I freely admit that when it comes to gracious holiday entertaining I’m no Martha Stewart. I’ve also never been to jail… And that’s a good thing. I tried to decorate for the Holidays this week. I started early because I know I’ll be too busy soon to even care about decorating. My son who is nine begged me to do it so I put him in charge of the décor. Together we planned a simple “natural” themed tableau for our dinning room. We bought a twenty-inch tall Christmas tree made of pinecones and natural materials. It looked very earthy and soothing in soft shades of brown. We added a cotton blanket to create drifts of snow and few tiny LED lights. I let my son set everything up expecting to see a calming miniature nature scene but the final effect was a bit shocking.
The shades of brown Christmas tree looked like an inverted waffle cone. The mounds of cotton looked like melted ice cream. We lit the tiny LED lights and they flashed and glowed under the cotton batting like lightening inside a storm cloud. The effect was very Pagan in feeling and looked more like Zeus dropped his ice cream cone than a tribute to baby Jesus. To add to the Pagan theme my son had added a ceramic howling wolf, a crystal bear and a deer-dancer Kachina doll to the to the thunder clouds-interesting but not very Christmasy. My husband saw it, loved it and insisted it stay.
Why fight it? Why not make it a Neo-Pagan holiday season? Aside from decorating, I started thinking of all the other needs I had that required divine intervention. Where is the Pagan god of WIPs? Don’t unborn creative projects deserve divine protection? Who will push these works in progress across the finish line? We need a god for this! What is their name so I may immediately start making the proper sacrifices on the altar of WIPs!
Who do we appeal to when we desperately need a decent book cover? Who? Amazingly the cover Goddess has no name and she deserves one. We must name her, honor her or face her wrath. Yes, we’ve all seen how wrathful the cover Goddess can be to the unfortunate… Many of us have felt her loving caress as well as her stinging slap (My first slap came with a picnic basket…. lol)
Must I say it-we also need a god or goddess of erotic description. Now and then most of us need a deity to step-in and stop us from unintentionally using embarrassing words and descriptions in sex scenes or worse freezing up and staring at an empty page for hours on end. How valuable would such a deity be? Hell they’ve already earned a goat in my heart. I suppose we can name this deity “Editoria.”
During this happy Neo-Pagan holiday season what god or goddess names should we christen with the hope of advancing our careers? Lol
XXOO Kat
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I like Editoria! :)
ReplyDeleteAnd your son has quite the imagination.
What's funny is I had gold angels and baby Jesus ready to go... But baby Jesus is always welcome in the living room too. lol
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The god or goddess of decent book covers? That's a question I asked myself for the longest time...found one with Resplendence! His name is....You'll have to wait and find out when you read my dedication.
ReplyDeleteCongratulation, you just helped create a memory for your son which will last a lifetime. Unfortunately the god of WIPs is He Who Has No Name.....
ReplyDeleteI'm setting up a shrine for Editoria immediately!
ReplyDeleteAs authors of fantasy, paranormality, and erotic romance we acknowledge the world around us and we use deities that have been accepted throughout history. Our own personal beliefs may not coincide with the pantheons we enlist in our writing, but we are free to indulge our art. I respect and appreciate all religions, whether Pagan, Christian, Judaic, Muslim,or eclectic. I believe your son's ideas are fabulous. You know that Christmas was switched by the Churches to December to coincide with the Pagan holidays of Mithrastide, Yuletide, and the Winter Solstice celebrations. When your ranks are filled up by formerly Pagan peoples with very definite and historical holidays, you incorporate those beliefs and holidays into your church calendar. That's called Ecumenism. And smart. LOL!
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