Humor has been viewed as a way of looking at a situation from a different point of view, diffusing a crisis and providing an opportunity for increased insight and objectivity.

Humor has also been described as willingness to accept life and ourselves with a shrug and a smile, lightheartedness, and gives a sense of mastery over a situation.

Reflect on these questions:

• What role does humor have in your life?
• Has your sense of humor changed over the years?
• What helped keep it the same or helped change it?
• Share something about yourself that is humorous. How is the ability to laugh at ourselves helpful one?
• Share a time when how you have been hurt by humor, yours or another’s. What times are humor NOT appropriate?
• Share a time when you laughed with someone, or laughed at yourself in a way that was refreshing and healing.
• How can humor be used for good or in helpful ways?
• Share humor that did not need words to be funny.

• Baubo, Greek Goddess of Mirth

Read your two other deity sheets.

• 51 Green Man
• 51 Green Man Charms
• 52 Sheela Na Gig
• 52 Sheela Na Gig Charms

• Try one charm from either deity sheet.

• Read pg 276-296 from “Gatherings for Goddess”  by B. Melusine Mihaltses

More Reading

• The Mystery of Baubo
• Baubo, Vulva Clown

Art / Video

• Eight Ancient Exhibitionist Figurines
• Map of Greek Mythology
• #6 Persephone, Demeter and Baubo  (59 min)
• Baubo from a StarFire offering. (3 min)
• Demeter and the Passing of Seasons  (5 min)

Other

• The Benefits of Laughter
• Laughter and Spirituality
• Funny Jokes: 1000s of Our Best Clean Jokes | Reader’s Digest
• Baubo’s Bawdy Joke Bazaar
• Eleusinian Mysteries
• Anasyrma