Actual Content. .

Hmmm. . . There have been more than the usual number of quizzes and comics recently. Maybe I should try to post some actual content.

I've been doing a lot of processing of what happened at Pantheacon, and getting back on track with my daily spiritual practice.

I've started doing actual research for my book on Ereshkigal, which has been very satisfying.

I have four applications out for jobs in my current company, including the one still on hold. One of the hiring managers is actively interviewing now, but one of my friends works in her group and has strongly urged her to contact me. Also, Dave has called her boss's boss to pitch me. So I'll at least have the opportunity to try for it. There's hasn't been any contact on the other two jobs.

Now that I've settled into my practice again, work is somewhat less painful than it had been right after P-con, but I've received a couple of definite messages that now is the time to make changes.

To that end, I've also decided to put together a three-hour "Intro to Tarot" class to teach at local venues. I've had good success with teaching tarot informally. Time to leverage that. I also have pushed to the top of the To Do list the task: "Put testimonials into brochure and take to print shop" for my spiritual direction practice. There is no reason but inertia for me to not get that done.

I'm also enjoying corresponding with an old boyfriend with whom I've reconnected after 10 years. It's been interesting to get to know each other again. I'm going to drive a hundred miles or so in a couple of weeks to see him in a play and hang out, and I'm looking forward to it.

More Employment Insights

The conversation with Ereshkigal about my job has been very much on my mind, prompting the submission of several applications for new positions at my current place of employment as well as stepping up the urgency of getting my vocational work (spiritual direction, teaching, tarot reading) out there on the market.

I did have a couple of additional insights, however. The most important was that relenquishing my current position to Ereshkigal -- a job I have never particularly liked -- is not the same as relenquishing being employed, and that it's often the case that you have to let go of one thing before you can pick up something else. Also: letting go of my current job, instead of clinging to it with a death grip for the security, opens up a channel for energy to move toward change.


Note to self: still need to have a chat with the spirit of my company and see if that's a relationship I want to pursue. Another insight from teriel and dragonscholar was that you can sometimes promote change in the workplace with the assistance of the company's egregore. I've been a very good employee (despite my discontent), winning several performance awards. Even so, I could make a much more significant contribution elsewhere. Perhaps the company spirit would be interested in helping me move into a more productive job?

Clue-by-Four, Much?

I'm frustrated and blocked at my day job, but two publishers have already asked me to consider them when I'm ready to market my Ereshkigal book. This is in addition to the folks at my P-Con class who urged me to publish on that topic.

My oldest dream is to be a published author, and my primary resolution this year was to do just that. Looks like the universe agrees with me.

Time to step things up in that area.

To Do This Weekend

1. Drop a couple of testimonials into the brochure for my spiritual direction practice and get it printed.

2. Re-read Tivka Frymer-Kensky's In the Wake of the Goddesses to refresh/refine my understanding of gender, politics and religion in the ancient Near East.

3. Finish unpacking by getting all my files out of boxes, organizing them, and putting them away.

4. Ritual time with Ereshkigal and LM.

5. Step out my front door, walk fifty feet, and use the weight machines in the free fitness center. It doesn't have to be a long workout, I just have to do it.


That's not an unreasonable list for a weekend, is it?