Goddess of the week
Aussie Goddess of the month
Wild Woman Weekend 2010
Prayer for growing old gracefully
Disgraceful Challenge
© Anita Revel

Goddess of fertility and new beginnings, we take this opportunity at next week's equinox to embrace Eostre's passion for new life and let our own lives take the new direction we have wanted for so long.

MANTRA

• Fresh beginnings

GEMSTONES

• Carnelian, coral, agate, brown jaspar (orange stones)

ESSENTIAL OILS

• Goddess-ence Ishtar* blend for the sacral chakra

AFFIRMATIONS

• I think love, I am love
  
• Old plans have new focus
  
• I feel absolutely supercharged
• Today I choose to be healthy
• I walk with "spring" in my step
• I love to move, groove and lurrrrve
  
• My vital energy resurfaces naturally
• I embrace life in its absolute fullness
• I wake up easily with each new dawn

Eostre (pron East-ra) was the Anglo-Saxon goddess of the dawn, from whom "East" (where the sun rises) and "Easter" got its name - as the fertility goddess of the Northern European peoples, her legend was manipulated by the invading Romans - newly Christianised, they merged Eostre's spring legend to coincide with the time of Christ's resurrection.

She is also goddess Ostara, the maiden, in German mythology, celebrated when night and day are equal and balanced (the spring equinox for the northern hemisphere). Interestingly, the word "estrus" (referring to an animal in heat) is also derived from Eostra as her consort was a hare with an extraordinarily high libido!

According to legend, Eostre became angry with the hare and cast it into the heavens. Today we can see the "Lepus" (the hare) constellation at the feet of Orion.

Eostre gave Lepus the gift of laying eggs once a year, which, combined with the symbolism of new life (Christ's resurrection), is why we have a modern day myth of "Easter Bunny" delivering easter eggs to children.


No matter whether it is Spring or Autumn (depending on your hemisphere), we can always use this time to embrace Eostre's energy and look forward to new ideas, new jobs, new goals.


Working with a clear intent during the next New Moon window, plant seeds together with your magick wishes for wholeness, healing, harmony, balance, peace, and so on. As the crescent Moon increases in light, growing bigger each night, it symbolises and reflects the growth of the seeds planted at the New Moon.


... (Ostara) is remembered at the spring and vernal equinoxes when the days and nights are of equal length. If Ostara were in your situation, she would take this opportunity to embrace her passion for new life. She would plant the seeds of new ideas, new jobs or new goals with the view to bringing them to fruition in the very near future. 

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

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



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Surrounded by the beauty of the Western Australian bush and a stunning waterfall, we will immerse ourselves in the enchanted realms of the magickal faeries for the 5th annual Wild Woman Weekend.

Featuring interactive, down to earth and fun workshops with Lucy Cavendish, delightful outdoor ritual and magicks, fully catered feasts and faery-inspired meditations and path- working, we will reignite the joy, creativity, wisdom and freedom of the faerie!

Join us as we walk Faery paths, learn the legends and the lessons of faerie, and rediscover their wild wisdom deep within ourselves. More information and registrations  at the goddess goodies store .

 

Dear Higher Power, You know better than I myself that I am growing older and will someday be old.

Keep me from the fatal  habit  of thinking  I  must  say something on every subject and on every occasion. 

Release me from craving to straighten out everybody's affairs.

Make me thoughtful but not moody; helpful but not bossy.  

With my vast store of wisdom, it seems a pity not to use it all; but You know, Beloved, that I want a few friends at the end.

Keep my mind free from the recital of endless details; give me wings to get to the point.

Seal my lips on my aches and pains; they are increasing, and love of rehearsing them is becoming sweeter as the years go by.

I dare not ask for improved memory, but for a growing humility and a lessening cock-sureness when my memory seems to clash with the memories of others.

Teach me the glorious lesson that occasionally I may be mistaken.

Keep me reasonably sweet, for a sour old person is a vexation to those around.

Give me the ability to see good things in unexpected places and talents in unexpected people; and give me, Divine One, the grace to tell them so.

Blissed Be

Disgraceful Challenge: Let's co-create a Prayer for Growing Old Dis-gracefully... Make suggestions at my blog!

Aussie artist and therapist Shannon Bush incorporates the Goddesses in her work with both men and women. As a transpersonal art therapist, she delights in sharing many Goddess stories and seeing the Goddesses light up in others.

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