Queen of Owls
Tiana writes: “I had, from early in my life, a way of ‘seeing’ that inevitably led to a convoluted journey through esoteric teachings.
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Category: Issue11
Feminine Mysticism in Art: Artists Envisioning the Divine
The rise in the United States in recent years of feminist religious movements that focus on female images of the divine Goddess suggests that many women, in addition to men, find goddess symbolism to be appealing.
Read More“14 Steps to Awaken the Sacred Feminine: Women in the Circle of Mary Magdalene”, by Joan Norton & Margaret Starbird
14 Steps to Awaken the Sacred Feminine: Women in the Circle of Mary Magdalene cleverly combines theory with practical steps, such as meditations, questions and prayers to invite the sacred feminine into women’s everyday lives. So if you want to know how to really make contact with Mary Magdalene, this might be the book for you.
Read MoreBreathing Goddess: Visions of Burnmoor – A Sacred Site of Cumbria
It seems that many people who have a love of the Goddess also have a love for the ancient cultures and sites upon which She was worshiped and venerated. We don’t have to go too far on these fair isles to come across circles of stone and earth, spirals carved into rock and natural pools and hills sacred to the Goddess.
Read More“Heart of the Dragon” – DVD and CD
In July 2007, a first Dragon Festival took place in the small town of Newcastle Emlyn in Wales. You can read about the festival in the Winter 2008 issue of Goddess Pages.
Read MoreDesire for Enlightenment and the Feminine in Early Buddhist Myth
Solomon’s Song of Songs in the Hebrew Bible has a rich, sensuous and erotic imagery that has been the subject of various allegorical interpretations, chiefly as relating to God’s love for Israel, or Christ’s love for the Church.
Read MoreBloody Everything
Blood
Waiting
Waiting for the blood
Life Blood
“Switching to Goddess – Humanity’s Ticket to the Future”, by Jeri Lyn Studebaker
The greatest thing about the book is – quite apart from the fact that it might help to save the planet and us all – its readability and the feeling of breathless adventure I got from it. What’s coming next? How can this work? I was particularly keen to get to the part where I would find out just how in Goddess’ name we were going to get from here to there, how the big switch could happen. We need more books, and more thinking, along these lines, and we need them very, very soon. To have more books with this kind of clarity and readability would be fantastic.
Read MoreDressing the Bride
Sure, ‘twas as though the granite bones
And flesh of earthen Mother,
Rose up, said, “Well, I’ve a will to be wed
To my white and golden lover
My white, my gold-haired lover.
Glastonbury Goddess Conference 2009 – a preview
I managed to get a preview of the 2009 programme and it all looks very exciting – this is the fourteenth conference and one of the things I like best is that it seems new each year; there are always fresh ideas and amazing new ceremonies but there are regular favourites too. I also enjoy meeting up with old friends and making new ones.
Read MoreGoddess Wind in Greece
Since the dawn of civilization
Greece has honoured the Goddess
On my travels
I journey on the Aegean Sea
Mincing Round the Maypole
Mincing round the maypole
Like I’ve never had a shag
Herbs for Hags
I’m so glad I’m finally old. Sadly, many of my friends don’t like me to use that word. They say they don’t want to be “old”. I think what they really mean is they don’t want to be the kind of old that’s infirm and dependent. I agree.
Read MoreMoon and Sun/Earth Calendars
I cannot let Jacqui Woodward-Smith’s reference to ‘our patriarchal solar calendar’ (GP9, Reviews) pass without comment. To my mind there is nothing patriarchal about using a solar calendar, only about ignoring the moon. And you’ve given me the ideal opening to leap up onto several of my favourite soapboxes, Jacqui!
Read MoreThoughts on Sacred Sexuality, Non-Attachment and Renunciation
Janie Rezner makes many excellent points in her interesting article ‘The Journey of the Soul into the Mother’. I’ve been researching the subject of renunciation for a while and would indeed agree that, in many cases, religious celibacy can be traced back to a fear of the feminine and the power of sexuality per se.
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