Taurus Reminders
Pleasure as Prayer
There is a kind of spirituality that disconnects people from the body.
A spirituality that treats transcendence as more holy than embodiment.
That praises detachment over feeling.
That fears pleasure.
That pathologizes desire.
That speaks endlessly about “higher frequencies” while remaining deeply uncomfortable with sensuality, intimacy, eros, and the sacred intelligence of the body itself.
And honestly?
I think this is a very masculine expression of spirituality.
Not masculine in a negative sense, but masculine in the way it often prioritizes control, discipline, transcendence, and ascension upward… while neglecting the feminine path of descending deeper into the body, the Earth, sensation, beauty, receptivity, and feeling.
For many women especially, healing is not found in leaving the body.
It is found in returning to it.
Returning to pleasure.
Returning to softness.
Returning to sensuality.
Returning to life force.
This Taurus New Moon revealed that to me in a profound way.
Taurus rules the body.
The senses.
Pleasure.
Beauty.
Touch.
Food.
Rest.
Safety.
Money.
Love.
Venus.
It asks:
How are you tending to your foundation?
Not just your business or finances…
…but your nervous system, your body, your capacity to receive, your relationship with pleasure and aliveness.
And during this portal, I had a beautiful experience with someone I recently met — a connection filled with chemistry, polarity, affection, playfulness, sensuality, and presence.
What struck me most was not simply the attraction itself.
It was the remembrance.
I realized how easy it is, especially as women carrying responsibility, motherhood, healing work, and vision-holding, to become disconnected from sensuality and pleasure. To live almost entirely in survival mode, productivity mode, healing mode, or “service” mode.
And yet sensuality is healing too.
Not reckless indulgence.
Not unconscious sex.
Not abandoning discernment.
But openness.
Presence.
Receiving.
Allowing ourselves to feel.
We have become so uptight around sexuality in many spiritual spaces that people are either repressing their life force entirely or expressing it unconsciously without reverence.
But there is another way.
There are feminine spiritual traditions that understand sexual energy as sacred creative energy.
As life force.
As healing energy.
As manifestation energy.
This is why Tantra, in its deeper essence, is not merely about sex, it is about consciousness through embodiment. Through breath. Through energy. Through polarity. Through presence. Through learning to inhabit the body fully instead of escaping it.
Pleasure can be prayer.
Touch can be medicine.
Desire can awaken creativity.
Sensuality can reconnect us to God through the body instead of away from it.
And perhaps part of healing the collective is learning how to become safe enough, in ourselves, to experience sweetness again.
To stop treating every connection as something to possess, control, fear, or suppress.
To allow moments of beauty.
Moments of attraction.
Moments of intimacy.
Moments of tenderness.
Moments of aliveness.
Not everything sacred is permanent.
Some things arrive as portals.
As initiations.
As reminders that we are still alive beneath the armor.
Maybe spirituality was never meant to disconnect us from being human.
Maybe it was meant to help us inhabit our humanity more fully.
A few practices that have helped me reconnect to embodied spirituality:
— slowing down enough to actually feel my body
— dance and intuitive movement
— breathwork
— sensual self-care rituals
— eye contact and conscious touch
— meditation focused on embodiment rather than escape
— nervous system healing
— nature connection
— learning to receive pleasure without guilt
— allowing desire to move creatively instead of suppressing it
This is also a big reason I created my new workbook, Hieros Gamos, which means Sacred Union.
The workbook explores emotional healing, embodiment, polarity, masculine and feminine energy, sensuality, nervous system awareness, spiritual integration, and the path of returning to wholeness within ourselves.
Because healing is not just about transcending the human experience.
It is also about learning how to fully inhabit it.
Hieros Gamos is available now for those ready to deepen into embodied healing, sacred union, and emotional liberation.
