Thoughts from a female magician, the “Ave Babalon” tag, Babalon herself, and the f-word
As the originator of this tag-meme and the person who probably uses it the most, I have to strongly disagree with this.
I have never made a post with this tag that is a money shot, or a body without a face. I have posted skinny girls and big girls, and women of color. Yes. They are overtly sexual. Babalon is about the power of sex to change minds. I make no apologies.
“BABALON IS LUST, sexual, primal power. Lust knows no limits. Lust violates moral sense. Lust is strength, vitality and joy. Lust is action. Why do we hesitate to call Babalon a Goddess of Love? Love has been bled almost to death, drained to an insipid pink when it should be a shameless scarlet. The commercialized face of Love is the very opposite of Lust, a weak, warm fuzz of nebulous good feeling. The arrows of Eros are no longer barbed, but smothered in sentiment. The hounds of Love are muzzled. It is a product without passion, a stupefying cocoon.”
–Peter Grey, The Red Goddess
What is blasphemous is to de-claw her. To make her non-sexual. To nail her to the tree of life and make her a symbol when the real Babalon is up front and center.
She receives all and refuses none. She is the witch goddess. Her celebrations take place in darkened woods. She doesn’t belong to neutered ceremonial magicians and she sure as fuck doesn’t belong to Crowley.
And anyone who can’t even say fuck really has no business venerating her.
If you don’t believe the woman who commands desire is not the one really in control, then you have bought the ant-sex, anti-woman Christian message.