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God Bless and Namaste....
God Bless and Namaste....
Showing posts with label Crone. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Crone. Show all posts
Friday, October 17, 2014
Prepping to travel...
My prayer this morning is for calm organization as I prepare for my trip to the beautiful Pacific Northwest. May I be open to Divine Guidance as I embrace a beginner's mind, allowing the wonders of Gaia's earth to speak to me her special language of abundance, love, compassion, caring, generosity, giving, and deep serenity. As I go about packing for this sojourn may the soul satisfying experiences I am about to receive begin to fill me with the quintessence and embodiment of the Contented Crone.
And so it is, this or something higher....
Namaste
And so it is, this or something higher....
Namaste
Thursday, December 22, 2011
Winter Solstice
I woke this morning and began my morning meditations and Hestia, the Greek Goddess of Hearth and Home, came to me. It has been my intention to begin a year long study of the Divine Feminine, beginning with Stehanie Anderson Ladd's "In the Lap of the Goddess." My question this morning was "what do I need to do to get ready, to prepare for this course of study?"
"Clean up your house" came to me right off. And I knew that the Greek God Hestia was first on my list. I've just scratched the surface here, but my plan is to write, paint, collage... to create an alter maybe, or some sort of iconic shrine. We'll see. But she certainly showed up this morning!
Here's just a small bit about her.... I really identify with the introvert and holding space for prayer....
It struck me too, that her festival is held either on the winter solstice TODAY or on December 31st. She symbolizes the time of winter, of hibernation, of going within. She is guardian to our Wise Woman years. (I feel a painting coming on!)
The Burning Bowl ceremony can be attributed to her. In the ceremony we write down what we want to let go of, what we want to forgive, and then we burn it in the bowl, offering the smoke up to the heavens.
Hestia was the sacred fire at the center of the round hearth, her presence felt in the flames and the glowing coals, the source of light and warmth. She was guarded by the Vestal Virgins. Hestia is the still point at the center of your Self. You yearn for your inner Hestia whenever you need some time and space for solitude. Hestia’s symbolic fire warms and illuminates your mind and body, and gives you a sense of being at home in yourself. The time when your “inner” Hestia comes out is in the waning Moon, during your Wise woman years.
Hestia is beyond the need or delusion that she needs someone or something outside herself in order to be complete. Hestia is perfectly at peace with herself just the way she is. In the period of time when she was a Goddess in Greece, tending the fire and keeping it alive was a serious responsibility, or even a sacred one, as the survival of the group depended on keeping warm. Hestia was also a presence in all the marble temples, because the hearth invited divinity. If the body is to be a temple, there must be a source of warmth and illumination within.
Prayer to Hestia....
Oh Hestia, keeper of the flame
Thank you for teaching us hospitality
Forgiveness, and redemption
Thank you for lighting the way
Illuminating our Wise Woman years
May we be guided by your sacred attention
To the fires that burn within our hearts.
Guide our hears, our hands
To prepare our home and harth
Beautiful, orderly, and serene
That we may know our Self,
In beauty and love.
"Clean up your house" came to me right off. And I knew that the Greek God Hestia was first on my list. I've just scratched the surface here, but my plan is to write, paint, collage... to create an alter maybe, or some sort of iconic shrine. We'll see. But she certainly showed up this morning!Here's just a small bit about her.... I really identify with the introvert and holding space for prayer....
It struck me too, that her festival is held either on the winter solstice TODAY or on December 31st. She symbolizes the time of winter, of hibernation, of going within. She is guardian to our Wise Woman years. (I feel a painting coming on!)
The Burning Bowl ceremony can be attributed to her. In the ceremony we write down what we want to let go of, what we want to forgive, and then we burn it in the bowl, offering the smoke up to the heavens.
Hestia was the sacred fire at the center of the round hearth, her presence felt in the flames and the glowing coals, the source of light and warmth. She was guarded by the Vestal Virgins. Hestia is the still point at the center of your Self. You yearn for your inner Hestia whenever you need some time and space for solitude. Hestia’s symbolic fire warms and illuminates your mind and body, and gives you a sense of being at home in yourself. The time when your “inner” Hestia comes out is in the waning Moon, during your Wise woman years.Hestia is beyond the need or delusion that she needs someone or something outside herself in order to be complete. Hestia is perfectly at peace with herself just the way she is. In the period of time when she was a Goddess in Greece, tending the fire and keeping it alive was a serious responsibility, or even a sacred one, as the survival of the group depended on keeping warm. Hestia was also a presence in all the marble temples, because the hearth invited divinity. If the body is to be a temple, there must be a source of warmth and illumination within.
Prayer to Hestia....
Oh Hestia, keeper of the flame
Thank you for teaching us hospitality
Forgiveness, and redemption
Thank you for lighting the way
Illuminating our Wise Woman years
May we be guided by your sacred attention
To the fires that burn within our hearts.
Guide our hears, our hands
To prepare our home and harth
Beautiful, orderly, and serene
That we may know our Self,
In beauty and love.
Monday, December 12, 2011
Crone I AM, first post, not waiting for New Year, Birthday, Solstice, etc!
I was going to wait to start entry here. But Spirit said "GO!" loud and clear. I decided to step out of teacher persona and just journal my heart out. Here's this morning's musings:
Whoa, what a roller coaster I am on. I am so up and down emotionally. This morning I’m fairly well. So much on my mind and my future plans list… I just started a new blog entitled CRONE I AM.
I started the morning waking to the alarm, even though I was asleep by 8:30 or so last night. I had a vivid dream about a church and nudists who were also very Amish? Jewish? Something, they wore skull caps and funny old fashioned shoes, but were okay being nude anyway. We were in line going into the church. There was a food table outside. There was a plump older, swedish type woman, with scaly complection, giving me information. I made special note of her beautiful round face, yet the scaliness of her skin. Haven’t a clue what it all means.
The alarm woke me up, 5:40 and time to prep for being on the suicide hotline. I lit my candle and incense, then read some emails. I was led to reading “The Owl and the Crow” (http://owlandcrow.saladd.com/). This woman, Stephanie, is a soul collage therapist, and her info is all about the Goddesses. She has a slide show “God is a Woman”, something like that. Very moving. She also offers a course of study, In the Lap of the Goddess. I’m seriously thinking about this.
It all dovetails into my question of my new course of study, the new year, especially being 2012 with all the predictions of the end of the world. Plus, turning 65 the forth of January…. I just got it, to study deeply, each of the Goddesses she presents. To journal about them, do journey with them, paint them, make alters, do my art each month focused on that Goddess. I’m planning to take Willowing’s year long group, much is about faces, so this should fit right in.
I love it when things come to a composite right in front of me. So, being who and how I AM, I started a new blog: CRONE I AM. Guess I already mentioned that. But, again, it all fits together. I don’t have a clear picture of what the blog will look like, just that it will chronicle deeper spiritual revelations. I started a blog last July CRONE CHRONICLE, but it’s not feeling right. This one does. Maybe because I’m stepping into that role. Oh, it’s not a role, it’s my I AM. I am the one who is now fully crone. No longer Maiden, Mother, simply Crone.
I was so impressed and in awe of Stephanie’s writing, I stepped back in trepidation: I’m not good enough. I can’t write like that. I don’t have her skills, her degree, her knowledge.
Wait! Stop you foolish girl, woman, crone.
You are YOU, and you have value, if only to and for your Self, as you explore what God really meant when she created you.
This is your journey. Only you can write it. Maybe someone will stumble upon your work and resonate. It has value.
Whoa, what a roller coaster I am on. I am so up and down emotionally. This morning I’m fairly well. So much on my mind and my future plans list… I just started a new blog entitled CRONE I AM.
I started the morning waking to the alarm, even though I was asleep by 8:30 or so last night. I had a vivid dream about a church and nudists who were also very Amish? Jewish? Something, they wore skull caps and funny old fashioned shoes, but were okay being nude anyway. We were in line going into the church. There was a food table outside. There was a plump older, swedish type woman, with scaly complection, giving me information. I made special note of her beautiful round face, yet the scaliness of her skin. Haven’t a clue what it all means.
The alarm woke me up, 5:40 and time to prep for being on the suicide hotline. I lit my candle and incense, then read some emails. I was led to reading “The Owl and the Crow” (http://owlandcrow.saladd.com/). This woman, Stephanie, is a soul collage therapist, and her info is all about the Goddesses. She has a slide show “God is a Woman”, something like that. Very moving. She also offers a course of study, In the Lap of the Goddess. I’m seriously thinking about this.
It all dovetails into my question of my new course of study, the new year, especially being 2012 with all the predictions of the end of the world. Plus, turning 65 the forth of January…. I just got it, to study deeply, each of the Goddesses she presents. To journal about them, do journey with them, paint them, make alters, do my art each month focused on that Goddess. I’m planning to take Willowing’s year long group, much is about faces, so this should fit right in.
I love it when things come to a composite right in front of me. So, being who and how I AM, I started a new blog: CRONE I AM. Guess I already mentioned that. But, again, it all fits together. I don’t have a clear picture of what the blog will look like, just that it will chronicle deeper spiritual revelations. I started a blog last July CRONE CHRONICLE, but it’s not feeling right. This one does. Maybe because I’m stepping into that role. Oh, it’s not a role, it’s my I AM. I am the one who is now fully crone. No longer Maiden, Mother, simply Crone.
I was so impressed and in awe of Stephanie’s writing, I stepped back in trepidation: I’m not good enough. I can’t write like that. I don’t have her skills, her degree, her knowledge.
Wait! Stop you foolish girl, woman, crone.
You are YOU, and you have value, if only to and for your Self, as you explore what God really meant when she created you.
This is your journey. Only you can write it. Maybe someone will stumble upon your work and resonate. It has value.
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