Working with Golden, Brazen Inanna

[qos]

While Ereshkigal has not given up an inch of Her authority over me, I have been encouraged more and more to work with Inanna. Ereshkigal grounds me, but it's Inanna who seems to be the one who will be helping me manifest necessary change in my professional, vocational, and creative life in the outer world.

Last night we had our first talk in quite a while. It boiled down to two strong suggestions from her: Be golden. Be brazen

"Golden" is a frequent epithet of goddesses of love, passion and beauty. Inanna wants me to allow the life force and sexual energy to course through me and make me "golden." She wants me to take joy in living, laugh more, allow my light to shine.

"Being brazen" is about internalizing Inanna's own disregard for convention. My place is on the edge, and I need to have the nerve to stand there and make my presence felt without fear of sanction. If I go too far into any one community, or trying to meet the expectations of a community rather than be true to my own sensibilities and sense of mission, I end up losing myself and forsaking the context of my gifts. Inanna belonged everywhere and nowhere. So did/does The Journeyer.

I need to be a golden, brazen, edgewalker.

Comments

[tamyris.livejournal.com]

Would you consider working your thoughts as expressed in this post, into a longer article for my Inanna/Ereshkigal devotional? I don't have very much for Inanna and I am struck by the word "brazen" with Her. :)
Galina

[shadowandstar.livejournal.com]

Hi - sorry I didn't respond to you sooner. Life has been in a bit of an uproar since I received a lay-off notice and am getting ready to move. . .

I am definitely interested in writing a piece, but I won't have the time/energy to do so for another couple of weeks (post-move).

I'm also way behind on creating material for my own Ereshkigal devotional.

What are your deadlines?

[tamyris.livejournal.com]

If you could get me something by end of June, that would be great.

And no worries about the late response, i understand completely how life can intervene. LOL.

[shadowandstar.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

I don't think I have a link to the submission guidelines. Can you send it to me?

[tamyris.livejournal.com]

i'm very, very open. Make it as long or short as you want. I cannot include internal illustration though, unfortunately (it drives up the cost of the book too much)

[youxia.livejournal.com]

"She wants me to take joy in living, laugh more, allow my light to shine."

So say we all. ;)

[oakmouse]

You go girl!

So what kind of work will support and empower this?

[shadowandstar.livejournal.com]

That's an excellent question, one to which I don't have an immediate answer. I've printed off the email with the question to keep it top of mind.

[oakmouse]

This is one of the reasons I love working with you. You take seed thoughts and run with them. *g*

Interesting

[purplevenus.livejournal.com]

I have for the last month or so been working with my "divine spark" whom I have taken to calling "Golden", in an effort to become more alchemically golden myself, and therefore transform the other parts of my life.
It is the one epithet all my closest deities have in common, Aphrodite, Hathor, Freyja, Oshun, and yes, even Eros.
Its nice to see I am not alone, and the Golden in me recognizes the Golden in you.