What I Did On My Afternoon Non-Vacation

[kiya]

I've been intermittently cranky in the 'I need to do more stuff' way for a while, which has been sort of aggravating. I checked the stoop to see if the parcel wordweaverlynn was sending me had arrived -- it hasn't, I'm suspecting the Post Office ate it -- and saw a big box, which would be the cabinet I ordered.

So I spent the afternoon putting it together, which included calling teinedreugan and asking him where the drill/screwdriver was and intermittent commentary to people on IRC. (I opened the initial box after I got it inside, and it was full of parts and a smaller box marked, "Do not open with sharp object!" Okay then.) Then I set up the small shrine. This is sort of the skeleton draft of it -- the potpourri bowl will be replaced with an oil diffuser when I have a good oil diffuser; I want a more active scenting process in Bast's honor. (Eventually, there will be icons, but that is the longer road.) There was some aggravation when I determined (after cleaning up the fountain and making sure it worked after its period of disuse) that the best plug for plugging it into did not provide power. We make do. The fountain is soothing, damnit.

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[morningwind.livejournal.com]

Bast and Brighid? Okay, my curiosity has been piqued!

I've actually found that Nuit works well in my oil diffuser -- better than on my skin, certainly. As for Bast, two scents that I think She might like are Bastet and The Lion; I don't actually own an imp of The Lion yet, but a friend let me borrow a dab, and I approve. *grins* I'd like to find more spicy amber scents for Her, as they strike me as the type She would enjoy, but that's just my personal take on it.

[kiya]

Nuit is the one that makes me smell like a girl. :} It amuses me. I'll keep those in mind -- having some dedicated things for the shrine space seems a good idea, and so! Variety! Spicy amber feels right to me too, conceptually.

Basically, I started having this nagging feeling that I should have what amounts to a hearthfire shrine. If I were Greek it'd be a Hestia shrine, y'know? So I'm thinking about Who to set up the shrine to, and I chew on it a while, and get, "Bast! Protection of the house of the Pharaoh which generalised over time, guardian of women and children, this all sounds right. I will set it up to Bast." And then my backbrain threw at me, "And Brighid!" And I said, "... what?" And my backbrain said, "Bast! Set it up to Bast and Brighid!" (This makes sense; Brighid does govern the hearthfire as the center of the family activity and stands as midwife, but buh?)

My current best guess is that this has to do with arawen, who is Brighid's. If I set up a family-focused shrine to just my gods, that would exclude him semi-tacitly, which is unacceptable to me. So this is the way my backbrain solves the problem. Also, the two ladies in question are dealing with different aspects of the thing in somewhat different ways, so it's a more complete matter that way.

I spent a goodly while talking to various folks who know Brighid to make sure nobody thought there'd be personality conflicts, though. :}