~June 16
Goddess, comforter, holy one, you nourish the world
from your bounty.
You are like our mother, turning to us whenever
we are troubled.
You do not rest, not at night or in the shining day.
You never fail us.
You are the only one who can untangle fate’s
knotted skein, you are
the only one who can pull back the planets when they
threaten ill,
you are the only one who can disperse the storms of life and
of the sky.
-Apuleius, The Golden Ass
Although not all divine figures are mother goddesses, the endlessly abundant goddess of earth is frequently depicted as maternal toward her innumerable children-which include all animate and inanimate creatures as well as humanity. Such a figure serves as a reminder of the way we depend upon earth’s bounty in order to live. Without her ceaselessly replenishing systems, we could not survive. The cycle of rain falling to earth, passing through the soil and flowing downriver to the ocean, only to be lifted into clouds again, is just one of the many self-regulating cycles of our planetary mother. We have, today, lost much of the sense of mystery and grandeur that these cycles evoked in our forebears. Yet they continue to nourish us, just as a mother nourishes and protects her child.
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