amyth has been preparing for the Zombie Apocalypse her whole life. I'm sure she'd be a valuable consultant.

Congrats to GlamFam and can't wait to see pics of Shane!

~ma to all those who need it.

I'll only get to enjoy my (free) Xmas tree for a few days, but it smells so good! And my roommate will be home, since she's working over the holidays, so she'll get to enjoy it. It takes up half the dining room! Related note: I need more lights. It's decorated with 2/3 medium-sized LED lights and 1/3 tiny regular lights.

Hivemind question: Even though I'm not dancing, I bought gifts for my troupe, mostly b/c I found beautiful and cheap ornaments - blown glass with feather(s) inside. Like these: [link] Anyway, another former member who quit a couple of years ago is coming to hang out with us tonight, unexpectedly, which means I have no gift for her. I don't expect a gift from her, but I have a couple of my gifts left to give and hate to not give her anything. The store is out of the ornaments and has nothing else nearly as cool. However, I did buy one for myself.

Do I:

• Suck it up and give her mine, though I love it dearly (but it's just a thing)
  
• Go to Ten Thousand Villages and see what I find
  
• Not worry about it and just give her a card

I also need to pack , buy kitty litter, go by the post office, and drive 20 min between 5:15 and 7:30 tonight.

Is the light the male energy, or is there additional male energy that returns with the solstice?

Yes. The Sun represents the God energy, while the Moon embodies the Goddess. As the sun returns, so does the God.

The Goddess kissed him goodbye (there are many variations of his leaving, including some unpleasant ones) during the Summer Solstice. Now, it is his time to shine again.

I think sunlight is male energy

Does that mean female energy is waning? What is the female energy? Or just that there was a lack of male? Yin and yang? Or yang and less yang?

So, because my normal schedule is to always have Friday off, and they want to give everyone a holiday, today is my compensation day off.

..Except that they called a mandatory meeting for 6 this morning.

I live an hour away from work, that meant that I would have had to get up at 4 to get cleaned up to go in for a one hour meeting on my day off.

I pled insanity (I didn't specify whose) and they decided to have a second meeting for 2nd shift at 2:30 today.

I still have to drive 100 miles round trip in a snowstorm, and it is still my "holiday" and I have to shovel the 2 inches of new snow that fell overnight.

Oh yes, and pick up my medications on my way out of town, because I might not be able to get back in time to do so afterward, although I bet I will.

Does that mean female energy is waning?

Does female energy wax and wane with lunar cycles?

Not worry about it and just give her a card

I think this is fine. You bought gifts for the troupe, she's not in it anymore, no big deal.

Those ornaments are beautiful, by the way.

DCJ, I would call out sick. That's totally unreasonable.

I just checked my work email and I can infer they they are putting time constraints on support calls.

Wonderful.

Or just that there was a lack of male? Yin and yang?

Exactly this. Both energies are constructive and destructive. Without balance, there is chaos. So they share equally in the turning of the wheel of the year. t [link]

Depending on which brand of Paganism, to which you ascribe, one energy may hold dominance in your heart. (Willow being a noted Wiccan...very female focused) But, in essence, you can't have one without the other.

Does female energy wax and wane with lunar cycles?

Or just that there was a lack of male? Yin and yang?

Exactly this.

Actually, I was viewing those as different. Male and female, or male and lack of male. Yin and yang, or yang and less yang.