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New Year is a return to the eternal beginnings. Back to where there is only hope and promise and enthusiastic, well-intentioned energy. Back to the original big bang back seat cosmic conception. Back to the future. New Year is the birthday of everything. In accordance with this understanding, New Year’s Day throughout Asia, is celebrated…

Dear Sister Queens, Beliefnet has had a bit of a techno glitch and my blogs have not been posted as per normal this week. So sorry about that. This post is a test. We hope to be back to normal tomorrow, Thursday, January 6, 2011. Please tune in then to resume our royal entries. In…

The last line of yesterday’s post, “The Decade of the Woman is Upon Us,” was “I’m imagining a world run cooperatively by conscious men and women. How about you?” What a wonderful segue to this well known and well loved poem, the final post of the year. Let us ring in the New Year and…

The Decade of the Woman Is Upon Us – ContinuedBy Marcia Reynolds Men created the companies, the leadership models and the systems that are breaking down in today’s world. Here in the United States, the rate of change is so pitiful that I am afraid for my country. I think our best shot is to…

As we embark on a new decade, let us make resolutions to live in our sovereign strength. Let us claim, embrace and use our considerable power to create a world that is safe, sane, compassionate and sustainable. The article below lays the groundwork for the very real possibility of manifesting this vision of a new…

The shamanic assumption from which I operate is that every person has her own significant mission in this lifetime: her own path, her own dreams, her own symbols and sensibilities, her own visions and designs, her own way of learning, her own personalized hard-won lessons. That we each have our own singular life to live.…

Blessings of the return of the sun to our (Northern Hemisphere) lives. The SunBy Mary Oliver  Have you ever seenanythingin your lifemore wonderful than the way the sun,every evening,relaxed and easy,floats toward the horizon and into the clouds or the hills,or the rumpled sea,and is gone–and how it slides again out of the blackness,every morning,on…

This week’s theme is the Winter Solstice and all the multicultural goddesses and festivals associated with the return of the light. The Mayan Indians of Guatemala perform a flying pole dance, palo voladare, in honor of the old, indigenous pre-Columbian sun god. Two dancers climb a fifty-foot pole to the energetic beat of a flute…

This week’s theme is the Winter Solstice and all the multicultural goddesses and festivals associated with the return of the light. Kwanzaa is an African American holiday, which has been celebrated during the solstice season since 1966 when it was first conceived by Dr. Maulana Kerenga, a Black Studies professor and cultural nationalist. Although it…

This week’s theme is the Winter Solstice and all the multicultural goddesses and festivals associated with the return of the light. A common theme of solstice ceremonies everywhere is the burning of fires to symbolically re-kindle the dwindling sun. People gather together to cheer on the ascendancy of the light. The victory of the very…
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