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Comparative Practices 101
List of Goddesses

These are the Goddesses of which we are already studying or will be in the days ahead. As a matter of general principle, with a little help from the Divine to find the trail, uncover the secret, or simply be Divinely guided, we can see the Triple Goddess represented in all Divine Feminine. It speaks to the full and completeness of their nature. We are not “pieces”, we are whole. We are whole representations of the Divine Feminine in whatever form we appear on this plane. To say we are not is to say She is not… and that falsely limits Her.

Find your Golden Thread.

Here are examples of the Goddesses we are looking at this week:

Inanna, who can be traced through tales from ancient times of Sumeria, Old Babylon, and beyond, Her Descent to the Netherworld from the Old Babylonian period showcases some of these three aspects. Some of the characteristics we see are: Her “Goddess of Suffering” as Dea Dolens, or “Betrayer”, and “Mother of Sorrow”/”Sorrowful Mother” as Mater Dolorosa. Let us not forget Her claims to war as an attribute. These roles can be traced from Inanna, through Ishtar, all the way through Mary of Christendom. Each conquering nation took the story as their own throughout all time.

Pele, exemplifies the Triple Goddess. She is a Goddess of life, sustenance, and death. She as the Divine Spirit of Earth, or Anima Mundi, controls the lava that gives the Hawaiian islands its rich, fertile soil upon which life flourishes, but also destroys everything in its path and takes life to fulfill the circle.

Kali, one we will study soon, has many forms. She is known as a Goddess of creation, preservation, and destruction by many. Kali is a great warrior Goddess. She is also spoken of as the Body of Nature and has a unique sultriness as Inanna does. It was thought that Kali in Her ability to move as energy does in Nature, could seduce anyone, male or female.

Kali is known to run through time, eternally naked and pure as Nature is. Kali, defeats “darkness” according to Hindi lore but is also “darkness” with Her warrior-like capability, “drinking the blood of demons.” Balanced. She truly is the embodiment of Divine Feminine strength. She is almost incapable of being quantified in western thought for such a short narration. In western thought, She a mysterious Goddess of perceived darkness, when in fact, Her stories speak to so much more in the complete circle of life.

Hekate (Hecate). THE Triple Goddess of our time which we will be studying closer to Samhain. Hekate is one of the only ones taken currently through time as a complete Triple Goddess. Her story of Maiden, Mother, and Crone can be followed from pre-Greek times all the way to western practice today. Everything has an origin. Some feel that Hekate can be tied all the way back to Inanna and Her sister, Erishkigal. Every Goddess is capable of what is perceived as “dark” and what is perceived as “light”. Hekate is no exception, though she is considered a “dark goddess”.

The reason for these perceived polarities are due to the level of ability of most of the species being able to understand only certain concepts. Most days, most humans are overwhelmed with just living and all of the data being received into their being from the perceived reality from around them. Much of that data being self-created.

One of the closest we see in our modern society as an example of finding this Divine Balance and flow of energy in what is received are, or once was, the Sámi. They appreciate Divinity in all its glory on a daily basis as they live. They can feel Anima Mundi intimately.

Beginning Practicum
Divinity Theory

The Goddesses (and Gods) are only perceived as “dark” or “light” as that is where their stories are stationed for our memories. As time progresses, the stories will shift with it, as change is constant.

Picture if you will, Divinity, in whatever form it is to you. Where on the infinite spectrum would it be?

Masculine? Feminine? Non-gendered/Agendered? Earthen? Universal? Etc. Whatever your patron is, however you address it, do you see where it would fall?

This deity only CURRENTLY resides in that form on the eternal spectrum. As we evolve in Spirit, change and Experience “life” as we do, Divinity evolves too, with us. We are NEVER alone in Spirit. The energy is a part of us, UNCONDITIONALLY, no matter where we go, nor does it matter what we do.

The conditions placed on it are human conditions and perceptions, dogmas, rules, restrictions and confinements that have evolved as we have in our practices, good, bad, indifferent.

The Divine is not able to be confined nor defined outside of our, the Practitioner’s, viewpoint. Or can it?

This is a deep viewpoint. Read it. Revisit it.

Speak with Spirit, Higher Power, asking for guidance. Whatever we are capable of, or are needing at THIS point in our Experience of the input we call life, will be what we receive back. Our conditions. Our viewpoints. THIS is why we do both Ego and Shadow Work, to free ourselves and our Divine from the confinement of humanity.

Explore that thought!

#NoTwoPathsAreTheSame

Beginning Crystalium
Red Jasper

Red Jasper is a member of the Chalcedony mineral class. It is an opaque version of quartz with a vitreous luster and opaque transparency. Jasper also comes in shades of green, yellow, black, orange, yellow, blue, and brown. Red Jasper has a deep red coloring ranging from bright red to brownish red. Often used to represent Elemental Earth, or South, amongst most Indigenous, red jasper is considered to be representative of the blood of the Goddess, Mother Earth, or Gaia as well.

Jasper gemstones are found all over the world in places such as India, Russia, Indonesia, Madagascar, Australia, Brazil and the United States. In the quartz family, red jasper achieves its color by holding onto iron. It has a Mohs of 6.5 – 7, which means it can be cleansed with water or used to make moon water safely.

Medicine

Grounding. Detox. Protection. Increase focus. Strength.

Called The Stone of Endurance and Nurturing, it returns to you your own inner power that can sometimes get lost in the shuffle of daily life. When your body and mind need re-energizing or grounding energetically, Red Jasper’s healing properties help you back on track.

Magick

Grounding. Passion. Protection. Healing.

Red Jasper is a common stone used by many tribes of the First Nations for various ceremonial purposes. An example is its use is as an offering during a rain-making rituals. The same property offers the wearer guidance when dowsing for water inside of Earth. Red jasper also awakens what we consider the “kundalini”, or sleeping force, that resides in all of us. Furthermore, it provides its wearer with spiritual guidance and rebirth.

Beginning Pharmakea
Devil’s Claw II

Proboscidea altheaefolia and Proboscidea parviflora

Most commonly known as "devil’s claw," this desert hitchhiker that was introduced a few months ago and is also called "elephant tusks" or "unicorn plant." Each name refers to the plant’s seed pod. The first two names allude to the woody capsule, which splits open at one end into two curved claws or horns. Before the pod splits, the green, fleshy fruit superficially resembles a unicorn’s horn.

The generic name "Proboscidea" comes from the Greek word "proboskis," a term for an elephant’s trunk, literally meaning "a way to provide food." Altheaefolia refers to the leaves, which are similar to the marshmallow plant. Parviflora means small flowered.

We have seen this herb used in other tribes around the world. For most of the indigenous tribes of North America, we either live where it grows or trade for it. It most commonly grows in the Sonoran Desert. It covers the desert from southern California into Texas and south into Mexico. The Woodland tribes traded for it most often.

Medicine

Although the name would suggest a poisonous plant, we have seen this one before and the Native Americans use it to heal various conditions, from fever to soothing skin conditions, improving digestion, and treating arthritis. A tea can reduce the effects of diabetes, while a concoction made from the plant’s roots reduces swelling and helps with joint disease, arthritis, gout, back pain, headache, and sores.

Magick

It can be used both in additive and subtractive Magick. It has a strong Protective quality and can Banish with the best of them. It all has to do with Intent. It can also be used for a mojo bag and house cleansing. It can bring “good” or “bad”. Intent is everything with this plant.

Book of the Month

”Sacred Myth & Formulae of the Cherokee”

Often biased as it is written from a time of continued colonization mindset, it holds excellent translations from several personl shamanic texts. Mooney translated most of the text with bias but one with a keen open mind can read through colonizing dogma to attain the important stories, medicine and magick.

One can purchase the book or follow this link for a .pdf version of the contents located in and provided by the Gutenberg Project:

Please note, this is source material for Golanv Circle. Wahya Circle benefits from knowing this material should they choose to keep on attending Three Circles Medicine & Magick™.

LINK TO BOOK .pdf

Mythos Magick 101

“Red, symbolic of success, is the color of the war club with which the warrior is to strike the enemy and also of the other one with which he is to shield or “cover” himself. There is no doubt that the war whoop also should be represented as red. In conjuring with the beads for long life, for recovery from sickness, or for success in love, the ball play, or any other undertaking, the red beads represent the party for whose benefit the magic spell is wrought, and he is figuratively clothed in red and made to stand upon a red cloth or placed upon a red seat. The red spirits invoked always live in the east and everything pertaining to them is of the same color.”

(As translated by James Mooney from the Tsalagi Nation.)