Mother Goose

Thanks to unemployment I was able to help a friend in distress today as well as offer a drum journey to two women friends.

The journey found me flying on the back of a goose. I got that geese are social creatures and care for their goslings. These two women were like my goslings in a motherly sort of way.

My intention for the journey was, as always, to heal our beloved planet. So goose and I "dusted" Korea, Iran and other countries around the planet with love dust...like fairy dust and star dust...mystical.

One of the women knew Goose as a Goddess archetype so I looked it up in The Woman's Dictionary of Symbols and Sacred Objects:

The Goose that laid the Golden Egg was originally the Egyptian Goddess Hathor who gave birth to the sun, when she took the form of the Nile goose. The sun god was "the Egg of the Goose appearing from out of the sycamore," that is, the Goddess's sacred tree. The hieroglyphic sign for the World Egg was the same as the sign for an embryo in a woman's womb.

Caesar said that goose was sacred to the Celtic tribes and was not considered edible, because of her connection with the Sun-Egg. For similar resons, medieval superstition forbade the killing of a goose in midwinter, when the sun was thought to be in need of maternal care to gain strength for the new season. Later the superstitious rule was reversed, so radically that a goose could even become a traditional Christmas dinner by the time Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol. Like other formerly sacred creatures, geese were said to contain sould of the unbaptized (pagans).