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Celtic goddess Epona and her white mare bring dreams to you. She helps manifest the dreams if you allow her to accompany you on your path.

MANTRA

• Adventure
  

GEMSTONES

• Cat's-eye, ruby and moonstone
  

ESSENTIAL OILS

• Goddess-ence Isis* blend for the third eye chakra

AFFIRMATIONS

• I see and accept the path intended for me
• My future is full of juicy possibilities
• I invite new choices into my life
• My goals are becoming manifest
• I deserve to have my dreams realised

The maiden goddess Epona is usually portrayed as riding a white mare side-saddle, sometimes with a foal, or standing surrounded by horses. Her symbol is the Cornucopia ("horn of plenty") which suggests that she may have been honoured as a fertility goddess, although she is most commonly known as a goddess of horses and travel. She fed her beloved horses from her cornucopia filled with corn and apples, symbolic of mother-love and abundance.

From the iron age, the Celtic goddess' faith spread across the whole of ancient Europe, eventually being embraced by the Romans and to a certain extent, Christianity. Epona had a shrine in almost every stable of the Roman empire - in fact, she was the only Celtic goddess to be honoured by the Romans with a temple in their capital city. Her annual festival in Roman times was around the 18th December (in Mantua/Italy), when her images in shrines and stables were draped in rose garlands.


Epona and her white mare accompanies the soul on its final journey to the other world, and in life she is associated with the white mare that brings dreams.


This week, allow yourself the time to dream, give yourself the opportunity to let your ideas ride in your mind, think of where you have been afraid to go and let the horses of Epona guide your spirit there in safety. If you need a tool to facilitate a meditative state, use a string of rose petal beads to help discover new places within yourself.

To make rose petal beads: cook rose petals in a little water in an iron pot until nearly black and pasty. Add a little orris powder and rose-scented oil, and shape the beads to 2 times the size you want them to be when dry. Pierce them with a needle and string them, turning them regularly until they're dry. On a full moon, invoke Epona to bless the beads. Use the beads to energise your prayers by holding them as you creatively visualise your journeys with Epona.



... If she were in your situation she would pay attention to her dreams, whether they be via night-time astral travelling or day-dreaming journeys. Life is full of possibilities, limitless choices and exciting paths to travel. As such, Epona would live her dreams.

(Excerpt from What Would Goddess Do? A Journal For Channelling Divine Guidance by Anita Revel)


Love and delight
Anita Revel
Creatrix :: Goddess.com.au


These sublime essential oil blends for the chakras are available from: 

• The Goddess Goodies store, or
• from any Goddess Playshop Facilitator.

They are 100% pure - this means they are not diluted with a carrier oil or base oil, and are therefore very powerful and transformative. Trade enquiries welcome

A couple of years ago, I was having an e-chat with a fellow author, Jean-Claude Koven, when he told me about how his partner manifested their relationship through ritual and intent. He was amazed that one woman could be so powerful! I couldn't help but smile - any woman who steps into her power is the essence of the Universe's magnificence. I know this because it happened to me too.

My personal process involved taking my HUGE list of desirable qualities I wanted in a partner, and boiling it down into five key qualities. It took me six months to filter the most important aspects down from 300 random scrawls into the five fundamental aspects that would deliver me my perfect mate. I eventually came up with Masculine, Intelligent, Grounded, Passionate and Available (after reluctantly releasing Adonis, Humorous and Affluent).

I waited another year, meditating and affirming daily that a mate who personified these key aspects would be knocking on my door any minute. I remained positive and absolutely certain that the Universe would deliver me my mate, but by the end of a year, began to lose patience until eventually, I threw the list away.

I was washing my dishes one afternoon (a novel experience - I don't normally do this on purpose), quite lost in thought, watching the view, watching my son playing in the living room, when, I had a moment...

I realised that I was completely happy with who and what I was. I started laughing that I had thrown my list out - why was I looking for a "soul-mate" when I had it within all this time?

Then, as soon as I released my expectations and embraced my Self fully as a being whole unto herself, along came my man. We have now been married for 4.5 years, and still affirming and loving each other as strongly as our wedding day.

The message for me, therefore, is that love is like jello - the more you try and hold onto it, the more it squeezes out of your grasp. The minute I released my grip on this "list" and my expectations, opportunity fell into my open palms.

~ Anita Revel, as published in Living Now Magazine

Have your say at my blog: When / How did you meet your soul mate? What life lesson did you learn in the process?