The Goddess

The Goddess is the "All of Creation". She is both the Creatress and the Created. She is the Life Force of All There Is. She is all Energy. She is all Space.  She is One, Whole, and Complete. Before Her, Nothing was. She arose from the Great Void, the Sacred Space of All Potential, giving Birth to Herself, before anything else had ever been born. She separated the Sky and the Water, and She Danced. In the Ecstasy of Her Dance did She conceive of All There Is.

In every culture, in every part of the world, the Goddess has been revered as the Birth Giver of all Life. From the very beginning of time, in our earliest primitive state, we sought to explain the unexplainable by drawing from what we knew. The female of every species brought forth life, therefore the Goddess had to also be a birth Giving Mother and the Great Mother was given Her identity.

She has been loved, feared, respected, honored, and glorified in every way imaginable throughout thousands of years of human development. She has been given a "face" for every conceivable aspect of Her nature. She has taken the form of animals, humans, and elemental energies. She has been given associations with plants, colors, sounds, stones, music, and more. For every aspect and every view She has a face.

Please share your responses to these questions here as comments…

How has your idea of the divine evolved and changed throughout your life?

What events or changes in your life precipitated your exploration into the question of what is the divine? How do you perceive the Sacred in your life?

How do you define The Goddess?

Excerpt from From the Branch ~ A Primer in Dianic Witchcraft by Deanne Quarrie (Bendis) available as an e-book write Bendis at eurynome_creates@yahoo.com