“The light of the sacred prostitute penetrates to the heart of this darkness. . . . she is the consecrated priestess, in the temple, spiritually receptive to the feminine power flowing through her from the Goddess, and at the same time joyously aware of the beauty and passion in her human body.”
Marion Woodman
Sacred and prostitute are two words you would hardly expect to see together now, yet in the ancient world, these women were very important members of society.
In the Golden age of Goddess worship, the sacred prostitute was honored and seen as the Goddesses of The Great Goddess. They were sensual women, whose Eros healed those that came to her, she was not afraid of her sexuality, she stoked the flames of her passion and fed the hunger of those who came to her for love and connection. These priestesses were said to be an incarnation of the Holy Spirit as they made love to men who came to pay homage to the Goddess. Their very nature, their loving was said to tame the wild beast in men that came to be exactly that, tamed by Her, the Goddess.
“When the Goddess of Love was still honored, the sacred prostitute was virgin in the original sense of the word (one-in-herself), a person of deep integrity whose welcome for the stranger was radiant, self-confident, and sensuous. Her raison d'etre was to bring the goddess' love into direct contact with mankind. In this union of opposites- masculine and feminine, spiritual and physical- the personal was transcended and the divine entered in.” Nancy Qualls-Corbett
In our modern-day the role of sacred sexuality has virtually disappeared, there are those Goddesses whose souls remember their calling, in working with the sacred art of sexuality and they feel the call back to the Temple. This way of working with Eros is not the tainted dark way in which the wounded feminine has been operating from .. but the ancient way, where love and connection healed all. Imagine if these women were to step forward again and take that Eros, and bring it back in the pure state it once was, to use for good in this world?
She is the sacred feminine, the counterpart to the sacred masculine that lives within us all, she is the intuition, the compassionate, the heart-centered wisdom that this world needs right now.
Join us on this journey of remembering and reconnecting to the magic of sacred sexuality.
