In today’s edition of Planet Waves FM, I look at the Virgo Full Moon, and some of the material that might be associated with this event in your life. I relate it to Mars retrograde in Virgo, which to me is about the healing of desire.
One thing we’re getting with this Mars retrograde is plenty of opportunity to do just that — particularly as sex keeps getting run up the flagpole day after day in the midst of the Republican primary race. I propose, however, that having the discussion of sex in congressional hearing rooms, the news and the Supreme Court is a huge distraction, and I recommend ways we can get the conversation into more intimate settings. At the end of the program I announce an essay contest that anyone can win — check for details. The prize is a copy of Betty Dodson’s new DVD.
I mention a sex education website — SoloTouch.com — where you can read 50,000 stories that prove that you’re not weird. I recommend a book, Eros Denied by Wayland Young, and I suggest you peruse Betty Dodson’s site, not for the end of the sex conversation but rather for an excellent point of beginning.
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Lovingly,
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That was amazing to listen to, so right on. All the stuff about being spied on or listened, feeling like there’s something wrong with you, have all been part of the healing work I’ve been doing. It blew my mind how accurate it was, and the whole history of guilt. Thank you so much for giving validity to what’s been coming from the depths of my being.
great quote, zerosity — i’ll have to read the rest of the article.
The concluding quote from Spong: I find it a frightening time through which to live and it calls out to women and to men alike to flush, yes to flush, out of public life this “religiously perfumed,” but cruel, continuing oppression of women. It needs to be flushed equally by an aroused constituency of both Democrats and Republicans and the Christian Church needs to climb out of the Middle Ages and begin to call “sin” that which some still call “ancient truth,” or “sacred tradition.”
Certainly suits the podcast.
JannKinz
John Shelby Spong’s essay for March 8 is “The Contraception Debate: Is Misogyny on the Rise?” It should be accessible at http://johnshelbyspong.com/
Spong is the retired Episcopal Bishop of Newark, and a “progressive Christian”, author of numerous books.
JannKinz