~ Being in Self-less Service to the Gods~

Spiritual teachers, healers, leaders and every human being whose conscious intention lies in making this world a better and peaceful place for everybody to enjoy life, is honoring and is in self-less service (seva) to the gods.

Please allow me to introduce the mythological Greek and Roman Gods to you in a very simple and yet profound way.

Sun symbolizes the conscious sense of Self, the personality vehicle, the ego.

The goddess of the night, the sensitive Moon, represents our reflective, emotional self, our receptive feminine and nurturing energy.

Venus/Aphrodite, the goddess of love and beauty represents feminine energy.

Mars / Ares, the god of war challenges us to transform our anger and frustrations into creative endeavors. He also presents the opportunity to transmute our aggressive nature into a non-violent one being able to communicate our needs in an assertive way. This god represents masculine, active energy.

Mercury/Hermes, the divine messenger of the gods, allows us to communicate our soulful divine message. It represents the logical and rational mind.

Jupiter/ Zeus, the king of the gods, this benevolent energy, brings us all kinds of opportunities to expand our self-limited horizons.

Saturn/Chronos, the lord of karma, the taskmaster invites us to build a firm and solid foundation where we can give tangible form to our creative ideas and manifest our goals while learning and integrating our karmic lessons.

Kiron, the wounded healer, represents the bridge between the personal and the transpersonal, between the known physical world and the world of images that emerges from archeytypes, from universal energies; the presence of Kiron helps us heal our dual nature, its energy brings spirit into matter.

Uranus, the SkyGod, unexpectedly comes to us like lightening to disrupt the status quo and make our lives spiritually miserable until we finally break free from the old-self-destructive habits. It represents the energy of awakening to the true self.

Neptune/Poseidon, the god of the ocean, opens up a new divine perspective by inviting us to delve into dreams, visions, and imagination. Neptune rules the angelic realms. This ethereal energy allows us to experience self-transcendence.

Hades/Pluto, the god of the underworld, invites us to descend into the depths of our own unconscious in order to face, trans-form, transmute and purify our deep-seated fears and dark emotions back into raw-creative material.

Last, but not least, Prometheus, is the so called god of fire because he stole fire from the gods (Zeus) and gave it to us, humans, to keep us warm and connected to Spirit. His name means forethought. He also represents the energy of awakening to the divine spark which lies deep within our 4th chakra.

Maru Dana, Ph.D.