Starhawk Quotes About Witchcraft

Quotes about: Witchcraft

• Witchcraft offers the model of a religion of poetry, not theology. It presents metaphors, not doctrines, and leaves open the possibility of reconciliation of science and religion, of many ways of knowing.

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  Knowing, Doctrine, Way

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

• The Old Religion, as we call it, is closer in spirit to Native American traditions or to shamanism of the Arctic. It is not based on dogma or a set of beliefs, nor on scriptures or a sacred book revealed by a great man. Witchcraft takes it's teachings from nature, and reads inspiration in the movements of the sun, moon, and stars, the flight of birds, the slow growth of trees, and the cycles of the seasons.

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  Stars, Book, Teaching

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

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  Community, Magic, Technique

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

• On every full moon, rituals ... take place on 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 come together to celebrate the mysteries of the Triple Goddess of the Dance of Life. The religion they practice is called Witchcraft.

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  Teacher, Beach, Men

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

• In Witchcraft, each of us must reveal our own truth.

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  Paganism, Witchcraft

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

• Love for life in all its forms is the basic ethic of Witchcraft.

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  Love Life, Ethics, Form

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

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