Pleasure is Resistance

Friday, February 13th, 2026

I believe in love.

If I had to consolidate all of what I believe into one sentence, that would be it.

I believe our inner guidance helps us remain authentic, and that authenticity leads to more pleasure.  And I believe that pleasure and authenticity are how we experience the love that we are.

I believe pleasure saves lives.

I believe that pleasure is medicine that keeps us in touch with our true power and our true nature as love, and that it is a medicine the world needs.

Pleasure is not the only the only medicine, but it is free and potentially accessible to all if we can find the sometimes-winding path to reach it.  Finding the path there when it feels like the world is in peril can be very hard, but I want to really express to you how much it matters.  Because most people I know care so deeply about what happens to all others and the suffering of the world, that they don’t believe they should be able to focus on their own pleasure.

Finding ways to nourish yourself with pleasure, however, is the very fuel you need in order to make the biggest difference that you can in the world, and have the most potent impact.  It’s an amplifier, a nourisher, an inspirer, a source of revelation, healing and pure power.

The hardship, I know, is that it’s difficult to reach in times of struggle.  But finding ways to do that is an important part my work and what I teach in my courses, and this journey of finding ways to do that is worthy work.   

I focus on my own pleasure and teaching others how to access more of their own as an act of resistance.

It is so that I and others can keep fighting the fight, and do so by continuing to embody and stand for love.  It is so that we can be nourished and ignited, and so we can heal and be ready to bring through more of the beautiful gifts we came here to bring the world.  Because every time we take care of ourselves, it is activism.  Every time we take care of our loved ones it is activism, and when we do this is makes us more available for other kinds of activism we might be called to.

At a dance I went to last night, feeling my body move and watching the revelry, I thought about how much easier it was in times where as a community we gathered this way every night.

This is how we healed, I thought.  This is how we still had pleasure in hard times, and expressed and moved through pain and grief.  We got together around the fire and we danced, and we sang and made music.  And then maybe sexual pleasure felt more available, even when times were hard.  Because nearly none of us have that now, it means that what we must be at this time is a kind of renegade, learning the craft of still accessing pleasure (anything from the barest of relief or comfort, to full ecstatic states,) even without ideal conditions.  As we get better and better at this, it becomes a superpower, and helps us navigate life and hardship in a completely different way.

I’m writing this because I know some of you would like to know my perspective on the state of the world.  Some might wonder how I could share newsletters and other offerings highlighting sexual themes in a time like this, and my response is how can I not?  While there are many paths to finding the wisdom, love and power inside, this is one of them.  Pleasure in the body in any way a person can experience it, is an antidote to the dread and the freeze it brings to know the harm happening in the world.  But to find and restore pleasure in our lives and bodies, if we wish to, we need safe paths back to it, even in the face of hardship.

Then we wake up in the night with the answers and the courage we need to fight.  With fierce love.

So yes, I get up every day and fight this way.  I make newsletters about stories of an ancient priestess that found her power this way, and do what I can to make room to finish the rest of the book with these stories, The Return of the Sexual Priestess.

This is my mission, my purpose.  To protect the remembering of love, and disperse it as widely as I can…spread the light.  To show others they have the answers inside of them, every time, and power they have yet untapped.

That power inside is what is needed.

And I know we are afraid of it..because we were scared out of being in touch with it, so that false power could reign.  My job, at best, is to help make it safe to find that power again, and tap into it and the wisdom it brings.

I don’t forget what I’m doing and why.  And I let the tragedies move me and inform my actions, without letting them consume me…because then all would be lost.

I don’t want to lose the ability to take action, make healthy empowered choices, think creatively, inspire others, and be a source of potent support for my loved ones, my community, and the communities in need beyond them.

If we knew how much our getting out of bed, and just being authentically ourselves mattered, we’d be more emboldened to take further inspired action.

I don’t just talk about pleasure and magic to bring about some pretty image of swirling golden light or unicorns.  I talk about them because they are what we are, and what saves everything.  Not just when “all evil is banished” but when you lean down to pet a dog, and you both light up each other’s lives in that moment.  You can’t see it, but magic happens then.  Some degree of pleasure and connection heal you both.  And if we amplify that pleasure and connection in our lives we can further change the world.  You matter more than you know…more than I can ever possibly tell you.

So yes, pleasure still matters.  Maybe more than ever.  It will nourish and fortify us, and keep us from losing ourselves.  True pleasure always shows us the way back.

Here is the big and important question: how does your love want to show itself?

Thank you for caring…because I know how much you who love and follow my work care with all of your being.  It matters.  We are stronger than we think, and our pleasure and magic and goodness has more of an impact than with think.  I am standing by your side, and as we all stand side by side we span the world…

…and we are mighty.

Never forget.  Now, if you’d like, go do something lovely for yourself to recharge, so you can dream the new dream.  Because that’s the dream we need.

I love you,

Jennifer

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2026: Abundance Comes ~ An Oracle’s Prophecy

Jennifer Luna Posada

December, 2025

And then one crisp evening the stars finally fell, and hovered around her like fireflies…

The moment for abundance has arisen…are you ready?

Finally, just when all may seem dark and lost in the world, a wave of goodness and abundance comes, and all you need to do to receive it is prepare the way…

2026 is a year of flow finally returning, like a spring that seemed dried up suddenly bursting forth with life again, and bringing on it so many of the expedited healing and blessings we have been looking for.  Finally, things are coming back together, and just when you thought your wishes and prayers hadn’t been heard.  It might feel like too much to take at times, even if you’ve wanted it, and that is why we can use the time leading up to and passing through the solstice and new year to prepare for it.

When we’ve been on such a long journey, even a homecoming can feel daunting, intense or overwhelming.  Will we be a different person?  Will we be received?  Yes, you will be.  You will feel you are coming back to a deeper home than you even knew you could feel, and you will finally enjoy more of the fruits of years of labor, and be seen for the more authentic and essential self that is ready to radiate from you.  And it doesn’t have to happen overnight.  It can happen one step at a time, as the heavy layers fall from you and you remember what it’s like to be light.

There will be relief, retribution, release, and accelerated healing and heightened magnetism this year.  Are you ready to draw more of your deepest beauty to yourself?  Do you know what kind of abundance you want?

Many people would like to draw in more money abundance, and I celebrate that profoundly.  The redistribution of funds and resources on the planet to those who make choices out of generosity and love is one of the most powerful things that can happen in our lifetimes.  It is okay to want financial abundance…it is blessed.

It’s time for money to return to being more connected to the feminine.  In fact, a great deal of the abundance that marks this coming year has to do with a stronger inflow of feminine energy to our world.  Like the Goddess Innana or Persephone returning from the Underworld, it is a time of renewal and spring.

What do you want your spring to look and feel like?…

More softness, warmth and plenty can abound again…this is a time long foretold for a resurgence and reemergence of the feminine, for all genders.  And she is also fire.  For, all of this wonderful news doesn’t mean there won’t be hardship in the world, or in our lives, but we will have such powerful resources to draw on and that is exactly what is needed.  That is how we will also be shown an abundance of our power, and our ability to make truly loving and potent change in this world.  This is how we will know our gifts as never before, and finally be able to experience and give them in the ways we dreamed of long before we had any names for them…when we were little and it was just play.

There are many kinds of abundance, almost infinite ways to experience it.  Beyond money, or along with money, you may wish for an abundance of purpose, or friendship, or love.  You may wish for an abundance of intuitive insight, creative inspiration, or time.

“I am rich in kisses,” I said to a friend some months ago.  Something I most love to be rich in.  What do you love to be rich in?

Before a re-emergence, there must be a safe place to rest and reinvent yourself, and to be able to deeply release and let go.  First, we need an exhale.  In the ancient traditions I teach about of the nymphs and sibyls, these were the sacred “cave times”.  This was the most important part of rebirth…the chance to be in a womb-like space again where we could regenerate.  Doing this puts us in the best position to receive this wave of abundance and support.  This is where we could heal, feel safe, and go within to surrender and eventually find new vision.

Right now, for the rest of December and the beginning of January, is an excellent time to do this inner rest and cocooning time.  Yes, even if you have a lot going on and maybe travel or events for the holidays.  In those cases it might be the extra time you steal away for a cup of tea alone to write, or pulling the blanket all the way up over your head in bed for ten or fifteen extra minutes before bed or first thing in the morning.  It might be permission to say no to something that you realize is actually optional and not something you really want to do.  It may mean a long bath by candlelight instead.

When I was little I loved to curl up in closets with a blanket where I could feel totally on my own.  That is the feeling we may need right now.

I have been having a lot of beautiful memories of “cave time” from the ancient past as I prepare to teach my upcoming course The Blind Oracle’s Path: Surrendering to Trust at this perfect moment for it.  What has struck me most, and almost brings tears to my eyes as I write this, is how much we looked forward to the cave time because of the lusciousness of the cave…

We don’t usually think of caves as being luscious…they may seem cold and hard.  Oh, but the warmth and softness of the caves we once knew…lined with soft moss and with air nearly like gentle steam.  You could surrender everything.  No more pressure, no more striving, no more trying to mask any losses or pain.  There was just you, perfect exactly as you were, stepping into a space where you could let everything go.

Your muscles could release, your thoughts could release, your heart could release, there was no list of things to do or accomplish.  You were finished truly with one chapter, and opening space in your being for another.  There was permission to let things fall as they may, and trust…and trusting felt easier because you felt safe, and held, and loved, and lush.

Lushness sometimes begins in the dark.  And in the letting go…

Then, and only then when you had rested in that lushness, new vision would come…new resources and energy…and you’d be ready…

You didn’t have to search for the feminine.  She found you.  Maybe broken, but open.  And she could reach you even more deeply, heal you even more deeply, bless you even more fully and inspire you even more richly because of it.

I know it doesn’t seem as magical.  But I promise the chance to melt open in a bath or “hide” under the covers can truly be a balm for the soul.  What are your other favorite ways to let go?  A sauna?  A massage if that’s accessible?  Laying in tall grass or under a tree?   A gentle yoga class in a warm room?

I am deep inside your thirst and hunger.  There is no escaping me.

~ Rumi (and perhaps the divine feminine)

One of the most special things you may find in the “cave” is your next deep calling or callings…your hunger and your thirst, the most holy passion that will drive you forward into the lushness of your being and the next era of your grand journey in this life…

I’ll see you in the cave, love.  And in the more lush life beyond…

With all the magic in my heart,

Jennifer

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