Category: Goddess

by: Karen Tate
People turn to religion in times of chaos. No doubt when St. Paul was run out of Ephesus, lucky to be alive after he tried to turn the masses away from their beloved Goddess Artemis, he must have had his doubts if Christianity would ever stick. Likewise for St. Thomas in […]

by Judith James
“The Mistress” PO-TI-NI-JA The most apparent characteristic of Minoan religion was that it was polytheistic and matriarchal, that is, a goddess religion; the gods were all female, not a single male god has been identified until later periods. It is not easy to describe the nature of the mother-goddess of Crete. There are […]

Kuan Yin: Accessing the Power of the Divine Feminine
by Daniela Schenker
Sounds True, 2007
pp. 160, $22.95
Kuan Yin, the Eastern goddess of compassion, is more than a bodhisattva. A bodhisattva is an enlightened being who has attained the wisdom of the Buddhas but chooses to stay in this world to support sentient beings so that they may […]

There was a time, back in days now lost in the fog of prehistory, when Woman didn’t need oracles to predict her future or reveal what was going on behind her back. She didn’t worry about what might happen, and she didn’t fret about what to do. She didn’t need to. She hadn’t been taught […]

by Rev. Karen Tate
With Spring upon us, the mind turns to the promise of the season offering the potential for our blossoming and growth in the coming year. But how can we move from metaphor into manifestation and ride that potent wave to improve our chances for abundance in all phases of our lives?
Much […]

 
by Charlene M. Proctor, PhD
The Women’s Book of Empowerment is a book of affirmations for problems and challenges that women, in particular, face. Within its pages, affirmations are given for balance between work and family; to help the reader become stronger in the face of adversity; and even a whole section on corporate stress […]

by Galina Krasskova
When Galina Krasskova decided to become Heathen in 1996, she found that “warm and fuzzy” were not typical words to describe this community of about 40,000 that adhere to the modern reconstruction of the ancient religion of the Germanic and Scandinavian peoples. Her book, […]

by Diane Saarinen
Late in October, I learned that there would be a Goddess art exhibit opening that would be held on October 28 at the New York Open Center with artist Kris Waldherr. I immediately made plans to attend, particularly after reading the following from the artist’s statement: “I believe that the […]

by Donna Henes

Although I have been passionately devoted to the Many Splendored Goddess in her complex multiplicity for more than thirty years now, I am not a believer in the Triple Goddess paradigm. It has never resonated with me because it belies what I believe to be the true nature of nature. The Triple Goddess […]