Shakti Woman: Feeling Our Fire, Healing Our World

In fact the opposite has happened. Women are becoming more and more dependent on traditional medicine and the ever-present technology. Fetal monitors plugged into the unborn baby’s skull have replaced the old form of observation, which included the mother’s and the midwife’s sensations and intuitions. Midwives knew how to turn babies in the womb, s

Jane Caputi and Diana E. H. Russell, “‘Femicide’: Speaking the Unspeakable” from Ms.: The World of Women, vol. 1, no. 2, September–October 1990, 34.

In surrender to her, we leave the problem in her hands; in allowing ourselves to be used in the healing of the planet, we become part of her solution.

descent was reckoned logically through the mother.

The person who is ill needs to generate enough will or force to throw off the invading force and return to a state of balance

Riane Eisler’s The Chalice and the Blade,

Nature? From all the observable records left to us by these ancient ancestors, it appears that they had enough food, comfortable and attractive shelters, deeply artistic abilities and the leisure to pursue them, a scientific understanding of the movements of the planets and stars that surpasses our own, and a spiritual sense of being part of someth

miraculous and ordinary all at once.

One of the joyous reclaimings that accompanies our re-membering is that we get over the insidious fear of the Death Goddess and realize she is only the other face of the Mother.