. She and I (and her husband and my husband) had only met once before so that was a first for me. She is 13 years younger than I and her husband is 8 years younger than I. My husband is almost 8 years older than I so this was a discussion between two generations more or less.
Our husbands were conspicuously silent through the discussion and though we gave them the option to leave, they stayed. My own husband told me later (when I asked him how he felt about it) that he was a bit taken aback that I was willing to discuss so frankly my sexuality and exploits in front of another man. He said men don’t discuss their wives and their sex lives in front of other men because they don’t want the other men thinking of their wives in the context of sex. I realize he had not planned to tell me that; he only did so because I asked him. I told him that maybe it is time to give up that fear; I really don’t know what her husband was thinking and I didn’t care. So what if he thought of me in the context of sex; I have no desire for him so it was a moot point. My husband has always been a bit shocked that women, when alone, will discuss their sexual lives (in excruciating detail I might add) with one another. To my husband, that is a breach of privacy but to most women it is just conversation.
I have to give my husband credit though, he didn’t try to hush me up and when I asked him why he didn’t he said he felt I was a grown woman and able to decide for myself about that. No wonder I love this man; despite his discomfort he remained supportive of my choice and actions.
This was good practice for me; if I really want to facilitate discussion groups about sex and relationships with college students of mixed gender and sexual orientations, I had better not need two glasses of wine every time I do it.
What an amazing experience that was for me. I owe this woman (who I call friend) a huge thank-you and I have. She gives me hope that my daughters will not have to endure the slurs and censure when they begin having sexual lives.