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Anatolian Goddess who Rules the Days
Days of Lunar
month ruled
1 -3
Persephone,
a Goddess of
initiations, new beginnings, grains, sowing, and changes, who ventures to the
Underworld once a year
Athena,
one of the
best-loved Greek Goddesses whose temple still stands in the city which bears her
name; she is a Goddess of love (though not a sexual love like Aphrodite's),
protection, the arts, and a warrioress who oddly represents peace; the patron
Goddess of the city of Athens; archetypally linked to initiatory rites
4-6
Artemis,
virgin Goddess of
nature and the hunt, a mutable symbol of the potential of feminine power; sister
of Apollo
10-12
Kore,
an archetypal link
between childhood and womanhood, symbolized by the beginning of the menstrual
cycle and awakening sexuality; also seen as another form of Persephone
Disponia, a
beautiful maiden/mother Goddess who symbolizes the loss of youth; archetypally
linked to menarche and first sexual contact, a patron deity of feminine coming
of age
10-12 Hera, a
creative deity linked to mental prowess, creative inspiration, and
communication; the consort of God King Zeus
13-17
Gaia,
the earth mother,
the supreme creatrix, and divine principle of fertility and abundance
Selene,
a sexual image
of a full moon/mother Goddess, sister of the sun God Helios; archetypally, the
bestower of immortality
18-20
Demeter,
a harvest and
Underworld Goddess and the mother of Persephone. Also the patron Goddess of
seers and mothers of older children
21-22 Hestia, an
archetypal link between motherhood and crone- hood, symbolized by menopause; a
Goddess of the home and of fire
23-25
Medusa,
a crone Goddess,
the embodiment of old wounds and fears which must be released in order for us to
move on to other planes of learning, and an archetypal link between the earth
world of existence and the water world of death; archetypally a link between the
divine and human worlds
26-29 Hecate, a crone
Goddess of wisdom, death, change/rebirth, and the Underworld/Otherworld; a
patron Goddess of magick in many Wiccan traditions
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from, "Moon Magick" by DJ Conway
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