Sexy and Alive: Seduction Is Holy.
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I am in the practice of turning inward, placing my hands on my womb and asking, “What wants to flow through?” I then lie down and receive.
Sometimes this reception comes through as sensation and medicine to my body, and sometimes, an immediate message is born.
This particular time, I saw images of a vampire, the devil, a witch, and a curvaceous woman. I then saw these words: ‘seductive’ and ‘magnetism’.
This felt interesting and strange. I was curious why these particular images appeared to me, and more curiously, why they appeared with the words seductive and magnetism.
So of course, I asked my intuition why these images had been delivered to me.
I was told that I am meant to see that seduction is holy, and that when used with care, it is like magnetism.
As I sat with this message, I thought of how my culture has led me to conceptualize the word seduction. I had always felt that ‘seduction’ is bad and unholy. I had always felt that to seduce is to give in to evil impulses.
I had always thought that occupying my body, and feeling sexy and alive in it, meant that I would attract unwanted male attention, and thus, I related the concept of seduction with the lack of safety in my body.
It led me to think, “Why does being sexy need to be coupled with ‘seduction’?”
In media and through myth, we hear of mermaids, vampires and witches using their beauty to seduce and kill. I realized that subconsciously, I had been trained to think that adorning myself to feel and look sexy would mean that I am seducing men, and therefore being flirtatious and possibly deadly.
For so many years, I chose not to look beautiful and to avoid attention.
I chose not to wear clothes that would make me feel sexy and reveal my body. And when I did, I often felt self-conscious, as if people would think I was trying to attract attention.
This belief led me to fear being seen. This has shown up in my life as a lack of confidence and self-esteem, as a lack of trust in my own abilities.
And I cannot help but feel that I am not the only woman that has felt this way, that I am not the only woman to internalize that being sexy means that she is not safe in her body.
This phrase is all too familiar: “She was asking for it.” Need I even say what she was asking for?
And so, you may be wondering now why magnetism comes into this discussion.
I believe that the patriarchy has obfuscated the word seduction. Let me explain. The Merriam-Webster dictionary says that seduction is the action of seducing someone, that it is a tempting or attracting thing. From this definition, we deduce that something or someone, through the power of his/her beauty, brings someone closer to him or her.
The word ‘tempting’ implicitly suggests that seduction is unholy, that it is impure, that it is the bait on a fishhook to death. And I cannot help but wonder why ‘seduction’ needs to be tempting. Why can it not simply be attracting?
One thing I know is that words have power, and those who hold power in society officiate their meaning. For the last several thousand years, the mainstream worldwide system has been the patriarchy.
So I wonder, what if we find the essence of the word seduction from the lens of the Divine Feminine, from the lens of all women who have forever been shrouded from the Bible’s origin story of that of Eve. The story that pinpoints that original sin comes from the weakness of woman, the original woman who was seduced by the snake, the devil. The story with the undertones that suggest that woman is the downfall of humanity.
When I perceive ‘seduction’ from the view of the Divine Feminine, this is the seed word that I feel at its root: attract.
And somehow, the action of attracting through beauty has been marked as impure.
In my opinion, within the fabric of this word lies the history of the genocide and subjugation of women through the last several thousands of years. Could the use of this word not be another attempt to show that the woman, that the Goddess, that beauty is evil?
So now I must address precisely why I think that viewing the word seduction as an act of tempting has negative implications on us all.
Quite simply, I think that it is a form of control to strip us away from our power and our sovereignty. I think that it keeps us in fear of being able to create our reality through our ability to feel good, to feel sexy in our bodies, and to attract our reality through the state of feeling juicy and alive.
And this is why: I believe that one very huge detriment arising out of this obfuscation of seduction is that it can lead us to not wanting to look sexy, and thus, make it hard for us to feel sexy.
Looking sexy and feeling sexy are two different things, but one way to create the feeling of being sexy can originate from our perception that we look sexy.
The more that we feel beautiful, attractive and sensual, the more aligned with our soul’s purpose we become.
I do not speak of artificial beauty as dictated by popular culture. The beauty that I speak of is the beauty that comes from our unique essence that radiates out of our skin and lights us up as we walk through the world.
This is the type of beauty that is felt by others.
So, if we can feel sexy and beautiful, then we can seduce our desires to us.
We can seduce and magnetize the life of our dreams to us.
The law of attraction tells us that what we think dictates how we feel, and how we feel attracts our outer reality. When we can align our inner reality with what we want to experience in our life, that’s when we are truly manifesting.
I do see the act of seducing and magnetizing in a different way. They each serve the same purpose, but the essence of each is different.
I see seduction working more as a manifesting tool that allows us to occupy our bodies and use our sacred sexual energy, our Shakti, to bring our desires to us.
Some examples of this could be: wild dancing, sex magic, sacred masturbation, embodied Yoga, menstrual blood offerings, and yoni egg practices for women.
When we use these tools and sincerely feel these vibrations, we can seduce our desires to us. We can feel sexy; we can feel beautiful; we can feel abundant.
It’s total magic!
And when we realize this, there is no stopping our power from flowing.
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Meghan Lockhart is a Yogini, Priestess Initiate, advocate, and writer. She is the creatrix of Wild Moon, where she offers her gifts and passion to the world through Yoga and transformational coaching. She works with the heart-centered, sensitive woman who is longing to connect to her deepest essence and to realize her own power as ‘wombyn’. She is a spiritual mystic lovingly exploring all things esoteric, and has been called a cosmic adventurer. She feels most connected in nature and in communion. She is a focalizer and gatekeeper for the Wild Moon Sisters etheric temple on Facebook, where she guides ceremony. She is a soul-midwife, bringing forth creative expression to assist the globe in its next evolution of consciousness. Meghan is currently studying in the 13 Moon Mystery School, and spends her workdays empowering and giggling with youth.
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