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 […]
Beltane, Bealtane, Gaelic May Day
By Katrina Coravos The marriage of Sky and Earth Of God and Goddess Of masculine and feminine The place of union Consummation Creation Conception Today marks the day when the Earth joins with Her beloved. To meet in the middle in love I’ve been holding this in my heart today The ways in which we […]
You Cannot Take the Witch Out of the Woman
By Clare Dubois of TreeSisters.org You cannot take the WitchOut of the woman. You cannot strip the soulOut of the sky. You cannot justify the countless reasonsThat you did the things you did, And we are past the point Of needing to know why. For a body cannot claimWhat is immortal. A story does not endWhen […]
“Let It Be Known” by Ansel Elkins
“Wearing nothing but snakeskin boots, I blazed a footpath, the first radical road out of that old kingdomtoward a new unknown. When I came to those great flaming gates of burning gold,I stood alone in terror at the threshold between Paradise and Earth. There I heard a mysterious echo:my own voicesinging to me from across […]
The Weavers
‘Through our understanding of the Weave, we can become like a standing wave.’ –The Way of the Seabhean An Irish Shamanic Path by Amantha Murphy with Orla O’Connell The above quote is from a fascinating book that I am reading right now ‘The Way of the Seabhean: An Irish Shamanic Path’. ‘Standing wave’ is a […]
Directions for Closing a Sacred Circle
One of my favorite parts of walking this path these past seven years has been taking everything I thought I knew and flipping it on its head. To begin a Sacred Circle, you ‘close it’, such as you would shut the door to the room you are in so that you will have peace and […]