by Guest Author Yeshe Matthews Yeshe Meryemana Matthews Robles is Priestess & Sibyl of Tsogyal Lhamo Drayang Ling, the Mount Shasta Goddess Temple. Today was the Festival of Santa Sara, Sara-Kali, in Saintes-Maries-de-La-Mer, marking the 90th anniversary of this particular devotional event. The power of the annual ritual was as strong as ever, but some […]
No True Aloha ʻāina without Rematriation — the Restoration of Women’s Role in Land Stewardship
Guest Author Adam Keawe Manalo-Camp is a Kanaka Maoli & Filipino indigenous researcher In Hawaiʻi, women were not merely companions to power — they were power. Only women could truly legitimize the aliʻi ʻai ʻāina, the ruling chiefs, because they embodied the pilina (sacred connection) between ancestors and descendants, between pō (night, origin) and ao […]
Sister Genevieve, The Divine Feminine and Pope Francis
Guest post by Teresa Bilowus, reprinted with permission by Women of Spirit and Faith Her name is Sister Genevieve. A tiny woman, barely seen amidst the vast ceremonial weight of a papal passing. Yet there she was — present, weeping, breaking all Vatican protocol to stand close to the casket of her dear friend, Pope […]
I Haven’t Been in a Ritual in Years – What Makes a Divine Feminine Ritual?
I just returned from ASWM’s (Association for the Study of Women and Mythology) Annual Conference where I participated in two very powerful rituals. And a good friend of mine who also attended remarked how amazing the experience was and that she had not been in ritual in years. ‘But I thought you did an Equinox […]
Oh Bride, Brigit, Brigantia, and Brid. Goddess Brighid.
“I was teaching a group of aspiring priest/esses the other day and began the class with a question a dear friend had reminded me of. “What is your doorway to Spirit?” It’s a great question and allowed for fascinating responses from my eclectic group of students who come from a variety of traditions and practices. […]
Not the End of the World, but the Beginning
We are a Circle And there appeareda great wonder in heaven:a woman clothedwith the sun,and a moonunder her feet,and upon her heada crown of twelve stars.-Revelations 12:1 There are those who want to claim that the reemergence of the Goddess is a sign that the world is about to end. It’s the end of the […]
Goddess Library on the divine feminine app Version 3.0 – the DALE ALLEN podcast
Listen as the creator the divine feminine app, Caryn MacGrandle talks about the roots of the app and her vision of Version 3.0 including a Goddess library: a repository to protect and support the work of the many women (and a few men) who have worked decades to preserve and discover ‘herstory’ as the Goddess […]
Wreathed in Magic and Love Birthing the New World: Witches, Ride
Winter Solstice – Owning Your Own Light
A Winter Solstice Reflection by Women of Spirit and Faith As we approach the Winter Solstice, many of us are feeling a profound ‘disturbance in the force’ to quote Obi-Wan Kenobi. We are watching the old structures that we have relied upon for our entire lives crumbling to dust before our eyes and, at the same time, we […]
Max Dashu and the Goddess Veiled Course
How reverence for the female Divine survived theological coups, icon-smashers, and patriarchal / colonial regimes. The Suppressed Histories Archives uncovers the realities of women’s lives, internationally and across time, asking questions abbout mother-right, female spheres of power, and about patriarchy and slavery, conquest and aboriginality. About Indigenous philosophies—and the historical chemistry of their repression, and […]