When I First Felt the Goddess
It was like wings opened behind me
I had been a mother, wife, daughter — all the feminine roles. I thought I understood what it meant to be a woman until the day that I experienced who I truly was.
Officially, we were having an affair. It didn’t feel like that. We hadn’t been looking for it. But our worlds had collided and it seemed like the cosmos needed us to be together… at least for a time.
Maybe that’s why the goddess appeared. I wasn’t playing my roles for the first time. I wasn’t following the rules of the patriarchy. I was listening within and doing something that I had seriously judged my whole life. I had broken out of my own prison of the things I believed were taboo — especially for women — especially for me.
It happened the first time we were sexually intimate. We had known each other a long time without taking any action although there had always been the most natural and magical attraction between us.
We had decided it was time. The air was so magnetic and full. There was no need for foreplay of any kind or even sexual touching. Our entire bodies were completely alive and throbbing all on their own.
Soon, we were naked. He was sitting on the chair and I began to lower myself onto him. Up until that point, it was just two…
