From The Inside Out Mag.
For Personal Healing, Spiritual Growth & Development

It's true that many of us share a yearning to be mothered, the need for someone special to hold us close, stroke our hair, tuck us into bed, and reassure us that tomorrow all will be well. It's a universal deep, real and voracious need—and, alas, often unrequited.

Every home has a venerable and comforting domestic spirit. She whispers reminders to you about that cluttered closet or kitchen cabinet. Smiles as you do laundry clean the litter box. She's the mom of your house. You may not know her by name, even though you may have felt her move through your rooms while making your daily round of picking up.

Three thousand years ago in ancient Greece—around the same time that Feng Shui secrets were held captive by Asia's royalty and the wealthy— Hestia was the celebrated goddess of the hearth, guardian of family life and the temple. It was to Hestia that women turned to for protection and inspiration so that they might, as an act of worship, transform their dwelling places into homes of beauty and comfort.

But she is the least known of the old deities, rarely personified in human form like Zeus and the other gods. Instead, her spiritual presence was honored as an eternal flame burning on a round hearth. Jungian author Jean Shiloh Bolen tells us in her book, Goddess in Everywoman, that Hestia's sacred fire provided illumination, warmth, and the heat necessary for food. Despite her anonymity through the ages, "The goddess Hestia's presence in house and temple was central to everyday life" in ancient Greece.

Invoke Hestia's help when working around the house this month. "Talk" with her. Dr. Bolen reminds us that "tending to household details is a centering activity equivalent to meditation," if we want to make it so. Hestia knows how to make your house holy. And, you should you. 

Today, as you walk through your home, think about ways that you can start to mother yourself in small but tangible ways. Stop calling your daily round "housework" and begin to call it "home caring." After all, caring—for yourself, your loved ones, your pets, and your home—is truly what you are doing when you dust, wash, cook, and clean. Glimpse everything you do in your home, no matter how insignificant it may seem, as part of your authentic path to Wholeness and it shall become so.

"Just trust yourself, and then you will know how to live." --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

By Dennis Fairchild

 Dennis Fairchild is a Royal Oak, Michigan-based intuitive consultant and author of over a dozen books on prognosication.  In addition to being a popular radio and television personality, he is recognized as the instrumental driving force of introducing westerners to the magic of Feng Shui.  For information on his books and private services, phone 248-546-6912 or www.dennis-fairchild.com.

Comments(1):

1. Thank you for this! I read you work and look forward to what you right Dennis

   Saturday, July 31, 2010 JoAnn

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