Money Magic for Valentine's Day (2/13/24)

The old Lupercalia festival in Rome involved sacrificing a goat, a symbol of fertility, and through its hide and blood, transferring its life-essence and qualities to women, the land, and animals. A similar form of magic is now performed at places like the San Antonio Zoo, where for a few dollars one can name a rodent or roach after an ex and feed it to an animal. These are magical rituals. Even artificial insemination is a modern version of ancient sympathetic magical practices. What is most interesting about this whole thing is that whereas fertility and animal sacrifice use to dominate the holy day, now abortion and child sacrifice mark the same in our culture. Either way, from its various convoluted inceptions, which coalesced over time, Valentine’s Day has always been strongly rooted in one thing: fertility - a person’s ability to conceive a child. Such focus applied to adult men and women, fields and crops, and animals. Despite natural adjustments over time, which are to be expected, and despite our proclivity to create new traditions intentionally or otherwise, this day of fertility has absolutely nothing to do with so-called alternate lifestyles. Homosexuals could, by some arbitrary measure, love each other as much or more than heterosexuals, but Valentine’s Day is still not for them outside the commercialized products that appeal to emotions rather than biology - this year the National Retail Federation estimates the projected total of expenditure to reach $25.8-billion, slightly down from 2023. There is nothing necessarily wrong with the former, though Valentine’s gifts for animals are literally more traditional than the same for gay couples. It’s the opening of the market not just to other non-fertility forms of ‘love’, but of buying items for friends and family members too. We shouldn’t confuse the desire for profit, which also isn’t necessarily bad, with the open loving arms of so-called acceptance. As for heterosexuals, since fertility is the origin of Valentine’s Day, anything preventing procreation, including birth control, condoms, plan B, etc., are really antithesis to the original celebration. -FREE ARCHIVE & RSS: https://www.spreaker.com/show/the-secret-teachingsTwitter: https://twitter.com/TST___RadioWEBSITE, BOOKS, RESUBSCRIBE YEARLY: http://thesecretteachings.infoPaypal: [email protected]: $rdgableBuy Me a Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/tstradioSUBSCRIBE TO NETWORK: http://aftermath.mediaEMAIL: [email protected] / [email protected] a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/tst-radio--5328407/support.