October Meditation and Energy Healing Session with the goddess Maia

For October’s Meditation and Energy Healing Session with the Goddess, the card I drew from Kris Waldherr's Goddess Inspiration Oracle Deck  was the goddess Maia.  Join me in the Meditation and Energy Healing Session with the goddess Maia above.

Kris Waldherr calls Maia, the Maker, with the Keywords: Renewal, Spring, Magic and the Message: To bloom, find a way to embrace the magic around you.  In the introduction to her Goddess Inspiration Oracle Guide she says: Affirmations offer a direct way to put the Divine Feminine into action. They allow us to change negative thought patters, thus freeing us to create a new road map for our lives. Affirmations also empower us to be self-sufficient - since we are giving ourselves positive feedback, we are not so reliant on others for praise. All of her Goddess Messages can easily be changed to an Affirmation. Maia’s Affirmation: As I find a way to embrace the magic around me, I bloom!

Kris Waldherr continues:

The name of Maia, the Greek goddess of spring and rebirth means “the maker”.  Every spring this goddess is believed to make the gras and flowers grow again.  She is also praised as the grandmother of magic because her son, the god Hermes, discovered that mysterious art.

Shy Maia was said to live along in a cave on Mount Cyllene in Arcadia.  Though she led a humble life, she did not escape notice: the god Zeus observed Maia’s extraordinary beauty and came to her one night.  From this nocturnal encounter, Maia conceived Hermes.  As soon as he was born, Maia knew her son was a genius.  While still a baby, Hermes created the first lyre by stretching stings across a tortoise shell and the first panpipe from marsh reeds.  Besides being the first magician, Hermes is credited with the invention of medicine, astrology, and letters.

In her Book of Goddesses, Kris Waldherr says:

When we look into the night sky, we recognize the seven stars that make up the Pleiades, which is part of the constellation Taurus.  The ancient Greeks believed that these starts were once the seven daughters of Atlas.  Of these daughters, the goddess Maia was the eldest.

Atlas took part in an unsuccessful revolt led by the giants against the gods of Olympus.  In punishment, he was forced to bear the world’s weight on his shoulders.  Maia and her sisters mourned their father’s humiliation greatly – so much so that the gods turned them into doves to spare them further pain.  The sisters then flew to the highest heaven, where they became the seven stars know as the Pleiades.

In her book Goddess, Sue Jennings, says:

When we celebrate May Day or the spring festival of Beltane, we are also honouring the Greek and Roman goddess Maia.  As goddess of nature and fertility, love and sexuality her rites are celebrated on May 1, when spring brings the blossoms to the trees and the birds to next.

Although Maia is the Roman goddess of the warmth of spring, including sexual heat, she is also thought of as a grandmother and midwife, so she has multiple roles that are associated with fertility.

Amanda Lynn Aisling in her Inner Child Oracle Guidebook says of Card 44 You Know the Way:

In this life there will be many voices telling you the “right” way to go.  They can be confusing and sometimes contradictory, pointing out all of the intersecting paths that you could take.  Just know that this life is yours and yours alone.  No one else can tell you the path that is yours to walk, for only you know the way.  If you have pulled this card, then know that you are going in the right direction.

In addition, this card can also mean that you might need to listen to your inner voice now regarding a future decision.  Take some time to reflect on the voices that you might have been listening to.  Is there one that is drowning out your own?

Does any of this resonate with you and what you are experiencing in your world right now?