Something Weird is Happening....
Sorry for the long post. Ok first a little bit of background: I'm a seminarian in the Eastern Orthodox Christian tradition.* I'm also a universalist. My fiancé is a Lokian pagan, and we have a friend who's a Hellenistic pagan. We were talking yesterday about my fiancé's work with Loki and our friend's work with Apollo. I made the comment that if I were to work with a deity outside of my faith tradition, it would be Artemis because I've always really liked her vibe (I'm an enciromemtalist and had just returned from a wilderness cleanup event), and that reading about her was definitely part of my lesbian awakening. I jokingly said that if she ever wanted to talk to me, I'd definitely be open. I instantly got a tingly feeling, like goosebumps, all over my body. I kinda shook it off and then got this image in my mind of this very sarcastic teenage girl knocking on my skull, shouting, "I'VE BEEN TRYING TO REACH YOU ABOUT YOUR CAR'S EXTENDED WARRANTY!"
So I know enough about Artemis to know that she communicates a lot through dreams, and I'm a very lucid dreamer. So before I went to bed, I asked her for a sign of what she wanted to tell me. That night, I had a very vivid dream where I confronted and rebuked my abuser in the midst of this incredibly dense and wild forest.
So, my question is: what do I do now? Where do I go from here? Can anyone who has worked with Artemis before give me any advice?
*I am a seminarian in the Universalist Orthodox Church, an independent Christian group that is affirming and accepting of all people and belief systems but practices in the Eastern Orthodox tradition.