You Are a Goddess

Autorentext

Sophie Bashford is a leading intuitive channel, teacher and writer for the re-emergence of the Sacred Feminine. Leading sell-out workshops for Alternatives and Mind Body Spirit in London, Sophie attracts people from all over the world to her Healing Tent Retreats and private intuitive practice.

Zusammenfassung
You know 'the Goddess' as a divine feminine figure of myth, art and faith - but are you aware that the Goddess is a life force that lives in you? Join Sophie Bashford as she shares intuitively channelled messages, beautiful guided meditations and moving personal experiences to help you heal your fears, awaken your dreams and transform your life.

Leseprobe
The Invitation

I am an intuitive channel for the Divine Feminine.

I didn't know what that meant 20 years ago. But when I awakened to Goddess Consciousness, I was shaken free from lifetimes of painfully suppressed sacred feminine power, illuminating my most deeply inflicted soul wounds and pressing me into healing them. And now, my life centres upon using the gifts that were unearthed within me.

This book invites you into the realm of the Divine Feminine, and shows how to use Goddesses' teachings for healing, awakening and transformation. But let's start by making a deeper connection with one another. Breathe with me, take my hand and receive the Call of the Goddess to your soul.

Call of the Goddess

*We are now in the midst of a sacred feminine resurrection that is restoring Earthly order and balance, and reawakening those who have vital ancient links to the Goddess.
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This mission is to return the core elements of the feminine vibration to the spotlight: unconditional love, connection to nature, nurture, compassion, trust in the flow of life, intuitive wisdom, emotional intelligence, sensitivity and receptivity.

Our planet has been out of balance for hundreds, if not thousands, of years. We've been encouraged to place enormous value on the masculine paradigm: perceiving and interacting with the world with logic, rationality, hard control, forcefulness, solution-oriented thinking and strategizing. The dominance of the masculine energy has resulted in global disharmony and lack of equilibrium. The feminine paradigm has not only been undervalued and disrespected: it has, from a spiritual perspective, been suppressed, traumatized and violated.

It is time for the wounds inflicted upon this planet's body and psyche to be healed. It is time for those individuals, who once lived and worked closely with the Goddess energies, to come forward and take their role in this sacred revolution.

Divine Feminine

The Divine Feminine, or Goddess Consciousness, energy is a universal frequency which lies at the heart of our physical and spiritual existence, and equates to an elevated, non-judgemental and non-harming state of awareness. It transcends the human mind and ego because it springs from the pure energy of love. It is connected to the wisdom of the heart, to natural and divine laws, and to compassionate, harmonious and peaceful living.

Goddess Consciousness is also a philosophy representing a system of interpretation for Life and the universe. It is not necessarily female or woman-bound, but it does symbolize the feminine life force. The Divine Feminine is an expression of higher, or divine, truth: a mandate for conscious, healing behaviour with characteristics, such as:

• Trusting in the infinite flow of life, natural rhythms and cycles

  • Embracing light and radiance
  • Acting from unconditional love and compassion
  • Healing through forgiveness and acceptance
  • Accessing the wisdom of the open heart
  • Embodying grace
  • Cultivating peace

  The feminine aspect is also a raw, wild, ardent and tumultuous force that carries the birthing energy, and it is both 'light' and feather-gentle, but also a container for the 'dark' and ferociously untamed. The Divine Feminine's life-giving and life-sustaining forces connect to fertility, birth and all creation thus linking it to the imagery of 'woman'. Generally speaking, the energy of the Goddess is anchored more fully in women than in men. Of course, there are exceptions, but, as a general rule, women carry more physical, spiritual and energetic links to Goddess Consciousness.

  The Great Mother and heart of the Goddess
  
  As woman gives birth to new life, so the Goddess gives birth to the Earth and the universe. As woman nurtures life, so the Goddess nurtures the Earth and the universe. This is the foundation of many ancient cultures' systems of worship and spiritual belief. The Great Mother is an archetype rooted in mythology, and is said to have given birth to the entire cosmos. In many religions and indigenous cultures, the concept of an omnipresent Great Mother is embedded within spiritual beliefs of creation and nature.

  In Hinduism, the worship of the Goddess Shakti as the 'first creation' and Great Mother is still central to devotional life. Ajit Mookerjee, in his book Kali: The Feminine Force, describes how the Divine Feminine 'represents the primal creative principle underlying the cosmos'. Across the globe, since the earliest civilizations (c. 30,0003,000 BCE), the Mother Goddess has been acknowledged as a primal and spiritual cornerstone for humanity.

  Artefacts, totems and artworks from indigenous civilizations including those of Africa, Egypt, the Middle East, the Far East, Europe and the Americas all demonstrate clearly the primacy of the Sacred Feminine principle. There's a plethora of Divine Feminine artefacts and iconography in our museums or any book on Goddesses. These archaeological riches demonstrate just how central the Mother Goddess is to our collective spiritual heritage.

  With such life-affirming meaning attributed to the concept of the Great Mother, we see how she can be viewed as universal, spiritually whole and complete. Having given birth to everything that we know and experience, she can be seen as a 'supreme', sovereign cosmic power.

  The Earth is often referred to as a feminised, matriarchal entity, while the terms Mother Nature and Mother Earth are commonplace. This naming reflects the Divine Feminine energy that has its roots deeply embedded in the way humanity has sought to define our experience of life on Earth. Despite the globe being dominated by a masculinised, patriarchal system for so many centuries, Goddess Consciousness can still be seen at the heart and soul of humanity's need to find sacred meaning in existence.

  All human beings grow inside the womb of, and are born from, a woman. Our deepest cellular awareness of what life means is rooted inside the truth of how we 'became life'. No matter what our private philosophical and spiritual beliefs, all around us we see Mother Nature reflected in our Selves. The patterns and shapes that run through our physiological make-up are mirrored in Nature, and the process of birth-death-life is a template, repeated over and over in all living systems on Earth.

  Deep down, we all know that the feminine life force is powerful beyond measure and worthy of eternal respect. She carries mysteries and miracles within her sacred womb, which our logical minds can never hope to grasp. We instinctively know that the feminine face of God must be valued, and on our planet, we are already discovering what happens if we allow universal energy flow to get out of balance.

  The balance of feminine and masculine energies
  **As I described earlier, both men and women possess masculine and feminine energies or, as the spiritual teacher David Deida defines it, 'essences'. These opposing energies are what make up the aura of our Earth; the yin-yang of universal energy systems, the Shiva and Shakti of the cosmos. They are the polarities of sexual and reproductive processes, …