The Goddess Path: Myths, Invocations, and Rituals | 
| Author: Patricia Monaghan
Publisher: Llewellyn Publications
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 185830
Media: Paperback
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Pages: 288
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 7.4 x 0.9
ISBN: 1567184677
Dewey Decimal Number: 291.2114
EAN: 9781567184679
ASIN: 1567184677
Publication Date: May 1, 1999
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Condition: This book is clean, no writing or torn pages, with a perfect cover.
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Product Description
Now you can find more meaning and joy in your life, journey inward, find the divine, and become transformed, when you read The Goddess Path by Patricia Monaghan.
The Goddess Path can be your guide to speed you on your spiritual quest. Think of this book as a signpost on your spiritual travels, designed to help you nurture your own connection to the goddess and share in her boundless wisdom. Call her into your life with beautiful and ancient invocations. Create your own rituals to honor the lessons she has to teach. As you ponder life-changing questions and venture on brave new experiments, you fan the divine spark into flame—and, in that fire, you are transformed.
The Goddess Path includes myths, symbols, feast days, ancient invocations, and suggestions for connecting with the following goddesses for these purposes and more:
Amaterasu for clarity
Aphrodite for passion
Artemis for protection
Athena for strength
Brigid for survival
The Cailleach for power
Demeter and Persephone for initiation
Gaia for abundance
Hathor for affection
Hera for dignity
Inanna for inner strength
Isis for restorative love
Kali for freedom
Kuan-Yin for mercy
The Maenads for ecstasy
The Muses for inspiration
Oshun for healing love
Paivatar for release
Pomona for joy
Asule and Saules Meita for family health
Monaghan, a faculty member at DePaul University, is a leader of the contemporary goddess movement. In The Goddess Path, she presents a means to work with the goddess, using ancient and modern techniques that will thrill and amaze you. For new levels of peace, joy, and increased closeness to the Divine, get The Goddess Path.
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 An Okay Guide for Beginner's October 24, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This book is a good intro to goddess spirituality. It has nice ritual idea's, activities, and questions for you to ponder. Good for journaling. After this book, beginner's should move on to studying the mythologies/cultures that interest them most for an even greater understanding of the Goddess and of women. My only dislike is that it didn't include more rituals. I have been on the path a while (8 years in the Craft) so it seemed too simplistic for me but would have been great as I first took those steps upon the path to the Goddess/God. Blessed be.
 What a great Book!!!!!! August 11, 2007
This is a great book on the Mother. I have been a follower of the Great Mother for 7 years now an i love this book.
 How You might walk a Goddess Path April 2, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This was certainly an interesting book. My favorite thing about it is that it included Goddesses from all over the world, not just from a few popular pantheons. (Although some popular ones are certainly represented).
The book includes ideas on invoking different goddess energies for different purposes. The chapter on Isis, I found to be particularly inspiring. (I practically wrote an entire ritual for someone who was mourning a family member while I was reading) The book covers all phases of life and includes a pretty good variety of situation-specific information.
I found it to be a remarkable book for learning about a variety of Goddesses, but it certainly isn't a comprehensive reference book. It was more about bringing the idea of the Goddess into your life and had ideas on how the Goddess Path can be relevan in your life.
Good Intro to the Goddesses August 19, 2006
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
The Goddess Path includes 20 seperate Goddesses or Goddess groups (like the 9 muses or mother and daughter pair Saules and Saules Meita) and each is explained in 2 - 3 pages. I find these far too short but are interesting intros to Goddesses not known to me. But I was hoping for far greater depth. Besides these short 'Myth and Meaning' sections each chapter includes a invocation taken from the apppropriate ancient texts, a description of the Goddesses' primary symbols, an outline of the Goddesses' feast days, 'suggestions for invoking' which describes the magickal needs that the Goddess is good at, and finally a list of questions and activities to get you thinking about the Goddess. The questions and activities are totally cheesy, but the other sections are useful in the same way that the myth and meaning section is - as an intro.
I enjoyed learning about some new Goddesses from this book and I sometimes turn to the table of contents when planning a ritual, to remind myself of the many Goddesses and pick one that fits my magickal purpose (each Goddess is associated with a word in the contents so that reminds me of the associations). Would have prefered alot more depth.
A Really Nice Book April 19, 2006
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
I really enjoyed reading this book and would like to recommend it to others. The author is witty and has a great style of writing and the information was really good too.
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