Tewa Prayer

O our Mother the Earth,
O our Father the Sky,

   Your children are we, and with
     tired backs we bring you the
     gifts you love.

Then weave for us a garment of brightness;

   May the warp be the white
     light of morning.
   May the weft be the red light of 
     evening.

May the fringes be the falling rain,

   May the border be the standing
     rainbow.

Thus weave for us a garment of
brightness,

   That we may walk fittingly
     where birds sing.

That we may walk fittingly where
grass is green,

   O our Mother the Earth,
   O our Father the Sky.

     ~ FROM THE TEWA INDIANS
              OF NORTH AMERICA

Ideal Woman Emerging

Adapted from Sacred Space Goddess Circle Blog

Welcome Dear Sister Goddesses, as we connect to the Goddesses who inspire us and to one another. I am the Butterfly Maiden, the Sacred Goddess of Transformation. It is time to bring the divine feminine within us out into the sunlight of the new day. As the Goddess within is being born, we emerge into existence complete and precisely who we are meant to be, our own ultimate woman. We are all ready for these changes. For many it has been a long time coming, for others, it's just a matter of continuing to put one foot in front of the other. Step by step we have been creating transformation, silently, in the womb of our extraordinary cave. A lot has been transpiring. And this year, many of us will come into our own. Sister Goddesses, as women we have a special ability to embody this love and light for the renewal of divine life both within us and around us. May we share the love, grace and energies that anchor us here on Earth! We are creating the "ideal" woman. The really amazing thing is that we are not creating someone else's ideal woman, but our own. She is your gloriously individual creation and she is the embodiment of the Goddess.

So this is not a creation to please others, but an expression of each of our own souls through the power of self love and the desire to show the world our true beauty. In this endeavor, we capture the true essence of what it is to be a woman, a Goddess, a radiant, nurturing, strong and powerful force of nature and the divine. I am the Butterfly Maiden. I bring transformation and freedom. The freedom to be who we are, and most of all, the freedom to make mistakes, take risks, go for it and evolve into something entirely new...maybe a way of being that we've never known before. Women, take a glimpse of the staggering beauty that lies dormant within and the depth and breadth of our abilities to feel and express love. We flex our wings and as they unfurl, we take flight! May our journey with the Goddesses be blessed, as we transform together.

Adapted from post originated by Weaves the Web at http://sacredgoddesses.blogspot.com/2008_02_01_archive.html on February 11, 2008,
in association with http://www.sacredspaceflorida.com/.