- Connecting scientific research with lived spirituality
- Known and unknown goddesses in German speaking regions
- The Goddess made visible and becoming part of daily life

In her youth Joanne Foucher was already fascinated by the book “Mists of Avalon”, and so she decided early on that she would become an Avalon Priestess in order to serve the Goddess. However, in southern Lower Saxony (Germany) where she grew up, she was not initially able to find her. She spent her holidays with her grandparents in Brittany, where she began looking for the Goddess in the landscape, the ancient stone rows at Carnac, in the ocean, in the legends of Brittany, and its traditional music. After finishing high-school she went to Ireland for a year and carried on researching there.

Once back in Germany, she wanted to find out more about native goddesses, so she studied archaeology and comparative religious studies. In parallel, she trained to become an Avalon Priestess in Glastonbury. This book is, therefore, a symbiotic merging of scientific research and the experiences of almost twenty-five years of lived spirituality. It is not an academic book in the sense that it wishes to substantiate a scientific theory thesis. The Goddess is, after all, not a thesis, but alive and powerful.

In this volume she is depicted through the wheel of the year as the hag, girl, lover, and mother, as the mother of elements, and finally as the Great Mother. Each of her manifestations provides names and traditions that are rooted in the land. Joanne Foucher describes these traditions and offers short, inspiring stimuli for the reader’s own spiritual practise based on the round of eight yearly celebrations of the solstices, equinoxes and quarter days.