Goddess Companion: Daily Meditations on the Goddess [Paperback]

Patricia Monaghan (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 8, 1999

Now you can turn every day into a day dedicated to the goddess and your own personal spiritual evolution, when you get The Goddess Companion by Patricia Monaghan.

Turn to The Goddess Companion each day for a clearer insight into how the divine flows through your life. This spirit-nourishing collection of 366 authentic goddess prayers, invocations, chants, and songs was culled from dozens of diverse eras and cultures. Each ancient prayer rings out in clear language that maintains the sacred spirit of the originals.

·A different traditional prayer, invocation, or chant to the goddess for each day of the year
·Each is illuminated by readings about the ancient quote that offer rich material for reflection, inspiration, and bliss
·Multiple indices allow you to find information by goddess name, subject, or cultural origin
·Explore the goddess as envisioned by 68 different cultures throughout the ages—including the Americas, classical Greece and Rome, Asia, ancient Sumeria and Babylonia, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa
·Find prayers that encompass nearly 130 aspects of the goddess, from Aida Weydo and Amaterasu to White Buffalo Calf Woman and Zemyna
·Use the perpetual calendar to meditate upon one goddess prayer each day

The Goddess Companion does far more than simply give you meditations and prayers. The readings associated with each will give you incredible insights into a wide variety of cultures and, just as importantly, into your very nature. Written by one of the leaders of the contemporary goddess movement, The Goddess Companion will help you on your spiritual path to self-understanding.

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

Prayers, poems, and songs to the Goddess from around the world and across the ages have been collected and adapted for the modern devotee in The Goddess Companion: Daily Meditations on the Feminine Spirit. Author Patricia Monaghan offers a disparate meditation for each day of the year, including February 29--April 5 is a Lithuanian folksong; August 6 a quotation from Proverbs; October 17 a Korean shaman's chant. After each prayer there is a two-paragraph "thought for the day" in which Monaghan offers the reader philosophical observations or helpful advice designed to assist living and growing in the spirit of the feminine. The very pretty purple and gold-embossed cover makes it an excellent nightstand adornment, and the gentle meditations are a stress-reducing way to begin or end your day by honoring Her and Her spirit in yourself. --P. Randall Cohan

From the Publisher

I'm sure you remember the story of the three blind men and the elephant. They each touch a part of the elephant and think that their description is complete. However, the only way to truly know what the elephant looks like is to take all of their descriptions together.

Similarly, to know the goddess, it helps to see a wide variety of her many different faces. The Goddess Companion by Patricia Monaghan will help you explore a different facet of her glorious diversity every day. Each daily prayer, from ancient and traditional sources, and the accompanying reading, will allow you to meditate upon the divine lessons within our most powerful human experiences: creation, celebration, birth, beauty, abundance, loss, love, worship, and all the cycles of the seasons and our lives.

The Goddess Companion fosters the connection between self and spirit, clearing a sacred space in your thoughts for new insights to take root and grow. When you take time each day to read these lyrical ancient prayers, you will recognize daily opportunities for spiritual change—and you will honor and nurture the divine feminine that dwells within. You must get The Goddess Companion

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Product Details

• Paperback: 400 pages
• Publisher: Llewellyn Publications; 1st edition (November 8, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1567184634
• ISBN-13: 978-1567184631
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.6 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #388,552 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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51 of 53 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This beautiful book touches the spaces my life touches., June 5, 2000

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Barbara Flaherty (Alaska, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Goddess Companion: Daily Meditations on the Goddess (Paperback)

Now here is a goddess meditation book with some depth! The daily poems and songs from ancient texts are rich in beauty, pointedly as diverse as the goddess herself. They are a wonderful source for personal and communal ritual. What I love the most is Monaghan's own reflections. It is so rare to have a poet scholar with the emotional depth, wisdom and incisive mind that strips away illusion to find both the succulent fruit and the flesh stripped bone. Life is beautiful and hard. For me, a meditation book needs to touch where my life touches. This one does. I cheat. I prowl around this book, not being obedient to the prescribed day. February 26 is one of my favorites. "I have eaten from her drum./ I have drunk from her cymbal./ I have carried her sacred objects./ I have prayed in her secret chamber." ( Greek initiate prayer). Monaghan writes, " The silence of the centuries tells us as much as a written script might about the mystery of life and death. The goddess reigns over them both. She is both our speech and our silence." Many have written using Monaghan's works as their source. In this book we have the real voice. I recommend The Goddess Companion very highly.

31 of 33 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A True Companion, April 6, 2000

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Jo Wharton (Dallas, TX United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Goddess Companion: Daily Meditations on the Goddess (Paperback)

This fine book stays by my altar and I cherish the time I spend reading it each day. I'm very grateful for the incredible research Patricia Monaghan put into the book and also for her personal wisdom that brings such rich understanding of the meaning of the Divine Feminine in everyday life. To have these powerful meditations with which to begin my day is a great gift. The meditations about Brigid were especially precious to me when I was in Ireland in February. This book is an awesome collection of Goddess lore and wisdom from all around the world that feeds my spiritual needs and brings me great joy.

24 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars goddess companion is my companion, February 11, 2000

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Elizabeth Cunningham (New York State) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Goddess Companion: Daily Meditations on the Goddess (Paperback)

Patricia Monaghan's new book has become a part of my everyday life, just as it is designed to do. With poems for 366 days selected from an extraordinary range of traditions, Monaghan's book provides daily nourishment and inspiration. Her meditations on the poems provide a model for how we may connect more deeply with them. The collection of poems is also a wonderful resource for ritual and liturgy. Though there is a poem for each day of the year, I also enjoy opening the book at random, trusting that just the poem I need in that moment will be there.