Themes: Weather; Children; Fertility; Health Symbols: Water; Turquoise; Jade; Silver, Blue or White Items About Ix Chel: The aqueous Mayan Goddess of Water, the Moon, medicine, and childbirth, Ix Chel lives in the land of mists and rainbows. Art shows her wearing a skirt that flows with the fertile waters, dotted with water lilies, and adorned with tiny bits of turquoise and jade. This skirt reaches all the way to Earth, filling our lives with Ix Chel's well-being and enrichment. To Do Today: Believing that the frost spirit lives in the cliffs of Santa Eulalia, people brave the sheer stones once a year and make prayers to the weather deities to keep away further intrusion by the frost, which would ruin crops. Ix Chel is present to witness, being part of the frost and part of the nurturing rains, for which the priests also pray. For our purposes this equates to calling on Ix Chel's energy to "defrost" a frozen or emotionally chilly situation, or to rain on us with her healing power.
To protect your health specifically, carry a turquoise, which also safeguards you during travel today. To inspire productivity or fertility, wear blue and white items, repeating this incantation as you put them on:
Ix Chel, be in this ____ of blue, so my thoughts stay fixed on you.
Ix Chel, be in this ____ of white, bring abundance both day and night.
Source: 365 Goddess - a daily guide to the magic and inspiration of the Goddess. (May 7) By Patricia Telesco
holiday information from http://www.Paganinstitute.org Written by White Water Based on Patricia Telesco 365 Goddesses but has been rewritten.
