A while back, I went to CAYA‘s Harvest Home celebration, out at the Stone City Pagan Sanctuary.

Way out in the middle of nowhere, we were. It was hot. It was dusty. On the upside, there were more stars than I think I’ve ever seen, and standing stones, and an amazing Aphrodite shrine.

See? Middle of nowhere. But yet, in the midst of this I managed to find…yarn.

After all, what’s a festival without vendors? Silly me, I didn’t even think to wonder if Purlescence would be there, but of course I couldn’t resist the lure of the wonderful yarn. The majority of work I was doing that weekend involved two very opposite Goddesses, and I wanted to work on some socks dedicated to them. And of course, I couldn’t buy yarn for one of them without buying yarn for the other…

This is what I’m calling the Morrigan yarn. The Morrigan ritual at Harvest Home was amazingly powerful, and I’m so glad I got to go.  It was very inspiring. (And perhaps the Celtic pantheon is finally speaking to me? Hooray!)

Of course, I’ve also been working with Aphrodite. Dragging my feet about it much of the way, but I’m getting there. The Aphrodite ritual was another amazingly powerful one, and really amazing. Given some of what’s going on since I’ve gotten back, I think it kicked off quite a bit of energy in my life!

Of course, the this always comes back to how I balance the two…the Morrigan and Aphrodite aren’t exactly the best of friends, and but both types of energy are important to me. I’m clearly not getting rid of Aphrodite (she has proven quite resistant to such attempts) but I’m not going to become all fuzzy sweetness and light, either.

Then, of course, there’s the matter of finding time to knit the socks….