ARTEMIS

My story about the connection I have with Artemis started unbeknown to me at age 10 while sitting in a swing in the dark looking at the sky and catching a glimpse of the Pacific ocean as I swung high. We lived on the cliffs overlooking the ocean and this night I chose to leave my home and go swinging across the street at the school to avoid the anger in the house between my Mother and Step-Father. As I swung I cried and a bright group of stars caught my flooded eyes up in the dark night sky. Three stars with a faint fourth one nearby. Something about these stars gave me deep peace and I remember saying out loud "You three stars are mine and when I am sad or in trouble you will be there shining for me". I believed at the time that only I knew of these stars. It always seemed that I would see these three stars in times of despair or trouble and I knew that all things would work out for me. As I got older and pregnant with my first child I wanted to name the baby if a girl "Artemis," a Goddess I had heard of in the Midwifery circles I was involved with. The Father could only associate the name Artemis with a television show and the character was a man. I knew there was no naming my girl child Artemis. As it was I did have a daughter and gave her a Jewish name that the Father approved of. I did not know much about Artemis but the power of her name intrigued me and stayed with me all these years. I still clung to my three stars in good times and bad. Recently learning the story of Artemis and Orion who's belt is the three bright stars I have loved since age 10 and how Orion was killed by the Scorpion and then placed in the heavens opposite the Scorpion to keep him from being taken by Pluto associated with Hades I was struck with all of the connections to my life with these many players of the heavens. I am born a scorpio and I have taken Artemis as my Goddess the protector, lover of one man, Orion and the midwife who even as an infant midwifed her own Mother to deliver her twin brother Apollo. Interestingly my own full-blood brother and I are only 11 months apart and his birth was difficult. I feel I have come to understand after all these years that the Heavens have been calling to me, watching me, helping me and wanting me to grow into the woman strength I was intended to have. Oh, another interesting tidbit is my favorite sport at school was archery! Blessed Artemis I accept you and will take full hold of the great confidence and strength inside my soul fully for the good. I am strong and loving of the vulnerable, ready with arched bow and sharp arrow to aim high, yes high into the heavens ~