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Goddess Cerridwen Empowerment

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Channelling by Elizabeth "Midnightowl" Hibel Manual by Elizabeth Hibel Layout by Jens Søeborg

Goddess Cerridwen Empowerment (LW™ Series) This attunement is channelled by Elizabeth "Midnightowl" Hibel from Australia, and it will be placed among the …………. LightWorker™ Avalon Empowerments (all originals) Druids Empowerment (Lisa "Ladywolf" Center) (LightWorker™ Series) Goddess Arianrhod Empowerment (Elizabeth "Midnightowl" Hibel) (LW™ Series) Goddess Blodeuwedd Empowerment (Elizabeth "Midnightowl" Hibel) (LW™ Series) Goddess Branwen Empowerment (Elizabeth "Midnightowl" Hibel) (LW™ Series) Goddess Cerridwen Empowerment (Elizabeth "Midnightowl" Hibel) (LW™ Series) Goddess Rhiannon Empowerment (Elizabeth "Midnightowl" Hibel) (LW™ Series) Isle of Avalon Empowerment (Elizabeth "Midnightowl" Hibel) (LightWorker™ Series) Lady of the Lake Empowerment (Elizabeth "Midnightowl" Hibel) (LightWorker™ Series) Merlin (Taliesin) Empowerment (Elizabeth "Midnightowl" Hibel) (LW™ Series) Morgaine Empowerment (Elizabeth "Midnightowl" Hibel) (LightWorker™ Series) Excalibur (Caledfwlch) Empowerment (Elizabeth Hibel) (LW™ Series) King Arthur Empowerment (Elizabeth "Midnightowl" Hibel) (LightWorker™ Series) Camelot Empowerment (Elizabeth "Midnightowl" Hibel) (LightWorker™ Series) Round Table Empowerment (Elizabeth "Midnightowl" Hibel) (LW™ Series) Holy Grail Empowerment (Elizabeth "Midnightowl" Hibel) (LightWorker™ Series)

The Goddesses of Avalon • All Gods are One God, • All Goddesses One Goddess.... The Five Goddesses are the heart and soul of the Sacred Island of Avalon, each bringing on a transformational energy into the matrix of the eternal realm. Once we have made contact with the Goddesses and established a good working relationship which each of these women of power, we can use them to connect with the ancient energy of Avalon. On Avalon, there were five faces of the Goddess which the priestesses worked with, although many continued to honor the Goddesses of their homelands in addition to these Matronesses. The Avalonian Tradition draws its inspiration from Celtic and not Germannic culture. Wales was able to maintain and preserve the culture, language and traditions of Celtic Britain far longer than England, so we have to look to Welsh literature and folklore to understand the beliefs of the Britons. The Welsh mythic cycle contains the first references

to King Arthur, and through him, to Ynys Afallon – the Island of Avalon. Therefore, to discover the Goddess as She revealed Herself to the Britons, and as She was worshiped on Avalon, we must turn to the mythology of Wales. We find glimpses of Them in the later written records of the Celts, and because most of the tales were written long after the New Religion had firmly taken hold in Britain, we must look beyond the words to see the ancient truths embedded in them. From such sources as the Mabinogion and the poems of Taliesin, we begin our quests for the Goddesses of Avalon. Coming to know Them is a life-long process – this brief overview aims to serve as an introduction –the information is by no means complete, but will serve as a compass to point the seeker along their path..... These five Goddesses are far more than the written record tells of them. When their tales where finally written down, they had already been reduced in stature – they were no longer Goddesses but mortal women, queens, creations of magickians, and faerie folk. Once we can read the stories of the Goddesses without the filter of medieval mores and Christian philosophy, a very different portrait of Them emerges. The betraying harlot becomes the giver of Sovereignty, free to choose Her mate as She wills and granting kingship to whom She deems best. The abandoning mother becomes the Great Teacher and the devouring witch is revealed as the Initiatrix into the Mysteries. Patriarchy was not kind to them either, as their stories are mostly told in relation to the men in their lives. It has come to us that these five - Arianrhod, Blodeuwedd, Branwen, Cerridwen and Rhiannon are the Guardians of the Sacred Isle of Avalon...

Goddess Arianrhod Arianrhod is the Great Teacher, holding the energy of the active principle. She is the embodiment of the Wheel of Life, yet not Herself subject to it. She is the force of Bound and Rebound, the Karmic Lesson Bringer that brings the Universe into Balance. All cycles and time are within Her realm of influence. Arianrhod is the Source of Awen, the Divine Spark of Inspiration, although it is through Ceridwen that Awen is bestowed. Goddess Blodeuwedd Blodeuwedd is the Lady of Initiation. She calls us to cast off the garments of expectation and to peer into the darkness of the self to find, and ultimately live, our inner truth. She teaches us to fly where others would see us grounded. Goddess Branwen Branwen is the embodiment of Sovereignty and is the Guardian of Avalon, holding the energy of the passive principle. She is the Whole, the Center, the World Axis. The primal Feminine energy, all things emanate from Branwen. She is the Goddess of the Land Manifest, as well as the Spirit of the Land. On Avalon, Branwen was primarily consulted in matters dealing with Her Realm – that is, concerning the full tapestry of Avalon, rather than the individual stitches. She is the Goddess of the grand scheme of things, the broader perspective that allows the greater patterns to be revealed. Goddess Ceridwen Ceridwen is the Lady of Transformation. She calls us to enter into our darkness to seek out the seeds of our wholeness. She teaches us that the only path to wisdom is through trial and experience. In Her Cauldron, the mysteries of death and rebirth are revealed, and we emerge to initiate the process once more. We ride the Wheel with our newfound insight and understanding, so that we may illume the next phase of our journey with what we have learned. Goddess Rhiannon Rhiannon is the Lady of Manifestation. She calls us to stand strong regardless of the challenges to our truth. She teaches us to ask for what we need, and grants abundant and loving support to carry us through our dark times.

Goddess Cerridwen When you are attuned to the energies of the Goddess Cerridwen you receive her attributes as related in this manual.

The dark goddess, Cerridwen, of great wisdom, prophetic foresight, and magical shape-shifting abilities lends us her relentless energy and focus required to achieve our ultimate goals. Cerridwen signifies inspiration from an unexpected corner. Plans may go awry; projects may change. Do not be too quick to hold a project to its course -instead let it take its shape as it will. Cerridwen's cauldron is a powerful symbol of transforming magic, and of the lessons learned through change and experience, as well as divine creative inspiration. Like the Greek Goddess, Demeter, and the Egyptian Goddess, Isis, Cerridwen was the great Celtic Goddess of inspiration, intelligence and knowledge, and was invoked as a law-giver and sage dispenser of righteous wisdom, counsel and justice.

Goddess of Death and Rebirth I give you life I give you death it is all one You travel the spiral path the eternal path that is existence ever becoming ever growing ever changing Nothing dies that is not reborn nothing is born that does not die When you come to me I welcome you home then I take you into my womb my cauldron of transformation where you are stirred and sifted blended and boiled melted and mashed reconstituted then recycled You always come back to me you always go forth renewed Death and Rebirth are but points of transition along the Eternal Path

The Lessons of this Goddess Cerridwen's appearance in your life heralds a time of death and rebirth. Something is dying and needs to be let go of, so something new can be born. We know the earth's dance of death and rebirth as the seasons. Matter cannot be created or destroyed, but undergoes transformation. So do we. To live fully and in wholeness we need to accept life in all that it is, which includes death and rebirth. Let go of what does not serve you and your wholeness. Perhaps, you have reahed the end of a cycle, a realationship, a job, and you fear letting it go. Or feel that you are dying,

when only a piece of you needs to give way to the new. Perhaps the idea that there is death and only death is too painful for you to accept. Living in a partiarchal culture has deprived most of us of the Goddess's way of death and rebirth. Wholeness is nurtured whe we say yes and do our dance with death and rebirth. The Goddess says you will always get back what you give to me. It will be changed, it will be transformed, but you will get it back.

Neud amug ynghadeir o beir Cerridwen! Handid rydd fy nhafawd Yn adddawd gwawd Ogyrwen. Is not my chair protected by the cauldron of Cerridwen? Therefore, let my tongue be free In the sanctuary of the praise of the Goddess.

The Bard Taliesin She is often equated with the famous Greek crone, Hecate, and to the Irish Badb. She is also sometimes related to the Greek Muses, only in a more violent and dark form. Cerridwen (pronounced Ker ID wen) was a shape-shifting goddess of dark prophetic powers, enchantment and divination. She is the tigress mother, dark goddess, prophetic crone, who pursues her interpretation of justice with unfailing energy.

Cerridwen was closely related to the Greek Goddess, Demeter, as a Goddess of fertility, and the harvest. She also represented renewal, transformation, change and rebirth. Cerridwen is most often considered to be a Crone, but in some ways she represents all three aspects of a triple Goddess. As a white sow, she also is connected with the Moon. Cerridwen was also associated with divination, death and the underworld, in many ways like Hecate. She is also associated with the season of Samhain, with death and rebirth, in the wheel of the year

The tale of the potion Her primary symbol was her enchanted cauldron (called Amen), from which she could produce a brew of inspiration and wisdom. She worked for a year and a day to make a batch of this potion, to give to her ugly son Avagdu. Cerridwen felt that Avagdu was too unattractive to get ahead in the world unless he had other redeeming qualities, like wisdom. Unfortunately, the boy she hired to stir the pot took some by accident. The boy became enlightened and ran way from Cerridwen's wrath. A long chase followed, and in the end, Cerridwen swallowed the boy and became pregnant. When she gave birth to him, he became the great Celtic bard, Taliesin.

Cerridwen's cauldron Cerridwen's cauldron is an ancient feminine symbol of renewal, rebirth, transformation and inexhaustible plenty 8 . It is the primary female symbol of the pre-Christian world, and represents the womb of the Great Goddess from which all things are born and reborn again. The image of her cauldron, holding the magical potion of wisdom, is, perhaps, the mythical origin of the Halloween image of a cauldron-stirring hag, making up her witch's brew. The brew had to simmer for a year and a day, a common passage of time in Celtic lore, and a standard time before magickal initiation. Today, many Druidic pagans believe that her shape-shifting chase after Gwion was meant to represent the different elevations of Druidic initiation rites. The chase can also be seen as representative of the many changes our souls must make, into different forms, and over different human lifetimes, before we can discover the very reason for our existence. The potent nature of her brew has, today, transformed Cerridwen, in some eyes, into a goddess of fertility, creativity, harvest, inspiration, knowledge and luck. A festival in her honour is celebrated on July 3rd, and the pink sow, a symbol of fertility, good fortune and enrichment, is said to be her patron animal. The Boar is also associated with the Goddess Ceridwen

Correspondences Sows Shapeshifters Dark Moon Hens Crones Cauldron Death Fertility Regeneration

Inspiration Enchantment Divination Astrology Herbs Science Poetry Spells Knowledge

Cerridwen is one of the Old Ones, one of the great megalithic preChristian Goddesses of the Celtic World. Although, in her story, she embodies all three lunar aspects of the Goddess, Maiden, Mother and Crone, she is primarily worshipped in her Crone aspect, by and through her Cauldron of Wisdom, Inspiration, Rebirth and Transformation. The cauldron has an intimate association with femininity, together with the cave, the cup and the chalice, and the association of femininity with justice, wisdom and intelligence goes back to very ancient times.