Honoring The Goddess - My Gift To Hecate

My Gift To Hecate

Today, I offer my Lady two things

1. A daily gratitude list (I will post it next 30 days on this blog, so I get into the habit)
2. My best - by that I mean, making a goal list, that is in code with my belief system, and stick to it, while giving it my all and following through.

In order to honor the Universe, and her expression I choose to connect to - the Great Goddess Hecate, I have to be the best that I can be, and stop making excuses. Only when we give our best, and live with our passion do we truly honor the Ancient Gods, our Ancestors (which includes all the struggles they went through) and our spiritual family/community. We do not need any more biggering, mediocrity and laziness. What we need is our best, to better the world we live in, to make a difference for the generations here, those we are raising, and those to come.

So that is my offering to the Goddess, and my way of celebrating her. Remember she is not the gentle one, but she does assist those whom call upon her, they way they need to be assisted.

How do you honor the Great Goddess in your daily life?


Hail Hecate!

Hecate Trivia - A Very Personal Celebration

Tomorrow is Hecate Trivia - one of the celebrations that honors our Lady Hecate.

I have been thinking about how to celebrate this year, not feeling a connection to traditional associations at this point, not wanting to just go through the motions of ritual and pre-described notions.
She deserves better then that.
I deserve better then that.
A spiritual connection can not be simply doing what others do, even if those aspects make sense to us at some point. It is about a personal spiritual relationship, and that is a fluid one. Sometimes in need for formal ritual, sometimes in need for a quiet moment of connecting. The Goddess does not live somewhere outside of us, we are her, she is us, inseparable. So we can neither lie to ourselves nor to her, by attempting a specific guided rhythm of worship.
Not that I think, that a true relationship to deity involved worship.
It involves connection, truth, recognizing the oneness with the Source in the aspect of which we are choosing to acknowledge at the moment. It is the comfort of realizing that we are not alone, but all interconnected despite
the perceived distance of our individual self and to the energies of the Universe.
It is personal, profound, ever-changing, and different.

How will you choose to celebrate this years connection to Our Great Lady Hecate?

Goddess Blessings!

Floating Associations With The Elements

It is easy to find out information about what element corresponds with your zodiac sign. But is it also the most reliable way to find your true connection to an particular element? A personal connection may not reflect that of which the zodiac assigned to you, and that personal connection is far more important in your practice then the assigned one.

But how do you find out which element you are drawn to? And can it be a floating one, not one but an association depending on the stage of your life, your current practice or situation, or a particular guide you need at the moment?

This connection is similar to the connection to a particular Matron or Patron Deity. While some forge a long term, or even life time connection to a particular deity expression of the Universe, others have connections that differ in particular life stages.

Whatever expressions we need to learn, we need to give the same openness to our elemental association, as we give to our deity association. Each time in our life requires particular guidance, and if we learn our lessons, different guidance from time to time, sometimes even more then one.

I will use myself as an example.

I am according to my birth-sign a Water element. Not only that I am in Chinese mythology a Water-dragon. Scorpio is a water sign. But both as a Scorpio and as a Water-dragon, I am more so personally drawn to the element of Fire. While my associations with the mythical creature - Dragon  -  is strong, I could never picture it as a creature of Water. To me, I represent, it represents Fire, in all of its associations. I have the same tendency when I focus upon an Scorpio, the classical astrological association of mine. To me it is a creature of heat, a creature I consider to be living either in the damp heat of a tropical climate or the hot fierceness of the desert. Again I do not see the classical association with Water. In my view, I am a creature of Fire. I have never been drawn to water in any way, and my preferred method of magick tends to be that energy as well.

So I am challenging you to look outside of the classical associations and feel your connection to the Elements in a more personal way. While I am planning on exploring the lessons of that Water entails within it, I am, and always have consider myself a creature of fire.

Goddess Blessings!

Pagan Blog Project - X Marks The Spot

X Marks The Spot - or - Finding a starting point to re-connect with the Gods

So I have been thinking a lot lately about magickal systems, mainly because of my novel series, which as a large part of its story line, relies on a magickal and ethical system, that needed my attention, but also because of my own spirituality.

I have felt disconnected through the busyness of writing, educating my children, and my husbands business, that I have not had much time to connect spiritually with the Gods, and practice magick. Now I am itching, longing and craving to get back into this rhythm of connecting with the energy of what is. I hear the calling of the Goddess, and I am answering.

The question was what magickal system to focus upon in my own practice? With magickal system I am not speaking of the spiritual flavors that range from Wicca, to Druidism, to any of the other wonderful ways to be a Pagan, but the down to the bone way of creating change, working with and using power, and through that connect with the energy that makes the Universe and Source in all of its aspects and Gods.

 I am speaking of Elemental Magick, Kitchen Witchery, Mental Magick (which to me includes working with Law of Attraction), and such. All of them are fascinating, and a part of my personality is that I want to do it all, and now. That will only lead to a confused mess, and not much tangible result, I am fully aware of that.
So I guess time to go down the list, time to pick something, anything to get started, to stick with it, explore it to its fullest, and see where the Gods lead me to be.

Making a decision and sticking with it, is the beginning of productiveness.

The funny thing seems that I tend to answer my own questions, when I am writing, which it looks like, is the time when I get out of the way, let the Gods speak. My version of meditation, therapy, and spiritual worship wrapped all in one.

I asked, and the Universe answered.

I shall begin with Elemental Magick, and share some of my journey with you.

Goddess Blessings!

Pagan Blog Project - W is for Woman Warrior Chant

This week (albeit late) I am choosing to share with you a chant I have written a little while ago. Enjoy!

Woman Warrior Chant

I am a Warrior, true and free

 I am a Woman as strong as can be

I am a Daughter, standing proud

I am a Mother, singing out loud

  I am all Woman, Goddess hear me

   I am all Woman, we all shall be free! 

© Claudia Blanton 2013

May all women have a chance to explore their true potential, and may their strength raise us all to a higher level.

So mote it be!

Goddess blessings to you all!

Claudia

Pagan Blog Project - V is for Vinata

V is for Vinata (Hindu Goddess)

The Goddess Vinata in her aspect of the Goddess of the Underworld is an interesting Goddess to explore as a Priestess of the Goddess Hecate. She is associated with eggs, as according to legend she had given birth to two eggs, one bringing forth a son named Aruna, and was born without legs, and another son Garuda, whom saved his mother from the serpents of the Underworld.
She is considered the Mother of the Birds, with her son Garuda being considered the King of the Birds.

I personally wish there was more information on this elusive Goddess. There is no evidence on actual worship of her as I could find. While I did not find any images of her, while there are many statues of her son Garuda.