for my 26th post, or numerologically the number most associated with sex within the couple, i want to talk about coupledom. sex drives things in many ways and for a man to love a woman is a true source of growth in this world. men are the drive, the seed, and the power on this plane. it is their fate to move the world, but the secret is that women are the base. they are the earth on which men stand. women are the still path of infinite potential that guides and nurtures their travelers. below is a painting of the earthy, spiritual woman who waits in stillness beside her king, aka the lion. she does not fear the heights and is not perturbed by the gushing water, aka turbulent emotions. she is likened to the serene, far-seeing hawks that accompany her and the mere incense she burns as an offering sweeps away the clouds.
the world seems to give us no guide for love these days. nearly everyone is divorced, trash magazines and celebrities provide no models, and hillary and bill clinton are still a couple. the missing link to me here is religion. where in religion do we have a couple that is ideal? not sarah and abraham, not rachel or queen esther. where is the religious guide to how to relate to the opposite sex? if we know that the life of christ was the one that we are supposed to emulate, what about his sex life? what about a holy union?and what about gender roles? it was not possible for a woman to live the life of christ. where is the female christ? the life of the redemptive woman? would not the christ have a woman and would she not be divine as well? might she not even guide him as she is guided?
in the gnostic gospels, or the gospels left out of the bible, it is said that jesus took mary as his companion and would kiss her on the mouth and tell her things secretly. i believe that jesus was in love as part of his perfect care and connection to all things, and that mary was his lover. their story is the archetypal story. from what i can tell, mary was pretty much royalty. she was from the best house which makes me think she may have been a mason. i feel like her family was probably in some ways corrupt and she was being used for marriage by her father, aka, being pimped out by daddy. in this way, mary was made a prostitute by her family through no fault of her own.
mary's heroic story is that she gave up her life of materialism and captivity to follow and love christ, a fringe heretic. that is the modern woman's cross then: to cast off society and love what might not look good on paper but what god shows you is the way. for men, they have christ to follow. i am not positive where christ came from, but i've heard that nazareth was like a ghetto and that jesus was a self-made man of sorts. i also heard he was royalty and that he was a mason. all connected and interesting but i'm not sure on any of it. but basically, the path for a couple is a new one. people are meant to cling together as they overthrow their pasts, their families, their society for new, lovelier, holier ways. the only way a couple can justify their joy i believe is to serve god with their life together. and that way, thru the example of mary and jesus, is the path of destruction and creation, especially within ourselves and within the couple as a unit. We must tear ourselves down occasionally so that we can shed outdated ideas and ways of doing things, and then we are reborn. As a couple working for God it is often also our responsibility to tear the world down so that it may be reborn. this public part of a relationship is often over-looked. jesus and mary must have worked hard to maintain the light they as a couple shed on their followers by handling their individual shadows, their shadow as a couple, and the worlds collective shadow. a couple is an automatic example of how to relate to one another, which becomes a responsibility for any couple, especially a public one like the Christ couple. sometimes i think what mary and jesus were really resisting was bs gender stuff. i feel like jesus recognized mary as an equal before other men and women and it made them uncomfortable. jesus treated mary as his true partner and demanded others do so as well, to the chagrin of even the disciples. but i'm just guessing.
so basically, as a couple, it's cool if you give something up to be with your love so that you both start from scratch and build a life together. it may sound old fashioned, or even sexist, but if a woman can give her whole life to her man, his life and business will grow from her care of his body, mind and spirit. it is really about the energy involved, but if a woman taps into her masculine side and goes out in to the work force and speaks to a bunch of men everyday, what she can give to her husband at home is lessened and therefore he is not as powerful. of course, i make art at home so while i do not have a job, i do have an esty store :)
http://www.etsy.com/shop/CandyPaintCo
and a website
http://drivebygemini.wix.com/macy-moore
