Goddess Initiation: A Practical Celtic Program for Soul-Healing, Self-Fulfillment & Wild Wisdom

by Francesca De Grandis

Overview

Everyone possesses the spiritual, psychic, and worldly potential of a Goddess or God. In this breakthrough book, Francesca De Grandis brings years of experience as a shamanic counselor and traditional spiritual healer to reveal how you can cultivate and celebrate the secret, magical side of your nature. This month-to-month program of many practical exercises, rituals, and prayers will help you:

• Discover your innate wisdom

• Heal inner blocks to happiness and meaningful action in your life

• Achieve your goals and feel energized, strong, and capable

• Unleash creativity and passion for living

• Celebrate a vibrant and healthy sexuality

Based on traditional Celtic culture and the author's own successful and unique Third Road teaching, this enriching journey deep into the heart of shamanism and Goddess Spirituality will appeal to all seekers, not just Wiccans. A lyrical sourcebook of rituals, spells, mysticism, and mirth, Goddess Initiation is designed for everyone who wants to integrate commonsense Spirituatity — and a bit of Faerie dust! — into their everyday lives.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780062517159
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	10/02/2001
Edition description:	1 ED
Pages:	352
Sales rank:	930,080
Product dimensions:	5.31(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Francesca De Grandis, daughter of a Sicilian witch, completed a rare seven-year training to become a Celtic Shaman in the Faerie tradition. She runs her own school, The Third Road, where lawyers and bike messengers alike come to learn and be enchanted by the magic and mysticism of Goddess Spirituality. She lives in San Francisco.

Read an Excerpt

Chapter One

Flour Ground from Stars: A Vision and Invitation

I am a Pegasus — Goddess's winged horse. Come fly with me. Or if you travel instead on four powerful wolf's legs, I invite you to run along the plains with me. I love to gallop as much as I love to fly. Our legs can keep pace with each other's. Or do you enjoy your human form alone and want to find its every power? I will take my human form, and we can break bread made of flour ground from stars.

Do you say, "How can I come? I have no magic, no power"? Come, you belong here with us. You will be surprised. So many ways one might be; come with me whatever you are, or come find out who you want to be. Come to me in your glory. Or come to me thinking you know nothing other than shame and confusion, and you will find that you know all that God does. Come even if thinking, "I cannot join you, I do not have what it requires. I wish I did, but I don't!" Yes, you do, I can see it, and I will show it to you.

Come play with me and discover the secrets that you suspect are revealed in your unremembered dreams, the secrets that you know will make all the difference. Secrets that are the keys to love, power, and happiness.

The Goddess will hold us all within Her wisdom and do everything that is needed for our well-being.

So be it.

Goddess Initiation. Copyright © by Francesca De Grandis. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers, Inc. All rights reserved. Available now wherever books are sold.

Editorial Reviews

[De Grandis] is a dedicated, hardworking priestess. . . . I have known her for many years and respect her as a . . . writer, teacher, and person.

Starhawk

Goddess Initiation reveals the archetypal spiritual powers that are our birthright . . . if you want to learn to cultivate this potent source of transformation in your life, De Grandis will show you how.

Larry Dossey

Goddess Initiation is a detailed path to deepen the divine within, and to gain wisdom through insights and practical workings.

Z. Budapest

When you combine goddess worship with New Age methods of learning self-love, the logical outcome is a book on how to worship yourself as a goddess. In this sequel to her popular Be a Goddess! De Grandis offers comprehensive month-by-month instructions on achieving the internal power, serenity and creativity of a deity in one short year. A witch of Sicilian descent practicing Celtic shamanism, De Grandis uses classic therapeutic techniques for building self-esteem and reducing negativity. More a guide to internal work than a spell craft manual, her meticulous approach should appeal to seekers who like their path to be carefully laid out and well traveled. (Oct.) Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.

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