Goddess Centered Practice
In the woods behind my house rest a collection of nine large flat rocks. Daily, I walk down to these “priestess rocks” for some sacred time alone to pray, meditate, consider, and be. Often, while in this space, I open my mouth and poetry comes out. I’ve come to see this experience as "theapoetics"—experiencing the Goddess through direct “revelation,” framed in language. As Stanley Hopper originally described in the 1970’s, it is possible to “…replace theology, the rationalistic interpretation of belief, with theopoetics, finding God[dess] through poetry and fiction, which neither wither before modern science nor conflict with the complexity of what we know now to be the self.” Theapoetics might also be described, “as a means of engaging language and perception in such a way that one enters into a radical relation with the divine, the other, and the creation in which all occurs.”
International Women's Day
Today is International Women’s Day! In addition to my work online and face-to-face with women as well as with the products offered by our shop, I 
support two resources that help make every day “international women’s day.” I sponsor a woman through Women for Women International and I keep multiple microloans going at Kiva. We started making Kiva loans in 2012 when we covered economic freedom in the Cakes for the Queen of Heaven feminist spirituality class I was teaching at the time. We decided to put our money where our mouths were and make a collective loan, from our women’s circle to a women’s circle somewhere else in the world. We collected $50 from the members of the circle and I made two microloans to two different women’s groups, both in Senegal. A few more women contributed in later months, I contributed another $25 of my own and we got a $25 referral credit, and I’ve steadily kept microloans going there ever since, loaning a total of $800 to 32 different women’s groups in 20 countries since we began. The cool thing is that this did not cost me $800, instead it is the same, original money from that long-ago Cakes class that I keep relending as soon as my Kiva account builds up to $25 in repayments. There are 6 loans currently going, from what was originally only $50. Just a drop in the bucket. I encourage you to do this too!
More International Women’s Day Resources:
- Global Sisterhood Circle unify meditation and peace circles (around the world, including in my own local community this Friday!)
- Powerful books for women published by Womancraft Publishing.
- Endless fabulous resources for finding a women’s circle via the Divine Feminine app. Karen, the founder, also has a blog with lots of Women’s Circle articles and resources.
- Our own ongoing Creative Spirit Circle (free and full of resources!)
A collection of women’s circle-oriented blog posts and resources:
- Hands: Why Does a Face-to-Face Women’s Circle Matter?
- Passing the Rattle + how to make one
- Do Women’s Circles Actually Matter?
- Womanrunes and Women’s Circles
- Poem: We Hold Hands
Past posts about Women’s Day:
- Small Business Saturday: Shining Year Meditation and International Women’s Day
- International Women’s Day: Prayer for Mothers
- International Women’s Day, Birth Activism, and Feminism
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