"People are broad-minded. They'll accept the fact that a person can be an alcoholic, a dope fiend, a wife beater and even a newspaperman, but if a man doesn't drive, there's something wrong with him." (Art Buchwald)
Those of you who know me and have followed me since 2007 when I began blogging online and vlogging on youtube, you know that I am a quirky girl. I put up blogs, websites and youtube channels only to yank them back down when I get “in a mood”. Or should I say, “out of the mood”? Probably I am, umm...what’s it called....ECCENTRIC?!
So thanks to those of you who have not only put up with me since I last went offline in the fall of 2012, but also, I thank you for keeping in touch, sending me cards and gifts and yes, praying for me. I love you all! Especially my sons, who are grown men and who love and understand their Momma! My sons are my best friends in all the world and they are the reason that I am back in Florida, even though it took me a VERY LONG TIME to adjust to this place; having grown up and lived in San Diego County for my entire life prior to coming here in December 2008. I would also like to thank my ex-husband and the father of my children (to whom I was married to for 10 years, from the time I was 16 years old) for being graciously hospitable to me over the 2012/2013 Christmas/New Year holiday season, even though we do not see eye-to-eye on many things.
Now, while I may be a woman who admires virtue, wholesomeness, family relations and spiritually charged experiences, you also know that I am pretty open-minded when it comes to sexuality. Many of you have been past readers and viewers on former sexy blogs and sites of mine. More than a few of you have written to me and begged for me to re-publish former videos and my erotic writings. Last year I built a subscriber site—“Renaissance Lady”—only to lose steam later and take the site down. For whatever reason, I have NOT been blessed with a business-mindset. Trying to harness my sexual, creative power to put forward into a residual-income-generating business endeavor has always wound up blocking my flow. Go figure.
So, regarding those of you who keep in touch and are in my “inner circle” of friends and fans; those of you who have made an effort to keep in-touch and to be open and honest with me about who you are, as of yesterday (May 17th, 2013) I have picked back up my Sexy blog project on blogger. The new URL (I changed it from Sovereign Shoshi) for my SEXY blog is:
http://sexyshoshanarose.blogspot.com
You will need a google account before you can sign in request to view it because I have set that site to private; accessible only to the readers I choose, who will receive a password to log in and view my sexy content.
I am not intending to charge money for it because that would limit the readership to those who pay me and seeing how I do not write any of my erotica, nor film my video logs with the prior intention of earning dollars from my art, I see that my best creative work is that which comes straight from my heart and soul. This has been the case since I was young and whenever I made something beautiful that I showed to my business-man Father.....he would say: “Wow, that’s beautiful, you could/should sell that”. And I remember always feeling the same two feelings when I’d get that response from him: At first I’d feel elation that my Dad was impressed with me/my creations, but when I’d imagine having to create things strictly for the purpose of selling them, suddenly I lost the urge to create. It’s very difficult for me to force myself to do things that I don’t “feel” good doing!
NAVIGATING THIS BLOG
If you’ve landed on the home page of this blog, you will see my current stream of posts in the main body of this site, dating from now and on backwards to the date I began blogging the new, SOBER ME: "SHOSHI FREE". Occasionally I make an older post "sticky" (stuck to the front page at the top of the stream). My sticky posts vary from time-to-time depending upon my current muse.
The “pages” featured on this blog are there because they are the most prominent and meaningful to me. Pages differ from “posts”. Posts are where you find my “journal” entries in chronological order, because a blog is basically an online diary. If you are wanting to read through my posts from current and backwards, simply scroll down the home page and continue on and on and on. If you want to peruse a particular subject on a stream of thought in and amongst my posts, click on one of the frequently used tags in the tag cloud down below in this side bar. Or, use the pull-down category box. Of course you can always search for a particular, random word or topic in the search box above my Coat-of-Arms Gravatar at the top of this side bar.
That's it for now people,
MUAH!
xoxox
Shoshi
In the majority of European esoteric Tarots, the suit of Cups refers to the element water. The suit symbol is usually a large drinking cup or communion cup, like the mysterious Grail chalice, occasionally shown pouring forth with holy water or other sacred fluids.
Associations with this cup include the Holy Grail; a fountain of love; the Cornucopia, containing all good things that make us happy; the Krater, stone cup of the Mysteries, containing Soma, psychedelic elixir of mushrooms and cannabis pollen; communion cup of the Catholic Mass; the Pomegranate cup of the Egyptian cult of Isis and the old Hebrew mysteries. It sometimes refers to the Blood Mysteries, symbol of the ultimate sacrifice, whether it’s menstrual blood, the blood of a sacrificed animal, or the blood of Christ. There are times when the cup is also used to symbolize sacred sexuality, with its connotations of merging and bliss. In each case the symbolism reflects the heart of life, bonding and nurturing support, deep soul satisfaction, and becoming one with a greater whole.
Commonly, the Suit of Cups rules the psyche or emotional life, dreamtime, the lunar, tidal, monthly cycles of subjective experience. It refers to all aspects of the inner life, from fantasy and imagination to great heights of ecstasy, deep wells of grief, and the immense calm of spiritual security. This the world of feelings, the heart, our close emotional and spiritual ties. It represents all the ways in which people can be touched and moved in our non-verbal, empathetic, sensitive and intuitive natures.
As the imagery implies, the suit of Cups is pregnant with meaning for Western esotericism. This suit has been used to carry the traces of an underground belief held in certain Gnostic Catholic circles in southern Europe about the lineage of a Holy Family founded by Jesus of Nazareth and his wife, Mary Magdalen. According to this belief, Mary of Magdala was taken to Europe along with her child/children after the crucifixion, for their protection during the troubles in Jerusalem. The family settled in southern France, founding a dynasty which eventually rivaled the Roman Church, provoking both the Crusades and the Inquisition as a result of Rome’s attempt to eliminate their influence in Europe.
The queen of Cups is therefore regularly portrayed as the Grail Queen (see El Gran Tarot Esoterico), unambiguous icon of the Arthurian legends. If she is being indicated indirectly, she’ll become an idealized and dreamy Venus-like figure (see the Medieval Scapini Tarot), occasionally, the Black Madonna, patron saint of many villages on the Iberian Peninsula (the Alexandrian Tarot decks). Sometimes attributes of all three are present, as in a Black Queen with naked breasts who carries the Pomegranite Cup (Ibis Tarot).
These various guises reveal her role as All-Woman, Sacred Virgin, Lover, and Mother, simultaneously a living woman and a reinvention of the ancient Great Mother, still beloved despite any overlay of patriarchal Christian dogma and symbolism. These Tarot decks are the most likely to imply that the cup is full of blood rather than water.
If the cup in the hands of your King of Cups burns, bubbles, smokes, or flames, you are probably looking at a Tarot informed with an alchemical theme. This references a person who is actively cultivating spiritual powers (practices which the Roman church strictly anathematized). In those Tarots, the Page is often shown with his cloak draped over his cup or a lid covering its fullness, and with a downcast demeanor. He’s the royal heir, forced to live incognito, banned from his inheritance and his proper role in history. The Knapp-Hall Tarot goes to the length of showing his “lineage tree” broken in half behind him.
There exists a small group of esoteric Tarot decks that use the suit of Cups to symbolize the element air (the realm of the mind) rather than the element water. These are the Spanish-influenced or Iberian Tarots from Spain, Portugal, and the southern coast of France. These Tarots relocate the Holy Grail away from the sentimental and emotional life, focusing it in the philosophical sphere, the realm of the mind. Here the Cup is a symbol of the Soul’s consciousness, receptive and open to Divine Inspiration, experiencing communion with higher planes and higher intelligence. It refers to subtle states of medi-tation and contemplation, an active, aware receptivity to the Divine Word.
Such Tarots show symbols of the astrological air signs (Gemini, Libra, Aquarius) built into the designs of the royalty of Cups, and will also show a preponderance of butterflies, birds, insects and flowers adorning the suit of Cups, even sometimes extending over the whole deck. They also have a higher percent-age of female images in the Major Arcana, with especially suggestive and sympathetic imagery associated with the Devil card. These clues imply contact with the most ancient Hebrew mysteries, carrying Gnostic, Alexandrian, and Moorish influence barely hidden beneath the ubiquitous Catholicism imposed from Rome.
Examples of this family of Tarots are El Gran Tarot Esoterico, the Salvador Dali Tarot, Euskalherria, Balbi, and the Royal Fez Morrocan. This group of decks is the most colorful, most diverse, and most unexplored school of Tarot repre-sented in the Tarot Magic selection.
by Christine Payne-Towler
Man – your woman is a tantra goddess. She is Shakti. Even if she is not able to produce children, her yoni is still symbolic of the sacred feminine. Tantra yoni puja or worship is how you display your acceptance of that fact. Woman – never regard yourself as less than a goddess of tantra, for this is your true nature. Your yoni is the nexus of your feminine power. Never allow it to be abused or objectified; guard its divinity as you would any sacred idol.
Acharya Subhojit Dasgupta is a Tantra Teacher with an in-depth knowledge of traditional Indian sciences and Sanskrit literature. Visit his tantra online guide for Tantra Lessons, kriyas and mudras from this young Tantra Master.