In the Company of Women
Aug. 26th, 2002 08:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
omorkaSchool has started. My kids rock, except for 2B. Hey, down from five bad classes two years ago to five good ones, ne? More about that mess later . . .
Not this past weekend but the weekend before, I managed to make it to the third annual 3G retreat. I'm really glad I did. I'm not going to say I made a lot of new friends - that's not why I go to these things, but I thoroughly enjoyed myself. I did get to chant with the other ladies (at 3:30 AM - LOL!), we did a craft workshop, I got a scrying reading (decent) and did two Tarot readings (one muddled, one pretty good, I think), a few of us who all have PCOS to one extent or another had a mutual bitch session, and we did a kick-butt ritual (although I think it would have been even cooler if we had waited until after dark to do it - light has a repressive effect on the sorts of emotions that sort of ritual is supposed to bring up, at least for me).
We also did a cute little personality test called the Cube.
*Spoiler Warning* If you haven't done the Cube, either don't read any farther or do it along with the description, as it spoils it to know what the interpretations are. *Spoiler Warning*
The Cube consists of six "questions," for which you write down your responses as you go. The questions are:
1) There's a desert. What does it look like?
2) In the desert, there's a cube. What does it look like? Where is it? Describe it.
3) In the desert with the cube is a ladder. Where is it in relation to the cube? What is it made of? What does it look like?
4) Also in the desert is a horse. Where is it in relation to the cube and the ladder? What color is it? What does it look like?
5) Somewhere in the desert is a storm. What kind of storm is it? Where is it in relation to the cube, the ladder, and the horse? Describe it.
6) Somewhere in the desert are flowers. Where are they? What color are they? Describe them.
Ready? So far, so good. Here were my answers:
1) The desert is made of ridges and dunes of featureless white sand. The sun is directly overhead, and the sky is so pale it is almost white. Nothing grows there; nothing dies there. It is blazingly hot.
2) The cube is gleaming black obsidian, 6' on a side. It is completely covered with cuneiform markings on all sides, including the face-down side. It rests precisely on top of the sand, unscuffed by blowing grains. It is searing hot to the touch, heated by the sun, and smells like hot stone.
3) The ladder is a wooden rung ladder, bleached by the sun and weathered by the scouring sands. It looks rickety. Some of the rungs are loose in their sockets, although none are missing. It rests against the cube in the exact center of the east side, creating a perfect 30-60-90 triangle with the cube and the ground; the top of the ladder is exactly even with the top of the cube.
4) The horse is galloping over the nearest dune to the south of the cube, heading directly towards it. She is a jet-black Arabian mare, and pregnant. She is kicking up showers of white sand where her hooves fall, but none of it is caught in her mane or tail.
5) The storm is off to the southwest, just visible. Anvil-shaped thunderheads scrape the sky; rain is visible falling from their undersides. Lighting can be seen, but the thunder is too distant to hear. The wind blows from the direction of the storm, carrying the smell of rain on wet sand.
6) In the wake of the storm, thin green blades of grass are springing up. At their tips are tiny flowers of pale yellow and blue, hundreds of them barely a quarter of an inch wide. The horse can smell the flowers on the wind.
Funky, neh? So here're the interpretations:
1) The desert is only a backdrop for the other five elements.
2) The cube is yourself.
3) The ladder is your friends.
4) The horse is your mate.
5) The storm is your personal troubles.
6) The flowers are your children (literal or metaphorical).
My, my.
To make things weirder, when we first did this, it didn't ever occur to me that the cube could be any color _but_ black. It shocked the fool out of me when other people started describing their cubes, and they weren't black!
Now, to push this into total freaky-weirdness, I just checked KA's gaming blog this evening and discovered that *she's* played the Cube recently, too!
Not this past weekend but the weekend before, I managed to make it to the third annual 3G retreat. I'm really glad I did. I'm not going to say I made a lot of new friends - that's not why I go to these things, but I thoroughly enjoyed myself. I did get to chant with the other ladies (at 3:30 AM - LOL!), we did a craft workshop, I got a scrying reading (decent) and did two Tarot readings (one muddled, one pretty good, I think), a few of us who all have PCOS to one extent or another had a mutual bitch session, and we did a kick-butt ritual (although I think it would have been even cooler if we had waited until after dark to do it - light has a repressive effect on the sorts of emotions that sort of ritual is supposed to bring up, at least for me).
We also did a cute little personality test called the Cube.
*Spoiler Warning* If you haven't done the Cube, either don't read any farther or do it along with the description, as it spoils it to know what the interpretations are. *Spoiler Warning*
The Cube consists of six "questions," for which you write down your responses as you go. The questions are:
1) There's a desert. What does it look like?
2) In the desert, there's a cube. What does it look like? Where is it? Describe it.
3) In the desert with the cube is a ladder. Where is it in relation to the cube? What is it made of? What does it look like?
4) Also in the desert is a horse. Where is it in relation to the cube and the ladder? What color is it? What does it look like?
5) Somewhere in the desert is a storm. What kind of storm is it? Where is it in relation to the cube, the ladder, and the horse? Describe it.
6) Somewhere in the desert are flowers. Where are they? What color are they? Describe them.
Ready? So far, so good. Here were my answers:
1) The desert is made of ridges and dunes of featureless white sand. The sun is directly overhead, and the sky is so pale it is almost white. Nothing grows there; nothing dies there. It is blazingly hot.
2) The cube is gleaming black obsidian, 6' on a side. It is completely covered with cuneiform markings on all sides, including the face-down side. It rests precisely on top of the sand, unscuffed by blowing grains. It is searing hot to the touch, heated by the sun, and smells like hot stone.
3) The ladder is a wooden rung ladder, bleached by the sun and weathered by the scouring sands. It looks rickety. Some of the rungs are loose in their sockets, although none are missing. It rests against the cube in the exact center of the east side, creating a perfect 30-60-90 triangle with the cube and the ground; the top of the ladder is exactly even with the top of the cube.
4) The horse is galloping over the nearest dune to the south of the cube, heading directly towards it. She is a jet-black Arabian mare, and pregnant. She is kicking up showers of white sand where her hooves fall, but none of it is caught in her mane or tail.
5) The storm is off to the southwest, just visible. Anvil-shaped thunderheads scrape the sky; rain is visible falling from their undersides. Lighting can be seen, but the thunder is too distant to hear. The wind blows from the direction of the storm, carrying the smell of rain on wet sand.
6) In the wake of the storm, thin green blades of grass are springing up. At their tips are tiny flowers of pale yellow and blue, hundreds of them barely a quarter of an inch wide. The horse can smell the flowers on the wind.
Funky, neh? So here're the interpretations:
1) The desert is only a backdrop for the other five elements.
2) The cube is yourself.
3) The ladder is your friends.
4) The horse is your mate.
5) The storm is your personal troubles.
6) The flowers are your children (literal or metaphorical).
My, my.
To make things weirder, when we first did this, it didn't ever occur to me that the cube could be any color _but_ black. It shocked the fool out of me when other people started describing their cubes, and they weren't black!
Now, to push this into total freaky-weirdness, I just checked KA's gaming blog this evening and discovered that *she's* played the Cube recently, too!
