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Postby Blue » Tue Dec 12, 2017 5:45 pm

In light of the ginormous female uprising against da dicks and pigs, thought this was a good way to look at the family that I grew up with. I'm a Wednesday's child afterall.


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Family Values
The women of the Addams Family as the Divine Feminine

By Gabriela Herstik, from Sabat Magazine (England) | Fall 2017

Maiden Mother Crone
The women in the Addams family reflect every stage of the Divine Feminine including the maiden, the mother, and the crone.

ILLUSTRATION BY VANESSA REYES
If there was a family that embodied the many aspects of the Goddess, it would be the Addams Family. In 1938, American cartoonist Charles Addams created the Addams Family as a one panel cartoon series. It wasn’t until the television series, however, that the characters got names and we were introduced to Gomez and his wife Morticia, their children Wednesday and Pugsley, Gomez’s mother Grandmama Frump, and his brother, Fester, among others.

From comics to cartoons on television to smash movies — most notably The Addams Family and The Addams Family Values — the Addams’ have had many incarnations. With their grim tendencies and dark exterior, they have always been a clan of contradictions. Although they may seem menacing and different, the family is not only loving and open, but also non-judgmental towards others who don’t share their natural disposition to all that’s dark. The stories follow the family’s adventures, whether it’s navigating a crazy nanny and new baby or thinking Fester is an imposter. There’s always something going on in the Addams mansion. With their macabre aesthetic, unusual perspective, and overall tender demeanors, the Addams’ are true dichotomies. If there were a fictional family that personified the Triple Goddess in her many facets, it would be the women of this clan.

Wednesday is the epitome of pubescent angst. If she had a slogan it would probably be “I don’t give a fuck.” Wednesday is at that age where, yes, she’s thinking about homicide, but she does not care what you think about at all. And although Wednesday dances along the apathetic side of the maiden, in her duality this is also expressed as extreme sensitivity. The early stages of maidenhood may be riddled not only by self-doubt but also by the need to please others. But in the transition to motherhood, whatever one’s personal definition of that may be, the more fully realized form of Goddess is allowed to show herself—one that is complete and assertive in what she wants.


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