Your Ruling Goddess

From iGoddess – your ruling goddess, how you are influenced and your food choices:

ATHENA

Mar 21 – Apr 20

Look to any battlefield and you’ll find an Athena-girl with her sword held high. She is generally ambitious, busy and burning the candle at both ends.

Defender of causes and endlessly energetic, you can benefit from food that is hot and spicy. Eat plenty of red food to keep your passionate energy fired up.

JUNO

Apr 21 – May 21

Health, heart and hearth – these are the three key words that keep Juno girls excited. When her family is happy, she is happy.

Rich foods, heavenly sweets and lots of hearty carbs. Yep, anything tasty and substantial is likely to be on the menu for a Juno gal and her family.

PERSEPHONE

May 22 – Jun 21

According to legend, Persephone shares her time between frolicking in the sunshine and hibernating in the underworld. She is the queen of balancing high and low energies.

Limit any metabolism spikes by grazing on tapas, appetisers, snacks and a variety of bite-sized foods. Eat smaller portions more often to maintain your energy levels.

DIANA

Jun 22 – Jul 23

As the quintessential child of nature, Diana gals love the wild. They also like being wild, and feel at home connecting with Earth.

Promote the nurturing qualities of Mother Earth by preparing raw and organic foods. These are your comfort foods, so relish nutritionally-rich meals.

PELE

Jul 24 – Aug 23

Pele is the volcano goddess of Hawaii, and as such can be occasionally volatile – even if things appear calm on the surface.

Just like your namesake, it’s not uncommon to have a mountainous appetite for food fit for a queen. Pep up the menu with a flaming desert.

HESTIA

Aug 24 – Sep 23

Practical and earthy, the Hestia-girl’s home is her castle. She is intrinsically connected with the source of life: Mother Earth.

If not in your garden attending to your fresh herb and vegetable patch, make sure you enjoy scouring the local grocer for the yummiest organic food.

VENUS

Sep 24 – Oct 23

With the goddess of love as their patroness, Venus-gals are naturally attracted to decadence, fun and the finer things in life. They love immersing themselves in beauty.

With such an abundance of choice, take your time to decide what you really want to eat. You’re drawn to bright colours and textures so aim for fresh fruit and salad vegetables.

BAST

Oct 24 – Nov 22

Bast is the Egyptian cat-goddess. It is no surprise therefore that she bestows qualities of playfulness, poise and feline sensuality.

The spicier the better! Food is meant to be enjoyed – take it beyond “functional” and make meals an expression of your creative spirit.

RHIANNON

Nov 23 – Dec 21

This Welsh goddess is known for her white mare and her association with the dream world. As such, Rhiannon inspires wanderlust, (usually by adventurous means.)

There is no end to the exciting and exotic foods for you to try. Of course, the best place to eat is in exotic places – the more romantic and far-flung the better.

DEMETER

Dec 22 – Jan 20

Demeter gals excel at pursuing justice and getting projects completed – sometimes at the expense of their own wellbeing.

Keep the energy levels firing with hearty meals. Go for stodgy, filling and stick-to-the-rib foods that will keep you going and going and going.

HATHOR

Jan 21 – Feb 19

Hathor women are open-minded, adaptable and expert shape-shifters. They transcend boundaries to keep their lives interesting and full of magic.

Yes, sometimes it is unfair that you have to eat earthly food – if only you could eat the fare of angels from plates made of clouds! Go for divinely inspired concoctions instead.

OSHUN

Feb 20 – Mar 20

Oshun is the beautiful African river goddess that inspires her women to strive for their best. Anything’s possible with Oshun’s gifts of love.

Ahhh, with the ocean as your mother, how can you resist a magnificent seafood banquet? Dive into a wide range of oceanic delights.

I Wish to Order Pizza and Cake

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Pizza with a nice crust (not one of those thin ones that tastes like a stick) and chicken and loads of vegetables on it. A really steaming hot pizza with mozarella cheese.

I really need to find a job… I have so many great ways to spend money it’s just nonsense to be working so hard at not spending it. Unfair to my mental health.

Now, back to that pizza. Light on the sauce and high on the gooey cheese and chunky vegetables not cooked into an unrecognizable mush of veggie-ness. Mmmmm I want to taste it now. I even know how to order it online and I even still have enough cash in my purse to pay for it when it gets here.

Of course, I’d have to actually get dressed today. I’m so lazy… I should make myself clean the floors as punishment. They do need to be cleaned. Too bad the last maid disappeared, most likely one of the dust bunnies got her. Poor kid.

Happy Canadian Thanksgiving

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We are having the dinner on Sunday (which is today, only a later time). It’s actually Thanksgiving on Monday here. Likely I will be too busy to post till after the whole thing. We are still up making pumpkin pies. We already made homemade bread, tons of vegetables cut up or pre-cooked, apple pies and other stuff which I can’t think of right now cause my brain is sleeping. Two capon chickens as Thanksgiving turkeys too. We cooked them early so we can have them done and just reheat them in foil pans with the gravy. It will save a lot of work the day of the dinner and give the capon extra time to marinade in gravy. Should be really nice. Mom had the idea from friends in Florida.

I’m going to bed soon. Just need to take some capon parts down to the freezer in the basement. Kind of like practice for hiding the body later, should I need to hide a body. Not like I’ve really had to do that yet, so far. You never know and it doesn’t hurt to be prepared and have a plan.

41 is Not as Old as 40

Now that I’ve had time (while driving home) to think about it, 41 is not as old as turning 40. Turning 40 was cruel. I remember when my Aunt and Uncle turned 40, about 25 years ago. I was a child, yet I have the memory of a steel seive. I always thought I would be a living like a school teacher by the time I was 40. I don’t know why, I never had any plans to be a school teacher. It was just the thing to be when I was 40, maybe for just that year.

Anyway, I was supposed to have a small, yet quaint and organized little house in some smallish town. It had a yard and a car in the driveway. It was a bit arty looking, but not too far gone. It was paid for, even though it wasn’t some gi-normous, extravagant mansion, it was comfortable and it was cosy.

So, turning 40 was a real disappointment. I still had (have) that whole baglady thing hanging over my head. Thanks Daddy!

Oddly enough, turning 41 today is just fine. I feel younger. I’m not 40 anymore! Hooray! I’m not ancient, not older than dirt and I’m not a square peg trying to be a teacher in that house I perfectly imagined when my Aunt and Uncle turned 40. I expected to have their lives, though neither of them were teachers either. Don’t even expect me to explain where that came from, likely it was the figure skaters who take over my brain at odd moments, they love Christmas music too.

Life is not based on logic. I’m 41, getting younger by the year! So there all you children born after the 60’s. Don’t feel bad, you’ll get to be 41 someday, if you’re really lucky and eat all your vegetables.

The Turkeys were Eaten by Coyotes

We didn’t have turkeys for Thanksgiving this year. They were eaten by coyotes. The woman who raises turkeys locally called to let us know yesterday. Luckily we had just ordered several capons from the chicken man. So we unfroze one of those instead.

I am so tired now, even though I went to bed about 11:00 last night and just woke up a short time ago, around 7:00. Yesterday I was up at 5:30, began making bread, pies and generally peelling and chopping everything that came within range. In my life there are few vegetables or fruits I have not peeled or chopped at some point.

I could go back to bed now. But, oddly enough, I’m hungry. I was stuffed about as much as the capon yesterday afternoon. I didn’t think I’d be hungry for at least a day afterwards. Kind of like large predators who only eat every few days once they gorge themselves. But no. I am already thinking that cold chicken with some salt would make a good breakfast.