Finding Your Sovereign Self With Goddess Lilith

Under the light of the full Blood Moon lunar eclipse in the sign of Scorpio, we are invited to bow to the Dark Goddess within who has much to reveal to us in this season. What has been hidden from you will come to light.

Many dark goddesses are often feared and demonized despite the fact that most are protectors of women and children. They help us take refuge in our own quiet, unacknowledged inner spaces of the psyche. They offer deep healing and grace when we are in a state of turmoil or feel overwhelmed with the responsibilities of the daylight world.

One such dark goddess who keeps coming forward for me, and so many of my goddess-loving friends, is Lilith.

Shown in iconography as a woman with the wings and talons of an owl, Lilith is a middle eastern goddess of abundance, fertility and fecundity.

She is the little known, first wife of Adam in the Garden of Eden, and unlike Eve she was not created out of Adam’s body parts. Lilith is independent and a bit rebellious according to ancient Hebrew texts–her name lilitu is translated as “night monster,” “night hag” and “screech owl.”

When she disobeys Adam and refuses to be subservient to him, she is cast out of the Garden and labeled a licentious demon.

The story of Lilith originated in the ancient Near East,where a wilderness spirit known as the “dark maid” appears in the Sumerian myth, “The Descent of Inanna” (circa 3000 BCE). Another reference appears…