Goddess Temple e-course
Session II – The Alchemical Goddesses - July 8 – August 4, 2012
You do not need to have taken Session I on the Triple Goddess to take Session II.
In the ancient temples devoted to the goddesses, the priestesses were mortal women who were initiated to learn the mysteries, keep the fire burning, and serve the goddess. They helped the people understand themselves through understanding and honoring the goddesses. They accepted offerings and gifts on behalf of the goddess and bestowed wisdom from the goddess to those who sought answers.
In this sacred temple, we will all be acting as priestesses, stoking the flames, creating the altar, and performing rituals of self-discovery and self-care to honor the goddess within each of us.
Welcome to the Goddess Temple, an online workshop where you will meet and work with the goddesses from my 70-page Soulwork book, In the Lap of the Goddess: Connecting With the Divine Feminine.
In this 4-week offering, we will get to know the Alchemical Goddesses: Kali, the Destroyer, Yemaya, the Creator, and Aphrodite the Lover, because of their ability to affect change within us, to transmute the base elements of our darkest fears and doubts into the gold of our highest potential through the crucible of love and trust.
In this course we will be getting to know these goddesses from three different cultures, Kali from the Hindu tradition, Yemaya from West Africa, and Aphrodite, from the Greek pantheon, whose roots go back to the Great Mother. Each goddess has rich stories surrounding her and important lessons to teach us. As priestesses, we will be initiated into the mysteries of these powerful feminine deities and we will work with them to discover how these archetypal guides can help us be more authentic and true to ourselves.
We will use the workbook pages to guide us through the week, which involves journaling, writing exercises, creating art, altars and ritual, and sharing our thoughts, feelings and stories along the way in the Goddess Temple, created as a private Facebook group. Together we will explore the magic and mysteries of these goddesses as we see them reflected in ourselves.
Week 1 – Introduction & Settling In
The first week we will be entering the Goddess Temple and getting to know each other, getting our feet wet, and orienting ourselves to the sacred space we are creating together before we start our work with Kali.
Week 2 – Kali, the Destroyer
In the second week, we begin our work with Kali, also known as Kali Ma, the compassionate mother of time and change, who uses her gifts of transformation to help us let go of old beliefs and behaviors that no longer serve us. She can be terrifying to behold, with her tongue protruding, blue skin, necklace of skulls, dagger in one hand, and lopped-off head in another. But when we get to know her and lay our fears before her, she shows us the way to liberation. In the same way that terrifying images in our dreams can be altered through understanding, we see Kali in a different light and appreciate her gifts. We will go on a journey to meet Kali and release our doubts and fears into a ceremonial fire. This lays the foundation for our work with Yemaya and Aphrodite.
Week 3 – Yemaya, the Creator
The third week will be spent with Yemaya, also known as Mama Watta, Stella Maris, a mermaid goddess from West Africa who grants wishes and helps us birth our creative dreams through magical mid-wifery. Having purged our fears and removed obstacles with Kali, we now join with the watery mother goddess who helps us to create flow and ease. She shows us playful ways to discover and realize our passions and reach our full potential. We will start by casting wishes and sending them to Yemaya, and then committing to a project we wish to bring forth. We will go on an imaginative underwater journey to meet Yemaya and a sea creature we can work with as a totem animal. We will have fun making mermaid art this week.
Week 4 – Aphrodite, the Lover
In the fourth and final week, having done the preliminary work of releasing with Kali, the Greek goddess of love and beauty, Aphrodite, awaits us. She gives us gentle lessons of self-love and self-care. With her archetypal energy activated, we will explore our own sacred sensuality and sexuality, rediscovering and reclaiming our own unique beauty and what brings us joy. During this week of love and devotion, we will write poems and songs to honor ourselves, as well as create a vision board for how we see ourselves going forward. We will journey to the Great Mother Goddess of the sea foam and experience the love that each of us desires and deserves in the lap of the goddess.
Extras
Each week we will be creating an altar at home as we work with the energies of the goddess of that week. Every person enrolled in the class will receive by mail a 5×8 mat board and goddess images and encouraged to create art using SoulCollage® or any other media you wish to use. You will also receive a secret message from one of the goddesses just for you.
There will be a video as well as an audio guided journey for each goddess that we meet.
We will be able to share our altars and goddess images and art with one another in our private Goddess Temple Facebook group.
This 4-week e-course includes the 36-page e-book, taken from the workbook, In the Lap of the Goddess, which will be available for download when you register. (If you’ve already purchased the workbook, you receive a $12 discount on this session.)
The Goddess Temple e-courses are facilitated by Stephanie Anderson Ladd, a writer, artist, mother, teacher, therapist, goddess devotee, and wild woman. These courses are designed as workshops, providing a safe container within a sacred circle of women for your thoughts, feelings and self-exploration. You’re in good hands.
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“I really cannot express how much I loved this course — it’s the best one I have ever taken. Having heard about Goddesses I did not really know how or why to incorporate them into my daily life — this course showed me the way. Stephanie is a gift and a beacon of light to women seeking wisdom and a way to fill the void they may be feeling in their soul. I can’t recommend this course enough — so much deeper then I had expected. I feel blessed to have shared in this first Goddess circle with such an amazing group of women.” ~Michele
“One element that made this course unique was the workbook. It’s thoughtfully written and beautifully designed, and I know that I’ll be working with it long after the e-course has ended.” – Jessica
“I found [Stephanie's] generous and gentle presence an embodiment of the Goddess. The way that we gather together as a circle of women and share our paths to [the Divine Feminine], taking time to work with our hands to make her visible in our day… all of this brought the story of the Triple Goddess to life in a very beautiful way.” – Jane
“There is a real lack of this kind of knowledge and learning in our culture, and like so many of us, I am thirsting for it – - now more than ever in my life. As I go through some major life changes, the Goddess work has become my Source, and the guide to my journey home. This course peeled back the layers, allowing me to go deep, while keeping me safe and lighting the way.” – Kristen
“Diving deeply into the realm of the sacred is healing in a place beyond words. Learning to invite and accept the magic that is interwoven through our days makes life resonate with joyful energy and gratitude.” – Jen
