From darkness to Light, Lead us from illusion t...

"Love is like sailing by moonlight
Reading the stars, navigating by night
I know tomorrow I'll be closer to you
You are the one that I want
No one but You.." ~Erutan

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"Lead us from illusion to Truth,
From darkness to Light,
From transience to Permanence"

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"'...'Normal' is a bedtime story--a fable--that humans tell themselves to feel better when faced with overwhelming evidence that most of what's happening around them is not 'normal' at all'" ~Matthew de Clairmont, The Discovery of Witches

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"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others." ~Marianne Williamson from A Return To Love: Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles

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"Anagehya- women of all the Nations - you are the strength, you are the force, you are the healing of the Nations." ~Performed in concert at the Blue Deer Center

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"With five small bowls that fit neatly together, one inside the other, I am teaching women about the power of the uterus. The largest bowl fits inside the palm of my hand, and the smallest is the size of pencil eraser. These bowls represent the way the uterus holds energy and passes information from one generation to another. The women watch as I align the bowls, one by one, according to their size.

I point to the smallest bowl, saying "This is you." Slipping this tiny bowl into the next one I say, "You were held in your mother's womb." Placing the two bowls together into the next bowl I say, "Your mother's eggs were fully formed while she was held in her mother's body. In this way, you were also held in your grandmother's womb." I continue to join the bowls together, until the five are sitting in my palm, one inside another. "Because your grandmother carries the energy of her mother's and grandmother's wombs, so you are linked to them as well." The bowls rest neatly in my hand. The women sit squarely in front of me. I see each of them wrapped in layers of female energy from the women ancestors who came before them.

I set the bowls down. "Now, this is you," I tell them, pointing to the largest bowl. From the large bowl I lift the next bowl, which still holds three others. "This is one of your creations." One by one, I lift the smaller bowls and place each next to the bowl that served as its container. With each bowl, I tell the women, "This is the seed of one of your creations." I continue until the five bowls, five generations, sit in a line. Each bowl is seperate, but the action of lifting one bowl from the next reveals the nature of this shared lineage. "This is how your womb, and the energy that you carry, influences all that you create. This is your legacy of creation." The room is silent, as the women remember their mother place."

~Tami Lynn Kent (www.wildfeminine.com)

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"...We have a secret in our culture, and it's not that birth is painful. It's that women are strong..." ~Laura Stavoe Harm

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Starry Goddess

You are wrinkles with wrinkles

a star in each fold

You are impossibly young

embracing first touch

You are eternally all ages

Black and starry skin

You arc overhead

You

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'Each act of self love is an act of recreation. Is an act of devotion, for the beauty of her sacred act of creating the universe. Starry Goddess, Star Goddess...'

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"...For if that which you seek you find not within yourself,
You will never find it without.
For behold, I have been with you from the beginning, and I am that which is attained at the end of desire."

~Charge of the Star Goddess

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