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Life Changes Are Coming When a Goddess Claims You

If your life is a china shop, you need a bull

Holly Pettit
Age of Empathy
Published in
8 min readJan 24, 2024

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Hathor wears her horns and sun crown. She stands in conversation with a pharaoh. Horus is wearing the crown of Upper and Lower Egypt, and has a falcon head. He is in conversation with another Pharaoh, who is offering him something with both hands. Is it food, or incense, or something else? I can’t tell, across the span of several thousand years, but I’m sure it’s good.
Hathor (far left) and Horus hang out with the Pharaohs. From the tomb of Horemheb/Haremhab in the Valley of the Kings, Egypt. Wikimedia Commons Public Domain

And here I thought everything was going just fine.

Have you ever noticed this? Sometimes, when we think our lives are running smoothly, we find out later that we were blind, naïve, and wrong. So wrong.

Once upon a time I was enjoying a Saturday afternoon in The Met museum in NYC. That’s not how I usually spend my Saturdays because I live in New Hampshire where there are more moose than people, or some such rot. Actually, we call it “Cow Hampshire,” and for good reason. Remember that, because soon you’ll see a theme emerging.

A quick bus ride will take anyone with $25 from this bucolic wonderland to midtown Manhattan. That’s how I came to be there, ready to meet up with an old writing buddy from Jersey City. Not, however, before a visit to my vision of heaven on Earth — The Met.

Walking through the Egyptian wing on my way to the Temple of Dendur, I passed through a room filled with statuary. From the forest of marble, limestone and granite, a black basalt figure in Gallery 119 caught my eye. I stopped. There — right there — was a beautiful, peaceful cow’s face, gazing straight into my eyes…

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Holly Pettit
Age of Empathy

New Hampshire-based M.Div. in Contemplative Practice. Writer for nonprofits, clergy & dot govs. Former Russian Linguist for the U.S. Army.