In Praise of Sophia
A passage from Proverbs
I prayed, and understanding was given to me;
I entreated, and the Spirit of Wisdom came to me.
I esteemed Her more than scepters and thrones;
Compared with Her, I held riches as nothing.
I reckoned no priceless stone to be Her peer,
For compared with Her, all gold is a pinch of sand,
And beside her silver ranks as mud.
I loved Her more than health or beauty,
Preferred Her to the light,
Since her radiance never sleeps.
In Her company all good things came to me,
At Her hands riches not to be numbered.
All these things I delighted in, since Wisdom brings them,
But as yet I did not know She was their Mother.
What I learned without self-interest,
I passed on without reserve;
I do not intend to hide her riches.
For She is an inexhaustible treasure to men,
And those who acquire it win god’s friendship’
Commended as they are to him by the benefits of her teachings.

Living in the Reflection of Goddess
We have not even to risk the journey alone, for the ancient ones have gone before us.
The labyrinth is thoroughly known.
We have only to follow the path and where we had thought to find an abomination,
we shall find Goddess.
And where we had thought to travel outward, we will have come to the center of our existence.
And where we had thought to be alone we shall be 0ne with all.
Our consciousness is a property of our biological being. At the deepest levels of our biological being, all consciousness in the universe is linked in a galactic web of mutual awareness- the very being of Goddess in which we live. The isolated individual does not exist but is an illusion of the Earth plane of which our physical bodies live this life.
Telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition, tele-transportation, shape shifting, and healing are not powers learned, they are natural powers forgotten. In our original state of being, we live in ecstasy, filled with these powers. It is when our social conscious charkas rule or higher charkas of consciousness that we lose this ecstasy.
It is in remembering our souls connection to the beginning and to the end. In remembering the primal consciousness of oneness between all living things we are empowered with what is naturally our senses. As daughters of the Goddess, human females designed by evolution it’s self that we are the link between biological energy and the soul of life. We must return to that time, in our genetic memory, in our dreams, in a place of our existence today where we are one with all that is.
Goddess is not something to be turn on and off with whims of magick. Goddess is a lifestyle lived with such passion ones senses becomes ones daily magick. Live from your heart and live creatively. Live feminine, authentic and in a life affirming choice rather than the dream depleting system the Spirit blind would choose for you. Start taking steps towards your dreams, taking risk both big and small. Fill your life with beauty; a branch of winter’s transition placed upon your desk, a beautiful picture tape to your daily coffee mug and wonderful candles to light your table. Indulge in scents and scarves that remind you of your own divine feminine. Listen to beautiful wordless music to allow your thoughts freedom rather than to be filled with the thoughts of others.
Take time to educate yourself by reading self-help books, holistic health, feminism, mythology and Spirituality. Cook and eat healthy, blessing all that nourishes your body. Garden, paint, write and spend time in prayer and meditation. Get involved in the world around you and remove the blinders. Be for peace and support those in office who are for change in the world.
Empower and heal your self by supporting other women both professionally and personally. Teach your children integrity, honestly and the sacredness of all life through Spirit. Speak your truth, stand up for it and teach your truth to the children. Choose uniqueness, beauty and quality combined with a willingness to make a difference in the world.
Take time for Goddess in your daily life, your every moment and your every breath. This is where one begins and where one returns when one forgets.
Working with Goddess
The essence of it is to let yourself see how much clinging to how you want your life to be
is nothing more than a process of self-torture.
Drop it, and allow yourself to fall openly and unguardedly
in love with your life as it is and everything in it.
As living in Her reflection, working with Goddess is a lifestyle as well. Creating habits that allow your workings to be unconscious as well as conscious. To engage in a journey that takes you from living outside yourself to processing the world inside. This means bringing light to your inner shadow aspects that are primary rooted in fear patterns that have more control over your behavior than does your conscious mind. This limits your ability to make choices in which you are aware of your motivations. Where to begin? Do your best even if you make apparent mistakes. How are you to judge if they are mistakes? Thoughts generate and release energy and if repeated with intent can be a powerful source of energy. Thus, as we control negative or judgmental thoughts we improve our lives. Positive thinking harms none and is expressions of our Spirituality by honoring Goddess through honoring self.
As you grow in the path of Goddess and your senses awaken you will also need to incorporate in your daily grooming habits of cleansing your energy. You will undoubtedly learn, intuition is both a blessing and a curse. The blessing is that we are able to know the true desires of others and their need of us. The curse is that we become emotionally and physically clogged by garbage that is not ours, sometimes without even being aware of it. We are not meant to carry the load of another for carrying their burdens does nothing to lesson their load unless with detachment you are able to offer a hand to lift them up opposed to swimming in the pit with them. Below are but a few suggestions, the important thing is to make it a habit and lifestyle.
*Cleansing and anointing your charkas in your morning/nightly bath with your personal seal of magick-. A pentagram drawn with an affirmation spoken with each stroke. An example;
Crown-let me be awaken to you, Third Eye-let me see with your eyes, Throat- let me speak with your voice, Heart- let me love in your glory, Solar- let me walk in your light, Sacral- let me feel in your passion, Root- let me live in your sanctuary.
*Anointing just your third eye or any part of your body with a pentagram drawn with an affirmation spoken with each stroke.. An example;
Let me be awaken to you, see with your eyes, hear with your ears, speak with your lips and love with your heart.
*Make your daily shower/bath a cleansing bath with affirmations, oils, and herbs. Honor the Goddess of self and sooth Her with your touch and nurturing.
*Create Circle every morning by invoking a sacred space that flows with you. The words can be altered to say – To guard my Circle and witness my Rite, my Circle is my day and my Rite is my life, let the Circle fade with days end.
*Pray with the opening of your eyes every morning and the closing of them at night. Pray and give thanks with every meal. Pray before every encounter you dread through out your day. Pray with every unexpected encounter that gives you stress. Pray and give thanks with every omen that crosses your path. It does not have to be a drop to your knees prayer, it can be a few words with eyes wide open and life continuing forward, pray to the universe and be connected with Goddess.
*Honor your existence. Be aware of the smells around you, the creatures and plants, the tastes of all you eat and the dreams that fill your idle time. Grant yourself time to live this day in many dimensions.
*Love freely as does Goddess. Love for the sake of love, without boundaries of old programming.
*Share Goddess of self with others- a kind word, encouragement or just recognizing they too or a child of Goddess struggling as Spiritual beings to be human. Bless and honor their path.
*Speak your truth. One sentence at a time be heard. Let compassion and wisdom be your guide. Let judgmental ways have no place in your heart.
*Create sacred space in your daily environment. Create beauty that reflects what Goddess is to you. Be it a stone that reminds you of Her ageless strength, a picture of a Goddess you draw strength from or totems that have personal meanings. Surround yourself with Goddess.
*Strive everyday in your thoughts to work towards your dream. Do not settle, maintain while working towards living authentic.