The Goddess doesn't come with the God
May. 7th, 2018 08:45 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
danika_ni_sidheI think the hardest part of being an Aphrodisian isn't that I finally got over the urge to Love EVERYONE (whether they deserved my effort or not) but that I'm terrified of Hephaistos's forge.
For as long as I can remember, I've had dreams of volcanoes erupting in my living room or in my neighborhood, despite never being anywhere where I had to deal with anything of the earth. Hell, I went through my first earthquake a couple of years ago and that was due to fracking and not being on a fault line. I went to Yellowstone before the huge fire in 1988 but spent that entire trip miserable thanks to getting my braces tightened and altitude sickness.
The prevailing belief is that the phobia comes from being in Herculaneum in AD 79 (since, as you know, Pompeii got the ash and Herculaneum and Stabiae got the lava) but that's one door in my past life regressions that I refuse to open.
I hate that I have to constantly tell everyone to stop tagging me in volcano posts. I know it's an off the wall phobia with no verifiable basis in fact and while it's true that the nightmares have significantly lessened as I've aged, I hate that people feel the need to send me news stories and pictures of lava. It's gotten to the point where I have to seek out those stories so I know they're occurring so I don't get the gut check of seeing lava on my feed.
I have to feed my phobia to keep it in check. If this were anyone else or any other fear, no one would bat an eye but it's me and it's something off the wall so people need to poke me.
For as long as I can remember, I've had dreams of volcanoes erupting in my living room or in my neighborhood, despite never being anywhere where I had to deal with anything of the earth. Hell, I went through my first earthquake a couple of years ago and that was due to fracking and not being on a fault line. I went to Yellowstone before the huge fire in 1988 but spent that entire trip miserable thanks to getting my braces tightened and altitude sickness.
The prevailing belief is that the phobia comes from being in Herculaneum in AD 79 (since, as you know, Pompeii got the ash and Herculaneum and Stabiae got the lava) but that's one door in my past life regressions that I refuse to open.
I hate that I have to constantly tell everyone to stop tagging me in volcano posts. I know it's an off the wall phobia with no verifiable basis in fact and while it's true that the nightmares have significantly lessened as I've aged, I hate that people feel the need to send me news stories and pictures of lava. It's gotten to the point where I have to seek out those stories so I know they're occurring so I don't get the gut check of seeing lava on my feed.
I have to feed my phobia to keep it in check. If this were anyone else or any other fear, no one would bat an eye but it's me and it's something off the wall so people need to poke me.
