It is more than castration, although in related Shakti cults like that of Cybele, of course, this did literally happen (cf. Catullus' famous poem). Broadly speaking, it is referring to the inner polarity principle which was re-discovered for modernists by Carl Jung, where a man's soul is feminine and vice versa. This has been central in my own Work with Ishtar/Astarte, as it was for the pre-modern alchemists, who (mostly men) described what they did as "women's work".
It is a powerful psychic experience, but the closet most of the profane will come to it is in cross-dressing or strap-on play.
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Date: 2007-02-15 12:52 am (UTC)It is more than castration, although in related Shakti cults like that of Cybele, of course, this did literally happen (cf. Catullus' famous poem). Broadly speaking, it is referring to the inner polarity principle which was re-discovered for modernists by Carl Jung, where a man's soul is feminine and vice versa. This has been central in my own Work with Ishtar/Astarte, as it was for the pre-modern alchemists, who (mostly men) described what they did as "women's work".
It is a powerful psychic experience, but the closet most of the profane will come to it is in cross-dressing or strap-on play.