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In April 2009, Artmagic Publishing will be releasing a Collector's Edition Spiritual Guidebook and 22 Card set called the Affirmations for the Everyday Goddess. Women, spiritual seekers and tarot enthusiasts will find the deck set a valuable tool for attaining more clarity and wisdom through the sacred power of the Divine Feminine. Quantity purchases are available for retailers, booksellers, wholesalers and distributors.
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Valentine's Day Blessing to the Goddess
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We are never ultimately alone. We are always in relationship, whether we know it or not.
If you take the time to pause and just listen, you can begin to open yourself to the presence that is always fully present - hidden in plain sight. Wherever you are, allow yourself to soften and reveal a presence that is bigger than yourself and always inclusive of all aspects of you - body, feelings, and thoughts. Expand your awareness to reveal the gift of yourself in the form of your own natural breath. At its essence, this presence is the very ground of being - pure love.
Something as simple and familiar as your breath holds the secret, this ever present energy that contains all of the keys to your deepest fulfillment. As you surrender to your own breath and accommodate its pulsation, notice that you are actually being breathed. A deeper intelligence operates behind the scenes and runs all of the sophisticated systems that allow you to simply be. How wonderful is that? Without any effort on your part you can enjoy the gift of your body, mind, and heart.
As you reveal your breath and the gift of yourself from this radiant presence of something greater, let the awareness spread to every part of you. Let every aspect of you be lit up so that no part is left feeling separate. This is your opportunity to bring the light of awareness to all of the seeming diversity of your complicated self - so that you simply affirm that all of you is actually united in LOVE. Let even your doubts and uncertainties be included in this embrace by LOVE. Allow yourself to be vulnerable so that even those parts that seem shadowy or cry out are not neglected and are affirmed.
This reflection can be further enhanced by refreshing your memory of a person in your life that has really inspired the best in you. Visualize that person and draw the energy of that person deep into your consciousness. Recall what quality of heart he or she has invoked that you truly admire. Perhaps that person represents courage, compassion, patience, steadfastness, enthusiasm, or some other great virtue. As you continue to focus on that person, allow that virtue he or she represents to be infused into your breath. Let your breath carry and inspire that quality of being into all of you so that the highest virtue unites all of you. You carry the light of your awareness through your breath by such a wonderful quality of heart.
With a consciously cultivated heart, now open your eyes and maintain what you have created. Look out into the world with the vision of what you have revealed inside. Let your inner vision inform how you see the world. You are empowered to see all of the forms of the world in its ever changing and diverse nature from a united perspective.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR MICHAEL FUKUMURA
Michael Fukumura is a Certified Anusara Instructor who teaches private therapeutic yoga lessons as well as Anusara yoga classes and workshops. His heartfelt teaching inspires both yoga teachers and yoga students alike.
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The Beginning of the Age of Aquarius
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A Wonderful Day to Celebrate!
"When the Moon is
in the seventh house
and Jupiter aligns with Mars,
Then peace will guide the planets
and love will steer the stars."
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Rebirthing the Sacred Power of the Divine Feminine
Reawakening to the New Feminine
We have forgotten and been denied the sacred power of the divine feminine. Without her, we impoverish our lives of the sacred meaning and divine purpose of being alive, we loose our ability to heal, nourish and transform ourselves and our world, and we deny ourselves the wisdom and the sacred power that belongs to the creative cycles of life which contain the sacred mystery of divine love.
The feminine IS the core of creation that is LOVE. She and the Great Mother are one and the same. Every woman instinctively knows that she is at the center of this great mystery of bringing life into the world - the sacred transformation of light into matter. Every woman intuitively knows that nothing can be born without the feminine Creatrix.
Humanity plays a central role in creation, what we deny our selves, we deny all life on earth. Culture's patriarchal focus of a disembodied transcendent God has divided spirit and matter (mother) and left us without the beneficial wholeness of the two united in oneness. When we look at the world today, we see a world exploited, polluted and raped by greed and power. Without the return of the sacred feminine principles of life, the world will not heal.
Most of the historical sacred feminine wisdom is lost because the days of the priestesses and temple ceremonies were orally transferred and not written down. Even so, we can still begin the work of bringing the wisdom of the divine feminine back by reconnecting with her at her creative core. We begin by asking our Great Mother Goddess for forgiveness and help, listening and being receptive to her wisdom and finally committing ourselves to becoming fully awake by responding to the present need in the world in a new way that combines the wisdom of feminine oneness with the light of masculine consciousness.
Reawakening to the divine feminine means:
· Learning to see "behind our eyes" by fearlessly exploring our interiors.
· Staying in present time for our own needs as well as the moment's.
· Integrating and combining the parts together to form a whole.
· Seeing connections and how they relate to one another.
· Returning to being in touch with own bodies, imagery and truth.
· Going deeply into the cycles and mystery of creation in order to become empowered and reborn in a new way.
(For more, see pages 12-13, Affirmations for the Everyday Goddess, http://www.ArtmagicPublishing.com)
It is time for women to realize that we all pay the price for unconsciously colluding with the masculine culture and betraying our own authentic nature by not acknowledging our own selfish desires and acts of martyrdom out of fear and jealousy. We must stop projecting our pain and anger onto men and in so doing become agents of anger rather than going deeper into the mystery of the pain and suffering that is part of the great feminine initiation into the cycles of creation. In going deeper, we honor the pain and suffering that Great Mother Goddess embodies and find the wisdom and ability to forgive what is hidden in the darkness to be reborn in a new way, uncontaminated by the egoiccentric masculine power complex. We can then move forward focused on the present moment where anything is possible and no separation exists if we listen to and respond courageously to our intuitive wisdom.
By traveling into our own mysterious depths, we return to our innate wisdom and learn to take responsibility for the source of our own suffering. We can ask Great Mother Goddess for help us in seeing the one light within that is shared by all of humanity - a reflection of divine life in everything within and around us. Merged in the memory of feminine consciousness, we realize we are no longer separate from the masculine and we are then able to combine our own interior masculine principles with a new understanding of the wholeness of life that will help us heal our selves and the world.
It is time for the feminine to return home and reclaim the sacred life in which we all are a part. She needs to be known again for she is part of the real miracle of being alive that belongs to blood and breath and not as an icon or a distant myth. All we have to do is open ourselves enough to see the invisible world within that unites both inner and outer worlds. She will help us reclaim our sacred power and wisdom, reconnect us to the whole of life and return us to our authentic selves. If we are true to her, she will birth us back into a world where wonder, joy and the magic of creation remains.
ABOUT AUTHOR AND ARTIST PAMELA WELLS
Pamela Wells has been working as a fine artist, commercial illustrator and graphic web designer for over 20 years and specializes in creative work that leads to greater understanding and awareness. Her goddess art incorporates her interest in the study of transpersonal psychology, integral transformative spiritual practice and the evolution of human consciousness. She cares deeply about both men and women and also about the ecological preservation of the planet which benefits all living things. To order a copy of Pamela's most recent book and card set, Affirmations for the Everyday Goddess, www.ArtmagicPublishing.com
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The Mystical Patron Saint Artwork of Essa
 "She wants to be a Star.Learn how to Shine.To light up her life.To laugh.To be a guiding light.We must free her.This will take time.Where is my hammer?"-Essa Have you seen any saints lately? Well if you haven't, take a look at Sher Chappell's (aka Essa) iconic Patron Saint retablos. Sher's appoach to creating her artwork is relatively direct and informal but the results are enlightening, vintage style retablos. Retablos are made of simple wooden plaques or metal pieces painted in honor of family members or religious figures such as patron saints. Patron saints are special protectors or guardians over certain areas of life that can include occupations, special concerns, illnesses or anything that is
important to us. The imagery and memory of the patron saint can inspire us to follow the example of the
saint's life and comfort us during times of suffering or confusion. Sher uses many of her antique finds to incorporate special messages of love, hope and peace in all her patron saint retablos. Sher's artwork also include woman's issues working within her understanding of Catholic traditions. She says "My art is a form of love - a demitasse for the soul. The role of art is to express the triumph of the human spirit over the mundane and the material." You can view and purchase Sher's work at her patron saint gallery at ArtmagicPublishing.com. Patron Saint Prints: $24.95 each
S & H: Free
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