Something I thought that I’d try for this coming year in this space is giving some conscious consideration of various goddesses.
One of the most exciting things as a woman raised in an Abrahamic faith finds when engaging with pagan spirituality is the ability to connect to the Divine Feminine. In traditional neopagan and Wiccan cosmology we talk a lot about The Lord and The Lady, the God and the Goddess, who embody divinity as Divine Feminine and Divine Masculine. This is a stark contrast to the Abrahamic faiths, which feature a God, who is usually conceptualized as masculine. Women in the Abrahamic faiths are usually presented as helpers, as secondary, and even in some sects as being spiritually deficient, even a source of evil. It’s exciting to be able to engage with goddesses as fully realized and empowered versions of the Divine Feminine, on equal footing with her male counterpart.
Again, with the Rule of 100 in full effect in pagan communities, the cis-gendered presentation of spirituality as Divine Masculine and Divine Feminine may be the tradition, but it’s not the only way to represent deity and gender. There has been vibrant exploration of divinity from non-heterosexual, non-gender-binary, and non-cisgender viewpoints that is exciting and which adds a lot of understanding of what it means to engage with divinity in the form of gods and goddesses. My choice…
