The Goddess Pages

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THE GODDESS PAGES offers many simple and relaxing ways readers can tap into the special powers of the Goddesses, including:

* Designate a special mirror in your home as "the mirror of the goddess." Egyptian goddess of beauty, Hathor,can help you appreciate your own unique look and beauty, and can help you learn to see yourself through more self-approving and admiring eyes.

* Create a "sacred savings bank" in honor of the Hindu goddess of fortune, Lakshmi, and she will help you increase your income as you conciously watch you weath -- and your concept of abundance -- increase.

* Give yourself a "Goddess Day" complete with special music, rose scented bath and fresh rose petals so that the Roman love goddess, Venus, can help instill in you a deeper feeling of self-love that can lead you to true love with another.

* Meditate and learn the simple, ancient chant to Tibetan goddess of protection, Green Tara, and she can bring you a greater sense of peace and safety.

* Invite your best friends over for a pajama party or gathering and the Muses, Greek dieties of the arts, writing and music, will help you joyous celebrate friendship by sharing stories, having fun, declaring goals in one another's presence and being inspired by friendship.

Goddesses represent and reflect so many different kinds of women. They are wild and mild, powerful and soft, compassionate and passionate; they're virgins and queens, mothers and daughters, rulers of the univer who can transform the planet, nurse a baby and love their consorts simultaneously. Their images, energy, and the mere concept of female divinity can heal, empower, instruct and help women find their way on life's rocky path!

NEW YORK, NY November 2008 -- Abraham had a direct line to God ... Jimmy Carter has a personal relationship with Jesus ... Richard Gere is close buddies with His Holiness, The Dali Lama. Isn't it time that women have the opportunity to choose a Divine Female or Spiritual Heroine as close advisor and cohort?

Women deserve a hip, informative, fun guide to calling upon divine intervention when a gal needs a little helping hand -- or four -- at the office, in her love life, with the family and in her own personal and spiritual health.

Author Laurie Sue Brockway brings the ancient wisdom of the Goddess down to earth for modern women in her new book, THE GODDESS PAGES: A DIVINE GUIDE TO LOVE AND HAPPINESS (Llewellyn Books,2008).

THE GODDESS PAGES brings to life 35 popular dieties, spiritual heroines and saints from many of the world's traditions, and focuses on the kind of asistance each is famous for.

Brockway elaborates on how each of these awesome archetypes can assist and empower contemporary women in their daily lives by outlining practical and spiritual solutions to issues that today's women grapple with, such as: buidling a career; negotiating office politics; making more money; having healthier relationshios; dating; falling in love; thinking about marriage and kids; loving your body; feeling beautiful and strong; having a great place to live; handling your real mother and family; and how to create a more balanced, compassionate, and spiritual life.

With insights into the history and mythology of each Goddess, the book offers many suggestions on "how to invite her into your life," through ritual, meditations, prayers, blessings, wish lists, day-dreaming, and fun, creative exercises and activities.

The sheer variety is designed to give readers many options to follow the guidance that feels most appropriate. The book offers many simple, relaxing ways readers can tap into the power of the Goddesses.

THE GODDESS PAGES explains that true divinity is inside each women and by calling upon various Goddesses -- often represented as females with real curves and even a touch of lipstick -- women can relate to and recognize that divinity within!