

Forest Goddesses
My children's visionary fantasy WIND includes a forest goddess, a shape-changing tree spirit. She feels mythic and real to me; I see her in my mind's eye as a wise guide. After finishing the book, I started wondering if there were any "real" goddesses like the one I had imagined into story-being. Whoa! There are many forest and tree goddesses from nearly every culture. My own Celtic ancestry has quite a few including Flidais, the Lady of the Forest, who guards wild fauna and