Starhawk
Starhawk
Starhawkis an American writer and activist. She is known as a theorist of feminist Neopaganism and ecofeminism. She is a columnist for Beliefnet.com and for On Faith, the Newsweek/Washington Post online forum on religion. Starhawk's book The Spiral Dancewas one of the main inspirations behind the Goddess movement. In 2012, she was listed in Watkins' Mind Body Spirit magazine as one of the 100 Most Spiritually Influential Living People...
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The Goddess falls in love with Herself, drawing forth her own emanation, which takes on a life of its own. Love of self for self is the creative force of the universe. Desire is the primal energy, and that energy is erotic: the attraction of lover to beloved, of planet to star, the lust of electron for proton. Love is the glue that holds the world together.
commitment magic needs
Unless I have enough personal power to keep commitments in my daily life, I will be unable to wield magical power. To work magic, I need a basic belief in my ability to do things and cause things to happen. That belief is generated and sustained by my daily actions.
witchcraft
In Witchcraft, each of us must reveal our own truth.
love-life ethics form
Love for life in all its forms is the basic ethic of Witchcraft.
challenges feminism spirituality
My spirituality has always been linked to my feminism. Feminism is about challenging unequal power structures.
hierarchy sacred holiness
Each being is sacred -- meaning that each has inherent value that cannot be ranked in a hierarchy or compared to the value of another being.
world doe goddess
The Goddess does not rule the world; She is the world.
healing order land
We need the discipline of magic, of consciousness-change, in order to hear and understand what the earth is saying to us. And listening to the earth, doing the rituals the land asks us for, giving back what we are asked for, will also bring us healing, expanded awareness and intensified life.
love-is together glue
Love is the glue that holds the world together.
healing may destruction
For great as the powers of destruction may be, greater still, are the powers of healing.
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On some deep cosmic level, we are all one, and within us we each contain the potential for good and for destruction, for compassion and hate, for generosity and greed...
nature healing environment
The healing of our relationship with place begins with the preservation of the natural environment. We cannot go to the wild for renewal if no wilderness is left.
teacher love-is law
All began in love, all seeks to return in love. Love is the law, the teacher of wisdom, and the great revealer of mysteries.
honesty demand faces
Life demands honesty, the ability to face, admit, and express oneself.