The Goddess Companion: Daily Meditations on the Feminine Spirit - Softcover

Monaghan, Patricia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1567184634 ISBN 13: 9781567184631

Publisher: Llewellyn Publications, 1999

Synopsis

Now you can turn every day into a day dedicated to the goddess and your own personal spiritual evolution, when you get The Goddess Companion by Patricia Monaghan.

Turn to The Goddess Companion each day for a clearer insight into how the divine flows through your life. This spirit-nourishing collection of 366 authentic goddess prayers, invocations, chants, and songs was culled from dozens of diverse eras and cultures. Each ancient prayer rings out in clear language that maintains the sacred spirit of the originals.

• A different traditional prayer, invocation, or chant to the goddess for each day of the year
• Each is illuminated by readings about the ancient quote that offer rich material for reflection, inspiration, and bliss
• Multiple indices allow you to find information by goddess name, subject, or cultural origin
• Explore the goddess as envisioned by 68 different cultures throughout the ages―including the Americas, classical Greece and Rome, Asia, ancient Sumeria and Babylonia, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa
• Find prayers that encompass nearly 130 aspects of the goddess, from Aida Weydo and Amaterasu to White Buffalo Calf Woman and Zemyna
• Use the perpetual calendar to meditate upon one goddess prayer each day

The Goddess Companion does far more than simply give you meditations and prayers. The readings associated with each will give you incredible insights into a wide variety of cultures and, just as importantly, into your very nature. Written by one of the leaders of the contemporary goddess movement, The Goddess Companion will help you on your spiritual path to self-understanding.

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Review:

Prayers, poems, and songs to the Goddess from around the world and across the ages have been collected and adapted for the modern devotee in The Goddess Companion: Daily Meditations on the Feminine Spirit. Author Patricia Monaghan offers a disparate meditation for each day of the year, including February 29--April 5 is a Lithuanian folksong; August 6 a quotation from Proverbs; October 17 a Korean shaman's chant. After each prayer there is a two-paragraph "thought for the day" in which Monaghan offers the reader philosophical observations or helpful advice designed to assist living and growing in the spirit of the feminine. The very pretty purple and gold-embossed cover makes it an excellent nightstand adornment, and the gentle meditations are a stress-reducing way to begin or end your day by honoring Her and Her spirit in yourself. --P. Randall Cohan

From the Publisher:

I'm sure you remember the story of the three blind men and the elephant. They each touch a part of the elephant and think that their description is complete. However, the only way to truly know what the elephant looks like is to take all of their descriptions together.

Similarly, to know the goddess, it helps to see a wide variety of her many different faces. The Goddess Companion by Patricia Monaghan will help you explore a different facet of her glorious diversity every day. Each daily prayer, from ancient and traditional sources, and the accompanying reading, will allow you to meditate upon the divine lessons within our most powerful human experiences: creation, celebration, birth, beauty, abundance, loss, love, worship, and all the cycles of the seasons and our lives.

The Goddess Companion fosters the connection between self and spirit, clearing a sacred space in your thoughts for new insights to take root and grow. When you take time each day to read these lyrical ancient prayers, you will recognize daily opportunities for spiritual change—and you will honor and nurture the divine feminine that dwells within. You must get The Goddess Companion

About this edition

• Publisher: Llewellyn Publications
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 1567184634
• ISBN 13: 9781567184631
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 400