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Recieved: 2001/05/10 00:39
Subject: Re: [K-list] A Bigger Picture ..
From: Mystress Angelique Serpent
On 2001/05/10 00:39, Mystress Angelique Serpent posted thus to the K-list:
At 07:35 PM 5/9/01, you wrote:
> .. Mystress and the personal journey she has shared
> has touched so many .. not only on this list .. but also
> on the other lists which she frequents ..
coming soon in book form, my Autobiography, tentatively titled "Fuck
off, I know what I'm talking about!" :)
>Cross culturally, the priestess translates as the female Shaman
>whether it be the "Wise Woman" .. or the "Medicine Woman" ..
>or any other names by which she finds cultural and ethnic
>identification .. including the "witch" ..
>
>She is the "Natural Woman" who is in tune with her
>"inner and outer self" .. and the evolved adult who retains the
>innocence of the female child.
Well defined in a book by Clarissa Pinkola Estes titled "Women who run
with the wolves". Well worth reading.
>Cross culturally, the Nun is the archetype impressed in the
>female child by organised religion .. whether it be Catholic
>Jewish, Moslem .. she is the regulated female who is
>controlled by the imagery of religion .. repressing the
>"Natural Woman"
Well, really, Christopher, these events with the child stowaway entity
had nothing at all to do with that whole Nun/Priestess thing.. I know you
cannot admit to being wrong, so you will continue to go on about it, but
for my experience, those guesses were way off the mark. Not resonant.
However, much of my other work *is* about that, so perhaps that is
what you were picking up on.
Setting women free from the Patriarchal programming.
I find it most notable, in woman who are just beginning to uncover a
repressed Dominant side. The fear that comes up as they begin to roleplay
the "bad grrl" who enslaves men with her sexuality, is tremendous. I know
about my own road in getting past it, and I know that most women never do.
It is just too much to face, easier to remain repressed and go along with
the cultural mores.
Normal fetish statistics suggest there are several hundred submissive
men, for every Dominant woman.. Nature does not set it up like that,
culture does. The Dom women are out there, but they are repressed. The
work they have to do to go against the programming is simply not worth it
to them.
The cultural programming is deeply imprinted, and resonant of a fear of
painful death. Burnt witches and stoned harlots. Our popular entertainment
repeats the programming: "Bad grrls get killed".. the chaste maidens may
get kidnapped by King Kong or some other villain, but they are always
rescued by some white knight in the end. The Bad grrls, from Madonna in
Dick Tracy, to Glenn Close in "Basic instinct".. get killed. Always. Any
James Bond movie has several sexy, soon dead women to spice up the story.
This extends to real life issues, as in how often prostitutes get murdered
by a society that considers them "disposable", like kleenex.
When women start to unrepress the Wild woman within, that is what they
come up against. Cultural memory tells them that they are risking their
very lives, if they dare to get in touch with their magic and their sexual
power.
>Depending on whether the individual chooses (by rebellion)
>to make one of these personality archetypes dominant, the
>other will become the unconscious creator of all of the seeming
>conflicts which are experienced by the individual.
Nope, I don't think so. The Priestess Archetype has been around for
several millennia longer than the Nun. It has been repressed a lot in the
last thousand years, but it is returning like Lightspeed, and the power of
the Nun Archetype is much weaker. Like all polarities, there is a point of
integration, and at that point there is no more shadow archetype pulling
strings behind the scenes.
>The fact that we have worked with archetypes existent in every
>female will effect every female. Not only was this work carried
>out in the body of Mystress .. but it was carried out in the
>dimension of Universal Consciousness
That is sweet, Christopher..
This event with the little stowaway was not about that, but everything
makes ripples,.. the "butterfly effect" in a chaotic universe. The ripples
of the child entity's journey into the Light are already stirring up a lot
of people. Blessed be.
Aside from this event, tho.. what you say is true. I have been doing
this work in the collective and Archetypal consciousness, for many years,
and I have seen society's attitudes change, slowly but surely. I cannot
take credit for the new existence of kick-butt heroines like Zena and Barb
Wire.. but, they did not exist before I began this journey.
There are many women like me, Priestesses using our magic and the media
to clear the debris from the collective, and spread new ideas about what
women can be and do. In turn, we honor the women who came before us, the
suffragettes, the activists, the George Sands and Isodora Duncans who broke
new ground.
The first work, was in clearing myself and integrating the polarity
between the fluffy bunny spiritual person I was before I discovered my true
sexual orientation, and the Dark Goddess Angelique that was the hidden
side. Finding the place of unity between them, and then passing on what I
learned, to anyone who wanted to know.
Working with the Archetypes directly, in my journeys to the underworld,
and through the repressed women who have come to me for guidance. Though my
activism, through the media,... I do it just by being who I am. By existing.
What surprises me most often, in my innocence, is how the women who
carry the Nun archetype react to me. They are quick to gather the firewood
for the stake, because of the radiant fear in their own selves, of their
own inner power. The power of an unrepressed wild woman that they dare not
claim.
Blessings..
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