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Informationen zum Autor Gabriela Herstik Klappentext "Awaken the goddess within through spells, rituals, meditations, embodiment practices, and journal prompts In this introduction to the goddess across time and cultures, and her many expressions of myth and magick, Gabriela Herstik guides us toward connecting to the goddess in ourselves and establishing a relationship with her that is personal, empowering, and transformative. The goddess path is one of alignment with the heart, with the universe, with nature-and with ourselves. To honor the goddess, we don't have to go through anyone else but only remember the divine within. This is your power. This is goddess energy. The goddess is calling...Are you listening?"-- Leseprobe 1 The Goddess Is (Re)Awakening The earth, alive. The Sun and Moon, shining, dancing, revealing. The way the birds sing. The way flesh on flesh feels in the early morning. Love, lust, magick, devotion, to all that is or was. The fierce protection of the heart, of the beloved. The cries of rage and passion, a holy sacrament. The desire to bleed until it's all gone. This is the Goddess, awakening, inspiring, calling. She is as old and wise as the earth, but Her myriad faces transcend age and time. Welcome, beloved, to the wild world of Goddess energy. I am so glad you are here, ready to embody new expressions of yourself and your heart. Unlike the religions many of us grew up with, the religion of the Goddess isn't one separated from nature, from the body, from the creative and life-giving energy of sexuality. Goddess is the earth. She is the body. She is transformative carnal power. Many of us were taught that the body is sinful and separate from "God," yet this is the antithesis of the Goddess religion, the oldest religion on earth. Instead of spending your life transcending, or working toward the goal of leaving your body behind on this earthly plane, the Goddess is about immanence; finding a direct connection to the Divine through the self and the physical world. The Goddess isn't separation. She isn't some old judgmental woman up in the clouds. She is the sacred and the mundane, seen in piles of trash and in holy places. The Goddess is in everything. The Goddess is everywhere, and She is constantly expressing Herself to you. The Goddess evolves, as you do. The Goddess is not static. She has not remained unchanged for the thousands of years She's been worshipped. The Goddess is reflected in the cultures that worship Her, in those who revere Her, in Her devotees who span age and time. She's definitely not human, and yet She evolves alongside us, often depicting Herself in a familiar light to those who honor Her so they more easily recognize Her. The way you worship the Goddess will look different from the way your ancestors did, but isn't that the point? Don't you want to pray to a deity who accepts all your twenty-first-century magick? We may not have as many temples and sacred sites as we once did, but now you can worship with a coven that spans the globe. Surely, the Goddess must be here for the ease of honoring Her, no matter where or when you live. So why the Goddess? Why now? And what or who is the Goddess, truly, anyway? Like the gender binary, the definition of the Goddess is a bit blurry these days. Each practitioner will have their own definition of what the Goddess is. Your own understanding will allow you to relate to Her more intimately, too. The Goddess does not exist in black and white, and She is not solely expressed through gender or biology. She is all-encompassing-a vibration, a frequency that every person on Earth has access to. This is Goddess energy, and Goddess energy is for everyone. More than anything, the Goddess is love. She is the living expression of the Divine Erotic, the potencies of sexuality, of death and rebirth, of destruction an...
