We might have been brown nosers. A bit of a teachers pets or wall flowers.  We strive for recognition in different ways.  I do my bidding sweetly and with streams of unconscious self praise. 

I promised, in Top 5 Reasons Why, that I would talk about why I am a mastered slave and I know I mentioned it again in my last post, but most just rambled in metaphors and imagery so I am here to do that now.  Beginning with no. 1 of Why I Am a Mastered Slave:
1. It is my karma to reunite the male and female energy

Holy jeez, could I be a little less specific? A few definitions of belief are required now.   Disclaimer: the following "definitions" are from my perspective.

karma: a theme, or behavior pattern, which persists in a person's life and may serve as s life lesson.
female energy: the qualities of receptiveness, birthing, nurturing.  sometimes discussed as passive yin, sensitive.  related to life and death generally.  major archetypes are mother, little girl, temptress, whore, witch, goddess, crone, naivete

male energy: the qualities of penetration, giving, aggression.  sometimes discussed as active yang, strong.  major archetypes are related to action and journey generally and, in humans, as protector, provider, husband, father, brother, 

According to my second college edition 1984 Webster's New World Dictionary my thinking is in line with Buddhism and Hinduism.

karm-ma (kär'mð, kur'-) n. [Sans., a deed, act, fate]  1. Buddhism & Hinduism the totality of a person's actions in any one of the successive states of his existence, thought of as determining his fate in the next

Biology time!  There are three terms for creatures that birth living young, viviparous, oviparous, ovoviviparous.  Viviparous creatures give birth to walking, squawking, living young.  Think vi- as in vibrant, bright, living.  Oviparous creatures lay eggs with living creatures in them.  Think ov- as in ovum, oval, egg.  That one's not too crazy, but get this: ovoviviparous creatures, aside from being fun to name, lay their egg babies inside themselves, then hatch them internally.  It seems then, that that super fun prefix, ovovivi- means living and eggs combined. 

I asked my master, after learning this lesson, if all the animals who give birth are women.  He was practically answering it before I asked, and told me one of my favorite facts, which I already partially knew.  Seahorses are the only exception.  Except they have an exception too, which is that they don't actually make the egg, their lady friends do.  After the egg is made, the papa seahorse goes over to the mama seahorse and is like, "Hey, why don't you let me take that egg off your tail and go buy yourself something sweet?"

(Any readers who are generally uninterested in spiritual topics?  How do these ideas sit with you?)