All over the world, relationships are nourished with food.I created a ritual to provide virtual nourishment. My inspiration? Spiritual activist Caroline Casey who says, “Imagination lays the tracks for the reality train to follow.” All aboard! Parliament of the World’s Religions Do you want to help the world? Look for hope. I […]
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Follow the Sun Did you use a spoon to stir your coffee or tea this morning? Did you feel a sense of power? From at least the 1700s, ancient cultures in Europe, and I suspect elsewhere, too, considered clockwise movement to be the movement of the sun. Since the sun was seen as the
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For many years, I led a women’s moon circle in my home. Our purpose was to: Celebrate the seasons the way our ancestors did Align our spirits with the cycles of nature Honor the Divine Feminine We met once a month on or near the full moon. There were four of us. We came
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In the summer between the third and fourth grades, I read The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum thirty-four times. With each reading, I felt certain I would find the secret that would help me endure that difficult summer. It would be decades before I realized that simply having the right shoes did
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Every Maiden isn’t young. Every Mother doesn’t have a child. Every Crone isn’t old. Ritual for a Group Several years ago, I created a ritual for hundreds of women writers who’d come from all over the world for a week-long conference held on a college campus. The ritual was to honor their stories, those
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It’s mid-December. The trees are bare, the ground frozen. Daylight disappears around 4 pm. Here in the Northern Hemisphere, the Winter Solstice marks the longest night of the year. Festivities celebrate the promise that the Sun, with its life-giving warmth, is making its way back to us. With the season of snow, sleet and ice is
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