The Pregnant Goddess: Your Guide to Traditions, Rituals, and Blessings for a Sacred Pagan Pregnancy

by Arin Murphy-Hiscock

Embrace the divine feminine power of the Mother Goddess and learn how to spiritually prepare for pregnancy with this guide to Pagan rituals, meditations, and traditions for every milestone over the next nine months!

As you make the transition from maiden to mother, you fully embody the Mother Goddess. Embark on this sacred journey with this complete guide including special mediations, affirmations, and rituals designed to help you attune to the divine energies of childbearing.

The Pregnant Goddess teaches you how to:
-Prepare spiritually for pregnancy
-Conduct rituals to aide in conception, safe pregnancy, and easy delivery
-Practice responsible magic during these critical nine moths
-Deal with unexpected delivery developments

The Pregnant Goddess is the perfect companion as you embark on the most magnificent and magical journey of your life!

Genres: Witchcraft, Nonfiction, Parenting, Spirituality

224 pages, Hardcover

First published June 23, 2020

About the author

Currently a resident of Montreal, Canada, Arin works as a freelance writer and editor. She is the author of Power Spellcraft for Life: The Art of Crafting and Casting for Positive Change (2005), Solitary Wicca for Life: A Complete Guide to Mastering the Craft on Your Own (2005), The Way of the Green Witch (2006), The Way of the Hedge Witch (2009), and Pagan Pregnancy: The Journey From Maiden to Mother (TBA). She is also the editor of the anthology Out of the Broom Closet (2009).

Arin is a third-degree Wiccan High Priestess in the Black Forest Clan, a tradition linked both by lineage and practice to several other branches of Wiccan thought and philosophy including the Caledonii Tradition, Druidism, Gardnerian practice, Seax-Wicca, general Celtic Wicca, and German witchcraft. She works as a priestess in her community performing rites of passage and giving occasional workshops, and leads a private coven.

Her hobbies include playing the cello, handspinning, and weaving.

Reviews

[Bela Carapinheiro · Rating 3 out of 5]

Let's say after seeing this cover, I expected more visually appealing for the inside.
Plus, if you're into Paganism or witchcraft, you know some 40% of what was said in the book.
I hope this reading fits for those who are in the begining of their spiritual Journey ⭐

[Tess · Rating 3 out of 5]

Received as a gift, good recommendations for what teas and EO are safe.

[_tinymonstrocity · Rating 3 out of 5]

Kind of TERF-y

The book itself is good; it has valuable information and gave me some good ideas as far as spirituality and pregnancy moving forward. It is disheartening, however, to see so much literature about pregnancy and childbirth being so hyperfocused on fitting these experiences into the gender binary and on cisgendered women exclusively. Transgender, nonbinary, and intersex people have been giving birth and raising children for just as long as cisgendered women, and anyone within the spiritual community who has worked to decolonize their practice knows that Spirit/Gods/Goddesses/The Universe/etc does not express divine masculine and feminine energies in the context of our gender binary because it is a construct we made up in order to make sense of our mortal experiences. And it is really disappointing as a transgender man who wants to concieve and experience pregnancy and childbirth that any book I read or research that I do needs to be filtered through the lense that the creator specifically decided to not include anyone except cisgendered women for this journey. I understand the book is called "The Pregnant Goddess" and was meant for a specific demographic of people; I simply wish the demographic extended to all people who give birth, not exclusively cisgendered women.

[Liss · Rating 4 out of 5]

Easy to digest information, powerful but simple rituals and recipes and full of just all round reassuring information for a mum to be. I really enjoyed reading through this and learning how to incorporate my craft into my pregnancy ❤️

[Valleri · Rating 5 out of 5]

I really enjoyed reading most of this book. It offered wonderful ways to connect to self, to baby, and to nature throughout an entire pregnancy. To be taken with a grain of salt, of course ;-)

[Ana Blue · Rating 4 out of 5]

A book very far from my usual reader's profile. 4 stars only because it delivers what is expected. It was not a specially enjoyable read for me but there is still some stuff I take with me.

[Elizabeth Fonseca · Rating 4 out of 5]

Had some good information; some new, some old.

[Katie Oxenfeldt · Rating 3 out of 5]

A lot of this stuff I already knew. Good rituals though.

[Delaney Webb-Walker · Rating 3 out of 5]

Wish I'd been able to finish while I was pregnant

[Tricia · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very helpful with good rituals.

[Chelsea · Rating 4 out of 5]

Simple and informative book with recipes, teas, and tips to connect with the divine feminine through all phases of pregnancy. Introduction of divine goddesses that relate to motherhood and how you can connect with each of them as well. Touches on pre-pregnancy rituals, pregnancy, loss, and post partum. This book reads like someone who has been through it all themselves which I really appreciated also.