Starhawk on Mother Nature

“Spirituality is also about challenge and disturbance, about pushing our edges and giving us the support we need to take great risks.  The Goddess is not just a light, happy maiden or a nurturing mother.  She is death as well as birth, dark as well as light, rage as well as compassion—and if we shy away from her fiercer embrace we undercut both her own power and our own growth.”

“Much of what is written on the craft is biased in one way or another, so weed out what is useful to you and ignore the rest.  I see the next few years as being crucial in the transformation of our culture away from the patriarchal death cults and toward the love of life, of nature, of the female principle.  The craft is only one path among the many opening up for women, and many of us will blaze new trails as we explore the uncharted country of our own interiors.  The heritage, the culture, the knowledge of the ancient priestesses, healers, poets, singers, and seers were nearly lost, but a seed survived the flames that will blossom in a new age into thousands of flowers.  The long sleep of Mother Goddess is ended.  May She awaken in each of our hearts—Merry meet, merry part, and blessed be.”