They come seeking the Lady of Avalon, Her Priestesses, Her Temple and Her land, as if returning to a Place of Origin, a place called home, where the Goddess lives and is honored today.

There is no-one to tell us. We have to begin again to learn about Goddess in the same way as our ancestors, from experiencing Her many faces as they are revealed to us in the cycles of the seasons of Her nature.

our communities celebrated the seasonal cycles of Goddess, the movements of the earth, moon and sun, of the stars in the heavens. We acknowledged Goddess as Earth, Water, Fire, Wind and Space, as Giver of Birth, Life and Death. We recognized Her in the shapes of the land, as Her paps (breasts) and womb hills, as Her body fleshed out in rounded

On either side of the Freudian ego, then, there existed a ghostly id and a disembodied superego – or, if you prefer, each person comes fully equipped with an inner daemon and a guardian angel.

The Goddess therefore had a binary function: she presided over the coalescing of atomic matter (birth) and the dispelling of material existence (death), these being the “downward” and “upward” phases of the energy-mass interchange or the periodic transition from essence to substance and back again.

“The soul comes ‘from the stars’,” wrote C.G. Jung, “and returns to the stellar regions” – which is as much as to say that our spiritual essence takes on its physical substance when the atoms created by dying stars constellate, and our corporeal bodies eventually release their constituent molecules back into the cosmos.

In her complex role as mother-daughter-bride, the Great Goddess presided over birth and death, growth and decay, and so she wielded supreme power: she could breathe life back into the scattered remains of her sacred partner and strike down others without mercy.

They were once a pair, the Goddess and her consort. Throughout the ancient world Goddesses were worshipped alongside their male counterparts, and the further we go back, the more it would appear that the Great Goddess took precedence.

They show us that it’s okay to just be yourself, whoever that is. They tell us that it is okay to have a failed marriage. That it is okay to remain a virgin. That it is okay to find our wild selves. We see ourselves in them, and they in us. In this relationship, we are all inspired and, after all, is that not the point of a spiritual path? May the