Meeting The Dark Goddess

When it comes to re-connecting with feminine energies, there is one side of those energies that has long been vilified. Take this meditative journey with Ceryn to meet and re-connect with the Dark Goddess.

Transcript

Getting nice and comfortable sitting or lying down,

Close your eyes and allow yourself to take a journey with me for the next 15 or so minutes.

We're going to take a journey together to meet the dark goddess,

Somebody who is so often considered to be terrifying.

But as you begin to breathe into this space,

Into this moment,

As you come back into your body,

Back into the here and now,

Back into the fullness of this experience that we call life,

I invite you to remember that the dark goddess was once the most sacred,

Once the most holy and the most beloved figure in the earth.

That we have been told of how terrifying she is,

Not because she wishes to hurt us,

But because that is a power of which those who would rather keep us small are most afraid.

So know that as we venture on this journey together,

You are safe,

Always safe.

Know that you are supported by your own support team,

By the earth.

Know that you are protected,

A bubble of beautiful golden light moving all around you to protect you as we move through this journey.

And right now just come wholly into your body by taking a few deep breaths in and out,

Allowing yourself to truly relax,

To let go of anything and everything that you don't need moving into this time,

To allow yourself to be completely present with whatever needs to make itself known over the next 10 to 15 minutes.

As you breathe,

I invite you to imagine you breathing in a beautiful white light,

A white light that is then breathed all the way through your body,

Clearing out anything that doesn't need to be there anymore and filling you instead with possibility,

With truth.

Filling you instead with the certainty of who you are and the memory of your own ancestral connection to the divine feminine energies who were once held sacred by all of us,

Sacred by the whole of our world.

And with every breath you take start to feel building up around you a perfectly clear white mist.

This is the kind of mist that perhaps looks a little bit spooky,

A little bit atmospheric,

That makes you wonder what is going on there.

And as this mist builds you feel yourself being transported through it,

Almost as though you are flying,

Flying through clouds of mist,

Flying away into a place that is part of this dimension and yet also something so very different.

But knowing as you do that there is always a connection back to your body,

A connection back to the present and back to the physical realm no matter how far you fly.

After a few moments of flying through that mist you feel yourself settle down,

Down onto a soft ground,

A soft earth that is covered in something springy and green.

You begin to walk forwards,

The mist is still very heavy around you but you notice that it's starting to clear ever so slightly so that you can see what's around you so that you can become more accustomed to your location.

As you walk on through this springy green path you notice up ahead of you a circle of standing stones,

12 around the circle and a 13th standing right at the centre.

Stone circles as we know have such power,

Such a beauty to them and so you can't help but move forwards,

Stepping down to and into the circle drawn there by the power of it,

Drawn there by the mystery of it.

As you step into the circle you perhaps walk around it,

Touching each stone in turn,

Allowing yourself to feel not only the cool of the stone beneath your fingers but also the energy that thrums there,

The power,

The history.

You wonder for a moment if these stones could talk what would they tell you?

The circles,

The rituals,

The celebrations and the gatherings that have happened here,

What would they have to share?

What could they teach you?

You walk around all 12 of those circles,

Touching each one in turn,

Noticing any carvings that exist on the circles or anything else that's there wishing to have your attention drawn to it and then you make your way to the standing stone at the very centre and as you do you notice that all along a single guardian has been watching you.

For sitting atop this central stone is a raven,

A huge deep black raven who lets out a loud croak as he sees you.

In a normal place in a normal time you may be scared by that but here there's nothing scary about it because you recognise that sound,

This being for what they are,

The guardian of this space,

One that is welcoming to all those who come in truth,

To all those who come from a place of love,

A place of wonder and a place of truth.

And so the raven bows their head to you and you unthinkingly bow your head back,

A gesture of connection,

A gesture of shared sacredness.

As you wonder to yourself where did this raven come from?

Who are they?

How long have they been here?

But before you can have any of those questions answered you hear a footstep on the ground behind you,

One footstep and then two and you turn to face a figure that has come to join you in the stone circle,

A tall beautiful and powerful figure of the dark goddess in whichever form she chooses to take with you.

The power radiates from her as does the beauty and the sensuality,

The simmering rage that is sacred,

That is the knowledge that things must change.

As this goddess greets you,

You may recognise her from pictures you've seen,

You may recognise her from other meditative journeys you've taken but still you recognise the sacredness of this moment.

And so meeting her eyes,

Meeting her gaze you nod your head to her and say welcome.

She smiles back to you and it is the most beautiful but also somewhat terrifying smile for this is a smile that holds sheer power.

This is a smile that is not in any way afraid of those forces that sought to keep her evil,

Small,

Terrifying and lost.

She smiles back to you though and you know that even despite that terror that they have told you about her,

Even despite all the things that they have said over the years to vilify her,

She is here for you in love,

In protection,

To share her power and her insights with you.

Allow her now to do exactly that,

To share with you everything she wishes you to know about the power of the dark goddess.

As she speaks to you of days long gone of a sensuality that was once cherished and honoured rather than feared and shamed,

Of a rage that allowed all things to be cared for,

That encouraged all things to be respected and honoured.

Without being quashed or mocked you feel something within you ignite.

You feel your own full power ignite.

Again she smiles and she tells you,

I see it.

I see the ways in which they have kept you small through vilifying me.

I see the ways in which they have taught you to fear me and in so doing to fear yourself.

I see the ways they have taken so much from you,

From us,

From our world.

It is time now to claim it back.

And so she calls her raven the guardian of this space to move forward and to sit upon your shoulder.

It flies to you,

The bird landing on your shoulder with surprising lightness and it leans down its beak close to your ear and whispers in a sound you barely remember but which resonates so deeply with your soul you cannot help but be ignited by it.

And so the dark goddess talks to you again.

She speaks to you of your own power,

Of your sensuality,

Of your truth,

Of your determination,

Of the power that you have here in this world and the ways in which you can tune into that fire within you for the purposes of good with the intention of changing in a place of true discernment,

True alignment in a place of true honor and respect for this earth and for all that there is.

Allow her to tell you what this means to you now and allow her to show you through pictures or through the words that she uses exactly what she means by this for you and your journey.

You you you The dark goddess now looks to you one more time as you ask her one final question to share with you her name,

To share with you her origins,

Where she comes from and where you can learn more about her.

Allow her to do that now and know that while she may give you her full name,

While she may give you all of this information,

She may also give you simply a clue,

A clue that is yours to journal on,

To investigate and to research.

But ask that question now and allow her to respond to you in the best way that she can.

You With that said,

The time has come for you to part from this goddess.

The time has come from you to leave this space and so you bid her farewell.

Perhaps you embrace her or perhaps it is simply a solemn nod of the head and a thanks for everything she has shared with you.

The raven moves away from your shoulder and moves back to his place on the top of the central standing stone where he will stand again.

There once more should you choose to return to this space,

Always guarding it,

Always protecting it and always keeping it safe and sacred for any travellers such as yourself who wish to journey here.

But for now you say goodbye and move out of the circle,

Moving back along the bouncy soft path and moving back into those thick white mists.

As you move into the mists you feel yourself lifted from the ground,

No longer simply walking but flying through time and space,

Flying back through that connection that takes you all the way back into your body,

Into the here and now and into your physical space.

As you settle your energy back into your body you may wish to have a good wriggle around,

To have a good shuffle,

To bring yourself back,

To take a few deep breaths,

To stretch,

To allow yourself to come wholly and completely and fully back into the moment,

Back into the here and now,

Back into this time and when you are ready simply open your eyes and grab your pen and journal on anything that you experience.

Reviews

Thanks for this. My dark Goddess name was Hecate but also Nyx. I heard both words. Not to educated on Nyx but will definitely go look. I wish the part was a bit longer where you hear from the Goddess and what she says or shows to you, but this is still a great meditation.