The Mother Grove Goddess Temple

06/06/2026

Happy Vestalia

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Vesta was a Roman goddess sacred to women, and each year in June, she was honored with a celebration called the Vestalia.

06/04/2026

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Aida-Wedo is the Lwa (spirit or Goddess) of water, snakes and the rainbow, represented by the rainbow python, a snake whose scales are iridescent. The rainbow serpent is the symbol of integration in many parts of the world, including Africa, Australia and America, and represents that which links heaven and earth, and encircles the world to unite her disparate elements.

In the Vodou tradition, Aida-Wedo (and Her husband Damballah) belong to the Rada Lwa, or spirits who come out of the rites of the old kingdom of Dahomey (present Nigeria, Benin and Togo), generally considered to be benevolent and sweet (dous).

She represents continuity and strength, integration and wholeness, as the rainbow contains all the colors, split from white light. Integrity, whether physical (structural), or moral, is the natural result of integration--weaving together elements that are very different. Her message is one of healing and strength for the whole of the world.

Offerings to Aida-Wedo include white foods such as milk, rice, and eggs.

06/02/2026

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Before the gods of Ireland took their names… there was one figure believed to stand above them all.

At the root of the Tuatha Dé Danann lies a mysterious and powerful name — Danu.

But here’s where it gets fascinating…

According to Mark Williams in Ireland's Immortals, Danu is not a clearly defined goddess in the surviving myths.
In fact, she is almost completely absent from the stories themselves.

So why is she so important?

The name Tuatha Dé Danann literally means “the people of the goddess Danu.”
Yet unlike other figures, Danu has no detailed myths, no clear personality, and no major surviving tales.

Williams suggests something powerful:
Danu may not have been a character at all… but a deep ancestral figure, possibly representing:

A forgotten mother goddess
The divine source of a people
Or even an ancient name tied to fertility, land, and rivers

Her presence is felt… even in her absence.

Some scholars link her name to Indo-European river goddesses, suggesting she may have once been part of a much older tradition — one that predates the written myths entirely.

And that raises a powerful question:

Was Danu deliberately forgotten… or is she so ancient that her story was never fully written down?

As we continue exploring the women of Irish mythology, Danu reminds us of something important:

Not all power is loud. Some of it is buried deep in the roots of a culture.

05/31/2026

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Who is Grandmother Moon? In many traditions she is believed to be one of the first 3 spirits placed by the Great Spirit to watch over the children of Earth. She helps you with your dreams and visions. You can ask her to bring the dreams to you or to help you understand the meaning […]

05/30/2026

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Women’s History Month is a time to reflect on the women whose stories may not appear as often nor as prominently as those of their male contemporaries. Such is the story of the Lady, whose indigenous chiefdom ran from South Carolina’s coastline to North Carolina’s foothills. 

05/28/2026

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The Tylwyth Teg
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The Tylwyth Teg were not the harmless little fairies of children’s stories.

In Welsh folklore, they were known as the Fair Folk — beautiful, elusive beings said to dwell just beyond the edge of the human world, in green hills, hidden valleys, mist-covered lakes, and hollow places beneath the earth. The name itself is often translated as “the Fair Family” or “the Fair Folk,” and it was not a title spoken lightly.

They were described as radiant and graceful, but never truly safe. To encounter them was to stand too close to the boundary between worlds. They were said to dance in moonlit rings, ride in strange night processions, and lure mortals into places from which not everyone returned unchanged. In older Welsh belief, beauty was not always a blessing. Sometimes, it was a warning.

Like many of the hidden folk across Celtic tradition, the Tylwyth Teg could be generous — but only when treated with care. They were believed to reward respect and punish arrogance, and old customs warned against offending them, trespassing on their places, or speaking of them too casually. Their gifts, it was said, could vanish as quickly as they came.

They were also tied to some of the darker fears of old folklore. Welsh tales tell of fairy wives bound by strange conditions, of children taken and replaced with changelings, and of unseen realms that could be entered by accident but not always escaped. They were not simply “good” or “evil.” They were something older than that — beings with their own laws, their own territories, and their own sense of justice.

Over time, the name Tylwyth Teg came to gather many kinds of Welsh fair folk beneath it, from lake women and mountain spirits to household tricksters and mine-dwellers. But at the heart of every tale remains the same old idea:

That the hills were never empty.
That the lakes were never only water.

And that in the old Welsh imagination, there were places where another people still lived beside us — watching quietly from the mist.

In Wales, they were not fantasy.
They were the beautiful, dangerous folk of the hidden world.

05/26/2026

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Angitia (the Latin name of the Oscan Anagtia), is an Oscan healing and snake Goddess who was especially revered by the Marsi, a warlike tribe of people who lived to the east of Rome in the Apennine Mountains (sometimes called after them the Marsian Hills) and who spoke a Sabellan dialect. She was famed for Her ability to heal those who had been poisoned, especially those bitten by snakes, and She was said to have the power to kill serpents through spoken charms. The Marsi themselves shared in Her reputation as healers, magicians, and snake-charmers, and in fact to this day the Serpari, or snake-catchers of the area are held in high regard. In Rome of the 1st century CE, the Marsi were reputed to be healers and fortune-tellers, and their land was considered a hotbed of witchcraft.

Angitia was famous for Her knowledge of healing herbs, and was honored with both a grove, the Silva Angitia or Lucus Angitiae, and a temple (complete with treasury) on the south western shores of Lake Fucinus. Fucinus was a large lake (more than 30 miles in circumference) that had no outlet and that was prone to overflow onto nearby towns after the spring rains, which may be why it was drained in the 19th century. Umbro, a legendary priest and seer of the Marsi, was said, like Angitia, to have been a snake-charmer and healer who could cure their bites; according to the Aeneid, Lake Fucinus was said to have wept for him when he was killed in battle.

Angitia's name is believed to be derived either from angere, "to trouble", referring to Her ability to kill snakes, or anguis, "snake" or "serpent". Some inscriptions mention Angitia in the plural as a group, the Angitiae (much like Sulis and the Sulivae), and in one inscription, She is mentioned with Angerona, the Goddess of Silence and the Winter Solstice. According to Servius, Angitia was the name given to the witch Medea, who fled to Italy after her plot to poison Theseus was discovered. Medea is much associated with sorcery and serpents or dragons, and so she was identified with the native Marsian snake and magic Goddess.

05/25/2026

Experience divine bliss at Mother Grove Goddess Temple, open today until 3:00 pm, and immerse yourself in her radiant energy.

05/24/2026

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More and more, people are feeling the pull of the Dark Goddesses — the boundary‑walkers, the truth‑tellers, the keepers of ...