Awaken the Goddess Meditation Deck
This is an intuitive meditation deck used for the exploration of the emerging of the Divine Feminine. Each image was created by visionary artist, Katelyn Mariah BFA, MA, LICSW. This is a deck of 44 full color cards representing aspects of the Feminine that can be used in individual meditation practices or with groups.
"In the stillness of my mind
silent voice, clear vision, open heart
emerge images from my soul,
this is my gift to you.
In the stillness of your mind
silent voice, clear vision, open heart,
let the images speak to
and feel the spirit of the Goddess."
Katelyn Mariah 1996
How Awaken the Goddess came to be:
The Awaken the Goddess Meditation Deck was the beginning of my journey as a visionary artist. I had been part of a group studying Peruvian Shamanism through the Medicine Wheel, when I got sick with a severe sore throat that wouldn’t go away. I was worried that I might have something very serious.
One day at my art studio I began to draw and image and this was the gateway to this deck emerging. When I finished the drawing I knew it was only the first of many and they came fast and furious over the next two months. So fast and at such times that I wasn’t able to capture them all in paintings. By the time the series was complete I had 44 paintings. When the paintings were complete, my sore throat went away. I believe this was the opening of my throat chakra, which is often closed in many people.
This was the beginning of a deep journey that would transform my life as a person and as an artist, and would awaken me consciously. At times it was painful, at times it was joyful and in the end it would leave me stunned and amazed.
I met the late Ron Mangravite, an expert on symbolism and esoteric mystery and director of a Modern Mystery School, at a salon held at Dr. Jan Adam’s home. When he saw my images he assumed that I had studied esoteric symbols in great depth and began talking to me about them. I had no idea what he was talking about because I hadn’t studied this subject. It was hard from him to believe that I didn’t know what I had done because, according to him, I was using such an incredible “mixed bag” of symbolic, cultural images that one could not know unless they had done years of esoteric study, so it was amazing that they just sprung from my inner world.
What looks like simple drawings are provocative images that take one deep inside. They might be mistaken for a tarot deck is described this way by Ron,
” What we know as Tarot, was initially, a series of drawings illustrating an initiate’s true identity, discovered during a deep inward journey,” he said. “These drawings, in the form of a deck, were presented to the master teacher to show what the initiate had truly discovered. The master teacher could tell immediately, by looking at these images, whether or not the initiate had discovered his “truth”. this is what allowed the initiate to graduate and have the right to say ” I know my identity. That is why I am pleased to announce that Katelyn is an initiate of consciousness.”
I was stunned when Ron told me I was an “initiate of consciousness”, which he said was quite rare in our culture. I was just following my inner inspiration where it was leading me. In a subsequent conversation about my new art work, I asked Ron if I could study with him. He told me that there was nothing he could teach me that I didn’t already know. I write this with the utmost humility because this was 19 years ago and I still haven’t quite taken it all in.
The meditation deck came about when a friend who owned a book store saw them and said she wanted to support me to bring the images into the world. She started a publishing company and produced the Awaken The Goddess Meditation Deck for me. We had a big celebration when they were done and Ron flew in from North Carolina to speak about them.
One day at my art studio I began to draw and image and this was the gateway to this deck emerging. When I finished the drawing I knew it was only the first of many and they came fast and furious over the next two months. So fast and at such times that I wasn’t able to capture them all in paintings. By the time the series was complete I had 44 paintings. When the paintings were complete, my sore throat went away. I believe this was the opening of my throat chakra, which is often closed in many people.
This was the beginning of a deep journey that would transform my life as a person and as an artist, and would awaken me consciously. At times it was painful, at times it was joyful and in the end it would leave me stunned and amazed.
I met the late Ron Mangravite, an expert on symbolism and esoteric mystery and director of a Modern Mystery School, at a salon held at Dr. Jan Adam’s home. When he saw my images he assumed that I had studied esoteric symbols in great depth and began talking to me about them. I had no idea what he was talking about because I hadn’t studied this subject. It was hard from him to believe that I didn’t know what I had done because, according to him, I was using such an incredible “mixed bag” of symbolic, cultural images that one could not know unless they had done years of esoteric study, so it was amazing that they just sprung from my inner world.
What looks like simple drawings are provocative images that take one deep inside. They might be mistaken for a tarot deck is described this way by Ron,
” What we know as Tarot, was initially, a series of drawings illustrating an initiate’s true identity, discovered during a deep inward journey,” he said. “These drawings, in the form of a deck, were presented to the master teacher to show what the initiate had truly discovered. The master teacher could tell immediately, by looking at these images, whether or not the initiate had discovered his “truth”. this is what allowed the initiate to graduate and have the right to say ” I know my identity. That is why I am pleased to announce that Katelyn is an initiate of consciousness.”
I was stunned when Ron told me I was an “initiate of consciousness”, which he said was quite rare in our culture. I was just following my inner inspiration where it was leading me. In a subsequent conversation about my new art work, I asked Ron if I could study with him. He told me that there was nothing he could teach me that I didn’t already know. I write this with the utmost humility because this was 19 years ago and I still haven’t quite taken it all in.
The meditation deck came about when a friend who owned a book store saw them and said she wanted to support me to bring the images into the world. She started a publishing company and produced the Awaken The Goddess Meditation Deck for me. We had a big celebration when they were done and Ron flew in from North Carolina to speak about them.
"In attempting to find her identity, which is the Goddess, and find ways she could manifest, she apparently went down deep enough to get totally past Katelyn, to get totally past everything but her femininity, because these images are the Goddess. Katelyn dug down deep enough to bet past anything that is the person and found real legitimate expressions that came from such a mixed bag of a culture that it would be very difficult for her to have truly cheated. She does not know that some of these symbols are Babylonian, Sumerian, Chinese, and Welsh. She cold not possibly known without at least 10 or 15 years of study. She could not have made this mixed bag up by faking it. It has to come from someplace very real.
And therefore, I am extremely privileged to be here to be more or less, the official midwife to announce to the world that this is not juyst an artist - Katelyn is an initiate of consciousness." Ron Mangravite
And therefore, I am extremely privileged to be here to be more or less, the official midwife to announce to the world that this is not juyst an artist - Katelyn is an initiate of consciousness." Ron Mangravite
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