Wise Women Salon: Spring 2022
The Return of the Goddess:
How the Goddess is Returning to Re-Birth Our World
A Five Week Online Immersion in Our Feminine Wisdom
5 Sunday’s from March 6 – April 10, 2022
10 am Pacific/1pm Eastern
To sign up for the class go to:
https://cathypagano.com/classes
As every parent knows, it takes a long, hard labor to bring forth new life. And as every mother knows, when transition starts, there’s no let up until our baby is born.
The last few years have been hard on the world. But necessary for a global spiritual awakening. It seems to me that our world is going through such a labor in hopes of a blessed birth of new life. I feel we might even be in transition, because the pressure won’t stop. At this point in labor, once we’re opened all the way, we’re instructed to push! Push! Push the baby out into the world.
We might be at different stages of giving birth to our new story, but all of us can use some instructions on how to work with this spiritual labor we’re all participating in. Just as lamaze classes about labor can give mothers & fathers tools to deal with the pain and fear, exhaustion and sometimes hopelessness of physical labor, it never hurts to have some wisdom to help us handle this trauma and immense spiritual birth happening within ourselves and in the world.
The truth is, we need Wisdom to deal with what’s going on in our world. Since we all have a connection to Wisdom within us, it makes sense to find out how to access it. The world needs our Wisdom. As our society goes through major upheavels on all levels, women have a chance to shape what comes next. And our choices must be wise for our children’s children’s sake.
So why not learn how to access Wisdom and embody it?
I believe that women must help create the new vision for the future. The Dalai Lama said that “Western Women will change the world.” But first western women have to leave behind patriarchal beliefs and rules and reclaim our own wholeness, which means we have to re-discover our innate gifts and talents that patriarchy has tried to stamp out for over 4,000 years. I believe these past few years have given us an opening to begin to do this.
Learning to listen to Wisdom means to:
1. Leave behind our patriarchal mindset. Modern women are 'father's daughters' -- daughters of the patriarchy. We must leave the Father's House and find our understanding of life and our own way of doing things.
2. Free our feminine imagination.
3. Name and understand Earth’s natural laws and the nature of our body's wisdom. We can attune ourselves to Mother Earth's creative genius.
4. Know our spiritual values and what archetypal path we are called to walk.
5. Awaken to our Soul's longing.
We can learn this wisdom working with the stories and images of the ancient Goddesses to understand our own inner experiences. Through learning to use the feminine imagination, we can re-discover our ancient talents and power. The British occultist Dion Fortune said that all women can embody the Goddess because She shows us our natural abilities.
And what are some of those innate abilities that were lost to us during patriarchy? The Archetypal Feminine symbolizes:
the origin of life, all phases of cosmic life, uniting all the elements, both the celestial and earthy; the Queen of Heaven, Mother of God, Opener of the Way; the keeper of the keys of fertility and the gates of birth, death and re-birth. As the Moon Goddess she is perpertual renewal, the measure of time, the weaver of fate. As Queen of Heaven, she is archetypal wholeness, the mother of all wisdom, self-mastery and redemption through illumination and transformation.
Women are the birthers, healers, nurturers, leaders, lovers of the world. Because we know how to change. It is said of the Goddess, “She changes everything She touches, and every thing She touches changes.” If we change, so does the world.
Human beings learn best through stories and symbolic images. If you want to discover why the Great Goddess is returning to world now, and how we can embody her gifts in this time of need, please join me for this introductory course to begin to reclaim your ancient heritage.
Each 2-hour class will comprise of lectures, stories, astrology and a meditative journey. After, we’ll have time for questions.
Sunday, March 6, 2022
Class One: A New Beginning: Leaving the Father’s House – The Archetypal New Feminine
Did you realize that you’re a Father’s Daughter – a good daughter of the patriarchy? If you want to access your feminine Wisdom, you need to leave the Father’s House. We’ll look at the archetypal pattern that can set you free.
March 13, 2022
Class Two: The Moon – Reclaiming Our Creative Imagination
Imagination is more important than knowledge, said Albert Einstein. So today we take a deep dive into how to connect with our imagination.
Sunday, March 20, 2022
Class Three: The Earth – Womb of our Becoming
Today is Spring Equinox. We’ll talk about Sovereignty. We need to give sovereignty to our bodies and to the Earth. Stay tuned for an Equinox surprise.
Sunday, March 27, 2022 Break
Sunday, April 3, 2022
Class Four: The Stars – Our Cosmic Connection
The trip through the zodiac and how the different archetypes call us to the Heroine’s journey
Sunday, April 10, 2022
Class Five: The Solar Feminine – Aphrodite: Embodied Love & Wisdom
We’ll tie it all together through a discussion of the powers of the Goddess of Love, Sex and Wisdom, who initiates our Soul’s awakening.
Recommended Reading:
1. My book, Wisdom’s Daughters: How Women Can Change the World explores the Goddess and her many forms through her Wisdom aspect as The Woman clothed with the Sun, standing on the Moon, crowned with Stars, giving birth to the Savior.
2. Two esoteric novels by Dion Fortune which give you a magical understanding of the energies of the feminine and the masculine.
The Sea Priestess
Moon Magic
3. Christine Downing’s book Goddesses as she writes about her personal experience with different Greek goddesses.4. Maureen Murdock’s The Heroine’s Journey Describing the feminine journey to wholeness.
The cost for the workshop is $333.00.
Because the Goddess works in 3s.
All sessions will be recorded.
For more information and to sign up for this class, go to:
https://cathypagano.com/classes
