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

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

Let the World Hear You

“Be loud, my sweet girl.
Make some noise if you want.
Let the world hear your voice—strong, clear, and full of all the things that make you you.
You don’t need permission to take up space.

Care deeply, my darling.
Put your whole self into what you love.
Let your heart stretch wide, even if the world doesn’t always understand.
The depth of your kindness, your passion, your love—it is your gift.

Be brave, young one.
Bravery doesn’t mean you won’t feel fear.
It means you step forward anyway, even with shaky hands and unsure steps.
Your try is always a great feat.

You are beautiful.
You are gentle.
You are kind and sweet.
You are bold.
You are creative.
You are perfectly, wonderfully, uniquely you.

You are so many things—and so much more.
Never let anyone define you but you.

Because right now, in this very moment, you are exactly who you are meant to be.
And that is enough. Always.”

from Be Brave Mom

Art: Leap of Faith
by Lucy Campbell

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