Franco Santoro's Blog: Astroshamanism, page 50

True sexuality

You can understand the meaning of your life only when you are ready to acknowledge and accept your true sexuality. Here I am not referring to sexuality as you can read or hear about. These are ideas and not sexuality. Their purpose is to manipulate your true sexuality, imposing conducts, judgments and behaviours based on past traditions or contemporary fashions.

Sexuality is the maximum expression of life, whereas ideas about sexuality are the extreme manifestation of death.

Ideas and judgments about sexuality serve the purpose of repressing your true sexuality. Each time you access your true sexuality those ideas block you, claiming that there is something wrong with you and forcing you to feel what you do not feel or not to feel what you feel. The same applies to all features of life.

When you don’t accept your true sexuality, when you allow ideas and judgments about sex to manipulate your senses and awareness, all your life becomes manipulation, your life is not yours anymore and you are indeed dead.

Sexuality is not about sex, it is about life.

 

Provisional love

You can find your great love in life, the ideal partner who stays with you forever, only when you learn to accept the small love, the provisional partner  who at a certain stage leaves you.

Your great love in life is great and eternal because it is the sum of all the small and provisional loves.

Every time you discard a small and provisional love, the distance between you and the great eternal love increases.

 

Franco Santoro

 

Honest ego

If there is something you keep hiding about what you love, gives you joy and motivation, something you give up because you don’t feel worthy or you are afraid about what other people think…

STOP IT!

One of the reasons this world continues to be as it is, and surely the main reason you are unhappy, is due to your hiding and giving up. Sure, if you like this world as it is and you are happy, then you can continue to hide and give up.  Yet, if this is not the case, then you probably need to stop hiding and expose your truth.

Many people believe that giving up what you love, your dreams and wishes is a way to let go of your ego. They spend their life repressing themselves, avoiding exposure, denying what they want, frustrating their desires. They consider this a noble behaviour, aimed at defeating the ego and surrendering to God.

They may be right and they are entitled to their views and experiences.

But what if this hiding and giving up is the best way for the ego to dominate human consciousness?

The strongest ego is the one that pretends not to be the ego and accuses others of being it. Every time that you hear that voice inside or outside of you saying something like: “leave it, don’t do it, this comes from your ego”, of one thing you can be almost sure, that voice belongs to the ego.

The ego is based on illusion, lies and deceits.

The main strategy of the ego involves hiding and giving up.

The ego does not introduce itself saying: “Good morning, I am the ego, and now I am going to deceive you!”

The ego never shows itself openly and, if it does so, this is very rare. In this case it is a naive, transparent or honest ego, which is not afraid of being seen as an ego, which does not hide. If you meet an ego of this type, you are lucky, and perhaps you can even trust it.

The most ruthless and heinous ego regularly hides itself, denying to be the ego.

Hence, to return to what I was saying from the start.

If there is something you keep hiding about what you love, gives you joy and motivation, something you give up because you don’t feel worthy or you are afraid about what other people think…

STOP IT!

Expose what you have hidden so far, accept to fully live what you have given up.

Thanks to you this worlds may change.

And also stop being deceived by the voice inside or outside you that tells you that you behaviour comes from the ego. In the worst case scenario, it can indeed be the ego, yet at least it is an honest ego.

 

© Franco Santoro

Definitions

You can list many causes of pain in this life, as you read the news, listen to people or consider your own thoughts, but there is one, the most ruthless, from which all others derive, and which will ultimately be the only one to be truly fatal. .

This is the definition you gave power to possess yourself and others .

Everything that happens to you and to others, as you perceive it, is the result of a definition you’ve granted the power to determine who you and others are.

Once you give this power to a definition, it will increase more and more its dominion over you up till it possesses you completely . Then there will not be any trace of you in this life. This means that you will no longer be aware of who you really are because the definition has taken the place of your original nature . Your original nature continues to exist somewhere, but you do not know where it is nor care to know since the definition totally owns your consciousness .

This is soul loss or spirit possession in shamanic terms.

Sure, I could describe the above in a more colorful way, referring to demons, evil and predatory entities , disembodied beings and others, along with practices aimed at getting rid of them, like exorcism, shamanic rituals, soul retrieval, etc. But in the end ou are always dealing with the definition you gave power to possess yourself and others .

The definition is the only form of actual possession, from which all others come. It operates undisturbed, dominating you with its permission.

A definition is whatever you use to describe yourself and others. The most common are age, gender , appearance, eating habits, character, work, marital status, political views  race, family, relationships , spiritual path and any other definition you attribute to yourself and others.

Want to do a test to see if you are possessed by demons or other predatory entities ?

Then take a moment to look within acknowledging how much you identify yourself with some of the definitions provided above.

If you realise to be “possessed” do not be discouraged. On the contrary, rejoice, because the fact that you can be aware of it, shows that you are not entirely possessed. Otherwise you would not be able to conceive this test. Your awareness of being the victim of definitions proves that in you there is still a free part that has not been defined yet.

That part is your way to liberation and recovery of your true nature .

Then, get down to work!

Be very careful every time you identify with a definition  you are possessed by it, whether it applied to yourself or to others.

Do not allow yourself being defined. However, if you cannot help being defined or you truly like it, make sure to accept only provisional definitions, which you can consciously take and leave at any time.

© Franco Santoro

 

Attraction

Does it happen to you from time to time to meet someone you feel strongly attracted to?

It does not matter whether it is a physical, emotional, intellectual or spiritual attraction. Just acknowledge the attraction. Attraction is attraction. Let go of all your ideas about the meaning of this attraction and the various strategies you consider in order to deal with it.

Just acknowledge the attraction, its energy, what happens to you, how you feel.

Whenever you feel a strong attraction towards someone this can be an opportunity for deep healing.

Yet, the first step is to accept that you feel attracted.

Beauty and whatever attracts you can be a sacred gift for you as long as you abstain from any judgment, justification or denial regarding what you feel. It is absolutely legitimate to feel attracted towards someone, it is one of the most beautiful things that can happen to you. It is a gateway into the mystery of life.

Since it is a mystery, it is not possible to explain it in words, you have to experience it.

Whenever you meet someone you feel attracted to, it is a great opportunity for you to explore the mystery of life.

You can relax because you do not have necessarily to say or do anything with the person involved.

You can even close your eyes and allow the magnetism of the attraction to sink within you. What you feel belongs to who you are, it is a part of you, of your multidimensional nature, a gateway into the mystery.

Whenever you meet someone you feel attracted to, it is a great opportunity for you to explore the mystery of life.

Be aware that at times you may have to say or do something with the person involved.

You can approach this person, without using any excuse or strategy, and honestly express what you feel. What you feel belongs to who you are, it is a part of you, of your multidimensional nature, a gateway into the mystery. And if you choose to be generous, what you feel can be a most luminous gift for that person.

 

Favourable aspects

Pallas is conjunct Nessus, Venus is in trine with Saturn and Vesta is opposite Quaoar, and today is a most propitious time to do something you have always wished but you have kept postponing due to low self-esteem, shyness or fear of what others think.

These astrological aspects combined can occur only rarely in a lifetime and provide the best conditions for manifesting what you wish at a most intimate and daring level. Hence, if you know what that is, get a move on! It is worth a try, right!

I don’t know if the above is convincing enough for you to finally get a move on, yet on my part it is worth a try, right!

 

Franco Santoro

 

Birth and death go together

Birth and death always go together, for one cannot exist without the other.

Whoever is born is bound to die.

You have always known it.

Hence stop the farce of feeling betrayed and deceived when death comes.

 

Life is not a hostage of your denial.

If you cannot accept death, you cannot accept birth and life.

Hence think twice before you give birth.

Birth and death always go together, for one cannot exist without the other.

As you are born, you also die, and as you die you are also born.

 

Franco Santoro

Astroshamanism, Frascati

With Franco Santoro, 17-18 September 2016, in Frascati (Rome, Italy)

During this workshop, participants are initiated to some of our astroshamanic core practices. The structure and content of the workshop change according to the themes and category of the programme, the seasonal cycles, the natural, cultural and human environment where the event takes place. The workshop includes astroshamanic practices integrated with tools from the Mediterranean traditions, elements of astrology, the use of the sacred circle, astroshamanic dance and theatre, sharing and deep listening and the experience of the Basic Ritual of the Sacred Cone. For information about astroshamanism please click here.

For information please click here.

The workshop takes place in the Ancient Roman town of Frascati, 20 kilometres from Rome.

Public order

Who are you? What is your purpose in life? What is the meaning of life?

These are most vital questions, upon which all other possible questions and answers depend.

Do you truly ask yourself these questions?

You do ask yourself these questions when you are open to acknowledge and accept the silence that follows those questions, without trying at all costs to cover it up with all the answers that have already been given to those questions.

I am not implying that the answer abides in the silence. I mean that it is essential here to be aware about what happens during the interval between the huge embarrassment derived from the incapacity of getting an answer and the need to find an answer merely for reasons of public order.

 

All you want to experience about sex (but never dare to experience)

What is the difference between what you wish to experience in your sexual life and what you are allowed to experience?

Being aware of this difference is vital for the wellbeing of your soul.

I am not suggesting that you have to experience whatever you wish in your sexual life, ignoring  what is socially and culturally allowed in this regard.

I am simply inviting you to be aware of what you wish, your fantasies and cravings, regardless of whether you abstain from them or not.

When you lose awareness of what you wish, even if you do not manifest it, your soul, in a nutshell, is bound to die.