The Magic of making babies
Almost everyone agrees, the instant of the starting of the changes that will result in a baby developing to be born and to grow — it is magic. Science and medicine can describe in great depth the conditions that enable that ’spark’ to combine the ova and sperm, and they can describe the process of that transition. Perhaps a few believe they understand the energy structures, the chemical reactions, and the bodily processes that create the setting and proceed from fertile to pregnancy.
And yet. We know from observation that painting the bedroom blue or pink will have a minor influence in the number of male and female babies conceived. If we watch closely, we might trace the hormonal changes that suppress fertility in the lactating mother, and maybe trace down all the factors that influence that fertility.
When we set out to practice magick, we study what is known, we plan our rite or experiment, gather materials, and prepare ourselves to reduce unwanted influences, and increase desired energies. This might be ‘take a shower, light a candle, cuddle, excite and recover’. Better preparation might take the form of tantric yoga of exercises, meditations, and preparation over a period of days to months or years for a single encounter. Or we might want a particular encounter (honeymoon) to seal a binding (marriage), which would be stronger if one partner or both were virgin. We might want to limit ourselves to the same partner for life, an exclusive arrangement to limit influences from others that might distract, dismay, or destroy our relationship and our magical bond.
When we focus, prepare, cleanse our spirits, commit to our partners and to making a home and babies, our encounter has to be simpler, more joyful, and contribute to both happier babies and to better communities. Let ‘your light’ shine, indeed.
And, yes, I do think impromptu encounters without even the basic planning and desire for a baby, are doomed. They may ’scratch an itch’, but healing will be found elsewhere. ‘Casual Sex?!’ wasn’t that funny a movie, and I find related behavior wasteful if not destructive.
Instead of ‘making love’, think ‘let’s make a baby!’ How can you afford the time, energy, and potential for great magic wasted with someone you don’t want to make a baby with?
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