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GODDESS COVENTINA-AUGUSTA
I became very interested in the Goddess Coventina because of the name association within my own group. I being born in August and this year starting a Coven naturally triggered my need to find out about her. Little did I know what an honorable and giving Goddess she is?
None really know of her origins Coventina probably originated in Roman around 200 BCE-300 AC. She is also known in Britain Anglo-Celtic: Scotland: Norse and Germanic.
Through out Britain, Norse, Celtic & Scotland Coventina was a River Goddess. She has been associated with three water elements Nymphs. Her picture has been painted on her shrine sitting on a water lily holding a chalice and also with two other nymphs holding chalices. This depiction of her may be a representation of the triple Goddess.
Her people sacrificed coins and trinkets by throwing them in her (HOPE WELL) and making wishes in jesters of sympathetic magic, were like attracts like! Whatever the original origin might have begun, has been lost.
To the Anglo-Celtic and Scottish she represents abundance, inspiration and prophecy. In Scotland she was also the Goddess of featherless flying creatures which may have represented some types of blockage to passing the otherworld.
In Magick and Ritual as Goddess of the Watershed she has the energy associated with the flow of time, with new beginnings and lifecycles and making wishes. She can also be asked to aid in Magick for protection of birds and divination and inspiration of self. Coventina Magickal correspondences are coins; broaches, lily pads and mud.
To the Norse and Germanic she is known as Eir Coventina Augusta. Coventina is the Maiden Goddess of healers of Shamanic healing who lived on Mount Lyfia. This is where healing magic was used to regenerate and transform Body, Mind and Spirit!
As Patroness of health care and healers she teaches us the uses of herbs; holistic; preventive; aromatherapy; crystals and stone therapy; emotional counseling ; energy, balancing; folk-medicine; herbalism; massage and Shamanic soul loss retrieval.
Associated with the Rune Berkans and the Birch tree Eir Conventina also lent a helping hand to those with good intentions and willingness to put out the effort required for the healing needed, the knowledge for the magickal uses of amulets and charms and talismans . She also inspired visions and encouragement and guided the pathway to markers. She has been known as a sacred Healer Spring Goddess and a White Goddess.
I connect with Coventina not for my original associated names that I began the research on her but because of what she stands for. There have been many times I have made charms and sachets with bath salts, used energy to heal along with aromatherapy; massage; herbalism; crystals and stones to help others.
There have also been many times I have been healed through emotional counseling and preventive care. I have been rejuvenated and granted a new beginning unknowing the name of the Universal aspect of Coventina! Now that I have a name and a face to the Goddess that inspires me in with my love and desire to be a healer, I will say her name in gratitude and sacrifice a coin in hopes that my sympathetic magic will attract like.
By Rose
11/2008
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