Religion Founder Test

Via pathdancer
This was actually kind of interesting. The most intriguing question was whether, upon being told I had been accidentally placed in the wrong time, I would choose to be born 50 years in the past or in the future. I'm a bit pessimistic about the future right now, but upon reflection I decided I'd rather take my chances with the future than be born in the 1950's and have to grow up female and religiously independent in that culture.

Zoroaster You two would probably really get along!

Founder of Zoroastrianism "Taking the first footstep with a good thought the second with a good word and the third with a good deed I entered Paradise."

My test tracked 4 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender: You scored higher than 80% on Intuitive You scored higher than 99% on Structured You scored higher than 0% on Mildness You scored higher than 0% on Traditional

Link: The Religion Founder You Resemble Test written by Stinkbot on OkCupid Free Online Dating, home of the 32-Type Dating Test

I also found my statistical comparison interesting. Rated higher than most in both intuition and structure? Higher than no one on Mildness and Traditional? No wonder I have a hard time finding a 'perfect fit' with a religious or spiritual group.

Tightening Spirals: Earth

I'm doing a lot of inner work right now, and the common theme that continues to emerge is that my big Task at this time is to find the sacred in those parts of life which I have always dismissed as being mundane: homemaking, finances, body/fitness, job -- all those aspects of life which are traditionally associated with the element of Earth.

I had a hard time falling asleep last night (again) because I couldn't let go of the topic. I even got up shortly after I went to bed to sweep the kitchen and clear off the dining room table. At one point, after I was back in bed, I thought back to childhood, and my attitudes about home-tending, and I could almost feel my mind/spirit literally turn away in aversion and disdain.

I'm sure the root of all this is two-fold: my natual tendency toward the intellectual and abstract rather than the physical/material, and my self-conscious choice to emulate my father and his intellectual and professional lifestyle rather than my mother's traditional homemaker path. No one ever pointed out to be that there might be a way to balance and blend the virtues of both. It was yet another case of me dividing things into absolute either/or choices.

This is not the first time I have thought or written about this, but the importance of it, and the urgency continue to grow. The archetype work I've been doing fits into this in the concept of the Sovereign, who tends the realm, and provides structure, organization, and blessing. ("Queen of Pentacles" if I go to tarot symbolism.) The Lover belongs in here too, but the Sovereign has more 'juice' around this topic than the Lover. Or, speaking of tarot symbolism, I can use the Lover card as a symbol of the union of opposites, which in my mind is what this is all about: finding the sacred, the spiritual, the passionate, the creative in those parts of life I have always dismissed as tedious, uninteresting, and to be avoided if at all possible.

Unfortunately, avoidance only ends up wreaking havoc with my environment, resources, and health. It is not a workable life strategy anymore. And I would rather transform my relationship with these facets of life and learn to celebrate and be nurtured by them rather than grit my teeth and resign myself to martyrdom.

The other aspect of this is that there is only so much time in a day, and if -- as has become very clear -- I need to spend more time taking care of my hearth and health, I'm going to need to find a way to also use that time for spiritual work. I don't have time to separate my spirituality into it's own set-aside place. And really, what good is a personal spirituality that can't be found or expressed in the most mundane parts of life? I realize that that's hardly an original observation, but this is the first time it's made gut sense and had real urgency for me.

Query

Have any of you read The DaVinci Code?

If so, do you think that I would like it?