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1. Besides Eris, Lugh, and Oshun (sp?); what, if any, other patrons do you have?
I wrote up the other day a list for another mailing list thingie, more deities that I like and work with than really patrons, but it gives you an idea. It looked like this:
Usually: Eris, Lugh, Ochun.
Often: Brigid, Dionysos, Hermes, Thoth, Michael the Archangel, Bast,
Mannanan mac Lir.
Currently, and somewhat inexplicably: Apollo.
2. I have problems keeping up with the 2 patrons I have, how do you manage with at least 3 rather disparate ones?
The flippant answer here is that I'm a good magician but a lousy priest, and they don't ask me for very much in the way of 'do a daily ritual in my honor' and so forth. What I tend to do for them is a) keep an altar for them, b) make an offering every now and again, c) do what they ask me to do, which isn't a lot, and d) try to carry their ideals out into the mundane world, which has a lot to do with virtue practice and so on. D) is the biggest part of my devotion, and, because I get on well with all of them, most of that work is stuff I want to do (or should do) anyway. Anyway, they're not all that disparate. I mean, yeah, you get a lot of dramatic tension between Eris (being the mother of chaos) and Lugh (being a big order type with a side of effing sneaky), but, frankly, I live for that sort of stress. And there's at least one point at which they all converge, which is situations in which someone who is the underdog thinks of something clever to do and wins the day. If I can do that, it's points for all three at the same time, so I try to do it as often as possible.
3. What would be your ideal job?
I'm not sure. I always used to want to work for TSR, back in the day. I still think that writing for games would be pretty much ideal, but that's not a real job, I guess.
4. I believe that whiskey and rum are not allowed on your diet. What sorts of alcohol, if any, are you able to drink on the new diet?
Doctor Whomever recommends red wine. I have no objection to red wine, so I drink that every now and again. In the initial write-up of the diet plan, he said that whisky was okay, but has since recanted. I have chosen to ignore that, and I drink the whisky anyway. There's a sort of ranking of good booze to evil booze, though, which goes something like this:
Dry Wine, Sweet Wine, Hard Liquor alone (with less sweet being better and more sweet being worse), Cocktails, Liqueurs alone, Beer (which is the devil). I'm not sure where hard cider falls on the scale, which is unfortunate.
capriciouslass:1. Besides Eris, Lugh, and Oshun (sp?); what, if any, other patrons do you have?
I wrote up the other day a list for another mailing list thingie, more deities that I like and work with than really patrons, but it gives you an idea. It looked like this:
Usually: Eris, Lugh, Ochun.
Often: Brigid, Dionysos, Hermes, Thoth, Michael the Archangel, Bast,
Mannanan mac Lir.
Currently, and somewhat inexplicably: Apollo.
2. I have problems keeping up with the 2 patrons I have, how do you manage with at least 3 rather disparate ones?
The flippant answer here is that I'm a good magician but a lousy priest, and they don't ask me for very much in the way of 'do a daily ritual in my honor' and so forth. What I tend to do for them is a) keep an altar for them, b) make an offering every now and again, c) do what they ask me to do, which isn't a lot, and d) try to carry their ideals out into the mundane world, which has a lot to do with virtue practice and so on. D) is the biggest part of my devotion, and, because I get on well with all of them, most of that work is stuff I want to do (or should do) anyway. Anyway, they're not all that disparate. I mean, yeah, you get a lot of dramatic tension between Eris (being the mother of chaos) and Lugh (being a big order type with a side of effing sneaky), but, frankly, I live for that sort of stress. And there's at least one point at which they all converge, which is situations in which someone who is the underdog thinks of something clever to do and wins the day. If I can do that, it's points for all three at the same time, so I try to do it as often as possible.
3. What would be your ideal job?
I'm not sure. I always used to want to work for TSR, back in the day. I still think that writing for games would be pretty much ideal, but that's not a real job, I guess.
4. I believe that whiskey and rum are not allowed on your diet. What sorts of alcohol, if any, are you able to drink on the new diet?
Doctor Whomever recommends red wine. I have no objection to red wine, so I drink that every now and again. In the initial write-up of the diet plan, he said that whisky was okay, but has since recanted. I have chosen to ignore that, and I drink the whisky anyway. There's a sort of ranking of good booze to evil booze, though, which goes something like this:
Dry Wine, Sweet Wine, Hard Liquor alone (with less sweet being better and more sweet being worse), Cocktails, Liqueurs alone, Beer (which is the devil). I'm not sure where hard cider falls on the scale, which is unfortunate.
