Pathworking: The Maiden

The threefold Goddess: Meditations on Maiden, Mother, Crone and Hag

On a night of the waxing moon (like this week), choose a quiet spot. It would be best if you could look at the waxing moon. If not, take a look at it before you sit down, or visualize the crescent.
Take some deep breaths and relax. Gaze upon or visualize the moon while you let go of anger, stress and distractions.
Then, close your eyes. Go to your safe place. It is night there, and there is a waxing moon in the sky. (If your safe place is closed, like a building or a cave, go to a window or an entrance to see it.)
The moonlight touches you, and in response, you feel delicate, luminescent wings grow, strong enough to carry you easily. Stretch your wings experimentally.
Now, with some strong beats of your new wings, raise yourself into the air. Feel the resistance of air against your wings, the wind rushing around you, as you fly into the sky. There is an updraft that carries you higher... and higher... effortless, higher...
You look ahead and see the crescent moon in front of you, huge, and growing ever bigger and bigger as you approach it, until you can no longer see it in its entirety. You can see a structure, built in the shape of the crescent moon, and you fly into that direction. ...
The structure is a building, a temple of white marble, the same white colour as the moon. You land in the middle of the courtyard framed by the crescent. There is an open entrance in front of you, and you fold your wings and walk towards it. The courtyard is filled with statues, and you can see that all of them show something in a state of growing: children playing, young animals, spring plants, just opening their buds.
You enter the temple. It is illuminated carefully and smells slightly of roses. There are mosaics inlaid in the floor and the walls, and more statues. Here, a lot of them show a young woman, dancing joyfully, playing with children, teasing and flirting with young men.
You walk around the temple , watching the stories unfold in the pictures.
Then, you hear the voice of a young woman: “Welcome, my guest.”
You turn towards the voice and see a woman that might have been the model for most of the pictures and statues. She smiles at you, and you greet her.
She grows a bit more serious and speaks:
“I am the bud that opens. I am
the unfolding leaf, all things that grow.
I am the maiden, free, untamed.
My life full of passion, of joy.
I walk my own way, I do what I will,
And I lend my support to the young and the wild.
I grant you a look into the mosaic
Your hearts deepest desire will be revealed.
I charge you a deed out in the world
Give your help to the young, bring joy to their life.”
Gravely, she steps aside and points at a rather small mosaic that was hidden behind her. Study the mosaic carefully. What does it show? Look at the picture, the scene displayed, the little details, everything. Distantly, you hear that she starts humming and moves away and around the temple. ...
Finally, you move away from the picture. It is time to leave now. Take your leave of the Goddess, and step outside. Look into the sky. There, in the distance, you can see the earth, partially illuminated by the sun and beautiful. Stretch you wings once again and rise into the air. Fly back, back home to your safe place. There is a feeling that is gently leading you into the right direction, a pulling, like a homing instinct. You follow it, crossing the distance again, and finally return to your safe place. As you land, your wings softly dissolve.
Return to your body. Take a few breath to return and readjust. Count from 10 to 1. Open your eyes. Welcome back.


Note: Once again: Take pen and paper and write down what you remember about the journey immediately!