Enchantment – To Hold Stillness
Goddess Sunday: May Libertas Bless Us
This week, I am featuring a Goddess whose feast day Americans will be celebrating on Wednesday (whether they realize it or not). No one can explain Her better than one of Her most public, devoted Priestesses, Selena Fox. So today, I offer Selena’s own article, almost in its entirety — a loving homage to this … Read more
Blessings to Hecate
As you may know, on the last day of each month, I like to give honor to the Goddess Hecate. Hecate is a Greek Triple Goddess of magical crossroads and the three realms of Earth, Sea and Sky. She is a guardian of the household, protector of everything newly born, and the Goddess of Witches. … Read more
Goddess Sunday: Blessed Bastet
In ancient times cats were worshiped as Gods; they have not forgotten this. ~ Terry Pratchett On this first Sunday of Summer, as our brothers and sisters in Egypt today celebrate their dramatic progress towards democracy, we welcome the glad and Summery energy of beautiful Bastet! Bastet (the name now preferred by most Egyptologists), is … Read more
Goddess Sunday: The Great Mother Mawu
This week, from our Great Mother Africa, we welcome the Great Creator Mother Goddess, Mawu. Riding on an elephant’s back, pregnant with all life, She brings bounty, fertility, creativity, and the cool, cleansing energy of the Moon. Her beautiful planet Earth is held up by the great Serpent, Aido Hwedo. Mawu is the daughter of … Read more
Queen of Many Names and Virtues
Hail Juno, for whom this month is named! Our story begins, not with Juno, but with the Goddess Hera. Once upon a time, before the warring patriarchal tribes of the north invaded, the Goddess Hera was the highest Greek divinity. A Queen of the Skies, Her name simply meant, “Our Lady,” and may not have … Read more
Goddess Sunday: Inanna and the Venus Transit
Queen of all given powers unveiled clear light unfailing woman wearing brilliance cherished in heaven and earth chosen, sanctified in heaven you grand in your adornments crowned with your beloved goodness rightfully you are High Priestess… ~ Enheduanna translated by Betty DeShong Meador, Inanna, Lady of the Largest Heart © University of Texas Press, Austin … Read more
Goddess Sunday: Hail to Maia
Muse, sing of Hermes, the son of Zeus and Maia, lord of Cyllene and Arcadia rich in flocks, the luck-bringing messenger of the immortals whom Maia bare, the rich-tressed nymph, when She was joined in love with Zeus, — a shy Goddess, for She avoided the company of the blessed Gods, and lived within a … Read more
Goddess Sundays – The Goddess Flora, Part 2
I am the handmaid of the Earth I ‘broider fair Her glorious gown And deck Her on Her days of mirth With many a garland of renown. And while Earth’s little ones are fain And play about the Mother’s hem I scatter every gift I gain From sun and wind to gladden them. ~ William … Read more