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Wednesday 17 November 2010

The Celebration Of World Goddess Day

The Celebration Of World Goddess Day
In our time has been confirmed Handiwork Divine being Day. As described by the organizers, it is a day for all Goddess-worshiping relations worldwide to come together and precisely correct or pay mark of distinction to the Divine being in all her forms. The website says, "The submission of the Enterprise is [to] charter to the Divine being one day of visibility to split Her diverse myths, stories and worship modification." The Handiwork Divine being Day partition was founded by Brazilian critic Claudiney Prieto, who has in black and white a publication of appearing in books on Wicca and Witchcraft. Prieto is a priest of the Dianic Nemorensis tradition in Brazil and was entirely standard by Z. Budapest for his spiritual work within that tradition. As he writes on the project's website: "Nowdays, in a flabbergasted advance impaired by centuries of patriarchy, heteronormativity and prejudice, the Divine being is deliberate by diverse relations the innocently way to reunite ourselves with the true Character, with our maximum inner Character. She is the innocently way to get rid of so diverse years of despotism that innocently brought differences, prejudices and wars So a Handiwork Divine being Day has never been such imperative as now!" The Handiwork Divine being Day partition organizers chose September in the role of it is the ninth month of the go out with. As Prieto explains, "The publication nine is one of the maximum sacred to the Divine being." In the providence, Handiwork Divine being Day preference customarily be well-known on the first Sunday of the month. This go out with, the incite is Sept. 7. Blunt their Facebook page and website, organizers put out a phone to relations influence the world to pose and come together on this day or for fill to find limited ways to deference the Cherubic Female. Promptly, the partition website lists 30 unusual registered Handiwork Divine being Day undertakings indoors influence the world. At the same time as maximum of these registered undertakings are in Prieto's home place of Brazil as well as his own sight in Sao Paulo, energy did readership on both sides of borders. Wiccan Priestess Noble Majo is hosting a celebration in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Z.Budapest is sponsoring a Divine being Social event in California. In attendance are three registered undertakings loot place in Spain; three in the U.K.; three in the Related States and one in Western Canada. In infusion, near are a publication of unregistered undertakings as well as one in Miami, one in Illinois, and one in Spitchwick Proven in Dartmoor, England. The Improved Druids of Gaia are largest part for a picnic in Singleton Land, in Swansea, Wales. In Toronto, Canada, relations preference be largest part at Grand Land for a "clear celebration" synchronized by Wiccan practitioner Cattarina Guanais. The Triangle Setting Pagan Air (TAPA), based in Durham, North Carolina, is one of the registered hosts of a Handiwork Divine being Day sight in the Related States. The house society is sponsoring a collective ritual in Thaumatury 777, a magic supply shop. TAPA add-on Rev. Amanda Morris, a neo-Wiccan and Gnostic Witch, says: "In the function of I found out that Claudiney Prieto was organizing an large-scale sight in deference of the Divine being, I was in flames and brought the balk to my group, the Triangle Setting Pagan Air. We all half personal stories of the power of the Divine being (in Her diverse names and faces!) in our lives, and we knew that celebration the Cherubic Female was unambiguous to us. We really support that others in our community would usual and put your thumb out us for an open and collective ritual I'm frenzied and in flames to be fusion fill and groups from positively influence the world as we pilaster Handiwork Divine being Day, and I support we deference Her with our accumulate love and magick!" On the other next of the realm in Defrayal, North Carolina, Deb Holmes-Roberts, a Grand Priestess of Sealed Draw and a Reiki Master, is organizing a day have a yen sight that includes workshops, slang and meditation. She says: "In attendance are diverse reasons to correct this "Handiwork Divine being Day" but the maximum unambiguous to me is to be lovely to split the information with my daughters and other offspring women to refreshing their femaleness and mushroom in the engine capacity of it and all that it is." From the Spitchwick Proven, Dartmoor Occurrence To the south in Miami, Florida, Kimberly Moore, founder and Priestess of MotherHouse of the Divine being Ridge, says that she is "hosting a Perfect Moon Divine being Feast Sunday and faithful the synchronicity with Handiwork Divine being Day." Moore has been readily working to proof Goddess-based spirituality for years. Among her work, she helped to become hard a Miami-based Dianic Women's Ridge and the Perfect Moon's Women's Corner. She says: "I am unquestionably frenzied to see an apt refocus in establishing a Handiwork Divine being Day. Bringing the Cherubic Female in all forms to the front of rotate spirituality and traditional religions is unquestionably scale for bringing neutrality to the globe and aid. Hurrah to Claudiney Prieto for explanation the torch! " In West Yorkshire England, a group of Pagans preference be celebrating in a unusual way. Attendees scheme to give somebody no option but to at the Leeds Metropolitan area Museum in Millennium Weighing scale to view two stones that were firm to Brigantia, their house Divine being. In imitation of near, fall through Gary Smith preference read style encouraged by the Cherubic Female. Smith says: "I've organised a brusque largest part of relations from our Pagan Meet-up group to honour our house goddess Brigantia, as I entirely came to the Divine being sad my drum up support of 30 years looking participating in the meaning of the Cretan Movement Trap. The Divine being is essential now to native land the neutrality, and heal the world." In Cornwall, the Priestesses of Kernow are hosting a celebration at Pengersick Fortress, Praa Sands. Priestess Sue Edwards, founder of the Cornwall Exercise of Mysteries, says: "The Divine being is related with diverse things as well as earth, motherliness, fertility, love and plants, but also war, death, havoc as well as healing, warmth and life. As a Priestess of Kernow who follows the Divine being traditions, I finger it's unambiguous to claim one day granted to the Divine being in which we can retract her in all her forms. Women dreadfully are looking for everything which celebrates the female within and are gyratory to the way of the Divine being. She is re-entering participating in our modern life bringing back her vivaciousness, power, wisdom and healing, sad Pagan traditions it is unambiguous to pilaster the Enterprise Handiwork Divine being day and to bring the divine female back participating in our lives, to flair her stories for modern day and to bring neutrality back to our world." In official statement behind schedule official statement, organizers are ability out to their communities to put your thumb out them in dance, give a call, meditation, and ritual celebration of the Cherubic Female in whatever form or forms that she takes within one's own self-righteous tradition. On the sight page for the Illinois sight, fall through Ze Marie says, "The energy of this sight is growing! Become more intense the word, it is departure to be awesome! All and sundry is welcome! It is time for the Divine being to be heard!" At the same time as the day was launched by Prieto, a priest of the Dianic Nemorensis tradition, it was not imagined as a tradition-based or dear balk. Nor has its spirit be peace in fine. Yemaya Ridge in Cuba [Image Credit: DominiqueMichel, WikiCommons CC lic]Attractively, nevertheless, this very first combination of Handiwork Divine being Day also happens to fit with a very possess Divine being day. In our time is Yemaya's Feast day, a celebration with its own sacred traditions within the Lucumi (Santeria) religion. At the same time as Handiwork Divine being Day won't customarily fall on Sept 7, this preference stretch once again in the providence. If the partition continues to bang into increase, preference the new global celebration of the Cherubic Female detract or boost this far-flung foggy Lucumi tradition? Lilith Dorsey, a Voodoo Priestess, critic and filmmaker, says: "The slippery thought in once we begin to do by Sunday Sept. 7,2014 as Handiwork Divine being Day is that not all mother goddesses are the especially. The especially way not all mothers are the especially. "In La" Regla Lucumi, also well-known as Santeria, Sept. 7 is the traditional celebration day for Yemaya. Territory claim formerly ready the associate online, and as I am also a practitioner of Santeria as well, I would suitable like to good sense that in the same way as someone is grasp to exit an gift of pears or watermelon for Yemaya, the unqualified requirement not make petitions or force from this Orisha. The Santeria religion is a system technique that takes decades if not a permanent of training to begin to understand." As Dorsey suggests, not all Divine being are the especially and their worship manifests in diverse ways that are repeatedly very possess to a tradition, culture and self-righteous practice. As have a yen as the peter out of the Handiwork Divine being Day celebration and its over-arching revelation befall respectfully fluid and open, the new day can co-exist with the Lucumi holiday. Dorsey adds, "The celebration of the Divine being is unambiguous each and every day, not innocently in the role of it helps us best quality understand our accumulate cultural yesterdays and tomorrows, but also ourselves. I humorlessly maintain this both as a Voodoo priestess and an anthropologist. I support everybody continues to respectfully display the Divine being this Sunday, and every day."Liberate to Fan the flames of