Hi, guys. It's CC from Cosmetique Astrology. Today I'm doing something a little bit different. What I want to talk about is a little bit of my own personal understanding and realizations as far as the spiritual path for women specifically, and address a lot of misconceptions that I had and I think a lot of women have about their path as women. So, for women seeking spiritual growth, the current state of almost all academic resources on spirituality will present this woman with nothing but a paradoxical distraction. So, for centuries, or perhaps for all of recorded humanity, the woman's spiritual path has been left a really secretive mystery. It's really not been written about or explained at all. Everything has kind of been explained for men. So, as a woman seeks to develop herself spiritually, she may begin to conform to what she is reading on the subject, often techniques that are developed for the male form, the male mind, and the male sexuality. Her innate empathy and her motherly attributes, they often times will draw a woman strongly towards compassion practices, moral development... and actually what this can lead to, coming from a woman... approaching spirituality and especially moral practices while being a woman, it can actually lead to a lot of repression, fear, and hate of herself. She really starts to engage in some self-loathing from her actual spiritual practices. This has been my experience as well as I've seen this happen to other women. So, if she wants to cause no temptation and no pain for others at all, as a moral being, as a being that's not causing any kind of harm in the world... so, why was she born into this body that tempts and even ruins many men around her? Really, the female body is the object that the whole material, materialistic, physical world encircles. Men seek to possess is sexually, while women obsess over judging it, improving it, perfecting it. How can a spiritually seeking woman become a being of total compassion and morals in such a destructive vehicle? How can she renounce material life, while being trapped in a vessel that drives the entirety of the material world. So, much she shave her head, cover her hair, or cover her face in order to cause no jealousy or lust around her? These are the kinds of things that a lot of women ask themselves and that I asked myself at one point. Many women do begin to think so. Must she become only academically oriented, like focusing on anthropology and philosophy and denying any of the "inferior" and low practices of femininity? Perhaps she views herself as a feminist, but in the name of feminism she renounces and looks down upon all things that are actually known as feminine, such as beautifying oneself, enjoying home life and children, embracing intuition and emotion, etc. So, for this woman this may leave the whole idea of "feminism" in a pile of confusion and shame as she begins to kind of detest her own nature and strive towards something that's paradoxically much more celebratory and emulating of masculinity. What if instead the most spiritual act for a woman is for her to embrace herself, so in all of her material and physical glory, blessed with the female natural power of seduction, of enchantment, of magnetism... perhaps it is here that she finds God. Men on their path, they strive to grow in self-control, in discipline... it is true that she serves man as a temptation to give into his material desire. How can a man grow without temptation to overcome? So, if he's not challenged by the female power around him... if he's not pulled in and enthralled by it, how can he expand his energy? So, the female does not need to deny her Earthly nature, because she functions as the Earth itself. She serves as the foundational ... the grounding for man. She absorbs him if falls and she supports him if he rises. So, sexuality is really the raw, innate energy that drives us in both life and spirituality. So, when a man and a woman decide to grow spiritually together, it is with sexuality that they first must begin. So, this energy can grow, rise and expand their consciousness and their experience. So, for years a woman may study spirituality, again normally taught and written about from man's perspective, and find that she does nothing but struggle against herself. It is when she lets go and she instead seeks to know and truly become herself that she will begin to grow incredibly rapidly. She will learn to embrace the destructive, the tempting, the consuming aspects of her natural femininity, and she will learn that it isn't her femininity that is hurting her, but rather her fear of it. Her fear that kind of leads her to hide from her sexuality, to restrict herself and her sexuality, and that places these huge looming restrictions constantly on her sexual and her spiritual partner. So, she instead can tune herself into the constant flow of sexual energy that she can feel pulsing through her partner and herself, even when it unknown, frightening territory, and she can use this energy to create unbelievable spiritual bliss and transformation for her and her partner. So, after embracing her own nature a woman will find that she has very little restrictions of herself. She can focus on beautification constantly, or embrace any aspect of sexuality that she felt previously that she needed to repress. She can still enjoying studying and discipline, but there's now this feminine, juicy, unrestricted excitement about her own body and sexuality that drives all that she does. Her femininity now is really her strongest quality, and she knows that it is a tool that can be utilized by both herself and men ... Herself and her partner, to achieve intense results. Just as the feminine form is a tool that is powerfully misused in our culture, in regards to promiscuity and things like that, there is no doubt that it is an inconceivably powerful tool that can be used well, or again, misused to terrible ends. For the woman that has embraced her nature, there is one other task that I want to touch on that is crucial in her path, the unique spiritual path of woman, and that is carefully choosing a suitable spiritual and sexual partner. So, as women are constantly being pursued by men, it is their task to choose very wisely. A woman can be ruined if she chooses a man who misuses his energy, who does not remain devoted to her, who cannot control his own sexual energy, and who does not focus on spiritual improvement or does not encourage her to pursue her very unique feminine path. In order for the couple to be saved, they must be completely devoted to spiritual growth and see that the root of this growth lies in sexuality. So, if sexuality is misused for promiscuity, porn, masturbation, repression, restriction, hiding things from one another, etc. the couple will have great difficulty in achieving their goals. This is why it is crucial for a woman who is seriously seeking to grow spiritually to choose a good partner that inspires in her growth and transformation. So, she needs to be able to trust, adore, and endlessly love her partner. She needs to be able to let him fill her with energy and direct her on their path. She is the vessel for inspiration, the muse, the gatekeeper. It is through her that a man ultimately can be ruined or saved. It is through him, the man, that her untamed sexual power can be directed and utilized, as the male sexual power is equally and as uniquely crucial and powerful in its own way, transforming the female through her love, her devotion, and her sexual acceptance. So, when a woman becomes the spiritual and sexual consort to a man, she literally becomes his foundation, his Yesod in Hebrew. She is then identified with and the source of his magical force, and in this way they can rise together. A woman on her own is like the Moon, she does not give off her own light ultimately, but when she has a man to reflect, she can multiply his power greatly. So, there's no denying that man and woman... they're the puzzle pieces that if they're correctly reunited, they're brought back to the heavenly and harmonious garden of eden.