Power Is Neither Good or Ill

[cedar_grove]

I am the goddess, mistress of the land.
It is I who created the unbreakable laws.
It is I who divided earth and heaven.
It is I who charted the stars.
It is I who set the moon and sun overhead.
It is I who ordered the tides.
It is I who brought men and women together
and I who created all the mysteries.
It is I who made justice stronger than wealth,
and I who designed penalties for evil.
It is I who first created mercy,
and I who metes it out.
I am the queen of earth and wind and sea,
queen of the thunder, queen of the sun.
Only I can overcome fate.
Only I can overclose death.

--Song of Isis, Egypt.

We must be simultaneously strong and gentle in order to emulate her. We must take care of both ourselves and others. We must be both nourished and nourishing, caring and cared for. Wherever we find imbalance, we can turn to her as a symbol of universal order.

This is one of those meditations that somehow ties in with thoughts that have been floating around in my head for some time.

Part of examining myself as a pagan was to question myself about why it should be that the 'fluffies' as I am wont to call them - those pagans and wiccans who insist on calling themselves 'white' or 'good' or other variation of the same idea... and I think it's that which bothers me. Where is the balance? Where is the strength and gentleness, and all of these other things?

To me... it's like saying a tornado is a 'good' tornado or a bad tornado... I mean sure, they're destructive, but they're still just natural. The point of it is that the power used by a pagan/wiccan simply exists. It's neither good or evil, and it's the use to which it is put by the person using it that defines it for good or ill. People make the choices. Not the power itself.

To me... acting without balance, toward the good side, is just as bad as acting without balance toward the bad side of things. Both are equally as harmful.