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A Free Ebook: Four Seasons of the Hera Path
Posted on: Dec 16, 2017 @ 11:08 Posted in: Sabbats
At the edge of the known world, where the everyday gives way to the deeper Mysteries that underlie human reality, She waits for you. Her hand is extended, reaching to you with an open invitation to join Her at this edge place where the ancient hera path of the Goddess begins.
We best know Her as the Goddess Persephone through Greek mythology, yet Her hera tale is much, much older, rising out of the Sumerian stories of the Goddess Inanna. For millennia, Persephone has carved the hera path deep into the dream of the living world, making Her journey into the Underworld in the Fall, and returning to the sunlit realm in the Spring.
The Goddess’s hera path is foundational to my Path of She offerings. In this free ebook, Four Seasons of the Hera Path, I’ll share this Goddess wisdom teaching with you, both on a conceptual, inspirational level, and as a Guided Journey Series that can direct your transformational travels on the hera path in service of your journey of soul.
In section 1 of the Four Seasons of the Hera Path, you’ll discover the powerful ways the hera path speaks to your spiritual pathwork: as Goddess mysteries, preserved in ancient mythic tales; an empowering, alternative framework for spiritual growth and evolution; an inspirational tale for these modern times; and a four-season framework that can guide your spiritual pathwork in alignment with the mysteries of the Goddess, and the primal lessons of Nature.
In section 2, you’ll be introduced to the Path of She Guided Journey Series which facilitates your four-season journey through the hera path. Each season is a step along the hera path, guided by the Goddess, illuminated by Nature’s seasonal teachings, and translated into a key focus for your personal explorations and spiritual pathwork. The four seasons take you through a complete cycle of the hera path that you can return to again and again.
If you feel a yes arise within you, the Four Seasons of the Hera Path and the Path of She Guided Journey Series can guide your hera journey of becoming ever more deeply, beautifully, powerfully your Self, one season and one cycle at a time.
A Fall Equinox Story: It’s Time For Your Awakening
Posted on: Sep 21, 2017 @ 15:00 Posted in: Sabbats
The path of spiritual growth and evolution first leads us into the dark. The lost parts of our selfhood and humanity — hidden treasures obscured amongst the shattered fragments of our pain and wounding, mysteries long repressed and forgotten in the waking world, secret stories that can set us free, wondrous possibilities not yet imaginable — await us in the sacred dark.
It’s the cusp of the Fall Equinox. I’m at a secluded Buddhist retreat center. The focus of our dharma talk is love. The teacher rings the bell to start our meditation. Within a few breaths, a vision comes to me. The wooden floor gapes open and reveals a stairway. A man is standing on the stairs, his hand extended to me. I can sense him more than see him. He emanates a powerful elixir of animal magnetism and ethereal beauty, as if he is equally woven of flesh and of light.
“Come,” he says, “it’s time for your awakening.”
I take his hand and descend into the waiting darkness.
So began a new cycle on my journey of soul, one that returned a precious missing part of my humanity and womanhood to me — my beloved — God, man, husband, father, brother, son and my own inner masculine. The promised awakening was one that led me over and over again to lost pieces of my Self and life story that held both my beauty and wounding, and the light and dark of my greater maturity and wholeness.
For the next several years, this soul work of reclaiming my beloved became the central theme of my dreaming, magical workings and personal healing, mending a tear in my soul that I’d carried since my early childhood, and lifetimes before. In the end, I came to the infinite grace and communion of love, with myself, with God and with the men and boys who blessed my life.
Persephone’s TaleThis vision isn’t unique to me. As the wheel of the year turns to the Fall Equinox — a moment of balance between the light and the dark, before the land retreats from the sunlit world of Summer into the cold sleep of Winter — a portal opens to the Underworld and the Goddess Persephone makes Her mythic descent into the sacred dark.
Persephone is a stunning Goddess maiden, full of the juice and joy of Her worldly powers and nature. But She is incomplete in the sunlit realm of Her Mother Demeter. The Underworld calls Her to seek out the missing parts of Her nature in the sacred dark. Persephone descends and walks among the dead and the rich mysteries of the Underworld, drinking in bitter tears and hidden magic. And She grows and matures through Her trials and sorrows.
In Spring, the powers of life call to Persephone once more. She stirs in Her Underworld travels, turning Her awareness to the rustling of green grass, freshening winds, and the life-inducing heat of sunshine on the waking landscape. She returns to the sunlit realm, no longer a maiden, but a Goddess transformed into Her full maturity and wholeness, Queen of the Underworld and Goddess of Springtime Growth. As Her feet touch the living Earth, flowers bloom in Her path, for Hers are the powers of transformation and rebirth.
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Tale of the Lost Daughter: Darkest Night of the Soul
Posted on: Jun 26, 2017 @ 10:23 Posted in: From the Tale
Tale of the Lost Daughter: Your Life Is Your Teacher
Posted on: Jun 26, 2017 @ 10:21 Posted in: From the Tale
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Tale of the Lost Daughter: Waking Up
Posted on: Jun 25, 2017 @ 14:23 Posted in: From the Tale
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