Each Goddess has her story this is often reflected in us, giving Strength, inspiration.

  • Hecate

  • inanna

  • Isis

  • KUAN Yin

  • Mary Magdalene

  • SEDNA/ YEMAYA

  • sophia

  • Aphrodite

  • ARTEMIS

  • Athena

  • BAAST

  • Black Madonna

  • Demeter

  • Double Goddess

  • Durga

I am deeply loved I am divinely blessed l am my own Sacred light I honour the Goddess within

-Magic Moon Goddess

 
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Aphrodite

I am the Goddess of Beauty, of Love, of Self Love

 
 

I can help you develop increased Self care and an increased sense of loving self awareness.

Associated with love, Mary Magdalene beauty, procreation, pleasure and passion. Her natural eminations are roses, doves, sparrows and swans.

Like Kali, Aphrodite is a Virgin-Mother-Crone trinity. Once indistinguishable from the Fates; her old name was Moira, and she was said to be older than Time. She governed the world by the natural law of the maternal clan.

Aphrodite is known primarily as the Goddess of Love and Fertility and occasionally presided over marriage. She was known for her ability to make men fall in love with her.

She was also honoured as the Goddess of the Sea and seafaring; in Sparta she was also honoured as a Goddess of war.

She was not only Greek. Aphrodite was the Dea Syria, known as Asherah or Astarte, Goddess of the oldest continuously occupied temple in the world. She has affiliations with Venus, and was also called Mari, the Sea.

 

 
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ARTEMIS

I am the Greek Goddess of wild animals, the hunt, and vegetation and of chastity and childbirth

 
 

Artemis was identified by the Romans with Diana. Artemis was the daughter of Zeus and Leto and the twin sister of Apollo.

Among the rural populace, Artemis was the favourite goddess. Her character and function varied greatly from place to place, but, apparently, behind all forms lay the goddess of wild nature, who danced, usually accompanied by nymphs, in mountains, forests, and marshes. Artemis embodied the sportsman’s ideal, so besides killing game she also protected it, especially the young; this was the Homeric significance of the title Mistress of Animals.

The worship of Artemis probably flourished in Crete or on the Greek mainland in pre-Hellenic times. Many of Artemis’s local cults, however, preserved traces of other deities, often with Greek names, suggesting that, upon adopting her, the Greeks identified Artemis with nature divinities of their own. The virginal sister of Apollo is very different from the many-breasted Artemis of Ephesus, for example.

Dances of maidens representing tree nymphs (dryads) were especially common in Artemis’s worship as goddess of the tree cult, a role especially popular in the Peloponnese. Throughout the Peloponnese, bearing such epithets as Limnaea and Limnatis (Lady of the Lake), Artemis supervised waters and lush wild growth, attended by nymphs of wells and springs (naiads). In parts of the peninsula her dances were wild and lascivious.

 

 
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ATHENA

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Black madonna

Great Goddess of Nature

Traditionally, a real Black Madonna is not something one can just produce, it is something that happens to a community when Heaven ordains it to be so. Countless wonderful legends tell of the sacred or miraculous origins of these images. More than thirty are said to have been created. By Luke the Evangelist, others were presented to humans by angels or the Virgin Mary herself; many were found when simple people or ever cattle, guided by divine forces, uncovered statues hidden in the Earth, in caves, springs or trees.

Especially as the mysterious "Black Madonna" she allows people to project their hopes, desires, and needs unto her, only to draw them ever deeper into divine mysteries.

She plays many roles for many different kinds of people: She is the heiress of the thrones of the pre-Christian goddesses. She is the bride of the Christian God, the bride in the Song of Songs, who represents all souls seeking union with the Divine and says: "I am black but beautiful." (1:5) She is a rebel against the establishment, a heavenly therapist, a spiritual guide.

 As the Dark Mother archetype she is a symbol of our inner shadow-self when properly integrated. As a black woman she is a friend to the oppressed and reconciler of all races. She is a healer of all dis-ease, a guide and companion at the time of death. She is the helper of Christ, turned black by carrying our sins with him. - All these roles are worth investigating. 

Most Black Madonna’s’ have a strong connection to the earth. They are found buried in it, or appear in trees, caves, springs, on mountain tops, by a sacred rock, and in the jungle. Often they are found with the help of animals guiding the way. And so Pagan worship of Mother Earth turned into a Christian closeness to God’s sacred creation, mother nature.

One may wonder: as the Church appropriated Pagan objects of worship like trees, groves, springs, and rocks, did it value their sacredness or was it merely a ploy so that they could be controlled and gradually erased from people’s consciousness? I think both. “The Church” is not a monolith. There were clergymen who had no respect for anything Pagan, natural, or feminine. But there were also mystics who saw the divine in everything around them, and there were (and are) many who were both, privately mystical, but publicly power brokers and politicians.

http://interfaithmary.net/black-madonna-introduction#earth

http://interfaithmary.net/black-madonna-introduction

 

 
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hecate

Goddess of the Crossroads

HEKATE (Hecate) was the virgin goddess of magic, witchcraft, the night, moon, ghosts and necromancy. She was the only child of the Titanes Perses and Asteria from whom she received her power over heaven, earth, and sea. Her name was derived from the Greek word hekatos which means “worker from afar”.

 Hekate assisted Demeter in her search for Persephone, guiding her through the night with flaming torches. After the mother-daughter reunion became she Persephone's minister and companion in Haides..

 She is often depicted carrying one or several torches to remind of her connection with the night and in sculpture with three faces, representing her role as the guardian of crossroads.

Hecate’s powers to protect were passed on from Titan parents Perses and Asteria and covered the heavens, earth and sea. According to Hesiod’s Theogony, the Titans were the first Greek gods born of earth and the heavens. Hecate was an only child and was worshiped in households of Athens where families hoped to receive protection, prosperity and daily blessings.

Athenian Greeks used the evening meal, known as Deipnon, to honor Hecate. They believed that by praising the goddess, the restless dead would be soothed and not deliver vengeance on the family. Further, the home would be blessed and any wrong-doing by family members would be forgiven and the household purified.

ref:

Walker, Barbara, 1983. The Woman’s Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets, USA, Harper and Row, Publishers Inc.

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https://greekgodsandgoddesses.net/goddesses/hecate/

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Hecate

https://high-percentage-magick.com/6-amazing-facts-on-hecate/seventhphoenix

https://www.theoi.com/Khthonios/Hekate.html