Goddess Remembrance Guides

An Invitation into a Deeper Dance with the Goddess

There is a difference between knowing about a Goddess and spending time getting to know Her.

We can learn Her mythology, recognize Her symbols, understand the culture where Her stories originated, and read what others have written about Her. All of these can give us ways of approaching Her.

But a relationship asks something different. It asks us to spend time together.

The Goddess Remembrance Guides grew from my own relationships with individual Goddesses and my desire to create ways for other women to spend time with Them, too.

Each Guide invites you into a sustained devotional journey with a particular Goddess and one of the sacred truths She embodies. Through teachings, reflection, journaling, meditation, ritual, embodiment, and other devotional practices, you have opportunities to encounter Her from different directions while exploring what Her presence may illuminate within your life.

Before you begin, you don’t need to know what you’re looking for.

You may come because you’ve always felt drawn to a particular Goddess. You may be curious about the theme of Her Guide. Perhaps you already have a relationship with Her and wonder what you might discover by spending time with Her in a different way.

Curiosity is enough.

The Many Faces of the Goddess

I believe the many Goddesses humanity has known are individual expressions of the Feminine Divine—She of many names and no name, the Feminine Avatar of Source.

Each Goddess has Her own presence, stories, qualities, and ways of revealing the Divine.

This is one reason I work with many Goddesses rather than approaching Them as interchangeable names for the same Divine being.

Lakshmi feels completely different from Isis or Freya. And anyone who has worked with Hecate knows she has Her own personality. Accordingly, my relationship and dance differ with each Goddess.

Through those relationships, I’ve also discovered that different Goddesses can illuminate different dimensions of our Sacred Selfhood.

One Goddess may invite us to look more deeply at how we receive. Another may bring us into reclaiming pieces of ourselves we’ve rejected or left behind. Another may illuminate the value we place on our gifts and desires.

These aren’t separate pieces of ourselves to fix one at a time.

Sacred Selfhood is already whole—the wholeness of who we are beneath conditioning, inherited expectations, and the stories we’ve absorbed about who we’re supposed to be.

But we don’t always see ourselves clearly. Sometimes another light reveals something we couldn’t see from where we were standing.

For me, this is part of the Dance with the Goddess.

We encounter Her through Her many faces, and through those relationships, different dimensions of ourselves become visible.

The Theme Is a Doorway

Each Goddess Remembrance Guide begins with a theme.

• Sacred Abundance.
• Sacred Love.
• Sacred Worth.

These are familiar words. We probably already have ideas about what they mean, shaped by our experiences, beliefs, culture, relationships, and the lives we’ve lived.

They give us somewhere to begin. But I’ve discovered while creating these Guides that the theme is only the first doorway.

Abundance can lead somewhere deeper than simply having or receiving more. In my work with Lakshmi, it opens into questions of receiving, giving, support, and Sacred Reciprocity.

Love can take us beyond familiar conversations about self-love. With Isis, it can become a journey of remembering and reclaiming pieces of ourselves we’ve lost or rejected. She can help us find compassion and love for ourselves, even through the choices and mistakes we’ve made.

Worth can become more than knowing or declaring that we are worthy. With Freya, it can invite us to consider whether we actually value ourselves—our gifts, desires, inner knowing, and what matters to us.

The theme doesn’t contain everything a Goddess has to offer. Nor does it determine what you will experience with Her.

It simply gives you a doorway through which you can meet.

Why I Call Them Remembrance Guides

For a long time, I thought about much of this work in terms of transformation.

And certainly, our relationships with the Goddess and with ourselves can change us. But as my own work has deepened, I now understand that transformation isn’t quite what I’m doing.

The heart of my work is remembrance.

I don’t believe the Goddess needs to give us worth, love, abundance, creativity, wisdom, or the other qualities we seek. Nor do I believe spiritual practice is about constructing a better, more evolved version of ourselves.

So much of what we seek is already part of us.

What happens is that life, conditioning, inherited expectations, cultural messages, painful experiences, and the roles we’ve learned to inhabit can obscure what we know. We may stop trusting our desires or forget how to receive. We may reject pieces of ourselves that seem unacceptable or learn to measure our value through someone else’s standards.

The Goddess can hold a different light for us.

Through a relationship with Her, we may begin seeing something that has been there all along.

The Guides weave this understanding throughout them. Freya’s Sacred Worth, for example, approaches worth as something to recognize rather than achieve, and describes the work as unfolding through relationship, reflection, and practice.

The Goddess doesn’t create our Sacred Selfhood.

She can help us remember it.

A Guide, Not a Prescription or Course

Although I created the structure of each Guide, I don’t know what your relationship with a Goddess will be—and I can’t.

I can introduce you to Her as I know Her, and I can share what I’ve learned through mythology, research, reflection, and my own experiences with Her. I can offer questions and practices that create different opportunities for you to encounter Her.

Then I need to leave room for the relationship to become yours.

That’s why the Goddess Remembrance Guides aren’t courses with lessons you need to master or programs you need to complete. There isn’t a test at the end or a required schedule.

And, especially, there isn’t a “correct” way to connect with a Goddess. The Guides make room for you to move through the practices in your own personal rhythm.

You may spend several days with one part of a Guide and move quickly through another. A meditation may become something you return to again and again. A journal question may follow you around for a week. Something that seems unimportant the first time through may mean something completely different when you return months or years later.

Relationships aren’t completed.

They are lived.

You Don’t Need to Find the Right Goddess

There is another reason these Guides don’t have a prescribed order.

I don’t believe there is a Goddess you’re supposed to work with because of where you are in your life.

You don’t need

• Lakshmi because you have an abundance problem.
• Isis because you haven’t learned to love yourself enough.
• Freya because you need someone to teach you that you’re worthy.
• Any Goddess because you believe something about you needs fixing.

The Goddess Remembrance Guides aren’t Goddess matchmaking.

You don’t need a quiz to tell you which Goddess you need.

You may be drawn to Lakshmi because you’re curious about abundance. Even if you already feel deeply abundant, you may still want to explore Sacred Reciprocity with Her.

Isis may attract you because you’re interested in Sacred Love, because you’ve loved Isis for years, or simply because something about Her catches your attention.

You may enter Freya’s Guide already knowing your worth and discover that She has you thinking about what it means to value your gifts or honor your desires.

You don’t have to justify the attraction.

And you don’t have to know where the relationship will take you before you enter it.

Each Dance Can Deepen Another

The Goddess Remembrance Guides stand alone. You never need to experience one Guide before another, and there isn’t an expectation that you’ll eventually work with all the Guides.

But something interesting has happened as I’ve created them.

I’ve begun seeing how the Goddesses and their teachings speak to one another.

Lakshmi may illuminate something about receiving that changes how we understand worth. Through Freya, we may discover how valuing ourselves and our desires may change what we’re capable of receiving. And Isis may show us how loving and reclaiming the pieces of ourselves we’ve rejected affects both.

The boundaries between abundance, love, worth, receiving, desire, reciprocity, and Sacred Selfhood aren’t as tidy as the titles of the Guides might suggest.

Neither are we.

One Goddess may illuminate something that allows us to see what another Goddess has already shown us from an entirely different angle. We may even return to a Goddess we’ve spent time with before and discover that our relationship feels different because of everything we’ve experienced since.

No final Guide completes the journey.

The dance with the Goddess never ends.

There is simply another encounter, another reflection, another possibility for seeing what was there all along.

Explore the Goddess Remembrance Guides

Each Goddess offers a different encounter and a different doorway into Sacred Selfhood.

You may find yourself curious about a particular Goddess, drawn to the sacred theme She embodies within a Guide, or simply wondering what spending time with Her might reveal. You don’t need to decide which Guide you need or where you should begin.

Take your time. Wander among the Goddesses and notice where your curiosity takes you.

Lakshmi’s Sacred Abundance Guide

Exploring the Sacred Flow of Giving and Receiving

Lakshmi is the Hindu Goddess of abundance, prosperity, beauty, and generosity. But through my relationship with Her, I’ve discovered that abundance is about far more than simply having or receiving more.

Lakshmi’s Sacred Abundance explores our relationship with giving and receiving, including the ways we may give generously while finding it much harder for us to receive support, help, appreciation, money, or care.

At the heart of this Guide is what I call Sacred Reciprocity—the understanding that giving and receiving are both part of the sacred flow of abundance. Receiving doesn’t diminish our generosity. It allows abundance to continue circulating through our lives and relationships.

You may enter this Guide wanting to explore abundance and discover that Lakshmi opens the doorway to something much deeper.