Last night was the celebration of the first of the new festivals on my calendar, the Hermaia Enodia which honors Hermes in his role as god of the roads
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Interesting to see your thoughts on the Enodia.... I definitely could see this festival as having an esoteric and exoteric version - perhaps the esoteric/mystic version covering the full six days, and the more traditional exoteric version being on just one day, the way you did it.
I myself did not end up doing the amount of intense mystical work I had planned, because for once my gods told me to lay off. After days of fighting it, I finally accepted last night, immediately after which Hermes communicated a lot of stuff to me that I had been struggling with, that will lead to a deeper relationship with him. Just goes to show, you should listen to the gods even when they go against your natural instincts. :)
Btw, I too have had years of trouble trying to relate to Aphrodite - not so much about her image, but I guess it's about the image of love I *thought* she represented. Once I backed up and re-approached her within the context of *my* conceptions of love and sexuality and all of that, it got much easier.
Glad to hear you spent your festival resting up a bit, just from what I've been reading on your LJ sounds like its been a little rough lately.
I intend to get involved with more mystical work one of these days in the very near future, but aside from some very intense moments here and there, none of which were ever initiated by me, I'm not quite in that place yet. I feel strongly that I will be one day, but at this moment in time I got a million other things going on in my spiritual development. When I am in that place, maybe then I can fully appreciate the full scope of this festival. I still had fun with it though.
Good to hear I'm not the only one with Aphrodite troubles. I guess when so many people seemingly have the same idea of what love and beauty is, its easy to then to come to the conclusion that, since that's always the way she's talked about, that's all there is to her. I guess love and beauty come in many forms and our respective ideas count too.
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I myself did not end up doing the amount of intense mystical work I had planned, because for once my gods told me to lay off. After days of fighting it, I finally accepted last night, immediately after which Hermes communicated a lot of stuff to me that I had been struggling with, that will lead to a deeper relationship with him. Just goes to show, you should listen to the gods even when they go against your natural instincts. :)
Btw, I too have had years of trouble trying to relate to Aphrodite - not so much about her image, but I guess it's about the image of love I *thought* she represented. Once I backed up and re-approached her within the context of *my* conceptions of love and sexuality and all of that, it got much easier.
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I intend to get involved with more mystical work one of these days in the very near future, but aside from some very intense moments here and there, none of which were ever initiated by me, I'm not quite in that place yet. I feel strongly that I will be one day, but at this moment in time I got a million other things going on in my spiritual development. When I am in that place, maybe then I can fully appreciate the full scope of this festival. I still had fun with it though.
Good to hear I'm not the only one with Aphrodite troubles. I guess when so many people seemingly have the same idea of what love and beauty is, its easy to then to come to the conclusion that, since that's always the way she's talked about, that's all there is to her. I guess love and beauty come in many forms and our respective ideas count too.
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