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Issue 20 - Spring 2012

Reaching Out



Articles and Fiction
Ancient Tantric Goddess Worship - Past and Present

by André Zsigmond

“Woman is the Creator of the Universe, the Universe is her form.
Woman is the foundation of the world....
There is no prayer equal to a woman,
There is not, nor has been, nor will be any yoga to compare with a woman,
no mystical formula nor asceticism to match a woman”
(Shakti-Sangama Tantra II.52)


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Ancient Tantric Goddess Worship - Past and Present

Be your own Herbal Expert: Part 1

by Susun S Weed

Herbal medicine is the medicine of the people. It is simple, safe, effective, and free. Our ancestors knew how to use an enormous variety of plants for health and well-being. Our neighbors around the world continue to use local plants for healing and health maintenance.  You can too.


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Be your own Herbal Expert: Part 1

Excerpts from Goddess in the Grass: Serpentine Mythology and the Great Goddess

by Linda Foubister

Goddess in the Grass explores the relationship between the Goddess and her sacred symbol, the serpent, by focusing on myths and fairy tales from cultures around the world and from the dawn of humans to the present day. 


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Excerpts from Goddess in the Grass: Serpentine Mythology and the Great Goddess

Goddess Destinations

by Dr. Rev. Karen Tate

A plethora of sacred sites of Goddess can be found on almost every continent, ranging from archaeological sites and churches to museums, industrial parks and natural landscapes.  The variety of these sites depicts the diversity of her worship across the globe from living traditions thousands of years old to contemporary temples founded and blossoming during the last decade. With each of these locales one discovers the treasure trove that is the herstory of the Sacred Feminine.

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Goddess Destinations

Misogyny on Parade

as told to Katara Moon

Hello Sweeties, Baubo Biggins here

So much has transpired since I last put pen to paper but instead of luxuriating in musings on creativity or spiritual epiphanies, I must jump right in to a most retching development on the American political scene. Let me state before I start that the opinions herewith imparted are mine and mine alone - no other entity or deity should be held culpable.


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Misogyny on Parade

My Quest for the Amazon Woman of Hirte

by Jill Smith

The “Amazon Woman” of Hirte, or St. Kilda, has called to me for three decades, tantalising, seeming to play hard to get, toying with me then slowly allowing me into her realm.


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My Quest for the Amazon Woman of Hirte

Loving Brynhild - Part 7

A novel by Clarise Samuels

Chapter 13: An Army of Angels

The brutality of humans after having descended to the lowest depths of their animal souls far surpassed anything Odin could have foretold. The coarse and indecent aspect of human nature was a flaw in the works, an oversight, a divine miscalculation. Wild animals roared, pounced, and tore living creatures apart limb by limb in order to feast on raw meat and drip with fresh blood without remorse, without reflection, and without contrition.

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Loving Brynhild - Part 7

Poetry and Reviews
Burning Times

by Sheila Rose Bright


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Persephone

by Judith Laura


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Wake Robin

by Annelinde Metzner


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Reunion

by Judith Laura


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"Divine Women"

reviewed by Rachael Clyne


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"The Bearded Goddess", by Marie-Louise Winbladh

reviewed by Geraldine Charles


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Brighid in Sweden

 If you enjoyed Kirsten Brunsgaard Clausen's article about Brighid's Runes in Sweden, in our Winter 2011 issue, you might like to see this video - the celebration of Lucia in a Swedish church ceremony last December.

 


 

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