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New Post 10/25/2008 12:48 AM
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The Goddess Companion
 
Creating order afresh each day, bringing gifts to us,
inviting us to know the gods, this is dawn:
most beautiful of goddesses, shining endlessly,
moving in the order of her internal law.
She has painted the roof of the sly red
and has drawn back the black night curtain.
She has awakened us with her roan horses,
dawn coming up with her bright chariot.
~Hymn To Dawn, Indian Reg Veda

The sun is now holding its place in the sky. Daylight is neither
diminished nor growing. Things are at a standstill, as though the
world were poised for the change that is coming.

For the ancients, this was a tremendously sacred time. The planet
continues its annual rotation; day continues to follow night. But
something deep is occurring to our planet. It has reached a
significant pivot point in the annual cycle. Opposite to its parallel
summer location, the earth now holds still.

The soul holds still like this, just before great change occurs. It
is a silence so profound that it seems as though time has stopped. In
this magickal moment, we have the chance to set in motion great
changes, great happenings. This is the moment when the seeds of new
life, new growth, must be planted.


"By Patricia Monaghan ~ From "The Goddess Companion"
 
New Post 10/25/2008 12:51 AM
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Searching For Truth and the Goddess 

Mother, Goddess, show me the secrets of my heart.
Show me where I have wandered off my path.
Show me how to find my path again.
Fly before me, illuminating my path.
Fly before me, showing me the broad road
into my best future. Show me the way!
Prepare the way for my searching feet!
O mother of light, you who dwell in the south
on nine wooded hills, O show me the way!
~ Siberian Shaman Prayer

Life is an endless search for truth. Even those who have known the
holiest mysteries spend most days wandering, trying to find the way
back to the truths that, in moments of illumination, seemed so
perfect, so indisputable.

Our lives are lived in the dull space between bright flashes of
knowledge. And the truth of our lives rests there: in how we
continue, day after day, to follow the path the Goddess has set out
for us.

For each of us, our path will be a new one, one never trodden by
another before us. Each of us an explorer, finding a new way to truth
and beauty. On those days when we doubt ourselves (and there will be
many), we must put our trust in the Goddess to illuminate the way
before us. The same inner knowledge that once brought us to her
presence will light our path on the dim days when cares and tasks
seem to block the way to her.
 


By Patricia Managhan - From " The Goddess Companion"
 
 
New Post 10/25/2008 12:54 AM
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Do You Understand the Goddess?
 
You think you understand the goddess?
Even philosophers cannot explain her.
The scriptures say that she, herself,
is the essence of us all. It is she, herself,
who brings life through her sweet will.
You think you understand her?
I can only smile. You think you can
truly know her? Now you make me laugh!
But what our minds accept, our hearts do not.
Ants try to grasp the moon, we the goddess.
~Indian Poet Ramprasad

Carl Jung said that a great truth is something whose opposite is also
a great truth. Life is full of ambiguities and contradictions. One of
these is our desire to understand and to articulate the ineffable,
the parts of life that cannot be understood and articulated. The
great poet Ramprasad finds comedy in our attempts to do so - which
are, however, an inevitable part of our humanity.

Learning to live with these ambiguities and contradictions means
learning wisdom. It is difficult to hold two mutually
contradictory facts in mind at once, and to believe them both with a
full and true heart. Yet Ramprasad's Goddess, Kali, teaches us to do
so. Death is frightening and comforting. Pain is inevitable and
grotesquely surprising. Love is destructive and sustaining. Both are
true, and often true at the same moment - great truths, whose
opposites are also great truths.


Patricia Monaghan - From " The Goddess Companion"
 
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