The Goddess Oracle: A Way to Wholeness Through the Goddess and Ritual - Softcover

Marashinsky, Amy Sophia; Janto, Hrana

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1852308648 ISBN 13: 9781852308643

Publisher: Element Books Ltd, 1997

Synopsis

Create your future by transforming your present! The Goddess Oracle, a new distinctive book and deck of 52 beautifully illustrated cards from Element Books celebrates the many faces of the Goddess as she has been worshiped in cultures around the world since the beginning of time. Through a dynamic combination of poetry, mythology, and ritual, the oracle not only answers your questions, it also offers insights and guidance for handling the challenges facing you and techniques for nurturing wholeness in every aspect of your life. By helping you to understand and transform your present, The Goddess Oracle enables you to create your future as you want it to be.

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About the Author

Amy Sophia Marashinsky is an intuitive healer and teacher. Author and co-creator of The Goddess Oracle: A Way to Wholeness Through the Goddess and Ritual (transformational tool) with artist Hrana Janto; drummer, ceremonialist and "kitchen witch," Marashinsky facilitates intense workshops and circles that weave a web of safe, transformational space. She has been counseling clients and teaching women's empowerment workshops for 10 years. She is an award winning film maker, a writer/director/producer of theater, and has written for NHK radio in Japan. She has appeared on numerous radio stations, including New York's WBAI and WDST- Woodstock Radio "Conversations." Marashinsky was featured in an article on the Goddess in the August, 1995 edition of Harper's Bazaar. She is co-editor and adaptor (with Susun Weed) of the book: Luna Yoga: Vital Fertility and Sexuality by Adelheid Ohlig, for Ash Tree Publishing.

In 1991, she released her first drumming cassette, Rhythms from the Womb, and in 1994 released The Goddess Perspective, lyrical monologues of the Greek Goddesses, which she has vibrantly enacted. She is currently working on several ideas for books including: Deep Nourishment: The Art of Magical Cooking, a self-help cookbook which teaches how to come into a right relationship with food and how to prepare food in a magical, joyful, nourishing way and Healing the Violent Self: Learning to Navigate the Terrain of Suicidal Longings.

Marashinsky is available for workshops and intuitive readings from The Goddess Oracle, and also conducts Shamanic-Priestess Apprenticeships/Goddess Oracle Certifications, Healing Retreats and Priestess Camps (for girls crossing the threshold to Womanhood) which focus on the path to wholeness.

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Aphrodite: Love

When I open my heart
I am filled
with delight so profound
with ecstasy so sweet
with pleasure so deep
the connecting with my beloved
takes me to all the places
and the union
plays rhapsodies in my soul
I can achieve union
when I achieve oneness
with myself
I can dance partnership
when I can dance alone
I can love another
when I can love myself

Mythology

Aphrodite, ancient Mediterranean Mother Goddess, traveled to Greece when the Greeks colonized Canaan. The Greeks say Aphrodite was born of the union of the sky and the fertile sea womb, when the castrated penis of the former Sky God Uranus fell into the ocean. Although traditionally revered in all her multitudinous aspects, including battle, the Greeks, in their effort to assimilate her, relegated her to a love Goddess. When she arrived at Olympus, Zeus, the chief God, married her to Hephaestus, the lame God of smithcraft. He made her exquisite jewelry, but she preferred the passionate Ares, God of war, in her bed.

Meaning of the Card

Aphrodite is here with her dance of love, inviting you to luxuriate, bask, and revel in love for yourself. Do you spend the day without thinking or saying how much you love yourself? Do you do little loving things for yourself? Or are you miserly, keeping yourself on a diet of starvation rations? Do you listen to your needs in a loving, respectful way, or do you criticize yourself for balking at the schedule you keep, for complaining about the job you hate, for bemoaning the relationship you endure? Now is the time to love yourself. Aphrodite says that to be able to love another, you must be able to love yourself. Loving others means being able to allow them to be exactly as they are. It means witnessing yourself and your loved ones with love, amusement, and delight. The amount of space we can allow another is dependent on the amount of space we can allow for ourselves. Wholeness is achieved when we can hold infinite space and patience for ourselves first and then extend it to others.

Ritual Suggestion: Holding Space

This can be done anytime, anywhere, for as long as you feel is appropriate. Take a deep breath and release it. Take another deep breath and as you release it feel, sense, or see a circle of space around you. It can be any amount of space that you need. Now fill that space with love in any form that pleases, delights, tickles or makes you feel good. Once the circle is filled, put yourself in the center of the circle, in the middle of all that love, and take it into your cells, into the marrow of your bones. Take it in, whether or not you feel you deserve it. Take it in, regardless of how you feel about yourself. See, sense or feel yourself filling with love for you. As you are holding the space for you, look into your own eyes and say: "I love you." Keep repeating it over and over until you feel your love for yourself dancing in your heart. Feel the love circulate through your body. Now take a deep breath, exhale slowly, and open your eyes. Welcome back!

Edition details

• Publisher: Element Books Ltd
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1852308648
• ISBN 13: 9781852308643
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192