Skadhi was not a Goddess who could settle down. She did have an attempt at marriage, after she was tricked into thinking she was going to marry the most beautiful God and instead got the god of the sea, Njord.

what fundamentally appealed to me was the assertion that all women are reflections of The Goddess – that we all hold within us a spark of divinity and sacredness, and that this spark deserves to be recognized, to be honored, to be celebrated. I also resonated with the idea that worshiping a Goddess, a female and feminine divine, was a radical and t

I found a deep connection with this Goddess that I love and hold dear to my heart to this very day. She is an inspiration to me, her soul song reflecting melodies that I can understand deep within my heart. I think this is what is most important to a religious person – finding that relationship that both witnesses and supports the things in life we

“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.

The Goddess is, to me, one way of envisioning a Truth that is far bigger and more complex than human understanding can grasp or human language can communicate.

I think that it is more in their wild freedom, in their choices that they make and their self-knowledge that inspires me. They are remit to no-one and will not allow anyone to tell them what to do, think or feel.

I read about, meet in ritual, or hear stories about represents to me a piece of the larger Ultimate Truth – call it Spirit, Divinity, God/dess, or The Source. All Goddesses exist simultaneously and equally, and represent aspects of the larger Universe which people have called forth – the nurturance of the mother, the fierceness of the warrior, the

When there is very little written about a deity, personal experience becomes the main driving force behind establishing and maintaining that relationship. It requires a lot of effort to seek out a deity like Elen – she cannot be found in books, or in the mind. She must be sought out on the wild heaths and woodlands, on the trackways that bear her n

One of my favorite ritual practices when working with a group is to invoke The Goddess – by the name – and ask those in circle to call out the names of specific Goddesses they wish to welcome. It is powerful to hear the names spoken, and to hear the chorus of names grow as each person speaks and reminds others of Goddesses they know and love. It al