The Goddess Path: Myths, Invocations, and Rituals - Softcover

Monaghan, Patricia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1567184677 ISBN 13: 9781567184679

Publisher: Llewellyn Publications, 1999

Synopsis

Now you can find more meaning and joy in your life, journey inward, find the divine, and become transformed, when you read The Goddess Path by Patricia Monaghan.

The Goddess Path can be your guide to speed you on your spiritual quest. Think of this book as a signpost on your spiritual travels, designed to help you nurture your own connection to the goddess and share in her boundless wisdom. Call her into your life with beautiful and ancient invocations. Create your own rituals to honor the lessons she has to teach. As you ponder life-changing questions and venture on brave new experiments, you fan the divine spark into flame―and, in that fire, you are transformed.

The Goddess Path includes myths, symbols, feast days, ancient invocations, and suggestions for connecting with the following goddesses for these purposes and more:

• Amaterasu for clarity
• Aphrodite for passion
• Artemis for protection
• Athena for strength
• Brigid for survival
• The Cailleach for power
• Demeter and Persephone for initiation
• Gaia for abundance
• Hathor for affection
• Hera for dignity
• Inanna for inner strength
• Isis for restorative love
• Kali for freedom
• Kuan-Yin for mercy
• The Maenads for ecstasy
• The Muses for inspiration
• Oshun for healing love
• Paivatar for release
• Pomona for joy
• Asule and Saules Meita for family health

In The Goddess Path, Monaghan presents a means to work with the goddess, using ancient and modern techniques that will thrill and amaze you.

About this title

About the Author

One of the leaders of the contemporary earth spirituality movement, Patricia Monaghan (1946 - 2012) had spent more than 20 years researching and writing about alternative visions of the earth. Raised in Alaska, where much of her family still lives, she considered herself blessed to have learned the ecology of the taiga, the subarctic forest, in her youth. She was a writer and reporter on science and energy-related issues before turning her attention to the impact of mythic structures on our everyday lives.

The worldwide vision of the earth as feminine―as a goddess, called Gaia by the Greeks―led her to recognize the connection between ecological damage and the oppression of the feminine in Western society. Much of her work since that time had explored the question of the role of feminine power in our world, in an inclusive and multicultural way.

An avid traveler, Patricia had researched earth spirituality and goddess worship on three continents, and traveled widely in Europe, especially in Ireland. She held dual US/Irish citizenship and edited two anthologies of contemporary Irish-American writing.

Patricia was member of the resident faculty at DePaul University's School for New Learning in Chicago, where she taught science and literature She passed from this world in November 2012 and is survived by her husband, Dr Michael McDermott.

Reviews

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The author of The New Book of Goddesses and Heroines (1997) offers prospective followers of a feminine rather than a masculine conception of deity 20 examples from throughout the world: Gaia, Athena, Kuan-Yin, Isis, Kali, etc. For each, she provides a historic prayer in contemporary language; a retelling of the goddess' essential myth; discussion of interpretations, symbolism, major feasts, and principal means of honoring the goddess; and suggestions for modern honoring rituals. Ray Olson

Edition details

• Publisher: Llewellyn Publications
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1567184677
• ISBN 13: 9781567184679
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288