And in the meantime, Hestia links

Since as fiannaharpar pointed out, I’d mixed two different goddesses up. Hestia was actually the one I was after, not Hecate — whoops. *facepalm*

• Hestia: Goddess of the Hearth at Paleothea
• Hestia, Goddess of Hearth and Home at Angelfire
• Hestia at Apana
• Hestia at Messagenet
• Fast Facts on: Hestia at About.com
• Hestia, Greek Goddess of Hearth and Home at GoddessGift

For the record, these were the top reasonable-looking sites in a Google search for “Hestia goddess”. Now I can go back and check them out as I have time.

Funny how some say she is, and others insist she is not, the same as Vesta. Just out of curiousity, I may go looking for Vesta info, for compare/contrast purposes.

Then again, last week left me overall overwhelmed; things have settled some this week. I guess the real test is going to be this weekend. Spending time cooking with H. last night and not having things go nutty on us again was a mundane step in the right direction; now to continue that particular pattern rather than the ugly one we started with.

Magdalen

Picked up my own copy of Holy Blood, Holy Grail a few weeks ago, and slowly making my way through it. After all, most of the books kolys lent me last spring made reference back to this earlier work. (I also picked up The Woman with the Alabaster Jar at the same time.)

Various links with similar content:

• Holy Blood, Holy Tarot — Mostly interested in the background information on the top third of the page, rather than the tarot correlations, as well as the rest of the site.
• Magdalene.org
• Wikipedia has an entry for her
• As it does for Holy Blood, Holy Grail

More as I find it.

What is home?

Hecate has recently made appearances in a number of communities and other LJs I watch. I recall from a book that she was related to homes and the like. Anyone know of some resources I could check out?

I know it takes time to get comfortable in a new space, but…let’s just say this morning did not go so well, after a week of generally feeling inadequate. Maybe it’s the time of year, that I’m leaving before sunrise and getting home barely an hour before sunset; maybe it’s because it’s October (in which case, damn you, R, for still having this kind of hold over my emotional well-being FOUR YEARS LATER); maybe it’s not knowing how to deal with a cat that seems far more demanding than I realized.

I know I’ve got to get the physical side of things in shape; I’m looking for a sort of mental kick-start to help clear my head. Something that reminds me that I’m a little more generally capable of taking care of things than I’ve been feeling lately.

(Two things not helping: 1) Physical: It takes me FOREVER to prepare a meal on my own. This feeling has been intensified by having shared dinner-making duties with H for five months, which generally took less than half the time. Meh. 2) Spiritual: My altar faces the “wrong” way, compared to what I’m used to — old apartment faced south and east and got lots of light, new one faces mostly NE-ish, with two windows facing NW. Wah! No wonder I’m confused by the lack of light!)