Goddess Bastet & Cat’s Eye

Sacred Pleasure

We bring you the empowerment of sacred pleasure. It is said that the spirit had to be enticed into the body, to give up its complete freedom and willingly take on an experience of limitation that could lead to divine growth. It needed the deal to be sweetened! So music was created, music that could only be felt through the body. Spirit jumped in like a flash and life was created. There is more life that can be created in you and your world. Although there are undoubtedly struggles as a natural part of opening up to more life, there is divine sweetness, too – that is the gift of sacred pleasure. This is the pleasure that gives you joy in your aliveness. It is innocent, sensual and life-affirming. It is time for you to receive more of this. The oracle says it’s time to put a little sugar in your bowl!

Pleasure and pain are part of the dance of life. You can enjoy pleasure without fearing you’ll become addicted to it and no longer be able to bear your pain. In fact, knowing you have access to genuine, natural pleasure can be a way to manage pain more effectively. It might seem strange, but there can be an addiction to pain just as much as an addiction to pleasure – perhaps even more so considering the state of most people’s lives these days. Pain has its rightful place in life, but pleasure does, too.

For many people, there is actually pain that arises when they first learn how to feel genuine pleasure. Confusion, shame, guilt and fear of being lazy can enter the mind and cause tension in the body, making it difficult to let go and be in an experience of enjoyment. Pleasure is a form of release. It is about surrender and letting go into the moment.

When there is a yearning for pleasure – whether it be the healthy conscious expression of playfulness, or the addictive craving for an artificial high – the deeper part of you is letting you know you’ve wound yourself up too tight. You are trying to control yourself rather than learn to identify and meet your needs in a healthy way.

The stronger and more destructive the yearning for pleasure becomes (because whilst healthy pleasure creates energy, addictive pleasure depletes your life force and free will ), the more you know your being is reacting against a degree of control you are trying to impose on yourself. You may then try to control yourself more in an effort to overcome the yearning for pleasure, but it’s just going to inflame the inner battle further. The way most addictive personalities release the inner tension of this battle is to then go to the other extreme by acting out of control in a destructive manner. Then there is shame, judgment and recrimination and the whole cycle starts again. This is exhausting to the body and the mind.

The way to shift out of the inner battle for and against your own pleasure is to begin by realizing the difference between control and loving, firm holding. Control is an attempt at suppression and denial based on fear and lack of acceptance. Loving, firm holding provides a sense of safe and healthy discipline, but it does not repress any need or desire. It accepts and acknowledges all needs and then chooses the most loving way to meet them with consciousness and presence. It is free from shame, self-judgment, guilt and self-hatred. It is based on self-respect and loving the body and mind enough to care for them, rather than try to control and dominate them from a fearful place. As you shift from control to loving, firm holding of yourself, you become able to accept pleasure into your life in many more ways. You feel more open and responsive to life and its sensual beauty, and your body and mind can be nourished out of a pain-based way of living, into a lifestyle that allows for more sacred pleasure. The joy this creates can sustain and strengthen you for the times when there is pain you need to move through in order to grow. Rather than pain being your every day experience, it then becomes a phenomenon that comes into your life and then moves on once the purpose of it – your healing and growth – has been fulfilled.

This oracle comes to you with healing guidance. The Universal Mother knows you have suffered and wants to sweeten your deal. If you allow her, she will assist you in purging the self-loathing that has placed you in a painful bind of fear-based control. She will help you love yourself so you can experience the sacred pleasure your life is meant to bring to you. If you have already done this work on yourself, and find that bringing sacred pleasure to others through your loving consciousness is part of your life’s mission and soul purpose, the oracle brings you confirmation of this. There is value in teaching strength, and there is value in providing a safe way for others to experience the sacredness of pleasure as an act of loving life.

Healing Process

To integrate this guidance, you may like to say this invocation now:

I call upon the Crystal Angel of Cat’s Eye and Goddess Bastet who love me unconditionally. Thank you for the divine healing empowerment of sacred pleasure. I ask for your healing grace through unconditional love to help me release any consciously or unconsciously held self-hatred, self-loathing and lack of self-respect now. I choose to offer up to the loving grace of the Universal Mother, any pattern or belief system connected to fear-based control and inhibition. I wish to love and respect myself, to be able to receive the sacred pleasure that is my divine inheritance. Through divine mercy and my own free will, so be it.

If you wish to further integrate this guidance, hold the oracle card with the mandala image facing outwards at the sacral chakra (at your lower belly, beneath your belly button). Relax and breath in and out several times.

The say aloud:

I choose of my own free will, through this and any lifetime, and through all layers of my entire being, to thoroughly release, forgive and disconnect from any experience, memory or associated belief system connected to shaming, guilt, judgment and fear of pleasure, as well as any experience or belief system that supports self-loathing and fear-based control and inhibition. I forgive myself and others completely. I am an amazing being. With divine compassion and my own strength I shall heal my body, mind and soul as I enter into the delights of sacred pleasure as an act of reverence for divine creation. Through divine empowerment and unconditional love, so be it.

Hold the oracle card flat between your palms so you can place you hands in prayer position with the oracle card between them.

Bow your head and say:

May divine love bring a capacity for conscious, sacred pleasure to all living beings. May all hearts be freed from hatred and fear. According to divine mercy, grace and in service to the divine feminine wisdom evolving through humanity at this time, so be it.

You can finish your healing process with this affirmation, said aloud three times:

I revel in sacred pleasure as the Divine sweetens my deal, putting some sugar in my bowl!