"women's mysteries," trinary thought, gender in traditional paganism

I don't normally do this kind of thing on my lj (knowing, as I do, that y'all are mainly here for fandom and fic type stuff), but it also wouldn't have been on-topic to post to the forum that kicked off these thoughts, so you're stuck with it.

The original post here is from one of the most influential elders of the Celtic Reconstructionist community, and since I don't consider myself strictly CR, I didn't necessarily think my responses were useful in terms of the CR conversation she was looking to start. Still, I responded really strongly to her post, both positively and negatively, regarding binary and non-binary concepts of gender and how sex and spirituality intersect. So what the heck.

( onward )