Join the Dance

02 Apr 2014 Leave a comment

by Camille in My Thoughts Exactly Tags: , , , , , , , , ,

Music of the Day – My God is the Sun by Queens of the Stone Age

Link to music/lyrics – http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/queensofthestoneage/mygodisthesun.html

Raw, power, energy – the Sun!

The Sun chases the dark away and brings light. The Sun illuminates the secrets that lie in the shadows. There is healing in the Sun. There is power in the Sun. There is untapped energy in the Sun. The Sun – the masculine power that can overtake the feminine, the Moon.

It is said that the moon is reflective of the sun, and technically that is very true; however, without the reflective power of the moon, the sun would be one dimensional. The Moon represents the Feminine aspect – the Sun is the Masculine aspect.

As a woman who honors and acknowledges the Goddess within her, I know that the Sun also holds Feminine qualities. Those qualities provide the passion, the fire for creativity. Without that fire, creativity cannot take place.

In my world, the Sun, besides representing the Masculine aspect, also represents the creative fire within a woman, and the Moon represents the shadow that is important for cooling and peace and the gestation for what is being created. The Moon is the womb where ideas and desires take root, are nurtured, are gestated before birthing. Out of the womb, the creation is birthed into the light where the Sun takes over with passion, fire, and healing energy. This is where the Sun and the Moon are as one – Masculine/Feminine aspects as one. The Moon needs the Sun just as much as the Sun needs the Moon. Both must have what the other offers to become the truth of their own aspects.

It is the perfect combination and synergy that both move together to create our passions and desires. It is the perfect combination and synergy that allow Feminine/Masculine to dance that most sacred dance. Dark and Light come together in the perfect cosmic dance that creates, incubates, and births the heart’s desires. Light and Dark join together to support and nurture the heart’s desires. Feminine/Masculine join together to heal the pain and hidden fears so that the creation came come into full fruition and realization.

What are your heart’s desires? Take what the Sun offers and allow the Moon to reflect the passions of your heart’s desires. Dance the Cosmic Dance of Lovers – the realization of Sun/Moon – Masculine/Feminine – Light/Dark – Dark/Light – Feminine/Masculine – Moon/Sun. Fire, Passion, Desire – it’s all a part of the Dance.

That Pleases Me

19 Feb 2014 1 Comment

by Camille in My Thoughts Exactly Tags: , , , , ,

Do I Move You by Nina Simone

Link to Lyrics and song – http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/ninasimone/doimoveyou.html

Ah, the soulful sounds of Nina Simone.  And this one?  Well, it just follows what the focus seems to have been for the past few weeks.  Questions that we, as women, ask ourselves and often our partners, especially when we do not feel what others say we should feel.  I am going to address those that are in partnerships or in relationships because that seems to be where this is going this morning.

I may not have asked my life partner this exact question, but I certainly have asked him if I was still sexy and beautiful to him.  I know that I am not the lithe sprite of a thing that I was when I first met him, but then, neither is he the muscular solid rock guy.  We are entering into that time of life when our bodies are beginning to show the years.  Funny, because inside I still feel like that beautifully toned and fit 30 year old inside, and then I look into the mirror and, admittedly think sometimes, “Who the hell is that woman, and what did she do with that young woman?”  And then, sometimes, I look into that mirror and think, “Well, you may have a few wrinkles and carry a few extra pounds, but you look pretty damn good, lady!”  It all depends on my wake up attitude.

We as women are given an ideal to which we feel we must measure up.  Even the commercials targeting the middle-aged woman are showing these women with 30 year old thin and toned bodies and few wrinkles on their face.  There is one older model that has long silver hair indicating that she is an older woman, but her body does not say older woman.  Where does this ideal come from?  And why, as women, do we continue to berate ourselves because we’ve lived our lives raising our families and doing what we thought we were supposed to do or be?

I am on a quest to tell women my age that we are all beautiful!  I know those words should strike pride, and yet, if you are even a little like me, they are met with disbelief or sarcasm.  We know we should think that, and yet, we look in the mirror and say, “Who the hell is that woman?”

Like I said earlier, I have asked my partner if I’m still sexy, and frankly, he gets offended at the question.  His reasoning is, “Of course, you’re still sexy to me.  I don’t know why you even ask me?”  Ah, there ya go.  That is manspeak.  As a man, he’s saying, that I am just as beautiful to him as I was when we were younger and that he doesn’t understand why I question it.  As a woman, I hear words that are trying to make me feel sexy to him because he knows to say otherwise would totally get him in trouble.  Hence, the words Nina sings,

The answer better be (Yes, yes)
That pleases me

What we want as women, guys, is to be made to feel sexy not just told.  And yet, does our value depend on what our partner believes or thinks?  It shouldn’t!  Our minds and thoughts dictate what we receive.  So, instead of asking your partner, look in that mirror, and ask that lady there, “Do I move you?”  If the answer is no, then start working on that.  If the answer is yes, then celebrate!  For me, I can ask that question, and say, “Yes! Yes!”  And that pleases me! Because today, I look pretty damn good!