Cry If You Need to Cry

A Guest Post by Kristen Arant the Drum Lady Friends  I want to talk a little about the joy and release of catharsis, and especially what it means for women, and marginalized gender groups.  I hope you don’t find it cliche for me to say that we are (all of us, really) taught to bottle […]

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The Grotto of Mary Magdalene at Sainte-Baume: Singing Salve Regina

Pictures and Singing by Yeshe Matthews Yeshe Meryemana Matthews Robles is Priestess & Sibyl of Tsogyal Lhamo Drayang Ling, the Mount Shasta Goddess Temple. The grotto of Mary Magdalene, also known as the Sainte-Baume cave, is a significant Christian pilgrimage site located in the Sainte-Baume Regional Nature Park in France. Tradition holds that Mary Magdalene, […]

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Festival of Santa Sara, Sara-Kali, in Saintes-Maries-de-La-Mer in France

by Guest Author Yeshe Matthews Yeshe Meryemana Matthews Robles is Priestess & Sibyl of Tsogyal Lhamo Drayang Ling, the Mount Shasta Goddess Temple. Today was the Festival of Santa Sara, Sara-Kali, in Saintes-Maries-de-La-Mer, marking the 90th anniversary of this particular devotional event. The power of the annual ritual was as strong as ever, but some […]

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ASWM Conference 2025: Sacred Stories of the Sentient Earth

The Association for the Study of Women and Mythology (ASWM) looks forward to welcoming you to Tucson, Arizona for our international conference: “Sacred Stories of the Sentient Earth:  Scholarship for Collaboration, Intervention, and Reciprocity”March 27-29, 2025At the Westward Look Inn, Tucson, Arizona. The conference will be followed on Sunday, March 30, 2025, by a meeting […]

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Living Intuitively as a Wild Woman and Red Foxes

What is a Wild Woman? “She is the Life/Death/Life force, she is the incubator. She is intuition, she is far-seer, she is deep listener, she is loyal heart. She encourages humans to remain multi-lingual; fluent in the languages of dreams, passion, and poetry. She whispers from night dreams, she leaves behind on the terrain of […]

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