Celebrate Mother's Day with a Goddess Ritual

When Margaret Murray wrote her ground-breaking God of the Witches in 1931, scholars quickly dismissed her theory of a universal cult of witches who worshipped a singular mother goddess. However, Murray wasn't completely off-base; a number of individual cults existed in pre-Christian Europe which honored mother goddesses of their own. In Rome, the cult of Cybele was huge, and the mystery traditions of Isis soon took on a mother-goddess status.

Thousands of years later, one of the biggest holidays in the United States is Mother's Day, which is when we take a few moments to say thanks to the women we love -- moms, sisters, grandmothers, etc. If we expand a little on this, we can use Mother's Day as an opportunity to honor all of the women who have touched us, both spiritually and emotionally. The archetype of the mother goddess is one that has been significant in many cultures, so what better day than this to celebrate the power of the sacred feminine? Take a few minutes to celebrate both the goddesses who have touched you, and the women in your family and circle of friends, with a special rite: Honoring the Sacred Feminine with a Goddess Rite