Showing posts with label goddess. Show all posts
Showing posts with label goddess. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 13, 2023

Grounding Yourself in the Divine Feminine

Last night I did a meditation to develop more of a sense of security within myself. It’s part of a class that I’ve been taking the past few months. The teacher guided us through a visualization where we became aware of our connection with the Divine. 

My intuition kept pointing me towards the Divine Feminine in the form of an ancient egyptian goddess, a mix of Isis & Astarte. My family is originally Lebanese, on my mom’s side, and both were popular in the general region. The one in the picture is Hathor (at the British Museum).

My intuition followed through with a clear message: imagine a matrushka - the Mother Goddess is on the outside, then your Higher Self, then you. Like cosmic Aura layers. These visuals weren’t part of the guided meditation, but they made perfect sense. I loved the metaphor, and funny enough, the past few days I had found myself questioning the concept of a Higher Self. 

This clicked for me and it also resonates from a kabbalistic point of view, in terms of the different parts of the Soul; a little piece of us is connected to that outer most matrushka. There are also parallels in how that feminine energy is described in Kabbalistic books and my favorite Green Tara book. There are obvious variations for each time and culture, but there is a common thread that in the concepts. 

My feeling is that each culture perceives that divine feminine energy through its lens. The easiest way to get a sense of that energy  is in intuitive meditations!

Reiki hugs, 

Regina 


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Regina Chouza is an energy healer, angel medium and the author of A Personal Guide to Self-Healing, Cancer & Love and Chakra Healing & Magick. Blogging at Diary of a Psychic Healer since 2010, her passion is bringing the qualities of love, joy and empowerment to healing pursuitsRead her books to heal yourself. Find her on Instagram.com/reginachouza or on Facebook, as DiaryofaPsychicHealer.




Saturday, March 19, 2022

The Liberating Power of the Female Buddha (Book Review)

Last year I found a book called TARA: the Liberating Power of the Female Buddha, by Dr Rachael Wooten. The author is a depth psychologist and Tara devotee. It had been on my desk for months. Whenever I'd walk by I'd think to myself, I need to sit down and meditate. Green Tara has such a cool vibe but her energy felt distant somehow. I finally started reading it again this week after meeting up with a friend; it turns out she'd been connecting with Tara too 😅


Tara is a powerful female Buddha - known as Wisdom Moon in her early incarnations. Wisdom Moon is said to have taken on the challenge of becoming enlightened. At the time, the common belief was that only men could become enlightened (haha). What it means to be enlightened is a separate topic, but if it includes clarity, compassion and having a bigger picture view of life - there is no reason why men and women couldn't both become enlightened. 

The name Tara translates as Star. The idea is that the goddess Tara connects you with that infinite light that lights up your life. Her energy is very specific. Tara appears as one of 22 colors or manifestations - almost like a prism. Each color vibration has a specific effect on our hearts and minds. This is where Tara's energy flows easily with energy healing or depth psychology. We can connect with the color vibration that resonates with the part of the psyche that we want to heal and integrate. For example; White Tara is calming and soothing, Green Tara embodies compassion, Orange Tara releases spiritual & emotional poverty. Black Tara is fiercely protective. 

Her purpose is to free us from fear and insecurity and ultimately, to free us from the cycle of rebirth known as samsara. Green Tara is best known; she fills us with healing and compassion, similar to Quan Yin in other traditions. The Green Tara mantra invokes all of these protections: Om Tare Tuttare Ture Soha. Then each color vibration is associated with a specific intention, mantra and healing power. 


As a Healer, I've found it helpful to connect with Tara and then to visualize whatever color vibration I need at that time. I have tried connecting with Tara by following the energy healing steps in Chapter 5 of Chakra Healing & Magick; just setting the intention to connect with Tara after attuning to divine light. Funny enough, I included a bright shining star in many of the book's energy healing visualizations. Bringing Tara in consciously was an easy next step. 

There are also traditional (beautiful) ways to connect with all aspects of Tara. Dr Wooten goes through a full Tara practice in the book including mantras and many visualizations. It's amazing how the energy shifts after a few dozen repetitions of the basic Green Tara mantra. What I love is that it's always the same energy that we're connecting with - a bright shining star. It's just the vibration that changes with our spiritual, emotional and psychological needs. 

Reiki hugs, 

Regina 


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Regina Chouza is an energy healer, angel medium and the author of A Personal Guide to Self-Healing, Cancer & Love and Chakra Healing & Magick. Blogging at Diary of a Psychic Healer since 2010, her passion is bringing the qualities of love, joy and empowerment to healing pursuitsRead her books to heal yourself. Find her on Instagram.com/reginachouza or on Facebook, as DiaryofaPsychicHealer.




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Saturday, March 23, 2013

Finding Unity in the Tree of Life


A couple weeks ago I started reading a Llewellyn book about Kabbalah and the Tree of Life, called Magical Qabalah for Beginners. It is written by a pagan author who calls himself a magician. I wasn't sure what to expect but the book is good - though I would caution against some of techniques in the second half. A spiritual safety check is definitely needed.  

What I appreciated is how the author refers to the Tree of Life as a roadmap that can connect us with a Higher Power through meditation. He also refers to Kabbalah as a meta-knowledge that can bring unity to a wide variety of spiritual belief systems. So true! 



What is the Tree of Life?  

It is a glyph that tells story of creation from a Kabbalistic perspective, which I find to be fascinating. If I understand correctly, the Big Bang is said to the moment when it all started. Before the universe was created all we had was nothingness and light. To the Kabbalist, that emptiness is the source of everything, including the universe, the solar system and also other dimensions where our ancestors, loved ones, angels, guides and (in the Hermetic tradition) even pagan gods and goddesses exist. 

When the Big Bang happened, that nothingness and light exploded into an abstract sphere of light (Keter = 1st sphere) that reproduced until we were left with 10 spheres of light. The 1st sphere is that highest point of solid light that could be mistaken for the Creator though it also has its origin in nothingness. It might be the 1st form of God that we can see, sense or feel. The 10th sphere represents the physical universe. In between we have 8 spheres that are dimensions of the spiritual world. 

Each of the 10 Spheres has a Quality

The 10 spheres are  also meant to be aspects of that Higher Power some people call God. Is God wise, all knowing, compassionate or judgmental? It all depends on the sphere that we are individually aware of. These spheres represent the Crown of God, Wisdom of God, Understanding of God, Compassion of God, Judgement of God, Beauty of God (which is said to be reflected in Nature), Splendor of God, the Victory of God, the Foundation of God and the Physical Manifestation of God, which is the Universe. This includes the Earth and Mother Nature which is also the Divine Feminine. 

The book's author is pagan and Kabbalah is often associated with a monotheistic religion (Judaism); so this tome goes one step further and links each of the spheres to pagan gods with similar attributes. He even jokes that some Wiccan beliefs are almost monotheistic because they see individual gods and goddesses who unite to become a Super God. 

The nine lower spheres of light are full-fledged copies of the original (the Crown). If you zoom in you might see one sphere and its attributes reflected in a particular pagan god, if you zoom out you'll see the whole and one Super God. For example, the Ancient Egyptian goddess Isis (proncounced Aset) can be found in the 9th sphere which is the foundation for the physical earth*. That is probably why she is associated with healing and magic, if you move a lever on that sphere it will eventually be reflected down here. It's like we are all see pieces of the same puzzle and that accounts for our differences. 


Even atheists, who often look to Science as their belief system or worldview, are looking at just one of the spheres (5th). It is as if that Super God has ten fingers and each of those fingers can choose to pull strings in our physical world. Most of us see one or two of those fingers and our mind equates it to God, to Science or to the gods and goddesses of the pagan traditions. The Tree of Life can help us bring a sense of unity to the different spiritual traditions that are out there.  

One last point! 

Each of the spheres can also be linked to an Archangel. The physical world has Archangel Sandalphon, the angel of  nature, music and prayers. In The Angel Tarot Deck, author Doreen Virtue links Sandy with Peace. Its hard to deny that religion has created lots of havoc on the earth. Maybe this can help us realise that we are all correct to some degree, but none of us have a complete picture. One of my next posts will be on Righteousness and how it has to be balanced by Love & Compassion to stay peaceful. Love to hear your thoughts on this, 

Reiki hugs! 

Regina


Ps... Each sphere on the Tree represents an archetype. A particular goddess might be found on different spheres depending on the quality  that we are connecting with at that time (Bina for great mother, or Yesod for the Moon and its influence on healing and emotions). 





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Regina Chouza is an energy healer, angel medium and the author of A Personal Guide to Self-Healing, Cancer & Love and Chakra Healing & Magick. Blogging at Diary of a Psychic Healer since 2010, her passion is bringing the qualities of love, joy and empowerment to healing pursuits. Read her books to unlock your intuition. 


* The text in italics was added in July 2021 after more study into the Tree of Life. 

Image: canva.com (Updated July 2021) 

Tree of Life Image from meditator.org