Starhawk Quotes

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• To work magic is to weave the unseen forces into form; to soar beyond sight; to explore the uncharted dream realm of the hidden reality.

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  Dream, Reality, Sight

  Starhawk (1999). “Spiral Dance: Slipcase”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Any ritual is an opportunity for transformation. To do a ritual, you must be willing to be transformed in some way. The inner willingness is what makes the ritual come alive and have power. If you aren't willing to be changed by the ritual, don't do it.

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  Opportunity, Alive, Way

  "Infinity in Your Hand : A Guide for the Spiritually Curious". Book by William H. Houff, 1989.

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• Earth Mother, you who are called by a thousand names. May all remember we are cells in your body and dance together.

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  Mother, Cells, Names

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• There are two kinds of power. One is power over, which is always destructive, and the other is power from within, which is a transcendent and creative power.

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  Two, Creative, Kind

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• For great as the powers of destruction may be, greater still, are the powers of healing.

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  Healing, May, Destruction

  Starhawk (2011). “The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Goddess: 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.51, Harper Collins

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• The image of the Goddess inspires women to see ourselves as divine, our bodies as sacred, the changing phases of our lives as holy, our aggression as healthy, our anger as purifying, and our power to nurture and create, but also to limit and destroy when necessary, as the very force that sustains all life. Through the Goddess we can discover our strength, enlighten our minds, own our bodies, and celebrate our emotions. We can move beyond narrow, constricting roles and become whole.

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  Strong Women, Moving, Inspire

  Starhawk (2011). “The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Goddess: 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.67, Harper Collins

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• A society that could heal the dismembered world would recognize the inherent value of each person and of the plant, animal and elemental life that makes up the earth's living body; it would offer real protection, encourage free expression, and reestablish an ecological balance to be biologically and economically sustainable. Its underlying metaphor would be mystery, the sense of wonder at all that is beyond us and around us, at the forces that sustain our lives and the intricate complexity and beauty of their dance.

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  Real, Animal, Expression

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• Community means strength that joins our strength to do the work that needs to be done. Arms to hold us when we falter. A circle of healing. A circle of friends. Someplace where we can be free.

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  Strength, Healing, Mean

  Starhawk (2012). “Dreaming the Dark”, p.122, Beacon Press

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• Energy moves in cycles, circles, spirals, vortexes, whirls, pulsations, waves, and rhythms—rarely if ever in simple straight lines.

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  Moving, Simple, Circles

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• We cannot change the world alone. To heal ourselves, to restore the earth to life, to create the situations in which freedom can flourish, we must work together in groups.

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  Working Together, Groups, World

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• The Goddess does not rule the world; She is the world. Manifest in each of us, She can be known internally by every individual, in all her magnificent diversity.

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  Diversity, Doe, World

  Starhawk (2011). “The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Goddess: 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.66, Harper Collins

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• I am a witch, by which I mean that I am somebody who believes that the earth is sacred, and that women and women's bodies are one expression of that sacred being.

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  Believe, Mean, Expression

  "Womanspirit Rising: A Feminist Reader in Religion". Book by Carol P. Christ and Judith Plaskow, 1979.

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• To work magic is to weave the unseen forces into form; to soar beyond sight; to explore the uncharted dream realm of the hidden reality; to infuse life with color, motion and strange scents that intoxicate; to leap beyond imagination into that space between the worlds where fantasy becomes real; to be at once animal and god. Magic is...the ultimate adventure.

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  Dream, Real, Adventure

  Starhawk (1999). “Spiral Dance: Slipcase”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Let there be beauty and strength, power and compassion, honor and humility, mirth and reverence within you.

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  Humility, Compassion, Honor

  Starhawk, M. Macha NightMare (2013). “The Pagan Book of Living and Dying: T/K”, p.8, Harper Collins

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• Our way out involves both resistance and renewal: saying no to what is, so that we can reshape and recreate the world. Our challenge is communal, but to face it we must be empowered as individuals and create structures of support and celebration that can teach us freedom. Creation is the ultimate resistance, the ultimate refusal to accept things as they are. For it is in creation that we encounter Mystery.

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  Support, Challenges, Way

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• Without a vision human beings are nasty creatures.

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  Vision, Nasty, Humans

  Starhawk (2011). “The Fifth Sacred Thing”, p.328, Bantam

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• To practice magic is to bear the responsibility for having a vision.

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  Responsibility, Practice, Magic

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• All began in love, all seeks to return in love. Love is the law, the teacher of wisdom, and the great revealer of mysteries.

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  Teacher, Love Is, Law

  Starhawk (1999). “Spiral Dance: Slipcase”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Life demands honesty, the ability to face, admit, and express oneself.

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  Honesty, Demand, Faces

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• Solidarity is based on the principle that we are willing to put ourselves at risk to protect each other.

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  Risk, Principles, Ethics

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• Identifying as a Pagan, feminist, Witch, and anarchist is possibly a way to alarm great segments of the general public, but at least it keeps me from sinking into a boring and respectable middle age.

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  Feminist, Age, Identity

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• In the Craft, we do not believe in the Goddess - we connect with her; through the moon, the stars, the ocean, the earth, through trees, animals, through other human beings, through ourselves. She is here. She is within us all.

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  Stars, Women, Believe

  Starhawk (1999). “Spiral Dance: Slipcase”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Our goal is not to get out of the world or to get out of life, but to integrate it, to celebrate it, to embrace it fully, and to embrace all the different cycles within it.

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  Goal, Different, World

  Bodhi Tree Bookstore presentation, December 1999.

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• 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.

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  Eye, Light, Hands

  Starhawk (2012). “Dreaming the Dark”, p.122, Beacon Press

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• Systems don't change easily. Systems try to maintain themselves, and seek equilibrium. To change a system, you need to shake it up, disrupt the equilibrium. That often requires conflict.

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  Justice, Trying, Needs

  "Toward an Activist Spirituality". Reclaiming Quarterly, October 2003.

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