The Goddess Artemis
One of my wishes for the New Year is to reconnect with my spirituality. It’s really been put on the back burner lately as I put my focus on self-care and business. I know that it’s something that I need and want to focus on.
My relationship with the Divine has been constant, if sometimes quiet. I embrace both the masculine and feminine aspects of God.
I tend to connect with the Greek/Roman pantheon. The most influential Goddesses in my life have been Hestia and Aphrodite. A few days ago I began to hear the call of Artemis.
I realized that it is time to learn what Artemis has to teach me.
It happens when a Goddess wants my attention. She keeps popping up when I least expect it and I randomly find thoughts of her in my head. The other night I was at work and had my mp3 player on shuffle when an Artemis Meditation popped up. I’ve listened to it before, but it especially struck a chord with me.
Artemis is a Huntress and Greek Goddess of the moon, the wilderness, and childbirth. She is one of the twelve Olympians, or main deities in the Greek Pantheon. She is the twin sister to Apollo who is the God of the Sun.
I think the lessons that Artemis has to teach me is about fierce independence, embracing my wild side, and coming into my own as a woman.
I see lots of great things coming from this and I can not wait to share it with you!
All the Fire Goddesses are with me. They tell me "do it! Do not be afraid. Act. Vivi"
But I did not always listen: X
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Well, masculine goddesses like Artemis and Athena, I’ve always found easier to understand. More feminine ones you seemed to like, like Aphrodite and Hestia, is something I’m trying to wrap my head around more, to say the least. That’s a general trend in different pantheons of gods and goddesses in general, and it’s interesting how much you can learn about mythology from Wikipedia, the website Theoi, and random smaller mythology websites online then. I found a website called sacred-texts, also called ISTA, internet sacred text archive, that shows classic texts of all the different major religions of the world, which includes a lot of pagan mythology as well. So it’s interesting how these things would get me thinking, though other than goddesses, I find myself relating to masculine gods more, and less to feminine gods as well. Maybe this is why I’m not Wiccan even if many would call me Pagan. I just don’t relate enough to feminine gods and goddesses in general, and while I’d like to reach out further, it doesn’t quite feel like it’ll ever be the central part of my practice. Just ways to expand my thinking further by finding personalities different from mine, just so my viewpoints on life can widen.