on a mission from
Goddess

On one of the lists to which I belong, someone posted commentary on pagan worship that both the God and the Goddess should be honored.  The writer was of the opinion that many women, perhaps tired of patriarcal depictions of God or the God were content to worship only the Goddess.

Now, I don't consider myself a pagan.  I don't know what the hell I am anymore.  I've given up on labels since all they serve to do is put you in one sort of box or another.  I have long believed that each of us must formulate our own relationship with the Divine, despite what your church, synagogue, mosque or whatever has to say.  When you shuffle off the mortal coil there won't be anyone there but you to take the walk to the other side.

To be honest, though I could never much get into the faith foisted on me as a kid.  How could it be that nowhere in the trinity of divinity preached in my catholic church was there a strong female presence responsible in some part for creation?  And if men were responsible for creating life why the hell didn't men, not women, give birth?  Makes no sense.  Needless to say I was branded a bit of a heretic in my catholic high school.

However I do believe that both aspects of divinity are important.  In this world of duality in which we live both sides of the opposite pair are important.  What is light if you can't define it by darkness?  However, so much time, attention, devotion, worship has been centered on male energies, I think a little extra attention to the Goddess is in order.  Eventually those energies will balance out, but give it a moment.