The body is the image relator. In ritual, we embody and activate images of the arhetypal, the eternal feminine, the Goddess. Images of power, of transformation, of harmony, and of duality. One woman empowering another. The crucial exchange of gifts. I cross the circle to give you something; you cross the circle to give her something. And so on until we have all chaged places. Power held is powerless; power given is power for all. In feminist ritual we maintain a center of which we are all aware. It is our collective heart which beats there. We hold together, our center endures. Even the most painful separation, the dispersal which is feared but necessary, cannot disconnect us from the ritual circle. Once that circle is created and affirmed, chance is subdued. We survive. We thrive.
by Kay Turner from "Contemporary Feminist Rituals" in The Politics of Women's Spirituality, ed. by Charlene Spretnak
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hey hecate, if you haven't read "the wee, free men", you should. you would really like it. it's by terry pratchett but you would find it with the kid's books. it's the first in a whole different series that i didn't even know about. i haven't finished it yet, but i'm looking forward to the rest of the books in the series. he has a really healthy attitude about the whole witchy thing. plus he's really funny.
this is olaf, by the way.
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