I've transformed Goddess Whispers to a weekly offering of insights and intuitive oracle readings on Twitter and Facebook. This week's messages come from Goddess Durga. Last night in meditation with the full moon, a prayer came to me. I share it in reverence and respect for all the forms of Goddess Durga. Hail Goddess Durga
honored primordial energy of the universe. You create, uphold and destroy to begin again. Through you may we gain a glimpse of the infinite possibilities that lay before us. May we create boundaries that support and serve us so that we may honor your power of mastery and determination within us. Jai Matha Di In my late 20s my self esteem was at an all time low.
Miserable and depressed, I treated myself horribly the body hate and self loathing festering to where I couldn’t stand anything about myself. I was so low I often cried myself to sleep begging whatever being for a way out. After a particularly harsh day, I had a dream. I dreamt of Aphrodite and she changed everything. She was breathtakingly beautiful and it wasn’t just her looks. She had this glow that radiated from the inside out, like a lighthouse beacon. She spoke to me so lovingly and kind so different from how I thought she'd be. “I am Aphrodite Goddess of Love. Would you like to stand as I do; naked, head held high and reveling in your body, honoring your strengths and weaknesses? I am unafraid of my sexuality, my beauty, and my vulnerabilities because I accept it all as part of my glorious being. My heart remains open wide because I know real love in all its forms. You dear one, doubt the power of love that brought you into being.” If you would learn my ways, you must do as I say. Start with loving yourself. Praise yourself as you would a child and when you are ready, stand proud in your own nakedness and fully embrace me. Call upon me and I will amplify your inner power tenfold. Rebuild my temple and let’s begin. Come to me...I am waiting dear one.” After that I started searching for Goddess specifically Aphrodite in any book I could find learning her stories and ways. I discovered at least once a year, most often in Spring, Aphrodite would return to her island in Cypress and renew her virgin, whole within herself state, bathing in the warm salty tidal waters that rose and fell with the phases of the moon as she was attended by the three Graces. As I learned more of Goddess, I started taking better care of myself. I imagined myself as one of her Priestesses and eventually that's exactly what I became. And I rebuild Aphrodite's temple within me each time I honor myself through self care. When I treat myself as something holy, I find my way back to wholeness again and again. I share this story as a reminder that even in your darkest doubt filled days you are holy and your spirit is of Goddess. As you start off your week I just wanted to remind myself (and you!) who we really are. It's been a little since I last made a wish with
the Wishcast Wednesday crew but today's question filled my heart as this is something I've been thinking about for a little while. Over the last couple of years I've tried to follow a lot of different advice given on how/when to blog, how/what to offer in my store...the list goes on but the end result has been the same; very little of it felt as though it was speaking to my truth. And to be honest it took me a long while to figure o As I spent January looking back and sorting through it all one of the things I had to admit to myself was though I've had some great ideas for what I want Goddess Tea House to be, rushing in and following other's advice has caused them not to turn out as well as I envisioned them to be. I trust Goddess to guide me in so many other areas of my life. I trust her to speak through my intuition and internal guidance but for some reason when it came to business I didn't. I looked outside of me and though it felt very wrong I tried to force myself to continue because I had such a narrow vision of what a business should be. So as I go forward I wish to work on connecting to the Goddess spirit within my business and deepen my connection to it and bring our heart to heart gifts out into the world. |
Blessings!I'm Dionne, a Natural Rhythms Creation Coach and Elemental Forces of Creation Oracle Reader. I teach people how to tune into to the power of the elements and rhythms of nature to design a life they love I WRITE:
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