Project Null: Intro/Week 1 Summary: Themes in (P)review

How many colons in your title?! Yeah, I thought so.

There was supposed to be an intro post, before I started doing any of this shit. In it I would have discussed my overarching goals, history with chaos magick, issues with agency/Will, a smidge of feminist theory, and my Saturn return.

Without further digression, then.

Super-Long Intro

Overarching Goals:

Get my brain in order. Fix my life. Change shit up. Tear it down. Rebuild. Push some buttons. Clear some air. Dig deeper. Climb higher.

Spend time at the edges without completely losing my center. Alternately, lose the center. Re-define the center.

the gendered politics of sacrifice

I'm torn between my desire to write about this, as a theoretical exercise, and my aversion to any tendency towards policing individual choice. I will settle with a bit of disclaimer before I begin.

I have no interest in policing choices or identities. Literally none. Exploring the cultural contexts of those choices does not translate into criticism of individual choices or spiritual practice.

Few of us come to paganism, or any "alternative" spiritual or cultural identities, without some awareness of the archetypes that precede us. We may embrace them, flirt with them, or eschew them entirely, but we know them. In some ways our identities are bordered by these archetypes - providing inspiration, condemnation, or some mix of the two.