The Goddess and the Witch

An Excerpt from Chapter 3. In the House of the Moon: Reclaiming the Feminine Spirit of Healing by Jason Elias and Katherine Ketcham

*Picture credit to Jen’s Fine Art

This is a story we like to tell ourselves in the night when the fire seems nothing but dying embers winking out and the labor is too hard and goes on too long … When we are afraid, when it hurts too much, we like to tell ourselves stories of power. How we lost it, how we can reclaim it. We tell ourselves the cries we hear may be those of labor; the pain we feel may yet be that of birth.” – Starhawk, poet, teacher, wise woman

The journey toward wholeness – toward a balance of yin and yang, female and male, intuition and logic in ourselves and in our society’s healing practices – necessarily begins with an understanding of what we have lost. For once upon a time the world was gently but firmly guided by the feminine spirit of healing. A sense of awe and wonder at the magnificent harmony and delicate balance of the universe permeated all of life, and women, who embodied the nurturing and regenerative powers necessary for the ongoing cycles of life, were invested with great powers of healing and renewal. Females were revered as the spinners of the web, the guardians of the invisible threads linking human beings to the cosmos. Passionate, fiercely protective, and highly intuitive, women kept human beings in touch with the healing energies of the natural world, appealing to the wild and untamed powers of nature in daily rites and seasonal celebrations.

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