I get a lot of questions about my #headscarf. Feel free to ask me anything, but I can make it easy for you:
I cover because I've been asked to by my Gods.
What other reason do I need? I'm confused on that, because people tend to treat me like I don't have a "right" to my headscarf. I've found that attitude incredibly hard to deal with over the years, particularly in the realms of "you shouldn't cover if you aren't one of the Big 3(tm) religions" followed by "hair isn't wrong".
My covering is a form of spiritual worship, protection, and obedience -- it has nothing to do with the showing-of-hair being wrong, and if it had anything to do with that, I wouldn't be doing it. Anyone can see my hair. I will take off my headscarf in public for lots of reasons, but I prefer to wear it, and will continue to wear it.
I let a bunch of strange men into my apartment today to fix my sink -- they failed to fix my sink and will be back tomorrow (blast this old building plumbing), but the point is, I didn't rush to get myself a headscarf. I'm in my own home, I don't need to cover here, except for specific spiritual purpose.
When we moved into this building (with the blasted plumbing *shakes fist*) I spent a good solid couple of weeks without a headscarf due to the sheer physical labor and exhaustion of moving we were performing on a daily basis. I don't feel the need to sweat into my headscarf, nor do my Gods demand it.
I'm not going to go to the gym in a headscarf, nor the pool in a headscarf. Some people do. That's their choice (hopefully, at least).
But in my day-to-day life, which is inextricably linked to my spiritual life, I have been told that this is what is required. So I comply. They have Their reasons, I don't question Them often (sometimes I do, which is valid, but not on this, because I feel it in my very Ka).
#headcovering #religion #paganism #kemetic
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