Podcasts about Great Goddess

Join us for a wonderful, foundational episode: we're making matriarchy great again! Laura Hirch is a filmmaker, writer, artist and a scholar of matriarchal studies.  Her six-part documentary, From The Goddess, explores the concept of the Great Goddess and how matriarchal societies, centered around Goddess worship, thrived in peaceful coexistence for millennia until the emergence of Patriarchy 6,000 years ago.  We discuss her series and other aspects of matriarchal herstory along with our own matriarchal scholar and inspiration, Vicki Noble. Sean Marlon Newcombe and Dawn "Sam" Alden co-host.Support the MMGA podcast on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/34Circe

This podcast was recorded in January 2025 for the Super Conductors of Love free summit facilitated by Martha Alter Hines and Cayelin Castell. To join in the closing ceremony March 30th, use this link: https://www.livingtheonelight.com/sup... This podcast incorporates the Venus journey at the end of March 2025 and her conjunction with Neptune (the higher octave of Venus) and the Mars opposition with Pluto (the higher octave of Mars). I speculate in this video about how Ereshkigal, in the myth of Inanna, may be represented by the asteroid Persephone and, in my later, more recent video published in March 2025, by the asteroid Ceres. Let me know your thoughts on this! All of these points represent aspects of this split between Inanna and Ereshkigal and the division of the Great Goddess archetype. Heather's website: https://www.risingmoonhealingcenter.com/ To become a patron of Heather:   / heatherensworth  

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This episode delves into the significance of the New Moon in Aquarius, the Year of the Wood Snake in Chinese astrology, and the powerful symbolism of the serpent and the divine feminine, particularly embodied by Lilith with our serial co-host Dionna Eschleman! In this episode we cover: This New Moon in Aquarius: Fresh starts, replenishment, and inward reflection. Aquarius energy: community, technology, innovation, and rebellion. Importance of clearing the path for intuitive messages. Lunar New Year: The first new moon of the lunar calendar. Multiple opportunities for new beginnings throughout the year (Gregorian, Lunar, Astrological, Witch's New Year). Utilizing the wheel of the year for personal reflection. Year of the Wood Snake: Charming, intelligent, and creative, but also secretive and cunning. Wood Snake years: 1965, 2025. Snake symbolism: transformation, rebirth, healing, dual nature, deep consciousness, intuition. Serpent and the Divine Feminine: The serpent as the powerful symbol of the goddess in various mythologies. Connection to the Great Goddess, Devi, Shakti, Sophia, and Lilith. The serpent as a representation of creative life force, renewal, and rebirth. Lilith: The first woman, a symbol of independence and knowledge. The story of Lilith and the Garden of Eden. Lilith, the powerful and empowering divine feminine goddess The medicine we need in the world right now. Magical Mentoring: A little about the program. Self revolution work that dismantles internalized patriarchy through the lens of the dark goddesses Community-based approach with personalized support. Spring Mentoring enrollment begins in February! Spring mentoring is all Lilith energy Additional Resources: Book your Magical Mentoring exploration call February 18th - 27th! Connect with Dionna on Instagram @queenieofwands Follow and DM Tandy on Instagram @tandy_gutierrez 30-Days Guest Access in Unicorn Wellness Studio (online) Offering 30-min classical Pilates workouts in alignment to the astrological season and lunar cycles, new and full moon tarot readings, astrology and Magick tutorials. When God Was a Woman - by Merlin Stone Caliban and the Witch - by Silvia Federici White Sage Tarot - by Theresa Hutch Additional episodes you might enjoy: EP 101: From Meta to Magic: Stories of Liberation and Empowerment EP 99: Aquarius Season Tarot Forecast EP 98: Aquarius Season Deep Dive and Energy Forecast EP 95: Nodes of Fate: Stepping into the Pisces Dream and Leaving Virgo Perfectionism Behind

Baal Kadmon is an Author, Occultist, and Meditation teacher based out of New York City. In addition to the Occult, he is a Scholar of Religion, Philosopher, and Historian specializing in Ancient History, Late Antiquity, and Medieval History. He has studied and speaks Israeli Hebrew, Classical Hebrew, Ugaritic language, Arabic, Judeo-Aramaic, Syriac (language), Ancient Greek, and Classical Latin. Baal joins me to discuss the Lucifer Fallacy. Why is Lucifer so important to both occultists and Christians alike? Why do they feel threatened when the very existence of this being is challenged? And .. who is the real fallen angel? Baal has authored multiple books including such titles as: The Magick of Lilith: Calling upon the Great Goddess of the Left Hand Path Baal: The Lord of the Heavens: Calling Down the Great God of Canaan (Canaanite Magick) The 72 Angels Of The Name: Calling On the 72 Angels of God The Magickal Talismans of King Solomon and many more. His books can be found on Amazon and Audible. Baal's material including several very well structured and informative courses can be found at https://www.occultcourses.com/ AFB listeners can order Baal's course Lucifer: Unraveling the Lucifer Fallacy: for 30% off by going to https://www.occultcourses.com/lucifer enter promo code ALIENS Intro: Are They Real? MGR Productions Outro: The Sixth Sense Danijel Zambo Support the show: Venmo AFBpodcast TikTok @aliensforbeginner IG @aliensforbeginnerspod X @AFBPodcast

Build Your House: Episode 32 - Temple of the great goddess Diana

Imagine healing from surgery in a miraculous way…or seeing a vision of the Black Madonna over your bed and hearing instructions for your life's purpose... These might seem like far-fetched stories to you and me, but for today's guest, this is the story of her life. Last week I shared her book, Healing Journeys with the Black Madonna. This week I am thrilled to introduce you to the author of that landmark book, the one and only Alessandra Belloni! Let me tell you a bit about her:  Alessandra Belloni is an internationally acclaimed award-winning singer, percussionist, author & teacher, artistic director of the Italian Folk Music Dance Theater Company I Giullari di Piazza, and artist in Residence at the Cathedral of St John the Divine in New York City. For the last 20 years she has been leading special workshops, tours and pilgrimages in the South of Italy and in Sicily teaching drumming and ritual dance and taking people from around the world to the sacred sites of the Black Madonna. She discovered that the ancient practice of ritual drumming can help women heal both physical and emotional issues. In this episode, she will share her miraculous journey of discovering the Black Madonna and the path of the Great Goddess, including her own miraculous physical healing! Alessandra shares amazing stories of healing, as well as the origin of the Black Madonna and how connecting with Her connects us to everything. I hope this interview inspires you as much as it inspired me!  Ps- if you want the link to her book, click here for the show notes. And to listen to it in her own voice, click here for a FREE 30 Day Trial to Audible.com!    Key Learnings: The Black Madonnas pre-date Christianity. They are based on the original mother image from Africa, the Great Cosmic Mother, the darkness from which all life emerges. Alessandra, though born in Italy, came to live in the United States as a teenager. She had a powerful connection with the Divine Mother since she was a child, she shares with us her miraculous encounters with the Black Madonna and how she learned how to help women heal. The Black Madonnas want to be seen. Go on pilgrimage to visit them, and see them with your own eyes, this is the path. Many people make annual pilgrimages to Italy and other places where the Black Madonnas reside as part of the spiritual path.    “The Black Madonna represents the Great Cosmic Mother and the darkness from which all life emerges.” Alessandra Belloni To find out more about her work, visit https://alessandrabelloni.com/ You can also find her on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/AlessandraBelloniArts On IG: https://www.instagram.com/belloni.alessandra/ I recommend listening to her book! Click here for a FREE 30 Day Trial of Audible Click here to purchase Healing Journeys with the Black Madonna by Alessandra Belloni Click here to join the Magnify Your Miracles membership If you love the image on the wall behind me of Mother Mary Blessing the World, you can order your own museum quality copy at www.deepaliu.com

A woman's spiritual path is a healing path. Having an image of the Divine that looks like you, sounds like you, lived like you…and IS you, is the heart of this healing path. There is no better book that I can recommend to support your healing journey than Alessandra Belloni's miraculous book, Healing Journeys with the Black Madonna. She takes us on her own miraculous journey of discovering the Black Madonna and the path of the Great Goddess, and how she discovered an ancient way to help women heal both physical and emotional issues. In this episode, I share the chapter that Divine Mother asked me to read to you! It is about the Black Madonna of Tindari, a very powerful and healing form of the Black Madonna. I am so excited to share that next week my special guest will be the author, Alessandra Belloni!    Ps- if you want the link to the book, click here for the show notes. And click here for a FREE 30 Day Trial to Audible.com!    Key Learnings: 1. The Black Madonnas are statues and icons that are believed to originate in Africa and have traveled north to areas of Europe. There are seven of them in southern Italy that are referred to as the Seven Sisters. 2. Alessandra, though born in Italy, came to live in the United States as a teenager. She had a powerful connection with the Divine Mother since she was a child, but in this book, she shares with us her miraculous encounters with the Black Madonna and how she learned how to help women heal. 3. The chapter I read, chapter 7, is about the Black Madonna of Tindari, Sicily. It takes us through her first encounter with this Madonna, including experiencing the magic of the earth in this magical area. Miracles are in every chapter of this book, and I highly recommend it to anyone interested in learning more about the ancient path of the Goddess!    “The Black Madonna is the female embodiment of God because God is a woman, and She is black. She embraces everyone with Her unconditional love as Universal Mother.” Alessandra Belloni   I recommend listening to this book! Click here for a FREE 30 Day Trial of Audible Click here to purchase Healing Journeys with the Black Madonna by Alessandra Belloni Click here to join the Magnify Your Miracles membership If you love the image on the wall behind me of Mother Mary Blessing the World, you can order your own museum quality copy at www.deepaliu.com

The Parashakthi Temple in Pontiac, Michigan serves as a site of worship for the Hindu goddess Karumariamman, whose origins are in South India. In her American home Karumariamman has assumed the status of Great Goddess, a tantric deity and wonder worker who communicates directly with devotees through dreams, visions, and miracles. Drawing on fifteen years of field work, Tracy Pintchman reveals how the Parashakthi Temple has become a site of theological and ritual innovation. A unique spiritual community, the temple does not simply reproduce Indian goddess traditions, but instead reimagines Hinduism and the Hindu Goddess in the American religious, cultural, and natural landscape. The congregation's faith is grounded in a vision of the Goddess as a breaker of boundaries, including those of race, ethnicity, religion, geography, history, and nationality. Like her congregants, Pintchman suggests, the goddess is emblematic of the qualities of a new immigrant; she embraces the opportunities her new home affords her and refashions herself, but she does not forget her roots, keeping one foot planted in her Indian homeland and another planted firmly in her new land, the United States. In Goddess Beyond Boundaries: Worshipping the Eternal Mother at a North American Hindu Temple (Oxford UP, 2023), Pintchman considers larger issues concerning the creativity of immigrant Hindu communities and the ways in which diaspora contexts facilitate the production of new forms of Hinduism that are made possible by globalization and modern technology. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

The Parashakthi Temple in Pontiac, Michigan serves as a site of worship for the Hindu goddess Karumariamman, whose origins are in South India. In her American home Karumariamman has assumed the status of Great Goddess, a tantric deity and wonder worker who communicates directly with devotees through dreams, visions, and miracles. Drawing on fifteen years of field work, Tracy Pintchman reveals how the Parashakthi Temple has become a site of theological and ritual innovation. A unique spiritual community, the temple does not simply reproduce Indian goddess traditions, but instead reimagines Hinduism and the Hindu Goddess in the American religious, cultural, and natural landscape. The congregation's faith is grounded in a vision of the Goddess as a breaker of boundaries, including those of race, ethnicity, religion, geography, history, and nationality. Like her congregants, Pintchman suggests, the goddess is emblematic of the qualities of a new immigrant; she embraces the opportunities her new home affords her and refashions herself, but she does not forget her roots, keeping one foot planted in her Indian homeland and another planted firmly in her new land, the United States. In Goddess Beyond Boundaries: Worshipping the Eternal Mother at a North American Hindu Temple (Oxford UP, 2023), Pintchman considers larger issues concerning the creativity of immigrant Hindu communities and the ways in which diaspora contexts facilitate the production of new forms of Hinduism that are made possible by globalization and modern technology. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/asian-american-studies

The Parashakthi Temple in Pontiac, Michigan serves as a site of worship for the Hindu goddess Karumariamman, whose origins are in South India. In her American home Karumariamman has assumed the status of Great Goddess, a tantric deity and wonder worker who communicates directly with devotees through dreams, visions, and miracles. Drawing on fifteen years of field work, Tracy Pintchman reveals how the Parashakthi Temple has become a site of theological and ritual innovation. A unique spiritual community, the temple does not simply reproduce Indian goddess traditions, but instead reimagines Hinduism and the Hindu Goddess in the American religious, cultural, and natural landscape. The congregation's faith is grounded in a vision of the Goddess as a breaker of boundaries, including those of race, ethnicity, religion, geography, history, and nationality. Like her congregants, Pintchman suggests, the goddess is emblematic of the qualities of a new immigrant; she embraces the opportunities her new home affords her and refashions herself, but she does not forget her roots, keeping one foot planted in her Indian homeland and another planted firmly in her new land, the United States. In Goddess Beyond Boundaries: Worshipping the Eternal Mother at a North American Hindu Temple (Oxford UP, 2023), Pintchman considers larger issues concerning the creativity of immigrant Hindu communities and the ways in which diaspora contexts facilitate the production of new forms of Hinduism that are made possible by globalization and modern technology. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/anthropology

The Parashakthi Temple in Pontiac, Michigan serves as a site of worship for the Hindu goddess Karumariamman, whose origins are in South India. In her American home Karumariamman has assumed the status of Great Goddess, a tantric deity and wonder worker who communicates directly with devotees through dreams, visions, and miracles. Drawing on fifteen years of field work, Tracy Pintchman reveals how the Parashakthi Temple has become a site of theological and ritual innovation. A unique spiritual community, the temple does not simply reproduce Indian goddess traditions, but instead reimagines Hinduism and the Hindu Goddess in the American religious, cultural, and natural landscape. The congregation's faith is grounded in a vision of the Goddess as a breaker of boundaries, including those of race, ethnicity, religion, geography, history, and nationality. Like her congregants, Pintchman suggests, the goddess is emblematic of the qualities of a new immigrant; she embraces the opportunities her new home affords her and refashions herself, but she does not forget her roots, keeping one foot planted in her Indian homeland and another planted firmly in her new land, the United States. In Goddess Beyond Boundaries: Worshipping the Eternal Mother at a North American Hindu Temple (Oxford UP, 2023), Pintchman considers larger issues concerning the creativity of immigrant Hindu communities and the ways in which diaspora contexts facilitate the production of new forms of Hinduism that are made possible by globalization and modern technology. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/sociology

The Parashakthi Temple in Pontiac, Michigan serves as a site of worship for the Hindu goddess Karumariamman, whose origins are in South India. In her American home Karumariamman has assumed the status of Great Goddess, a tantric deity and wonder worker who communicates directly with devotees through dreams, visions, and miracles. Drawing on fifteen years of field work, Tracy Pintchman reveals how the Parashakthi Temple has become a site of theological and ritual innovation. A unique spiritual community, the temple does not simply reproduce Indian goddess traditions, but instead reimagines Hinduism and the Hindu Goddess in the American religious, cultural, and natural landscape. The congregation's faith is grounded in a vision of the Goddess as a breaker of boundaries, including those of race, ethnicity, religion, geography, history, and nationality. Like her congregants, Pintchman suggests, the goddess is emblematic of the qualities of a new immigrant; she embraces the opportunities her new home affords her and refashions herself, but she does not forget her roots, keeping one foot planted in her Indian homeland and another planted firmly in her new land, the United States. In Goddess Beyond Boundaries: Worshipping the Eternal Mother at a North American Hindu Temple (Oxford UP, 2023), Pintchman considers larger issues concerning the creativity of immigrant Hindu communities and the ways in which diaspora contexts facilitate the production of new forms of Hinduism that are made possible by globalization and modern technology. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/american-studies

The Parashakthi Temple in Pontiac, Michigan serves as a site of worship for the Hindu goddess Karumariamman, whose origins are in South India. In her American home Karumariamman has assumed the status of Great Goddess, a tantric deity and wonder worker who communicates directly with devotees through dreams, visions, and miracles. Drawing on fifteen years of field work, Tracy Pintchman reveals how the Parashakthi Temple has become a site of theological and ritual innovation. A unique spiritual community, the temple does not simply reproduce Indian goddess traditions, but instead reimagines Hinduism and the Hindu Goddess in the American religious, cultural, and natural landscape. The congregation's faith is grounded in a vision of the Goddess as a breaker of boundaries, including those of race, ethnicity, religion, geography, history, and nationality. Like her congregants, Pintchman suggests, the goddess is emblematic of the qualities of a new immigrant; she embraces the opportunities her new home affords her and refashions herself, but she does not forget her roots, keeping one foot planted in her Indian homeland and another planted firmly in her new land, the United States. In Goddess Beyond Boundaries: Worshipping the Eternal Mother at a North American Hindu Temple (Oxford UP, 2023), Pintchman considers larger issues concerning the creativity of immigrant Hindu communities and the ways in which diaspora contexts facilitate the production of new forms of Hinduism that are made possible by globalization and modern technology. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/indian-religions

The Parashakthi Temple in Pontiac, Michigan serves as a site of worship for the Hindu goddess Karumariamman, whose origins are in South India. In her American home Karumariamman has assumed the status of Great Goddess, a tantric deity and wonder worker who communicates directly with devotees through dreams, visions, and miracles. Drawing on fifteen years of field work, Tracy Pintchman reveals how the Parashakthi Temple has become a site of theological and ritual innovation. A unique spiritual community, the temple does not simply reproduce Indian goddess traditions, but instead reimagines Hinduism and the Hindu Goddess in the American religious, cultural, and natural landscape. The congregation's faith is grounded in a vision of the Goddess as a breaker of boundaries, including those of race, ethnicity, religion, geography, history, and nationality. Like her congregants, Pintchman suggests, the goddess is emblematic of the qualities of a new immigrant; she embraces the opportunities her new home affords her and refashions herself, but she does not forget her roots, keeping one foot planted in her Indian homeland and another planted firmly in her new land, the United States. In Goddess Beyond Boundaries: Worshipping the Eternal Mother at a North American Hindu Temple (Oxford UP, 2023), Pintchman considers larger issues concerning the creativity of immigrant Hindu communities and the ways in which diaspora contexts facilitate the production of new forms of Hinduism that are made possible by globalization and modern technology. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/religion

The Parashakthi Temple in Pontiac, Michigan serves as a site of worship for the Hindu goddess Karumariamman, whose origins are in South India. In her American home Karumariamman has assumed the status of Great Goddess, a tantric deity and wonder worker who communicates directly with devotees through dreams, visions, and miracles. Drawing on fifteen years of field work, Tracy Pintchman reveals how the Parashakthi Temple has become a site of theological and ritual innovation. A unique spiritual community, the temple does not simply reproduce Indian goddess traditions, but instead reimagines Hinduism and the Hindu Goddess in the American religious, cultural, and natural landscape. The congregation's faith is grounded in a vision of the Goddess as a breaker of boundaries, including those of race, ethnicity, religion, geography, history, and nationality. Like her congregants, Pintchman suggests, the goddess is emblematic of the qualities of a new immigrant; she embraces the opportunities her new home affords her and refashions herself, but she does not forget her roots, keeping one foot planted in her Indian homeland and another planted firmly in her new land, the United States. In Goddess Beyond Boundaries: Worshipping the Eternal Mother at a North American Hindu Temple (Oxford UP, 2023), Pintchman considers larger issues concerning the creativity of immigrant Hindu communities and the ways in which diaspora contexts facilitate the production of new forms of Hinduism that are made possible by globalization and modern technology.

Laura Hirch is an independent conscious filmmaker, journalist and artist. Her works center women, healing, spirituality, mysticism and art. She calls herself a spiritual feminist and an eco feminist, and both of these paths define her creative work. She has studied journalism in Munich, where she was born and raised, and documentary filmmaking in Los Angeles. Laura is the creator of the independently produced 6-part docuseries FROM THE GODDESS which investigates the central role of the Great Goddess in early history and modern times and explores the concept of Her in many different aspects - from archaeology to social science, art and thealogy. Its aim is to show women that we have played an important role in earlier societies, having been not only worshipped as the creatrix of life but also the bearer of community and a source of sacredness. The emergence of patriarchy 6000 years ago not only changed the role of women in society but also severed the connection to nature. Through the matriarchal worldview, which is still upheld by indigenous peoples today, we can learn to become better guardians of our Mother Earth once again. SUPPORT: To support Laura's work, purchase the docuseries From the Goddess on demand from Vimeo. vimeo.com/ondemand/fromthegoddessdocuseries   FOLLOW: You can find and follow Laura Hirch online on Instagram in English, Instagram in German, Facebook, and on her website at womenbodiment.com --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thegirlfriendgod/message

It's no secret that Artemis is beloved at the 34 Circe Salon Make Matriarchy Great Again podcast, so this episode is a match made in heaven for us.... because it's all about Artemis!Our guest is Dr. Carla Ionescu who is one of the leading experts in the worship and ritual of Artemis. In the summers she scavenges new locations and cities world wide, digging through the remains of grave sites, ruins, and abandoned buildings, trying to uncover the long lost mystery that is Artemis, The Great Mother.We discuss Artemis in her many incarnations and in her many locations.Arise, Amazons, and praise Artemis!Sean Marlon Newcombe and Dawn "Sam" Alden co-host.

Do you feel cut off from your pleasure?I get it!Most women do.And it makes sense.Why do so many women feel numb and cut off from their sensual pleasure?So many reasons...The broad stroke is that we live in a pleasure-negative world that pretty much demands a disconnect from our sensuality and the creative life force power of our sexual energy.It hasn't felt safe for most of us to inhabit our sensual selves.If that's been your experience I want you to know that it's not your fault.And I also want you  to know that you have the power to change that.And you can start in the simplest of ways.Sensual pleasure is the portal into you embodying the Goddess you were born to be.To feel fully alive and embodied in your unique sacred feminine essence, you need to awaken your Yoni.Yoni is the Sanskrit/Yoga word that means origin, source, Shakti aka Great Goddess.It's also a term that means womb, vagina, vulva. Basically it's a word that represents the whole of a woman's sacred pleasure system.When you awaken your Yoni, you awaken your unique expression of the Sacred Feminine.In this episode I want to introduce you to a simple meditation that just might change your life. Seriously.And it's only about 7 minutes long.Are you willing to devote 7 minutes a day to reclaiming your pleasure?Then this episode is for you!Access The Radiant Yoni Meditation Here:https://shakticore.com/radiant-yoni-joinJoin the Waitlist for The Vital Goddess Mastermind:https://shakticore.com/vital-goddess-mastermindCheck out my new free masterclass Making Love to Crystals:https://shakticore.com/making-love-to-crystals-join

Barbie is back in the news again. The Oscars race is on and the film was nominated for numerous awards including Best Picture. Ryan Gosling received the nod for Best Actor, while Margot Robbie & Greta Gerwig were passed over. Ironic snub, given the context of the film? Or just how it goes sometimes? Now before you roll your eyes and wonder ‘who cares?' I've decided to do some of the mythic heavy lifting around why Barbie is a culturally significant film at this moment. And not just because it crossed a billion dollars at the box office and became a clear phenomenon. Last summer, colleague Alex Beiner wrote eloquently of the cultural complexities in his essay Castrated Utopias: What Barbie and Oppenheimer reveal about our sexual politics. He writes: Barbie is one of the most interesting films to come out of Hollywood in some time. It's a strange phenomenon; a feminist initiation myth that critiques, sometimes with joyful nuance, capitalism and patriarchy, but which is paradoxically designed to sell a corporation's product. Instead of a film we might read an ideology into, it's a film woven around an existing ideology: feminism. However, the vision of the feminism it champions is what makes it particularly interesting.It's fun, well structured and at times leans toward a kind of metamodern feminism that seems able to hold the complexity of both social construction and biological difference. At other times, it slipped into a more simplistic feminism, and I found myself shaking my head at its narrow depictions of men and masculinity. […] I had a strong feeling that the film wasn't really made for me as a man. It wasn't trying to actively exclude me, but it was speaking to lived experiences of women, so I tried to listen to the message on its own terms.I've finally decided to hoist my take into the ring, and I invited UK based writer, psychotherapist, and mythologist Carly Mountain to join me. I was previously on her podcast to speak about the descent of Inanna, and so it felt perfect to bring her on to explore Barbie through this lens.As well we touch on the arc of Ken and the advent of Patriarchy as borne from the rejection of the Feminine. Ken needs to go on his own quest to re-source the Feminine from within and meet the Great Goddess. (This is much of the recent men's work that I'm collaborating with Deus Fortier on. Our next Awakening the Wild Erotic weekend is coming up in April). I hope you enjoy our conversation.Also stick around at the end of the episode for a little easter egg…P.S. you're invited to check out Carly's book “Descent & Rising: Women's Stories & the Embodiment of the Inanna Myth”.P.P.S Here's a few music videos from Barbie. I've love to hear your comments on our conversation below. What's your take on Barbie? Get full access to The Mythic Masculine at themythicmasculine.substack.com/subscribe

Filmmaker, journalist and artist, Laura Hirch released the multi-part docu-series titled From the Goddess late last year.  We'll discuss with Laura how she talks about central themes of women, healing, spirituality, mysticism and art as they relate to the Great Goddess in early history and modern times.  Hirch shows how women have played an important role in earlier societies, how they've been worshiped as the creatrix of life and the bearer of community and a source of sacredness.  Laura gets into patriarchy's rise and the part is played in the destruction in goddess spirituality and the status of women.  A rich look at what once was and ideas about what might serve humanity in the future.

I originally started this Substack as a clear way to share my weekly dharma talks. Every Monday at 6P PT / 9P ET I host an online Zen gathering through the Zen Community of Oregon where I am one of the teachers.The gathering begins with two twenty minute periods of meditation, followed by a Dharma Talk.Dharma Talks are ways of connecting to the voice of the ancestors, the path of awakening that has been opened up and walked by real human beings over the course of millennia. Because our habitual minds tend towards confusion and distraction, we often need regular reminders about the path of practice. In the Zen Buddhist tradition these reminders point us to Buddhahood. To our intrinsic Buddha nature, that is spacious, free, compassionate and infinitely creative.This talk is the beginning of a series of talks on the Ten OX-Herding or Cow-Herding pictures. My teacher Chozen, Roshi would often remark that Zen practice is a practice without handrails. For how does one begin to measure or mark the infinite. And yet, there are states of mind we taste in our practice, and as we continue these states become more and more familiar and accessible.This talk is an introduction to the Ten OX-Herding pictures as well as an introduction to how I will be exploring this teaching.One invitation that is alive in the Zen school and in my personal teaching is that the metaphors that we use to describe Mind's nature, can be entered directly. So here, in this teaching we are invited to meet the OX or the Cow. This is a symbol or metaphor of our true nature, our natural divinity.Awakening the OX perhaps is a journey to the pre-Buddhist Minoan culture on the island of Crete, where humans performed rituals dressing as bulls to summon the Great Goddess who could give life or take it away.But as always, more intimately awakening the OX is a journey of Self discovery. A revelation of what has always been here. Of course, as with any good teaching tool, the OX itself will be forgotten, as the functioning of Awakening lives on through us.There are many great resources to view the Ten Ox-herding Pictures, the prose and commentary. Here are two that I share during this talk:DT SuzukiJohn Daido Loori, RoshiThank you for reading / listening.I am getting over the flu, so you may notice that my voice is nasally and fatigued.Earth Dreams is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work as a Dharma Teacher, consider becoming a paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit amykisei.substack.com/subscribe

In this episode we read the surviving fragments of the philosophy of Empedocles and explore the shamanistic and mystical foundations of Western thought. Empedocles carries on the Orphic and Pythagorean tradition in his quest for Ultimate Reality, for which Aristotle grants him the title of 'Natural Philosopher'. But a strange kind of natural philosopher indeed! He speaks of the union of opposites, of the thing that is paradoxically One and Many; he understands it to be eternal and uncreated; the source of the cosmos, the gods and men. And where did this information come from? From logic, rationality, deduction? Not a bit. It came directly from the divine, from the Great Goddess herself. Enjoy ;)

There is a great Cosmic shift happening right now all over our planet. The Great Goddess spirit of the Earth and multi-dimensional realms are shifting ebbing and flowing. This series of movements are like a cosmic dance and an energetic upgrade even for our physical bodies. Depending on if we have done the scheduled past trauma and subconscious healing will determine how this shift is experienced. Some of us still live in the mindset of guilt, shame, codependency, self insecurities towards ourselves and those around us. These stagnated energetic frequencies will cause the ascension. To feel like a death happening internally. Those that truly have done their part in the personal Ascension process will experience a totally different world. Multiple shifts will happen simultaneously within a shorter period of time. This will be an effortlessly pattern that while healing you can experience pure Bliss. Those that learn to allow natural flow in their daily lives without force or control will experience a new way of living. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/universolwisdom/support

Permaculture is a unique agriculture approach that mimics natural patterns to meet human needs while keeping the environment on a healthy regenerative cycle. Corinna Bellizzi sits down with author and activist Starhawk who shares how this particular farming technique can save the world from further degeneration and help rebuild the soil. She also shares how the concept of permaculture translates to the work of activism, helping in the fight against a patriarchal society and taking politics out of conversations about the common good. About StarhawkStarhawk is an author, activist, permaculture designer and teacher, and a prominent voice in modern earth-based spirituality and ecofeminism. She is the author or co-author of thirteen books, including The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Great Goddess and the ecotopian novel The Fifth Sacred Thing, and its sequel City of Refuge. Starhawk founded Earth Activist Training, teaching permaculture design grounded in spirituality and with a focus on activism. She travels internationally, lecturing and teaching on earth-based spirituality, the tools of ritual, and the skills of activism. Guest LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/star-starhawk-1325b37Guest Website: https://starhawk.orgPrograms Launching Soon! November 17, 2023: https://earthactivisttraining.org Show Notes:00:00 – Introduction02:40 – Discovering modern earth-based spirituality and ecofeminism09:07 – Difference between permaculture and regenerative organic agriculture11:34 – Rebuilding the soil22:17 – Addressing the skepticism26:31 – Earth Mother/Pagan Goddess29:31 – The Fifth Sacred Thing41:58 – Reaching a collaborative approach44:37 – Starhawk's courses48:58 – Fundraising for refugees53:20 – Closing Words Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, & share! https://caremorebebetter.com Follow us on social and join the conversation! YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/caremorebebetter Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/CareMore.BeBetterFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/CareMoreBeBetter LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/care-more-be-better Twitter: https://twitter.com/caremorebebetter Clubhouse: https://www.clubhouse.com/club/care-more-be-better Support Care More. Be Better: A Social Impact + Sustainability PodcastCare More Be Better answers only to our collective conscience and aims to put more good into the world. As a listener, reader, and subscriber you are part of this pod and this community and we are honored to have your support. If you can, please help finance the show: https://caremorebebetter.com/donate.

These chapters depict Devi in Her form of Mahasaraswati. She is portrayed as arising from the cells or koshas of Devi Saraswati and hence she is named as Devi Kaushiki. Goddess Kali may be understood to represent the aspect of the darker, chthonic and transformative qualities of Devi's power or Shakti. Kali's emergence is chronicled in the third story of the Devi Mahatmya. Mother Kali, in the form of Chamunda, emerges from Devi's eyebrows as a burst of psychic energy. Mother Kali overpowers and beheads Chanda and Munda, and when She delivers their severed heads to Devi, She is dubbed Chamunda. During a fierce battle in which the Great Goddess demonstrates Her omnipotence by defeating powerful demons who terrify the devas, She encounters the fierce Raktabija (chapter 8). Every drop of blood Raktabija sheds transforms into another demon as it touches the earth. A unique strategy has to be devised to vanquish him. A fiery burst of energy emerging from Devi's third eye takes the dark skeletal form of Goddess Kali. Her huge mouth and enormous tongue She ferociously laps up Raktabija's blood, thus preventing the uprising of further demons.

Devi Mahatmyam or Devi Saptashati is a powerful scripture dedicated to Goddess Shakti. It is an auspicious practice observed during the Dasara celebrations at Prasanthi Nilayam. Bhagawan had personally blessed and encouraged many of His students to participate in the same. The FIRST CHAPTER of the Devi Mahatmya depicts Devi in Her form as Mahakali. Here Devi is central and key to the creation. She is the power that induces Lord Narayana's deep slumber on the waters of the cosmic ocean prior to the manifestation of the Universe which is a continuous cycle of manifestation, destruction, and re-manifestation. Lord Vishnu manifests from the all-pervading Lord Narayana as 'Narayana' and goes into a deep slumber on Adi Sesha. Two demons, Madhu-Kaitabh, arise as thought forms from Lord Vishnu's sleeping body and endeavour to vanquish Lord Brahma who is preparing to create the next cycle of the Universe. Lord Brahma sings to the Great Goddess, asking Her to withdraw from Lord Vishnu so He may awaken and slay the demons. Devi agrees to withdraw and Lord Vishnu awakens and vanquishes the demons. Here Devi serves as the agent who allows the cosmic order to be restored.

Reposted scripture class on Devi Gita, chapter 1, verse 44, given by Rev. Dr. Swami Bhajanananda Saraswati to students of Ramakrishna Seminary via Zoom on 7 September 2022. नमो देव्यै महादेव्यै शिवायै सत्तं नमः | नमः प्रकृत्यै भद्रायै नियताः प्रणताः स्म ताम् || ४४ || namo devyai mahā-devyai śivāyai sattaṃ namaḥ | namaḥ prakṛtyai bhadrāyai niyatāḥ praṇatāḥ sma tām || 44 || 44. "Hail to the Goddess, to the Great Goddess; to the Auspicious One always hail! Hail to Nature, to the Propitious One; we humble ourselves attentively before Her." ____________ https://kalimandir.org/ https://www.ramakrishnaseminary.org/ Support the work of Kali Mandir>>

Message from the Oracle of the Great Goddess. The power of the feminine reflection of giving and receiving in a balanced way. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/universolwisdom/support

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**TRAILER EPISODE **This podcast is a soft place to land when you begin to question it ALL. It focuses on the exploration of personal truths, not dogma or a critique of religion itself. Instead, it delves into the history of ancient worship and rituals of women, allowing listeners to redefine their relationship with themselves, God, and the Great Goddess in all her forms. The host provides supportive and integrative tools, feminine embodiment practices, ancestral healing, holistic sexuality, and a touch of magic.The Good Girl Gone Goddess podcast is a space for women, mothers, dual souls to come as you are and learn to be intimate with life again. It encourages you to embrace your worthiness of fulfillment, ecstasy, prosperity, and peace, as you untangle from your old life and create a new

Hi friends, this is a replay of a mystical transmission and a webinar dedicated to the Great Goddess. It is a mix of my personal direct encounter with Her, a few of her divine expressions, such as Goddess Isis and Kali, and practical ways to attune to her. You are invited to join my monthly mystical community, called Wisdom Collective if you'd like to go deeper into this topic and more: https://www.katerinasatori.com/wisdom-collective/ With love and devotion, Katerina Satori --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/katerina707/support

In this episode, Colleen and Robyn sit down with Walter Lübeck. Through his varied training, research and development, and past life recollections, his work has a unique spiritual depth and practical effectiveness. Most of the content of his teachings is based on memories of past life experiences as a spiritual teacher and healer. In various research projects he worked with internationally active scientists on the scientific documentation of the effects of the methods he developed and was thus able to impressively confirm the energetic effects of applications from the fields of “Rainbow Reiki” & “Three Ray Meditation” & “Medicine Buddha Practice.”  Walter is also an avid musician he has released several music productions, teaches shamanic drumming (Magic Power Drums) and singing. Among other things, he plays various drums, drum synthesizers, hand pans, tongue drums, didgeridoo and synthesizers, and Native American flute. He performs regularly in concerts and has recorded several music albums. For many decades he has clothed his mystical experiences in poems and songs, often of a mantra character, which are frequently passed on to his students in his seminars. Contributions by Walter Lübeck have appeared in over 20 journals over the years. Among others in: Connection, Reiki Magazine (German), Reiki Magazine (USA), Spirit-Online, Angel Magazine, Grenzenlos, Tantra Magazine, Vigeno, Spirit & Healing, LebensArt. Since the year 2000 had developed a range of radionics products, spiritual technology, under the name of “Goddess Radionics” which help humans, animals, and plants to better cope with the multiple stresses of the environment, make vibrational essences of all kinds themselves, and create personal power places. This gift was given to him on a trip to Rishikesh (India) by the Goddess of the river Ganges. Goddess Radionics brings various healing structures of Divine Light into the material world through unique sacred graphics. In recent years, Walter Lübeck has expanded Goddess Radionics into the realm of video art. Thus, he artistically depicts a rich variety of healing spiritual processes on various topics of daily life and soul development, most of which are available free of charge on his YouTube channel in several languages for spiritually interested people, Walter Lübeck lives in the north of Germany in the midst of a beautiful landscape, which is crisscrossed with ancient places of power and mystical sites, which he likes to visit. He teaches at his Rainbow Center in Hameln as well as at various spiritual centers in Germany when he is not working internationally. Many of his courses are also held as multimedia webinars. He teaches in German and English. Walter Lübeck accompanies his students to enlightenment and spiritual realization and supports them in difficult stages of the path, such as the integration of mystical experiences, the rising of the Kundalini or enlightenment experiences. If needed, he gives spiritual names, personal mantras and Shaktipad, the touch of the Great Goddess. Connect with Walter:  Website:  https://walterluebeck.com/en/ Email: info@rainbowreiki.net Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/walter.lubeck Twitter:  https://twitter.com/walterluebeck YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@WalterLuebeck *DISCLAIMER* This episode is not a substitute for seeking professional medical care but is offered for relaxation and stress reduction which support the body's natural healing capabilities. Reiki is a complement to and never a replacement for professional medical care. Colleen and Robyn are not licensed professional health care providers and urge you to always seek out the appropriate physical and mental help professional health care providers may offer. Results vary by individual. Colleen and Robyn can be reached at: ReikiLifestyle.com Contact Colleen: colleen@reikilifestyle.com Facebook: @reikilifestyle Instagram: @colleenbenelli Contact Robyn: robyn@reikilifestyle.com Facebook/Instagram: @robynbenellireiki

Continuing our series on famous Wiccans, this week we're talking about Gerald Gardner, who needs no introduction.

In this episode we honor the Divine Feminine, the Great Goddess and Her connection to the sacred number 13. We explore Juno's shift into Aries, the Last Quarter Moon in Libra, and Mercury's shift direct. This is a time of great release where you may reflect upon the deep lessons offered by the Mars and Mercury retrogrades.OfferingsSkywalkers beginning February 2023 2023 MasterclassAquarius New Moon - Recorded Ceremonial TeachingMa Magick Join in this Moonthly Membership Lunar Council for Wisdomkeepers hereBook Your Divination Session with Ra MaDo you desire to pilgrim in 2023? We will journey to Avalon and Wales in April and Egypt in June. If you wish to receive the full invitation, email support@earthseedtemplearts.comReceive Ra Ma's weekly Venusian Love Notes and the 7 Keys to Cultivate Your Unique Daily PracticeStay on the pulse of our current cosmic weather at instagram.com/starsstonesandstoriesBe nourished with mystery school teaching, sacred sites and astrology by following instagram.com/earthseedtempleartsIf you are enjoying the podcast leave a review on the Itunes podcasting app. These reviews offer visibility for podcasts, therefore more will find Stars, Stones, and Stories because of your review.

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Starhawk is the legendary author, activist, permaculture designer and teacher, and a prominent voice in modern earth-based spirituality and ecofeminism. She is the author or co-author of thirteen books, including The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Great Goddess and the eco-topian novel The Fifth Sacred Thing, and its sequel City of Refuge. Her most recent non-fiction book is The Empowerment Manual: A Guide for Collaborative Groups, on group dynamics, power, conflict and communications. Starhawk is a cofounder of Reclaiming, an activist branch of modern Pagan religion, and continues to work closely with the Reclaiming Community. She also founded Earth Activist Training, teaching permaculture design grounded in spirituality and with a focus on activism. She travels internationally, lecturing and teaching on earth-based spirituality, the tools of ritual, and the skills of activism.On this episode, Starhawk discusses the history of the Goddess Movement and The Spiral Dance; the relationship between magic and activism; and why witchcraft is a practice of poetry, science, and hope. Pam also reflects on 100 episodes of The Witch Wave, and answers a listener question about deities of divine masculinity.Our sponsors for this episode are Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab, Trued Apparel, Snowy Owl Tea, Weiser Books, The Many Moons Planner, BetterHelp, Blessed Be Magick, and the Psyche Magic PodcastWe also have brand new print-on-demand merch like Witch Wave shirts, sweatshirts, totes, stickers, and mugs available now here.And if you want more Witch Wave, please consider supporting us on Patreon to get access to bonus Witch Wave Plus episodes, Pam's monthly online rituals, and more! That's patreon.com/witchwave

Our Witches Work this week asks us to be big-hearted and push ourselves out of our comfort zones. Can we face the painful experiences of our lives with faith? Can we find the medicine in the poison? Can we remember that after the Destruction comes Rebirth? Great Goddess like Mawu, Mary Theotokos, and Ceres are here to guide us through the places where we fall apart in the void, remind us how to dance with Chaos, and point to our ability to remold ourselves in the Light. Join my newsletter and/or send me comments and questions! https://www.meaganangus.com/contact/ Join my Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/MeaganAngus Support these groups! TransSanta - delivering gifts and needed items to Trans Youth safely and anonymously Food Not Bombs - Feeding our under served Communities, local and international The Iranian Diaspora Collective - a GoFundMe sending support to Iran --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/meagan-angus/message

Starhawk (Credit: Stephan Readmond) Caroline hosts long-time indefatigable ally of all life, Star Hawk, whose life-long dedication has been a syncretizing of the political magical realms: myriad ways to participate. Let's feel ourselves in resonant accord with the Choreography of Creation. “Tyrants don't care if they are hated – as long as the people don't love the Earth.” We love the Earth! And she is voting through us, that we inaugurate Ingenious altruism…   Starhawk is an author, activist, permaculture designer and teacher, and a prominent voice in modern earth-based spirituality and ecofeminism. She is the author or co-author of thirteen books, including The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Great Goddess and the ecotopian novel The Fifth Sacred Thing, and its sequel City of Refuge. Her most recent non-fiction book is The Empowerment Manual: A Guide for Collaborative Groups, on group dynamics, power, conflict and communications. Starhawk founded Earth Activist Training, teaching permaculture design grounded in spirituality and with a focus on activism. She travels internationally, lecturing and teaching on earth-based spirituality, the tools of ritual, and the skills of activism. https://starhawk.org/   And for more Election Guiding Magic, here be our ally's ““Cheat Sheet to the Berkeley Elections” on Medium: https://medium.com/@elanaauerbach/berkeley-2022-elections-cheat-sheet-45f753d9c43 Elana shares “We have an extraordinary opportunity during the November 2022 City of Berkeley Election cycle to change the status quo, revive the progressive tendencies of this great city and once again see bold, visionary and compassionate leadership in the City of Berkeley.”     Support The Visionary Activist Show on Patreon for weekly Chart & Themes ($4/month) and more… *Woof*Woof*Wanna*Play?!?* The post The Visionary Activist Show – Election Magic Radio appeared first on KPFA.

Sharon L. Coggan, previously professor of religious studies, and author of Sacred Disobedience, discusses the importance of goddess to our modern culture with Shira. Why has modern culture has lost its sense of the sacred? How did our present common fear of mystery and divinity come about? What has caused are we starved for the profound experience? What is the difference between religion and mysticism? What are the effects of purposeful suppression of the goddess, the feminine aspect in every being and repressed sexuality? We look at the triple goddess Uma/Parvati, Durga and Kali,  women archetypes, symbolism, etymlogy and how to use it for self-development and shadow work.   Work with Sharon   October 11 - Nov. 1: Chinese Philosophy, Religion and Beyond.  University of Denver Enrichment Program 4 Tues. evenings, 7:00-9:00 p.m. in person, on campus, Sturm Hall 479. November 2: Dream Analysis Through the Ages: Gods, Indigestion, Freud and Jung. Denver Women's Press Club, 1325 Logan St. Denver, Co.   Carl Jung Mircea Eliade - The Sacred and the Profane Tony Wolff's Feminine Archetypes  

Scripture class on Devi Gita, chapter 1, verse 44, given by Rev. Dr. Swami Bhajanananda Saraswati to students of Ramakrishna Seminary via Zoom on 7 September 2022. नमो देव्यै महादेव्यै शिवायै सत्तं नमः | नमः प्रकृत्यै भद्रायै नियताः प्रणताः स्म ताम् || ४४ || namo devyai mahā-devyai śivāyai sattaṃ namaḥ | namaḥ prakṛtyai bhadrāyai niyatāḥ praṇatāḥ sma tām || 44 || 44. "Hail to the Goddess, to the Great Goddess; to the Auspicious One always hail! Hail to Nature, to the Propitious One; we humble ourselves attentively before Her." ____________ https://kalimandir.org/ https://www.ramakrishnaseminary.org/ Support the work of Kali Mandir>> (Cover art Manidvipa Mahavilasa by Dr. Arghya Dipta Kar.)  

This Mayastar article looks at the qualities & nature of the great goddess, Quan Yin: Goddess of Mercy & Compassion. Quan Yin is also a bodhisattva that supports & encourages the spiritual development & authentic expression of self in her followers. Mayastar (Anna Louise May), Mystic, Muse, Artist & Founder of Mayastar Academy of Natural Healing & Spiritual Development, provides weekly spiritual guidance tarot readings for the collective, regular spiritual development & energy healing articles & Mayastar's exclusive Mantra-Wave Meditation tracks. These offerings are intended for entertainment & spiritual inspiration only. Please take anything that resonates with you, and leave the rest behind. If something strikes a chord with you, regardless of the date I recorded it, the message might be meant for you to receive at that particular time. Subscribe, follow me on my social media & share this page with your friends to support Mayastar. Your contribution is always appreciated. You can read the Maya Muses Blog in full at: www.blog.mayastar.net Find Mayastar Articles at: https://www.mayastar.net/articles.htm Artwork & animation by Mayastar | Music Title: Lovely Piano Song | Written by Rafael Krux | This music is available for commercial and non-commercial purposes | Source: https://freepd.com Find more... Mayastar Academy of Natural Healing & Spiritual Development: https://www.mayastar.net Maya Magickal Spells: https://www.mayamagickal.net Maya Muses Blog: https://www.blog.mayastar.net Social Media... https://www.instagram.annalouisemay.net https://www.pinterest.annalouisemay.net https://www.annalouisemay.net FB https://www.maya.mayastar.net FB https://www.linkedin.annalouisemay.net https://www.twitter.com/mayastar https://www.deviantart.com/annalouisemay https://www.annalouisemay.tumblr.com https://www.annalouisemay.wordpress.com https://open.spotify.com/show/1fmO0UwHkpVS7ANt5JFGq7 https://anchor.fm/mayastar Find the Mayastar podcast on iTunes & Amazon Music too!

Cyclical renewal was the natural way we lived in connection with our very world, cycles and rhythms. Now it is us who bring this back being a way shower of Divine Feminine energies and efforts. It is Light Goddess who will allow humanity to see how the feminine naturally works. The moon with all of her cycles and the dark phase of death before the rebirth. Reconnection to our natural spiraling rhythms allows us to go within and face our shadow and the mysteries, harnessing this deeply psychic time each month. Goddess Hathor, The Great Goddess can show us back into our natural state as women deeply connection to cyclical renewal. Let's get into it! Jude Hotep is The Goddess Astrologer and Soul Coach. Jude is a paradigm shifter and does individual Astrology Readings with women around the globe. She is an expert on the Divine Feminine awakening and journey. In, Light Goddess Coaching, she coaches at the level of soul using your astrolgoy charts to reconnect you to your innate power as woman. You reclaim connection to your Divine Wild Feminine Intuition. Running life and biz on sacred flow. This is Soul Life. This is Divine Feminine Life. The Light Goddess is all women anchoring Divine Feminine light back into the world, social structures and society again moving humanity from fear consciousness to love consciousness. You ready to Activate, Goddess? For The Free Guide: Divine Feminine Lunar Guidehttps://bit.ly/ConnectSacredFeminine BOOK ASTROLOGY READING: http://thegoddessastrologer.com LIGHT GODDESS:The Divine Feminine SisterhoodWhat if you'd always had a non-judgemental place amongst women?https://lightgoddess.ck.page/products/sisterhoodCURIOUS ABOUT LIGHT GODDESS COACHING?book a Goddess Call Here:http://thegoddessastrologer.com 

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We want the light but too often we focus on the darkness. Focusing on what we don't want. On perceived problems. Humanity is ascending into higher consciousness. Into love consciousness. Into a heart centric people. The divine feminine has never left us. The Goddess, The Great Goddess ever present, always seeking us and embracing us throughout this dark period is humanities history. The patriarchy is dead energetically. The cords have already been cut and healed. We must also lead this new paradigm. We must behave as if we have the power that we do. We must speak. We must stand in visibility in the world. We face shadow so we can refocus on the light. Rather than focus on darkness we grow through it. We don't shrink from the challenges we self nurture. Goddess, grow through the darkness and Focus on the light.Jude Hotep is The Goddess Astrologer and Life Coach. Jude is a paradigm shifter and does individual Astrology Consultations with women around the globe. She is an expert on the Divine Feminine Awakening and Journey. Light Goddess is her one on one coaching program, the only program like it, where she uses Astrological Life Coaching reconnecting you to your Divine Feminine Intuition, confidence and power. Together you will work Financial Healing where you will jailbreak out of money distortion by healing the karmic spiritual root issues. Activating Your Goddess through restored intuition and trust in your creative life blood; living your life and running your biz on Sacred Feminine Flow.For The Free Guide: How To Connect To Your Sacred Feminine and Make More Money go to https://bit.ly/ConnectSacredFeminine Schedule A Goddess Consult or Astrology Consultation at: https://LightGoddess.as.me/AstrologySeshFor more info and inspiration:  http://thegoddessastrologer.com 

Breath flows into this body, as the nectar of the gods. Every breath is a whisper of the Goddess: "Here is the ritual I ask of you - be the cup Into which I pour this bliss, The elixir of immortal bliss." - Radiance Sutras by Lorin Roche, PhD Dear friend, In this brief (18 min) episode I share how to access Bliss as your natural state of Being. The book mentioned in this episode is called Breath: The New Science of Lost Art by James Nestor (I recommend the audiobook version) where you can learn that most of us unconsciously speed up our aging by being mouth-breathers and how to unlock the new levels of vitality by learning to breathe correctly. Recommended Audio Programs to assist you in this journey: Meditation Bundle by yours truly, Katerina Satori. Business Athlete Mindset (see lesson called Every Breath is a New Choice) by Katerina Satori Gene Keys, on-demand course with Katerina Satori Let me know what you took away from this episode and as always you can find me on my social media channels for daily inspiration: Instagram Facebook Youtube and even Linkedin. May you remember that Bliss is your natural state and every conscious breath you take is a prayer to the Great Goddess who is the Mother to us all. With devotion, Katerina. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/katerina707/support

Enter the Great Goddess.  Chapter 14 of The Iliad wherein Hera unleashes her sexual power to alter the course of the war.Hera seduces Zeus in order to give Poseidon reign to help the Greeks and lead them to Victory.  Join Sean Marlon Newcombe and Dr. Gary Stickel as they discuss this heated chapter. 

This is an episode devoted to the Great Goddess of boundaries, crossroads, magic and witchcraft - Hecate. Considered to be one of the most ancient deities ever known, Hecate is found in the stories of the Ancient Greeks, but there are whisperings that she existed even before that time.Hecate became Persephone's constant companion and protector after the girl's abduction by Hades.  After the 5th century BCE, Hecate became more associated with all things belonging to the shadow side - such as death, witchcraft, magic, the moon, hellhounds and any creature that roamed in the darkness.As “Queen of the Night,” it is said she would lead hordes of spirits and other social outcasts with her, wherever she would go. She was both honored and feared as the protectress of the oppressed and of those who lived "on the edge". She reminds us of the importance of change, can help us release the past and asks us to let go of what is familiar and safe … courageously travelling into new beginnings. Join us to talk all things Hecate!* Curious about how to liberate your inner witch and experience more pleasure, turn on and a deeper connection to life? Check out these selected links from the podcast!Sexual Empowerment CoachingFree 30 minute Discovery Call with CarlaHave a question or comment about this episode or anything else - let us know by connecting with us on Social.The Radical Sex Witches IG PageConnect with Carla and Little Leah on InstagramConnect with Carla on FacebookAnd our email: radicalsexwitches@gmail.comWe would love a review on Apple Podcasts, head over and let us know what you think!Want to join us for our very first birthday party? On March 26th at 6 pm PST, join both Carla and Little Leah for "Labias & Libations" a FREE online after hours Zoom party with the Radical Sex Witches!We'll be bringing the coven together to finally meet face to face, drink wobblypops, play games and maybe even do a giveaway. To register - send an email to radicalsexwitches@gmail.com - we'll confirm your spot and send you all the details!

Divine Feminine Meditation. Great Goddess clears your chakras and ignites your Shakti circuit, with Divine Feminine energy.

 Rachel McGarry is a Canadian devotional chant artist, yoga teacher (CYARYT 550) and owner of sanctuary is based in London, Ontario. She is part of the Kirtan duo Mahadevi (which means Great Goddess) and can be found at monthly Kirtans as well as private events, festivals and yoga classes across the city and beyond. Rachel combines her love for devotional music and yoga to offer concerts, classes and workshops that nourish, inspire and guide you home to yourself. Her popular “Sing you to Sleep” Restorative yoga classes are loved by many. Rachel is excited to share her debut album Songs for Savasana, with an even wider audience! This album soothes and relaxes, inspires deep rest and release. Rachel affectionately calls the songs “lullabies for grown ups”. “Songs for Savasana feels like a comforting, soothing and loving embrace.” “Mesmerizing!” “A beautiful balm for the ears and the soul!” “Beautiful…such love on so many levels…a blessed creation.” “The voice of an angel!” What I teach: (all info at www.sanctuary.is)Sing you to Sleep Restorative yoga (Wednesdays) and Mini Flow Classes (Sundays)Meditation & Breathwork Mantra Practice Courses (next one starts in the fall) and Group Chanting Practices (Free every Friday)Community KirtanComing soon! (September 2021)Sanctuary Membership: online yoga, meditation, breath work and chanting (this meditation is one from the Membership!) Contact info:rachelmcgarry@sanctuary.iswww.sanctuary.is Socials: IG, FB, Spotify

Joseph Campbell brought mythology to a mass audience. His bestselling books, including The Power of Myth and The Hero with a Thousand Faces, are the rare blockbusters that are also scholarly classics. While Campbell's work reached wide and deep as he covered the world's great mythological traditions, he never wrote a book on goddesses in world mythology. He did, however, have much to say on the subject. Between 1972 and 1986 he gave over twenty lectures and workshops on goddesses, exploring the figures, functions, symbols, and themes of the feminine divine, following them through their transformations across cultures and epochs. In this provocative volume, editor Safron Rossi—a goddess studies scholar, professor of mythology, and curator of collections at Opus Archives, which holds the Joseph Campbell archival manuscript collection and personal library—collects these lectures for the first time. In them, Campbell traces the evolution of the feminine divine from one Great Goddess to many, from Neolithic Old Europe to the Renaissance. He sheds new light on classical motifs and reveals how the feminine divine symbolizes the archetypal energies of transformation, initiation, and inspiration.

New stories about the gods!  Homo Divinitas, by podcaster Patrick Garner, is now available on Amazon as an audible book! ... Welcome to Episode 20. We're taking a short break from our usual episodes to hear Chapter 1 of the audible book, Homo Divinitas.  It has the same Greek gods you love, but they show up in the modern world where they meddle and maneuver as they always have. Homo Divinitas is the third book of The Winnowing trilogy. All three novels are about the Greek gods and goddesses. In Chapter 1 you'll meet Timessa, a nymph who has been transformed by Gaia into the original Great Goddess from 40,000 years ago. The Great Goddess was and is more powerful than any of the Greek gods. Increasing the intrigue, the original Greek deities have also reappeared in our world, and they don't know what to make of Timessa.We meet her after she has become the most famous fashion model in the world. Timessa—now the Great Goddess as well—has just given up her career to live on Naxos, an island in Greece. This is lucky for us because she was having a harder and harder time balancing both roles. She had become a danger to all. Note that the trilogy, which include The Winnowing, Cycladic Girls and Homo Divinitas, is adult reading. This reading of Chapter 1 has been slightly modified for listeners of all ages. Our next episode returns to ancient Greek gods. Expect to hear about the Sphinx—not the Egyptian version but the divine sphinx that terrified the Greeks by posing impossible riddles. Those who failed to answer correctly were promptly eaten alive ...Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/garnersgreekmythology)

Goddess Alive Radio and MotherHouse of the Goddess is delighted to welcome back, Priestess, Shamaness, and now Author, Amantha Murphy! Amantha was a guest with us in the first year of MotherHouse and it is so exciting to have her join us to celebrate her wonderful new book, Way of the Seabhean with co-writer Orla O'Conneell! The book has just been published by Womancraft Publishing in February 2021.“The seabhean (pronounced sha-van) is the Irish female shaman, healer and seer, the woman who walks between the worlds.What if we didn’t have to look to other traditions for our spiritual practice?What if we could connect to the roots of our own ancestors’ rituals?"Way of the Seabhean brings Amantha's Goddess storytelling, rich experiences, and powerful Shamanic practices to a greater audience. Her Wheel of the Year introduces us to some lesser-known Goddesses, as well as more familiar; Medb, Brigid, Áine , the Cailleach, Tailtiú, Boann, Macha, and Tlachtga.Amantha shares some of her personal story and how she came to the Goddess through the land itself in Ireland as a child with the guidance of her Grandmother. We discuss holy sites of Ireland, the importance of personal spiritual experience, and all the Goddesses included on her Wheel of the Year!More about Amantha:Amantha Murphy is a Shamanic Teacher and Healer who follows the path of the Goddess. She started her spiritual work publicly in 1970 as a clairvoyant, moving into trance mediumship and healing. She developed many tools along the Way with her spirit and ancestral teachers guiding her and continues to work with both individuals and groups. Amantha is a Mother of four and Grandmother of four, living in County Kerry, Ireland, working primarily: with the Land, Running Apprentice Teachings at home in Ireland, in Canada and the United States on The Way of the Seabhean which includes Womyn’s Rites of Passage as well as her Ancient Goddess Pilgrimages. Her passion is the Land and returning to HER story -- working through the Grandmothers; the “Shining Ones'' the Tuatha de Danann; and the Ancient Ones. She has been running Sacred Pilgrimages in Ireland since 1995.Amantha’s latest book -The Way of The Seabhean was published in February 2021.“My work, my family, my loved ones, my passion for the Great Goddess and the Land -- this is what moves and feeds me. The Land is my Mother and she has held me for as long as I can remember.” ~ AmanthaConnect further with Amantha at Celtic Soul Journeys Goddess Alive Radio is the podcast for MotherHouse of the Goddess and is hosted by Kimberly F. Moore, Priestess and Founder of the MotherHouse & Mystery School of the Goddess. Tune into the Myth, Magick, and Mystery of Goddess Spirituality, Women’s Empowerment, and Living Mythology – how Goddess is moving through our lives today. Priestesses, Practitioners, Authors, Healers, and Shamans will be joining us to discuss their practices and experiences.

Goddesses Around the Wheel of the Year Exploring Goddesses and Great Goddess aspects associated with each of the eight Sabbats of the Wiccan/Pagan spiritual year, occurring at the beginning and midpoints of the four seasons.

In this final series episode, Pravina Rodrigues talks about how the Goddess in her ultimate form as Aditi, which means “unbound,” “infinite,” and “freedom” grants liberation to the Shakta devotee. Curator: Rev. Dan SenterPodcast Host: Pravina Rodrigues is a PhD candidate at the Graduate Theological Union's  Center of Dharma Studies, in Berkeley, CA. She is Newhall Teaching Fellow (2017, 2018, & 2019), and Interreligious Collaborative Research Fellow (2019). She is Assistant Editor for Springer’s Journal of Dharma Studies, and associate Editor of a multi authored Volume titled Sustainable Societies: Interreligious & Interdisciplinary Responses. She has received her Masters in Comparative Theology from the Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University, BA in Sociology from SNDT Women’s University, Mumbai, and Bachelors of Theology from St. Pius X College, Mumbai. Her research interests include postcoloniality in Hindu-Christian comparative theology, methodology in comparative and interfaith theology, comparative mysticism, and faith and pluralism.

Pravina Rodrigues covers the historical development of Goddess’ theology in the Hindu tradition. In this episode a discussion on how the many forms of the Goddess reconcile diversity and opposition in the universe, informing both religious diversity and phenomenal diversity.Curator: Rev. Dan SenterPodcast Host: Pravina Rodrigues is a PhD candidate at the Graduate Theological Union's  Center of Dharma Studies, in Berkeley, CA. She is Newhall Teaching Fellow (2017, 2018, & 2019), and Interreligious Collaborative Research Fellow (2019). She is Assistant Editor for Springer’s Journal of Dharma Studies, and associate Editor of a multi authored Volume titled Sustainable Societies: Interreligious & Interdisciplinary Responses. She has received her Masters in Comparative Theology from the Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University, BA in Sociology from SNDT Women’s University, Mumbai, and Bachelors of Theology from St. Pius X College, Mumbai. Her research interests include postcoloniality in Hindu-Christian comparative theology, methodology in comparative and interfaith theology, comparative mysticism, and faith and pluralism.

Having covered the historical development of Goddess’ theology in the Hindu tradition, in this episode, Pravina Rodrigues talks about the Goddess’ form as One, None, and Many. Exploring the way diversity and plurality are grounded, contained, emanate, and manifest from and in the “One,” that is the goddess.Curator: Rev. Dan SenterPodcast Host: Pravina Rodrigues is a PhD candidate at the Graduate Theological Union's  Center of Dharma Studies, in Berkeley, CA. She is Newhall Teaching Fellow (2017, 2018, & 2019), and Interreligious Collaborative Research Fellow (2019). She is Assistant Editor for Springer’s Journal of Dharma Studies, and associate Editor of a multi authored Volume titled Sustainable Societies: Interreligious & Interdisciplinary Responses. She has received her Masters in Comparative Theology from the Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University, BA in Sociology from SNDT Women’s University, Mumbai, and Bachelors of Theology from St. Pius X College, Mumbai. Her research interests include postcoloniality in Hindu-Christian comparative theology, methodology in comparative and interfaith theology, comparative mysticism, and faith and pluralism.

Pravina Rodrigues covers the historical development of Goddess’ theology in the Hindu tradition. In this episode, Pravina covers how the goddesses in the Vedic period transform into the Great Goddess in the puranic period, who stand independent of a male divinity in addition to the wider cosmology that  supports the worship of all form and phenomena within the Hindu tradition. Curator: Rev. Dan Senter Podcast Host: Pravina Rodrigues is a PhD candidate at the Graduate Theological Union's  Center of Dharma Studies, in Berkeley, CA. She is Newhall Teaching Fellow (2017, 2018, & 2019), and Interreligious Collaborative Research Fellow (2019). She is Assistant Editor for Springer’s Journal of Dharma Studies, and associate Editor of a multi authored Volume titled Sustainable Societies: Interreligious & Interdisciplinary Responses. She has received her Masters in Comparative Theology from the Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University, BA in Sociology from SNDT Women’s University, Mumbai, and Bachelors of Theology from St. Pius X College, Mumbai. Her research interests include postcoloniality in Hindu-Christian comparative theology, methodology in comparative and interfaith theology, comparative mysticism, and faith and pluralism.

I this episode, we talk about the differences and similarities of the three major Hindu sects: Vaishnavism - the worship of Vishnu; Shaivism - the worship of Shiva, and Shaktism, the worship of the Great Goddess. This concludes our exploration of Hinduism. Please stay tuned for my next chapter on Buddism!

This week we are talking about how huge portions of women's history are hard to know because so much is left blank. The biggest blank in all history is pre-history... and many women historians have tried to stake a claim there... suggesting that perhaps there was a time when women reigned supreme. Some argue that there was once a Great Goddess, worshipped above all gods. Obviously, this is disputed. So, as Brooke says, let's get into this.BibliographyDiamond, Jared. “The Worst Mistake in Human History.” Discover Magazine, 1987.Eller, Cynthia. The Myth of Matriarchal Prehistory: Why an Invented Past Won't Give Women a Future. Beacon Press: Boston, 2000. Lerner, Gerda. The creation of patriarchy. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986.Miles, Rosalind. The Women’s History of the World. London, UK: Harper Collins Publishers, 1988. Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/remedialherstory)

Strap on them rocket boots, fluff your space pants and prepare for a journey the likes of which you have never taken into the cosmic, supramagic heights of Robert Anton Wilson's esoteric-psychology classic “Prometheus Rising” where this week we lay bare the secrets of the rest of the text and discuss its intricacies in depth!Join us for this week's show as we discuss:-The “Time-Binding Semantic Circuit” and what that is… exactly.-Memes-What language has to do with time-What is a stochastic process?-Information and Negentropy-Time-Wave Zero and the Singularity-The Moral Socio-Sexual Circuit-Your first orgasm-"Star Versus The Forces of Evil"  -The Tetragrammaton-The Elemental Associations of Each Circuit-How circuitry in Tarot works -Parenting and Empathy-Weird Sex Stuff-Alternative Sexuality and Creativity-How to brainwash each circuit!Get our extended episodes on www.Patreon.com/TheWholeRabbit to continue the show where we discuss: -The Neurosomatic Bliss Circuit-Marijuana States-Yoga breathing tricks-Where the higher circuits are in the brain-Pan, The Great Goddess and Witches Sabbath-The Third Eye and Shiva Darshana-The Cosmic Quantum Consciousness-The Soul-Meeting Sophia on the Eight Circuit Source:Prometheus Rising by Robert Anton Wilson: https://selfdefinition.org/science/Robert-Anton-Wilson-Prometheus-Rising.pdf Where to find The Whole Rabbit:iTunes:https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-whole-rabbit/id1457163771Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/show/0AnJZhmPzaby04afmEWOAVInstagram:https://www.instagram.com/the_whole_rabbit_/Twitter:https://twitter.com/h4ckrabbit   Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/thewholerabbit)Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/thewholerabbit)

Singer, percussionist, dancer, and actress, Alessandra Belloni is the preeminent scholar on the Black Madonna and the author of Healing Journeys with the Black Madonna: Chants, Music, and Sacred Practices of the Great Goddess. In this sacred-mystery interview from the the Immense Grace/Reality Riffing series, Alessandra shares her hermetic knowledge of the tarantella shamanic chants, rhythms, songs, how these rhythms can be used for recovery from abuse and addiction, and Alessandra’s personal journey with God as a Woman.  Femme Frequency Fundamentals: A Womxn’s Evening with Guru Jagat https://ramayogainstitute.com/product/immense-grace-femme-frequency-fundamentals/ Immense Grace: Ancient Wisdoms of the Femme Frequency Accelerator https://ramayogainstitute.com/ancient-wisdoms/ Immense Grace Full Program https://ramayogainstitute.com/immense-grace/ Guru Jagat www.GuruJagat.com Instagram: @gurujagat, @realityriffing, @rama.tv, @ramainstitute, @ramayoganewyork, @ramayogamallorca, @ramayogafoundation, @gurujagat_collection @robotic_disaster Allesandra Belloni https://www.alessandrabelloni.com Instagram: @belloni.alessandra

Communing with the energy of Mother Mary The Divine Feminine. The Great Mother. The Queen of Heaven. The Great Goddess.

This week we’re reissuing this magical conversation with Starhawk, one of the most respected voices in modern Earth-based spirituality, that originally aired in 2017. A veteran of progressive movements, from anti-war to anti-nukes, Starhawk is deeply committed to applying the techniques and creative power of spirituality to political activism. She is the author or coauthor of twelve books, including The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Great Goddess, long considered the essential text for the Neo-Pagan movement, Webs of Power: Notes from the Global Uprising, a call to re-conceive our political and economic systems at the very deepest levels, and the now-classic ecotopian novel The Fifth Sacred Thing.  Starhawk’s call to bring together tools of spiritual empowerment with activism, asks us to critically examine systems of control and domination and our responses to them – including areas where we may be giving our power away unknowingly to so-called authority figures and/or systems and where sources of spiritual power may have been forcibly removed. During this global moment where governments are under pressure to uphold their end of the implicit social contract, it may behoove us to examine areas where fear may continue to dominate our thinking, and how we can reclaim our personal power during times of uncertainty by reclaiming a relationship to ritual, intuition, healing and nurturing power within.

Come and join Rachel & Jamie as we talk animatedly about Freja the Great Goddess, Cosmic consciousness energies of Anandalite, a Prayer for the Dead for those who have passed during the Coronavirus, being a soul aspect of someone such as Mary Magdalene, the possibilities of barter economies, & how do you ground these higher energies such as 'cosmic consciousness' into your everyday real life?!! Join the conversation on https://www.facebook.com/evolvingintothecosmicheart

In today's episode, we dive into the philosophy of permaculture, activism, and earth-based spirituality with Starhawk, an author, activist, permaculture designer and teacher, and a prominent voice in modern earth-based spirituality and ecofeminism. She is the author or co-author of thirteen books, including The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Great Goddess, as well as the ecotopian novel The Fifth Sacred Thing, with its sequel City of Refuge. Her most recent non-fiction book is The Empowerment Manual: A Guide for Collaborative Groups, on group dynamics, power, conflict and communications. Starhawk founded Earth Activist Training, teaching permaculture design grounded in spirituality and with a focus on activism. She travels internationally, lecturing and teaching on earth-based spirituality, the tools of ritual, and the skills of activism.   "Ask yourself what it is that you most deeply love, and figure out how to put yourself at its service."   In this episode... Starhawk’s path as a storyteller Why she includes activism training in her permaculture certification courses The connection between permaculture and earth-based spirituality Starhawk's new regenerative land management program, a follow up to a Permaculture Design course Social permaculture: resources for collaborative groups Advice for next steps for the ecologically-minded "Permaculture is the art of designing beneficial relationships" --Patrick Whitefield Ask yourself what it is that you most deeply love, and figure out how to put yourself at its service...ask yourself what you need to be in a position to do it Resources starhawk.org Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer The Overstory by Richard Powers earthactivisttraining.org Free webinar on Nov 3 on Regenerative Approaches to Climate Change (starhawk.org)

Ephesus was a world-class city in the first century, the most prominent in Western Asia Minor. We discuss the importance of the goddess Artemis, evidence of demonic activity during the apostolic age, and begin to analyze the letter from Jesus to the church in the city where John spent his last days.

Green Tara appears as a female Bodhisattva in Mahayana Buddhism, and as a female Buddha in Vajrayana Buddhism. Green Tara is known as a protector from fear and all other major sources of suffering: pride, delusion/ignorance, hatred/anger, jealousy, fanatical views, avarice/miserliness, attachment/aversion as well as acting as a guardian against lower astral and galactic energies and entities. Green Tara is known as the "Mother of Liberation". In this transmission there is a clearing of mental poisons and delusions which generate unnecessary suffering. “We bow down to you, Green Tara, Great Goddess, liberator from suffering generated as this world moved through a great darkness and polarisation. You bring liberation from this 3D paradigm and all associated suffering connected to birth, old age, sickness and death. You are the great protector who helps us safely move across the great ocean of existence. We call to you to assist unbinding us from all negative karma and all associated stories, beliefs or attitudes, judgements, lower frequency thoughts, ignorance and all bondage. We call to you and request refuge and your blessings in our hearts and minds. Great Goddess, we ask you to purify all impurities we have picked up from the 3D Matrix, impurities of mind, of heart, of body, of ego, all our choices, our speech and our actions. Purify us from pride, delusions, ignorance, hatred, rage, envy, attachments/aversions, and all lower astral and galactic energies and entities. Assist us in this cleansing of all mental and energetic poisons so we may vibrate at a higher frequency and know our true Buddha Nature.”

Hail Sunna Hail Sunna, We call to You, Who rides triumphant in Your chariot Across the broad expanse of day. Hail, Sunna, our Pacesetter, Who with Your brother governs the seasons, The turning of the year, our rising and retiring. Bless us, Great Goddess, with the strength, vitality, and health That is Yours to bestow. We honor Your might, Your power, and Your eternal presence. Be with us here today, Sunna. Hail. © Galina Krasskova http://www.odins-gift.com/poth/H/hailsunna.htm Hammer Rite Gothi Says: Hammer of Thor, Hallow and Hold This Holy Stead”. Gythia Says: Celebrate with us today as we celebrate the blessing of Sunna Invocation to Sunna Said by Gothi/Gythia To Lady Sunna! Waker and quickener of life here on Midgard. Shine down upon me/us each day so that I/we may know the joy of the days light! Shine on bright lady Sunna! It is you who helps give strength and nouriousment to the green growing things of this Midgard. Without this we beings here would not have the food and subsistence I/we need to continue to survive! Please don’t forsack your dutys ever, oh great shinning Sunna! Please accept my/our toast to you on your day! To bright Sunna! Taken from the Simplified Sunday Ritual Toasts Gothi/Gythia pass around horn, each person making their toast. Libation Said by Gothi/Gythia Hail To Sunna, She of the day! Sunna, Sunna, Sunna! May you grow in strength each year. Never tiring, never faltering, mindful of the wolves at thy heels. Said by All Hail Sunna! Hail Sunna! Hail Sunna! Taken from Beliefnet http://www.modernheathen.com/2009/04/15/sunna-blot/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/modern-heathen/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/modern-heathen/support

In this episode we focus on different Archetypes of the Great Goddess. Expanding on the Maiden, Mother, Crone Archetypes to find mythic Goddess stories we can work with for empowerment and fulfilment, as well as devotion and spellwork.This episode is for those interested in Goddess spirituality, culture and personal empowerment.An invitation to join the Goddess Awakening Online Course: http://www.lauradaligan.com/page37.htmMusic by Daligan - https://daligan.bandcamp.com/Readings, Events, Courses and Workshops: http://www.lauradaligan.com/Art & Commissions: https://www.lauradaligan-art.com/Etsy http://www.etsy.com/shop/lauraredwitchInstagram: @LauraRedWitchFacebook: facebook.com/lauradaligantarotfacebook.com/lauradaliganart

Nine Nights of the Goddess: The Navaratri Festival in South Asia (SUNY Press, 2018), edited by Caleb Simmons, Moumita Sen, and Hillary Peter Rodrigues, is a diverse collection of cutting-edge interdisciplinary essays looking at the most ubiquitous festival across the Hindu world: the nine-night autumnal celebration of the Great Goddess, Durgā. This work maps manifestations of the festival across historical periods and local celebrations over the regions of West Bengal, Odisha, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, and Nepal. Spanning the spheres of ritual, myth, history, politics, sociology, anthropology, the essays collected herein examine both massive public events as well as private, domestic celebrations, broaching themes of Indian royal power, conquest over demonic forces, worship of young girls and married women as manifestation of the Goddess, the use of social media for festival participation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nine Nights of the Goddess: The Navaratri Festival in South Asia (SUNY Press, 2018), edited by Caleb Simmons, Moumita Sen, and Hillary Peter Rodrigues, is a diverse collection of cutting-edge interdisciplinary essays looking at the most ubiquitous festival across the Hindu world: the nine-night autumnal celebration of the Great Goddess, Durgā. This work maps manifestations of the festival across historical periods and local celebrations over the regions of West Bengal, Odisha, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, and Nepal. Spanning the spheres of ritual, myth, history, politics, sociology, anthropology, the essays collected herein examine both massive public events as well as private, domestic celebrations, broaching themes of Indian royal power, conquest over demonic forces, worship of young girls and married women as manifestation of the Goddess, the use of social media for festival participation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nine Nights of the Goddess: The Navaratri Festival in South Asia (SUNY Press, 2018), edited by Caleb Simmons, Moumita Sen, and Hillary Peter Rodrigues, is a diverse collection of cutting-edge interdisciplinary essays looking at the most ubiquitous festival across the Hindu world: the nine-night autumnal celebration of the Great Goddess, Durgā. This work maps manifestations of the festival across historical periods and local celebrations over the regions of West Bengal, Odisha, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, and Nepal. Spanning the spheres of ritual, myth, history, politics, sociology, anthropology, the essays collected herein examine both massive public events as well as private, domestic celebrations, broaching themes of Indian royal power, conquest over demonic forces, worship of young girls and married women as manifestation of the Goddess, the use of social media for festival participation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nine Nights of the Goddess: The Navaratri Festival in South Asia (SUNY Press, 2018), edited by Caleb Simmons, Moumita Sen, and Hillary Peter Rodrigues, is a diverse collection of cutting-edge interdisciplinary essays looking at the most ubiquitous festival across the Hindu world: the nine-night autumnal celebration of the Great Goddess, Durgā. This work maps manifestations of the festival across historical periods and local celebrations over the regions of West Bengal, Odisha, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, and Nepal. Spanning the spheres of ritual, myth, history, politics, sociology, anthropology, the essays collected herein examine both massive public events as well as private, domestic celebrations, broaching themes of Indian royal power, conquest over demonic forces, worship of young girls and married women as manifestation of the Goddess, the use of social media for festival participation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nine Nights of the Goddess: The Navaratri Festival in South Asia (SUNY Press, 2018), edited by Caleb Simmons, Moumita Sen, and Hillary Peter Rodrigues, is a diverse collection of cutting-edge interdisciplinary essays looking at the most ubiquitous festival across the Hindu world: the nine-night autumnal celebration of the Great Goddess, Durgā. This work maps manifestations of the festival across historical periods and local celebrations over the regions of West Bengal, Odisha, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, and Nepal. Spanning the spheres of ritual, myth, history, politics, sociology, anthropology, the essays collected herein examine both massive public events as well as private, domestic celebrations, broaching themes of Indian royal power, conquest over demonic forces, worship of young girls and married women as manifestation of the Goddess, the use of social media for festival participation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nine Nights of the Goddess: The Navaratri Festival in South Asia (SUNY Press, 2018), edited by Caleb Simmons, Moumita Sen, and Hillary Peter Rodrigues, is a diverse collection of cutting-edge interdisciplinary essays looking at the most ubiquitous festival across the Hindu world: the nine-night autumnal celebration of the Great Goddess, Durgā. This work maps manifestations of the festival across historical periods and local celebrations over the regions of West Bengal, Odisha, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, and Nepal. Spanning the spheres of ritual, myth, history, politics, sociology, anthropology, the essays collected herein examine both massive public events as well as private, domestic celebrations, broaching themes of Indian royal power, conquest over demonic forces, worship of young girls and married women as manifestation of the Goddess, the use of social media for festival participation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, Gen steals from the Great Goddess and lives to tell about it while we discuss emerald rings, religious awakenings, disability, and the book’s first mention of actual wine!

Starhawk is one of the most respected voices in modern earth-based spirituality, and a cofounder of Reclaiming, an activist branch of modern Pagan religion. She is a veteran of progressive movements, from anti-war to anti-nukes, and is deeply committed to bringing the techniques and creative power of spirituality to political activism. She is the author or coauthor of twelve books, including The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Great Goddess, long considered the essential text for the Neo-Pagan movement, and the now-classic ecotopian novel The Fifth Sacred Thing, now in development for film and television. She is a founder of Earth Activist Trainings (EAT), teaching permaculture design grounded in spirit and with a focus on organizing and activism.  Together with Charles Williams and others, she co-teaches EAT courses in the U.S., Canada, and Europe. She also champions ‘social permaculture’: the application of permaculture principles to social organizations, policy and strategy. She has taught in many Bay Area colleges and universities, and is presently adjunct faculty at the California Institute of Integral Studies. Starhawk travels internationally, lecturing and teaching permaculture, earth-based spirituality and ritual, and the skills of activism. She lives between San Francisco and West Sonoma, where she is developing a model of carbon-sequestering ranching, incorporating holistic management rotational grazing with sheep and goats, restorative forestry, food forests and perennial systems.

Liberate The Podcast: We aim to educate, motivate, inspire and liberate your consciousness! Episode 34: Meditation, Archetypes & Goddesses "If I look at the Goddess archetype deconstructed - the full female person - we have access to all of those goddesses at all times. And by looking at them one by one, I can start to identify in myself, 'Oh, where is my Aphrodite? How does my Aphrodite come out in the world? Do I have enough Demeter going on? Could this situation use a little more of that mother energy?' Those goddesses are all aspects of the Great Goddess. A lot of different cultures have this. It's a theme that runs throughout the world through cultures that weren't talking to each other. This is just deep, primal, in-our-DNA recognition of these archetypes. And then through the meditation came this idea that if I can recognize these things in myself, all of us can recognize these things in ourselves. Men and women. To have a recognition through archetype, immediately - that identification says, 'Okay. I'm not alone.' There's a chance to get information from the archetype as opposed to fighting it or succumbing to it." - Nina Millin, Actress, Meditation Facilitator, Goddess and Goddess Archetype Expert. Find Nina at www.circlegathering.com. Follow nina @circlegathering. Find us at www.LiberateYourself.com  

This week the Spirit Sistrs explore change, the elements,power and energies of the North and our connection to the Divine Feminine. During this time of monumental change we are being challenged to re-examine our lives and release what no longer serves us. We are summoned to shift our consciousness, let go of old expectations and beliefs and engage the capcity to move through this transition without resistance into divine grace. This is not a time of "thinking" our way through. Rather it is a time of great surrender, of deep letting go fo what was. It is a time of finding the courage to release the greif of our losses and open to what is possible in this new paradigm while acknolwedging our fear of the unknown. It is a time to move into the eveolutionary transformation that we find ourselves facing. We are being presented with the opportunity to align now to Spirit during this great shift, For this is the place of our true knolwedge and conncetion to all things. It is here that we claim our wisdom, deep within the body aligning to the power of the universal wisdom that resides within the North. We invite you this week to come with us into the arms of the Great Goddess, the Great Mother and our Sisterhood circle and move into the universal truth as we explore the North together, The Great Mother beckons us into the centre of creation and the joyful chaos of new life. Awaken to your power and let go!

To learn more about Butterflies of Wisdom visit http://butterfliesofwisdom.weebly.com/ Be sure to FOLLOW this program https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/wins-women-of-wisdom/id1060801905. To find out how Win walk and about Ekso go to http://www.bridgingbionics.org/, or email Amanda Boxtel atamanda@bridgingbionics.org.   On Butterflies of Wisdom today, Best-Selling Author, Win Kelly Charles and Juan Carlos Gill welcomes Starhawk. Starhawk is one of the most respected voices in modern earth-based spirituality.  She is the author or coauthor of twelve books, including The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Great Goddess, long considered the essential text for the Neo-Pagan movement, and the now-classic ecotopian novel The Fifth Sacred Thing, now in development for film and television.  http://www.thefifthsacredthing.com/ Starhawk’s most recent non-fiction book is The Empowerment Manual: A Guide for Collaborative Groups, on group dynamics, power, conflict and communications. Forthcoming in winter of 2015 is City of Refuge, the long-awaited sequel to The Fifth Sacred Thing. Her works have been translated into Spanish, French, German, Danish, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese, Polish, Czech, Greek, Japanese, and Burmese. The Spiral Dance has been continuously in print for thirty years and revised twice; in 1999 HarperSanFrancisco published the Twentieth Anniversary Edition. Truth or Dare: Encounters with Power, Authority, and Mystery won the Media Alliance Meritorious Achievement Award for nonfiction in 1988. Starhawk’s first novel, The Fifth Sacred Thing, won the Lambda award for best Gay and Lesbian Science Fiction in 1994. Many of Starhawk’s political essays were collected into her book Webs of Power: Notes from the Global Uprising, which won a 2003 Nautilus Award from the trade association NAPRA. Her first picture book for children, The Last Wild Witch, earned a silver Nautilus from NAPRA in 2010. Starhawk is one of the prominent leaders in the revival of earth-based spirituality and Goddess religion. She is a cofounder of Reclaiming, an activist branch of modern Pagan religion, and continues to work in close collaboration with the Reclaiming community. Her archives are maintained at the Graduate Theological Union Library in Berkeley, California. In the late ’80s, she consulted on and co-wrote the popular trio of films known as the Women’s Spirituality Series, directed by Donna Read Cooper for the National Film Board of Canada: Goddess Remembered, The Burning Times, and Full Circle. The trilogy was in the top ten of sales and rentals for the Film Board for over a decade.Starhawk and Donna Read Cooper formed their film company, Belili Productions, to make documentaries on women and the earth. Their first release was Signs Out of Time (2004), a documentary on the life of archaeologist Marija Gimbutas, the scholar who made major discoveries about the Goddess cultures of Old Europe. Starhawk and Donna’s second documentary, Permaculture: The Growing Edge, was released in 2010. Starhawk has also made several short documentaries which can be found on YouTube: The Spiral Dance Ritual, Reclaiming’s Spiral Dance: Three Decades of Magic,  and Permaculture Principles at Work, with nearly 200,000 views. Starhawk is a veteran of progressive movements, from anti-war to anti-nukes, and is deeply committed to bringing the techniques and creative power of spirituality to political activism. She is a founder of Earth Activist Trainings (EAT), teaching permaculture design grounded in spirit and with a focus on organizing and activism.  Together with Charles Williams and others, she co-teaches EAT courses in the U.S., Canada, and Europe. She also champions ‘social permaculture’: the application of permaculture principles to social organizations, policy, and strategy. Since its first course in May of 2001, Earth Activist Trainings has graduated over 1000 students who now shepherd projects that range from community power-down strategies in Iowa City to water catchment programs in Bolivia, from inner city gardens in San Francisco to programs in the West Bank of Palestine. Starhawk’s tapes and CDs include “Wicca for Beginners” (2002), “Wiccan Rituals and Blessings” (2003), and a four-CD set “Earth Magic” (2006), all produced by Sounds True. She holds a B.A. in Fine Arts from U.C.L.A. In 1973, as a graduate student in Film at U.C.L.A, Starhawk won the prestigious Samuel Goldwyn Creative Writing Award. She received an M.A. in Psychology with a concentration in Feminist Therapy from Antioch University West in 1982. She has taught in many Bay Area colleges and universities, including John F. Kennedy University, Antioch West, the Institute of Culture and Creation Spirituality at Holy Names College, and Wisdom University. She is presently adjunct faculty at the California Institute of Integral Studies.Starhawk travels internationally, lecturing and teaching permaculture, earth-based spirituality and ritual, and the skills of activism. She lives part-time in San Francisco, in a collective house with her partner and friends.  But much of her time is spent on Golden Rabbit Ranch in Western Sonoma County, where together with land manager Charles Williams she is developing a model of carbon-sequestering ranching, incorporating holistic management rotational grazing with sheep and goats, restorative forestry, food forests and perennial systems. To learn more aboutStarhawk visit http://www.starhawk.org/. To find out more about Win Kelly Charles visit https://wincharles.wix.com/win-charles. Please send feedback to Win by email her at winwwow@gmail.com, or go to http://survey.libsyn.com/winwisdom andhttp://survey.libsyn.com/thebutterfly. To be on the show, please fill out the intake athttp://bit.ly/1MLJSLG. To look at our sponsorship go to https://ssekodesigns.com/buttfly?acc=537d9b6c927223c796cac288cced29df. 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Cybele, also known as the Magna Mater (the Great Goddess) is an Eastern deity brought to Rome in the wake of the Punic Wars. In this listener request episode, the Doctors delve into background of this goddess. We consider her divine areas of influence, and follow her progress from the East into Rome.

Join us as we'll discuss:How to change any negative feelings in less than 60 seconds.Different types of Suggestibility’s. The Amazing Bank Technique. (Parenting Technique) As an International Best Selling Author, Patrick McNally has written four self-help books and numerous papers. He is a Doctor of Philosophy, has a PhD in Psychology, is a trained Clinical Hypnotherapist, an NLP Practitioner and is one of the world’s leading Change Clinicians and operates his private practice on three continents.He is a regular media commentator appearing on talk back Radio and Television.He was the resident Lifestyle Coach on Australia's top rated TV show, "Mornings with Kerri-Anne" for 5 years. Patrick's TV Show, "Never Say Never" features his remarkable work on Fears and Phobias.In his most personal and powerful book yet International Best Selling Author and Therapist Patrick McNally PhD brings to life his amazing techniques that have helped thousands of patients and clients worldwide. As you turn each page you will feel your life changing.How to find, keep and transform your Relationships – Discover how Parenting can be rewarding when you know the difference between pain and fear – Wealth creation that produces amazing results fast - Your Spiritual Journey- Law Of Attraction explained easily and one chapter that will change your life forever. You will never think about yourself in a negative way again.Inside his new book Patrick McNally outlines in detail just how he is able to remove people's unwanted negative emotions like anger, resentment and more, all in under a minute.Lightning fast techniques have been his trademark for years and now he teaches the reader everything he does inside a private session.You'll discover how to change any negative feeling so fast that it astonishes people.On Australian television the networks phone system went into meltdown as Patrick demonstrated his amazing technique on audience members. To learn more about Patrick click here www.patrick-mcnally.com.

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In this episode, Joanna and Sarah interview Starhawk–one of the most respected voices in modern earth-based spirituality.Starhawk is also well-known as a global justice activist and organizer, whose work and writings have inspired many to action. She is the author or coauthor of twelve books, including The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Great Goddess, long considered the essential text for the Neo-Pagan movement, and the now-classic ecotopian novel The Fifth Sacred Thing. Starhawk's newest book is The Empowerment Manual: A Guide for Collaborative Groups, forthcoming in November 2011, from New Society Publishers.

Kuan Yin Temple Oracle with author Marina Lighthouse Marina Lighthouse is a certified Feng Shui consultant, teacher, and expert on the Black Sect Tantric School of Feng Shui. She leads informative workshops and has consulted for private commercial and corporate projects throughout the United States and Canada. Ms. Lighthouse has been a guest lecturer at the U.C. Berkeley Architectural Department. She manages the successful Feng Shui consulting business, Lighthouse Feng Shui LLC (Harmony in Your Environment), in Los Altos, California. In 2001 she launched the popular Feng Shui accoutrements website store fengshuishopper.com. Kuan Yin Temple Oracle is an accessible, comprehensive guide for anyone seeking the timeless wisdom and inspiration from the Great Goddess of Compassion. It is intended as an introduction to Kuan Yin and is not meant to be a historical account or an academic exploration. It's about establishing a heart connection to Kuan Yin and truly feeling a connection to the goddess. Connecting with Kuan Yin through her Oracle can bring her qualities of compassion, mercy and wisdom to the forefront in your own personality. The Oracle can give you privileged access to her infinite love and healing and guide you through times of uncertainty while bringing you peace of mind. Connecting with her brings you divine insight. The Oracle is a wonderful guide, especially when things around you are feeling unsettled. You can use the Oracle to deal with everyday problems by doing a reading in the morning or night to gain clarity on an issue or get clarity to prepare for the day ahead.  Visit http://kuanyinoracle.com/

At the top of the hour, Helen Hye-Sook Hwang, Ph.D., teacher for Religious Studies and Women's and Gender Studies at University of Central Missouri will discuss her ongoing research concerning Mago, the Great Goddess of East Asia and Her tradition of Magoism, an ancient culture originating in the pan-East Asia gynocentric cultural matrix that venerates Mago as Supremely Divine. At about 6:45 our second guest of the evening, Sandra Kirkpatrick returns to the show to discuss developments in Human Trafficking and her recent trips to offer relief in Haiti since the earthquake.