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Outing the Goddess Within: One Girl's Journey With 52
Guides
by Anita Revel (published 2007)
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Outing
the Goddess Within:
One Girl's Journey With 52 Guides
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A delightful collection of life lessons as described through Anita's columns
with United Press International. Sometimes poignant, infinitely insightful, but
mostly snort-your-milk hilarious, Anita’s journey has led her to successfully
‘out’ her goddess within.
No matter whether you’re a pouting priestess, boardroom babe, feathery
fairy, earth mother or warrior woman, there comes a time when every goddess gal
needs to hold up her sword and claim her right to be true to her authentic self.
This is exactly what Anita Revel has been doing over the last 10 years. Tired
of being a fizzled out corporate stress-chick, she made a sea change from Sydney
to Margaret River in search of her Diver Dan. What she found instead was a
brown-eyed calf named Missy Moo and 52 archetypal goddesses with life lessons to
share.
Anita wrote about her lessons for her column with United Press International.
Sometimes poignant, infinitely insightful, but mostly snort-your-milk hilarious,
Anita’s journey has led her to successfully ‘out’ her goddess within.
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A quickie from the
author
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The
52 stories contained herein are printed in the order in which
they were published as columns –
not in the order that the events happened in my life.
To me, this seemingly random order resonates with how we
learn our life lessons. Sometimes it takes years to get the
point about our experiences, while other lessons are like a
slap in the guts with a wet fish –
occasionally smelly, often unexpected, and usually worthy of
an immediate reaction.
In any stories that are based on a co-adventure, I took the
liberty of changing the names of my friends in order to
protect their privacy. To my co-travellers, thank you for
sharing part of your journey and your Selves with me.
I should also point out that in the spirit of illustrating
a point, I have taken some creative license in some stories.
I did not actually swing a brown-eyed calf around my
laundry to demonstrate the spaciousness of country homes, for
example. That would have been cruel, and besides, my laundry
wasn’t really that big.
Nor did I literally eat cockroach pie –
of course this is not conducive fare for the modern goddess.
So please read these stories in the light-hearted manner in
which they were written. It is simply my intention to share
how role models, patronesses, guides (call them what you will)
can so easily manifest a basketful of lessons if you just look
for them.
At the time of this book’s birthing, I am still making my
weekly deadline and getting a column to United Press
International headquarters. Check out the latest offerings at www.religionandspirituality.com
every Friday.
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Table of contents
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A
quickie from the author…
1. Come to the edge to learn how to live
2. Lessons from a warrior queen
3. For the worthy, Sri Laxmi’s gravy train
4. A stress puppy gets off the treadmill
5. Vesta and the virgins
6. Lusty, busty Juno gives us June
7. A candle-lit dinner with Pele
8. Isis means intuition and perception
9. Wild times ahead for Diana-inspired gals
10. Venus on the mountain top
11. Inanna and the gates of hell
12. Dream on, Epona
13. Aussie Aussie Aussie, Oya Oya Oya!
14. Aphrodite’s formula for love
15. Athena kicks butt
16. Bodicea the (cricket) ball buster
17. Brigid says, ‘light your fire’
18. Ostara Says, ‘Wake Up!’
19. The measure of Tara’s love
20. Climb aboard Nuit’s stairway to Kevin
21. Persephone the bold... the beautiful
22. Goddess Hina calls for eloquence
23. Amaterasu’s sulk of the centuries
24. Your good-luck goddess, Tyche
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25. Self-reliant, like the goddess Circe
26. U2? I’m a-Freya-d not!
27. The mother of re-invention
28. In a land before Eve
29. All is love in fear and war
30. The Ix Chel health plan
31. Cheers to Rhiannon
32. Yemaya just love this ...
33. Spider Woman saves the day
34. Play it again, Bast
35. Get rooted on Australia Day
36. The many faces of Hecate
37. Living life with intention
38. Gotta meet her, Demeter
39. Go with Oshun’s flow
40. Follow that ass
41. Kali vs. New Orleans
42. Fortuna’s Law of Attraction
43. Flora’s spring fling
44. Happy upside-down Easter, Eostre
45. The pleasure is all Uzume’s
46. Maia Day! Maia Day!
47. Baba Yaga boo!
48. Blodeuwedd the Beuwdiful
49. Dial a date with Cordelia
50. Survive life’s cycles with Ceres
51. Speaking of drunken bilge rats…
52. How to have a productive affair
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Lots of reasons why you
should own copy of Outing the Goddess WIthin...
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The 52 self-contained stories
are captivating, insightful and infinitely entertaining --
read one story a day and journal about a similar
experience in your own life, or read the whole lot (again
and again) for a good light-hearted look at life's issues;
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Each story has a personal
account of the author's connection with goddess, and gives
a modern perspective of how ancient goddesses make for
superb role models;
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Each time you put it down you
will feel a little more encouraged to pick up your own
sword and revel in your authentic self;
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The stories can be retold as
hilarious anecdotes at morning tea in the staff room --
can you imagine a more gentle way to introduce the idea of
"goddess energy" to your colleagues?!;
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Your support will help keep
this site online as a free resource to world-wild women
everywhere.
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About the author
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Anita Revel has been writing her ‘Outing the Goddess Within’
columns for United Press International since 2006. She is the creatrix of the internationally popular Goddess
Playshop TM and the website, Goddess.com.au – both aimed at
helping you connect with your beautiful, sassy, intuitive,
lovable, sacred and authentic self.
Anita has incorporated her journey into hundreds of articles,
countless websites and numerous books. In 2006, she appeared on the cover of Spheres magazine with
her ‘Seven-Day Chakra Makeover’, and thanks to a very
fertile 2007, many more books and feature articles are on the
way.
Anita lives with gratitude in sunny Western Australia with
her three heroes: her Super Man, her Boy Wonderful and her
dyslexic god.
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Author comments
With love and gratitude for my 52 guides:
Cerridwen, Astarte, Sri Laxmi, Hestia, Vesta, Juno, Pele,
Isis, Diana, Venus, Inanna, Epona, Oya, Aphrodite, Athena,
Bodicea, Brigid, Ostara, Tara, Nuit, Persephone, Hina,
Amaterasu, Tyche, Circe, Freya, Hathor, Eve, Kwan Yin, Ix
Chel, Rhiannon, Yemaya, Spider Woman, Bast, Gaia, Hecate,
Artemis, Demeter, Oshun, Isis, Kali, Fortuna, Flora, Eostre,
Uzume, Maia, Baba Yaga, Blodeuwedd, Cordelia, Ceres,
Calypso, Dana and of course, my own inner goddess.
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I worked incredibly hard during my 20s to
climb the corporate ladder -- after all,
getting to the top was the sign of success,
wasn't it? Well, despite being a single
mother (or perhaps because of this),
I did get to the top of that darned
ladder... or as far as I wanted to go, at
least, yet the view wasn't all that I was
promised. My "success" was
superficial happiness, rampant materialism,
disconnection with humanity and a woeful
love life.
Wallowing in the depths of
Post-Olympics-Blues, I realised this kind of
life wasn't working for me. I was constantly
on edge trying to be someone that I wasn't
-- I was stressed out, stretched thin and
overloaded with worries. It wasn't
surprising then that I reached breaking
point one Sunday morning, and somewhat
spontaneously packed up my life and my
7-year-old Boy Wonderful, and headed
West.
The sunshine in Western Australia was
endless, the lifestyle was easy and the man
candy was plentiful... or so I was told.
What I did find when I arrived here was,
well, a different story. In fact, when I
started writing about my experiences, it was
a thousand different stories.
I began publishing my stories on my blog
and occasionally they'd hit hard copy in a
magazine. Then, in early 2006 Larry Moffit,
Vice President for United Press
International, found these stories and
invited me to write for UPI as the
"goddess columnist".
My first 52 columns are the stories that
appear in Outing the Goddess Within, in
the order in which they were published.
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