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Witchcraft offers the model of a religion of poetry, not theology. It presents metaphors, not doctrines, and leaves open the possibility of reconciliation of science and religion, of many ways of knowing.
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Starhawk
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: June 17
Environmentalist
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Miriam Simos
Miriam Samos
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The word Witch carries so many negative connotations that many people wonder why we use the word at all. Yet to reclaim the word Witch is to reclaim our right, as women, to be powerful as men, to know the feminine within as divine.
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Beware of organizations that proclaim their devotion to the light without embracing, bowing to the dark for when they idealize half the world they must devalue the rest.
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Community means strength that joins our strength to do the work that needs to be done. Arms to hold us when we falter. A circle of healing. A circle of friends. Someplace where we can be free.
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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.
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Through the Goddess, we can discover our strength, enlighten our minds, own our bodies, and celebrate our emotions.
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If we are to reclaim our culture, we cannot afford narrow definitions.
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Panic is not an effective long-term organizing strategy.
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Our goal is not to get out of the world or to get out of life, but to integrate it, to celebrate it, to embrace it fully, and to embrace all the different cycles within it.
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Earth Mother, you who are called by a thousand names. May all remember we are cells in your body and dance together.
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