Goddess of the Month ~ Athena

Athena – Goddess of Wisdom

January is a month in which many of us reassess where we have been, who we have become, and  what we’d like to create next.  Athena, in her great wisdom and mastery of will, can help us get from where we are in our lives to where we’d like to be.
Athena is one of the three virgin goddesses. The significance of the virgin goddesses is that they remain untouched by the spells of the goddesses of love and consequently marriage and motherhood. Athena is indeed independent, and essentially a prototype for the modern career woman. Whatever you consider your life’s work to be, be it in the home or outside of it, call upon Athena to assist you in reaching your goals.

Inviting Athena into the Modern Goddess’ world

Some of the things you can do to invite Athena into your life include:
1) Be confident in knowing you can have whatever your heart desires. Athena knew not to question the possibilities of her desires, but simply and confidently to move in the direction of them. Doubt is a trick of the ego…stay in the confident place of spirit.
2) Listen to the Divine Wisdom from within. Intuition has long been considered a feminine attribute, but in today’s world we often rely more heavily on the advice of our friends, professionals, or even talk show hosts whom we’ve never met to lead us through the questions we may have. The answers we seek are within us. Listen first to the divine guidance you receive in whispers, or coincidences, or through a sudden awareness, and trust them. There are many ways one can cultivate intuition and tap into our inner wisdom. Meditation and hypnosis are wonderful ways to quiet the mind; through meditation you may receive messages from your higher self, and through hypnosis you may uncover lifetimes of wisdom stored in your subconscious.
3) Visualize what you would like and know that it is real. Visualization is a wonderful tool for creating the life you desire, reaching goals, or changing the way you think about something. Whether you wish to double your sales or cut your dress size in half, visualization coupled with the understanding that through it, the emotion of having what you desire in the visual, and moving toward it as if it already is (because it is) will begin the transformation from what was to what it is you truly are.

Affirmation: (Audio above) I listen to the Divine Wisdom that whispers my truth: I am strong, I am capable, I am wise, I am in this moment all that I desire to be. Yea, yea, it shall be so.
Meditation: (Audio above) Meditation/Visualization to assist in reaching goals.
Prepare a comfortable, restful space where you will be undisturbed so that you may fully participate in the visualization. Bring your body to a comfortable position. If you need to shift during the visualization to become more comfortable it will only serve to bring you further into relaxation, deeper into the meditation.
Focus your attention now one major area of concern; one thing that you would like to achieve or transform in your life. Perhaps it is losing a few pounds to reshape your body or improve your health. Perhaps it is a business or career goal, or a life change that requires great courage. Stick with one thought; you can always repeat the visualization at another time with a different concern.
Close your eyes. Breathe deeply and slowly, inhaling peace and releasing stress, fear, or doubt you may have collected surrounding the topic you are transforming.  Continue to breathe, drawing in safety and confidence, releasing doubt and fear. Imagine at the top of your head a bubble of brilliant light, in any color that pleases you. Within this bubble of light resides all the wisdom you have gathered over lifetimes of experiences and study. From the bubble are two silver cords, one at the top connecting to Source, and one at the base connecting to your third eye, located on your brow; it is the point of knowing. The light flows steadily from the Divine Source into the bubble or store of wisdom. Anytime you want an answer or guidance simply allow it to flow through the cord into you. It is always there waiting for you to access it.
Visualize yourself in a very long pure white corridor and bring to your attention the situation you wish to transform, through seeing, sensing or feeling. Briefly examine the situation exactly as it is now, without judgment or concern but simply as an observer. Now, look across the long corridor, and see a tiny image of that which you desire, the transformed version of yourself and the situation, concern or goal. See it as if it is far away, because sometimes it feels that way in your current mindset. What do you see? Imagine from this distance every detail of the tiny transformed image that you can make out. What do you look like? How do you feel? What is happening around you? How have your surroundings changed? Who, if anyone, is with you?
At anytime, access the store of wisdom to guide you as you now begin to move from the old situation toward the new one. As you draw nearer to what it is you desire, listen for this wisdom and guidance. If at any time you experience doubt or fear, thank it and tell it to go away because you don’t need it anymore. You are being served by a higher master now, by Spirit, Truth and Love-light.
Continue to move toward it, easily and effortlessly, leaving the old situation behind you, getting smaller and smaller as you glide away from it. See, feel, sense, experience more and more clearly the new, transformed situation. It is getting larger, closer. Feel the excitement of the transformation as you draw closer to it. Feel the empowered person that you have become in this better, desired situation. Sense her emotion, her strength, her joy. Feel the ease and grace in her being; it comes from knowing, blessing and releasing where she has been and embracing and fully realizing her power to create and be exactly what she wants, as she is now. Continue to bring her closer, closer, the old undesirable situation just a dot in the distance behind you…no need to look back because you have moved beyond what was into what is. She, you, stands before you now. Look deeply into her eyes, into her soul. Thank her for her strength to lead you, to show you the way. Reach out your hand to take hers. Feel the endless flow of energy and love between you…as you become one, the empowered one.
Awaken now, feeling that empowerment, knowing that you are wise, capable, courageous, dynamic, Divine. You can access the stores of wisdom and guidance that are within you always at any time. You will be not what you think you can be at the level of mind, but what you know you are at the level of spirit…where all things are possible.