Building Spirits
This is a question mostly for you people who work/live/study/etc in and around big buildings, even if you aren't Pagan. Is there any large building that you regularly encounter that you feel has a gender? As an example I'll describe my feelings of the University of Kansas engineering complex
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I think some part of the feeling may be the general human tendency to make non human things seem human, but then, that doesn't (at least for me) explain the building-ness. They don't have any gender, to me. Nor a third gender, they just are.
But there's something there, for sure. Similarly to the way some places have their own presence.
Some suburban homes have it, but I get it more with the larger more complex buildings.
Also with vehicles. It's pretty intoxicating for me to be near a train engine or especially a big jet liner. They are workhorses, they know it, and they want to do what they were built to. Airplanes fairly scream with joy when they take off.
And things like train engines and steam engines really get excited when they are starting up and when they are doing what they need. I have to keep from crying with joy when I'm near so I don't look crazy ;p Same goes for when I'm in a jetliner and it's takeoff.
Standing by at a train crossing when a big freight train barrels past going at full power is intense.
I'm getting goodbumps and some tears just writing about it :O
And it's not just one part that is the presence, it's the sum of whole. Engines, gears and so on.
I've been in trains before and had my headphones on with trance booming, and really connected with the train, as it was tearing down the tracks. Marvelous feeling. DJ Tiesto's 'Urban Train' has the energy, though I don't know if Tiesto intended it that way ;)
Buses have it too, but it's more mild mannered. Just going about their business, doing it. Greyhounds and such have more energy, I suppose this is becuase they're 'long haul' vehicles.
(I 'get along' great with computer too. lol)
I never went looking for this sort of thing, it's just how it's always been, right from childhood.
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