Millionth Circle: How to Change Ourselves and the World: The Essential Guide to Women's Circles (Feminist Gift, from the Author of Goddesses in Everywoman)

It is otherwise a meeting of women who do not trust each other, a gathering of women in whose company one wears a persona and social armor. This is not a sacred circle.

Once pregnant with intention, invite the creative spirit, grace, synchronicity, good fortune, to bless this undertaking.

In the sweet territory of silence we touch the mystery. It's the place of reflection and contemplation, and it's the place where we can connect with the deep knowing, to the deep wisdom way. —From a talk by Angeles Arrien, author of The Four-Fold Way

anyone who has been in a sacred circle can take that spirit—and that archetype and morphic field—into a new circle, or another part of her life.

Ask for Input from a Silent Member. If something is going on and she hasn't spoken up, does she have an insight or feelings about it? Is what has been unsaid the missing piece? Maybe she is attuned to the center. Maybe she is aware of the shadow. Might what she has to say be what the circle needs to hear? Or might silence be what is called for, and

The form came about when I serendipitously discovered the effect of using the centering feature instead of standard margins on my computer and, as a result, wrote a “How to” that drew images and words from the right side of my brain. I favored poetic rather than pedantic words, and then realized that the part of the reader's psyche that I wanted to

“The medium is the message,”

Being in one circle leads to being in others.

Rupert Sheldrake's Morphic Field Theory: namely, that a change in the behavior of a species occurs when a critical mass—the exact number needed—is reached.