tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22468459168853474132024-03-13T09:16:07.483-07:00The Wierd ChickA look at who The Wierd Chick is: within me,
within contemporary culture,
and her origins in HerStory and Myth.The Wierd Chickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08703676142476273603noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2246845916885347413.post-20437195243919770052011-03-22T10:55:00.000-07:002011-03-22T11:59:36.465-07:00<div style="text-align: center;">One of my obsessions is Pride and Prejudice. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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I keep the a DVD of the <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/drama/prideandprejudice/">1995 version</a> in my laptop half the time. It makes for a soothing bedtime story.<br />
And it is a sort of fairy story, I think. An especially guilty pleasure of mine is reading fanfiction. No I don't have anything posted of my own so don't bother to try and find it. Yet. Or not.<br />
Anyway.<br />
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Jane Austen set the tone for romance stories to come with this particular tale. <br />
While I am no literary critic and have very limited access to journals that might give me further insight into such things, I do have my own theory as to its timelessness: It is but another story of <a href="http://www.carl-jung.net/animus.html">anima and animus projection</a>, and the journey taken by two people to withdraw those deceptive parts of themselves back into themselves where they belong. In non Jungian language, Pride and Prejudice is about overcoming one's 'ideals' about men/women in order to truly love. For that is what mature love is about: loving the person who is, not the one you wish them to be. So who are the hero and heroine and what is their story? For those who do not know them, I give you: one Fitzwilliam Darcy, dashing albeit diffident man of wealth and consequence, and Miss Elizabeth Bennet, lively country gentleman's daughter with fine eyes. On this occasion, however, let us focus on Lizzy.<br />
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So is Lizzy a Wierd Chick? Sometimes I think so, sometimes not. For those in her sphere, I think an argument can be made that she is. She is frightfully clever, and doesn't mind speaking up, both traits that proper ladies did not claim in that era if they wanted to get a man. She does not possess <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDFZ0k53A5s&list=SL">all the arts that might allure a man of consequence to her:</a> she doesn't speak multiple languages, it seems she doesn't draw, she has never had a governess nor been to a finishing school. She certainly doesn't come with a generous dowry and her family is definitely eccentric. She doesn't have a figure that is the ideal of the day- it 'lacks symmetry', which means it doesn't look like<a href="http://www.wga.hu/html/g/gerard/4recamie.html"> this</a> (which is to say-<a href="http://blog.raucousroyals.com/2010/08/raucous-royal-of-month-juliette.html"> the supermodel look of the day</a>).<br />
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Neither humble means nor eccentricity were helpful in the quest to land a gentleman of her station in England her day. Oh and lest I forget: she loves to walk miles and miles and doesn't care if she gets dirty. These are all the qualities which would cause the ladies and gentlemen of her society to find her a little unrefined, not to mention, financially unworthy. <br />
Perhaps this may cinch the argument that Lizzy is indeed a Wierd Chick: That day at<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JF3ueHjUc3k&feature=related"> Hunsford</a>, she refuses his proposal! Again, for a woman who could certainly benefit from such a marriage financially (both for herself and her family) she refuses because, at the time, she does not love him. She does not see many good qualities already. She is rightfully offended by his awkward declaration and tells him so. While many would like to say they'd stand up, I think that it takes particular wit and will to actually do so.<br />
These are characteristics of the Smart Chick variety of the Wierd Chick.While some Smart Chicks are not as confident or as charming, Lizzy is. But the thing that many if not all Smart Chicks have in common is that they are just too smart for some potential partners. Cleverness can be off-putting to people whether the relationship is romantic or platonic, or otherwise. Lizzy's cleverness would not allow her to make any decision that went against her ideals. She was so clever, in fact, she didn't realize the fallibility of some of her said ideals. Does she figure it out in time? Suffice it to say, Lizzy is admirable<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFexTSyOL_k&feature=related"> because she does</a>. For those Smart Chicks who speak out and let their intelligence show, it is gratifying to think that at least *someone* (like Mr. Darcy, and her dad, oh- and her sister Jane, and her Aunt and Uncle Gardiner, and Georgianna....) appreciates us.The Wierd Chickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08703676142476273603noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2246845916885347413.post-7270952184875099312011-02-21T17:03:00.000-08:002011-02-21T17:06:21.654-08:00Behind the Wyrd<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9C_ElVrpHmH7Vaqb-y9_W4f0rpg3NZVxdY3EG577eslFG9hdsm7CeCgPfV46tOSwDZQY0VkQgBl8AJIvIt8GaQb0-K-7U8mhSgj3DtvNpNV1omIiypfjR5qKgDjuKNLWrQQTUDNBWYW-L/s1600/dancing+barefoot1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="243" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9C_ElVrpHmH7Vaqb-y9_W4f0rpg3NZVxdY3EG577eslFG9hdsm7CeCgPfV46tOSwDZQY0VkQgBl8AJIvIt8GaQb0-K-7U8mhSgj3DtvNpNV1omIiypfjR5qKgDjuKNLWrQQTUDNBWYW-L/s320/dancing+barefoot1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.artmagick.com/pictures/picture.aspx?id=7174&name=fairies-of-the-meadow">Fairies of the Meadow</a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><b>Weird has always existed</b></i></span></div><div style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">I previously alluded to the Core, the Source, of Weird. In reading more about this archetype and its herstory, I have learned that even before the Word of Weird- was around, the Weird Chick existed, the origins extending into the Primordial. </span></div><div style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/weird">Dictionary.com defines Weird in the following ways:</a> </span></div><div style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">“…..suggesting the supernatural….unearthly or uncanny”</span></div><div style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">“……Archaic . concerned with or controlling fate or destiny.” </span></div><div style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">[Indeed] its origins are : “…attributive… in the phrase werde sisters the Fates (popularized as appellation of the witches in Macbeth )”…</span></div><div style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><b>It has always co existed with women</b></i></span></div><div style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">And here is part of the inherent duality of Weird or Wierd for that matter. When others see a Wierd Chick, somewhere in the back of their consciousness is the awareness of that uncanny quality she possesses. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">People who aren’t weird are threatened by it</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><b>Why?</b></i></span></div><div style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">What is its significance? </span></div><div style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">And, more importantly what is the problem?</span></div><div style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><b>It is knowledge of duality that others don’t understand and fear</b></i></span></div><div style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">By not fitting in, I- <i>She-</i> is a foil and therefore defines convention.</span></div><div style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">More importantly, while Wierd may be childlike, whimsical, or otherwise superficial, the aesthetic of Wierd, by its definitive origins, cannot but point back eventually to those 3 Norns weaving destiny in their hands. </span></div><div style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">Shakespeare was only recording an older truth.</span></div><div style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">This truth struck fear into the Catholic and Protestant Churches in the forms Inquisitions and Witch Trials. Of course it will spark a sense of wonder or fascination at the very least for those who encounter Her. In her Other-ness, she gets to an uncomfortable truth: she is the opposite of Natural and cannot be contained within the parameters of Normal. She is generative of new possibilities and in this power, similarly, has the ability to destroy. </span></div><div style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><i>It embraces duality that others reject out of fear</i></b></span></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">When I have bargained with myself to fit in, I am repressing the fear of the Dark and Chaotic within me. I am no better than any Church. In fact this is a bargain with the Devil so to speak because when I try to ‘just be normal’, in fact I am coveting another’s sacred thread. In doing so, I sacrifice the Luminousity of my Own Wierdness.</span></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Those Dark powers may come in the form of the envious Step Sister or the All Consuming Mother. Regardless, when one seeks to fit in , their desire is in danger of becoming an insatiable maw. Inauthenticity is never satisfying. It can also suck the soul out of relationships, jobs, and rob one of energy to manifest one’s uniqueness in the world.</span></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">And yet the Shadow has something to teach if we could but befriend the inner Step sister, the inner hideous mother. Becoming an apprentice to Inner Wyrd Wisdom is to allow her to come in all her forms, including the ones that are hideous. </span></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><b>Taking this path means risking being misunderstood or worse</b></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><b>It comes with the territory of being Wierd</b></i></span></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">The alternative, befriending both the luminous and the shadowy side of my Wierdness, means owning all of who I really am. Really, it is impossible to be true to myself and avoid inconveniencing, confronting or otherwise discomfiting others because it is inevitable that someone is going to disapprove, disagree, or dis me in some other way.</span></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><b>Embracing both negative and positive leads to great wisdom. This in turn equates to greater personal power.</b></i></span></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">And circling back on itself, the value of such wisdom and its fearsomeness are thus: in seeing both sides, I have become ever more aware of these characteristics in others. The more one possesses such awareness, the better one can ‘read’ people.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><b>Confronting the negative means making mistakes. In making mistakes the next step is learning from them- becoming adept. If one is not authentic, one’s desires will be unfulfilled and it leads to the all consuming mother sucking the life out of others/ourselves/ our success/ etc. Conversely, the projection of my desire that is covetousness can teach me of unrecognized qualities in myself that I possess if I would but take the work to uncover them.</b></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><b> In doing both it manifests great potency in relationship and in the world</b></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><a href="http://www.stoa.org/diotima/anthology/thunder.shtml">The Thunder, Perfect Mind</a>, </i>according to Anne McGuire, contains a the dialogue of an unnamed Divine Feminine. She embodies the potent Wierd Chick conundrum, the contradiction to which words give inadequate expression (bold/ italics my own emphasis):</span></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</div><div align="center" style="font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"> " <i><b>Do not separate me from the first ones whom you have k[nown. </b></i></span></div><div align="center" style="font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><b>And] do not cast anyone [out </b></i></span></div><div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><b>and do not] bring anyone back [...] </b></i></span></div><div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">I know the fi[rst ones] and those after them know me. <br />
But I am the [perfect] mind and the repose ...<br />
I am the gnosis of my seeking, and the finding of those who seek after me. <br />
And the command of those who ask of me.</span></div><div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"></div><div align="center" style="font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">...And the power of the powers by my gnosis </span></div><div align="center" style="font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">of the angels who have been sent by my logos, </span></div><div align="center" style="font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">And the gods in their seasons by my command,</span></div><div align="center" style="font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">And it is with me that the spirits of all humans exist, </span></div><div align="center" style="font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><b>and it is within me that women exist</b></i>. </span></div><div align="center" style="font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" style="font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">I am she who is honored and praised and who is despised scornfully. </span></div><div align="center" style="font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><i>I am peace and because of me war has come to be. </i></b></span></div><div align="center" style="font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><i>And I am an alien and a citizen.</i> </b></span></div><div align="center" style="font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">I am substance and she who has no substance.</span></div><div align="center" style="font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Those who come into being from my synousia are ignorant of me, </span></div><div align="center" style="font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">And those who are in my substance know me…."</span></div><div align="center" style="font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Every treasure piece of my Self awareness must be turned over and each side thoroughly inspected. For how does one truly know the value of a coin possessed if one is not truly acquainted with both its sides?</span></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><b>Wierdness is a never ending definition of myself and the other turning end over end. True Self awareness is not narcissistic but benefits others due to the byproducts of Beauty, Wisdom and True Love that are generated in the process.</b></i></span></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">There is the golden coin, the golden thread, the gold in lead, the gold that can be found when plumbing the depths for the Shadow of the Weird Chick.</span></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjQimIWClEw&feature=related">She is Blessed among Women</a></div>The Wierd Chickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08703676142476273603noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2246845916885347413.post-82381709449658194072011-02-06T12:14:00.000-08:002011-02-06T15:10:59.858-08:00The Original Wyrd Word<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">I wrote it before </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">And it was written before I wrote it</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">And it was known before I knew it,</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">So the wisdom is not mine to claim.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">Nevertheless I will convey the threads as faithfully as can an adherent</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">Who in some ways is no more than one newly initiated:</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">Knowledge, wisdom, process can be a blessing and a curse. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">This is no mistake. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">As far back as our herstories can remember, </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">Be She Baba Yaga</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">Hulda, Hecate</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">Or even Sleeping Beauties more diminutive 13 Faerie Godmothers</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">The dual natured goddess has been </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">In her Wisdom,</div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: center;">The one to bless, The one to curse</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.artrenewal.org/pages/artwork.php?artworkid=15907&size=large">Silence by Levy-Dhurer</a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">As it please her.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">Woman herself is the cauldron of life</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">From her Source, from her all seeing Yoneye</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">Proceeds fates threads of which </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">She is both spinner and weaver. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">As it is so,</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">She is Wise Who keeps her own blood sacred</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">And Who does not mistakenly seek as sacred the distaff of others.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">She is Wise Who is wary </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">Of her own true urge to be resplendent in just such covetous finery</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">And the beautiful friction caused </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">When occupying one’s imaginations in such a fashion.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">It takes practice to not tangle such a web</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">And if one lacks discernment,</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">Surely duplicitous enchantment will follow</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">As to suck the life from one’s soul</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">If one stares to intently into the Chasm from where it was borne.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">She is Beauty and she is Wise.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">She is Terrible and she is a Curse.<br />
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<a href="http://www.artmagick.com/pictures/picture.aspx?id=6928&name=dawn">Hecate</a><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">She is the Thunder who is in our entire DNA;</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">Sophia is her name.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">And whether philosopher or not,</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">All those who are wise love Her </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">And know the propensity for knowledge </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">to be turned into insipid, damaging, fearmongering facts,</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">Which is what explains </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">Macbeth seeking those 3 Sisters,<br />
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<a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Norns_by_H._L._M.jpg">the Norn</a><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">And why those who identify with Them</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">Are still cast out as otherworldly </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">And thus misunderstood:</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">They weave with a thread </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">That can just as easily bring chaos </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">As it can creation.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">And may those who do not understand</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">Call us Weird.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div>The Wierd Chickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08703676142476273603noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2246845916885347413.post-24157997023359124532011-01-23T13:01:00.000-08:002011-01-23T13:01:42.984-08:00Did I lose my Red Shoes and other Deep Spiritual Questions<div class="MsoNormal"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">There is a story that <a href="http://search.barnesandnoble.com/books/product.aspx?r=1&isbn=2000003597635&cm_mmc=Google%20Product%20Search-_-Q000000630-_-The%20Red%20Shoes-_-2000003597635">Wise Women Tell</a> of a motherless child who makes her own way in a world that seems to her by turns kind and cruel. On good days she is able to care for her needs in creative resourceful ways. In such times she cobbled together her own red shoes, from rags she’d saved.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;">I am told *<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040725/">the movie*</a> depicts these as ballet slippers. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><a href="http://bombsite.powweb.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/red-shoes-middle-600x444.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="236" src="http://bombsite.powweb.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/red-shoes-middle-600x444.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I envision them as stitched together felt Mary Janes, something along the lines of what <a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/56854227/felted-high-countered-slippers-red-and?ref=sr_list_5&ga_search_query=red%2Bfelt%2Bmary%2Bjanes&ga_search_type=handmade">this person</a> makes.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Or perhaps those are just my Original Red Shoes. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;">On other days she goes for hours and hours trying to gather enough food in the dark, scary forest. One just such a day, she is seen by a fine old lady in a gilded carriage (or 'cage' as a friend aptly, mistakenly, put it). This grande dame determines to give the girl a better life that she might forget her former one. “You are to be my daughter”. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;">'<i>But she isn’t her daughter</i>', I think to myself. '<i>She may mother this little girl, but the child has already become streetsmart and accustomed to making her own way, however naively. She has already lived the loss and to be called her parent will take years of living in, not mere hours of mutual acquaintance</i>.' But that is my own digression of the tale. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;">Returning to our faerie story, the woman takes the girl's former belongings and burns them all. Although now bedecked in all manner of finery, little girl immediately feels the loss of her Dear Old Shoes. The grand lady takes the girl shopping for her baptismal clothes and in the shop the girl spies the most Delicious forbidden pair of red shoes. Unbenkownst to the slightly blind grand dame, and with a wink, the cobbler sells them to the girl. These diabolical red shoes take the girl on a literal whirlwind of a journey, upon which she meets an old red headed veteran soldier, misses the death of her patroness, and is propelled in shame from door to door begging neighbors and strangers for mercy. The red shoes have exhausted her and yet she cannot stop dancing. Eventually she finds the executioner’s cottage and begs him to chop off her shoes, even at the expense of her feet. With most grievous unwillingness he does so and the shoes dance on without their previous owner. She lives out the rest of her days as a cripple, serving others just as the shopkeeper had done before her and never missing those red shoes.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;">I encountered this tale last week when the <a href="http://www.integralscience.org/cgjung/">Phoenix Friends of Carl G Jung </a> hosted Lynda S. Steele, LCSW who discussed addiction. I so was taken by her lecture I decided to attend the next day’s workshop. Both events were- as another friend put it-magical. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;">And yet, after recent events I've experienced, I felt the unwelcome, exhausting intensity within myself of too much process. While I’d keenly felt the loss of those original Red Shoes as we processed in group, I wondered why I felt such loss, and ironically found the key in process itself.</span><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;">And so I <b>work hard</b> to remind myself - when people change the subject away from ‘deep’ topics - no matter how deep, or intelligent, or wierd I am, at the end of the day it comes back to relationship not only in process, but in letting go, in engaging mundane and fun things. Celebration and letting go, I am reminded, are disciplines, just much as the acquisition of knowledge. And, by engaging more in the latter, I doubt I will find myself in danger anytime soon of becoming any more 'normal'. I think my wierdness is here to stay.</span></div>The Wierd Chickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08703676142476273603noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2246845916885347413.post-5714335303878206182011-01-11T21:20:00.000-08:002011-01-11T21:20:31.564-08:00A Monad, Intuiting ....Where 2 or more gather, there are more than enough people for a Chick to know she is the 'different' one in the room. It could be for any number of reasons. One is to be the bearer of TMI. As a teen, I was embarrassed to discover myself a bearer of the noxious plague. Infected as a child, I unwittingly passed it on. Sometimes I would become a germaphobe trying to avoid it. Either way, I alienated those around me. <br />
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One can learn how to use- yes - USE- TMI. This skill is earned by making innumerable mistakes. Therefore, I am VERY skillful. At least I hope so. Seriously, a Wierd Chick afflicted w/ TMI finds herself unwittingly alienating others. She often has to learn on her own when enough is enough. Others often don't even know how to set boundaries or think themselves kinder by saying nothing. Who knows whether they are right. But I digress.<br />
This is what I have determined about TMI: I don't have to feel like a victim for receiving it, or a persecutor/rescuer for giving it.<br />
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TMI is a gift the Universe has allowed.<br />
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As the recipient,<br />
I can: 1) reject it, 2) store it for later, 3) mull over the content and/or the process of the interaction, 4) I can do any combination of parts of the above by myself, with the other person, and/or with a third party.<br />
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About imparting information:<br />
I have a choice to consider the information I impart to others. I can determine whether I feel/ think it is the 'right' time, place, situation, person and/or amount of information. <br />
I can observe the other person and situation in an attempt to determine my actions. However I can't control whether the other thinks I made the right choice. I can't control their feelings or responses.<br />
I have a right to my own feelings in the matter. I have the right to disagree with the other person as to whether it truly was TMI or not. However, if there is an ongoing one sided 'exchange': 1) The giver may be overly 'generous' but the receiver can just as easily lack the healthy amount of receptivity- or 2) there could be some other force at work such as the exchange being inappropriate: For example: like, ewww if my mom were to ever give me the details of her intimate life. <br />
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If I am determined to be the giver of TMI, I can own that I felt and *still feel* it was appropriately given because sometimes people are just insipid ninnies and need a little more information to jolt them out of a life of boring shallowhood.<br />
Or, I can determine I made the wrong choice and apologize from/ learn from the mistake and take appropriate action henceforth. <br />
I can take this as an opportunity to dialogue with the person who feels I've given them TMI about the content or process so we *both* can learn. <br />
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Now, was that TMI?The Wierd Chickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08703676142476273603noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2246845916885347413.post-5688871846798971532010-12-31T22:26:00.000-08:002010-12-31T22:26:04.950-08:00Wierd Chick Miss-Spelling<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves/> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:DoNotPromoteQF/> <w:LidThemeOther>EN-US</w:LidThemeOther> <w:LidThemeAsian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian> <w:LidThemeComplexScript>X-NONE</w:LidThemeComplexScript> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:SplitPgBreakAndParaMark/> <w:DontVertAlignCellWithSp/> <w:DontBreakConstrainedForcedTables/> <w:DontVertAlignInTxbx/> <w:Word11KerningPairs/> <w:CachedColBalance/> </w:Compatibility> <m:mathPr> <m:mathFont m:val="Cambria Math"/> <m:brkBin m:val="before"/> <m:brkBinSub m:val="--"/> <m:smallFrac m:val="off"/> <m:dispDef/> <m:lMargin m:val="0"/> <m:rMargin m:val="0"/> <m:defJc m:val="centerGroup"/> <m:wrapIndent m:val="1440"/> <m:intLim m:val="subSup"/> <m:naryLim m:val="undOvr"/> </m:mathPr></w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" DefUnhideWhenUsed="true"
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">I don’t know about the Weird Chick</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">At least not at this particular moment.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">She is an archetype – <b>the</b> main archetype- with whom I can identify</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">As the original Misstic, Missbehaving thinker, Missunderstood artist, </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">The Missfit everywhere she goes- not quite this, not quite that,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Usually only partially fitting the dictionary definition</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Of <b>A</b>nachronistic, <b>B</b>ohemmienne, <b>C</b>ounterculture, Deviant;</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Which reminds me to beware of overidentification.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Perhaps it is this attachment which caused recent bouts- of what, I don’t know-</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">During the long nights when I would mentally or electronically devise letters never sent</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">To people who imaginarily cast me- us- out. Touching shadows that danced,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">I tried to get at what was casting them, </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">And sometimes found a defenseless silly man behind the curtain,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">While other times my hand grasped at air.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";"><span></span>I wondered, was the shadow itself even real to any but myself?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">No, what Jung identified in his Red Book was indeed real if only in our unconscious.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">In the divining time between All Souls Eve and the Sun Son’s ReBirth,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">There were flashes- bouts and flashes-</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Bouts of fear that the dark in all its brands will remain,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Flashes of illumination now realized from now passed moments-</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Oh, and rumination over harvesting </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">The heirloom perennials and exotic native annuals I’ve planted and will eventually market.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Right now, as the sun is only re beginning to lengthen its presence in this hemisphere,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">The time of not knowing inner wisdom is coming to an end again.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Time to spin the indefinable into some kind of order</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Identifying the spark- the Singularity- the Singular- that is the Wierd Chick</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Getting at the core of who She-is, perhaps who Sidhe is, one of her otherworldly sources</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Peeling away the layers to the duckling, the PreRaphaelite, the Creatrix and more</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Manifesting her forms in myself as Adoptee, New Waver, Costume Shop Babe, and beyond</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Connecting the webs from Misstery, History, and Myth</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">To the present day Wierd Chicks who may or may not</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";"><span></span>Kick Ass, Mine Wizarding Wisdom, Dance into Madness…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Who are, who do, who represent so much more</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Than the misfit version of a heroine, ingénue, mother, crone</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Spinning into whatever the next and the next and the next</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Cycles and orders of Wierd may be.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Weird connects us all; Wierd is a unique creation that doesn’t quite fit.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Even though some may simply see a Miss-Spelling,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Those who identify will take time to recognize more.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">To the Wierd Chick in me, and in you who choose to follow her call.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div>The Wierd Chickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08703676142476273603noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2246845916885347413.post-25334911146345479802010-06-21T11:23:00.000-07:002010-06-21T13:58:18.758-07:00Emergence in 'The Cat Returns'<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBDdHkgynExGiiNUzE8_VW13ClUlsgVCnFIn15QM5wskEgsi0plyWCfqLWQ9p6Tk8oWTGgFXe69-ZmyHWzpU6EscSME9SKWbfNz_6hsY3cIJaadoG_rnLdtSSdeO0BsTpyoZ7ZI2emUvFa/s1600/cat.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 223px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBDdHkgynExGiiNUzE8_VW13ClUlsgVCnFIn15QM5wskEgsi0plyWCfqLWQ9p6Tk8oWTGgFXe69-ZmyHWzpU6EscSME9SKWbfNz_6hsY3cIJaadoG_rnLdtSSdeO0BsTpyoZ7ZI2emUvFa/s320/cat.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5485333933213859202" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;">The other night, my husband and I watched another Studio Ghibli film, <span style="font-style: italic;">The Cat Returns, </span>a deceptively amusing film about a teenage girl, Haru, who can talk to cats<span style="font-style: italic;">. </span><br /><a href="http://www.onlineghibli.com/cat_returns/char.php"><br />http://www.onlineghibli.com/cat_returns/char.php</a><br /></span><span style="font-family:georgia;"><br />For me, the film is rife with themes of her development and emerging Animus.<br /><br />First, of course the cat has an obvious, oftentimes more 'bawdy' or demeaning reference to the female anatomy. However, most if the primary 'cat' characters in the film are male- except one. Yuki was the first cat that Haru ever communicated with. As a child, Yuki was a stray kitten following Haru home. Haru kindly gives Yuki the rest of her fish cookies to eat. Yuki remembers this kindness and her gestures are ultimately instrumental in Haru's escape from the Cat King's intended fate. This in a sense, represents Haru's primal self - her ego that will help navigate the way instead of allowing the Animus (whether the 'good' Baron or the 'bad' king) to take over completely.<br />As for the male cats: the Cat King is a lazy, mad, gluttonous, dictatorial (albeit funny) beast who doesn't take 'no' for an answer. (Sidenote-What is great is he is voiced in English by Tim Curry who gives him a kind of soulful beatnick flair, saying things like 'yeah, babe.' )<br />A counterpoint to this cat is the cultured Baron who is really a cat figurine come to life. He is everything the Cat King is not- truly suave, intellectual, tasteful- I cant believe I am saying this about a cat who wears clothes! Anyway, these 2 represent 2 choices that Haru has: stay in the Cat Kingdom- which in some ways is a pleasant and easy escape, or to take the risk of returning to the real world and her mundane life where she is perpetually late to school and will surely have to struggle with all the 'real' issues of growing up.<br /><br />This film is charming and silly and is great for a lighthearted view with kids- esp if they are 8-12 year old girls. But, older teens and adults can enjoy Miyazake's innumerable talents for symbol and storytelling if they decide to look a little deeper.<br /><br />image credit:<a href="http://media.photobucket.com/image/the%20cat%20returns/CatsShadow16/the_cat_returns-haru-umbrella.png#%21oZZ6QQcurrentZZhttp%3A%2F%2Fmedia.photobucket.com%2Fimage%2Fthe%20cat%20returns%2Fpinkfolks%2Fcat.jpg%3Fo%3D6"> http://media.photobucket.com/image/the%20cat%20returns/CatsShadow16/the_cat_returns-haru-umbrella.png#!oZZ6QQcurrentZZhttp%3A%2F%2Fmedia.photobucket.com%2Fimage%2Fthe%20cat%20returns%2Fpinkfolks%2Fcat.jpg%3Fo%3D6<br /></a><br /></span>The Wierd Chickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08703676142476273603noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2246845916885347413.post-42378766680999288202010-05-08T19:38:00.000-07:002010-05-08T19:58:40.931-07:00Wo/ManThe better part of the past 2 years I have become more acquainted with my animus. You know who that is; its the often shadowy part of our personality that carries opposite sex characteristics. As each person defines gender differently, this aspect varies from person to person. It is the character in our dreams that shapeshifts- savior, lover, demon, greenman... artist, professor, poet, priest...<br />I have realized this part of myself from delving into things I love but had forgotten their power to inspire. They take the form of Jane Austen's heroes; the spark that urges me to bead, sew, write; the dragon who aims its fire at those who stand up as opponents to the higher cause.<br /><br />In this form I have found synchronicities in those who I find with devastated egos too weak to stand up to their strong demon/lover/angel who has manifested as more real than 'reality'. I have found it in the lost youth that is 'quarterlife crisis'- a very real phenomenon. I have found joy and insight in understanding more of what it means for my husband to be a man- both in the past and now in the present. That is a lifelong lessen I will enjoy seeing unfold!<br /><br />I found recently I'd had several dragon/devil dreams and was initially a bit fearful of this theme. I have found several answers- you know, the kind of answers that take up too many words and have more of a wordless form in one's psyche. One worth noting is that it is a warning for me to take this part of myself seriously and to be vigilant to not allow it to have 'the keys' to my vessel, my ego, my person. Taking it seriously also means to understand how my light may manifest and to not engage in the black magic/drama that is trying to control others.<br /><br />This insight arose out of a dream where I was in a classroom where an attractive male 40 something high school teacher sat back and allowed gang members in his classroom to seek blood vengeance. He knew the seeds he could plant would not fully germinate there. They would manifest as these kids got older. He knew it was not for him to break up a fight- at very least it would be fruitless, at most, fatal.<br /><br />This wisdom has recently been reflected by wise women in my life like Patricia Ballantine and Marie-Sometimes, it is for me to just be the light and hold the light somewhere. And, always, it is best to be aware and take seriously the attempts by others to control. Sometimes I should stand up, but other times it is appropriate to say nothing and just let my light shine.<br /><br />The shadow- and animus- it would seem, has a glittery cast when one chooses to allow it to reveal itself. Indeed it is the gold in the shit after which Jungians perpetually seek.The Wierd Chickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08703676142476273603noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2246845916885347413.post-42758150207474509452009-10-04T16:52:00.000-07:002009-10-04T17:18:41.420-07:00Love lies in the Constriction as well as the Expansion<meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 11"><meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 11"><link rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CUsers%5COwner%5CAppData%5CLocal%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:punctuationkerning/> <w:validateagainstschemas/> <w:saveifxmlinvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:ignoremixedcontent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> <w:dontgrowautofit/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:latentstyles deflockedstate="false" latentstylecount="156"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--><style> <!-- /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; mso-header-margin:.5in; mso-footer-margin:.5in; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --> </style><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} </style> <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:shapedefaults ext="edit" spidmax="1026"> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:shapelayout ext="edit"> <o:idmap ext="edit" data="1"> </o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">As light diminishes and dark increases again on the wheel, I find the balance to be magnified in life</span></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">Dreams again are taking on a bigger feel
<br /></span></p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">Synchronicities are more prevalent
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<br /></span><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">As the balance of light and dark are magnified, </span></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">I have been made more aware of how this manifests in life</span></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">We thought we’d have to put Chewey to sleep but instead had a costly and challenging surgery – now he has no l eye but seems to be more well again.</span></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">My husband Dewell had a power sprayer stolen from his paint trailer, but at least he didn’t have anything worth thousands of dollars stolen.</span></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">We got a leak upstairs to top of our week but at least we didn’t have to pay anyting but ~ 40 for the part and Dewell will trade the labor.
<br /></span></p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">We have been reminded that in the balance of events for the past week, although the challenge was great, we could, in each case, count our blessings.
<br /></span></p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">We were reminded of the Taoist fable and we say "We'll see..."</span></p><span style="font-family: times new roman;font-size:100%;" >
<br /></span><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">As such, as my dear friend Patricia reminded recently,</span></p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">in this Libra energy, we can be tossed about on the ends of the teeter totter or we can walk closer to the center balance.
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<br /></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p>Finally, as the year moves into ever greater darkness once again, I am reminded:
<br /></o:p></span></p><span style="font-family: times new roman;font-size:100%;" >Love lies in the constriction; </span><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">It means that suffering comes without bidding or reason</span></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">We cannot control the context, or the initial feelings we have when the wound of suffering is inflicted</span></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">However we can move in quickly to triage the suffering- buffering with analgesic comforts of loved ones, binding with the transcendence of Love and Meaning. We can administer in a disciplined manner the healing potions of ongoing supports, meaning making, pushing through to do what needs to be done in the moment, and the equal task of attending to lower level needs without judgment until we are released to again attend to those higher level needs.
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<br /></span></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">And then the healing begins. </span></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">The pains of illness, wounds, financial setbacks, and the like, are surely challenges. However in the scope of the depths in Life, they are illusory in comparison to the invitation that Live and the Divine makes: </span></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">To focus on Love, on Meaning, on not judging but being Aware, on attending and protecting but not harming. </span></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">These are the themes on the Journey, whether it be a portion of the Journey filled with vacations or whether it be into the depths of Mordor to bear the ring unto the depths of the Earth. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> The Wierd Chickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08703676142476273603noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2246845916885347413.post-5838657450641679002009-09-13T14:05:00.001-07:002009-09-13T14:49:38.003-07:00Articles of TransformationSince about April of this year, I have been engaging in further exploration of gratitude as the motivation for my creations. I have been privileged to take part in a gathering of women who meets monthly for sharing in process, content, mystery, creation, and the transmutation of things. They have provided profoundly present and loving supports for my own work and recapitulation. This moved in me a sense of gratitude to give to them something in turn for what they have given me.<br /><br />What I have done with each is to take something/s that the woman loves but is at a loss to use it in its current incarnation.<br /><br />Mary had a bunch of beloved shirts that I transformed into a sexy sporty hippie ensemble.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQxrMTHZ_NUuWQWnltXejSzcR-SdWOnJX2plJ0nWt5y5neKuf5GgEDevKExBhmSoIlvJ_30rpGhSAGXe64mxeyYT_Cjvks9zTIGNvxzCTDKZ_KfAIEyDpPQPAgzFWr0qlEE7Oqs0C4cfde/s1600-h/MARY2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 242px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQxrMTHZ_NUuWQWnltXejSzcR-SdWOnJX2plJ0nWt5y5neKuf5GgEDevKExBhmSoIlvJ_30rpGhSAGXe64mxeyYT_Cjvks9zTIGNvxzCTDKZ_KfAIEyDpPQPAgzFWr0qlEE7Oqs0C4cfde/s320/MARY2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5381069371519465250" border="0" /></a><br /><br />The women have given me wonderful feedback: amazement at the skill/ideas, appreciation of the aesthetics, and reports of the compliments the work elicits.<br /><br />For Deborah, I took a necklace that she didn't wear anymore, dismantling it and refashioning it with copper, lapis, carnelian, mother of pearl, amazonite, garnet, chalcedony and glass (and other?) beads as well as with some copper wrapping and hand made findings. This piece is a tryptic and can be worn as necklace/s and/or bracelet/s or as a belt.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhD3bx_Sd6HlX99mzQpeZj1_I-mbd7hAMym_wNBNFPJRAaaFhXd6g11ge_NSbzLk-9RZmKx3KSSDfAxamRvRnW1ZKMLCFIJrJIa90kZnprw2y4iZwltwjw18z-EDYWWnkGoj_6jm11nNi2Z/s1600-h/IMG000120.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 123px; height: 170px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhD3bx_Sd6HlX99mzQpeZj1_I-mbd7hAMym_wNBNFPJRAaaFhXd6g11ge_NSbzLk-9RZmKx3KSSDfAxamRvRnW1ZKMLCFIJrJIa90kZnprw2y4iZwltwjw18z-EDYWWnkGoj_6jm11nNi2Z/s320/IMG000120.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5381069369415069874" border="0" /></a><br />This work has enabled me to recapitulate issues I have carried with me about art, creativity, what to 'do' with my abilities, and how to develop them (among other things).<br /><br />For Janel, I took a dear purse of her grandmother's and painted on the metallic art nouveau flower and swirls, then adding silver leaf to the gold for a 2 tone effect.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipjsXYrdrufi6hVO8yqWuo19gD4Qur4qX4z2b0CEYRwMwG1YmS_Re2xp5Ls1-XWkUROgM0ZGmzNs9d8o-M2FT3MfzodP1V3i2kOp-_3cZdngFDJco0Wy-k7rujO-m74xseiG5_Kve3EVzJ/s1600-h/IMG000225.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipjsXYrdrufi6hVO8yqWuo19gD4Qur4qX4z2b0CEYRwMwG1YmS_Re2xp5Ls1-XWkUROgM0ZGmzNs9d8o-M2FT3MfzodP1V3i2kOp-_3cZdngFDJco0Wy-k7rujO-m74xseiG5_Kve3EVzJ/s320/IMG000225.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5381069379062567666" border="0" /></a><br />Right now I am on a sabbatical, having created a couple of things for myself, and in the process of altering a couple of Indian Peasant clothing items.<br />I will soon resume my work for these ladies. 3 to go! After which, I plan to offer my service in energetic exchange to others. Anyone interested in some heirloom alchemy?The Wierd Chickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08703676142476273603noreply@blogger.com0