tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3889529596531127755.post4106986698454318446..comments2024-03-12T12:06:53.187-07:00Comments on Doing Magick: GoddessRoberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10144040453666802786noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3889529596531127755.post-26196503943558327602009-03-26T06:58:00.000-07:002009-03-26T06:58:00.000-07:00I really have more of a question really. I am new ...I really have more of a question really. I am new to pagan exploration so I apologize for my ignorance in advance. I have a few gods and goddesses that I feel personify and embody energies pertinant to certain areas of my life except one, my sexuality specifically. I am a lesbian and I can not "connect" with any god-energies on this level. Oddly enough, Pan is what keeps moving to the front and center of my spiritual vision. For a while, I could not figure out why...and then something came to me. I will explain it in short. I may be breaking all kinds of traditions in suggesting this but I would like to get some feedback on this if you have time. Ok, according to mythology, Pan is dead. However, I personally do not believe that energy can be destroyed and therefore Pan must still exist somehow. I am a devotee of Cybele and in mythology she has restored other gods in various forms. What if Pan was restored by Cybele with the condition that he take a female form (as was costumary for men to do in devotion to Cybele) but remaining the same god energy within, therefore rendering a Lesbian Goddess (a kind of butchy one ;) ). Does magick allow for continual reincarnation for the sake of change in time, culture and social context?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3889529596531127755.post-28370028429255412492009-03-22T00:08:00.000-07:002009-03-22T00:08:00.000-07:00With respect to my fellow commentators, I would th...With respect to my fellow commentators, I would think that Selene's solar counterpart would technically be Helios, rather than Apollo.V.V.F.https://www.blogger.com/profile/14128227823728002929noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3889529596531127755.post-70476196331837346112009-03-16T11:24:00.000-07:002009-03-16T11:24:00.000-07:00I think I'd recommend a Apollinian influence, as w...I think I'd recommend a Apollinian influence, as well. You've got the Earth, and The Moon, with all they entail. But the Sun is not represented, and perhaps should be, ruling over the others with intellect while only able to affect them at a distance...<BR/><BR/>Although, this is not my milieu, so any advice should be taken with a grain of salt.Monsignor Scott Rassbachhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11685549734111626335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3889529596531127755.post-13669546067887746102009-03-15T16:51:00.000-07:002009-03-15T16:51:00.000-07:00Pan wants to "connect" with everything. Pan, in a ...Pan wants to "connect" with everything. Pan, in a sense <B>is</B> everything. "Pan" is the term we use to denote "all," and that, too, is part of his lore, that he is, in essense, all gods. Selene's characteristic, as you've noted, is self-absorption. She is cool, aloof, maintaining her own cycles of waxing and waning, seemingly independent of her location among the stars. her phases are not, of course independent of the movements of others, but the relationship is complex, and wasn't fully understood by the ancients, even though they learned to predict them.<BR/>But -- <BR/>It's that place between the full engagement, that thoughtless and animal involvement, that <B>force</B> and that aloof, serene, disengaged and cold waxing and waning <B>form</B> that the balance exists.<BR/>I think, that's why Selene.Servitor Lucemhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07792291004791974556noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3889529596531127755.post-13241389685186057232009-03-15T06:48:00.000-07:002009-03-15T06:48:00.000-07:00Maybe a little Apolo wouldn´t hurtI told you befor...Maybe a little Apolo wouldn´t hurt<BR/><BR/>I told you beforehand that these kind of gods don´t go away quickly<BR/>:-Pyuzuruhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13690259763179863019noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3889529596531127755.post-14706054699407447972009-03-15T06:29:00.000-07:002009-03-15T06:29:00.000-07:00Oh, brother. You're using the limits of the availa...Oh, brother. You're using the limits of the available lore as a reason to avoid talking to a spirit, despite the fact this is the one that seems to be who is the one, even through your own indpendent verificiation?<BR/><BR/>Have you thought of just calling her up and asking her? Offer her some tea or wine or a piece of fruit. It can even be the astral variety and request a sit down for a nice pleasant talk.<BR/><BR/>Magick is far easier when you treat it as a social act.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04662349728666711733noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3889529596531127755.post-32753629378858076192009-03-15T03:41:00.000-07:002009-03-15T03:41:00.000-07:00Selene has another myth - she fell in love with th...Selene has another myth - she fell in love with the mortal prince Endymion. So that she could have him and keep him forever young, she asked Zeus to put him under an eternal sleep, and she made love with him perpetually. (Of course, she must have had to take breaks so that she could give birth to fifty of his children.) So when she's not being narcissistic, she's being possessive, turning her objects of affection into...well, objects. Though in some versions, Endymion assents to this eternal slumber. Make of that what you will!<BR/><BR/>(Oh, and in Rome, she was called Luna Noctiluca, "Luna who shines by night." :)V.V.F.https://www.blogger.com/profile/14128227823728002929noreply@blogger.com