Goddess Aloud! by Michelle Skye

Author:Michelle Skye
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: rituals, mantras, goddess, goddesses, spirituality, quan yin, meditations, self-love, self-empowerment, pagan, paganism, nature-based spirituality
Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide, LTD.
Published: 2010-01-31T16:00:00+00:00

MANTRA

I forgive myself.

Arianrhod is a goddess who is not easily understood. She is connected to the night sky and the luminous moon. Her light is diffused through multiple layers of time and karma and experience. In Welsh tradition, she oversees the Whirlpool of Creation, knowing all that occurs in the past, present, and future. It is to her castle in the sky, Caer Sidi, that the spirits fly upon their death. Arianrhod is beauteous maiden in the myths of The Mabinogion, serene and wise Moon Mother in the night sky, and tender, all-knowing crone of all wisdom and all time. Complex? You bet.

What does Arianrhod have to do with forgiveness? Arianrhod is a goddess who makes mistakes. She lies, disavows her children, abandons them, and actually curses one of her sons. In short, Arianrhod is not in the running for Mother of the Year. However, she never makes excuses for her behavior. She never even apologizes for it because she is acting in accordance to her own true calling, her sovereign self. Arianrhod is simply not interested in relinquishing her power and her current life for the children. For many of us, this action feels intrinsically wrong. We look at her actions and shudder. We think to ourselves, “What kind of mother would do that?!” In the end, maybe we should be asking ourselves, “What kind of woman wouldn’t?”

An ancestral goddess of the ancient Celts, Arianrhod is the daughter of the mother goddess Don. Her father, like her consort Nwyvre, is little discussed in relation to her mythos. Some sources list her father as Beli, the Celtic god of light and healing,[17] but she is always referred to as her mother’s child, possibly harking back to a time of “mother-rule” in the distant past. Her brother is usually listed as Gwydion, a god of magic and trickery. However, Gwydion has two brothers—Amaethon, god of agriculture; and Govannon, god of smithcraft—who do not appear to be directly related to Arianrhod. This confusing family tree leads to the possibility that Don may have exercised her right to pick her lovers freely in a time when a queen chose and dismissed her consorts as she wished, without the constraint of marriage.

If so, this “queen-right” explains the convoluted and conflicting passages relating to Arianrhod in the Welsh book of mythology The Mabinogion. Arianrhod appears to have followed her mother’s example, as she lives by herself, without a husband, at Caer Sidi or Caer Arianrhod. She takes her mates as she wishes and is even said to have slept with mermen on the beach near her castle.[18] However, when her brother Gwydion calls her to the court of their uncle, Math ap Mathonwy (Don’s brother and a powerful magician), her brother claims that she is a virgin. When Math asks her if she is a maiden, Arianrhod replies, “I know not but that I am.”[19] Math tests her virginity (and the truthfulness of her word) by asking Arianrhod to step over his bent magic wand.

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