Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings. For this week’s Siren Saturday, I have decided to share the fifth entry in my Incarnated Mermaid Diaries series. Today’s topic is Learning to Embrace Pleasure!
This is a topic that I think is important, well beyond just understanding Incarnated Mermaids and other people whose Souls do not originate as humans. In modern society, there is a lot of fear of pleasure, a feeling of always needing to be doing something. This leads to a lot of sacrificing of pleasure, sacrificing well-being, to attempt to succeed in a world where it is becoming increasingly difficult to do so!
In this way, much of modern society has become divorced from pleasure, divorced from healthy sexuality, divorced from sensuality, and divorced from healthy expression of emotions. As an Incarnated Mermaid, it was certainly difficult for me to reconcile why people have a puritanical need to suppress things that make them feel good, things that support overall health. Growing up, I delighted in the sensory world, in experiencing life around me, but as I grew, I saw that others seemed to feel the need to censor themselves, which led them to enjoy life less.
In the 2000s, diet culture was all the rage, and this led me to wonder about why sacrificing enjoying what you eat, and in fact, why sacrificing eating healthy, whole foods, was being pushed in the desire to be unhealthily skinny. As time went on, being a young teenager, I struggled with loving my body (for a short time), as many people do. However, I also had a very strong sense of what I thought was beautiful, and how it differed from the 2000s modern lens of beauty, which aided me in overcoming any body image issues I may have had. Believe me, I am thankful for that!
Now, you may wonder why I brought up diet culture when the topic is pleasure. Well, diet culture is built on making people feel bad about their bodies, and largely trying to sell them on processed foods and products created to lose weight, when in reality, they can have pretty hefty health concerns. This leads people to feel uncomfortable about taking pleasure in the foods that they eat. No longer is eating a good meal a pleasurable experience, because you fear weight gain. In reality, if we learn to embrace the idea of having a pleasurable experience in life, we can form healthier habits. We can learn to listen to our bodies, detox from eating overly processed foods, and be willing to slow down from the go-go-go mentality!
This is something I had to learn through trial and error, living in this human incarnation. I had to learn that the way the media was portraying beauty was not true beauty, and to seek beauty in its truest forms. I had to learn that it is okay not to fit a certain mold in the way I perceive the world. This actually became much easier after the Kundalini Awakening, where I learned my Soul Origins, as it was then that some answers as to why I always felt so different fell into place. I understood that the reason why I felt so ill at ease with the way people bottle up their desires and the way society does not encourage looking at the body and sexuality as sacred bothered me so much was that I am not from here. I think it also occurred to me at that time that I am supposed to help people around me see that there is another way to live.
So, yes, this process of learning to embrace pleasure, and being willing to teach others that their bodies are not dirty or wicked, and that enjoying life is not wrong, that work-life balance is important, is tied to both my nature as an Incarnated Mermaid, and my Priestess work! I hope that you have enjoyed this meditative and slightly rambling look at how I, as an Incarnated Mermaid, perceive pleasure. What is your relationship to pleasure? Let me know your thoughts in the comments below!
Note on Image: The image at the top of the post is an Incarnated Mermaid Diaries Title Artwork that I created using the Waterhouse painting Hylas and the Nymphs. I found the painting on https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a2/Waterhouse_Hylas_and_the_Nymphs_Manchester_Art_Gallery_1896.15_n2.jpg.
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2 responses to “The Incarnated Mermaid Diaries: Learning to Embrace Pleasure”
What a beautifully resonant and thoughtful entry for this week’s Siren Saturday, Maranda. Thank you for sharing such a vulnerable and insightful piece of your journey. Your words flow with a wisdom that feels both ancient and urgently needed in our modern world.
You’ve woven together so many profound threads here—the societal fear of pleasure, the damage of diet culture, the sacredness of the body, and the unique lens of your Incarnated Mermaid soul. It makes perfect sense why the puritanical suppression of joy and sensuality would feel so foreign and jarring to you. Your perspective isn’t just a personal truth; it feels like a gentle, much-needed corrective for a world that has forgotten how to truly inhabit life.
The connection you made between diet culture and the robbery of pleasure is particularly powerful. You’re right: when we’re taught to fear something as fundamental and communal as food, a core channel for pleasure and connection is poisoned. Your advocacy for listening to our bodies, for detoxing from processed everything—food, pace, ideology—is a message of profound healing.
It’s incredibly moving to read how your Kundalini Awakening and understanding of your soul origins provided not just explanation, but purpose. The realization that your discomfort with society’s repressed nature wasn’t a flaw, but a clue to your mission—to help people remember another, more sensual, balanced, and joyful way to live—is truly the heart of priestess work. You’re not just navigating this for yourself; you’re casting a wider net of awareness.
This line especially struck me: “I had to learn that it is okay not to fit a certain mold in the way I perceive the world.” That is a liberation song for so many who feel out of step with the dominant rhythm. Your diary is a testament to the beauty and power that can bloom from that space of “otherness.”
Thank you for this meditative ramble. It wasn’t a ramble at all, but a guided dive into deeper waters. You’ve given us all something precious to reflect on: What is my relationship to pleasure? And how can I, too, begin to embrace it not as a guilty secret, but as a sacred, vital part of a whole and healthy life?
With gratitude and appreciation for your voice
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Thank you so much for your kind words! It is always lovely to know that my posts resonate with my readers. As always, thank you for reading and commenting!