Millionth Circle: How to Change Ourselves and the World: The Essential Guide to Women's Circles (Feminist Gift, from the Author of Goddesses in Everywoman)

Ask for Input from a Silent Member. If something is going on and she hasn't spoken up, does she have an insight or feelings about it? Is what has been unsaid the missing piece? Maybe she is attuned to the center. Maybe she is aware of the shadow. Might what she has to say be what the circle needs to hear? Or might silence be what is called for, and

Once pregnant with intention, invite the creative spirit, grace, synchronicity, good fortune, to bless this undertaking.

In the sweet territory of silence we touch the mystery. It's the place of reflection and contemplation, and it's the place where we can connect with the deep knowing, to the deep wisdom way. —From a talk by Angeles Arrien, author of The Four-Fold Way

The more circles there are, the easier it is for new circles to form; this is how morphic fields work.

soul. Poetic imagery is also compressed information. Less can lead to more, if my words draw out what you and a circle of women together have as collective wisdom.

Being in one circle leads to being in others.

I could see how different and almost mutually exclusive each form is: one fosters the psyche, trust, and authenticity, the other facilitates productivity, the effective use of power, and persona.

The form came about when I serendipitously discovered the effect of using the centering feature instead of standard margins on my computer and, as a result, wrote a “How to” that drew images and words from the right side of my brain. I favored poetic rather than pedantic words, and then realized that the part of the reader's psyche that I wanted to

There is nothing as powerful as an idea whose time has come. —Victor Hugo Feminism catches fire when it draws upon its inherent spirituality. When it does not, it is just one more form of politics, and politics never fed our deepest hungers. —Carol Lee Flinders, At the Root of This Longing