30 Days of Devotion (Sigyn)

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IX. Common mistakes about this deity

I don’t know if it’s a common mistake so much as a misconception that I’ve run into that Sigyn is weak and flies in the face of feminism. I’m honestly only aware of some people holding these ideas from the presence of responses and take downs on tumblr about how Sigyn isn’t weak and doesn’t go against feminism. She has the emotional strength to make the decision to walk into the Cave and start holding the bowl over Loki despite having lost at least one son (my personal mythology hasn’t settled definitively on whether Vali ran away on the same day that Narvi died or it was sometime afterwards). Sigyn makes the decision to return to Loki every time She empties the bowl, and it’s the decision making that is important. Feminism isn’t one-size-fits-all, and there needs to be the room for individuals to make their own choices. Sigyn chooses to stay by Loki.

Other than those points, I think the only ‘mistake’ someone may make is thinking that Sigyn will only come to a person in a certain way. People bring up Her Child and Bowl Holder aspects, but there are other ways that She can appear – various points in childhood, as a teen, as a bride, as a newlywed / wife, as a mother, bowl-holder, mother of mourning, post-Cave aspects that may include care-taking and/or Ragnarok inducing / contributing, etc. Sigyn is a Goddess, and She is mind-blowingly complex. She can come forward with varying degrees of personal relationships, or offer to help with grieving, or contribute to shadow work, or as a Dom*. The possibilities are large and varied, and She is more than a Bowl Holder or a Child.