“Felicitas’ themes are kindness, charity, love, romance, joy, success and luck. Her symbols are greetings (greeting cards). This Roman Goddess brings happiness, success, and good fortune whenever someone salutes another with good words or amiable deeds. She comes to us today to energize late fall and early winter with the transformational power of kindness.
While Sweetest Day seems to be focused on lovers these days, in earlier years it represented an opportunity to shower anyone and everyone with cheerful trinkets, kind acts, and gentle words to lift people’s spirits. By looking for Felicitas for help, we can return this holiday to its original form and bring joy to people who might otherwise be feeling a case of autumn blues. Look for, or make, some humorous greeting cards to send to folks you know would appreciate the thought. Lay your hands on them and invoke Felicitas’s blessings in any way that feels right.
To improve the effect further, anoint the cards with rejuvenating aromatic oils that match the recipient’s needs (such as pine for money, rose for love or peace, cinnamon for luck, sandalwood for health, and lavender to combat depression). This way, when they open that card, the magic and the aroma will be released together to bless, energize, and bear Felicitas’s greetings along with your heartfelt wishes!”
(Patricia Telesco, “365 Goddess: a daily guide to the magic and inspiration of the goddess”.)
“‘Good fortune’ was a Roman Goddess distinct from Fortuna, another divinity of fate. Shown on Roman coins in the form of a heavyset matron, Felicitas was Goddess of personal happiness, while Fortuna ruled the fates of cities and nations” (Monaghan, p. 124).
Other names and epithets include: Fausta Felicitas, Felicitas Deorum (“Luck of the Gods”), Felicitas Perpetua (“Everlasting Happiness”), Felicitas Republicae (“Fortune of the State”), Felicitas Romanorum (“Success of the Romans”), Felicitas Saeculi (“Happiness of the Age”), or Felicitas Temporum (“Luck of the Times”). [1]
Click here to read a fantastic piece written by Thalia Took on Fausta Felicitas.
In comparing Felicitas and Fortuna, Delia O’Riordan writes: “Despite Her connection with both luck and success, Felicitas was sometimes conflated with the Goddess of Destiny, Fortuna, whose symbol was the Wheel of Fortune which spun until it arbitrarily stopped in a position that would decide the outcome of events. Whereas Felicitas was seen as the particular patroness of military exploits and successful harvests, Fortuna was seen as having a direct and personal effect on the totality of everyone’s life through the working of Destiny. Romans believed that the overall Destiny of a person was somewhat ‘fixed’ from birth but the intervention of Fortune in the form of the unexpected or chance happening could alter that Destiny. In addition, the Roman Gods like the Greeks before them, were notoriously moody and unpredictable. If one inadvertently offended a powerful God or Goddess, their wrath could be epic so it was important to stay on good terms with them all as far as possible. To have Felicitas and Fortuna both on your side was a powerful combination and devotees often honoured both Goddesses in household shrines as well as the temples. In the age of science and technology, we see these ancient deities as archetypes created in consciousness by more primitive minds than ours. But archetypes carry energy and if we don’t learn how to work with those energies, they can influence our decisions and behaviours from within the recesses of our unconscious selves and wreak havoc in our lives in the form of neuroses, addictions, compulsions, etc.” [2]
Sources:
Monaghan, Patricia. The New Book of Goddesses and Heroines, “Felicitas”.
O’Riordan, Delia. Psychic-delia.com, “Spirits Matters: Success and Destiny“.
Took, Thalia. Thaliatook.com, “Fausta Felicitas“.
Suggested Links:
Lunesoleil. Lunesoleil23.wordpress.com, “Les astéroïdes de la #chance avec Fortuna , Félicitas et Tyché” (translated from French).
Roman-colosseum.info, “Roman Gods and Goddesses“.
Wikipedia, “Felicitas“.
We had the same idea at the same time funny too see my last article on my blog 🙂
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Beautiful! I’m adding your link (translated into English) in my “Suggested Links”. Thanks for sharing!!! 🙂
Thank you Daughter RavynStar 🙂
My first sharing was done with Lilith by the link of your article in my article on Lilith
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Hello in was Faleine the movie maker who gave ue the tales of the Caberi(kabaira. ) Of which the clasical writers tell so little and very misleading in formation Caberi for them where , not so definable. Under all these nice goddesses lie an negitive aspect and like all women they can be quite dominering . Women who channel a specific kabairi “divine ones ” , people like my x wife, who at age 16 told me she was a Pleiadean. Would try to deny me my rightful path the 8 th fold path of iyamatara. As women are the conduits of all energies in this path, it is women who needs to be more compassionate to show the animal “male ” she deserves all the respect , we can show instead of abuse and intolernace. The handing out of knowledge, Professor Kitto, in his book the greeks, reveals that the eumendies wopuld first extract a aspect of pain, punitive action before revealing truth. Ass my experience on the path.Buddha would reveal “i enter thr forest to confront the Nagas , over their crulity, and thus try to change how they behave. As the nagas are tree spirits shape shifters, they are very active in Bali. i think , this myth about Hathor as the lady of the trunk suits well At home here at ferny grove i was about to be asked to attend a pary by a very naughty women, going by the bayan tree near the railway station , on my bike , my bike cam to a dead stop , and over i went on my head, dazzed and in total shock, in my mind i felt these words No, stay away from jacky. Jacky would by the mere standing over me at the gym while exerciesing , my Crown chakra opened . My path and my enlightement found not so much in Tantric but in women. My kundalini rose while looking in to the eyes of this women , she was /is married ,this Mary, but the atherealness of her , so i have heard some men say, isn’t she amazing. Trouble is she hides her channeling. abilities. the Ancient term for these women is Kedushah, or kedeshah. The 8 Kabaria, where divine ones on the greek isle of Samothrace . they can be seen spreading all over the ancient world , and the aboriginals of our western Australia one anthropologist noted , the women, elders of the aboriginals in the Plybra region call their matriarcahl elders Kabairi. With so much circumstancial evidence of ancient mariners to our Australian shores , my best quess qwoul be these earlier pheonicians who worshipped Tara. So who are the Kabairi. Again, best quess is Pleiades, only these higher female consciouness, are divided as to how humanity is to be elevated. Tara informed me after a torrid few months, a new element “light source” or cosmic paricles, is traveling back to us from the frindge of the expanding universe. Science wil say rubbish. But it’s the great Mother magna Kymbali, who has sent this, and tara , one could say hatched this plot to rip the consciousness out from under those beings who took over. nuetrinos. are the building blocks of all elements. what i was told came to me first as pain. then the messgae came. This blue light that comes should be here by april 20 th 2013. and the polar shift expect high winds. this blue light is supposedly to activate our pineal glands. i was told yesterday by a chance meeting that flouride in our water actually calcifies our pineal glands. Other forces in the play the punitive pleiadeans and all the rest of you aliens will be going home, vanish. And the illuminati, well guess what you can’t stop this from happening. As Tara is the mother of all Buddhas and siddhas. alchemists not holy men and women. Where are you all, please step up and guide the lesser consciouness. with out punitive action, knowledege is to be shared freely. and the masons , mate i read your emerald tablets, what bullshit. Higher consciouness can’t be written down it’s given by godhead to the ba , self. One on one. no guru’s no teachers no messiahs. and no such thing as a god. with a male dick. childrens stories. shame on you. For all the pain, and confusion . you have caused humanity. Now it’s coming back to bite you on the arse. for all of you that i have traveled with on this long walk, we will meet, i met one yesterday, incredable exchange. what i see happening is this, the orbs will come in their millions , Tara is a ball of light the hindu call Body of light “Dirya diha Cin maha”, these in our skies above . November 1 2003. i first saw them. over my home. So we wait. yet again. sorry for the spelling mistakes.