DISQUS

Kristin · 1 year ago

What a beautiful experiment, Carrie! I'm excited to see where it takes you! The first thing that comes to mind is Kevin Smith's "Dogma", with Alanis Morissette as God at the end of the film - a fabulous twist. Many Hindu gods are depicted as women as well, though I know far too little about this magical religion. Good luck with this - looking forward to the postings.

Kristin · 1 year ago

Sheepishly - sorry Danielle! It's far too early here in the UK and I wasn't reading properly.

Connie · 1 year ago

This is a wondrous exercise, Danielle. Brava! So if you were to choose from the pantheon of Greek goddesses, who would you be? Jean Shinoda Bolen's Goddess in Every woman and Gods in Every Man are wonderful books to truly get into this. Also lots of beautiful tarot decks honor the goddess as well as the god in us. One I particularly love and use is called Transformational Tarot by Arnell Ando--gorgeous and inspiring. I'll be paying attention to this blog in the weeks ahead. I love it. Oh yes, The Motherpeace Deck is another terrific source for goddess images.

Chantal · 1 year ago

Hi Danielle,
I love your honesty, insights, humor and openness. Thank you for sharing yourself.

I have a couple of ideas I would love to share with you - sacred dance to open the feminine and connect with Her through your body. - most especially Bharatanatyam-a sensual and divine experience

I also remember a meditation of visualizing your Hara (abdomen area) holding the universe and slightly spinning, ever turning. Being a woman, as a giver of life, everything comes from this place of infinite creation.

Something that helps me is creating offerings of flowers, incense, and food. This act of selfless giving, beauty, and creating is very feminine for me and takes me out of my head and into my heart for connection and remembering. It's a balance of visual and physical.
With love, C

Tamara · 1 year ago

Talk about revolutionizing religion!

Will check my goddess books for images. Yoruba (which evolved into Santeria and Voudoun when it moved from Africa to the Americas and blended with Catholicism) is full of goddesses. I have picture in my mind of a Haitian flag/tapestry, sequined and seed-beaded with the image and symbols of the goddess Erzulie. And there are powerful "Great Spirit" woman images in Native culture, too. Last I read some of that was in Paula Gunn Allen's brilliant bio of...believe it or not...Pocahontas.

The thing that's interesting about these religions is that they don't have one person--God or Goddess--hold all the power. The idea of Pantheon is interesting, isn't it? Rather more democratic. Definitely more dramatic, since these Powers are interacting with one another and with us.

Good food for thought. Thanks.

Goddess Leonie · 1 year ago

Danielle,
I love your 21 day Goddess experiment already.
Like you, I believe that true Great Spirit is wider than gender, but that it IS important for the world to see the feminine as divine also.
At the moment, much of the world has only dreamt of God as a man, and yet God is in all of us, and we are all apart of the light that is spirit.
I've been on this journey of finding the Goddess inside myself and others for four years, since I joined a women's circle at age 21. It's been the most blessed, awakening journey & I am so grateful for it.
Now I run three day Goddess Gatherings - a time for women to experience the Goddess inside themselves: the wise, deeply loving and profound spirit inside. Everything we need is truly inside us!

I also create art and photography that celebrate the Goddess in every woman. Soulful creation honouring the divine in spirits around me is one of the deepest joys in my life... and very much what I feel to be my life work :)

I would love to share with you some of my own Goddess imagery...

I create prints & artworks to honour and celebrate the unique Goddesses we are, and to nurture and support us wherever we are at on our journey. You can see more at: www.goddessleonie.com

I have been photographing women around the globe as part of my Goddess in You photo/book/oracle card project. You can see them here:
http://www.goddessleonie.com/goddess.html

Wishing you deep blessings, awakenings and belly laughter on your journey,
Leonie
www.goddessleonie.com

Amanda | Cultivated Grace · 1 year ago

This is beautiful.
I purchased a delightfully weathered concrete Quan Yin statue this week; the first purchase guided by my Style Statement. I can't resist the urge to join you!

Elizabeth · 1 year ago

Part of the Dionysian 'Liturgy'

Blessed be the sun and moon, and the stars; Deuteronomy 4:19
As above, So below. Genesis 49:25

"Chant the spell, flesh to dust"; (Eumenide – poet Aeschylus)
"Unbind the knot (on the cord), that he may live." (Deuteronomy 4:1)
As I do will, be it undone. (Genesis 26:29)

"I am ashamed, Sir!...
Using him, to launch this new God to the masses."
(Harris, Stephen L. and Platzner, Gloria. Classical Mythology: Images and Insights, Fifth Edition. McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. NewYork. 2008. Euripides' Bacchae, p. 825)

The Virgin princess, Selene, is NOT the goddess/saint of Bread; The Mother of Agriculture / the Mother of Grain (Wheat, Barley, Corn), Demeter is.


The first is Demeter, the Goddess.
She is the Earth -- or any name you with to call her--
and she sustains humanity with solid food.
Next came the son of the virgin, Dionysus,
bringing the counterpart to bread, wine
and the blessing of life's flowing juices."
(Harris, Stephen L. and Platzner, Gloria. Classical Mythology: Images and Insights, Fifth Edition. McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. New York. 2008. Euripides' Bacchae, p. 825)