Al-Uzza
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The Pre-Islamic Triple Goddess
Al-Uzza is the pre-Islamic Arabian Goddess of the morning and evening star, also known as Venus. A beautiful woman, she was worshipped as the Goddess of Love, as well as of Death. Whenever a new phase in life is heralded, it is Al-Uzza’s energy that brings in the new. However, to bring in the new, the old has to die, and thus, Al-Uzza is both, death of the old and birth of the new.
The Venus of Life & Death
Al-Uzza is the Goddess of change, as well as the opener of secret doors. In maze meditations, where you visualise coming into rooms with several closed doors and having to choose one to open, her energy is apparent. She is the virgin aspect of the Goddess, which refers to the purity of spirit and self-containment. Al-Uzza's animals are the Lion and Camel.
Not a Timid Girl
A beginning is a powerful transformer and the death of the old that goes with it causes part of you to die and a new part to resurrect as you. Her sacred stone is the Baetyl or Black Meteorite and the black stone at Mecca is certainly one of the many leftovers of the ancient worship of the Moon Goddess that was powerfully dominant in that region before the advent of Islam, another one being the sickle moon with the morning or evening star as the symbol of the religion itself.
Opposites
Al-Uzza, being the youngest of the three sisters, the others being Allat and Manat, is the Goddess of fresh perspectives, but also of power and war. Moreover, in Southern Arabia, she was revered as Goddess of Healing. In her form of Goddess of Death, she is also related to the Mesopotamian Ereshkigal, Queen Goddess of the Underworld.