This Japanese goddess rose from the bosom of the sea to defeat and tame the dragon that was torturing her people. By her seemingly unlikely marriage to this great foe, she proves that it is auspicious to conquer one’s troubles by accepting and embracing their truth. Embodying the fluidity of water, she is a master of eloquence and prevents the devastating effects of earthquakes and misunderstandings with equal grace.

Benzaiten is ever a protector of innocents and rides her tamed dragon proudly while bearing a jewel for granting one’s fondest desires. To honor her is to invite richness into your life and find what is extraordinary in the ordinary. As women, we too can be dragon tamers, wish granters, muses and protectors.

This beautiful Hindu goddess of prosperity and wisdom is patroness of lofty goals. She brings gifts of fortune to those who make their own luck, granting wealth in love, spirituality, knowledge, courage, victory, continuity and means. She is the embodiment of charm and grace, resplendent during the fruit-bearing fall, and travels in the romantic province of night.

Sri Lakshmi demonstrates how beauty comes from within, shining through a serene mind and open heart. With diligence, we can rise through the mud of adversity to flourish like sweetly blooming lotus flowers on a pond. She rewards us for courage, persistence and faith in ourselves.

This Roman mother of the harvest blesses all things that grow. She exemplifies the earth’s enduring generosity, patience and nurturing. Ceres imparts the value of honest toil by rewarding our labors with ever-increasing bounty.

Her strength shows us what it is to be grounded, while her moods turn the seasons, giving us order and customs, reminding us that all things return to their beginnings. Though her favor is open to all without being sought, by her example we are moved to work hard, be strong and enjoy the luscious fruits of a job well done.

This Egyptian goddess brings new life, dancing and music into the world. With her endowments she teases the sun across the sky from day to night to day again. She is the river’s flood and ensuing fertility of the land. She is shamelessly unpredictable, embodying inspiration, artistry and jubilation, alternately sensuous and childlike in turns.

Hathor shows us that to be a woman is to exist as a muse for all the world’s creators and revelers; an essential wellspring of experiment and design, dreams and plans. Rejoice in what it means to be feminine, spontaneous and free!

This African goddess of the Niger River is both a fierce guardian and fearless warrior. She tirelessly wields a cutting blade of truth, clearing your head of nonsense or sweeping the past aside for a fresh beginning. She commands the winds and therefore is the first and last breath of life.

Oya is a woman of rainbows and rivers who guides her colorful, if sometimes wayward, charges with a firm and impartial hand. She represents the powerful forces of change through earthquakes and storms. Her rages of fire and wind purify and renew us, forcing us to grow—whether we like it or not!

Her changing faces are reflected in the Mayan moon. Vulnerable newness, youthful vigor and ancient wisdom are the recurring cycles of a full and ever-changing womanhood. She is both young and old, timeless like the rains that bring both feasts and floods.

Ix Chel the weaver pulls lifelines like threads from her spindle. She moves us in and out with the tides like the warp and weft on a loom. She shows us when to be calm and when to be restless, pushing us to fight oppression as well as accept what we see both inside and out as beautiful and true.

She is the Greek goddess of wisdom, a capable ally and equally formidable opponent who wastes neither words nor deeds. Her strengths are honor, intelligence and discipline. To win her favor is to learn from defeat and successes alike, thus finding a personal victory in every lesson.

Athena is a maker of heroes: the insistent voice of reason in our ears moving us to be courageous and industrious, to think first then act decisively. She is the patroness of higher thought and reason - winning out over our lesser natures.

This princess of the clouds is a healer and nurturer. Unconditional love, mercy and compassion are her generous gifts to us. She experiences a powerful empathy: openly and willingly feeling all the joys and pain of humanity as her own. This ultimate intuitiveness allows her to touch her charges deeply and give what is needed most.

Kuan Shih Yin teaches us to bend like the willow in a tempest rather than resisting and breaking. Carrying a vial of pure, soothing elixir and a branch for sprinkling its droplets over the world, she hears and reaches out to all in need.