I woke up yesterday morning with a dreadful feeling of “OMG what did I do? Is this is a mistake?” after opening doors the night before to a new program called House of the Courtesan.🌹🗝️
It hit me in the gut. My heart racing. Head spinning. It’s a familiar feeling.
I’ve had a version of this “oh shit!” feeling pop up after doing anything that’s edgy for the past decade. Or after making a big or bold decision.
Launching a new program. Investments. Hiring or letting go of team. Entering or leaving containers. Hiring a new coach. Buying the plane ticket or signing up for the in-person experience in NYC.
But there was a deeper level of familiarity yesterday that I’ve only felt one other time…
In 2022 when I launched my 9-month Mary Magdalene Sex Priestess training.
I felt it then too. It felt primal, ancestral, collective and deeper than my usual fears.
Not personal, but passed down.
Not necessarily just in my own family bloodlines, but some secret lineage all women carry…
It was the witch and whore wounds.
Which I’ve felt and worked with a lot in my decade as a sex coach, witch and priestess, but the fear intensified to a new level before (and after) opening MMSP and HOTC.
The inquisition, trials and witch burnings live inside of every woman as collective memory and primal fear.
It was fear of being too much. Of going too far. The courtesan is edgy territory.
Courtesans and sex priestesses were whores.
There’s something about the whore, the harlot, the woman who uses her sexuality in spiritual and/or financial ways that people don’t like.
Especially financially.
People get triggered as hell by a woman who uses her sexuality to make money or as an asset and resource to improve her life, influence people or create opportunities, wealth and security.
Exactly what a courtesan did and what modern day sex workers still do.
She stirs deep in the unconscious of every woman. We fear and desire her.
Men judge and shame her yet lust for her.
She’s an archetype that stands for more than the financial-sexual transaction (though she stands for that too—we can’t deny that).
There were only three choices for a woman of the courtesan’s time.
When every other woman was uneducated and traded from father to husband as property (only if there was a decent dowry) or sent to the convent to be a nun….
Neither able to have their own money, land or property….
The courtesan chose a path of independence, opportunity, wealth, influence, pleasure, power.
She turned poverty and adversity into power, provisions and prosperity.
She entertained the wealthy, powerful and influential gentlemen of high society. Kings, philosophers, politicians, generals, even popes.
She was a spiritual and political advisor. Educated in literature, history, the arts, politics, sensuality. This often meant that a courtesan was self made and came from nothing. No inheritance, dowry, land, property.
She had to use all she had…her inner resources. Her body. Both valuable assets.
Unlike wives and nuns, the courtesans rose to high levels of fame, status and fortune. Sometimes accumulating more assets and wealth than the men who courted them.
🗝️And the key to attaining all of that? Her sexuality.
Her intelligence. Her education. Her seduction. Her divinity.
Most people can’t fathom a woman who is both/all/and.
Sexual AND intelligent.
Educated AND seductive.
Pleasured AND political.
Powerful AND poetic.
Human AND divine.
Holy AND wh0re.
But this is exactly why I created House of the Courtesan.
She’s calling women home to what she stands for…erotic and financial independence, power, pleasure, wealth, beauty, self ownership.
A woman who breaks free from the mold, expectations and good girl rules of a patriarchal society to walk her own path.
She plays the game and rigs it in her favor, using it to her advantage to get ahead in life.
This is what makes her dangerous. It’s what people fear. Her ability to own herself and her desires freely.
Outside of traditional roles and societal expectations and norms. She creates her own roles…and rules.
She chose the path that leads to everything she wants and more. The courtesan asks us to embrace our “too muchness.”
She lives in every woman who dares to be both desirable and dangerous.
If you’re ready to own yourself, your eros, money, desires, power, ability to influence and seduce…
Enter the House of the Courtesan today. It’s $222 right now (or upgrade to VIP). 🗝️💋💸
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