Walking the shaman’s path is like having an ongoing dialogue with Nature or with the invisible world or with the Goddess, in which you are asking a question, receiving information, processing that information, and asking the next question. These questions and answers are like steps on the path of shamanic healing. In other times and other cultures,

The name Medusa (Medha in Sanskrit, Metis in Greek, and Maat in Egyptian) means ‘sovereign female wisdom,’

It’s not a matter of wanting to storm the gates of the male-dominated religions and take back what we consider to be rightfully ours. We have no desire to wear the mantle of the king. We’d rather take off all such coverings and go about naked. Replace the crown of jewels with a crown of daisies. Praise one another’s beauty and wisdom and build fire

So what kind of a world might it have been when we were in touch through our bodies with the universal currents? What might a kinship with the animals, the moon, and the stars have felt like, as we bled and birthed with other women in the community in a sacred way? What if, like the Cherokee today, you were able to know and believe that you came fr