of tattoos and scars
So once again my mind wanders to the wish for another tattoo. I tell you, coloring your skin is addicting. Any way, I’ve been wanting to get a tattoo for Zeus, I just can’t make my mind upon what. Repeated questions to him have met with silence. Today when my mind wandered that way, for some reason my eyes were drawn to the top of my right hand. The hand with the jagged scar…the jagged scar that looks like a lightening bolt. D’OH!
I got the scar in a car accident in 2000. We were hit doing a left hand turn by a small truck that ignored the stop light. Some glass from the shattered windshield got into my hand. Luckily it didn’t do any major damage but left me with a doozy of a scar due to the efforts to find the chunk. Any more it is rather hard to see unless the light hits it just right. One of the occupants in the same car, who unfortunately was hurt a lot worse than me, called it my “Harry Potter scar”.
That unfortunate naming has always stuck with me despite my best efforts, so it never remotely occurred to me that I was already marked. Zeus didn’t catch my attention until 2007. So which came first, the chicken or the egg? Was his attention due to the scar on my hand or was the scar done by the Fates at his request? Hard to say. Not that it matters I guess.
Zeus came into my life, oddly enough, October 31st 2007. A little over 8 months after my son was born. I was doing my own version of Sannion’s “God of the Month Club” using tarot cards that I had carefully mapped out a deity (mostly Greek) for each card. I was so NOT pleased with this draw. I grew up Roman Catholic and my view of Zeus was little better than the god of my childhood. While he was sex positive, he was also know for adultery. My first meditation involving him, he told me not to learn about him from myths as that would be like learning about our movie stars from gossip magazines. I studied him and meditated upon him. The following June, I promised a year of such study. The next year I formally dedicated to him and reaffirmed that dedication last year. I will do that again this year.
But during all this time I never realized that I was already “Zeus marked”. How odd. Makes me want to color it a pretty blue or something. [laughing] Even odder, the top of my hand aches…it hasn’t done that in a long time.
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