Feminine Sun Deities

Sun deities and the sun as a symbol, are usually associated with masculine energy and the moon and nighttime are more often associated with feminine energy. Even the wording Son (Sun) of God has associations to the masculine aspect of God and there are numerous examples of male sun deities, some of them being Ra, Helios, Liza, Lugh (Ancient Epyptian, Greek, West African, Celtic).

There are some exceptions to this though, and one is found in the mythology of my own Scandinavian ancestry. In the old Norse religion the sun was represented as the goddess Sol, also called Sunna. Her brother was Mani, representing the moon.

Sol and Mani ride through the sky in horse drawn chariots, like many other sun deities are described as doing. The chariots are chased through the sky by the wolves Skoll (Mockery) and Hati (Hate). During Ragnarok when the world descends back into chaos the wolves will overtake the chariots.

In one of the poems in the the Poetic Edda, a figure called Svalinn rides in Sol’s chariot and holds a shield between her and the Earth. Without it, the Earth would be consumed in flames. This sounds very much as a mythological description of the Earth’s magnetosphere, which is even described within astronomy as a ‘gatekeeper’ protecting us from solar wind and cosmic rays.

How the Old Norse, and other ancient people, knew about these cosmic phenomena through their mythologies is an interesting question to ponder.

There are more examples of feminine sun deities such as Amaterasu, the Japanese sun goddess, Arinna - Hittite (Syrian) sun goddess and Shemesh/Shepesh, Ugarit sun goddess.

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The Divine Masculine and the True King Archetype

If we are going to talk about the divine feminine we also need to pay attention to her counterpart, the divine masculine. He can be found within ourselves as well as in other people around us.

The divine masculine energy holds space for the divine feminine to create and bloom. It’s strong but it doesn’t push its own agenda or try to control surroundings. It creates the practical circumstances and safe spaces for us to reach our highest potential. It opens doors and wants to be of service to the divine feminine creative force. Not in a subservient way but in co-creation.

This is where the true King archetype is. It is no coincidence that Yeshua (Jesus) is called a king because that is what he embodied. He was Christ Consciousness (the anointed), devoted to the Divine.

Kings don’t put other people down or control (this is the Weakling - passive shadow of the King Archetype - the shadow masculine, which is unfortunately something that is highly present in this world). Kings lift people and his surroundings up. It requires a sacrifice of the small self, or ego, for the good of others and it’s what Kara Gillighan calls a warrior art.

We all have this within us but sometimes we come across people who seem to embody this more than others. They are the true Kings of this world but are usually not seen in that way because they don’t hold themselves up as that.

Art by John Bauer

The Norns ~ Weavers of Fate

The Norns are female beings in Norse mythology who create and control fate. They spin the threads of the fate of both humans and Gods at the foot of Yggdrasil, the cosmic tree holding together the 9 realms in Norse cosmology.

In Völuspá, one of the poems in the Old Norse Poetic Edda, they are described as not being a part of any of the other beings mentioned in Norse mythology. They are in their own category. Their names are Urd - The Past, Verdandi - What Is Presently Coming Into Being and Skuld - What Shall Be. In Greek mythology, there are similar beings or goddesses called the Moirai (Fates).

Because the Norns control fate they are often feared. I believe the fear is misplaced. The Norns weave and record a persons fate, but I don't see fate as being outside of our free will or control. In fact, the word Skuld, which is the name of the third Norn of What Shall Be literally means 'blame' or 'responsibility' in Swedish, my first language. Things happen that seem to be out of our control, but if we look at the picture from a soul level over the course of one or many lifetimes, we would find that the web of events are related and both the good and the bad are parts of our soul's growth. And most importantly, we always have a choice.

I cannot help but to relate them to what I know about the Akashic Records, also called the Book of Life. This is also closely related to Karma, or cause and effect.

In Hypnotherapy where a person is taken to the stage where their soul is in between lives, there are accounts of a ‘Judgement Board’. These are wise beings, usually three of them, who are there not to judge, but to assist the individual soul in evaluating the life lived and making recommendations for the next life. But the judgement of this evaluation is made by the soul itself. It gives a whole new meaning to the term ‘the last judgement’. It is not some entity outside of us making this judgement. We make it ourselves in our expanded state, and it’s much more forgiving than what we have been told to believe.

Once we become aware of this we can become an active participant in the weaving of our fate and our soul's path.

I have created a 3 month journey with our Divine Feminine Ancestry and Soul Lineage. We will connect deeply with our ancestral mythology and how it can help our soul growth, regardless of where your ancestry is from. I will use my own Scandinavian/Norse ancestry as a starting point. Learn more here.

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Art by Johan Egerkrans and Unknown

Lady of the Lake

I have lived most of my adult life in the British Isles, more specifically London. This is where I found my spiritual awakening and my interest in mythology.

I therefore feel a special connection to those lands and to the mythologies found there.

The Lady of the Lake is a fairy-like enchantress in the Arthurian Legends who lives in a castle beneath a lake around the island of Avalon. She gave the sword Excalibur to Arthur, which is attributed with magical powers and the true sovereignty of Britain.

As a hypnotherapist I am highly aware of the power of our subconscious mind over our conscious mind.

In Celtic mythology the otherworlds of the fairies, elves and god-like creatures are often described as being underground, such as the fairy mounds that are the homes of the supernatural race Aos sí. This is also the case in the stories about the Lady of the Lake who lives in her fairy realm beneath the lake. Water usually symbolising emotions and the castle beneath the lake could be used as a metaphor for the subconscious.

The sword can be seen to symbolise the power and authority that the subconscious wields over us and if we become aware of our subconscious patterns we can gain some power back to be able to influence our subconscious and transform ourselves, by regaining control of our subconscious patterns.

My 3 month long offering Divine Feminine Ancestry and Soul Lineage is back. We will go deeper into how we can use our own ancestral mythologies as catalysts for transformation within ourselves. Along with video teachings, you will be able to access your subconscious through guided mediations and hypnotherapy. Learn more here.

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Feminine nature spirits

I have always felt that there is a mystical presence in the forest, by a lake or by the sea, as if you are not completely alone, even when there is no one else around. It installs a feeling of respect as if I know that I’m in a domain where I, as a human, need to be vigilant and show respect.

In Swedish Folklore my blood ancestors named this presence and personified it as the Skogsrå, Sjörå and Havsrå (skog = forest, sjö = lake, hav = sea, rå = guardian/keeper). They are benevolent if you show respect to the landscape, that they are the guardians of. If you do not, there might be dire consequences.

These guardian spirits are depicted as female or feminine energies. There are some male nature and farm spirits in Scandinavian Folklore. But for the forest, the lake and the sea I feel it’s appropriate to see them as feminine energies and as aspects of the great Earth mother. They can also be seen as ‘elementals’ instead of spirits or as nature deities, which is something that many cultures have in their mythologies in different forms, often in female form.

The Scandinavian female nature spirits were seen as sexually deviant and as creatures who lured men with their seductive powers. Forces of nature are powerful and uncontrollable. Female sexuality has also historically been seen as dangerous, deviant and even something that needs to be controlled. It is often still looked at as, if not deviant, then at least mysterious and perplexing.

By reconnecting to these personifications of nature in our own ancestral cultures we can reconnect to the natural forces themselves and to our own sacred sexuality and connection to the Earth as our primal mother.

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She is a being not of this world...

”She is a being not of this world,...She tried to live like an ordinary woman; but some women cannot live an ordinary life. She tried to walk in the common ways; but some women cannot put their feet to that path.”

~ Quote from The Lady of the Rivers by Philippa Gregory, Photography by Nils-Olof Tägt

Maria Magdalena

I went for a wintry walk in central Stockholm this week, my home town since last year, and also the city where I was born. I have never lived here as an adult until now so I am still learning my bearings. I was with my mum who planned for us to walk to a specific cafe she likes.

When we got there and sat down by the window I looked across the street at the large church building we just passed, situated just opposite the cafe. Nothing peculiar about it. Stockholm is full of old churches. Even so, I asked my mum what the name of the church is (she knows almost everything about Stockholm). She said most churches in Stockholm are named after old Swedish kings and queens, but this one is an exception.

The name of the church: Maria Magdalena.

I smiled to myself and thought ‘Of course it is’. I have been on a Magdalene awakening path for some time, reading books, listening to teachings, but lately she’s been with me more acutely, sending me clear signs, because I asked her to.

After coffee we went inside the church and because I have become so aware of Magdalene/Grail symbolism I saw it straight away: Fleur-de-lis, the Knights Templar cross, roses, pentacles. I feel like I now have ‘eyes to See’ when even a few years ago I wouldn’t have to the same extent.

I’m excited to continue looking and seeing.

Art by Linzy Arnott ~ Mary Magdalene

Saint Lucia ~ The Light Bringer

Tomorrow 13th December is the Feast Day of Saint Lucia or Saint Lucy. She is saint and early Christian martyr who lived between the years 283 AD and 304 AD in Syracuse on the island of Sicily in the Roman Empire. Her name comes form the latin word lux meaning light.

As a context to this, the Christianity that existed in the first 3 centuries AD was not the Christianity that we know and have seen in the last 1700 years.

The Roman Empire officially adopted Christianity in 380 AD and it was granted legal status by the emperor Constantine only about 70 years before that. This was the beginning of the Roman Catholic Church and all of the institutional religious Christianity that followed.

So in that context, Lucia lived before this time, and was one of the last martyrs to die in the last persecution of Christians by the Roman Empire (not the last ever persecution of Christians).

The Christianity before 300 AD was naturally closer to the original teachings, and had more in common with Gnostic thought, although there were already groups who had a more in common with Orthodox Christianity.

In many ways, Christianity was an underground grass roots movement and they met in secret in the Catacombs (underground tunnels). There are also records of women being bishops in the early Christian communities but this is another story for another post. The heavily patriarchal aspect came later.

The irony is that Lucia became a saint in the very same Catholic Church that would possibly have seen her and her peers as heretics if she would have lived later.

The story goes that Lucia came from a wealthy Christian family but was promised to marry a non-Christian when her father died and the family was without a male guardian. She instead vowed to remain unmarried and to give her dowry to Christians who were hiding from persecution in the catacombs.

Lucia wore a crown of candles to light her way through the underground tunnels and brought food to the people hiding. The man who was meant to marry her subsequently reported her to the Roman authorities and they decided to have her sold into slavery as punishment. The legend has it that the guards who came to arrest her were not able to remove her. They then decided to kill her immediately by pouring oil over her and setting her on fire, but she wouldn't burn. They were finally able to kill her by sword. Later stories say that Lucia foretold the end of persecution before her death.

The miraculous things that she did when they tried to kill her, if true, shows that she was a spiritual master. What happened to her shows resemblance to later persecutions of spiritually adept women, and some men, during the Inquisition and the so called Witch Burnings or Burning Times.

If Lucia had lived and been persecuted during the Inquisition she would very likely have been seen as a witch for her spiritual powers. The institutionalised Churches at the time of the Inquisition did not want people to have a direct connection with God or their own Divine Source, what is also called Gnosis - direct experience of the Divine.

Saint Lucia Day has become a lasting tradition in Sweden, my home country, and it has become linked to Jul (Christmas) and advent. Girls dress up as Saint Lucia, with a crown of candles, a white robe like dress and and a red belt to symbolise her martyrdom.

It’s unclear why it has become a tradition here but most probably it’s because she is a light bringer, and because December is so dark and cold in Scandinavia, this is very welcomed.

13th December used to fall on the Winter Solstice, which is now 21st December. There may also be links to the Norse goddess Sol or Sunna, who’s name means sun and represents the return of lighter days.

13th December has been seen in Swedish folk tradition as a night when the veil to the spiritual realm is especially thin. During the celebrations children, and some adults, also dress up as angels or tomtar, a type of elemental beings in Swedish folklore slightly similar to the gnomes. I love and embrace all of the different layers and the syncretism of this holiday.

On the beginning of this particular light portal of December 2020 I invite Saint Lucia to guide us and for the angels and elementals to be present.

Art by Theophilia, Unknown and Lennart Helje

Ostara ~ Goddess of spring and rebirth

April is my favourite time of the year and the month I was born in. Growing up in Northern Europe I absolutely adore that first sense of spring in the air, when the ground is warming up and releases that sweet, earthy smell and the days are getting lighter and milder. I have always related April to new beginnings and rebirth.

April is also the season of the Germanic Goddess Ostara or Eostre who personifies this. She is the Goddess of spring, dawn, renewal, fertility and rebirth. Her symbols are the hare, the full moon and eggs. She is part of the maiden aspect of the triple Goddess.

The Christian Easter dates are still determined by the phase of the moon and has borrowed its name from the goddess of spring herself. Even the hormone Eostrogen that is essential for women's fertility has been named after her.

In my research about the Divine Feminine within our ancestries I keep getting amazed by the richness of the Goddess traditions in all of our ancestries and how much it still influences and even created so many of our traditions and practises that we take for granted. The Goddess was always there and still is...

Art by Mickie Mueller

Venus, Lucifer and the dawning of a new era

I noticed that Venus has been shining very bright lately. I then heard others mentioning the same thing.

I see Venus as mythologically significant to what is happening right now. The dawning of a golden era is on the horizon when the Divine Feminine will be rising to its rightful place and Venus, The Morning Star, is lighting the way.

Venus is one symbol of the Divine Feminine and the mythology surrounding it includes a downfall, just as the star Venus descends in the sky and seemingly falls towards the Earth or the underworld.

Lucifer, the so called fallen angel, is one mythological figure representing Venus or the Divine Feminine. Lucifer did not want to obey or be subservient to the patriarchal god and was cast out of heaven. He is not to be confused with Satan but it is no surprise that he has been demonised just like Lilith, the first woman who did not want to submit to Adam. Lucifer means light-bringer, dawn-bringer or the shining one.

This casting out into the underworld is recurring in mythology about the ancient Mesopotamian goddess Ishtar and the Norse goddess Hel. I think it represents the time when the Divine Feminine was made secondary, was only allowed to exist underground and patriarchal religions took over.

The time for Venus to rise again has come and we are the bringers of the dawn...

The Sexual Priestesses are returning...

Sexual Priestesses or Sacred Prostitutes were revered in the ancient world. This was a time when the divine was worshipped as the Goddess, and feminine sexual energy was the key to spiritual enlightenment.

These women embodied divine love and they held great power. They knew that love was their true essence and through sacred sexual practices, whether physical or non-physical, they taught others this inner truth in the Temples of the Goddess. They were the spiritual leaders of the time. Even their presence ignited spiritual awakening within others.

When I started learning about these Priestesses I also started having soul remembrances. These are knowings that I have had my whole life but I have been socialised into a certain degree of shame around it.

Since the destruction of these temples and the earth and Goddess based practices, feminine sexuality has been inverted, or so it seems.

What was once one of the most sacred aspects of us has been made into something either shameful or shallow. What is most beautiful has been turned into something that is even considered grotesque.

But the Sexual Priestesses are returning and the Goddess is rising. We are remembering because the world is again ready for our power and we no longer need to be afraid of it...

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Why you have always wanted to be a mermaid...

Many of us have a feeling or remembrance in our being that we once were merbeings and mermaids who came to Earth from elsewhere, living in the seas. 

These are not just childish fantasies or wishful thinking. They are soul remembrances and there is a reason we are having them at this particular time. 

When I had a past life regression where I saw myself as a blue underwater being with wispy blue fins and a floaty fabric around my body, I didn't want to draw the conclusion at first that the vast blue space around me was water or that the light, non-human limbs seemingly floating in air were fins, because I knew I was biased. 

I have wanted to be a mermaid since I first saw The Little Mermaid when I was five. Although I never fully gave up the fantasy, it was pushed aside for many years until a few years into my spiritual awakening and the beginning of my starseed awakening.

Of course the vision in my past life regression was nothing like the cartoons. Even so, after some research and synchronistic guidance I realised clearly that what I saw myself as was an underwater being, possibly Mintakan from the constellation of Orion. 

The story goes that the blue water planet of Mintaka was destroyed and the Mintakans found a new home on the similar mostly blue and watery planet that we call Earth. There are other merbeings from Sirius and elsewhere who are also coming back at this time in human bodies. 

In my session before I had this vision, I was asked to go back to the times of Lemuria. Whether I was on Earth or elsewhere I had the strong feeling that it was a very feminine place and time, and that the beings had a strong feminine energy. The element of water itself is feminine, receptive, floaty, primordial and it literally births new life. 

The sea mothers are returning. They are the ancient ones from the stars, sent by the Cosmic Mother. 

We are not waiting for them. WE ARE THEM. We might not have fins or breathe underwater, but we carry the seed of the awakening Divine Feminine Christ Consciousness. 

We are here to initiate the Age of Aquarius, the next golden age, along with all of the other starseed and earthling lightworkers that have come back at this time, so that all beings may know themselves as one with the Cosmic Mother. 

One part of my 3 month long Divine Feminine Ancestry & Soul Lineage journey involves remembering and connecting to your soul's purpose and cosmic origins. If you feel called to dive in with me and the amazing women who have already joined, I would be honoured to have you. We start in mid-January 2020. Learn more and sign up by clicking here.

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Art by: Cynthia Re Robbins ~ Mystical Mermaid

Saint Lucia Day

13th December is the feast day of Saint Lucia or Sankta Lucia as she is called in my home country of Sweden where this is still a big tradition. It's a tradition that naturally leads up to Jul/Christmas and it involves children and some adults dressing up in white clothing and either swirls of glitter or a crown made of candles on their head and singing carols. Saint Lucia was originally a Sicilian saint and Christian martyr, Lucia of Syracuse. She was killed in the last and worst persecution of Christians in the Roman empire around year 300.

The story goes that Lucia came from a wealthy Christian family but was promised to marry a non-Christian when her father died and the family was without a male guardian. She instead vowed to remain unmarried and to give her dowry to Christians who were hiding from persecution in the catacombs.

Lucia wore a crown of candles to light her way through the underground tunnels and brought food to the people hiding. The man who was meant to marry her subsequently reported her to the Roman authorities and they decided to have her sold into slavery as punishment. The legend has it that the guards who came to arrest her were not able to remove her. They then decided to kill her immediately by pouring oil over her and setting her on fire, but she wouldn't burn. They were finally able to kill her by sword. Later stories say that Lucia foretold the end of persecution before her death.

It's unclear why Saint Lucia's Day has become a lasting tradition in Sweden but it's linked to the Winter Solstice since 13th December used to fall on the Winter Solstice, now 21st December, before the Gregorian calendar was adopted. Being the darkest and coldest part of the year in the Nordic region, the Lucia tradition of lighting lots of candles and eating buns and drinking hot drinks is always welcome. There are also links to the Norse goddess Sol or Sunna who represents the sun, and in this instance the return of lighter days after the darkest days of the year.

Friday 13th is also the day of the Goddess and the celebration of the Divine Feminine, honouring the cycles of creation, death and rebirth.

The Divine Feminine has always been there in all of our different lineages, just under the surface, waiting for us to re-discover it.

My 3 month journey with our Divine Feminine Ancestry and Soul Lineage is created for us to do just that. Part of this journey is connecting more deeply with our ancestral Divine Feminine spiritual traditions, regardless of your ancestry.

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The Norse people

The Norse, my ancestors, are somewhat elusive just like the Celts. Most of what we know about them come from what was written by visitors and later Christian missionaries, although we do have texts such as the Poetic Edda and the Runic alphabet to help us better understand the beliefs and cosmology of the Norse people. History is as always written by the victorious, which for the Celts became the Roman conquerors. The Norse were converted to Christianity mostly without force but they were some of the last European peoples who converted, in the 11th Century, and Scandinavia was never conquered by the Romans as the British Isles were. 

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The word Norse is often used interchangeably with Vikings. The Viking age was a particular time in Norse history when some people ventured outside of Scandinavia by boat to raid or settle in other European lands, and sometimes beyond, probably because of the harsh life and climate in Scandinavia. The Viking Age started around year 800 AD and continued for more than 200 years. A bronze Buddha statue was found in an old Viking Era settlement in Sweden, which shows that Norse society was not cut off from the rest of the world and influences from other parts of the world were already there. 

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Mainly due to the sometimes brutal raids of the Vikings and the often over exaggerated historical descriptions of them by Christian Europeans, pre-Christian Norse people have been perceived as cruel savages or romanticised as some type of super-humans. Of course neither is the whole truth. We also have to remember that the European Christians at the time who wrote down their accounts of the Norse had preconceived notions about them and may have had their own reasons to portray them as 'uncivilised' and brutal to further the Christianisation of Europe.

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One of the last places to be Christianised in Sweden was in what is now the town of Uppsala, close to where I grew up. Old Uppsala was a pagan spiritual center with a temple. The temple was destroyed and there is now a church and a museum in its place. The below picture of me is taken at that site. The main visible parts of the old pagan site there are the three large grave mounds dating back to the 5th and 6th centuries. 

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A grave of a woman soldier was found in the archeological site of Birka outside of Stockholm. Her remains were found buried with military objects and even animals that suggested she was high up in the ranks. These women warriors have been called shield-maidens and are featured in the television series Vikings. Although the Hollywood depiction might glamourise these people a bit too much, the historical evidence of these warriors, and similar stories about Celtic women, show that the history of women in Europe is not as clear cut as we may think. 

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The practise of Seidr, Norse witchcraft and a type of trance prophecy, was practised almost exclusively by women. It was seen as inappropriate for men to take on this female role. The Norse seer was called a Völva and was highly respected for the connection she had with the otherworld and the information she could bring back. 

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When we connect with our ancestral heritage on a deep level, regardless of where your ancestors are from, I believe we can uncover mysteries and connect with something within us that may has been dormant and wants to be released. 

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I have created a 3 month journey with our Divine Feminine Ancestry and Soul Lineage. Part of this journey is connecting more deeply with our ancestors, ancestral lands and the spiritual traditions that come from them. I will use my own journey with my Scandinavian/Norse ancestry to guide us. Click here to learn more.

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Who Celtic women really were...

Women in Celtic societies had legal rights that far exceeded the rights of women in many other societies at the time and later in history. They acted as judges and mediators in political and military disputes and they could own land and inherit property.

Celtic marriages was viewed as a partnership, as opposed to women being seen as the property of the man in Roman law. Women also had the right to divorce their men if he did not live up to his responsibilities, which included providing enough food and satisfying his wife sexually, or if he treated her badly.

The spiritual leaders in Celtic society were the Druids, who passed down their knowledge strictly through oral tradition. Despite the commonly held idea that Druids were mostly men, there were women Druids who acted as seers and healers.

Celtic women fought wars alongside the men and there are many stories of women warriors who led their people in battle. One of these warriors was Boudica, queen of the Iceni tribe of what is now Eastern England. She led an uprising against the occupying Roman Empire. This has similarities to Norse/Viking culture, which also had women warriors. A Viking woman has been found buried in a military tomb with contents indicating that she was high up in the ranks.

Because Celtic women could inherit land, old Irish law stated that they had an obligation to defend their land and therefore had to do military service or assign a kinsman on her behalf. It was only in year 697 CE that women were banned from warfare.

If you have Celtic and Irish ancestry I am recalling this history to help you see your ancestry with new eyes if you haven't already. Although most of us don't need to physically fight to protect our land or tribes anymore, I want to remind you that despite of the suppression of women in relatively recent history, you come from a lineage of women who held power, warrior queens and priestesses. You can call on the power of these ancestors whenever you need their strength and insights. They are a part of you.

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Let's rise up rooted...

The Norns - Weavers of fate

The Norns are female beings in Norse mythology who create and control fate. They spin the threads of the fate of both humans and Gods at the foot of Yggdrasil, the cosmic tree holding together the 9 realms in Norse cosmology.

In Völuspá, one of the poems in the Old Norse Poetic Edda, they are described as not being a part of any of the other beings mentioned in Norse Mythology. They are in their own category. Their names are Urd - The Past, Verdandi - What Is Presently Coming Into Being and Skuld - What Shall Be.

Because they control fate they are often feared. I believe the fear is misplaced. I cannot help but to relate them to what I know about the Akashic Records, also called the Book of Life in the Bible. This is also closely related to Karma, or cause and effect.

The Norns weave and record a persons fate, but I don't see fate as being outside of our free will or control. In fact, the word Skuld, which is the name of the third Norn of What Shall Be literally means 'blame' or 'responsibility' in Swedish, my first language. Things happen that seem to be out of our control, but if we look at the picture from a soul level over a course of many lifetimes, we would find that the web of events are related and both the good and the bad are parts of our soul's growth.

Once we become aware of this we can become an active participant in the weaving of our fate and our soul's path.

I have created a 3 month journey with our Divine Feminine Ancestry and Soul Lineage. We will connect deeply with our ancestral mythology and the Divine Feminine within it, regardless of where your ancestry is from. I will use my own journey with my Scandinavian/Norse ancestry as a starting point.

Learn more here.

May the Divine Feminine rise from all ancestry lines and soul lineages...

Art by Johan Egerkrans and Unknown

The Dark Goddess rising...

The Dark Goddess archetypes have significant similarities in different cultures and ancestral lineages, often connected to death and rebirth. She brings death to that which has to fall away for our true divine nature to spring forth. The darkness that she represents is powerful in its own right. It is not merely a lack of light.

The darkness of the Dark Goddess or the Primal Mother has its own life and is where all life, including light, is born. This is why Mother Mary is called the 'Mother of God'. She is one aspect of a primal feminine archetype, the mother of all things, hidden in plain sight within a seemingly patriarchal religion.

The Dark Goddess archetypes are specific personifications of the cosmic mother, the dark void where everything is conceived and that also has the power to destroy. Connecting with the Dark Goddess of our own ancestry is a process of stepping into our sovereignty. What the Dark Goddesses have in common is that they do not place themselves in relation to the masculine. She is sovereign in and of herself.

In Western cultures especially, the Dark Goddess has been demonised. The way that these archetypes have been portrayed in the West have been deeply influenced by institutionalised Christianity as well as patriarchal structures where women themselves are seen as sinful, coinciding with the moving away from Earth based, feminine spirituality and the persecution of witches and women healers. Even in a modern, secular context we can see how the fear of death can contribute to the fear of her. The following Dark Goddess archetypes have been more or less demonised:

Hel - Norse Queen of the Underworld and the dead.

Hekate - Greek Goddess of the night, the moon, witchcraft and necromancy.

The Morrigan - Celtic Raven Goddess of death, war, rebirth and sovereignty.

Lilith - Sumerian Goddess of sexual power, freedom and sovereignty.

From what I can see, this demonisation has not happened to the same extent with the Dark Goddess Kali Ma, who is still largely revered within Hinduism. This is a reflection of how the feminine has been repressed in Europe and the Western world while still revered in the East.

This persecution of the Dark Goddess is slowly being reversed. We are taking back the darkness as sacred, as holy in and of itself. The darkness brings peace and rest and enables us to go inward, to meet with our own inner Dark Goddess. She is not to be feared. She is to be embraced, because often only through encountering her can we lay aside what does not serve and be born anew.

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The Morrigan - Dark Celtic Raven Goddess of Death and Rebirth

I had a call with my mentor a few days ago. I was called to shift my energy and to start letting go of certain things that I know don't serve me any longer, things that I have been putting off looking at. She told me that she saw one of my guides as a dark goddess with raven energy. I made a note of it and we carried on with the rest of the call.

After the call I got on with the energy shifting homework that she gave me and I didn't think too much about the raven goddess in particular. It was a fleeting comment and although it caught my interest, I put it at the back of my mind. Today, I was watching a Youtube video on the origins of Samhain and All Hallows' Eve. It started telling me about a Celtic raven goddess called The Morrigan. The name rang a bell but I had never looked into her before. The video also suggested that she is a dark goddess. To me a dark goddess has nothing to do with negativity but is someone who can help carry us through transformation and releasing our shadows, even though it's uncomfortable.

She is a goddess of war, destiny, fate, death and rebirth as well as magic. Death and rebirth is what really spoke to me. She is the exact energy that I need in order to move through and embody some of the things my mentor brought up and that my inner guidance has told me about for a long time. I believe that The Morrigan has been with me for some time and showed me who she is through my mentor and the synchronicity of the video that I watched. I have had the desire to know who some of my guides are by name, apart from the ones I already know. When we put the desire out there the information often comes when we least expect it.

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Art by Laura Cameron

Eir - Norse Goddess of Healing

Eir is the Norse goddess of healing and medicine. Her name means gracious, helpful and copper (which is a metal often used in healing practices). In early Norse culture medicine was almost exclusively practiced by women, which is why she is a goddess and not a god.

Eir is among the Asynjur (Frigg's attendants) and is the goddess who is present at childbirth, along with Frigg and sometimes Freyja. In Norse Folk tradition Eir was invoked in healing rituals using a white flower known as Eirflower.

Healing methods included healing prayers, magic, midwifery practices (much more advanced than later ones), surgery, herbalism, using copper bracelets, and detoxes using saunas.
Eir is at times compared to the Greek goddess Hygieia and she may be related to the Indo-European Swiss goddess, Erecura, known to the Celtic tradition as Aerucura.

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Frigg - the Allmother

Frigg or Frigga is referred to as the 'foremost among the goddesses' in Norse mythology. She is the queen of Asgard, the land of the gods, and the wife of Odin.

She is mostly associated with the Norse pantheon but she has Germanic counterparts that were worshipped in Britain and on the European continent. The Romans associated Frigg with the goddess Venus, and the planet Venus has been called friggjarstjarna (Frigg's star).

Frigg is the goddess of practical, homely knowledge, fertility, motherhood, love and marriage. It's easy to understand how in recent times the more seemingly independent minded Freyja has become the most popular Norse goddess to refer to. I believe it's because in modern Western society, the traditionally feminine attributes that Frigg is associated with are not seen as independently valuable.

If we understand that in another time in history these areas of life were most likely highly sacred and revered. These feminine areas of life and knowledge are intrinsically valuable and may even be more important or fundamental than the traditionally masculine parts of life that society is now holding up as more important.

Even so, the story goes that Frigg is very involved in political affairs of Asgard and shared the throne with Odin, overlooking the Nine Worlds. This could be a reflection of Germanic societies in history where the responsibilities of a noblewoman included acting as a counsellor to her husband and as a peace-keeper and diplomat. In other words, the feminine role as the 'protector of the home' included a lot more than what we might imagine now.

Frigg has her own dwelling called Fensalir (Hall of Mists or Sea Halls), which she manages. She also oversees the Asynjur, a group of goddesses or deities with different attributes and roles. They are sometimes described as being different aspects of Frigg. She has connections to the Earth and in some respects is seen as an Earth goddess, but not of wild nature but instead of lands that are cultivated.

When we look beneath the surface of some of the divine feminine archetypes in our ancestral cultures, we realise that there is so much more to them than commonly believed. They have so many dimensions to them and they are powerful beyond measure, just as we are.

Connecting to these goddesses and deities can help bring out more of the divine feminine power within ourselves that has sometimes been forgotten.

Art by Amanda Lindupp