What The World Needs Now

“The ‘medicine woman’
is one of the most forgotten
and suppressed female
archetypes in human history.

She is the wise woman,
the visionary, the seer,
the intuitive, the healer,
the sexual priestess,
and truth-holder.

She holds the gifts of
energy, healing, and
expanded consciousness.

She sees the past and future
and sees deep into the hearts
of others.

Her passion is to serve
and restore harmony,
balance and healing to
Humanity and the Earth.

She is the aspect of us that is
ready to return as part of a
greater Human Awakening.

In our pre-patriarchal past,
during arguable hundreds of
thousands of years,
the Medicine Woman occupied
an celebrated position in her
society.

She served her community in all
parts of the globe in myriad ways
as shaman, wise woman, midwife,
herbalist, oracle, priestess,
sacred dancer, seer, and queen.”

~Diana Beaulieu

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#seer
#wisewoman
#medicinewoman
#priestess
#shaman
#sacredfeminine

Art by Susan Seddon Boulet

Earth Body, My Body

“What is acted out on the female body parallels the larger practices of domination, fragmentation, and conquest against the earth body, which is being polluted, strip-mined, deforested, and cut up into parcels of private property. Equally, this pattern points to the fragmentation of the psyche, which ultimately underlies and enables all of this damage.”
~Jane Caputi

Art by Monicai Sjöö
The Earth Is A Witch
And The Men Still Burn Her

Being Authentic

“The best thing about being authentic is that there is no image to maintain. You will delight some and disturb others, and none of it will concern the truth of your being.”

~Unknown

Art: The Energy of Me
by NancyL

Time to Bloom

“If flowers can
teach themselves
how to bloom after
winter passes,
so can you.”

~ Noor Shirazie

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#spring
#equinox
#sprout
#bloom

Photo by Nancy Lankston

My Seeds Are Stirring

Art by Ruth Evans

“I can feel the seeds within me stirring, calling and pulling. . . . Asking me to listen, to follow the path they wish to to grow for me.

Wistfully | look at what I have grown, the path I have made already that stretches out behind me.

I see it’s medicine weeds, the richness of soil, and I also see where it has become run down, the earth dry and the roots weakening.

I know the path is changing, I know my soul is calling for something new, and I watch the brave shoots of green, the buds on tree branches and I wonder if I have the same bravery, the same courage to let these new seeds of mine take me.”

~ Brigit Anna McNeill

A Single Cloth

She who reconciles the ill-matched threads
Of her life, and weaves them gratefully
Into a single cloth – 
It’s she who drives the loudmouths from the hall
And clears it for a different celebration.”

~Rainer Maria Rilke

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Art by Deidre Adams,
Tracings No. XIII