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The Heart of the Great Mother: Spiritual Initiation, Creativity, and Rebirth
Reveals sacred spiritual tools to connect with the love, passion, and creative powers of the Great Mother for spiritual transformation
• Explores the three faces of the Great Mother’s love and wisdom in our lives and how to build our magician’s wand, which enables us to be masters of our creativity
• Details the journey of the soul through the twelve signs of the zodiac to integrate the shadow self and embody the soul’s true light
• Explains how we are being called to birth a new world, one that embraces the divine feminine qualities of intuition, emotional creative power, and rhythmic renewal
The year 2012 marked the birth of a new cycle of time that will last for the next 26,000 years. In charge of such birth is the Great Mother, the eternal source of all creation. She is calling on the feminine within us all to create a world worthy of the next seven generations and begin an era of peace, abundance, and spiritual evolution. To birth this new world, we must release our hold on old destructive patterns and instead embrace the divine feminine qualities of intuition, powerful creativity, and rhythmic renewal.
As Christine Page reveals, the Great Mother hears our heart’s yearning to escape our old ways of suffering and struggle to find peace, fulfillment, and joy. She is reaching out to us across the dimensions, offering spiritual initiation and the chance to know ourselves fully right now. Dr. Page explains how important it is to acknowledge and integrate our shadow selves--the unloved parts of us--so we can radiate our light from the fullness of who we are without shame or judgment. Drawing on alchemy and mythology, the author details the journey of the soul through the twelve signs of the zodiac until our inner light shines. She also explores how to connect with and use sacred spiritual tools to open our hearts and merge with the Great Mother’s love and creative powers.
Exploring the mythology of the Triple Goddess, the author explains how the three faces of the Great Mother help us on our spiritual journey of As virgin she inspires us to manifest our dreams. As mother, she teaches us to celebrate and nurture all living things, especially ourselves. As crone, she shows us that creativity changes like the seasons, encouraging us not to be possessed by our creations but to embrace mystery and impermanence. Finally, the Great Mother emboldens us to build our magician’s wand, the rod of light along the spine which enables us to be masters of our creativity, bringing forth transformation for ourselves and generations of children still to come as we embark into a new era of expanded consciousness and love.
• Explores the three faces of the Great Mother’s love and wisdom in our lives and how to build our magician’s wand, which enables us to be masters of our creativity
• Details the journey of the soul through the twelve signs of the zodiac to integrate the shadow self and embody the soul’s true light
• Explains how we are being called to birth a new world, one that embraces the divine feminine qualities of intuition, emotional creative power, and rhythmic renewal
The year 2012 marked the birth of a new cycle of time that will last for the next 26,000 years. In charge of such birth is the Great Mother, the eternal source of all creation. She is calling on the feminine within us all to create a world worthy of the next seven generations and begin an era of peace, abundance, and spiritual evolution. To birth this new world, we must release our hold on old destructive patterns and instead embrace the divine feminine qualities of intuition, powerful creativity, and rhythmic renewal.
As Christine Page reveals, the Great Mother hears our heart’s yearning to escape our old ways of suffering and struggle to find peace, fulfillment, and joy. She is reaching out to us across the dimensions, offering spiritual initiation and the chance to know ourselves fully right now. Dr. Page explains how important it is to acknowledge and integrate our shadow selves--the unloved parts of us--so we can radiate our light from the fullness of who we are without shame or judgment. Drawing on alchemy and mythology, the author details the journey of the soul through the twelve signs of the zodiac until our inner light shines. She also explores how to connect with and use sacred spiritual tools to open our hearts and merge with the Great Mother’s love and creative powers.
Exploring the mythology of the Triple Goddess, the author explains how the three faces of the Great Mother help us on our spiritual journey of As virgin she inspires us to manifest our dreams. As mother, she teaches us to celebrate and nurture all living things, especially ourselves. As crone, she shows us that creativity changes like the seasons, encouraging us not to be possessed by our creations but to embrace mystery and impermanence. Finally, the Great Mother emboldens us to build our magician’s wand, the rod of light along the spine which enables us to be masters of our creativity, bringing forth transformation for ourselves and generations of children still to come as we embark into a new era of expanded consciousness and love.
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Published February 11, 2020
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December 14, 2019
In the opening section, much is given and requires contemplation, acceptance and application providing the groundwork for all that comes afterwards. The pace is slow but steady providing time for remembering, aligning and anchoring all into the consciousness, energy field and heart.
Next comes Maiden, Mother, Crone or Virgin, Mother, Crone who are the three aspects of the Feminine or the Goddess or the Divine Mother. Here we are shown how throughout the ages, even though the feminine was forced to hide herself, there were still ways she was recognized, remembered and honored. Even if such was unconsciously, it proved She was not forgotten.
Oval arches in churches and cathedrals are seen as examples of the Vesica Pisces a geometric sign of the Triple Goddess, Sheela-na-gigs carvings in stone found over doorways or on walls of said churches and cathedrals in Europe, Ireland and Great Britain are a sign of the Great Mother. Then there is the Celtic Cross and the beloved Shamrock of Ireland. This latter symbol has an interesting story to it.
Creation myths of ancient civilizations and times reveal the Triple Goddess as “The One Thing out of Which emerges Her masculine counterpart, the One Mind”. Merging the two allows the focus to create. Force plus focus equals intention, or match, tinder, spark/flame.
Other topics explained in detail are birth of the ego, the zodiac and how the 12 signs are either masculine or feminine, and that the sun passes through each sign. In the section on Rhythms of the Moon, the moon phases are also explained and how they affect us and all life on earth, and that both sun and moon signs affect natal charts. The author also speaks of lunar and solar eclipses, procession of the equinoxes (which term is mentioned in the Bible) and moon standstills.
This last fascinated me as I never heard the term before. Moon standstills occur “when the moon appears to be at a standstill which happens when the moon is at right angles to its nodes”.
Another fascinating reference is the fire of the Vestal Virgins of Rome, protectors of the hearth and considered the Heart(h)of the home and the Fires of Brigid extinguished in the 16th century and relit in 1993 in Kildare Ireland.
I particularly devoured her description of the Heart and the Torus in the section Triple Goddess—Capricorn, The Perpetual Fire. Pictures also were greatly appreciated.
Thank you for sharing your journey to/with the Great Mother. It touched my Heart deeply, and I am pleased we have connected again in this Now of Her Heart.
Again much thought, research, personal experience, will, strength and focus has gone into this manual. There is something for everyone Within it’s pages and everyone can take away gems of wisdom to enrich and enliven their own lives.
I so thank the author, NetGalley and Inner Traditions—Bear & Company for allowing me to read this book before its publishing date.
Next comes Maiden, Mother, Crone or Virgin, Mother, Crone who are the three aspects of the Feminine or the Goddess or the Divine Mother. Here we are shown how throughout the ages, even though the feminine was forced to hide herself, there were still ways she was recognized, remembered and honored. Even if such was unconsciously, it proved She was not forgotten.
Oval arches in churches and cathedrals are seen as examples of the Vesica Pisces a geometric sign of the Triple Goddess, Sheela-na-gigs carvings in stone found over doorways or on walls of said churches and cathedrals in Europe, Ireland and Great Britain are a sign of the Great Mother. Then there is the Celtic Cross and the beloved Shamrock of Ireland. This latter symbol has an interesting story to it.
Creation myths of ancient civilizations and times reveal the Triple Goddess as “The One Thing out of Which emerges Her masculine counterpart, the One Mind”. Merging the two allows the focus to create. Force plus focus equals intention, or match, tinder, spark/flame.
Other topics explained in detail are birth of the ego, the zodiac and how the 12 signs are either masculine or feminine, and that the sun passes through each sign. In the section on Rhythms of the Moon, the moon phases are also explained and how they affect us and all life on earth, and that both sun and moon signs affect natal charts. The author also speaks of lunar and solar eclipses, procession of the equinoxes (which term is mentioned in the Bible) and moon standstills.
This last fascinated me as I never heard the term before. Moon standstills occur “when the moon appears to be at a standstill which happens when the moon is at right angles to its nodes”.
Another fascinating reference is the fire of the Vestal Virgins of Rome, protectors of the hearth and considered the Heart(h)of the home and the Fires of Brigid extinguished in the 16th century and relit in 1993 in Kildare Ireland.
I particularly devoured her description of the Heart and the Torus in the section Triple Goddess—Capricorn, The Perpetual Fire. Pictures also were greatly appreciated.
Thank you for sharing your journey to/with the Great Mother. It touched my Heart deeply, and I am pleased we have connected again in this Now of Her Heart.
Again much thought, research, personal experience, will, strength and focus has gone into this manual. There is something for everyone Within it’s pages and everyone can take away gems of wisdom to enrich and enliven their own lives.
I so thank the author, NetGalley and Inner Traditions—Bear & Company for allowing me to read this book before its publishing date.
January 1, 2020
The Great Mother, the primal source, the ocean of possibilities. Back to love in three parts.
First we explore the alchemy. The tripple goddess, the seasons, sacred geometry, different belief systems and their goddesses.
In part two we study the celestial design. The moon and life through the cycles, mythological archeology creating heaven on earth.
The third part of the book is dedicated to the zodiac, the twelve stages of evolution and dissolution. The long road to self discovery.
I enjoyed the subject, the clear writing, the amount of mythology and history. Not an easy read, but definitely one to come back to for its wealth of information.
Thank you Netgalley and Bear & Company for the ARC.
First we explore the alchemy. The tripple goddess, the seasons, sacred geometry, different belief systems and their goddesses.
In part two we study the celestial design. The moon and life through the cycles, mythological archeology creating heaven on earth.
The third part of the book is dedicated to the zodiac, the twelve stages of evolution and dissolution. The long road to self discovery.
I enjoyed the subject, the clear writing, the amount of mythology and history. Not an easy read, but definitely one to come back to for its wealth of information.
Thank you Netgalley and Bear & Company for the ARC.
October 17, 2019
3.5 stars
This was a very dense read. There is a lot of information here to unpack. While I enjoyed a lot of that it also was a struggle at times to keep my interest. It felt more like a textbook than an actual book. That being said, I wish that this was a class in college because I would take that class in a heartbeat because it is apparent that this author is VERY knowledgable. I also think that if this book was an actual book instead of an eread this would have been even better at least for me. This is definitely something that I could see myself taking endless notes on.
This was a very dense read. There is a lot of information here to unpack. While I enjoyed a lot of that it also was a struggle at times to keep my interest. It felt more like a textbook than an actual book. That being said, I wish that this was a class in college because I would take that class in a heartbeat because it is apparent that this author is VERY knowledgable. I also think that if this book was an actual book instead of an eread this would have been even better at least for me. This is definitely something that I could see myself taking endless notes on.
December 24, 2019
Well, this was a bit out there. It's nothing shocking or new in the genre, just the usual crop circles controlling our thoughts and humans transcending time and space with our minds but it borders on a stream of consciousness style which just adds to the weirdness. There are some good messages in here like imagining the pain of other's as your own, treating everyone with love and kindness, and remaining open-minded and dedicated to change but I just couldn't justify reading the entire thing right now.
January 1, 2020
I was quite surprised how reading "The Heart Of the Great Mother" by Christine R. Page changed how I looked at the aspect of the Triple Goddess image. I think for most people they see the Goddess to be of young woman, pregnant, and old crone but this book shows you she is so much more than how many perceive her. I have developed a deeper understanding of working with the Goddess and what she means to me as a woman and a Witch. I encourage you to journal while reading this book, it will help you appreciate the valuable lessons this book offers.
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Blessings
August 28, 2020
Profound wisdom and ancient mystery. A must-read if you attempt to walk the Hero’s journey to open portals into the Great Mother’s mysteries. The Heart of the Great Mother is a valuable guide for everybody who wants to become the master of his own life by stepping in their full potential.
January 21, 2020
Interesting book, taking a different angle on some aspects of the Triple Goddess. Explores the myth, new ideas, and present day inclusion.
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