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The terrain of the mysteries is the ordinary. To seek out mystery, we don't have to go anywhere. We must simply change our preception, our description, our consciousness of where we are.
Starhawk
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Starhawk
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: June 17
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St Paul
Minnesota
Miriam Simos
Miriam Samos
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The Goddess is not separate from the world – She IS the world, and all things in it: moon, sun, earth, star, stone, seed, flowing river, wind, wave, leaf and branch, bud and blossom, fang and claw, woman and man.
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Solidarity is based on the principle that we are willing to put ourselves at risk to protect each other.
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The test of a true myth is that each time you return to it, new insights and interpretations arise.
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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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Let there be beauty and strength, power and compassion, honor and humility, mirth and reverence within you.
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To Witches, the cosmos is the living body of the Goddess, in whose being we all partake, who encompasses us and is immanent within us. We call her Goddess not to narrowly define her gender, but as a continual reminder that what we value is life brought into the world ... She has infinite names and guises, many of them male.
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In a culture where profit has become the true God, self-sacrifice can seem incomprehensible rather than noble.
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