Claiming the Siren

Recently I did some research concerning the Sirens of Greek myth. In doing so I was looking for name references mostly. I came across the name "Ligeia" and have decided to adopt it.

I figure myself as a Siren partially because of one of my professions. I have for many years worked as an exotic dancer. I love to dance and enjoy the exercise. I feel I've perfected my art to some degree in my years of maintaining this profession. Most often it is remarked upon my style of dancing and my eyes. I am a rather spirited sort and when I dance I really put myself into it.

As for my eyes they have a drawing and captivating effect, so I've been told. I have "big brown eyes" and I use them to my advantage as much as possible.

And so I came to the conclusion that much as I am, I am like a modern day Siren...luring men's wallets to their deaths, and all too good to be true - for all my sweetness I am not precisely what you make take me for - at your peril...

Reflections on Water....

There is a sort of preternatural glow outside, the snow thick in a blanket across the earth makes the night not quite so dark.

Today the Moon is Full and in the sign of Leo. An interesting combination of Water & Fire. I am reading through my path book and the pictures/notes that I've made in the entry dedicated to the Path of Water / Love. I listen to Sleepthief's "Tenuous"...

My pages feature scenes of water, of a Greek maiden with a lyre and a black bird, pouring a bowl of water. Words: "The Circle Unbroken", "Choosing Joy", and "to change". "My laugh lines echo the years of happiness my heart has enjoyed", "to Dare...", "love". The quote "Everything that I understand, I understand only because I love." by Leo Tolstoy. "I can see into a person's heart by looking into her eyes" (I have to say I fully agree with that because the eyes are the window into the soul and while we may mask our faces in stoicism, our eyes will ever betray our emotions.) "What comes around.goes around.comes around. hello again."

To me this path is about love and family, joy, and happiness. It's about love of all things, unconditionally. Perhaps that is part of why I am feeling called to work with this one first. Unconditional love is a concept that I, even as a healer with a desire to help all, struggle with. There are still those that I have no desire or wish to be around, but on the other hand I would not deny someone who came to me honestly in need of help. It's a strange sort of thing it seems.

Another strange thing about this path - I am a water sign, astrologically speaking, but I don't feel as though I am. I have no real connection to the physical element of water. I can't swim and don't like the beach. I am so-so with rain - I prefer a warm rain (but I also just don't like to be cold). I find myself to be very intuitive and relatively psychic, though I think I could be more in tune with it. Perhaps that is why I feel the disconnection with water, there is one. I recently took an astrology class and it was posed to me that often the elements we have enough of we shun or shy away from. So perhaps in having such a strong water connection that is why I yearn for the other elements so.

Water has the ability to nurture, as the rains that feed the Earth and our own bodies, or cleanse in the showers we take and that fall to Earth to wash away debris. Water also may come as a torrential downpour, flooding and destroying. Drenching us.

Various water totems come to mind: Crocodile, Hippopotamus, Dolphin, Shark, Squid, Octopus, any and all sea creatures and some amphibious ones such as Frog and Salamander and Newt. Reading through some information concerning the Crocodile from my path book there is mentioning of primordial wisdom and knowledge and the proper use of such knowledge. I know I have a tendency towards extremes and that I will often swing wildly in one direction (either being spiritual or mundane).

Water God/desses: Yemaya, Oshun, the Naiads, Nereids, Oceanids. Poseidon, Amphitrite, and His many sons. Tiamat is also related to the primordial waters. Then there are the many River Gods of Greek Myth, Sirens, and the Kappa of the Japanese. I find for the most part no real draw towards the water deities/spirits except for Yemaya, the Sirens, and various nymphs in general.

Beginning the Path of Water

As they say, there's no time like the present. And now I believe it's finally time - I can feel the energies aligning themselves and I hear that old familiar call. I feel my psychism really opening up - which is great because it's something I've been wanting to work with and yet kept finding myself not doing so and being irritated by my lack of progress.

The Full Moon is Saturday and will be in Leo - but more than that is the fact that the Moon will have risen to Her fullness and Her energies will be high. Coupled with Leo they will be creative and inspire and full of firing.

In the last 2 months I've taken some classes that have led me to some exposure of psychic peoples, those interested in it, and the use of my talents and energies (particularly in the Tarot and astrology). Water, the feminine, the Moon, and intuition are all inextricably linked in most mythologies. There is also a link between dreams and these things - for dreams can be windows into the other world, the un & subconscious and answers and clarity may be sought there. I woke this morning with this message from a dream:

our dreams are connected to us as a tail (at the back of our bodies at the sacral chakra) to show where we've been. further up we have what we've pulled up from them, our desires manifesting (around the midsection/lower ribs sometimes that part isn't there yet because we haven't acted yet - but our dreams are also a connection to the Other world

All in all, it's time, I'm ready. I feel a lot of things in flux and changing and soon there will be a quick movement of energies and things pick up speed...that is okay and now is the time to just be like water and "go with the flow".