You're Training to be a Goddess?

When I was in my third year teaching in Maine, I was tasked with teaching my students about Greek mythology. As we delved further into the topic, my students began fondly calling me Goddess McDougall (my then-married name) before shortening it to Goddess McD.  Around this time, email was becoming more and more popular, and when I discovered that every reasonable iteration of my name had been taken (though I think stacymariethompsonmcdougall75618439411820@yahoo.com was still available at the time), I tried: goddessmcd--and it wasn't taken.  So I took it.  And an identity was established.

The screen name goddessmcd has been available on every site I've ever tried to use it.

 My name has provoked curiosity from most people.  Some wonder if I worship the Goddess, the one some believe to be God's co-creator.  Some wonder if I'm Wiccan.  Others wonder if I enjoy the company of submissive men (any who know my husband can attest: I clearly do not).  And I'm sure there are plenty of others who wonder if I have an overly-healthy opinion of myself. 






Ever since the fortuitous naming of my email address, I have formed an identity around being a goddess.  From the early days, ten years ago or so, I would sign my emails "Goddess-in-Training," to which my friend Matty would reply: "Dear Goddess Trainee"...It became an endearing moniker, and its meaning has certainly changed and expanded since then. Overall, the idea of becoming a goddess, the way I mean it, centers around evolving. Being calm, rational, kind, peaceful, self-aware, grateful, and balanced. Being an example to others, a steward of the Earth and its inhabitants.  It's about growing and changing into a woman of grace and substance.

So, within these posts, I'll explore my journey on being a Goddess-in-Training.  I don't know that I'll ever arrive at full status Goddess.  After all, the journey is the part that we are supposed to revel in, right? I'm realizing that arriving at the "end" means no more growth--and then, what's the point?

Thanks for reading!
Goddessmcd


PS--I'd like to give credit where credit is due...
In defining the goddess as I see it, I looked to the wondrous Internet for some help.  I found a site by a woman by the name of Genie Webster that I found very helpful...check it out!  http://cosmicwind.net/800/Cmwl/VisionVoices2/WhatIsAGoddess.html