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Suggestion on How to Facilitate a Sacred Circle
Return of the Bird Tribes: A Nation of Women with Wings
“The Whole of Creation is Inside of Me.” Return of the Bird Tribes by Deya Dova. Welcoming Men to Circle. The song A River of Birds by Libana is where I have taken ‘A Nation of Women with Wings’, the name on the group for the local Circles that I host. It reminds me of […]
Welcoming Men Into Women’s Circles
The work of today is balance. Balance between genders and races. I have healed sitting in Circle over the years. I can now sit in a Women’s Circle and feel loved, seen, valued, appreciated and cherished in front of the women I circle with. Their husbands, lovers and partners encourage them to attend Circle as […]
The Messy Bits of Community: Why Don’t You Have a Local Women’s Circle?
It amazes me time and time again how many women doing this work of the Goddess do not meet regularly in a local Circle. I got it. All the reasons: burn out, personality conflicts, non-commitment, finding members and more. I cannot tell you the amount of times I have personally had to pick my ego […]
What Do You Need for a Sacred Circle?
You. Time. Intention. That’s it. I’m up in Illinois helping my sons get ready for their next adventure, and I put out the call for a Circle last night. I have nothing with me as I am traveling extremely light these days: one backpack, and it has my laptop in it, so a change of […]
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 […]
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 […]
What is a Sacred Circle? From Gather the Women
What makes a Sacred Circle (aka Women’s Circle) special? And of course, it does not have to be only Women, or Womyn, or Womxn, but yes, there is more of a feminine structure to this than a traditional male-led, pulpit style meeting. And yes of course there are Pagan Circles and Native American Circles. I […]