“The very energy from which this universe is built is infused with a certain
quality: a joy of being, an acceptance of the right of all things to be,and a delight
in the expressions of all things as they enjoy the right to be…

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THE GODDESS DANCES: GODDESS HOOPS

Goddess Hoop packages are designed to help you align yourself with the the Goddess you are most drawn too. The Goddess will speak to you and you will know. Each beautiful package comes with a poem about the Goddess, a ritual, 1 hoop, 1 Young Living Essential Oil and 5 beautiful affirmations.
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The Goddesses

Below are the goddesses who have been paired with essential oils and special hoops for Sacred Circle Hoops. Click the name to find out more.

Amaterasu Omi Kami
Beauty

Amaterasu (pronounced a-ma-te-ra-tsoo) Omi Kami is here to tell you to bask in the radiance of your own beauty. Do you know your unique beauty or do you feel you can’t be beautiful because you don’t look like a model or a movie star? Amaterasu says that all woman posses the light of the feminine and that light is beauty. She advises you to let go of your preconceptions about what beauty is and allow your beauty to be. Wholeness is nurtured when we celebrate all our aspects and being female means that we are beautiful.

Aphrodite
Love

Aphrodite is here with her dance of love, inviting you to luxuriate, bask, and revel in love for yourself. Do you spend the day without thinking or saying how much you love yourself? Do you do little loving things for yourself? Do you listen to your needs in a loving, respectful way, or do you criticize yourself for balking at the schedule you keep, for complaining about the job you hate, for bemoaning the relationship you endure? NOW IS THE TIME TO LOVE. Aphrodite says that to be able to love another, you must be able to allow them to be exactly as they are. It means witnessing yourself and your loved ones with love, amusement, and delight. The amount of space we can allow another is dependent on the amount of space we can allow for ourselves. Wholeness is achieved when we can hold infinite space and patience for ourselves first and then extend it to others.

Artemis
Selfhood

Artemis has shot her arrow of selfhood into your life to help you focus on yourself. Have you been too much at the service of others without making sure you get what you need for yourself? Has it been too long since you had time to yourself or a space of your own? Do the boundaries of your selfhood seem blurred and indistinct? Do you feel you have no right to a self of your own, but must always be thinking of others, putting there needs first, until you don’t know who you are or what you want? Now is the time to come into yourself. Now is the time to pay attention to the whispering voices of your own needs. Now is the time to take yourself back and celebrate and strengthen who you are. Artemis says that wholeness is nurtured when you honor, respect, and give time to yourself. She also asks how you expect to hit any big targets if you don’t have a self from which to shoot?

Baba Yaga
Wild woman

Baba yaga flies into your life in her mortar to help you nurture wholeness by getting in touch with your wild woman. It is time to reconnect with the natural, the primal, the instinctual. It is time to shake out your hair, your body, and shake up your life. Have you banished your wild woman to the dungeon? Free her! You need her. That wild woman is part of your joy, part of your vitality, part of your creativity. She is you and you need every part of yourself in order to dance wholeness. Baba Yaga says it is most important for you to learn to intigrate your wild woman because an unintegrated wild woman creates self-destructive behavior. The wildness is there and needs to be expressed. It is your choice whether to express it creatively or destructively.

Bast
Play

Bast the cat headed goddess, and sekhmet, the lion-headed goddess, represented two powerful aspects of the sun: the life giving, pleasurable aspect and the burning destroying aspect. Bast rules pleasure, joy, music, dance, health and healing, the moon, and of course, cats. Bast bats at you with her paw to urge you to come and play with her. It is time to divert yourself with something that is amusing, fun, and totally recreational. Has play been a low priority for you? Do you know how to play? What does play mean to you? Perhaps you have been working so hard you forgot to give yourself a play break. Bast tells you the way to nurture wholeness lies in engaging in play. It is time to discover the ways you are able to play and do it!

Brigid
Inspiration

Mythology of Brigid, which means “bright,” is a celtic triple goddess of fire: the fire of inspiration, smithcraft,poetry, healing, and divination. Legend says that Brigid was born with a flame reaching out from the top of her head, connecting her with the universe.

Meaning of Brigid comes to ignite you with inspiration. Are you feeling a lack of direction? Motivation? Energy? Has your path gone out of focus? Are you yearning for something but can’t quite put your finger on it? It is time to nuture wholeness by taking in the sparkle and crackle of inspiration. Brigid says a life without the fire of inspiration is dull indeed. She further counsels that by allowing inspiration to nurture your life you become sharper, clearer, and more energetic.

Changing Woman
Cycles

Mythology of Changing woman, or Estsanatlehi (self-renewing one) – as she is called by the Navajo and Apache- can change her age merely by walking into the horizon. White Shell woman and Turquoise Woman are among her many names, which correspond to the changing colors of her dress as the seasons change. The Navajo say that she was found by Coyote, after being born of Darkness and Dawn on Spruce Mountain, with a blanket of clouds and rainbows, secured in her cradleboard by lightning and sunbeams. Her gifts to the people are the Blessingway ceremonies, the seasons, and food.

Meaning of Changing Woman:
Changing woman comes spinning into your life to tell you the way to wholeness for you lies in learning to honor your cycles. Menstrual cycles are an important aspect of being female. We bleed but do not die, and therefore can bring forth life. As we continue to dance our cycles, we reach the time of menopause when leave our childbearing years behind and hold our wise blood within. We can then be a resource for our loved ones and community by becoming crones, which means “women of wisdom.” Honoring your cycles also means honoring your own unique process, your own unique path in life. You may be in the midst of a particular life cycle that you need to surrender to and honor. Changing Woman says that wholeness is nurtured when we reclaim the power of our cycles by paying attention to them and celebrating them. By celebrating our cycles, we celebrate ourselves as women.

Corn Woman
Nourishment

Mythology of Corn Woman: The Goddess that encompasses the figures of Corn Mother, the Corn Maidens, and Yellow Woman. They all relate to corn as a sacred being who gives of herself to her people to sustain them and nourish them. The Arikara Creator God, Nesaru, fashioned Corn Mother from an ear of corn which grew in heaven. Corn Mother then came to earth and taught people how to honor the deities and to plant corn.

Meaning of Corn Woman:
She brings her love for you in the form of food to tell you it is time to nourish yourself. Eating is a sacred act. Something alive has given of itself for you to take it in as food and nourish your temple. Part of being human means causing death in order to live. To treat the act of eating as a chore, as something to be feared or avoided, is to denigrate the gift of love from Corn Woman and the plants and animals.
Are you too busy, too stressed, too involved with more important things than nourishing yourself? Do your nourish others but not yourself? Do you have a love-hate relationship with food? Corn Woman says that eating is one of the most basic acts of self-nourishment and that the way to wholeness for you lies in coming into right relationship with food.

Demeter
Feelings/Emotions

Mythology: Demeter, whose name means “doorway of the mysterious feminine.” She is known for the founding of agriculture, instituting the social order, and for her mystery rites as Eleusis in Greece.

Meaning of : Demeter has come to light your way through the dark and challenging labyrinth of feelings/emotions. It is time to nurture wholeness by accepting, acknowledging, and expressing your feelings. Feelings are what you feel. Emotions are your reaction to your feelings. Feelings left unexpressed build up and can create disease for they take up space inside and keep healthy energy from flowing. Demeter says the more you learn to accept and acknowledge your feelings, the less time you will spend in emotional turmoil and the more energy you will have to live life. The more you learn to accept and honor your feelings, the safer it will become to express them.

Durga
Boundaries

Mythology: Devi is what the Goddess is called in India. To the Hindu, all Goddesses are one goddess, different aspects of Devi or the Divine Feminine. An aspect of Devi was called into being to rid the world of the evil demon Durga. In the battle between the Gods and the anti-gods or demons, none of the Gods could destroy Durga, so they went to Devi and asked for help. Mounting a tiger and brandishing her fearsome weapons, she attacked the demon, who changed form one terrifying form into another until Devi slew him when he transformed into a buffalo. In remembrance of the great battle, Devi took the name of Durga.

Meaning: You have called Durga into your life to help you create boundaries. What are you taking inside that should remain outside? How are you not protecting yourself, your life, your time? Is the statement “No, I can’t do this right now, I need to care for myself,” part of your vocabulary? Are you feeling pulled off center by demands to give and give and give till there is nothing left for yourself? Durga is here to help assist you in nurturing wholeness by creating and fixing the limits of your personal space. Establishing clear boundaries is an act of self-love. Having no boundaries gives others the message that you are limitless; there are places that we get hurt, places where we are vulnerable, places that need to be treated with care. Durga says that boundaries are vital because they let others know who you are and where you stand.

Eostre
Growth

Mythology: The Germanic Goddess of fertility, agriculture, and spring is Eostre or Eastre. Celebrated with the ritual lighting of dawn fires as a protection for the crops. She symbolizes springtime, new growth, and rebirth.

Meaning: Eostre comes into your life with her springtime message of personal growth. It is time to open to things in your life that facilitate growth, development, evolution. Is there a class or workshop you’ve been wondering if you should take? Let it in now! Have you just gone through a period of stagnation and lethargy where nothing seemed to be happening? Let it go! Now is the time of growth. Eostre says that wholeness is nurtured when you embrace experiences, risks, and occasions that cause you to stretch. The stretching promotes your growth.

Into the Future essential oil comes with this Goddess hoop package.

Eurynome
Ecstasy

Mythology: Eurynome, or “wide wandering,” is the Pelasgian great Goddess of all things. She divided the sky form the the sea and , while dancing on the waves, created the north wind. The north wind grew lustful, so she seized him in her hands and formed a serpent she called Ophion. Eurynome made love with Ophion and then assumed the form of a dove to lay the universal egg out of which all creation came.

Meaning: Eurynome dance into your life to tell you it is time for ecstasy. Ecstasy is here for you in all its fullness, exuberance, and rapture. How can you give yourself ecstasy, that deely nourishing, intensly, joyful place? One way is by healing the wounded parts of yourself. Your wounded parts take up emotional space within you. Once healed, the space they previously occupied becomes available for ecstasy. Another road to ecstasy is to open to it. To give yourself permission to call it in, feel it, and revel in it. For those of us who have experienced little joy in our lives, the conscious decision to court, seduce, and entice ecstasy ensures it will come. Eurynome says that when you make the decision to dance with ecstasy, all life challenges you with the opportunities to facilitate that dance.

Exodus II essential oil comes with this Goddess hoop package.

Freya
Sexuality

Mythology: The northern Europeans called their lusty Goddess Freya, which means “mistress,” and gave her name to the sixth day of the week, Friday. She was the ruling ancestress of the elder Gods. When Freya appeared draped in her feathered cloak and wearing nothing but her magic amber necklace, none could resist her.

Meaning: Freya is here to assist you in honoring your sexuality. It is time to connect with that vital, primal, spiritual, regenerating energy and express it, whether or not you have a partner. It’s about being fully present in your body. All of your body. It’s about allowing yourself to feel vibrant, electric energy in your sex organs and use that energy to animate your being. Freya says that when you live your sexuality, you open to the dynamic energy that flows through all creation. When you close down, close off, close up, you limit your possibilities for connecting with Goddess energy, which brings you greater vitality. Your path to wholeness needs to include all your parts and your sexuality is an important piece of you.

Sensation essential oil is part of this Goddess hoop package.

Gyhdeptis
Synthesis

Mythology: Gyhldeptis, whose name means “lady hanging hair,” is the forest Goddess of the Tlingit and Haida people of northwest North America. To her people she was the mossy hanging branches of cedar. When her people were threatened by the destructive whirlpool, which ate seafaring ships, she called all the natural powers of the coast together and prepared for them a sumptuous feast. Delighted with the feast, they all agreed to work with her. Thus Gyhldeptis was able to synthesize their energies and change the whirlpool into a river.

Meaning: Gyhldeptis glides into your life to tell you the way to wholeness for you now lies in synthesis. It is time to bring all the divergent parts, all the opposing pieces, together into one whole you. At this time in your life you may be engaged in conflict or opposition. Now you must resolve it and create union. Perhaps you are dissipating your energy, your life force, in too many directions or have hundreds of irons in the fire. This is the time to find the common thread that will serve your needs in the best way. Gyldeptis says that by learning to listen to all the different pieces, all the divergent parts of you (and this can include your family, community, partner), you can hear and give what is needed to create wholeness. Wholeness is created when all the parts are honored and listened to, when all the parts are brought together and synthesized into a whole. The greatest gifts to the whole often lie in the most disparate pieces.

Awaken essential oil is in this Goddess hoop package.

Hathor
Pleasure

Mythology: Hathor, depicted in many forms, was mainly associated with the winged cow of creation. As birth and death Goddess, she was credited with creating the body for the immortal spirit to reside in. As creator of the body, she also governed all bodily pleasures: sound, music, song, dance, art, love, and touch. It was said that she attended the birth of every child and revealed the pattern of its destiny. She was worshipped in Egypt for more than 3,000 years.

Meaning: Hathor is here to tell you that the way to wholeness for you lies in connecting with what brings you pleasure and in experiencing pleasure. Have you been taught that pleasure is forbidden, something sinful or evil? Are you so busy fulfilling your commitments that pleasure is relegated to the bottom of your list? Do you deny pleasure in order to get work done? Stop! Time to change all that. Pleasure relieves stress and relaxes and refreshes you. Pleasure is the body’s way of expressing health and vitality. Pleasure is the oil that keeps you lubricated and lush. Hathor says that since you have chosen to be here in a physical body, you might as well enjoy it. Plan to give yourself pleasure daily and you’ll find satisfaction dancing in your life.

Live with Passion essential oil is in this Goddess hoop package.

Hestia
Hearth/Home

Mythology: Hestia is so ancient a Goddess that she is invoked by simply lighting a fire in your hearth. She was central to civilization because she represented the center of the home, the community, the town, the city, No meal could be eaten without her, for she was the very fire that transformed the ingredients into nourishment.

Meaning: Hestia has come to tend her hearth fire in your life and to tell you it is time to focus on home. Whether you are living alone, with your family, or with friends, it is time to make your home a priority. Perhaps you are living in a house that is not your home or with people you don’t want to live with. Perhaps your home is filled with so many others that you have no space of your own. Perhaps your life is such a busy whirlwind that your dwelling is not your home, merely a place to change clothes and sleep. Now is the time to come home. Hestia says that wholeness is nurtured when you learn to come home to yourself and then to create the appropriate physical manifestation: a home that will nurture you.

Peace and Calming essential oil is in this Goddess Hoop package

Inanna
Embracing the shadow

Mythology: Sumerian Queen of heaven, Inanna tricked her father, Enki, God of Wisdom, into giving her the hundred objects of culture, which she then gave to humankind. Desiring to pay a visit to her sister, Ereskigal, she journeyed to the Underworld. There she was stripped and killed, and left to hang on a hook for three days and three nights. Inanna was allowed to leave the Underworld only if she found a substitute. She chose her son, the shepherd Damuzi, who, in her absence, had usurped her place on the throne of Heaven.

Meaning: Inanna is here to tell you that a journey to the underworld is the way to wholeness for you now. It is time to dance with your shadow, reclaim what you’ve denied, embrace your own dark sister/dark self. You need all those aspects of yourself that your parents, caregivers, teachers, society have deemed unacceptable in order to achieve wholeness in your life. Whether it be your talent, your beauty, your inner vampire, your anger, your madness, you are required to surrender to the journey and embrace your dark side. If you are already in the underworld, the appearance of Inanna may signal that the time for your return is at hand. Journeys to the underworld to embrace your dark side are a law unto themselves. They take as much time as they need to take. You can’t just fit them into your schedule. When it is time for you to journey, you will and you will not be done until you return. Take comfort in the fact that all journeys to the underworld do end and that you will indeed return- much different from who you thought you were when you went.

Present Time essential oil is part of this Goddess Hoop package.

Isis
Mothering

Mythology: Isis also known as Au Set (“ exceeding queen”) and Isis Panthea (“Isis the All-Goddess”), was worshiped in many places including Egypt, the Roman Empire, Greece, and Germany. When her beloved Osiris was killed then dismembered and scattered by her brother Set, Isis searched out the pieces and reassembled them. She found all but his penis, which she replaced with one of gold. Through use of her magic and healing arts she brought Osiris back to life then conceived, through his golden penis, the sun God Horus. When the temples of Isis were turned into Christian churches, Isis with baby Horus on her lap became the virgin Mary and Jesus.

Meaning: Isis has appeared in your life to tell you it is time for mothering. Have you been giving all your mothering energy away without keeping some for yourself? Have you taken on a new project or just had a new baby? Do you feel that something needs extra mothering, but you aren’t up to it? Did your own mother or caregiver give you the mothering you needed? Isis says that it is important to get the mothering you need in order to heal past wounds. Everyone needs to be mothered, regardless of whether you are a maiden, mother, or crone.

Innerchild essential oil is part of this Goddess Hoop package.

Ix Chel
Creativity

Mythology: Ix Chel was worshipped by the Maya of the Yucatan peninsula on Cozumel, her sacred island. The moon/snake Goddess, she helps assure fertility by holding the sacred womb jar upside down so that the waters of creation can be ever flowing. Ix Chel also presides over weaving, magic, health, and healing, sexuality, water, and childbirth. The dragonfly is here special animal.

Meaning: Ix Chel has woven herself into your life to tell you it is time to express creativity. It is time to stoke the fire, time to let your creative energy flow. Create! Be daring! But also be conscious and responsible, whether your creations are works of art or works of the flesh (children). Creativity nurtures, creativity reweaves the tears in our vitality, creativity heals. It is our birthright and our life blood: it makes us healthy and happy. We women have the ability to create: we give birth. So find the time , make the time, create the time to be creative, Beat the drum, use those paints, make that pottery, put on those dancing shoes, write those novels, explore your sexuality, rejoice in your own creativity. Create in the way that is appropriate for you. Let nothing stop you. Ix Chel says wholeness is nurtured when you open to your creativity and live it.

Clarity essential oil is part of this wonderful Goddess Hoop package.

Kuan Yin
Compassion

Mythology: Kuan Yin, or “she who hears the weeping world,” is the Chinese Buddhist bodhisattva of Compassion. She lives on her island paradise of P’u T’o Shan where she is said to grant every prayer she hears. She is so powerful that even the mention of her name will ease suffering and hardship. Choosing to remain in this world after having attained enlightenment, Kuan Yin has vowed to retain human form until all beings attain enlightenment. In Japan she is known as Kwannon.

Meaning: Kuan Yin appears mercifully in your life to tell you it is time to nurture wholeness with compassion for your loved ones, compassion for yourself. Do you find yourself feeling irritated or apathetic to the suffering of others? What keeps you from your compassion? Do you allow yourself space and ease when you are less than your idea of perfect? Do you fear opening your heart to the plight of others because it will hurt you? Compassion is the ability to listen deeply and allow others and yourself the space to go through what needs to be gone through and to feel what needs to be felt. Kuan Yin says that the way to alleviate your suffering is to develop compassion for yourself. From that compassionate place within, you can manifest compassion without.

Cosmic Creatrix
Relationship

Mythology: The Goddess as Cosmic Creatrix was known to the people of Sumer, Crete, and the Indus Valley (India). Her name is largely unknown because worship of her predated writing. She was also known as the Lady of Beasts, the creative, fertile, life-giving force. Her special animals were held sacred as manifestations of the deity herself. She is depicted pregnant, surrounded by pregnant animals, which speaks of her as a powerful fertility figure. She usually appears enthroned with a lion at her side indicating sovereignty and strength.

Meaning: Cosmic Creatrix walks slowly and serenely into your life to tell you it is time to focus on creating supportive and nurturing relationships, with your unborn child, the animal(s) in your life, a lover, family, friends, and/or coworkers. Relating to others enables you to look at the parts of yourself that you don’t ordinarily see. Relationships are the mirror in which you can see who you really are. Wholeness is nourished when you see who you really are, accept what you see, and strive to heal  what needs to be healed.  Are you in a relationship that presses all your buttons, brings up all your issues, leaves you feeling like a “woman on the verge of a nervous breakdown”? If both (or all) of you are committed to doing the work, willing to accept your pieces, your responsibility, this could be a gold mine. Perhaps you are in an abusive relationship, one that keeps hurting and hurting with no redeeming factors or one in which your partner is not looking at issues. This could be the time to gather your strength, lick your wounds, and move on. Perhaps better communication or acceptance could help your relationship. Cosmic Creatrix says the dance of relationship is the fast track to evolving consciousness and personal power. It is joyful, painful, frustrating, exhilarating, annihilating, and completely worth it.

LAKSHMI
Abundance

Mythology: Worship of Lakshmi began prior to the Aryan invasion of India. She is  considered the animating force or Shakti or Vishnu, the Preserver. Her sacred animal is the cow, symbol of abundance and plenty. She appears sometimes with elephants pouring water, another symbol of her powerful abundance. Although described as floating on the eternal sea of time, resting on a lotus, Hindus say that the Gods churned the sea of creation from which Lakshmi appeared in all her splendor.

Meaning: Lakshmi appears in your life to tell you it is time to nurture wholeness by recognizing and living from abundance. Is your existence defined and contained by the parameters of scarcity rather than abundance? Are your finances based on a poverty consciousness rather than limitlessness and plenty? Is your outlook on life one of never having enough rather than of having your needs met? Let yourself open to the abundance, the bounty that exists in your world. Lakshmi says that abundance is hard to perceive if lack, poverty, and scarcity dominate your consciousness. The way to wholeness for you lies in opening to the flow of abundance in the universe and recognizing the abundance in your life. When you open to the flow , you become aware of the abundance in your life in all its forms- friendship, health, family, love, beauty, talent, humor, et cetera- you can call in more from a conscious place.

MAAT
Justice

Mythology: Maat was an ancient Egyptian Goddess of law, order, truth, and justice. With her feather of truth she weighed the souls of all who came to her subterranean Hall of Judgment. She  would place her plume on her scales opposite the heart of the deceased. If the scales balanced, the deceased could feast with deities and spirits of the dead; if the heart was heavy, the deceased was turned over to Ahemait (Underworld Goddess who is part hippopotamus, part lion, part crocodile) to be devoured.

Meaning: Maat has come with her feather of truth to assist you in bringing justice into your life. Are you in a situation that seems unfair, unjust, unreasonable? Have you used integrity, yet another or others have not, and now you are wounded and seed justice? Have you not been honest in your words, your deeds, your actions? Are you being unjust to others? To yourself? Perhaps your standards are so rigid that you find them impossible to meet and continually need to rebel? Do you have an inner judge who condemns you for any infractions in his/her rule? Now is the time to look at your life and invite justice in. Now is the time to repay all debts, to strike a fair and reasonable balance in all your dealings. Maat says that the way to wholeness for you lies in accepting the loving nature of justice which seeks to right all wrongs by administering the lessons needed.

MAEVE
Responsibility

Mythology: Maeve, whose name means “intoxicating,” was associated with Ireland and represented the land’s sovereignty and its magical center, Tara. Over time she became diminished to Maeve, the Queen, who could outrun horses, confer with birds, and bring men into the heat of desire with a mere look.

Meaning: Maeve strides boldly into your life to challenge you with the task of taking responsibility for your life. It is time for you to become “ Queen of your domain” by becoming aware of, then accountable for, all that you are, all that you believe.
Are there places within you that seem as uncertain as uncharted waters? Do you seem to live your life on “automatic” as if you’ve been programmed by some else? Perhaps you have been drifting along in a particular situation, instead of finding out if this is the best place for you. Or you are not willing to own your pieces, to acknowledge what you have done to help create the situation or relationship you are now in. Maeve is here to remind you that the way to wholeness is by taking responsibility, by acknowledging where you are, who you are, can you create something different.

MAYA
Illusion

Mythology: The Hindus and Buddhists of India worshipped Maya as the “Material Universe,” as “Mother of Creation,” “Weaver of the Web of Life,” and as illusion. She is the virgin or maid part of the three-part Kali (the three aspects being virgin, mother, crone). Maya is also worshiped in Nepal, Tibet, Asia, and the Himalayas. Her special attributes are intelligence, creativity, water, and magic. She is depicted lifting the veils of earthly form to reveal the true nature of the universe.

Meaning: Maya moves subtly into your life to tell you to face your illusion. It is time to see what is so, what is true, what is real. Are you caught in a particular situation and can’t seem to move because it is hard to see clearly? Were you dazzled by what a certain reality seemed to offer you and now discover nothing there? Have you been listening to the words people speak rather than what’s behind the words? Maya says it is easy to get caught up in illusion. Wholeness is nurtured when you accept where you are and lift the veils to experience the reality. Seeing the reality behind the illusion is what brings you power.

MINERVA
Beliefs

Mythology: Minerva, the Roman and Etruscan Goddess of intelligence, creativity, wisdom, domestic skills, and handicrafts was the patroness of artisans, of all people whose handiwork was guided by their minds. Her very name comes from the ancient root for “mind.” Minerva appears with her sacred tree, the olive. She wears an aegis, which is a breastplate edged with snakes, and an owl on her headdress which identifies her as a Goddess of death and the deepest mysteries.

Meaning:
Minerva has come to tell you it is time to examine your beliefs and change them if they do not nurture your wholeness. How are old, outwarn, unhealthy thoughts undermining your life, your energy, your happiness? Do you believe what other people think and/or say about you? Are you still running the tape of negative messages your parents or caregivers gave you when you were a child? Do you believe the worst about yourself, or the best? Are your beliefs too rigid to permit and support your evolution? We are all born with a story. It is our choice whether we want to live the story we were born with or create one that nourishes all we want to be. Minerva says that wholeness is nurtured when you see yourself with all your parts(both dark and light) and choose your beliefs t serve your highest good.

MORGAN LE FAYE
Rhythms

Mythology: Morgan le faye is a celtic triple Goddess of death and rebirth, appearing as a beautiful young maiden, a powerful mother/creator, or a death-giving crone. She was also a sea Goddess, for her name “Mor” in Celtic means sea. Her last name has two meanings: “the fairy” and “the fate.”

Meaning: Morgan Le Faye has come dancing into your life with her drums and her magic to invite you to discover and live your rhythms. What are your personal rhythms? Do you know the best time for you to exercise, sleep, eat, be creative, make love, work, et cetera? Or do you spend all your vitality adjusting to the rhythms imposed on you by your work, family, lover, friends? Have you submerged in the life of another and lived his/her rhythms instead of your own? Perhaps you never discovered your own rhythms because you wanted to please those around you and be “one of the team.” It is vital for you to live according to your own rhythms . Flowing with your rhythm brings you greater energy because you are no longer suppressing what is natural to you. Morgan Le Faye says vitality, health, and wholeness are nurtured when you flow with your own unique beat rather than against it.

NU KUA
Order

Mythology: At the time of what the Hopei and Shansi people of northern China call the Great Chaos in the universe, Nu Kua, the dragon-bodied Goddess, came to restore order. She replaced the pillars of heaven with the legs of the great turtle and repaired the sky with colored stones. Her repairs enabled the rains to fall when needed and the seasons to come in their rightful order. The dragons on her two pillars guard the path of the sun and the moon. The compass she wears at her waist symbolizes order.

Meaning: Nu Kua floats into your life to assist you in creating order. Is chaos constantly peering around the edges of your life, threatening to overwhelm you if you relax for an instant? Have you let things pile up and bury you? Do you find you are excellent at organizing your boss, your family, your mate, but not yourself? Are you afraid of order, afraid that if you find a workable system for yourself you will feel locked in, unable to flow? Or perhaps you have created order in your life, but in a way that is stifling and stiff, solid, heavy, engraved in stone. Now is the time to nurture yourself with order that assist rather than chokes your life force. Nu Kua says that when life is ordered in the natural way, you nurture your path to wholeness. When you forcibly impose something unnatural from without, you create rebellion and resistance.

NUT
Mystery

Mythology: Nut is the Egyptian Goddess of the night sky, also known as the Great Deep, the Celestial Vault, who daily gives birth to the sun each morning then consumes it again each night. She is also known for mothering and protecting the dead on their journey.

Meaning: Nut’s twinkling vast dark vault stretches out in your life to remind you to open to the mystery. Have you been planning every aspect of your life and left not room for mystery? Is your life wound up too tight? Are you trying to make everything safe by defining it, labeling it, knowing it all? Give way to the mystery, the unkownable. The wise Woman knows there is much in the universe that will remain a mystery and leaves space for it in the weaving of her life. Nut says the way to nurture wholeness is for you to trust that the mystery you let in will be exactly what you need for your journey to wholeness.

OSHUN
Sensuality

Mythology: Oshun is the Brazillian Macumba Goddess of the waters/rivers, streams, and brooks. She is known for her love of beautiful things. She loves to adorn herself, especially in yellows and golds. Her rites at watery places include honoring her with honey and pennies (copper). Her necklace of cowrie shells symbolizes her knowledge and power in divination. It is said that the women dedicated to Oshun carry the special gift of their Goddess. They walk and dance in the most tantalizing and provocative ways. In their walk is the flow of the river. None can escape their charms.

Meaning: Oshun appears seductively in your life and cajoles you into remembering and honoring your sensuality. Wholeness is nourished by focusing your attention and time on your body, respecting and giving play to your senses and your sensuality. Oshun is here to tell you that it is time for sensuality. She invites you to follow her lead.

OYA
Change

Mythology: In Africa, Oya is the Yoruban Goddess of weather, especially tornadoes, lightining, destructive rainstorms, fire, female leadership, persuasive charm, and transformation. She is also one of the most powerful of Brazillian Macumba deities. When women find themselves in hard-to-resolve conflicts, she is the one to call on for protection. Wearing wine, her favorite color, and exhibiting nine whirlwinds (nine being her sacred number), she is depicted with a turban twisted to appear like buffalo horns, for it is said she assumed the shape of a buffalo when wedded to Ogun.

Meaning:  Oya storms into your life to tell you that change is calling, beckoning, and camping out on your doorstep. The way to wholeness for you lies in embracing change. Have you been too busy, too stressed, to attend to the changes needed in your life to nurture yourself? Is change so fearful a concept that you push it aside, play hide-and-seed with it, or just ignore it? Have you arranged your life so perfectly that there is no room left for potential? Time for change. Time to sweep out, sweep up, and be swept away. Perhaps you are in the midst of change and having trouble accepting it. Resistance to change brings more persistent change. Choosing to dance with change means you will flow with it. Let yourself be unsettled, prepare yourself for growth. Enter deeply into changes chaotic dance and you’ll be richly blessed with abundant possibility. It is time for something completely different. Oya says that the earth must be dug up before anything can be planted and that change always brings you what you need on your path to wholeness.

PACHAMAMA
Healing/Holy

Mythology: To the pre-Incan peoples of Peru and Bolivia, Pachamama, or mamapacha, is the Earth, worshiped in her many forms: the tilled fields, her mountains seen as breasts, the flowing rivers as her milk. To ensure good harvests, corn meal is sprinkled at planting and rituals celebrating her are performed. When the people fail to honor her, this dragon Goddess sends earthquakes as a reminder.

Meaning: Pachamama waits for you with open arms. It is time to open to Pachamama’s embrace. Now is the time to heal/whole and remember your holiness, remember yourself as a sacred being. Do you feel a connection with Earth Mother as a living entity or do you consider the earth an inert rock beneath your feet? Are you in the middle of some emotional pain that nothing seems to ease? Do you eat food and drink water without giving thanks to the earth? Are you looking for answers to questions? Do you spend your time in nature opening to the earth and her vital energies? Opening to Pachamama can occur anyplace. You can commune with her in a city park, your own backyard, some remote forest, jungle, or desert. Pachamama says that healing/wholing is nurtured when you open to her.

PELE
Awakening

Mythology: Pele is the volcano Goddess of the Polynesian peoples of Hawaii. According to legend she appears to people as a beautiful and mysterious young woman just before her volcano is about to erupt or as a gnarled old woman who lights her cigarette with the snap of her fingers. Although her priestesses, the queens of Hawaii, were converted to Christianity when Mauna Loa erupted in 1880, Princess Keelikolani recited the old chants, gave offerings of silk cloth, and poured brandy into the bubbling lava. Pele, thus appeased, grew calm.

Meaning: Pele’s appearance signals a need for awakening. Have you been sitting still for too long? Have you been lulled into sleep by the evenness in you life? Has reality been too slippery to grasp? Get ready to awaken your awareness and come into full consciousness. Now is the time to see things as they really are, to initiate change so things can be as you want them to be. Now is the time to wake up to your potential and power, to move and shake. Pay attention to all that life is telling you. Pele says that when you nurture awakening, your life becomes creative rather than reactive. An infinitely more powerful place to be.

SHAKTI
Energy

Mythology: In Hindu India, Shakti, the Goddess, is active, powerful, vital- the animating force of the universe. The masculine is the passive, inert, dormant force. Each Shakti has her God with whom she unites in sexual union. Without union, neither can do anything. To the Tantric mystics, the ultimate union with Shakti happens at the moment of death.

Meaning: Shakti explodes into your life to energize and vitalize you. The way to wholeness for you now lies in learning to work with Shakti: divine, cosmic, orgasmic Goddess energy. Have you been feeling tired? Do life and all its demands exhaust you? Do you keep giving your energy, your vitality, without taking in, recharging, revitalizing? Perhaps there is something you want to manifest but don’t feel you have enough energy to do it. Shakti says there is abundant energy available for you. All you need to do is learn how to connect with it.

SHEILA NA GIG
Opening

Mythology: Sheila Na Gig is an ancient Irish Goddess of birth and death. The Celts honored the sacred power of woman’s genitalia and used sculptures of woman for protection. Sheila Na Gig can be portrayed as a hag (woman of wisdom) in all her glory: rib cage of bone, breasts dried out and sagging, with few remaining teeth and little hair, yet vibrant and defiant in the beauty of her age. This beauty is the right of all women to claim. She dares you to look at her, face your fears of aging, and triumph in your celebration of what will age and die.

Meaning: Sheila Na Gig grins at you provocatively and invites you to join her in opening. Now is the time to open to new experiences, people, places, and things. Now is the time to begin new projects, forge new directions, venture out boldly. The universe invites you to come out and play. Perhaps you’ve had to contract your energy to deal with a wounding, a grieving, an ending. Or you haven’t felt it was safe to open up. You may have needed a time of seclusion, sorting out, and focusing inward. Sheila Na Gig is here to remind you that a period of contraction is followed by expansion and opening. It is time to nurture wholeness by integrating what the stretching, expanding, and opening will bring.

SOPHIA
Wisdom

Mythology: Sophia in Greek, Hohkma in Hebrew, Sapientia in Latin, all mean wisdom. The Judeo-Christian God’s female soul, source of his true power, is Sophia. As Goddess of wisdom, her faces are many: Black Goddess, Divine Feminine, Mother of God. To the Gnostic Christians, Sophia was the Mother of Creation; her consort and assistant was Jehovah. Her sacred shrine, Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, is one of the seven wonders of the world. Her symbol, the dove, represents spirit; she is crowned by stars, a  Middle Eastern icon, to indicate her absolute divinity.

Meaning: Pregnant Sophia holds out her cup of wisdom to you. It is time to connect with your own deep, enriching wisdom, time for stillness and introspection, time to listen to what needs to be heard. Perhaps you are in a situation where you need guidance. Perhaps you find yourself in similar situations over and over again. When you take the time to listen to your own inner Sophia you can get what you need.

SULIS
Illness/Wellness

Mythology: The ancient British called on and/or visited Sulis at her spa-shrine in Bath for health and healing. Her waters there were said to be miraculous in their ability to affect cures. “Sul” is Celtic for “sun” and “eye” and she is thought to be a sun Goddess. She is pictured swimming up through her healing waters into the light of the sun, she represents the depths all people must plumb in their journey to light, health, and wholeness.

Meaning: Sulis has come to tell you that it is time to embrace the dance of illness/wellness. Make time for yourself and nourish the energy you have. It is time to let go of everything and make you a priority. It is time to ask for what you need and let it in. Give yourself permission to seek support and assistance for your healing process. Illness is our body’s call for time off, time out, or just plain time. Illness is a way for us to come face to face with what is no longer working for us and change it. Have you been ignoring your own deep request for more time, more space, more attention? Perhaps you’ve been too busy attending to everyone eles’s needs and putting your own last. Perhaps illness is the only way out of a messy or painful situation. Do you experience any resistance to being in the dance of illness/wellness? any blame? Regardless of what brought you to this dance, you are here and need to put everything aside that doesn’t nourish and support your healing. The way to wholeness for you now lies in recognizing your own needs and putting them first, nourishing your energy, and vitality. Sulis says that the way you manage your energy can mean the difference between illness and wellness. Illness is the time to direct the flow of energy inward; wellness is the time for energy to be focused outward.

TARA
Centering

Mythology: Tara, who originated in India and whose name means “star,” is a major Goddess in the Tibetan pantheon. She is known to help those who call upon her in tumultuous times of need, to steer a clear path, to find the stillness and strength within. She is also the Goddess of self-mastery and mysticism. From the first tear of compassion, a lake was formed. From the middle of this lake, a lotus emerged. When it bloomed, Tara emerged. Although offered reincarnation in male form, she swore to be ever incarnated as a woman.

Meaning: Tara is here to remind you to center. It is time to nourish wholeness by going within and strengthening your center by focusing your awareness. Let the turmoil of life go on without you. It is hard to hear your own voice in the midst of the frenzy of life. Go into the quiet, go into the calm. When you return you will be stronger and more capable of dancing with what life has to offer.

UZUME
Laughter

Mythology: Uzume is ancient Japan’s shaman Goddess, credited as being the one to entice the Sun Goddess Amaterasu Omi Kami, out of the cave where she had hidden. Uzume did a bawdy dance making fun of shamanic ritual. Amidst the howls of loud laughter by the deities assembled, Amaterasu’s  curiousity got the better of her and she came out from her cave.

Meaning: Uzume begins her comic dance in your life to tell you it is time to nurture wholeness with laughter. Laughter causes us to relax, enables us to gain perspective, helps ease us through difficulties. Have you been taking life too seriously? When is the last time you had a good laugh? Are you able to laugh at yourself in a gentle way? Perhaps life is challenging you with such ferocity that you find it hard to see the humor in your present situation. Uzume says that wholeness is gained when you choose to laugh and see the humor in all of life’s challenges.

YEMAYA
Surrender

Mythology: Yemaya is a Santeria African-Caribbean Goddess of the sea, who gave birth to fourteen orishas, or spirits. Originally known as Ymoja, the West African Yoruban river mother, she also came to Brazil where she is known as Iamanja. At her celebration on the summer solstice, her worshippers arrive at her shorelines dressed in white and launch little boats loaded with flowers, candles, and gifts. Sometimes she accepts the offerings and prayers and sometimes she sends them back. It is said that those who come to Mother Yemaya and surrender to her find that their troubles dissolve in the waters of her embrace.

Meaning: Yemaya swimming into your life signals a time for surrender. Are you carrying more than you can handle comfortably? Do you think you must do it all by yourself? Have you come up against a wall and feel the only way to get to the other side is by breaking through? Surrender doesn’t mean giving up; rather you are giving over, asking for assistance so you can do what you want to do. Wholeness is nurtured when you realize that the only way through some situations is to surrender and open to something greater. The act of surrendering is one of opening and trust. When we open and trust, we allow Goddess energy to work with us to achieve what we need.

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