Category Archives: earth-based spirituality

Winter Solstice, 2009

By Starhawk | Published: December 21, 2009
But the message of Solstice is this: hope does not come once into the world and fulfill itself. Hope and light must constantly be reborn, over and over again. They wax and wane, and must be renewed.
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The Spiral Dance–A Beautiful Night!

By Starhawk | Published: November 2, 2009
The art of leading the trance is to open up and let the inspiration and ecstasy flow, to find that well at the heart of the Isle of Apples, the ever-flowing well of life, and drink from its waters, and share.
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Trance to the Shining Isle

By Starhawk | Published: October 29, 2009
In Wiccan mythology, death is not an ending, but a transformation to a new state. Witches go neither to hell nor heaven, but to the Land of Youth, where we walk with the Goddess beneath the trees that are in flower, bud, and fruit all at the same time, reviewing our life and its lessons and planning our next one. There we remain until we grow young enough to be reborn.
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The Isle of Apples

By Starhawk | Published: July 9, 2009
Keyawis chose to let go rather than to live on life-support, with no hope for recovery or quality of life. She faced death with the same grace and courage with which she lived,
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Pagan Values

By Starhawk | Published: July 2, 2009
I wonder what an ecological movement might look like that truly embraced Pagan values--that pleasure is good, the body is sacred, life should be full of beauty and delight, that all of life is alive and speaking and communicating and inviting us to join in the song?
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