Quan Yin – Unconditional Love
Aphrodite – Self-Love
Sekhmet – Power
Brigid – Healing and Creativity
Oya – Change, Strength, Authority, Courage, Truth, Protection
Well, there’s a question! If I am completely honest, I was completely and utterly convinced that I would never EVER start working with any goddess, let alone willingly invite their energy into my life. It was just one step too far for someone with a science based view of the world.
I mean I could understand the way healing energy worked. I could certainly appreciate the way crystals and sound worked, but everything else like goddesses, ancestors, angelics… well, that was what other wacky New Age people believed, not me! Well, as it turned out, I was really just as wacky and I hadn’t even noticed!
So, in case you are like I was all those years ago and you need a little encouragement to start doing something way out of your comfort zone, here’s a chakra exercise to help you start your journey with these aspects of the Divine Mother.
If you can’t decide which goddess to work with by choosing one of the words shown on the list above, here’s what their energy feels like…
Quan Yin – is like the very best mother you would ever want. She is loving and kind and compassionate and she will always be there to help you when you need it the most. When you work with her it feels like being held in the arms of someone who loves you very much.
Aphrodite – is not for the faint-hearted because she will challenge you. She will make you look at yourself and find all the ways you do not love yourself. She will also make you acknowledge the fact that you really don’t think very highly of yourself at all. She will show you how you value others, but do not value yourself in the same way. This can be a little shocking at first, but if you persevere, she will change your life in amazing ways, not to mention change your attitude to yourself. She will continue, sometimes relentlessly, until you do truly love yourself.
Brigid – is simply lovely. I could write pages and pages on this goddess. She just arrived at a workshop I was running and never left. She comes with many gifts for you, including Brigid’s Flame (You’ll find a way to work with this on http://crystaldragongail.com/?p=427). She will undoubtedly bring great healing into your life, but not always in the way you expect it!
Sekhmet – is one of my favourite aspects of the Divine Mother. I probably do more work with her than all the others put together and I see such amazing results from people who come to classes and workshops. I just love it. She moves people forward so fast it is quite astonishing to watch! She helps you connect with your unbridled authenticity, and that is such a marvellous phrase… an unbridled horse just runs and runs without anyone to stop it, and Sekhmet teaches you to do the same. She shows you how to be completely free and she does it by connecting you on a very deep level to your Authentic Self, your will and, most importantly, your personal power.
Oya – is a goddess who should probably come with a warning really because change is inevitable when you work with her; and, if you have never worked with a goddess before, I would recommend that you choose one of the others for your first experience of this kind of energy. Oya is a marvellous to work with, though. But, because she works with the energies found in nature and with extreme versions of them … like wind as tornado and water as flood … she brings change fast, and in very real, tangible and powerful ways! And, you can’t stop the process any more than you can stop a flood or tornado! You get the picture! So, you seriously need to want to bring transformation into life in a massive way to work with this great goddess!
So, do whatever you usually do to make an intuitive choice about the best goddess to work with and then set a very clear intention for what you want to achieve while you run the energy of your choice through your chakra system. It is always very good at removing blockages associated with what the goddess does i.e. Aphrodite will clear anything lodged in the chakras associated with lack of self-love, Sekhmet will do the same for anything associated with power issues, Quan Yin will clear anything related to the inability to give and receive love in an appropriate way. You get the idea!
- Relax and focus on your breath.
- Ground FIRMLY.
- Ask your goddess to join you, thank her for coming and take a moment to attune to her energy, allowing your vibrational rate to rise to match hers.
- Now set the intention for your breath work – with the in breath you draw the goddess’s energy in to your solar plexus and on the out breath you release any negative energy it has cleared from where ever you are working in the chakra system. The goddess will usually send her energy from her palms, but just be open to receive it in whatever way it manifests around you.
- Now begin breathing into your solar plexus and continue for as long as you need to and until you feel the chakra has been fully cleansed.
- Now breathe in through the solar plexus and up through the central channel to the heart chakra and continue until the heart has been cleared.
- Now breathe in through the solar plexus and send the energy up to the throat chakra until the throat has been cleared.
- Now breathe in through the solar plexus and send the energy up to the brow chakra until the brow has been cleared.
- Now breathe in through the solar plexus and send the energy up to the crown chakra until the crown has been cleared.
- Now take your awareness to your heart chakra and breathe the energy of your goddess in here until your heart is full of the love this goddess has for you, until your heart is simply over flowing with love and rest in this energy for as long as you want.
- Now earth any excess energy in your system, letting it flow down through your body and out through your feet chakras.
- Now ask your goddess to stabilise your vibrational rate at the most appropriate level for you at this time and let your system settle.
- Thank your goddess, ground firmly and return your attention to the room.
This is such a simply exercise, you can use it for anything really. It is not limited to goddess. You can use colours, healing energies like Reiki or Mahatma, Reiki symbols, angelic light, planetary rays. As, always, the choice is yours! But, whatever you decide to do, it will always raise your vibrational rate as you interact with the energy and let it clear any blockages you currently have in your chakra system.
And, it is not limited to the list of goddesses at the beginning of the blog either. If you have a favourite one, go with her! This is your journey, not mine. I only listed a few of the ones that I like. You are welcome to choose another one!
So, if you’ve never tried goddess energy before, go for it! You’ll love it. I do, despite being unbelievably reluctant to invite any aspect of the Divine Mother into my life. She got me in the end… well and truly, actually!
Have fun!
Bright Blessings!
Gailx