Starhawk Quotes (22 Quotes)

As women, however, we need to look very closely at these philosophies and ask ourselves the hard-headed, critial question, What's in it for me What does this spiritual system do for women Of course, the gurus, teachers, and ascended masters will tell us that, even by asking such a question, we are merely continuing in our enslavement to the Lords of Mind that it is simply another dodge of the ego as it resists dissoulution in the All.

The word Witch carries so many negative connotations that many people wonder why we use the word at all. Yet to reclaim the word Witch is to reclaim our right, as women, to be powerful as men, to know the feminine within as divine.

If Goddess religion is not to become mindless idiocy, we must win clear of tendency of magic to become supertition. Magic - and among its branches I include psychology as its purpose to describe and change consciousness - is an art.

Magic has always been an element of Witchcraft, but in the Craft its techniques were practiced within a context of community and connection.

Each being is sacred -- meaning that each has inherent value that cannot be ranked in a hierarchy or compared to the value of another being.

... desire cracks open the gates. If you're ready it will take you through. But nothing lasts forever, time is the destroyer, the wheel turnsagain and again, watch out it will take you through.

The cosmos is interesting rather than perfect, and everything is not part of some greater plan, nor is all necessarily under control

Any ritual is an opportunity for transformation.

Through the Goddess, we can discover our strength, enlighten our minds, own our bodies, and celebrate our emotions.

The test of a true myth is that each time you return to it, new insights and interpretations arise.

Fascination with the psychic - or the psychological - can be a dangerous sidetrack on any spiritual path.

These people are comfortable with authority from above,

Camp Casey defies stereotyping. It was surreal, ... Here you had these military guys with the haircut, the military body language. And when a woman organizer spoke about the camp's achievements, the men cheered, 'That's what happens when women lead'

The ascetism of early Christianity, which turned its back on the world of the flesh, had degrenerated, in some quarters of the Church, into hatred of those who those who brought that flesh into being. Misogyny, the hatred of women, had become a strong element in medieval Christianity. Women who menstruate, and give birth, were identified with sexuality and therefore with evil. All witchcraft stems from carnal lust, which is in women insatiable, stated the Malleus Maleficarum.

The consciousness of people whose natural bent is to support the president and the military and the status quo is shifting. If America ever rises up, Camp Casey is what it will look like--not an anarchist street party.

No true Witches today practice human sacrafice, torture, or any form of ritual murder.Anyone who does is not a Witch, but a psychopath.

We are all longing to go home to some place we have never been a place half-remembered and half-envisioned we can only catch glimpses of from time to time. Community. Somewhere, there are people to whom we can speak with passion without having the words catch in our throats. Somewhere a circle of hands will open to receive us, eyes will light up as we enter, voices will celebrate with us whenever we come into our own power. Community means strength that joins our strength to do the work that needs to be done. Arms to hold us when

The symbolism of the Goddess is not a parallel structure to the symbolism of God the Father. The Goddess does not rule the world. She is the world. Manifest in each of us, She can be known internally by every indivdual, in all her magnificent diversity.

Creations, whether they are children, poems, or organizations, take on a life of their own.

On every full moon, rituals such as the one described above take placeon hilltops, beaches, in open fields and in ordinary houses. Writers,teachers, nurses, computer programmers, artists,lawyers, poets, plumbers,and auto mechanics - women and men from many backgrounds cometogether to celebrate the mysteries of the Triple Goddess of the Danceof Life. The religion they practise is called Witchcraft.

Spirituality leaps where science cannot yet follow, because science must always test and measure, and much of reality and human experience is immeasurable.

The truth is that while men, in our society, are encouraged to have strong egos and to function in competitive, aggressive, intellectualized modes that may indeed cause them pain, for most women the ego is like a fragile African Violet, grown in secret from a seed, carefully nursed and fertilized and sheltered from too much sun.