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Available now, Artmagic Publishing 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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Poetry by Melissa Osborne - Lyrica
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WIDE AWAKE
To be alive is to feel the joy
And know the pain...fully.
To be alive is to suffer the pangs
But go with the rapture.
Which will visit today?
You must open the door to find out.
THE MIND
It will chatter, confuse, and confound
Blowing smoke and spinning us round and round
While the warrior develops eyes in the back of her head
Vision clear and sparkling as mountain air
And a body as empty and full of light as the Grail
To welcome Truth
So simple.ABOUT THE POET MELISSA OSBORNE - LYRICA
is a writer and the creator of Lyricalworks, a product of her dreamtime. Lyrica is both her muse and the name of her business, a sole proprietorship, founded in 1995 to explore the frontiers of communication and creativity.
You may email Melissa at lyrica@lyricalworks.com or go to her website for more divine inspiration.
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Changes - Diving Into the
Cave of Your Heart
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As we transition from winter into spring, this is a great time to be inspired in our lives.
Notice all of the changes taking place in nature as the weather warms and every day becomes longer. There is a palpable sense of renewal of life. Plants are literally breaking free from the earth and stretching toward the sun. Flowers are blooming. There is a vitality that you can even smell in the spring winds.
The invitation in this season of growth is to align with the powerful forces of nature both outside and within. All of the seeds of intention that you have planted in the fall and cultivated in the winter can now begin to emerge into manifestation. This is the time to make shifts in ways of being and doing that harness these powerful creative energies.
The word for transformation in Sanskrit is "parynama". "Pary" means to encircle one's heart. "Nama" means to make an offering. Together, the word suggests that an authentic transformation is made by looking deeply into the cave of your heart and then making sweet offerings from what you discover.
This is the time to unveil your contemplations and reflections. Let your deepest and most cherished desires bear fruit as you dig deep inside the wellspring of your heart and express who you are into the world. When you align so deeply with who you are, whatever you do or say will feel like you are offering your highest. When you act from the highest, you will not only feel the delight of such a connection but others will be uplifted in your presence and get a hit of their own Divine light.
If you have been waiting for the right time to launch some important project, venture, business, or other offering, this is a great opportunity. This is a wonderful season to harness the creative energies of nature and skillfully ride the waves of change to affirm your life and make a beautiful offering to the world.
Make sure that as you make your offering that it is in fact aligned with your heart. The transformation may not always be comfortable as change may take you out of your comfort zone. However, when you remember your intention, it will give you renewed energy and inspiration to hold to that vision. In the process, you awaken to a new understanding of yourself and your relationship to the world. It is not just in your mind, but the transformation will affect your heart. By aligning with your depths, you will feel the delight of spirit as the very play of consciousness. As the Divine has taken every form, including you, the invitation is that you shift your form to feel a closer relationship to the Divine. As you shift in relationship with the Divine in this way, you will feel Divine!
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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Goddess Resources
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Events (at the Goddess Studio in San Diego):
Novelist Elizabeth Cunningham, Author of The Passion of Mary Magdalene, will be making a special appearance at the Goddess Studio, Escondido, on Wednesday, May 22 at 7:15 p.m. offering a ceremony, introduction of her new book Bright Dark Madonna, plus book signings. Visit the Goddess Studio web page for more.
Awaken Your Inner Goddess Women's Retreat for Beltane (May Day) is being celebrated at the Goddess Studio, Escondido, on Sunday, May 3. Visit the Goddess Studio web page for more details.
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Bringing Together Heaven and Earth
Rebirthing the Divine Feminine
We have fallen victim to a separation within felt as a split in our psyches between heaven and earth. The western intellectual sky God has dominated thinking for centuries and even though we have developed a great capacity to separate and divide we have sacrificed our feminine feeling, intuitive and inner visionary capacities. As a result the feminine way to God has been denied and misunderstood for too long. Now mother earth and our own well-being requires we develop and integrate both aspects. Honoring the feminine aspects of God is an important developmental task for men and women and the gateway to heaven on earth.
What is the Divine Feminine Way to God?
The feminine way of being in the world is important for us to nourish in order to become whole. We can begin to understand Her by going down into the matrix of earth-mud and into the universe's birthing and devouring black holes. She is the magic, mystery and the fullness of matter embodied in rapture, pain, birth and death - the container for holding the splendor and fullness of the divine. She is known by many names - Mary,
Sophia, Aphrodite, Shakti, Kali, Shri. Some of these goddesses
represent the more revealing aspects of the divine feminine and others
are more dark and mysterious.
There is no other way for God to see or experience Herself so matter must exist in order for us to experience the One God. Through our five senses, intuition and inner vision we experience the feminine half of God embodied here on earth and in every moment. It is the divine feminine that takes us down to the depths of our own interiors and shows us divine love - the capacity to relate to another being as oneself.
"The most profound religious life is being in each moment on this
earth - bringing heaven and earth
together rather then hoping heaven will come down when it is already here."
Society's Paranoia - Fearing the Divine Goddess Kali and Her Dark Sisters
We all learn to fear the divine feminine aspect of God because she is mysterious. She is impossible to understand with the intellectual mind because she never holds one position and is always transforming, moving and changing. This impermanence is very frightening until we learn how to actually move into it and get comfortable with the mysterious (not knowing) aspects of Her. Becoming comfortable with mystery is the ultimate surrender for the intellectual mind but where the greatest transformation can take place in our consciousness.
Archetypes are the Language of the Divine Feminine Way - Where are Women's Voices?
A woman's mind is biologically different then a man's mind and so the questions we ask and the ways we know God are going to be different even though the answers ultimately point to the same One God. Unfortunately the archetypal language (universal symbols of the unconscious mind) we have to describe feeling, intuitive and inner visionary experiences is often feared and misunderstood because of the non-linear and invisible ways in which interior transformation occurs.
So, even when women talk about transformational spiritual experiences using archetypal imagery with words, the mysterious and cyclical aspects are often too frightening for the listener to entirely experience because of the ego's inability to surrender and not be in control. This is why all seekers must eventually experience Her alone in their own initiatory journey down into the earth-mud.
Women
have more freedom then before to talk about spiritual experiences
so why are more men than women talking about the divine feminine way?
Women often respond in silence to a society's paranoia about a women's
way of knowing. Additionally, it can be very challenging for women to
find effective ways to communicate embodied sensory experiences if they
have not integrated their own inner masculine aspects that would give
them the internal authority (self esteem and internal power) to do this. When women integrate archetypal language with personal authority, we
invoke a powerful way to communicate about the feminine half of the One
God.
Women Must Find Their Voices and Then Be Bold
Despite the fear mongering and most people's limited knowledge of archetypal language, it is important that women boldly talk about their spiritual experiences and lead rather than deferring their own transformational experiences to men. Women have a historical and important opportunity to express their
experiences by utilizing the language of archetypes. Women no longer need to follow masculine ways of seeking God - in churches burdened and beholden to the patriarchal past or bowing down at the feet of the guru. For women to continue to do so would be to miss the point entirely. Since no teacher can bring the divine feminine feeling, intuitive and
visionary aspects down to us, women must empower their own inner masculine with enough personal authority to be able to hold the paradoxical tension long enough to go down and through the
gateway to the One God.
"Enlightenment is simply the
process of being a human being with the consciousness that we are
aligning ourselves with heaven - following the will of God."
Meeting the Goddess for the Journey Down Into Our Own Interiors
We can never go back to the wholeness we felt as children with mother. In order to recapture wholeness, we must move forward (not backward) towards greater consciousness with our masculine intellect as our initial guide then journey down into our own feminine feeling, intuitive and visionary aspects.
Meeting the Goddess - A Man's Journey to the Divine Feminine
In the psyche of a man it is more difficult to integrate the inner feminine but just as important as a women's developmental task of empowering her inner masculine. Most men chase this distant goddess off into the horizon without realizing their task is about finding the eternal goddess within. They often make the mistake of thinking the divine feminine would be found in a human woman. It is the special man who has realized there is no way to go through the gateway to the One God without integrating and befriending his feminine aspects by developing his feeling, intuition and inner vision.
Meeting God - A Woman's Journey to the Divine Feminine
The
developmental task in a woman is primarily about re-animating the
creative forces (the goddess) within and directing life-force energy in
co-creative partnership with the will of God. Women may not be able to
connect to the creative power of their own inner goddess if they fail to integrate their
masculine aspects which empower them with internal authority (self esteem and internal power) and a strong (ego) container to hold the paradoxical tension long enough to endure the splendor of God.
Higher Consciousness is Evolutionary and (Usually) Needs Time to Develop in a Human Mind
In wealthier countries there are many people who have enough cultural freedom to go directly to God. As we become more intellectually complex and global we
learn there are many paths to God and some may resonate better with
our own particular natures. The more we learn about the divine aspects
of God and Goddess, the more empowered we become to navigate safely
through our interiors in an integral and whole way.
Note:
There are many religious guides, spiritual guides and wise teachers
such as counselors, mentors, friends and family with wisdom and life
experience to help us relocate our spiritual center of gravity so that
we can look at eternity with intelligence.
Bringing Together Goddess (Earth) and God (Heaven) - Divine Paradox
We are in this paradox - in mortal "earth" bodies and at the same time experiencing our immortality. If we can hold the paradox of now and eternity for long enough an inner transformation can take place where we shift our authority over to something greater - where the earth serves the heavens and the ego is sacrificed to God.
Holding together a paradox is a skill that can be cultivated. So what is paradox? A good explanation can be found in the Temperance tarot card. (See the Affirmations for the Everyday Goddess Spiritual Guidebook & 22 Wisdom Cards for more).
Some Divine Feminine Spiritual Principles Mentioned in this Article
· Interconnectedness - Interconnectedness is important for our own well-being and mother earth's. For more, see the Lovers tarot card.
· Present Time - Racing linearly through time bankrupts us of meaning and interior depth because we don't take in anything that nourishes us. The divine feminine asks us to slow down and see all the amazing details and experience moments in life that bring us depth, purpose and meaning. For more, see the High Priest tarot card.
· Being Embodied - Rather than wishing to escape our bodies in order to reach heaven we can experience heaven on earth by using our five senses, feeling, intuitive and visionary capacities. Being embodied gives us the opportunity to see the divine in everything around us. For more, see the Empress tarot card.
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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Goddess Astrology with Jannine Oberg
 From Maidenhood to Motherhood to Wise Woman, Goddess Astrology honors a Woman's personal power. For those walking the Goddess path it is powerful to know where these Goddess were located in the heavens. At birth, the Great Goddess bestowed her gifts upon you, so that you might embrace, behold and express Her through your unique expression of the divine feminine energy within. How were the heavens lit up by the Goddess at the moment you were born? Was the Love Goddess, Venus, in a feisty fire sign or a deeply compassionate sign? Was the Marriage Goddess, Juno, in a practical and loyal earth sign or a fiercely independent fire or air sign? The power of the Great Goddess is shown through her six planetary
archetypes: Ceres (Demeter) - Mother, Juno (Hera) - Wife, Venus -
Lover, Vesta - Sister, Pallas Athena - Daughter, and Astraea - (Star)
Maiden. Ceres: The Goddess of Nurturing. The star sign she was in shows how you can feel unconditionally loved and accepted. Juno: The Goddess of Partnership and Marriage. The star sign she was in shows how you want to commit. Venus: The Love Goddess. The star sign she was in shows how you express love and beauty. Vesta: The Goddess of Sacred Work. The star sign she was in shows how you cultivate the spiritual flame of service. Pallas: The Goddess of Wisdom. The star sign she was in shows how you express your intellect. Astraea: The Goddess of Justice. The star sign she was in shows how you work with natural cycles and their consequences. STELLAR CONSULTATIONS BY JANNINE OBERG, AUTHOR
Jannine Oberg, M.S., Astrologer has been inspiring, motivating and educating clients here and abroad about reaching stellar heights in their lives since 1987. Jannine combines her professional training in human resources management (Master's Degree) and career counseling certification with her unique knowledge of astrological personality archetypes. Her innovative Stellar Consultations provide clients with a memorable experience and a portfolio filled with individualized tools to achieve personal and professional success.
Jannine does telephone and Skype consultations and meets with clients in San Diego's Gold Coast Center in Leucadia at Indigo Dragon Thursdays and Sundays, It's a Luv Thing Tuesdays, Bergamot Spa 1st and 3rd Saturdays. Contact:Jannine@StellarStrategist.com · StellarStrategist.com · 760-580-2538. |
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