Category: Goddess

Women from across the Southeast will gather at the 6th  annual Southeast Women’s Herbal Conference on October 1-3, at Lake Eden in scenic Black Mountain, NC. With over 60 classes by more than 30 teachers, the weekend focuses on herbal education, nourishing foods, wholistic sexuality, and ecology. The conference, which has grown to over 600 [...]

The Goddess Tarot: The Most Beautiful App in the Store?
With over 200,000 copies in print, The Goddess Tarot is one of the most popular tarot decks to be published. About.com praised it as “possibly the most beautiful tarot deck ever to be created.” Starting this August, The Goddess Tarot will become available on the iPhone [...]

by Pamela Wells
Rebirthing The Sacred Power of The Divine Feminine: Reawakening To The New Feminine
We have forgotten and been denied the sacred power of the divine feminine. Without her, we impoverish our lives of the sacred meaning and divine purpose of being alive, we lose our ability to heal, nourish and transform ourselves and our [...]

Written in Gratitude for Thanksgiving 2008
Reflections of a Priestess - Personal and Political
by Rev. Karen Tate
Just as Mother Nature swept in during Hurricane Katrina exposing the sins of the Bush Administration, irresponsible politicians and greedy developers, perhaps Sophia was now holding up her mirror, reflecting to the masses the policies and deeds perpetrated at the [...]

Ask Your Mama, The What, When, Where, Why, How, and Who of  Ceremony & Spirituality
by Mama Donna Henes, Urban Shaman
Dear Mama Donna,
I am not a follower of the Goddess, but I was walking around in downtown Brooklyn with my six-year-old daughter, Beatrice, when she said to me, “Mommy, I don’t believe in God. I believe [...]

by Shaman Maria Gurule
For years, I searched for a reason why indigenous womyn in Peru did not reveal any of the womyn’s knowledge. The Goddess Kali told me “Womyn hid their knowledge because they innately remembered all too well the destruction of the Goddess cultures throughout time. This is what you must teach because womyn [...]

By Mama Donna Henes, Urban Shaman
When the 13th day on the month lands on a Friday, the culturally unfavorable attributes of each are multiplied by infinity. Friday, the day of original sin, the day Jesus died, the day of public hangings, in combination with 13, the number of steps on a gallows, the number of [...]

by: Karen Tate
People turn to religion in times of chaos. No doubt when St. Paul was run out of Ephesus, lucky to be alive after he tried to turn the masses away from their beloved Goddess Artemis, he must have had his doubts if Christianity would ever stick. Likewise for St. Thomas in [...]

by Judith James
“The Mistress” PO-TI-NI-JA The most apparent characteristic of Minoan religion was that it was polytheistic and matriarchal, that is, a goddess religion; the gods were all female, not a single male god has been identified until later periods. It is not easy to describe the nature of the mother-goddess of Crete. There are [...]

Kuan Yin: Accessing the Power of the Divine Feminine
by Daniela Schenker
Sounds True, 2007
pp. 160, $22.95
Kuan Yin, the Eastern goddess of compassion, is more than a bodhisattva. A bodhisattva is an enlightened being who has attained the wisdom of the Buddhas but chooses to stay in this world to support sentient beings so that they may [...]

There was a time, back in days now lost in the fog of prehistory, when Woman didn’t need oracles to predict her future or reveal what was going on behind her back. She didn’t worry about what might happen, and she didn’t fret about what to do. She didn’t need to. She hadn’t been taught [...]

by Rev. Karen Tate
With Spring upon us, the mind turns to the promise of the season offering the potential for our blossoming and growth in the coming year. But how can we move from metaphor into manifestation and ride that potent wave to improve our chances for abundance in all phases of our lives?
Much [...]