"Before I read your cut post, I would have pegged you as a Demeter-type - nurturing people sometimes to the point where you forget to nurture yourself, taking charge of a 'flock of chicks' to organize things (think netgoth in the past), creating a beautiful home and loving to welcome people into it."
I think I can identify with parts of both goddesses. I am very maternal in the Demeter aspect (though Artemis also brings another kind of protection). On the other side though, I tend to do the 'tough love' thing with friends sometimes where after giving what I thought I could I just had to walk away and let them screw things up and figure them out for themselves . . . I'm not sure if that approach would be very Demeter-like. Demeter also has a very dark aspect (making winter when her daugther is away). I'm not always the most positive of people and there are benefits gained from darkness, I'm just not sure if that's "me" or not.
I'm not really sold on anyone 100% which was why I was looking for people's ideas, thank you!
Interestingly enough, Kathy says that Artemis is her goddess. I never would have pegged us as being very similar but the longer I know her the more I can see it. Monday's class was much more talking and meditation and much less dancing, it was nice but also very odd. I'm now getting to know my classmates very well which is nice - I've missed having a close connection to the women I dance with :)
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I think I can identify with parts of both goddesses. I am very maternal in the Demeter aspect (though Artemis also brings another kind of protection). On the other side though, I tend to do the 'tough love' thing with friends sometimes where after giving what I thought I could I just had to walk away and let them screw things up and figure them out for themselves . . . I'm not sure if that approach would be very Demeter-like. Demeter also has a very dark aspect (making winter when her daugther is away). I'm not always the most positive of people and there are benefits gained from darkness, I'm just not sure if that's "me" or not.
I'm not really sold on anyone 100% which was why I was looking for people's ideas, thank you!
Interestingly enough, Kathy says that Artemis is her goddess. I never would have pegged us as being very similar but the longer I know her the more I can see it. Monday's class was much more talking and meditation and much less dancing, it was nice but also very odd. I'm now getting to know my classmates very well which is nice - I've missed having a close connection to the women I dance with :)
Congrats on this weekend's news, by the way! :)