Ereshkigal Devotional

[qos]

It's only been during the last few weeks that I've begun to realize just how significantly my grief over LM has had an impact on things like my priestess training and my work (or, more properly lack of work) on the Ereshkigal devotional. Now that the pain and the gray veil have lifted almost entirely, I can see how much energy it took to grieve and to just keep going.

Since sannion has stepped down from his leadership positions in Neos Alexandrina, I'm working with a new editor. I was worried that it would be hard to work with someone new, but so far he's been great. Filling him in on my status brought this project back to the center of my attention, and I asked him if he could help me set a series of short-term goals to bring this to completion. I'd feel bad about not asking Sannion for this assistance earlier, but I don't think it would have done any good. Ironically, I had to climb out of the underworld before I could put in the serious work on the devotional to the Queen of the Underworld. Call it my graduate thesis. ;-)

Or maybe not a wink. Maybe that's exactly what it's supposed to be. Maybe, aside from my own energy issues, I needed to experience the whole cycle myself before I could bring the project to fruition.

Jeremy is concerned that I don't have enough material yet, so here's one more call to you or anyone you know to share poems, fiction, rituals, personal experiences and prayers honoring The Queen of the Great Below.

Comments

[alfrecht.livejournal.com]

Glad to hear it's progressing!

Have you talked with either amara_m or julianhill? Both of them are Ereshkigal folk...

I would volunteer to write more, but I'm pretty much tapped out as far as Herself goes (not to mention over-committed on other things...)...

[shadowandstar.livejournal.com]

I contacted both of them after our conversation a few months ago, but need to reach out again.

No worries on further contributions. I appreciate all that you've already done.

[watcher457.livejournal.com]

Let me see if I can engage my brain on one project long enough to look over that first piece I told you about. It's kind of long, but it needs serious editing (I wrote most of it in trance).

[shadowandstar.livejournal.com]

It actually read pretty well -- but feel free to do edits if you'd like.

[watcher457.livejournal.com]

Oh, no, this is something else. I wrote a longer, different one, something utterly different. I could just put it together and send it to you, but it really needs to be edited.

[shadowandstar.livejournal.com]

Ooh! I hadn't realized that. Yea!
Please do send it to me asap.

[sekhmetkare.livejournal.com]

Thanks for this update. I've been wondering for a while when/if you were going to send the paperwork, etc. that you had mentioned would go out to the contributors, but I didn't like to keep bothering you. I figured you had a few other things on your mind, and if She REALLY got impatient about it, She'd let you know... ;-)

[dangerousface.livejournal.com]

Hi, what's the cut-off for submissions? I've been Told to write for this. :)

[shadowandstar.livejournal.com]

Great!

Could you get it to me in the next two to three weeks?

If you haven't seen it yet, details are here in the official Call for Submissions:
http://www.neosalexandria.org/erishkigal_devotional.htm

[dangerousface.livejournal.com]

Certainly can..thanks a bunch!