Abundance through the Goddess; The Mother in all her forms. 5 steps to abundance.

FREE exercise and 5 steps to abundance through the Triple Goddesses, Mother Mary, Bat and Lakshmi; seeing the Goddess and the Divine Feminine for her whole across the cultures.

I will get into the details of how to work with the Goddess energy for abundance, but I feel my current journey is relevant here. So I will blurb for a bit. Please forgive me if you want to get to the good stuff about accepting abundance in your life. But I feel you may find something else in my blurb. And so in lies your first lesson in seeking true abundance; it is everywhere, especially where we don’t expect to find it!

I have been working with ‘Goddess’ energy for sometime. She came through to me again last night as I fell asleep.

We did some wonderful work yesterday healing like a thousand healers with a group of wonderful people and kids running round like loons thrown into the mix. Sat actively healing the Earth. It was beautiful for so many reasons.

And so I feel the Goddess felt it was worth coming back to me last night as I started to fall asleep in order to give me something back. Isn’t it wonderful how she works that way.

I started to fall asleep and she came to me as a cow. A beautiful Freesian and then into a Jersey cow. Both milking cows. I have given up dairy as part of a campaign to realign my hormones, so I know she wasn’t saying eat more yogurt! lol. She was talking about nurturing and providing. Soft warm fur, clean hay and soft hands as I drifted off . . . glorious!

The true Mother Mary. Mother, Healer, Preacher, Leader. A Goddess in her own right.

Lakshmi – Feminine abundance, love and joy. Motherhood.

The triple Goddess of Maid, Mother, Crone or Modernity, Creatvity, Wisdom. Allowing us to embrace all aspects of our self and versions of ourselves.

I had actually settled down to send healing to my daughter, asleep in the next room with a temperature, and I think she came in as a recognition of the fact that at this time I should have taken the time to heal myself due to illness, but I did what any parent would do and concentrated on my little one. And so she came to give back. There was a very distinctive Egyptian feeling about her, that I did a little research on this morning.

The Cow Goddess in Egypt, later became known as Hathor, but originally was Bat. (I know the lives as I lived were early dynasty and so I always turn to that). And although there is some conjecture as to what happened. I believe that as the kingdom split, so did the Goddess.

Bat predates the Egyptian people. She is an old Goddess. Older than time itself it would seem. Her followers worshipped her based on her association with the Ankh, the breath, the symbol of life itself (Chi, Prana, Rei, Spirit; which ever name you wish to give it). For me it is Love itself. Her name based on the word Ba, being one of the fundamental elements of the soul.

And so she is Mother Earth, Mother Nature. Gaia. She breathed life into us and so we came into existence. She nurtured us at her breast, feeding us continually, even when we make mistakes and hurt her. She does not turn her back. That doesn’t mean to say she is a pushover. She is not unused to the odd clip around the earhole or a look which means ‘I told you so’. Non judgemental, tough love.

And so I was of course drawn to beautiful Lakshmi who I have been working with recently. Her soft laughter and love ringing through our ears. She laughs at our mistakes. But like Bat, she is associated with the nurturing cow. Much maligned as the epitome of powerless femininity, rather than the provider and hard worker that she is. She is tired. But she will still sit by your bed side all night when you are ill, and drag you out of it when you have been moping too long. And stick you in the garden to play and remember yourself.

When I read further about Bat she is associated with an aspect of herself which shows her having faces looking into the future and into the past. And so I was drawn to the Ancient Celt and British Goddess, the Triple Goddess. The triple aspect which was applied to the masculine in the Roman Christian church, and not brought forward to feminine. Your mum and especially your grandmother (or those that play those roles in your life) always can see it coming. She can see it coming as she knows the past. She’s been there, done that. Her guidance is golden. She encourages you to accept all parts of yourself now, in the past as well and love yourself as a whole. This is the only way you can embrace the future. And manifest everything you were meant to be. The all knowing, all seeing, all encompassing. That you remember your youth and vitality, you remember your creativity and parenthood, you remember your wisdom at all ages. And don’t the crazy-fun, loving, skinny dipping grandmothers always make the best ones? With food thrown together and laughter on cold nights by the fire or under the duvet.

And remembering she was not actively brought forward into the Christian church, but she still came actually. Mother Mary. Strong, intelligent, loving. Noone raises and lives through the death of one of the planets most beloved healers and teachers and lives like the wilted flower they would have you believe she is. There she is, waiting in the scriptures for us to truly find her, to truly connect into her. Again with laughter in her heart for our perceived faults and wrong doings, strong passionate love and a desire to teach us.

And they are all one in the same. All these different faces of the Goddess. So it makes no difference who you choose to lead you, to guide you, as they’ll all get you there. Back to Mother Nature.

Ok, occasionally she may need to break herself off a bit, as Sekhmet or Kali, like any of our own parents, and really read us the riot act. When she really has to. Something, which as a parent myself, I hate doing. But occasionally must be done. And I would love to have another aspect of myself to carry that task out.

But she is nurture and love. She is abundance itself.

And so what do these aspects of the Mother, the faces of The Goddess, teach us about Abundance.

1. Gratuity – Happiness is where you are – Quoting Moana (and why wouldn’t I?). If you don’t not only accept, but be grateful for what is on your plate, right in front of your very eyes, why should she give you more? Her energy and resources are low. Energetically by always looking for something else, and not accepting what you have, is actually blocking the flow of energy to yourself. And you keep asking for something. How can they get it to you, if you don’t accept and importantly love where you are now, if you don’t nurture and grow your current situation, you’ll never see what it becomes. And that maybe just what you’re asking for. For some of us this may take a change in mind-set. But if you really want to invite abundance into your life, then you must take the time to do that. Exercise – take a picture of a Goddess who resonates for you and print it out, or stick it as your screen saver on your phone or your computer. Smile at it every morning, and before you go to bed, name everything positive that happened that day. On a bad day that may take some out of the box thinking, but there is always a helpful stranger, a smile or love from a far for you to hold on to. Don’t moan. Don’t ask. Only thank. Do this for at least 21 days (I try to do it daily)

2. Definitions – what does abundance mean to you? If your first thought is money, possessions or wealth, you are blocking every other stream of abundance into your life. What does money actually get you? If you want status, a big house, servants, power. This isn’t going to work for you and you’re either reading the wrong blog or you need to change your outlook. If you want a nice home, good health, food, opportunities in life, love, laughter, education, fun; then you need to ask for that. And be open to receiving it by whatever channel the Universe can get it to you. Money is a man created energy exchange. It is not the currency of the Universe. If you are looking for £10 to pay for an ice-cream Sunday, you’ll miss the free one you’re being offer (see my story below). If money wise you are doing well, but you need the energy to flow in other areas of your life, then this is an important one for you to address. What you define, defines you. Exercise; take out maybe 10 or 20 minutes to find out what you really want from life. Not just the superficial definitions or money or a home, but what you really want. Then look at how you already have that. Or how you can tweak something and make it what you need. For example: ‘Security for your family’ would fit the bill for both money and a home, but if in your head you want to own your own 5 bed country cottage, you are missing the cheap council rental in town which gives long term tenancy and an opportunity to make it your own home. ‘A good education for my children’ doesn’t have to mean private and therefore money. Could your child be bright enough for a scholarship? Could you afford a tutor alongside state run school to get what your child needs. Or can you and a workbook fill in the education gaps you need? For me a home with a space to work. Or rather than that expensive holiday in the Maldives you were looking at; think about what it was that you wanted from the holiday. Diving. Relaxation. Paradise. And then Google or ask a good travel agent for an equivalent alternative.What do I personally want at this moment? A cheap space to work and a home. Do they need to be entwined? In my definition being those two things together, I am blocking loving the home I currently have and finding a cheap place to work elsewhere. Change your definitions and open all the new pathways of abundance to your family. Choose seven fundamental things you really want from the Universe and write them on the prettiest piece of paper you can find. Remember the more definition you put on it, the more you restrict it. So I need to earn £200 per week, could actually mean I want to be able to have enough money to pay x, y, z bills and take the kids on a fun day out once a week. Leave this piece of paper with a Goddess that you wish to work with. Fold it up and leave it next to a statue or a picture, or folded up inside your phone case. When you get one thing, or you realise you’ve been too defined on one, tear it up and replace it. Always keep the seven. You’ll find that after 4 or 5 you’ll struggle to think of things. Perfect. As you can choose something totally for yourself (a coffee with a friend once a week/hot bath to myself nightly) or something just for the hell of it (to laugh till I cry or pee my pants at least once a day!). Always thank the Goddess for working with you, and especially when you have achieved one of the things you have asked for.

3. Paying for it, means working for it; Resourcefulness; I’ve always been resourceful. I have been brought up with it, but I can manifest. I can make money from nothing (unlike Dire Straits I don’t get my chicks for free! 😉 lol). Why is the only route to get what you need via money? Is there another route you are missing. This very much leads to you blocking all the avenues and the Goddess can get you what you need. A new table costs £800. So I’ll need to do four or five workshops to be able to afford that. And all my money will go on that. But take your time looking on Facebay or Gumtree or a local auction, and you’ll find not just a perfectly functioning one, but a lovely one for £10. I did. Beautiful light wood and slate inserts. Solid, great quality. And four or five workshops would have been five whole days working plus maybe the same on top in prep. It took me one morning to find and one afternoon to pick up with the kids in tow; combined it with a day out at an ‘old barn’ where I was picking it up from. Plus my daughter got to watch how a screwdriver works. So I swapped my definitions, became a little more resourceful and got to spend more time with the kids I love, and work less hard! Really! If you work all the hours that God sends and are too tired to cook, your shopping bill goes up as you need more expensive convenience foods. Then you need a cleaner as you’re too tired to clean. So how can you give up working, or work less (there is no way I could not work – I am not defined by my motherhood in anyway) when I have all these other bills on top?! And then you have the added guilt that you are feeding the family rubbish, you’re not teaching your family good life skills etc etc. And you don’t get to spend any quality time with the family. And then you make yourself ill through hard work and stress and guilt, so you have to pay for medical care, or that spa weekend to feel better. ARGGHHH!! It really is all too much isn’t it? Why aren’t you making life easier on yourself? If you worked less you could spend the half hour shoving a half decent meal together in the evenings (remember up until the 50’s and post war in the West, we would have only eaten a rich, red meat meal once a week – changing your definitions?). If you regularly washed/cleaned your carpets you may not need a new one. The kids may well be up for swapping chores for cash? If the old fella down the road is giving away tomato plants, grab a couple with thanks and see which of the kids would like to grow them. Or keep them in your desk at work for you to nurture. Free dinner one night! If the eldest kid, or the hubby, or the neighbour has a mechanical mind, they may well be able to google what is wrong with the car, buy the second hand part from eBay and fix it? Either for a your appreciation, a fraction of the cost, or something your good at? A meal, baby sitting, gardening, paperwork etc etc. Getting caught up in the premise that money will get you what you want, is not going to get you want you want. Why wouldn’t you want to get what you need with less effort? It makes more sense to me! Exercise; Sit down and look at three things in your life that you can be more resourceful in. Ask a Goddess of your choice to help and facilitate this. Get yourself into a quiet meditative state if you wish. Write down and make a promise to yourself to do these three things. They don’t need to be done at once. Maybe introduce one every couple of weeks if it’s a regular thing. When you achieve them all, thank the Goddess and look at another three areas you can be resourceful in. Not paying for your morning coffee, but investing in a nice little coffee machine and a funky ceramic or metal take away cup. Walking a little further for a lunch which is cheaper and healthier and getting some more exercise to boot! Themed girls nights in, rather than big nights out every other time. Swapping the Saturday night take away for a quick micro meal from the supermarket. Inviting friends over for dinner and swapping back going to theirs, the one not cooking providing dessert and a bottle, rather than a meal out every week. Who do you know who could fix the car, do the garden or decorate the house for a swap rather than paying? What can you buy second hand, rather than forking out full whack for? Picnic in the park, or takeaway chips from the FishNChippy, and a game rather than a trip to the zoo? Amazing theme kids party at home or the local park, rather than paying for the princess or prince theme at the local play centre? Creative days where everyone helps decorate or personalise a cheap piece of furniture, or bedlinen/curtains, for each member of the family in turn? Spending time together researching ideas and projects. You’ll get so much more from these ideas than just saving money. You’ll draw together as a family.

4. Providing does not mean providing money; accepting your whole self. One of the biggest things that Laskshmi taught me was to understand that although I am not a bread winner anymore in terms of dough (geddit?!), I am a provider. Although my husband now provides most of the money to our household, I provide love, laughter, learning and nurture. These are vital, imperative for any home, more so some may say than the cash. In not seeing myself for these aspects, of not being aware of this I was not able to give it the attention and energy it deserved. And so in accepting how wonderful I am, and part of this is of course self love, I have been able to use my talents and attributes to their best. Exercise: Write out a list of every aspect of your personality, even what you may feel is a fault, and write down how it benefits your life. Some maybe obvious, some a little less so. Those areas which you struggle with the most, or found it hardest to find a positive reason for, are the areas you need the help to recognise, accept and therefore fully empower. Don’t think that by asking to recognise, accept and empower your temper for example, it will make it grow. What this exercise will do in fact is to allow you to channel it in the best way. If it is being channelled correctly, into the right areas in your life that it was intended for, it will be used for it’s ‘God(dess)-given’ purpose. As such it will unblock the areas in your life where you have either been bottling it up, or using it in a way it was not intended for, which would have energetically been working against you. So in allowing it to flow in the area it was intended for, and not against you, will allow the energy to flow better full stop, enabling yourself to achieve and attain what you need to. For example, your temper is in fact passion. You love fiercely. And this means that you can love with balance; allowing and telling people to walk their own path when they need it, and enabling others with a deep strength when the time is right. Focus in one or two attributes at a time (depending how how much work they need), leaving the list with a Goddess and checking daily as to how you feel you are moving forward. Trust in her that the experiences you will have from now on will enable this, even in ways you cannot perceive at the time. You may feel that is is going nowhere, but persevere as suddenly it will click into place. You may also find that one major attribute finally flowing in the right direction, will free up and enable others without any work. Thank the Goddess as you move forward.

5. Healing and Accepting the Past in order to unblock the present and propel to the future. This is really quite a deep part of the process and I would only recommend that you address this area if you are drawn to do so or if you have been working through the other areas and still feel substanially blocked. The Triple Goddess of Past, Present and Future; Maid, Mother, Crone. She asks us to look at all aspects of ourselves now and in the past. To accept and heal all of those. And we all know that moving on from something, doesn’t always mean healed. What are those things in life where you look back and you still don’t feel at ease? It’s one thing feeling melancholy or a bit of ‘another time, another place’ type feeling, but when you look back and feel uneasy, then you need to take the time to heal that situation. You can take this further and look deeper at previous life work. You can heal in anyway you choose. But understand that this is emotional healing and so energy worked aimed at this would be a good idea. It maybe an time in your life where you are unhappy with how you were as a person. Or you felt you reacted in the wrong way; either too weakly or to strongly. It may be that you were subject to outside influences in your life and you either were powerless, or felt powerless. Everytime you feel a negative emotion about a situation or person, you are giving that thing energy. It is draining you. And you need to heal that, to bring yourself to a point and look back at it with perspective. Not always a higher understanding of why you went through it, but able to look back with ease and not fear or anger. In freeing yourself of that energy drain, you can allow energy to flow more freely into other areas of your existence. It will empower the current you and therefore your future. Exercise: If you wish, you can do this following exercise. If you have a trained healing modality call this in and activate it before you start. If you don’t. ask the Goddess of your choice to help facilitate you. Thinking about the situation at the time, feel on your body where you are holding the emotion connected with this situation. You will work one of a few ways. Clairvoyant – you will see either with your minds eye or your eyes. Look at your body and see where you are holding the energy, or the Goddess will point it out to you. Clairaudient – you will be given a word, or have a conversation with the Goddess to tell you where you are holding it. Clairsentient – you will feel a blockage, sensation or emotion on your body. Clairknowing – you will either just know or be drawn to an area on yourself. Using the same method choose a colour for that energy. Drawing energy in through the crown on your head, create a ball of energy between your hands over the spot where you are holding the energy, in the colour you are drawn to use. When you feel a shift and your body feels freer, you will know that the energy has been removed. Give the ball with thanks to the Goddess. Ask again, and see if there is more and follow the same process. The idea isn’t to revisit the injury, but to release it. You may feel the emotion as you release it, you may have tears or feel anger. Breathe the emotion out as noisily as you need to. Allow the tears to flow. Continue until you have released everything from this time or situation in your life. Thank the Goddess. If it feels too messy to deal with yourself, or you know it really needs deal with but don’t want to, I do recommend that you get someone to hold your space or to facilitate the healing. You can do this as many times as you need to.

A story of abundance in action: We were in Disneyland FLO recently, and I said to the kids if they were good they could get an icecream. My youngest did her typical it’s all too much self sabotaging and wasn’t that well behaved. As I was umming and ahhing about whether or not to get her an icecream, a Disney employee stood at the side of a shop and called out ‘Who wants some Disney magic?’ with a huge icecream waffle in her hands. We were not close and so I walked closer, expecting someone else to take the bounty in her hands. Noone did. Everyone was so clued into their money driven definition of abundance, they took the woman at the side of the shop for granted, and walked on by. Dozens of people. Surely we’d never get this? As we got closer I said ‘I would!’ and she gave me the icecream waffle. I said ‘How much do you want?’ and she said ‘nothing. I like to spread the Disney magic’. I blessed her and thanked her. We ate the icecream waffle with our fingers, melting in the Florida sun. Licked the plate and our fingers. It was glorious. All present in that moment of the planets aligning for all of us; all being aware of the blessings we had been bestowed. And the Universe told me in no uncertain terms that both children deserved an ice-cream. And not just any ice-cream. The best tasting one ever! Nothing tastes as good as a free ice-cream.

Which areas of your life do you need to feel the flow in? Which of the Goddesses do you feel drawn to work with? Which areas of your life do you need to look at from another angle?

Love as always

Rachael x