Sometimes all we haveis a small fist of resistance,lifted to offer our own stubborn joy,our own sacred work,our own determined hope upinto a sea of chaos & noise,held up in defiance to an avalanche of apathy & greed,refusing to capitulate to cynicism or surrender to despair.We light our candles & offer our prayers.We call the […]
Dangerous Women: Warriors, Grannies and Geishas of the Ming
Edith Garrud “The police were beating up the suffragists, on the rationale that they had rejected the patriarchal protection racket, and therefore deserved it. Edith Garrud, one of the first Europeans to study Asian martial arts, taught the women how to use the men’s weight against them, and on one occasion her studio hid women […]
When the Spiritual Becomes the Political
Featuring Max Dashu “The English language isn’t adequate to put a name to these women. Diviners, priestesses, oracles, visionaries… Within their own cultures, they had titles: mambo, catalonan, mganga, veleda, mugirwa, calundureira, obeah woman, ixhwele. Sometimes outsider-words like santa or kahina. Often, we don’t know what title their own people knew them by, only that […]
Anett Jessop talks Laura Riding
34 Circe Salon — Make Matriarchy Great Again — Disrupting History While researching Robert Graves, Sean Marlon Newcombe reached out to Dr. Anett K. Jessop, who introduced us to Laura Riding Jackson, a poet, linguist, revolutionary thinker and sometime lover of Robert Graves. (Laura Riding 1901-1991) It could be argued she was the inspiration for […]
New Moon in Pisces on March 18th
Endings and Beginnings *Image by Lena Helfinger from Pixabay You cannot have one without the other. Fittingly, this week’s new moon is in Pisces. Pisces is the final sign of the zodiac wheel and is known for its deep sensitivity and mystical qualities. It is considered the most sensitive of all the water signs, representing […]
The Fifth Boat Pushing Off Shore #theNinthWave
Row We are women who She tapped on the shoulder Might have been last yearor decades agoAnd we might have looked up in surprise and said ‘Who Me?”‘No, not me ..’ and given all sorts of rebuttals … But then we listened. We saw this culture was broken and in need.In need of each other, […]
The Spring Equinox on March 20th a Time for Balance
Picture is from The Clover Mead Gathering: A Weekend of Norse Ceremony Under the Greenwood in July of 2026 in the UK hosted by Andreas Korneval. See quote below. The spring equinox is the moment when there is equal light and dark, marking a time of balance. In the northern hemisphere, it is officially the […]
The Spiraling Circle of Women
A guest post by Molly Remer of Brigids Grove “We honor the spiraling circle of women,those who have held us,those who stand beside us,and those who will come after us.For anyone who feels unseen,unheard,or unprotected tonight,we hold you in the center of our circle.May you find a place to belong toand return to,sisters to witness […]
Libera Beneath the Santa Maria Maggiore Cathedral in Italy: How The Church Repositioned the Goddess
Throughout history, the people who controlled the masses understood that it worked really well to take a little bit of truth and ‘reposition it’. And so they built churches over Sacred Goddess sites. Such as the great Santa Maria Maggiore, the huge cathedral in the heart of Rome. Its name means ‘Most-Great Holy Mary’. And […]
What is #GoddessTexts101?
Your daily wake up call from Ancient Mom Here at the divine feminine app we have been sharing Women’s Circles, events, retreats and courses for the past ten years; helping to usher in a new perspective and way of Being in the world. The divine feminine app emails out Circles in your area as well […]