Episode Description
Asherah, Anat, and the Recovery of Goddess Traditions with Trista Hendren of Girl God Books | June 16, 2026
Who – and what – is The Goddess?
"The Great Goddess Asherah, the sacred tree, Mother-Goddess of all of the gods..."
— Miriam Robbins Dexter, Preface to Asherah: Roots of the Mother Tree
We can all agree that we are living through a time of immense grief, polarization, and moral exhaustion.
And beneath our political events we find deeper stories about power, sacredness, domination, and what we believe about human life.
Today’s conversation explores one of those forgotten stories through the figure of Asherah and the recovery of goddess traditions.
Today we are #LiveintheHIve with Trista Hendren, author, speaker, visionary founder of Girl God Books and ONE POWERFUL voice and leader in the dismantling of the patriarchal mindset and the remembrance and return to the wisdom and mystery of the Divine feminine, and to the ancient truth of kinship, reciprocity, and inter-being. I’ve had Trista on before for the episode What Will It Take to Know The Girl God – listen HERE for that episode.
I wanted to have her back to speak about her anthology, Asherah: Roots of the Mother Tree, to expand on reclaiming the Goddess traditions, and share what is alive in her work today.
We touch on…
- I met Trista at The Goddess Conference: The Crone (2023) in Glastonbury. The information got a bit lost in some technical glitches in our conversation. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLI6PGa6n4Gg6l77LkruIJGXwpoT8LzQHi
- Spoiler alert: We talk about Dr Lynne Sedgemore and her upcoming book, "The Goddess Enneagram, to be published by Girl God Books. Dr Lynne will be guesting in the fall.
- Whether a novice or a well-seasoned Goddess lover, this book, Asherah: Roots of the Mother Tree is for you, with academic research, creative writing, poetry and art.
- Trista shares who – and what – is the goddess, and how she discovered the goddess coming from a very devout Christian upbringing.
- Resource: author Burleigh Muten and her well-known book about the divine feminine Goddesses: A World of Myth and Magic on Amazon
- The story behind the creation of Girl God Books.
- Trista converted to Islam – the extraordinary story as to why?
- The power of art! Trista has a HUGE statue of the Venus of Willendorf on her property: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_of_Willendorf
- Girl God Books has produced over 50 books and anthologies, primarily by female authors.
- Spirituality and politics? Trista weighs in on abortion, female sensuality and Female RAGE (and who is the Goddess Anat).
- Resources: Women Who Run with The Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes and The Cosmic Mother by Monica Sjoo, Barbara Mor.
- Resource: Wizard Bisan | https://www.instagram.com/wizard_bisan1/?hl=en
- The call to The Mother from the Palestinians.
- The Goddess Anat: The primal rage of the Mother. An upcoming anthology on ANAT, stay tuned.
- I LOVE THIS! Trista asks: Before Patriarchy did we NEED warrior goddesses?
- Trista is a PRO-Palestine activist. Her family is in Lebanon. The failings of our news.
- In honor of Father’s Day, Trista weighs in on Sacred Masculinity.
- Resource: Upcoming Girl God Book on Healing Spells and Rituals : https://www.facebook.com/thegirlgod/
Perhaps Asherah's greatest gift is not simply that she was remembered, but that her roots remained alive beneath the surface all along waiting for us to remember that we, too, belong to the Mother Tree.
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