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Îndreptar pentru zeițe, inspirații zilnice despre Supremul Spirit Feminin
Zeița are multe chipuri. Acest îndreptar te va ajuta să explorezi noi fațete ale minunatei ei diversități, în fiecare zi. Fiecare rugă zilnică și fiecare explicație ce o însoțește sunt o meditație asupra lecțiilor divine primite în cadrul celor mai puternice experiențe umane: creația, sărbătoarea, nașterea, frumusețea, abundența, pierderea, dragostea, venerația, precum și toate ciclurile anotimpurilor și vieților noastre.
Îndreptarul pentru zeițe ne ajută să facem o legătură între propria personalitate și spiritul nostru divin, făcând astfel loc în gândurile noastre pentru un spațiu sacru în care noile noastre introspecții să poată prinde rădăcini și să crească. Citind în fiecare zi aceste străvechi rugi pline de emoție, veți avea posibilitatea să recunoașteți oportunitățile pe care fiecare zi vi le scoate în cale pentru a avea profunde transformări spirituale – putând astfel să slăviți și să hrăniți feminitatea divină ce sălășluiește în noi.
Îndreptarul pentru zeițe ne ajută să facem o legătură între propria personalitate și spiritul nostru divin, făcând astfel loc în gândurile noastre pentru un spațiu sacru în care noile noastre introspecții să poată prinde rădăcini și să crească. Citind în fiecare zi aceste străvechi rugi pline de emoție, veți avea posibilitatea să recunoașteți oportunitățile pe care fiecare zi vi le scoate în cale pentru a avea profunde transformări spirituale – putând astfel să slăviți și să hrăniți feminitatea divină ce sălășluiește în noi.
413 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1999
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Patricia Monaghan
50 books57 followersPatricia Monaghan was a poet, a writer, a spiritual activist, and an influential figure in the contemporary women's spirituality movement.
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October 29, 2013
This is one of the first pagan books I bought myself, and I absolutely love it. It has an entry for every day of the year, so you can read it daily as a meditation, or open it when you feel you need guidance.
An example of a day:
February 16
The flood receded, leaving swamps
where life emerged anew like seeds
sprouting in a mother's womb.
It was just like spring, when peasants
overturn the soil to find a world
of creatures there, as though the earth
itself crept and wriggled and was alive.
Life begins in heat and water,
those apparent opposites that stir
creation. Thus the sun, rising on
the flooded earth, brought forth new life.
- Ovid, Metamorphoses
In the myths of many cultures, the earth is destroyed - often by a flood - and then reborn, re-made. So it was in Greek and Roman mythology, which told of a great flood that only the woman Pyrrha and her mate Deucalion survived. Told by an oracle that she would bear children from "the bones of her mother," Pyrrha figured out that her mother being the earth, the bones would mean the rock skeleton of the planet. Throwing stones behind herself, Pyrrha produced an entire new race of humans to repopulate the earth.
After the destructive flood, the earth replenished itself anew. Such myths capture the special freshness of spring, when all seems reborn. In our own lives, too, we will find times when an order is overturned - a job or love lost, a home transformed - but new order emerges from the ruin. Trusting in such rebirth is difficult, but every spring reminds us that renewal is an inevitable part of life.
Each day in the book brings a quote from ancient poetry or song or religious text about some aspect of the goddess. Some days it's Horace or Homer, some days it's a Lithuanian Folk song, or an Indian prayer to Kali. I love how it draws from such widely different traditions to show different faces of the goddess.
It's quite seasonal; it doesn't have days of the week, but it does go by dates, so you'll find things about spring in February, March, and April; entries about depression and the dark of winter in December and January; entries about death and ancestors in October.
I highly recommend this book; it is well-written, insightful, and well-researched. This is a book I crack open not-quite-daily, but at least once a week, and whenever I need a goddess fix. I used to have quotes from this book written out on paper and posted all over my house. I did not realize the author had written so many other books - she has about 20 listed on her Wikipedia page! I only own The Goddess Companion and The Goddess Path, but I think I'll be looking up more of her work. Sadly, she died about a year ago, but she left behind a wonderful body of work. If you're interested in reading about the divine feminine, this book is a great place to start.
An example of a day:
February 16
The flood receded, leaving swamps
where life emerged anew like seeds
sprouting in a mother's womb.
It was just like spring, when peasants
overturn the soil to find a world
of creatures there, as though the earth
itself crept and wriggled and was alive.
Life begins in heat and water,
those apparent opposites that stir
creation. Thus the sun, rising on
the flooded earth, brought forth new life.
- Ovid, Metamorphoses
In the myths of many cultures, the earth is destroyed - often by a flood - and then reborn, re-made. So it was in Greek and Roman mythology, which told of a great flood that only the woman Pyrrha and her mate Deucalion survived. Told by an oracle that she would bear children from "the bones of her mother," Pyrrha figured out that her mother being the earth, the bones would mean the rock skeleton of the planet. Throwing stones behind herself, Pyrrha produced an entire new race of humans to repopulate the earth.
After the destructive flood, the earth replenished itself anew. Such myths capture the special freshness of spring, when all seems reborn. In our own lives, too, we will find times when an order is overturned - a job or love lost, a home transformed - but new order emerges from the ruin. Trusting in such rebirth is difficult, but every spring reminds us that renewal is an inevitable part of life.
Each day in the book brings a quote from ancient poetry or song or religious text about some aspect of the goddess. Some days it's Horace or Homer, some days it's a Lithuanian Folk song, or an Indian prayer to Kali. I love how it draws from such widely different traditions to show different faces of the goddess.
It's quite seasonal; it doesn't have days of the week, but it does go by dates, so you'll find things about spring in February, March, and April; entries about depression and the dark of winter in December and January; entries about death and ancestors in October.
I highly recommend this book; it is well-written, insightful, and well-researched. This is a book I crack open not-quite-daily, but at least once a week, and whenever I need a goddess fix. I used to have quotes from this book written out on paper and posted all over my house. I did not realize the author had written so many other books - she has about 20 listed on her Wikipedia page! I only own The Goddess Companion and The Goddess Path, but I think I'll be looking up more of her work. Sadly, she died about a year ago, but she left behind a wonderful body of work. If you're interested in reading about the divine feminine, this book is a great place to start.
January 29, 2010
This book never ceases to amaze me. It's designed with an entry to be read once a day, and I'm currently one month into my second year of reading it every morning as the first thing I do when I wake up.
I love how much multicultural mythology, poetry, religion, history and openness is expressed throughout the entries. Another must for many.
I love how much multicultural mythology, poetry, religion, history and openness is expressed throughout the entries. Another must for many.
May 26, 2012
I bought this books years ago, when I took up the path of being myself, a born Strega & the search for the Goddess. This book has a daily meditation for the Goddess, under Her many titles. For the beginner that I was, it was perfect. Putting my former Roman Catholic eyes in a book about a Loving Goddess was a exchange between me & Her.
I recommend this book especially for those taking their first steps into the world of a Loving Mother, that waits for us to hear Her call once again.
I recommend this book especially for those taking their first steps into the world of a Loving Mother, that waits for us to hear Her call once again.
January 5, 2024
Wonderful book full of daily wisdoms, nice poetry and insights. It took me one year to read it because it had a poem for each day and I didn't want to rush through it. It's a book I will probably read again and again and still learn new things from it.
December 13, 2019
Love this book
September 21, 2020
Lovely meditations. Great way to start any day, and as spiritual writing prompts.
October 12, 2009
I am going through this daily
July 5, 2014
Love the daily inspiration found with in the pages of this book.
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