Sublime

There is tremendous value in committing to the practice of going inward, of connecting to your feminine energy, of doing less, of observing that you’re okay and that things are not going to fall apart—and doing this over and over again, every month.

a place somewhere in time rather than space, where a woman feels of one piece. Home is where a thought or feeling can be sustained instead of being interrupted or torn away from us because something else is demanding our time and attention. And through the ages women have found myriad ways to have this, make this for themselves, even when their dut

With practice, we can learn how to welcome beauty and receive pleasure wholeheartedly.

Finally, there is one form of Wicca that practices a rather extreme departure from the traditional forms, in that the Goddess is revered above and beyond, and even to the exclusion of, the God. This is known as Dianic Wicca, or Dianic Witchcraft, and was founded in the United States in the early 1970s. Envisioned as a safe space for women and a way

Women in ancient cultures were free in ways we can’t imagine. Their sexuality was innately connected to their spirituality. How can this wholeness be understood by a people in whom the two are irrevocably split?

The dreams I received during that time showed me that I had been abandoning, neglecting, and even selling out my creativity. I needed to live and work in a way that was respectful of my gifts and abilities. I had been putting them in service to someone else’s enterprise, which had very little vision beyond its own expansion. Meanwhile, my own scrap

we become trapped in this cult of individualism, where nothing we achieve can ever be enough.