What is Shekinah?
“Shekhinah” means “presence of God” and relates to the feminine aspect of the Holy Spirit. It is the visible manifestation of the divine presence. Ancient Hebrew peoples saw Shekinah as the mother or feminine aspect of God. The term is derived from the Hebrew verb “shakhan” which means “to dwell” or “to live within”. Therefore, simply put, Shekhinah means “ the God who lives within”. Other terms and schools refer to Shekinah as “the radiance” or “the glory”. If Shekhinah is the glory or radiance of God, the Hebrew scripts also refer to her as representing the feminine aspect of God’s glory and radiance , where Archangels Michael and Metatron respectively represent the male counter parts of these energies. Shekhinah is know under many names, including “Matrona” and “Schachan”.
Shekinah operates as an intermediary between man and God. She rules the conception of children and the sanctity of marriage. As the Cosmic Mother, Hebrew texts speak of Shekinah as currently exiled upon Earth due to Adam’s sin. The focus of attention is now upon allowing her to return to her rightful place in Heaven. For many lightworkers, this story is synonymous with the classic Fall tales and , indeed, with the journey back fully into the Light of All That Is.
The intentions of this truly life changing programme is two fold, namely:
To assist individuals who are guided to undertake this process for their own growth and empowerment
And
To bring through and anchor these high, powerful and immensely healing energies upon the Earth for the sake of ALL.
Course content:
On each day of this programme the energies we will focus upon and bring through can be described briefly as follows:
Level 1 - Isis
Physical / Earth Body Initiation
During this initiation / attunement we will work predominantly with the Goddess Isis in order to fully activate the Physical Body to the sacred feminine energies.
Who is Isis?
Isis was a goddess in Ancient Egyptian religious beliefs, whose worship spread throughout the Greco-Roman world. She was worshiped as the ideal mother, wife, patron of nature and the natural world and of magic. Isis is the feminine archetype for creation - the goddess of fertility and motherhood. She has gone by many names and played many roles in history and mythology - as goddess and female creator.
Her name literally means female of throne, i.e. Queen of the throne. Her original headdress was an empty throne chair belonging to her murdered husband, Osiris. As the personification of the throne, she was an important source of the Pharaoh's power. Her cult was popular throughout Egypt, but the most important sanctuaries were at Giza and at Behbeit El-Hagar in the Nile delta.
The hieroglyph for her name originally used meant (female) of flesh, i.e. mortal, and she may simply have represented deified, real, queens. Her particular association with working with the physical body stems from this meaning.
Level 2 - Hathor Water / Emotional Body Initiation
During this initiation / attunement we will work predominantly with the Goddess Hathor in order to fully activate the Emotional Body to the sacred feminine energies.
Who is Hathor?
In Egyptian mythology, Hathor (Egyptian for House of Horus) was originally a personification of the Milky Way, which was seen as the milk that flowed from the udders of a heavenly cow. Hathor was an ancient goddess, worshipped as a cow-deity from at least 2700 BC, during the 2nd dynasty, and possibly even by the Scorpion King. The name Hathor refers to the encirclement by her, in the form of the Milky Way, of the night sky and consequently of the god of the sky, Horus. She was originally seen as the daughter of Ra, the creator whose own cosmic birth was formalised as the Ogdoad cosmogeny.An alternate name for her, which persisted for 3,000 years, was Mehturt (also spelt Mehurt, Mehet-Weret, and Mehet-uret), meaning great flood, a direct reference to her being the milky way.
The Milky Way was seen as a waterway in the heavens, sailed upon by both the sun god and the king, leading the Egyptians to describe it as The Nile in the Sky. Due to this, and the name mehturt, she was identified as responsible for the yearly inundation of the Nile. Another consequence of this name is that she was seen as a herald of imminent birth, as when the amniotic sac breaks and floods its waters, it is a medical indicator that the child is due to be born extremely soon. Hathor was also favored as a protector in desert regions.
It is with reference to this association with plentiful , abundant flow of water, that we come to work with Hathor at Level 2 where the focus is upon aligning and fully integrating the sacred feminine into the Emotional Body.
Level 3 - Maat Air / Mental Body Initiation
During this initiation / attunement we will work predominantly with the Goddess Maat in order to fully activate the Mental Body to the sacred feminine energies.
Who is Maat?
Maat is depicted as a tall woman wearing a crown surmounted by a huge ostrich feather. Her totem symbol is a stone platform or foundation, representing the stable base on which order is built. Maat was the Ancient Egyptian concept of truth, balance, order, law, morality, and justice who is sometimes personified as a goddess regulating the stars and seasons and the actions of both mortals and the deities, who set the order of the universe from chaos at the moment of creation.
After her role in creation and continuously preventing the universe from returning to chaos, her primary role in Egyptian mythology dealt with the weighing of souls that took place in the underworld, Duat. Her feather was the measure that determined whether the souls (considered to reside in the heart) of the departed would reach the paradise of afterlife successfully. In Duat, the Egyptian underworld, the hearts of the dead were said to be weighed against her single Shu feather, symbolically representing the concept of Ma'at, in the Hall of Two Truths. A heart which was unworthy was devoured by the goddess Ammit and its owner condemned to remain in Duat.
Through the association with Ma’at as goddess of the stars and through her inherent ability to easily and skilfully negotiate the skies, we focus upon her energies for the third level of initiation, namely those of the Mental Body.
Level 4 - Sekhmet Spiritual Body / Ether
During this initiation / attunement we will work predominantly with the Goddess Sekhmet in order to fully activate the Spiritual Body to the sacred feminine energies.
Who is Sekhmet?
In Egyptian mythology, Sekhmet was originally the warrior goddess of Upper Egypt. She is depicted as a lioness, the fiercest hunter known to the Egyptians. It was said that her breath created the desert. She was seen as the protector of the pharaohs. Her name means “spiritual might or power”.
Her cult was so dominant in the culture that when the first pharaoh of the twelfth dynasty, Amenemhat I, moved the capital of Egypt to Itjtawy, the centre for her cult was moved as well. Religion, the royal lineage, and the authority to govern were intrinsically interwoven in Ancient Egypt during its approximately three thousand years of existence. Sekhmet also is a solar deity, often considered an aspect of the Goddesses Hathor and Bast.
It is through the association with spiritual might or power that we find ourselves working through Sekhmet to balance and empower our own Spiritual Body.
Level 5 - Pele Fire Body Initiation
In Hawaiian mythology, Pele (pronounced ˈpeh- lei] ˈpelePAY-lay) is the goddess of fire, lightning, dance, volcanoes and violence. She is a popular figure in many stories of ancient Hawaii.
Level 6 - Full Integration with IshTar
At this final stage of the programme, we will work predominantly with the combined goddess energies known in ancient Egypt as “Ishtar” in order to further activate and align the totality of energies which we have been working with throughout.
Who is Ishtar or Tara?
She is an ancient Egyptian Goddess who, in her myths, came to earth from the heavens and instructed her people to comingle and intermarry with the earthlings to give them the benefits of their learning and wisdom. She is an incarnation of the famous Tibetan Goddess Tara.
Goddess Tara or Ishtar is probably the oldest goddess who is still worshipped extensively in modern times. Tara originated as a Hindu goddess, the Mother Creator, representing the eternal life force that fuels all life. There are many embodiments of Tara, but the best known are the White Tara and the Green Tara. The peaceful, compassionate White Tara gently protects and brings long life and peace. The more dynamic goddess, Green Tara is the "Mother Earth", and a fierce goddess who overcomes obstacles, and saves us from physical and spiritual danger.In Sanskrit, the name Tara means Star, but she was also called She Who Brings Forth Life, The Great Compassionate Mother, and The Embodiment of Wisdom, and the Great Protectress. In brief, Tara is the embodiment or culmination of all of the energies or qualities we have been working with so far.
A version of the Goddess Tara exists in virtually every culture. Indeed, it is said that the Goddess Tara will assume as many forms on earth as there are needs for by the people.The Celts called their Great Goddess Tara. Her name is thought to be the root of the word Tor, which is a mound of earth or hillock imbued with spiritual energy or connection to the other worlds.We also hear the echo of her name in the Latin word for earth, Terra, a connection between Tara and the concept of "Mother Earth".The Goddess Tara is also associated with Kuan Yin, the great Chinese goddess of compassion. In South America she was known as the ancient mother goddess Tarahumara. The Cheyenne people revere the Star Woman who fell from the heavens and whose body became the earth that provided them with food.
The Goddess Tara vowed:
"There are many who wish to gain enlightenment
in a man's form,
And there are few who wish to work
for the welfare of living beings
in a female form.
Therefore may I, in a female body,
work for the welfare of all beings,
until such time as all humanity has found its fullness."
The ancient goddess Tara in her many incarnations has many gifts to share with contemporary women. Tara embodies the feminine strengths of great caring and compassion, the ability to endure stressful and even terrifying moments, the acts of creation, and the source of sustenance and protection.
Demonstrating the psychological flexibility that is granted to the female spirit, the goddess Tara, in some of her human forms, could be quite fierce and wild.
Tara is an archetype of our own inner wisdom. She guides and protects us as we navigate the depths of our unconscious minds, helping us to transform consciousness, our own personal journeys of freedom. This is , in essence, the experience of this enlightening programme as we walk the path into our own highest freedom.
Who is this programme suitable for?
This programme is open to all. Those who read these words and resonate with their Truth will simply know it. No prior experience or pre requisite exists.
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The cost for each module is £100.00. This investment includes: Course tuition, Electronic manual, Certificate of Initiation and Refreshments throughout the day (but not lunch - please bring this with you).
