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Dec. 8th, 2004 06:50 amBean wondered if I'm a maiden, mother, or crone.
First there's the fact that I feel a little weird about a categorization that sorts women based on their reproductive status. I know it's deeper than that, but that is the basis for the symbolism, and I think it's a little limited. I don't think I fit neatly (or consistently, if you'd rather) into one categorization. Some days I feel very playful and maideny, some days when working with my grove I think I'm more mothery (it's my baby), some days all full of wisdom and croney. So it depends on the day (hell, sometimes it changes by the hour). I can't even say which I do more often. Some days I feel ways that don't really fit into any of those categories unless you really over-rationalize it. Heck even basic astrology doesn't cover all the kinds of humans with it's 12 categories- you have to start looking at Moon signs and stuff to rationalize that. :)
Mercedes Lackey threw in another category, warrior. Yeah, I can see that, but it still doesn't cover it all. I don't think the guys have it much better. Sometimes they only get 2- bright lord and dark lord. Warrior, father and sage is one way I've heard it; again- I don't think every guy goes through a warrior stage. Lackey did a rover, guardian, hunter, and guide. These are interesting. I'll paste where I'm getting this from below, and though it's fiction it's pretty well established that Mercedes Lackey is pagan and if she doesn't use this symbolism in her personal work I'd be very surprised.
Anyway, I don't know. There's a lot of myth and psychology that tries to lay out a list of developmental categories or milestones people go through; sometimes they build on each other (you can't get to b until you've been through a), or sometimes they're more categories of characterization each with their own challenges or lessons ([whatever you are]s were put on this earth to do x and they won't be fulfilled until they do that in one form or another). Then there's just straight categorization (Myers Briggs, etc). It all has grains of truth, but I don't think any of them have the whole story. Big surprise, huh?
Anyway, why am I awake?
( that song what I was referring to )
First there's the fact that I feel a little weird about a categorization that sorts women based on their reproductive status. I know it's deeper than that, but that is the basis for the symbolism, and I think it's a little limited. I don't think I fit neatly (or consistently, if you'd rather) into one categorization. Some days I feel very playful and maideny, some days when working with my grove I think I'm more mothery (it's my baby), some days all full of wisdom and croney. So it depends on the day (hell, sometimes it changes by the hour). I can't even say which I do more often. Some days I feel ways that don't really fit into any of those categories unless you really over-rationalize it. Heck even basic astrology doesn't cover all the kinds of humans with it's 12 categories- you have to start looking at Moon signs and stuff to rationalize that. :)
Mercedes Lackey threw in another category, warrior. Yeah, I can see that, but it still doesn't cover it all. I don't think the guys have it much better. Sometimes they only get 2- bright lord and dark lord. Warrior, father and sage is one way I've heard it; again- I don't think every guy goes through a warrior stage. Lackey did a rover, guardian, hunter, and guide. These are interesting. I'll paste where I'm getting this from below, and though it's fiction it's pretty well established that Mercedes Lackey is pagan and if she doesn't use this symbolism in her personal work I'd be very surprised.
Anyway, I don't know. There's a lot of myth and psychology that tries to lay out a list of developmental categories or milestones people go through; sometimes they build on each other (you can't get to b until you've been through a), or sometimes they're more categories of characterization each with their own challenges or lessons ([whatever you are]s were put on this earth to do x and they won't be fulfilled until they do that in one form or another). Then there's just straight categorization (Myers Briggs, etc). It all has grains of truth, but I don't think any of them have the whole story. Big surprise, huh?
Anyway, why am I awake?
( that song what I was referring to )
