The Human Goddess

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is that a broom! That is a beautiful broom!

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We went to this amazing gem shop in Nederland, Colorado and my auntie got me this pretty pink geode to add to my lovely little altar.

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The Maiden is the youngest aspect of the Goddess, related with discovery and most creative aspects of our personality. She is the innocence and lack of worries, the joy of living. She is asociated with Spring and beginings, and her festival falls on Ostara

Before we go on, I’d like to make a small note on this particular aspect of the Goddess. The name for it is Maiden, but we must remember when we think about her that we’re not referring to maidenhood in the sense that was given to it later of sexual virginity. What were really talking about is an aspect of general innocence, and mainly independence. The Maiden is her owner, responsible for herself, in a way almost inconcivable in patriarchal societies, closer to contemporary equal rights than the idea of women we had during most of christianity’s history in the Western civilization.

The image of the Mother as eternal giver of life was one of the first religious images that can be found. Before patriarchal gods appeared, the Goddess was revered in her aspect as Creatrix. Studying compared religions we can find the true extension of Her worship, and this is, by far, Her most vastly known image. This is the aspect all figurines from the neolithic call upon, like the famous Venus of Wildendorf. Their common characteristics are those indicating maternity or pregnancy: swollen belly and prominent breasts and sex, all of those suggesting they’re related to fertility cults

If the Maiden talks to us about beginnings, and the Mother of maturity, the Crone makes us think of endings. This is maybe the less understood aspect of the Triple Goddess, one that usually causes fear because it makes us unavoidably to face death

The Crone was revered in ancient cultures as a regent of the Underworld, seen in those times as a place where souls went to rest between incarnations, before coming back to the earthly plane. The later associations this place got with the hell of the revelled religions was the reason why this aspect of the Goddess was equaled to something evil or demonic, forgetting the fact that we all must die as we all are born, and the duty of this Goddess was generally to guide us during this last phase in our lives, getting us ready for the big leap, reigning afterwards over the souls of the dead while they waited for their re birth

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