Guest Post: Hail Columbia! A Ritual To Call Upon America’s Overlooked Goddess
The government is filled with corrupt officials who have actively betrayed their oaths of office in pursuit of power, bringing active harm to my communities and many others. Suffice to say, my magical political activism needed to up it’s game, and I was trying to determine who to call in for aid. Calling upon the Founding Fathers is just a little too patriarchal for my taste. Calling upon the Spirit of America kept summoning images of the Old West, which was not what I was going for. Maybe Lady Liberty? That was closer, but it felt like something was missing. Then the name Columbia came up. You know of Columbia, right? The Goddess of America? Or, more accurately, the Forgotten Goddess of America. Lady Liberty, who is more familiar to most of us these days, is Her daughter.