“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 […]
I’m Moving On
I’m moving on Moving on from those dreams I had of 2 rosy cheeked children and a white picket fenceInstead I have four, two husbandsNeither one fulfilling the ‘honey, I’m home’ Saran-wrapped, barefoot pregnantDinner on the stoveSucculent Pot roast cooking, carrots and mounds of potatoes Always feeling like I’ve missed some essential ingredient ‘It’s you. You […]
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 […]
The Well by David Whyte
But the miracle had come simply from allowing yourself to know that this time you had found it, that some stranger appearingfrom far inside you, had decided not to walk past it anymore; the miracle had come in the kneeling to drink and the prayer you said, and the first tears you shedand the memories you held and the realization […]
Where Will Your Next Sacred Circle Be Held?
I’ve been meeting in a Sacred Circle (or Women’s Circle) every couple of weeks for the past seven years. Some may call me crazy. But it’s the way that I people the best. I find divinity: within myself and within others. The ways that I have grown! And watched the other women in the Circle […]