First, an announcement: as of today, January 1st 2013, I will no longer be available to answer either seidhr or divination questions along the lines of "Does Deity X (fill in the blank, but Loki and Odin are the usual suspects) want to marry me/sleep with me/date me?" or even, "What does Deity X want from me?" in which the unspoken subtext is, "Does He/She want to marry me?" Once again, any seidhr questions or reading requests that follow some variation on this pattern will be refused, and a link to this post given.
Read this. Please. The author knows of what she speaks.
Very deep, thank you for sharing, Elizabeth~
I feel the same weight holding “the Daughter of Isis” title….There is comfort, love, and passion pondering it, but there is so much more when it comes to that. No matter if you’re a godspouse, priest/ess, or a child of a god/dess.
There is ripping-raw pain work involved with it, from your very foundations be shaken and torn, to being rebuilt with some stumbles, cranks and falls. Just to continue this far and further as well.
It is painful, but it’s a passionate dedication of love that I am willing, and many are willing to do.
At least the Internet isn’t overrun with people wanting to be a daughter or son of a deity, the way it seems to be overrun with people wanting to be a godspouse in a few easy steps
Beth’s been at the godspouse thing longer than I have, and I can only imagine what kind of email queries spurred the writing of this post. I’m glad she spoke up, though. It needed to be said.
And also too, being in service, not only to the Gods and Goddess, but to our personal missions that….awaken, inspire and reshape people and Ages…That was another part that just came to me..
The thing is, though, that service isn’t something you get to determine is best for either the gods or for other humans. You have to serve according to the needs of others, not what you want or feel is best, and that takes a lot of dialing back of one’s ego that many people, frankly, are not willing to do.
True words. Thanks for posting this! It’s refreshing to hear some plain talk about this particular subject.
I know I was refreshed, heh!
Thank you. Thank you so much for sharing this, because I needed to read this part:
“[E]verytime you feel your heart begin to close against Them even the tiniest bit–through anger, complacency, disappointment, pain, or any other cause–you will need to willfully rip it open again in any way you can, once more offering Them the core of who you are, laid bare and bloodied before Them; and this is not something you will have to do once or twice but repeatedly, every time that wound begins to scab over again. [...] But this raw openness allows your Beloved direct access to your heart–which is no longer, strictly speaking, yours but Theirs–and if you love Them, if you truly love Them, if your commitment was made cleanly and for all the right reasons, then the results of this painful process will be a source of unending joy for you that I cannot even begin to describe.”
Glad to point the way, then
I’ve always felt that being a godspouse isn’t necessarily a mark of love or favor so much as potential, and with potential there’s always the risk that someone can’t give as much as is needed. I wouldn’t bash anybody who chose to say no to a god’s proposal (I know one person who has) nor who subsequently chose to be released from their oath (I know one of those, too.) As with all spiritual paths, the choice to continue is at least as important as the choice to embark.
I really think this nails it hard. Some very deep truths are spoken in this piece and I for one am very glad to know the author of the blog and I am thrilled to see it being shared so widely.
Thanks for sharing this Elizabeth
It needed to be broadcast far and wide!
Agreed Elizabeth! 1000% Thank you for sharing it too. There are some statements that just NEED to go Viral, this is one of them IMO
Thank you for the reblog, Elizabeth; I’m honored
Thanks for writing it! I’m honored to bring it to people’s attention. I hope they listen!