Deity exchange

[featherynscale]

Spent an hour in the Borders' parking lot last night talking to Caroline about every damned thing. Unfortunately, a)it was cold and b)I stood with my hips locked for most of the conversation, which means that I'm stil in pain this morning about the whole thing.

Not that it wasn't worth it. Conversations with Caroline generally are. As it happens, we've discovered that the Quetzalcoatl Girls are trading goddesses. Caroline got Hathor from H., I got Oshun from Caroline, presumably saffronhare got Eris from me... I think that means that kittenpants is due Andraste, and H. might get... well, I'm not sure. Athena, maybe, or Hestia... or Shiva/Shakti. Fun for all.

myrsine posted her translation of a poem about trading saints the other day - I should post it up here from her, but the thrust of it was that all the parishes sent their saints out to other parishes, saying that they were owed favors from the saints, and that if the Blessed Ones didn't keep their end of the bargain, they'd all have to walk home. I think this goes the other way around though - I think if we don't keep faith, we will be the ones who have to walk home, if we can get there.

Caroline re-affirmed for me her statement on finding the right path... "If it scares you, you're on the right road. And if you're on the right road, and you're scared, then you just have to keep walking, because if you stand still when you're frightened, you will be accosted."

So I must be on the right road (a right road, anyway). I'm really not used to functioning on the feminine side of things, and the whole emotional realm is fairly foreign territory, and the whole thing scares the bejeezus out of me. But it's a toolset that I need to acquire, or I'm incomplete. Useful androgyny requires skills from both sides. Adding to my (hopefully productive) discomfort, Caroline offered to give me a white dress.

Not to mention, there's that thing with the chickens.

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Re: More thoughts on "productive discomfort"

[saffronhare.livejournal.com]

Picking my battles? I would say I've learned a lot of hard lessons about *not* picking battles, but I don't think I've yet transformed that into any particular wisdom about which battles I *do* want to pick. And we all know what a strength my "graceful flexibility" is.

I must have missed that class in the hospital after the births of all three girls. Or maybe it's a shot?

Pillar of Mercy, give me strength.