By: Catherine Wishart
Got a problem that’s been driving you nuts? Feel like you can’t find
a solution? Great! Take it to the council of goddesses and learn how
they’d handle it.
1. Set up an appointment
Decide ahead of time when you’ll hold your goddess conference. Get
together what you’ll need: a pen and paper, a candle, some relaxing
music. Choose a time when you know you won’t be disturbed and pencil
it in on your calendar. My favorite times are at night about an hour
before I’ll go to sleep and first thing in the morning after I’ve
had a shower and gotten dressed.
2. Invite your five Goddesses
Choose five of your favorite goddesses to invite. Each goddess who comes
will bring a different set of attributes so think about what qualities
could be helpful. You could ask Kuan Yin to bring her compassion and
spiritual understanding to the situation. Freya to help you see the
bigger picture, Aphrodite to bring her love and wisdom, Scathach to
bring her determination and focus and Mary to bring her psychic skills
to help you divine the future. Send a mental message to each goddess
telling her what time the meeting will be held.
3. Present your problem to the board
At the allotted time put the music on and light the candle. Close your
eyes and mentally call each goddess to you. Imagine each goddess
arriving and taking her place in a circle around you. In your
imagination tell the goddesses what’s been bugging you. Pour your
heart out to them.
4. Get guidance from the goddesses
Go around the circle and ask each goddess for her take on the situation
and how she would handle it. Ask what skills and resources you need to
develop to handle the problem.
5. Brainstorm ideas and input
Write down what you imagine each goddess suggests. Ask the goddesses how
you could reach the best possible outcome and write down as many ideas
as you imagine them saying. Write continuously without editing for seven
minutes. Don’t worry if it feels like you are making it up. Just keep
writing. You could write in question and answer format too asking the
goddesses questions and then writing their imagined answers.
6. Come up with an action plan
Ask the goddesses to help you create an action plan based on the best
possible outcome. Don’t worry about how you are going to do what they
suggest just write as many steps as necessary.
7. Write three steps you will take this week
Commit to three small steps you can tackle this week. Ask the goddesses
to help you. See your future self in your imagination as already having
achieved a great solution. Get energy from your future self to help you
during the week, too. Don’t forget to thank the goddesses and blow out
the candle. Each night continue to see the goddesses helping you.
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Goddess
Companion: Daily Meditations on the Goddess
Organized as a
daily meditation book, The Goddess Companion is also
indexed by culture, goddess, and subject, so you can easily find
prayers for specific purposes. Following each prayer is
thoughtfully written prose by Patricia Monaghan that illustrates
the aspects of the goddess working in our everyday lives.
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