Goddesses for Every Season [Hardcover]

Nancy Blair (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 1995

This collection of 52 goddesses - one for each week of the year - depicts many of the forms in which the female deity has been worshipped around the world since ancient times. The book includes heroines, queens, witches, healers, princesses and crones from Greek, Roman, Chinese, African, Polynesian and American mythology. The book groups these goddesses according to the seasons when their energies are most potent, so that week-by-week, the reader can draw on their nurturing, creative powers. There is information on mythology, historical and geographical associations, and spiritual practices connected with each deity. There is a brief prayer or affirmation to each goddess.

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Review

The fifty-two goddesses in this beautifully produced collection depict many of the forms in which the female deity has been worshipped around the world since ancient times. Here we meet heroines, queens, witches, healers, proud priestesses, courageous daughters, and cranky crones. The goddesses are grouped according to the seasons of the year when their energies are most potent, so that each week we can draw on the nurturing, creative powers of a different goddess. A full-color plate introduces each season and a black-and-white illustration accompanies each goddess. Author Nancy Blair briefly recounts the myths, geographical and historical associations, and spiritual practices connected with each goddess, then provides a meditation to invoke her. Goddesses for Every Season is a delightful metaphysical celebration of female wholeness and holiness. -- Midwest Book Review

Product Details

• Hardcover: 128 pages
• Publisher: Element Books Ltd (December 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1852306866
• ISBN-13: 978-1852306861
• Product Dimensions: 7.2 x 4.8 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #862,544 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Enjoyable, January 13, 2000

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This review is from: Goddesses for Every Season (Hardcover)

I happen to pick this book up in the library and quickly put it on my to buy list. It is fun focusing on one Goddess per week. Nancy Blair teaches me how to incorporate the Goddesses' energy into my own life. She gives meditations to help us connect to the Goddesses. Coincidently the Goddess for this week is Kali - a week when my apartment was broken into. I used the meditation to gather strength afterwards and took measures to change my life so I will no longer feel victimized. I think it is a fun book which is simple to read. It is a great book for the novice.