Hermetic astrology and your birth chart have the extraordinary capacity to enlighten you about yourself.
Raised in self-ignorance you learned to live by watching and imitating those around you. Your nature, as a vague assortment of urges, had you doing this that and the other. You didn’t know that your soul’s evolutionary past was saved in not-conscious memory and that your life, including your sexual self and sex life, would be the result of thought-cells in your unconscious soul-mind doing their thing.
Your sexual behavior, like everything you think, say and do, is natural to you.
On its evolutionary journey your soul acquired an incessant urge to mate, and had sexual experiences, in circumstances that naturally encouraged wild animal appetites. What happened is depicted by Mars and house 5 in your birth chart; and with the attainment of self-consciousness, you experience your sexual self for the first time.
At puberty your child’s body transformed into an adult and your sexual self and identity emerged. You learned about the wild side of your nature as ancient animal impulses acquired during your evolutionary past made their presence felt.
Only you know how you responded to this intriguing biological development, but your sex education taught you nothing about your sex urge.
Culture influenced your sex role and in 1961 the introduction of the contraceptive pill sexually liberated women and started a sexual revolution.
Maybe conventional religious teachings influenced your attitude towards sex.
Maybe an uncontrollable urge had you pursuing an active sex life where a willingness to experiment and ignore consequence had you taking hazardous risks. A powerful sex drive can be difficult to control. Maybe you struggled to understand the sexual part of your nature with little help or support.
Only you know the role played by culture on your innate sexuality but in the age of websites and algorithms it’s anything goes. There’s traditional sex, sex with a person of the opposite sex, sex with a person of the same sex, casual sex, adventurous sex, recreational sex, safe sex, risky sex, self-sex, group-sex, coercive sex, fantasy sex, cyber-sex, kinky sex, mutual mauling and muscle lust.
The new age sexual market place provides various sexual lifestyles, but a sexual relationship is a single purpose relationship that provides sexual gratification and little else. Sex won’t sustain a relationship.
Maybe your desire to marry and have children elevated your sexual impulses to a higher level of creative expression.
Sex is often a source of strife, dissension, conflict and disease. Untamed sexual impulses can ruin a person’s life: their marriage, family-life and career. Sexually transmitted disease can have destructive health outcomes.
The pursuit of wild ecstasy and the search for eternal sexual attractiveness easily become addictions.
A high discord sexual experience can cause serious mental health problems and repressing the painful memory into the unconscious part of the mind where it’s disconnected from the conscious awareness only exacerbates the problem. Releasing the painful memory and harmonizing the sex life will require professional help.
You discovered your sexual self and formed a sexual identity in a rapidly changing sex culture, but the materialistic, unspiritual times in which you live tend to exacerbate the dilemma of understanding your sexual self. Whatever, your experience never dislike who you are.
Sex is selfish
Physical sex is self-interest motivated, but when the sex impulse merges with other feelings its essence can be modified making it difficult to identify its real selfish nature. And religious teachings can cause some people to misrepresent the real nature of their sexual impulses.
Sex energy is selfish. The sexual and emotional needs of the other person are incidental. Sex is a physical act that satisfies physical needs and feelings of love (Venus) relate to physical love, where the physical body is loved – not the inner person.
When external circumstance facilitates the satisfaction of your desire to have sex you send an astral sex-message to the aggressive energy-center in your unconscious soul-mind and it instigates, on your command, a sexual biological response that prepares your body for sex.
Neurones fire electrical impulses at a sex frequency and the electrical stimulation of your gonad glands causes them to secrete a surge of testosterone or estrogen into your blood stream. At orgasm sexual thought-elements within the aggressive energy-center in your unconscious soul-mind produce a vortex of electrochemical sexual pleasure.
Powerful procreative impulses ensure race preservation, and feelings of sexual pleasure keep you coming back for more. At the human stage both love and sex most often relate to the physical body: it’s the physical body that is loved. Yet in rare instances pure, honest feelings of true love elevate sex above the physical level transforming sex into a deeply emotional unselfish act.
It’s not uncommon for some people to desire sex, but to lack any desire to have children, which may or not pose a problem.
If you have no interest in having or caring for children you should not have the experience. It would be unfortunate for both you and the child but unless you can find deep emotional fulfillment in some other way this situation will impede your spiritual development.
Your sexual-self
You have a sex drive, sexual needs, sexual interests and sexual behaviors: a sexual history, sexual standards, sexual values and sexual expectations and you should consider each of these factors when reviewing your past and current sexual self.
Your sexual behavior is natural to you, but this doesn’t mean it’s having a rewarding and beneficial outcome.
Feeling comfortable with your sexuality is essential for your mental wellbeing as sexual conflicts incline towards frustration and dissatisfaction. Whether your sex drive plays a beneficial role in your pursuit of usefulness, happiness and spirituality is an important issue to address.
You may wish to examine the sex component in your current intimate relationship. Compatible sexual values are vital for a harmonious relationship and sex life decisions should always be discussed.
Your sex drive stays rather constant, although at certain times it is affected for better or worse by astrological and biological factors. Testosterone and estrogen levels decline with age and adjusting to the biological change can be challenge.
There are many mysteries regarding sex including its capacity to create the physical conditions to support astral life, but procreation is an aggressive physical sex act and the aggressive energy center in your unconscious soul-mind is the seat of your animal appetites, selfish passions and lust.
Modern gene science, with its narrow biological insights, views sex as the passing on of genes. The gene is worshipped simply because it survives death and becomes immortal, but there is a deeper truth.
The ancient magi, with their greater spiritual insights viewed sex as a sacred act. Rather than ensuring the survival of the gene (a selfish act), it allows you to provide an evolving soul with the opportunity to experience self-conscious human life (an unselfish act). This is a glorious privilege.
To keep your personal development on track and moving forward will require wise management of your sex drive. It’s a deeply personal issue often made difficult by the demands of another person, but spiritualizing your soul will require the sublimation of your sexual impulses from their basic animal level of expression to a higher mode of creative expression.
Sex energy is creative. Its objective is to create something outside of yourself and elevated creativity can spiritualize sex energy.
Taming and elevating your sex urge to a higher mode of creative expression is the key to your spiritual development. The start point is your sex drive and current sexual behavior. Your job, as the intelligent thinker, is to guide your sexual impulses into those experiences that ensure a higher level of creative and spiritual expression.
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