Designed primarily for women, Goddess Spirituality revolves around the sacredness of the female form, and of aspects of women's lives which have been traditionally neglected in western society, such as menstruation, sexuality and maternity.

Adherents of the Goddess Spirituality movement typically envision a history-or " herstory "-of the world that is different from traditional narratives about the past, emphasising the role of women rather than that of men.

The term suggests a feminist approach to theism and the context of God and gender within Paganism, Neopaganism, Goddess Spirituality and various nature-based religions.

* Christ, Carol P. ( 1997 ) Rebirth of the Goddess: Finding Meaning in Feminist Spirituality.

* Eller, Cynthia ( 1995 ) Living in the Lap of the Goddess: The Feminist Spirituality Movement in America.

An experiential initiatory journey into Goddess Spirituality and Fey shamanism.

* Goddess Spirituality is sometimes used as a synonym for Goddess Movement and sometimes as the spiritual practice that is part of the Goddess movement.

Since the 1970s Goddess Spirituality has emerged as a recognizable international cultural movement.

The Goddess movement has found voice in various films and self-published media, such as the Women and Spirituality trilogy made by Donna Read for the National Film Board of Canada.

Goddess Spirituality characteristically shows diversity: no central body defines its dogma.

* Laura, Judith, Goddess Spirituality for the 21st Century, RTP / Open Sea, 1997.

The Burning Times is the second film in the National Film Board of Canada's Women and Spirituality series, following Goddess Remembered.

* Living in the Lap of the Goddess: the Feminist Spirituality Movement in America ; Cynthia Eller ; Publisher: Boston Beacon Press ; 1995.

included a copy of Crowley's The Blue Equinox which includes all of the Crowley quotations in the Charge of the Goddess.

One well-known example of a bitheistic or duotheistic theology based on gender polarity is found in the neopagan religion of Wicca, which is centered on the worship of a divine couple-the Moon Goddess and the Horned God-who are regarded as lovers.

Legend says that about two thousand years ago, Emperor Suinin ordered his daughter, Princess Yamatohime-no-mikoto, to set out and find a suitable permanent location from which to hold ceremonies for Amaterasu Omikami, the Sun Goddess.

Goddess beliefs take many forms: some people in the Goddess movement recognize multiple goddesses ; some also include gods ; others honor what they refer to as " the Goddess ," which is not necessarily seen as monotheistic, but is often understood to be an inclusive, encompassing term incorporating many goddesses in many different cultures.

She said that Gardner referred to the Goddess as Airdia or Areda, which she believed was derived from Aradia, the deity that Charles Leland claimed was worshipped by Italian witches.

Arriving in London in August 1932 he attended a conference on prehistory and protohistory at King's College London, attending at least two lectures which described the cult of the Mother Goddess.

The pomegranate, an ancient emblem of the Great Goddess, remained an emblem of Hera: many of the votive pomegranates and poppy capsules recovered at Samos are made of ivory, which survived burial better than the wooden ones that must have been more common.

In support of this philosophy, many Wiccans cite the Charge of the Goddess, which says " All acts of Love and Pleasure are My rituals ".

In support of this philosophy, many Wiccans cite the Charge of the Goddess, which says " All acts of Love and Pleasure are My rituals ".

Ti Kuan Yin, which in Chinese means “ Iron Goddess .” There was once a poor farmer who was devout and dedicated to maintaining the temple of Kuan Yin, the goddess of mercy.

He learned from Proteus ' daughter, Eidothea (" the very image of the Goddess "), that if he could capture her father he could force him to reveal which of the gods he had offended, and how he could propitiate them and return home.

Also in 1979, in the first revised edition of " Real Magic ", Bonewits defined " thealogy " in his Glossary as " Intellectual speculations concerning the nature of the Goddess and Her relations to the world in general and humans in particular ; rational explanations of religious doctrines, practices and beliefs, which may or may not bear any connection to any religion as actually conceived and practiced by the majority of its members.

In 2007, Paul Reid-Bowen wrote the text " Goddess as Nature: Towards a Philosophical Thealogy ", which can be regarded as another systematic approach to thealogy, but which integrates philosophical discourse.

In line with Christ and Reid-Bowen, thealogy can be conceived of in a systematic fashion with specific methods, while deasophy, a concept coined by Max Dashu, which addresses the wisdom of the Goddess tradition, may not necessarily be systematically ordered.

Virtually all rituals in Wicca include the lighting of altar candles, where two main candles are often used to represent the God and the Goddess ; and the lighting of candles is a central theme at the Wiccan holiday of Brigid or Imbolc, which is also known as Candlemas or the Feast of the Waxing Light.

He was reckoned by some ancient authors as one of the Seven Sages of Greece, and it is said that he was initiated into the Eleusinian Mysteries of the Great Goddess, a privilege denied to those who did not speak fluent Greek.

Artemis is a ranged assassin and is nicknamed the Goddess of the Hunt.

The Charge of the Goddess is a traditional inspirational text often used in the neopagan religion of Wicca.

The Charge is the promise of the Goddess ( embodied by the High Priestess ) to all witches that she will teach and guide them.

The most well known version is that written by Gerald Gardner, and includes material paraphrased works by Aleister Crowley, primarily from Liber ALThe Book of the Law ( particularly from Ch 1, spoken by Nuit, the Star Goddess ), and from his Liber XV: the Gnostic Mass as well as Liber LXV ( Liber Cordis Cincti Serpente, or the Book of the Heart Girt with the Serpent ), thus linking modern Wicca irrevocably to the cosmology and revelations of Thelema.

The Charge of the Goddess is recited during most rituals where the priestess is expected to represent, and / or embody, the Goddess within the sacred circle.

This theme echoes the ancient Roman belief that the Goddess Isis was known by ten thousand names and also that the Goddess still worshipped today by Wiccans and other neopagans is known under many guises but is one universal divinity.

This is rather different to the modern version known in Wicca, though they have the same premise, that of the rules given by a great Mother Goddess to her faithful.

The Charge of the Goddess is also known under the title Leviter Veslis.

Like the Charge found in Freemasonry, where the charge is a set of instructions read to a candidate standing in a temple, the Charge of the Goddess was intended to be read immediately before an initiation.

However, there is also a ditheistic theme within traditional Wicca, as the Horned God has dual aspects of bright and dark-relating to day / night, summer / winter-expressed as the Oak King and the Holly King, who in Wiccan myth and ritual are said to engage in battle twice a year for the hand of the Goddess, resulting in the changing seasons.

It was founded by Zsuzsanna Budapest in the United States in the 1970s, and is notable for its focus on the worship of the Goddess ( usually Artemis ; Roman: Diana ), and on feminism.

The Goddess is the source of all living things and contains all within Her.

The Goddess is complete unto herself and through her all is birthed.

She is the Goddess of Disorder and Being, whereas her sister Aneris ( called the equivalent of Harmonia by the Mythics of Harmonia ) is the goddess of Order and Non-Being.