Hi Rad,
I'm thinking about how in Rome there was such a strong emphasis on the Vestal Virgins doing everything right. this, along with their sacrosanct status and need to be "untouchable" sexually. There was such a strong emphasis on physical perfection and accuracy. And I know that expression is very different than how the Vesta archetype showed up in matriarchal times.
The Vesta role is essential to making sure the work is being done on behalf of the whole that it serves. Keeping the hearth flame going, keeping the candles lit, tending to the sacred space etc ...
I am just wondering if you have found there to be any issues with neurosis or perfectionism within the Vesta archetype?
I understand them to be the "Keepers of the Sacred Flame" of Sacred Sexuality, just as Vesta is. Initators of young men who were coming of age. They have of course been transformed in the public eye by the Patriachy over thousands of years into something less than Saced Prostitues, just as our relatioonship with sexual experience has been transformed (informed ) in the same way. Everything has its place in time and its no wonder interest in the archetype of Vesta and those who "held" her energies, is gaining popularity and interest again as we step into different times. I stood within the runis of the Temple of Vesta in the Form, in Rome some years ago. It held a deepening kind of energy as I experienced it, and a peacefullness that was seperate from the crowds of people only 20 meters away. Or maybe I just projected all of that onto it while I was there? Who knows? But I wonder.