Sunday, June 17, 2012

Goddess of the Month Club- Aine








AINE





ATTRIBUTES: LOVE FERTILITY

DESIRE PROTECTING HUMANS FROM ILLNESS

AGRICULTURE ANIMALS COMPASSION FLOWERS

GREIF/SADNESS LIGHT ATTRACTING LOVE

UNCONDITIONAL LOVE SOLAR MAGICK

Magical arts pleasure poetry healing from rape

Retribution the sun



Color: red green purple silver



Element: water fire



Wheel of the year: Beltane litha



Animal: horse cow



Planet: the sun direction: south







Aine (pronounced “awn-ya) is the Irish goddess of love, desire and fertility, and protects humans from illnesses. She is a beautiful queen of the fairies as well. She was a powerful goddess, much loved in Ireland. She is said to live in a castle at cnoc aine, near munster’s lough gur. She has been known to manifest as a red mare, or a beautiful woman to seduce human men. She can also be in the form of an old woman.

IT IS SAID THAT CHRISTIAN MONKS MADE HER INTO A FAIRY RATHER THAN A GODDESS BECAUSE ALTHOUGH THEY DISAPPROVED OF HER SEXUALITY AND WORSHIP, THEY COULDN’T GET RID OF HER. SHE WAS SAID TO SEDUCE MORTAL MEN AND GIVE BIRTH TO FAIRIES. MOST OF THE MEN SHE SEDUCED DIED; THIS IS POSSIBLY SOMETHING THE MONKS STARTED TO ENCOURAGE MONOGOMY RATHER THAN AINE’S FREE LOVE.

She can bestow on you a gift for writing poetry, but if you displease her in this, or in anything, she can take the gift back and leave you with madness.

The summer solstice is her day. People light torches and waved over crops and cattle. In this aspect, she is believed to have gifted the human race with grain.

Although she is a sun goddess, she is also seen as a moon goddess. In her dark maiden aspect, she defends scorn lovers and seeks revenge on those she feels are unsuitable mates.

In her stories, she is said to have been raped by a human whom she then turned into a goose. Others say that she killed her rapist. She is therefore a great goddess to turn to for healing for rapes and sexual assaults.



Messages from aine:



“magic is afoot. Find a way to encourage it.” (from goddess inspiration oracle cards)



“take a risk, and put your hearts desire into action.’ (FROM GODDESS GUIDANCE ORACLE CARDS)



A PRAYER TO AINE



YOU WHO ARE AS BRIGHT AS THE SUN

AND AS GLOWING AS THE MOON

THANK YOU FOR THE JOY YOU GIVE TO US

YOUR CHILDREN.

PLEASE BLESS US THIS SOLSTICE,

BESTOW UPON US YOUR JOY, LOVE AND FERTILITY.

WITH YOUR WINGS, YOU SOAR OVER US

SHOWERING US WITH YOUR LOVE AND LIGHT.

WE HONOR YOU WITH FIRE AND LAUGHTER

FEASTING AND REMEMBERING

FOR WITHOUT YOU

OUR BODIES AND OUR SOULS WOULD NOT

BE NOURISHED.

BLESSED BE TO YOU,

QUEEN OF THE FAE.



(AN AMY ORIGINAL)