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Deities Wiccans call upon the deities to help themselves. The Goddess and God can help us change our lives. Because the Deities are the creative forces of the universe, not just symbols, we can call upon them to empower our rites and to bless our magick. That power is in the hands of every practitioner. We have direct links to the Deities. The Deities dwell within us (Scott Cunningham). The All Wicca acknowledges a supreme divine power, unknowable, ultimate from which the entire universe sprang. (Scott Cunningham). We refer to that divine power as The All. Wiccans link to that force through their deities. The All is an energy field polarized by two forces, the Goddess and the God, which in their ultimate being are aspects of each other. The God is a polar image of the Goddess. The Goddess and God are the same forces flowing in opposite but not opposed directions. That polarity creates the cycle that underlies the movements of the stars and the changing seasons, the harmony of the natural world and the evolution within out human lives. (Starhawk) Wicca recognizes Deity as dual. It reveres both the Goddess and the God. They are equal, warm and loving, not distant or resident in "heaven" but omnipresent throughout the universe. The Goddess and the God are both within ourselves and manifest in all nature. There is nothing that isn't of the Goddess and God (Scott Cunningham). The Goddess and God are the same force flowing in opposite, but not opposed directions. The Goddess "The Goddess does not rule the world; she is the world." Manifested in each of us, she can be known internally by every individual, in all her magnificent diversity. Starhawk The Goddess is the universe itself, not something separate from or superior to it. (Eileen Holland) There are three aspects
of the Goddess represented by the three phases of the moon: The Goddess is the Universal Mother, Earth mother, The Lady. She is the source of fertility, endless wisdom and caresses. She is represented by the Moon. Her symbol is a moon with a crescent on each side - the triple goddess.
The importance of the Goddess symbol for women cannot be overstressed. The image of the Goddess inspires women to see ourselves as divine, our bodies as sacred, the changing phases of our lives as holy, our aggression as healthy, our anger as purifying, and our power to nurture and create, but also to limit and destroy when necessary, as the very force that sustains all life. Starhawk Here are three universal depictions of the Goddess: (From left: Spiral Goddess, Fertility Goddess and Gaia - Mother Earth.)
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