An Interview With Author, Amy Sophia Marashinsky
Recently, I had the opportunity to speak with Amy Sophia Marashinsky, author of The Goddess Oracle and eGoddesses. Ms. Marashinsky is a wonderfully expressive and talented writer, and she is a gifted individual. It’s my pleasure to bring you the following interview.
In your own words, what role does the goddess/es play in your life?
I believe we all have a piece of the Divine in us, our Goddess or God piece. The task of incarnating as a human is to evolve our human self into our Divine or Goddess self. So the more we connect with the Goddess from our own Goddess self, the more we strengthen that energy, thus making it easier for our human self to evolve into the Goddess. She is an affirmation of the Divine Feminine. Raised in our Judeo-Christian culture, it is very easy to get the message that we are just an after-thought. That only man is made in the image of the Divine/God. The presence of the Goddess affirms that we aren't just a rib here.
What is your experience with acceptance in expressing your views openly.
I always express myself openly. It is the only way I know how to be. I would say that I tend to attract people, and situations, who want to hear what I have to say. I find there is more acceptance for my views: my thoughts, my connection with the Goddess, than for myself as a powerful, confident woman. This tells me I have to work on my own self-acceptance, before others will follow suit.
What is some history on your involvement with the goddess path?
I'll confess . . . In 1987 I read "The Mists of Avalon" and it changed my life and the focus of my spiritual direction. Before that I had been practicing Zen for 7 or more years. Reading that book seemed to blow open all my pathways. I began working with a place of power, then experiencing animals there with me. My brother got poison ivy and I asked, when in my place of power, what could cure him. The “Spirit of the Poison Ivy” answered me (I would now name it as the Poison Ivy Deva) who told me if my brother apologized, then he would be cured. And, no, I didn't tell him this. That very summer, I was in Maine on a two-week screenwriter's retreat. On my birthday, during the first week, was a full moon. I told some people that I would lead a ritual, and 13 people accepted! Then I got scared. I didn't feel I could do this ritual. After all, I wasn't a priestess, I was a screenwriter. So I told myself. At the time as part of my daily morning ritual, I was doing chakra work that I had been 'guided' to do. The day was cloudy when I went outside to do my chakra work. I drew up energy from the earth into my chakras and as I moved the energy into the crown chakra, the sun came out from behind a cloud, resulting in a simultaneous explosion of light in my crown chakra. It catapulted me into a transcendent moment in which I felt one with everything. I found myself telling the earth that I would take care of her. I had a sense of picking up a banner, or standard, that I had let go of in a previous lifetime. I considered this experience to be one in which the Goddess reached out and chose me for Her Priestess. I led the ritual that night and have been leading rituals ever since.
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