A Goddess for Everyone: Every Goddess for All

 

 

In each goddess I find succor in ways of being feminine, alive, and conscious in today’s world.  Although much of this is rejected by religions, we have to know the history of why women were put down and relegated to virgin, whore, mother, dithering old grandmas.  Beneath some of the names and celebrations I find their reality… not as we would have known it, surely... but as it truly was.  Once we remembered.  Now we have been conditioned to forget.

Learning about the goddesses helps us with unqieuly feminine ways of dealing with life.    They way they lived, their stories, we recognize in us.  Now is the time women prepare to care for each other and take care of Mother Earth, as the Elders prophesied when the Mother Earth was almost beyond what suffering she could take.    The values of the goddesses are love, courage, kindness, compassion, justice and service.  We need such things more than ever right here on Mother Earth right now.    The personality traits of the goddesses, we relate to, we identify with.    It is a pathway, stories of the feminine that we have gone without since Christianity took away as many of the signs and stories of the goddesses as they could.  They thought to disempower us.  We are not.  We are gaining our power back through relearning the myths and stories of the divine feminine(s).

Knowing the goddesses helps us know ourselves.  It helps us know our roles and what our relationships are about.  The myths speak to the psychological aspects of every woman, each, individually, and there may be more than one goddess at work in a woman’s psyche.  The myths are part of our universal experience down here on Mother Earth.   

Little is written of the ancient women of the bible.  The myths and stories of the goddesses are prolific and we do relate to them more than of stories of gloom and doom and women’s ‘sin’.  It is time.  It is time for us to study and know the stories of the ancient goddesses as well as we know the stories of the bible.          

I hope you will keep reading the blog and, time to time, I add another story about another goddess.  I promise not to overwhelm.

©Carol Desjarlais 4.20.23