Thanks to Donald Jeffries for this photo montage and his article on the subject. I would provide a link to his article if I could figure out how to navigate Substack. You can learn more about that issue if you read my article titled “I hate Substack”!
The God-Ess Is Very Large
Venus/Hod/Inanna/Ishtar/Black Hole/Dark Matter
This link goes to a page with all the details of European Black Madonnas
https://libguides.wwu.edu/blackmadonnas#:~:text=The%20Black%20Madonnas%20could%20similarly,fertility%20because%20soil%20is%20black.
Here’s an excerpt from one of my Books on Yin/Ess energy from several reference points, including Kabbalah, Myth, Sumer, Chakras, and prolly some I forgot to remember.
Hod/Venus/Dark Feminine
This is the Sefirah called Splendor and Reverberation. She draws down the energy from the Sefirah above her called Gevurah. Where Gevurah was limiting, she is beckoning. Hod dances the great cycle of earth. She is called the god voice (Taurus rules the throat). She is the lowest octave on the feminine pillar.
This placement makes her the most accessible to human awareness. If we let her, she will draw us into the glory of natural creation. She embodies the true essence of nature. The following paragraph is a poem by Allen Afterman in which I have highlighted the key words that you can use to gather context for this entity.
“I channel and manifest the energy Gevurah by drawing human action towards the center of the sacred. Mine is the God-voice that calls the Shaman and Cohein to serve. My DANCE is the dance of the great CYCLE of the EARTH that calls us to celebration. My energy is FEMININE and RECEPTIVE. I strip away the masks so we can enter directly into communion with God. I WEAVE ritual from the deep awareness of structure, GATHERING people towards the center. I am the fifth day of creation: CREATURES of air and sea. In the body I am the LEFT PELVIS & LEG.”
-Allen Afterman: Kabbalah and Consciousness
Magnetic Attraction / The Maiden Archetype
Diamonds are a girl’s best friend
"The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I'm thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho. You cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long Page of 1 11 as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad."
- Erica Jong
The left pillar contains all the octaves of materialism. All of the left is magnetic, all of left contains levels of female archetypes and all of it is about the value of having certain resources. Hod receives jewelry and creature comforts. In anticipation of her fertility, she is pre-rewarded. Once she gives birth she drops to the bottom level on the middle pillar where she becomes a Madonna with her child.
Hod is a princess while Mother Earth — Shekinah — is Queen.
Venus is the feminine principle of magnetic attraction. The magnet creates all those fascinating patterns on the sheet of paper where the iron filings have been deposited. The energy of the magnet forms iron into patterns. Her song creates the patterns. Venus/Hod rules singing and dancing. In her role as Empress, she is Goddess of Earth’s bounty. Her ceremonies are lively and fun. She is concerned with others. Although she appears to sit alone in her garden, but the environment responds to her; interacts with the her. The environment is part of her; an extension of her. She receives mundane, gifts from the earth. Where she walks, the plants grow.
Venus has money and possessions, values, hidden talents, sense of self-worth, self-esteem. She is Beauty and she knows it. Her possessions include moveable property, investments and securities.
She earns through her own means. ‘I Have’ is her motto. She gets what she is. She is the Empress card in the Tarot, seated in her garden of delights; she is the garden; fecund and fruitful with abundance all around her. She is the sub-conscious that makes your desire into reality. The Empress embodies your most powerful self-image. She dances it, sings it and makes it beautiful and nourishing. Her aim is the wholeness of experience.
Tarot - The Magician
Her inspiration comes from the Magician (Mercury). When she shows up in a Tarot reading, this means that renewal is inevitable. It should be an enjoyable time where the pleasure of your ability is the main focus. In other words, process is more important than the product. The actual doing contains the joy. Don’t be too attached to the outcome. This is a time for true joy of expression. She embodies the power of attraction that is best described by the Sirens of the sea, whose song was so lovely that sailors had to plug their ears to avoid crashing into the rocks on shore. If the men heard the song, they could not resist. And then what? They might be distracted from the quest? Possibly. She is the weaver of the Logos. She hears the messages sent from logos then creates his suggestions with song. She dances and weaves and sings his ideas into material form.
666
There is a secret Goddess symbol at the Chartres Cathedral in France. It is called the Flower of Aphrodite. The flower with 6 petals is located at the center of a Labyrinth that is precisely 666 feet long. In spite of admonitions against the Goddess she continued to appear throughout history in religious symbolism, possibly by accident, but more likely in the case of Chartres, on purpose and under cover.
666 was the mystic number of Solomon’s golden talents, given to him through association with the Queen of Sheba. (1 Kings 10:14) In Revelation 13:18 it is called the number of the beast and is assumed to be the Antichrist, but it is also called the “number of man.”
Over time this propaganda has led us to believe that the sacred number of the Triple Goddess is the number of sin and that the race of humankind is evil and in need of saving. No wonder patriarchy has been so punitive toward feminine sexuality.
“Women; can’t live with them. Can’t kill them.” Oh really? Well, things have improved a bit since the inquisition, I’ll give you that.
Innana (Sumerian) According to Wolkstein & Kramer 1983 pp. 52-60
"Inanna's Descent to the Nether World" Inanna also visits Kur, which results in a myth reminiscent of the Greek seasonal story of Persephone. She sets out to witness the funeral rites of her sister-in-law Ereshkigal's husband Gugalanna, the Bull of Heaven. She takes precautions before setting out, by telling her servant Ninshubur to seek assistance from Enlil, Nanna, or Enki at their shrines, should she not return.
Inanna knocks on the outer gates of Kur and the gatekeeper, Neti, questions her. He consults with queen Ereshkigal and then allows Inanna to pass through the seven gates of the underworld. After each gate, she is required to remove adornments and articles of clothing, until after the seventh gate, she is naked. The Annuna pass judgment against her and Ereshkigal kills her and hangs her on the wall.
7 Chakras and Inanna’s Journey Into The Underworld
Poor Innana! She literally went through hell and back. Let’s look at the symbolism. The seven gates represent the seven chakras of the body. In Sumerian days they only knew of seven planets, so it was a special number. It still is.
The Underworld represents the primordial collective consciousness. It’s a place where logic and reason have no sway. It’s the place of the Birther of the Universe. It’s a Near Death Experience. This shamanic death is required of all who aspire to wisdom. Her sister, Queen Ereskegal kills Innana, which is to say, she changes Innana’s perspective, allowing her to process and make a life altering change. Hah!
She died in this place of Eternal Emptiness, stripped of power (seven chakras). Ninshebar (Mercury) is the clever one that sends tiny emissaries to slide under the doorway and bring life back to Innana. She comes back to life after sixty days, gathering her things, returning at the Spring Equinox.
Sumerians celebrated this story every eight years, when an entire cycle of complicated Mars/Venus interactions returned to the beginning. This story obviously predates the story of Persephone, who was abducted by Hades. Notice that the Sumerian story includes women interacting with each other. Inanna chose her journey to the dark side and even had allies to help her. She knew what could happen and took steps to survive.
The Greco/Roman story involves rape; a man overcoming a woman. Poor virgin Persephone is clueless. How long did it take for the cultural norms to transition from gender parity to a female underclass?
The partnership oriented Sumerians saw the Goddess going through her shamanic initiation as an individual, whereas the patriarchal societies saw her journey facilitated through sexual violation and enslavement. That’s a big difference.
Medusa and Athena Mythic Matricide
The serpent was counsel to the Triple Goddess, where it represented the circle of life, as in birth and death. In the story of Perseus, a male protagonist went to slay the ultimate symbol of femininity; Medusa, supreme Goddess of beauty and wisdom.
We all know the story. What we don’t know is how important she was to the psychology and economy of the people of the day. Medusa means "sovereign female wisdom,” and that was the essential loss required to promote the patriarchal agenda of the time. The death of the most powerful Goddess left room for the invisible one male god to prevail over the earth and its entire people, making the male preeminent. With Athena as his accomplice he managed to cut of the monster’s head, using the reflection in Athena’s shield to see and behead her.
Athena’s Betrayal of the Feminine
Athena was a pivotal figure in the killing of the Great Mother, because originally she was born of the Triple Goddess and the Medusa imagery was her mother, Metis, Goddess of the sea and seat of all Wisdom.
The Roman stories carefully manipulated the power of cultural thought by giving the power of birth to Zeus, a male. Zeus raped and then swallowed Metis, his own mother.
In other words, he gained power over the other gods by digesting his Mother/Wife’s wisdom and power. After having a severe headache one of his henchmen hit him in the head with a double-sided axe (another Goddess symbol thought to represent a butterfly), Athena was born full-grown in shining armor from his head.
This story graphically shows how the male overcame the female archetypes. The Goddess was firmly entrenched in Neolithic society. In order to gain power the dominator culture had to remove her through all means of degradation, libel and infamy.
Snakes, formerly a symbol of life’s renewal, became wicked. The Goddesses were portrayed in dark caves where they entrapped innocents. This powerful propaganda was necessary to convince dedicated peoples that their own beloved Mother was evil and only their fathers and brothers could be trusted. To this day we are taught that women are catty to each other and untrustworthy most of the time, whether by nature or by moodiness. This may be true to some extent, but we have been pitted against one another and have lost our connective abilities, in some cases.
Having been brutalized, a being grows up to repeat that behavior. It happens all the time. Athena proclaimed to be her father’s daughter with no mother. She was shown standing behind Zeus, secondary to him, but in accord with Him. The people of the time needed to see that their beloved Goddess was supportive of this god, or else they would not have gone along with it. At that point it was important to rid her of her feminine, dark side and also to explain why she had all those snakes all over her stuff. That’s right, she had snakes on her shield and on her helmet and probably woven into her cloak.
The answer was simple. Have her go out with some guy and help him kill that part of her, her mother or anima, as Jung would say. With Athena’s help Perseus succeeded in killing the Medusa monster, whose gaze turned people to stone and whose blood was magical.
Women’s cyclic bleeding was replaced with the linear sword. Bleeding by violent death was OK, but monthly bleeding was dirty and shameful. For the people of the day, this was powerful propaganda. They still had the memories of the serpent as the embodied Goddess. They knew that the cycles of nature still existed, but hearing of her cruelty and subsequent death must have made them doubt the foundation of their faith, and in time forced women to give their power to men.
By killing her own matrilineal side, Athena became a proponent of linear, logical male dominator, aggressor culture. You may think, “What difference does it make? Boys in charge, girls in charge. So What?” The difference is dramatic. When god was a woman, men were loved and beloved. When god became an invisible man, women were debased and controlled.
And most importantly, this divine gender switch heralded the beginning of dominance of nature instead of cooperation with it. Women were now subject to men.
Women are tied to the cycles of life by their monthly bleeding. In the present, pharmaceutical companies are selling a pill to keep women from their monthly cycles, allowing one period per year. Talk about a fish out of water. This is not sexual liberation, it is sexual slavery, designed to make the female more available to the male without the risk of pregnancy. If she doesn’t have the excuse of her period how can she say “no?” In this way she is always sexually available. When does she have the natural “time out” to collect her thoughts, desires and power?
Answer: she does not. She is a perpetual sperm repository. We all know that men prefer women to socks. It comes down to biology. Women are tied to the past and future by the connection of birth. When men take ownership of women and children, the cycles are interrupted, because domination is not natural. Five thousand years of dominator interpretations of culture have led us to believe that might makes right. As Americans we learn that we are mighty and right. And so it goes. As long as white men decide reproductive issues, we have not reclaimed the Goddess.
How Yin & Yang Operate In Reality
Women should be in charge of women’s issues. Girls are born with every egg they will ever have inside them. Boys generate new sperm in hours, or minutes. (I’ll have to look that up on the Internets.) That is the Tao of reproduction. The yin is preservation, the yang is blossoming. The yin is in. The yang blows out. Fresh, juicy fruit is yang. It spoils quickly. You eat it now or it’s gone. Canned fruit is yin; preserved to be enjoyed through the dark months of winter. You save seed (yin) in a dark cool place to be planted in spring when the yang, fleeting sun warms it and brings it to life. If we let the sun shine on the seed all winter, the seed would sprout out of season and die before it’s time. That time of darkness, the yin time is required to complete the cycle.
Third Chakra/Confirmation
The third chakra includes Venus (Hod) and Mercury (Netzak). The traditional thought was that Venus and Mars were partners, but I want to bust that myth.
The third chakra is about self-awareness. In the third chakra, thoughts inform matter to manifest self-awareness. Venus and Mercury work together.
“God Gets Laid” -j Starsinger
You know when they say, “Thoughts are things?” That’s the third chakra. They coexist in this area of personal power or ego. I know we throw that word around, but in this context it really works. In Sanskrit it is “Manipura,” meaning “lustrous gem.” How can you be a lustrous gem if you think you are less than? It’s a bit hard to understand how our thoughts would be in our navels, but the gut is the seat of our intellect.
The element for this chakra is fire, so if there is too much heat in this part of the body, some sort of “itis” can develop. Bikram yoga stimulates the third chakra, so be careful to notice if you are angry or too status conscious because then you would need a different kind of yoga, like passive backbends. Venus’ color is orange, or gold and Mercury’s is yellow. I have learned that the emotion is anger and that cognitive thinking brings insight that reduces anger.
Your vitality or negativity depends heavily on the state of Venus/Mercury in your astrology chart. As it is represented here, in this chakra, a weak Venus/Mercury will show up as sinking feelings of rejection and loss of face. If the person can follow her gut reactions and take intellectual control of the situation, she can make her way out of negative states.
Sacrament:Confirmation “Honor Oneself.”
“For chakra three focus on the energy of the sefirot of Nezah/(Mercury) and Hod/ (Venus), integrity and endurance. Evaluate your own code of behavior and whether Page of 10 11 you have compromised your honor in any way. If so, meditate on the significance of honor, and ask for assistance in maintaining your personal standards. Then bring into your mind the energy of the sacrament of Confirmation, a commitment to yourself to honor your own dignity.”
(Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing by Caroline Myss)
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