Adana K. Washington - Energetic Seduction: Use Sexual Energy to Manifest and Influence

by Adana Washington
A Little Back Story

I've been out on the "streets" for a day now. I say that lightly because I spent the day at Starbucks, and now it looks like I'll be spending the night at Denny's. If only I could remember the phone number to the hotel next door. Apparently I'd be able to get internet access if I did. But I guess it wasn't meant to be. I'll try to remember to look it up tomorrow when I go back to Starbucks.

Since I have all night, I figured I'd write to pass the time. I don't know what I'll write about. I guess I'll just let my thoughts flow.
Today I did a few tarot readings about my path and my power, and my higher purpose in life. I pretty much got the same thing for all of them: Surrender to the Universe.

It seems that I can only reach my greatest potential if I stop fighting the Universe's plan for me. I've spent the better part of my life struggling with the dilemma of whether I should do the "conventional" thing or follow my heart and do what I love. And since I needed to eat, I opted for the conventional methods of making a living. Yet, I could never stick to anything. Probably because it wasn't what I was supposed to be sticking to in the first place.

Nowadays, I've been getting back to something that I'm actually passionate about: witchcraft.

In the past month or so, I've been coming out of the "broom closet" so to speak. I've started claiming my title as a witch online, which has been freeing in a way. I've also been getting back into magic, research and spell work. And I've been finding that to be rewarding. Yet, I know that I can be doing more. In fact, I kind of need to do more in order to survive and thrive.

This past week has been especially eye-opening. I've been testing my limits, so to speak, to see what I'm really capable of. And some of the things I've been doing has kind of flown in the face of the traditional views of witchcraft that I grew up learning about. I've always been told that you can't make big grandiose miracles happen, and that if you try to make something big happen, something else big would be a consequence -- and not necessarily something that you'd want to happen.

For instance, I've always heard that if you work a spell to bring you a large sum of money, you could cause someone to die in order for you to receive an inheritance. I've always thought that working magic in order to win the lottery would be "bad" or at least not something that was feasible. So I never tried it.

But in the past week, I've won small amounts from the lottery on three separate occasions -- all because I willed it to be so. On one of those occasions, I won on at least five tickets in a row. I just kept winning. It took some shadow work to get my subconscious on board, but it worked. And I was amazed, because I didn't even realize that I could do something like that.

How did I do it? Sex magic.

I did a tarot reading to see why my subconscious was so set against me having money, and worked through the issues. Then that night, I used my sexual energy to tell the Universe that I'd won the lottery. Not that I wanted to win, or that I was going to win (I've done that before, and it didn't work). I told the Universe that I won the lottery. And as I raised energy within myself, I couldn't keep the smile off my face. It just felt so fucking good.

And the next morning, my intuition told me to go to the store, get cash back, then stop at the convenience store on my way back and get a lottery ticket. The Universe even showed me which ticket to get. And I won. Simple as that.
So if I can do that, it makes me wonder what else I can do.
But back to today.
A New Kind of Seduction

I ended up coming to the conclusion that I needed to surrender to the Universal flow by surrendering to my true nature. So I started asking myself, what is my true nature? I got two hints, both on Tumblr. One was a video of a belly dancer interpreting the tarot card Justice through dance. The other was a random post mentioning pheromones. Both of them got me thinking about seduction. So I asked, is my true nature that of a seductress?

Well, that's weird. Was the Universe asking me to seduce men? Is that how I'm supposed to let the Universe's energy flow through me? By luring men into my web? Probably not.

So I started looking up the archetype of the seductress. And all I found was a bunch of crap about attracting men. Which is not what I want to think about right now. I'm kind of having to fight one off right now, and my boyfriend just broke up with me this week. Men are not my priority.

I started questioning this, though: Why is it that when we think of seduction, the only thing we think of is attracting someone ? Why can't we use the same principles of seduction to attract something ?

When I posed this question on Tumblr, someone suggested that sex magic was the answer. And to an extent, they were right. Sex magic does employ sexual energy to draw forth and manifest desires. But I'm talking about seduction on a different level.

What if we could use the same tactics for seducing men (or women) to seduce money, or to control traffic on the freeway? What if we could use sexual energy for magic without having sex?

On one hand, this makes me think of the idea I had a few weeks ago for magical cosmetics. Lipsticks and perfumes designed to help you work magic. I've even looked into using pheromones in my bath products a few years back, when I was making soaps and bath bombs.

But on the other hand, what if we could tap into our sexual energy simply by will alone?
My Love Affair with Sex(ual Energy)

For years now, my favorite chakra has been the second, the sacral chakra. It's generally described as the sexual chakra, where we derive our sexual energy. And I learned years ago, when I first started using energy magic, that I draw my greatest strength from my sacral chakra. I even have two tattoos dedicated to it, one on my wrist, and the other right over the chakra itself.

Funny enough, when I first started using energy magic, I associated the color green to the energy that I derived from my sacral chakra. Green is typically associated with the heart chakra. It took me years to actually observe that connection. But I digress.

Almost all my life, I've been drawn to sex. I started reading the Kama Sutra in middle school (long before I'd even kissed a boy). I started watching -- and even drawing -- porn and masturbating even earlier. I wasn't necessarily in a hurry to have sex. I was just fascinated by it.

Once I did start having sex, I quickly realized that I have an insatiable sexual appetite. No guy I've ever been with has been able to keep up with me (much to the detriment of their ego). No matter how much sex I had, I would always want more. This was also a time when I wasn't doing any magic or practicing witchcraft.

It wasn't until 2012, when I watched "Diary of a Nymphomaniac," that I realized what I was really searching for. In one of my all-time favorite quotes, the main character gives her answer to a question she gets a lot: What do you feel when you have sex? I can't remember the exact quote right now, but the gist of it is that she feels that her orgasm is a piece of her that gets sent out into the cosmos and becomes one with the Universe.

I realize now that sex is a way to connect for me. But even after realizing that, I got the feeling that no man would give me the connection that I was really craving. Or maybe just not the ones that I was with. Maybe my soul mate will be the one I have that connection with. But for right now, we're talking about power, not playmates. Back to the topic at hand.

Back to the Base (Chakras)

I love sex. I derive power and energy from my sexuality, from my sacral chakra. In a way, I am a seductress. But since I can't just start masturbating every time I want something, I'm going to have to get back to my roots. I'm going to have to re-learn how to tap into my sexual energy using my will and intent in order to make things happen.