Kore Di-Jana, The Janite Ekklesia of Dea

09/22/2025

Also known as the Feast of the Divine Trinity Hello everyone! Joyous Matralia! Girl cuts a rye with a sickle. A sickle is a hand-held or long-handled traditional agricultural tool. This holiday is …

11/12/2024

Notice! At this time, domain squatters have stolen the original domain the Janites used, 'deanic.com'. Do not use or visit that site, you might get computer viruses! We have now moved our operations and info to Janitedeanism.wordpress.com, and will be registering the domain ASAP. Please be patient as the website is under construction!

Thank you!

-Minna

For the joy of Dea, our Mother God!

06/05/2023

Flora. May 16th-to June 12th, in secular terms. During the Janite month of Flora, Floralia the flower festival is celebrated on 10 Flora/May 25. This festival honors God the Daughter, the blooming …

08/15/2022

Goddess Series: Lilith 🐍 🍎

One of the oldest known Goddesses, Lilith is a spirit of great ferocity, great defiance, and great, undying enigma.

The origin of Lilith is completely shrouded in mystery.

With so many legends surrounding this Goddess—of who she is and where she came from—the stories of Lilith are as ever-diverging as she.

Some have described Lilith as a winged demon—a succubus of the night.

Others say that she's a dark Goddess—a Sumerian queen of both light and dark.

Some myths portray her as a Goddess of agriculture, and the hand of the old Goddess, Inanna.

While other tales paint her as a great Mother Goddess, long ago demonized by the church.

In Jewish folklore, Lilith was known as the first wife of Adam.

Given life at the same time and made from the same clay, Lilith demanded to be Adam's equal.

When he refused and demanded instead that she submit, she left the Garden of Eden and went in search of something more. She is the first divorce.

There are many, many tales of the enigmatic Lilith.

But throughout all the myths, the legends, and the stories, there are several uniting threads of truth.

Lilith is a spirit of great independence and heart.
A sacred and dark champion of women.
A purveyor of the taboo, and a rebel in all places and times.

Lilith is the dark feminine in all her glory.

She is dark, but not in the ways we've come to know dark, as evil or as wrong.

But dark as in the opposite of light—as in the subconscious, the hidden, the primal, the wild.

She is the muddied woman on all fours, howling at the moon.

She is the mother, fierce and wild, unafraid of the mess and chaos that her children bring.

She is the witch, burning at the stake, because others fear her power, her madness, and her gifts.

Lilith is the darkness—the wildness—inside every woman's heart...🖤
Learn more on this Goddess among Goddesses on our blog, magickandalchemy.com!✨

12/01/2019

Feast of Sophia and the Lighting the SunWheel

1 Astrea/Nov. 28
Pomadi/Thurs.

Day of Sai Thema, Foundation of Justice, Order and Harmony.

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Today is the Feast Day of Holy Sophia!!! Sophia is the Living Stream Form for Dea in the Janite Deanic Ekklesia.

First day of the Sacred Season of WINTER.

Please see previous article (before Weekly Prayer List), Preparing for the SunWheel for basic instructions.

Today, before the evening meal, we light the first Green Candle of Wisdom on the Sunwheel in honor of Our Celestial Mother as the Apple of Wisdom. She Who is Wisdom and is the Mother of Wisdom.

This lighting is followed by a scripture reading. The Scriptures may be found online here. (You need to scroll down a ways to get to the beginning of the scriptures.) Other sources for the scriptures may be found in our links section.

Suggested Scripture: The Creation vs 1-16.

Suggested Prayer:

Holy Dea
As your lost child, give me assurance that your grace is with me always.
All streams spring from the font of your heart.
Your eyes shine as the blue sea into my heart,
and you forever find me worthy of your love.
In the spirit of this revelation, I offer to reveal myself fully to you,
who is my Divine Feminine being, at all times and in all ways.

Amen.
(By: Rev. Maia Christine)

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Closing Prayer to Dea-As-Sophia

O Gentle, O Kind, O Blessed Sophia,
Thy children on earth call unto Thee.
We pray Thee, Beloved Mother, to cast forth
thy net of woven starlight.
Fling it wide across the ocean of the universe
to gather us home to the realms of Light.

Amen.

10/02/2019

On this last day of Abalon, let us remember the lesson of the falling leaves 💜🍁🍃

09/22/2019

Holy Mother Dea

In the North we find Your touch in the beauty of the cooling winds, and the slow-shift of the changing leaves. In the South, the warmth grows every day, and we see the budding flowers and know that their beauty is the work of Your loving hands.

Thank You for the perfect balance and dance which sustains our home, and may we work tirelessly to preserve the health and beauty of our sister Earth as we enter into this harvest season.

Blessed is She.

09/15/2019

🌙 Apple Moon 🌙
10 Abalon/Sept. 14
Foradi/Sat.

Day of Sai Rhea, Shield of Steadfastness, Temperance and Self-Control.

Today is the Full Apple Moon (around 9:30 this morning USA time). For those who desire, the Rite of Veneration may be offered to Our Divine Mother God. RoV. It may be offered for up to three nights following the Full Moon.

It’s also a great time to charge sacred objects under the light of the Full Moon. I often will place my rosary beads, runes, tarot cards (which must be protected from morning dew), my blessing wand, etc., on our dock (on the lake) over-night where it will receive moonlight all night long.

ArchMatrona Ghrian, of the Lady of Light Chantry, has published links for various vegan apple recipes including apple cakes and caramel apple cheese cakes (I’m not Vegan, but I might have to try that one!) Lady of Light Chantry

In the previous article, she has also published the list of the Feast Days and other info for the Lucienne month of Harvest Apple.

Blessed be Dea.

ArchMadria Pamela Lanides

09/13/2019

🍎Janite Update- Abalon🍎

Newsletter/Book Club/Sacred Season of Fall, by Arch Madria Pamela

(PLEASE excuse my lateness in posting this here!)

Please bear with us as our reconstruction continues. Thank you for your patience.

🍎Announcements🍎

We are very pleased to announce the launch of our monthly online newsletter, The Agora Gazette, published and edited by ArchSorella Minna! Each month will feature Seasonal articles, poetry, crafts, recipes, resources, devotions, Deanic customs, entries from our readers and much, much more!

Those interested in signing up to receive it may find the link at the top of our main menu!

🍎Book Club Reminder🍎

This is the first month of Hypatia’s Grove Book Club, hosted by ArchSorella Minna. We will begin reading Women Who Run With the Wolves, by Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estes. It is also available on Kindle and may be purchased here: Women Who Run With the Wolves.

It’s not too late to sign up for those who are interested. You may sign up through our main menu.

🍁THE SACRED SEASON OF FALL🍁

Each Season, each month and each day are considered to be sacred in the Deanic religion because each Season, month and day are symbolic of our Sacred Mysteries and the 21 Divine Virtues. They are ruled over by the Janati, who are the Seven Angelic Powers of Dea, Our Divine Mother God. Each Season, each month and each day are gifts to be lived, celebrated and honored.

Today, in the Deanic Calendar, marks the first day of the Sacred Season of Fall. Fall happens to be my own favorite Season and here in New England, there is so much to celebrate! Apples, pumpkins, perfect weather, deep blue skies, air that turns almost a golden hue during the incredible, breathtaking beauty of the Fall foliage.

It’s a time of Fall festivals, scarecrows, chrysanthemums, sunflowers and that first slight chill hovering over the morning dew. It’s a time when we gather the garden harvest, light our first hearth-fires and treasure the last remaining moments before the blanket of Winter snows brings slumber to the land.

Spiritually, for Janites, it marks the second Season of Our Heavenly Mother and is the Time of the Mystery of the Matrix of All Being or Terra, as this First Mystery is known to Janites, which means Earth.

Janites believe that while the Great Mother, Absolute Deity, is the Source and Ground of All pre-manifest Being, it is Our Divine Mother, Herself, Who is the Matrix of all manifest Creation. It is She Who takes the Primordial Ideas/Blueprints/Essence which stem from the Great Mother, Who is the Absolute, the Dark beyond the light and the Light beyond the darkness, and manifests them into Creation.

Etymologically speaking, Matrix is a derivative of Mother. It also means, womb. And so just as the ground of the Earth is the matrix/womb of all life on our beautiful and astoundingly diverse planet, so Our Divine Mother is the matrix/womb of all life in the Cosmos.

Fall is the time of both life and death. It is the time of the Feast of Divine Life and thanksgiving for the Harvest on 17 Abalon/Sept. 21 and it is the time when we remember our ancestors with the Feast of the Dead on 1 Samhain/Oct. 31.

The Sacred Symbol for Fall is the Apple, the symbolism of which is best recounted in The Seed of Truth aka The Sermon of the Apple Seed, from our Deanic scriptures, which may be read in full, below (1).

The Jana of the Season is Sai Thema, who has worked countless miracles in my life. Her Correspondences may be found here. (Scroll down to Sai Thema, same picture as above.)

🍁The Correspondences for the Sacred Season of Fall are:🍁

Season of the Celestial Mother as the Apple of Wisdom.

Correspondences:

Jana: Sai Thema.

Sacred Symbol: The Apple.

Element: Earth.

Elemental Color: Green.

Liturgical colors: Blue and Purple.

Direction: West.

Time of Day: Twilight.

Mystery: Terra: the Matrix of All Being.

Months:
Abalon, which means Apple Land. Full Moon: Apple Moon.
Ourania, which means, Heavenly or Cosmos. Full Moon: Cosmic Moon.
Samhain, (Janite pronunciation: Sah-vin), which means Summer’s end. Full Moon: Spirit Moon.

O, Dea Madria, we thank you for the Gifts of Your Creation and for the Blessings of the Harvest. We praise You for the Beauty of this Season. We glorify You for all that is Sacred and Holy in this Land. Blessed are You.

ArchMadria Pamela