~June 28
Her robe was of the finest linen: white and red
and crocus-yellow.
Along the hem a woven border swayed, with fruits
and blooming flowers.
And around her body, from right hip to shoulder,
she had slung a mantle,
lustrous black, embroidered with the stars of heaven
and the fiery moon,
and tasselled with silk fringe, falling into innumerable
glittering folds.
—Apuleius, The Golden Ass
The term “earth goddess” is often used to describe the great force of creative femi-ninity. This implies that the goddess is only connected with the soil, the surface of the planet, the elements and the minerals and the plants that are nourished by them.
But the ancient goddess ruled the sky as well as the soil. Her domain included that blanket of atmosphere surrounding and sustaining us. The goddess was not just something we walk upon, plow into, bulldoze. She was as much above us as below us. We are not trodding her beneath our feet, but are instead enveloped in her. Reorienting our vision of the goddess to include the entire cosmos changes how we view our relation to her.
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