Hi Tim,
I read your quote at the beginning of your article and I see what you mean. A woman for example who likes to be a dominatrix or a man who enjoys being tied up and whipped.
(lol)
This seems to make sense, particularly with the emphasis in the gay world on "coming out"...
I don't understand the late 20th century and current fashion in the world of this 'coming out' thing. To me it seems that if a person has not been successfully psychosexually conditioned by the Freud worshipping West into being 'straight' then they are encouraged to label themselves 'gay'. Thus the individual who has labelled themselves (or been labelled) as 'gay' then psychologically closes down to any thought or opportunity of engaging in sexual relations with the opposite sex, thoroughly assisted by the world around them. The same might be said of those who are 'straight'. (I await the merciless barage of venom from all and sundry :| )We are far too keen in the strange times we live in, of putting people into nice little antiseptic boxes with little sticky labels on them and then filing these away into neatly arranged cabinets in various rooms with well defined titles on the door.
Interestingly the ancients had no words in their vocabulary to define sexual orientation. There was no heterosexual/homosexual. Sex was sex. This is of interest to me - but then I'm Mars conjunct Uranus in Scorpio and NN on the 5th cusp. :twisted: So I'm something of a rebel against everything, hetero or homo, when it comes to sexual matters.
I understand what you mean though that a 'coming out' episode would probably be triggered by a transit. This would make sense.
I re-read the post, and the comment upon child abuse was not inferred to be something to do with sexuality, that was me jumping the gun (BANG!), as I am often prone to do. :roll:
As mentioned above, the "normal" sexual behavior is heterosexual. The perpetuation of the human race is based on this concept. If the "normal" behavior was homosexual, there would be a LOT less people on this planet!
I would say that heterosexual behaviour is 'conventional' and definately 'fashionable', but it hasn't always been 'normal' to express heterosexual fondnesses
exclusively. I agree that if everyone was 'homosexual' in the modern sense, there would be a LOT less people on the planet indeed.
The perpetuaton of the human race is not based on a concept of heterosexuality being normal, but based upon the fact that reproduction requires a male to inseminate a female.
If a man penetrates a woman anally, then this does not result in fertilisation. Such 'normal' sexual behaviour does not result in the perpetuation of the species, yet it is still heterosexual in concept.
Sorry to come across as crude in this example but I just mean to express that the survival of the human race is not based upon a concept of sexual convention but on the fact of a particular sexual act.
In the ancient world people were usually what we would label, as in our society of weights and measures we are so fond of, 'bi'sexual, or just 'sexual' as they would call it. There were not as many starving bellies in their world, there was not so tremendous a division between rich and poor because the population wasn't at critical mass and there wasn't a shortage of natural resources etc. etc. etc.
Anyway, perhaps I'm being a little too controversial for an astrology site, but then I am something of an anarchist, but with my natal strong Mars/Uranus conjunction it's my divine prerogative to stir things up a bit and leave the crumbling tatters of convention blazing in my wake (lol
). Put another way, my rebellion is something I have to work on in this life. :roll:
Looking at the nature of a person's sexual mores in the natal chart I would look to Venus and Mars, not to define who they fancy better out of men and women but to try and determine how they might go about sexual activity whatever the orientation.
Looking at Venus and Mars in the chart may reveal that one person is sexually frigid and uptight and rather embarrased about sex, and not particularly keen on it. Another may show that the native has a voracious sexual appetite, with of penchant for danger, thrill seeking and sado-masochism. Yet these observations would carry the same weight whether or not the native was male or female, orientating to males or to females, it would not reveal to whom they would apply these desires. Not unless we knew the sex and sexuality of the native beforehand.
In short, you can tell from a person's chart something about how they might express their sexuality, but not the direction in which it is orientated because the fundamentals of their sexual appetites will be the same whichever way it is directed.
That's just my current opinion, which I would hold until I see any compelling argument to the contrary.
Draco