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The Fallen Muse - The Siren Defined

When Women Choose Power Over Beauty - And What It Costs Their Souls.

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Sep 02, 2025
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“When the soul wishes to experience something, she throws an image of the experience out before her and enters into her own image.”

— Meister Eckhart


1.) Introduction - Seduction As A Prison:

The siren is publicly, performatively and loudly seductive (in an almost caricaturish manner), for her main mode of being is to entrance and feed upon the souls of lesser men. She (quite unknowingly to herself), taints her essence as she feeds on them, extracting from them as she riles up the very desire and accompanying reverence she refuses to sate - all so that she can feed - on them, and on how they so desperately crave her, in order to harness their energy and take it as her own, living in rejection of her divine feminines’ need to be beautiful - she is succubus-coded.

This is the shadow side of the feminine when it is not pure in its ravenous, all encompassing desire for annihilation in the pursuit of transcendence through being erotically remade, but its corrupted form - a woman’s need to be desired turned into a form of entrapment and enthrallment - seduction as a prison for lesser men, with lesser meaning those men with weaker and thereby lower density souls - the less potent, less intense, less vigorous - and thereby more manipulable and easily bound.

If she is greedy and impulsive, she will devour her prey men whole until they have nothing left to give, before swiftly moving on to hunt for another. But if she is cleverer and thus more skilled, she will be a farmer - maintaining multiple male soul tethers so she can feed on their devotion sustainably in simultaneity.

2.) The False Goddess Mirror & The Origin In Fear:

Unlike woman in her pure and natural form - who always subconsciously seeks and longs for a master - her true master - the captain of her soul - the siren seeks servants, because rather than look to belong and revere, she seeks to extract and ensnare.

In terms of quality, the siren epitomises what it is to elect for quantity. You see in viewing herself as a goddess, she becomes the central figure in her internalised mirror, and thus in doing so, has overridden her soul’s divine need for surrender with her shadow’s ego need for domination. Her soul mirror has become corrupted. This is why she is aroused by the idea of spiritually penetrating (to act upon, enthrall and enslave men by overpowering and subverting their wills to serve her) - because she is the unintegrated shadow feminine, and so like any God, even if a false one, the metaphysics are structurally identical - more worshippers means more power, which translates to enthralling multiple men she is not subject to, rather than being devoted to the one she is.

As with all egos that monstrously balloon to the point they enable the shadow to possess, suppress and supplant the soul for dominance over the drivers seat of the conscious mind - her origin story is rooted in fear. The fear of being unlovable, unpretty, or somehow otherwise intrinsically defective or uniquely yet tragically imperfect, the fear of neglect, abandonment or betrayal, or the fear of being forever misunderstood or impossible to understand, and so perhaps a freak, deviant, aberration or mistake that does not and can never belong. And so despite her soul’s desire to be seen (to feel as if she has found home - by being loved fully, understood deeply and accepted unconditionally), her ego’s fear of exposure takes over until its vice grip chokes out her soul and possesses her.

As you are likely aware, monogamy is a woman’s natural preference - and so a woman who seeks to enslave multiple men rather than find one worthy of devoting herself to is atypical. But when existential terror meets the shadow of insatiable lust, and she doesn’t truly have to give herself in heart and soul to the men because the “relationships” are so asymmetrically one-sided in her favour - the instinct to belong is suffocated by the preoccupation with managing supplicant soul tethers.

You see by farming multiple men, she can preserve the self-corrupting parasitism that gratifies her ego without risk to her soul, staying safe and gaining without perceived risk, rather than give herself to her true counterpart - the only man she could ever worship, because that would require a level of all purifying ego death she is too scared to face, and is now quite possibly - too corrupt to. You see unlike the muse who is co-devotional, the siren is extractive. She seeks only to be worshipped, not to worship, for she wishes only to take without giving - specifically: to farm devotion as a source of power, rather than grow beautiful through reciprocating it.

And so in spite of her inherent, natural womanly attraction to apex masculine potency in all its majestic glory, she has adapted (been corrupted) to farm the weak - and in having done so, she is denied any true soul connection by the only type of man who could rid her of her wretched curse, because in his rightful self-protective discernment, the potent man avoids her where possible and rejects her when unfortunately obliged to deal with her, and so in living how she lives, she repels what she truly needs - the only type of man who could ever save her from herself. She is in effect, self-perpetuating her own doom as she leads countless men to theirs - a strike of cosmic poetry, if you will.

Unlike the muse, who does not seek to taint her spirit with the energies of myriad men, wishing to merge solely with the energy of the divine masculine mirror of a man her intuition led her to recognise, the siren likes to tether many men’s energies to feed her false goddess image. That is to say, fully possessed by her ego but highly lustful, she likes to cultivate devotional setups where men enthralled by her beauty worship her, whilst she spiritually feeds on them, leveraging her influence into material and even positional gain - you may think of this as spiritual pimping - because it is.


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