<![CDATA[Column 708, 9 Sif]]>Why did you choose Sif for Yesod? Nothing I have learned about her from literary sources stands out as particularly characteristic of this correspondence, but perhaps I am just missing something.

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]]>https://thelema.org/forum/post/98721https://thelema.org/forum/post/98721Thu, 26 Dec 2013 11:29:41 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Column 708, 9 Sif on Thu, 26 Dec 2013 09:29:02 GMT]]>I was aware of the etymology of her name, but did not make the Yesod-Mars connection with it. In combination with her relationship to Heimdall that makes sense, thank you.

]]>https://thelema.org/forum/post/98719https://thelema.org/forum/post/98719Thu, 26 Dec 2013 09:29:02 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Column 708, 9 Sif on Thu, 26 Dec 2013 08:07:51 GMT]]>@Seasick Crocodile said

"Why did you choose Sif for Yesod? Nothing I have learned about her from literary sources stands out as particularly characteristic of this correspondence, but perhaps I am just missing something."

The original idea came from her being the sister of Heimdall - creating a Sun-Moon brother-sister relationship. But she is also a goddess of fertility and has a broad connection to the Mars force (including to Thor), with the strong Yesod-Mars complex relationship; a name that essentially means "she that is joined or espoused;" and other minor lunar ideas.

The main thing was the Heimdall Tifereth-Yesod link plus the Mars linkage.

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