WE ARE NOT THE GODDESSES

Of Hubris and Self-Cherishing

This post should never have had to be written, honestly, but I have been moved into writing about a concern that is not going away.  Before you engage, please read all of it, as I am not trying to be provoking, just shining the light of observation, in the interests of sacred respect.

Over the last two decades, I have noticed the slow seep of a movement that has arisen in the modernist world.  Those who already venerate, either as practitioners or devotees, individual female divinities in a traditional or cultural way -  or as aspects of the Goddess - will probably share my concern, to some degree, especially if they have had any esoteric training, and can envision the consequences.

‘BEING A GODDESS.’

The thing that is worrying me is the number of women showing up at different kinds of events ‘as a goddess.’ I have sat in a few circles where women introduce themselves as a goddess. Indeed, I myself received an invitation just a couple of months ago to ‘speak as a goddess,’ for a US media company. (They were sent away with a flea in their ear, very speedily) I have been rendered speechless on encountering this phenomenon, both as a ritualist and devotee of the divine feminine, and on account of the spiritual necessity to keep good boundaries and relations with the divinities who oversee our lives.