It is raining. I go outside. Return of the Bird Tribes by Deya Dova playing, and I dance. I feel the water on my skin washing away my sins, my fears, my shame. The first time I heard this song I thought it said ‘the bad times are rising’. Many believe that. But no, it […]
Grandmother Chaos Is Back: Praying the Rosary
By Perdita Finn In one of the oldest written epics in the world, The Enuma Elish, a grandmother, Tiamat, is murdered and dismembered by her own grandson. He splits her in half “like a shellfish” in language that will form the basis for the first chapter of Genesis as Yahweh divides and orders the “primordial […]
With the Moon We Women Rise
By Martina Flanagan With the moon we women riseHigh high up into that starry skySpreading our wings we learn to flyGlowing Oh so brightWe shine the mostIn the dark of the night An original song by Martina Flanagan. Featuring her artwork. Please visit her website here: https://www.martinaflanaganart.com/ The art created here is aimed at inspiring […]
What is a Weaver? The River Beneath the River
Weavers walk the different worlds. They are aware there is much more to the world than what meets the eye, and they regularly access and help others access these other worlds and guidance (aka divinity) through meditation, the natural world, singing, chanting, ritual, ceremony, Circles. They are Priestesses, Healers, Witches and Sages. People come to […]
Nahuatl Prayer for Forgiveness, Affection, Detachment and Liberation
“I release my parents from the feeling that they have failed me.I release my children from the need to bring pride to me; that they may write their own ways according to their hearts, that whisper all the time in their ears. I release my partner from the obligation to complete myself. I do not […]
Healing from the Trauma of the Witch Hunts
Throughout time and most especially in our recent human history of the past few thousand years, people who were not the norm and who did not fit in with the ruling ideologies and ways have been persecuted: especially women, people of color and those of different sexual orientations. We have a particularly brutal and largely […]
The Weave
The Weave is the Source. Our Path of evolution as a human race and it’s what we, as Healers, as Priestesses, as ritual makers, as herbalists and Land Keepers dip into for strength and help others to do the same. Three Fates Weaving. Even though the Fates are often depicted as old, ugly and unmerciful, […]
The Peace that She Brings Even in the Midst of Chaos
Picture credit here: Image by Couleur from Pixabay Now More Than Ever. Why to use theDivineFeminineApp.com In a zoom meeting the other day two friends and I were discussing a paragraph that I had just read in a book about the three kinds of women warriors: light, chaos and dark. I confessed that I […]
Womanfest Destiny: Sacred Circle Guidelines
We gather around a Sacred Center – a place of focus, a place of balance, a place of beauty. We breathe deeply. We welcome silence. We welcome song. We welcome poetry. We welcome imperfection and the expression of our perfectly imperfect selves. We limit chit chat and use lean speech. We do our best to […]
Bonfire Opera by Danusha Laméris
Buy Danusha’s Bonfire Opera on Amazon Painting by Katherine Lewis In those days, there was a woman in our circlewho was known, not only for her beauty,but for taking off all her clothes and singing opera.And sure enough, as the night wore on and the starsemerged to stare at their reflections on the sea,and everyone […]