The Meme: Day 02 – Your first love/2. Beliefs - Cosmology

[witchscauldron]

My first love

Absolutely, unequivocably - horses. Horses were my abiding passion from a v ery young age. We couldn't ever afford a horse, or even lessons, but we moved so much even if we had the money I wouldn't have gotten one. I remember getting sporadic chances to ride until I was about 13, when I took a steady string of lessons for a couple years with a local stable. I worked at the stable on weekends to pay for half of my lessons, and enjoyed every second. When my parents' couldn't afford to pay their half anymore I started volunteering with the local pony club. I didn't ride much, but rather did a lot of teaching to the little ones, and a lot of craft activities. I was definetely a barn rat.

I broke my tailbone learning to jump, the summer I turned 15. I fell hard, heard it crack, and laughed like a madman until I got back on the horse. I totally freaked out my instructor. My Dad doesn't believe in seeing doctors for anything...just told me to walk it off. Never saw anyone about it. Just sat on a donut for a couple months and got on with life. Apparently it didn't heal well, and had broken in a very bad way. When I broke it again in university, I got told I could never ride a horse again (amongst other things). I haven't ridden in years, but it still breaks my heart.

What always kept me going was the animals. I feel as if I've always had a way with them, and they're one of those animals that you either get, or you don't. I've spent time with a horse's head lying in my lap, standing asleep, face first into their shoulder, watching them taking their first steps, sadly taking their last. Wouldn't trade it for anything.

I still ask for a pony every Christmas, since I was 3.




Beliefs - Cosmology

I am poking my angry brainmeats trying to make it spit out words. Not getting enough sleep for thinking, apparently.

From a physical cosmology standpoint, I've got no problem with the 'Big Bang' theory. Works just fine for me. I also tend to believe in the existence of a Multiverse structure.

I believe time moves in a spiral, and not in a straight line.

The Wiccan creation myth doesn't tend to do much for me. I personally view life as the Source (the universal life force, the all, 'God', whatever you filter it through) experiencing itself in as many forms as possible. We come from the Source, we live, we experience, and when we die we return to it, and add our experience to the whole.

I don't believe that energy can be lost. It just doesn't cease to be when we stop. Even if it just goes into feeding other organisms, it carries on. And what returns to the Source inevitably goes back out again - it continues, split off to experience anew in whatever form. All beings - from the Gods down to the smallest micro-organism, is made of the Source. 'As Above, So Below'.