tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61970641589968723772024-03-28T01:55:58.909-07:00Girl God BooksWant to change the world in one generation? www.thegirlgod.comThe Girl Godhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10075164390400359665noreply@blogger.comBlogger1365125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6197064158996872377.post-66036452078201272182024-03-28T01:55:00.000-07:002024-03-28T01:55:04.393-07:00Call for Submissions: Lady of the Forge: Stories and Art Dedicated to the Goddess Brigid<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIkfnddd7hljsKyftBC-FAVXv7hspe5EPsy3-ZRT8N9ie-3Yp9FX1tOBDVONIeNPbeEtGjjk_m-P40Wb_13vEA1qWJzP13IF489jee91cMnlbGO7E8Jmw5jfs_eJcltg6kLwG0mvXPuknhbPJDG54gJVSVzIiU6ZKMVPYomLmwkwZ-ODnIuxwj6_h_VFA/s1200/20240313_CoverLady%20of%20the%20forge2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="800" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIkfnddd7hljsKyftBC-FAVXv7hspe5EPsy3-ZRT8N9ie-3Yp9FX1tOBDVONIeNPbeEtGjjk_m-P40Wb_13vEA1qWJzP13IF489jee91cMnlbGO7E8Jmw5jfs_eJcltg6kLwG0mvXPuknhbPJDG54gJVSVzIiU6ZKMVPYomLmwkwZ-ODnIuxwj6_h_VFA/w426-h640/20240313_CoverLady%20of%20the%20forge2.jpg" width="426" /></a></div><p><br /></p><p style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif;">Girl God Books is accepting submissions for </span><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif;"><i><b>Lady of the Forge: Stories and Art Dedicated to the Goddess Brigid.</b></i></span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px;">Edited by Isca Johnson, Pat Daly and Trista Hendren</span></p><p>Preface by Dr. Karen Ward</p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px;">Cover Art by Barbara O'Meara </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px;">Scheduled publication: Imbolc 2025</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px;" /><b style="font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px;">Submission Guidelines:</b></p><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px;">Please send your finished piece in a Word document. 2,500 word limit. Calibri size 12 font is preferred. Please do not use any fancy formatting or fonts as it creates more work on our end. Make sure to spell check before you submit. Art should be sent in high resolution as a JPG. You may submit more than one piece for consideration, but due to the volume of submissions, please only send your best work and <b>keep it on topic. </b></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px;">Please note that this anthology will be about <b>Goddess Brigid</b>. We will not be exploring Her later role as Saint in this collection. <br /><br />Please send your submissions to <a href="mailto:submissions@girlgod.org" style="background: transparent; color: #729c0b; text-decoration-line: none;">submissions@girlgod.org</a> by July 31, 2024 with the book title in your subject line. Please note that we cannot accommodate any late submissions or corrections.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px;">Please also include a bio in the third person under 150 words.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px;"><br />Accepted contributors will receive a contributor's copy of the book and the option to order as many copies of the book as they'd like at cost during the pre-order period to sell or gift as they wish.<br /><br />Be sure to <a href="https://thegirlgod.aweb.page/p/29352b56-5bb8-4f0c-a888-558367476061" style="background: transparent; color: #729c0b; text-decoration-line: none;">sign up for our newsletter</a> to be the first to receive our Calls for Submissions.<br /><br />You can find our other anthologies <a href="https://thegirlgod.com/books_anthologies.php" style="background: transparent; color: #729c0b; text-decoration-line: none;">here</a>.</div><p><a href="https://thegirlgod.com/lady_of_the_forge.php">Pre-order your copy here</a>.<br /> </p>The Girl Godhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10075164390400359665noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6197064158996872377.post-73332138271969472172024-03-14T02:49:00.000-07:002024-03-26T06:58:55.010-07:00Call for Submissions: The Wisdom of Cerridwen: Transforming in Her Cosmic Brew <p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqSPP7O8wbJQtFlmBOaY4tQt52BgDRymZFpAyxj-q8UZmeXitwOhuoIYsdaA4sR4sHiAWtj48md7s2_OFdo835MQMl1PY7fO3wvMjsyZZpj8C8ASSS8_zz0yooHTivE7ruWQphtFn0qrIM86TVvomzgZhXm2q2VpnYv-KEW4BWc9Fcsf7IT7XVcN37zlQ/s1200/800Cover%20the%20wisdom%20of%20cerridwen.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="800" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqSPP7O8wbJQtFlmBOaY4tQt52BgDRymZFpAyxj-q8UZmeXitwOhuoIYsdaA4sR4sHiAWtj48md7s2_OFdo835MQMl1PY7fO3wvMjsyZZpj8C8ASSS8_zz0yooHTivE7ruWQphtFn0qrIM86TVvomzgZhXm2q2VpnYv-KEW4BWc9Fcsf7IT7XVcN37zlQ/w426-h640/800Cover%20the%20wisdom%20of%20cerridwen.jpg" width="426" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>Girl God Books is accepting submissions for <i>The Wisdom of Cerridwen: Transforming in Her Cosmic Brew.</i></p>Edited by Emma Clark, Pat Daly and Trista Hendren<br /><br />Cover Art by <a href="https://www.facebook.com/rety.ypraus">Reti Toriella</a><br /><br />Scheduled publication: 2025<br /><br />Some possible themes to consider in poetry, story, personal writing and art:<br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Cerridwen as Mother: how do we change and transform as mothers? What are the greatest challenges of motherhood? (according to the myth of Cerridwen, even Goddesses find this tricky to navigate!)</li></ul><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Cerridwen’s Cauldron of Inspiration: what is at the heart of our own brew? How has She inspired us?</li></ul><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Cerridwen as Star Goddess and the swirling cauldron of creation</li></ul><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Cerridwen as Witch – how is this archetype interpreted through time? </li></ul><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Cerridwen as Shapeshifter: how do we shapeshift to adapt?</li></ul><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Cerridwen as Initiator</li></ul><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Cerridwen as Celtic Queen of the Otherworld</li></ul><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Cerridwen’s anger – how can our sacred rage lead to transformation?</li></ul><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Cerridwen’s Womb – the Cauldron of the Goddess</li></ul><div><b>Submission Guidelines:</b><br /><br />Please send your finished piece in a Word document. 2,500 word limit. Calibri size 12 font is preferred. Please do not use any fancy formatting or fonts as it creates more work on our end. Make sure to spell check before you submit. Art should be sent in high resolution as a JPG. You may submit more than one piece for consideration, but due to the volume of submissions, please only send your best work and <b>keep it on topic. </b><br /><br />Please also include a bio in the third person under 150 words.<br /><br />Please send your submissions to <a href="mailto:submissions@girlgod.org">submissions@girlgod.org</a> by September 30, 2024 with the book title in your subject line. Please note that we cannot accommodate any late submissions or corrections.<br /><br />Accepted contributors will receive a contributor's copy of the book and the option to order as many copies of the book as they'd like at cost during the pre-order period to sell or gift as they wish.<br /><br />Be sure to <a href="https://thegirlgod.aweb.page/p/29352b56-5bb8-4f0c-a888-558367476061">sign up for our newsletter</a> to be the first to receive our Calls for Submissions.<br /><br />You can find our other anthologies <a href="https://thegirlgod.com/books_anthologies.php">here</a>.<br /><br /><a href="https://lady%20of%20the%20forge:%20Stories%20and%20Art%20Dedicated%20to%20the%20Goddess%20Brigid/">Pre-order at the discounted price here</a>.</div>The Girl Godhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10075164390400359665noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6197064158996872377.post-64618577297215070632023-03-25T04:12:00.006-07:002023-03-25T04:20:02.128-07:00Call for Submissions - Wounded Feminine: Grieving with Goddess<p> </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlMxUl9Nvoef1-Z7_3cPxU3ah7O4cNy2rAno1mV9E44IdFzHZMw2t1WUNGHuQ61wfBR2oPMLzdpxVpq2enIpzjkkFpOVkWY8AcPFI4XFGT7-XloyksZ6W5qp_TFAa29THxPpST4kePt_06R1_uslIJ42hRU4m36HTjeIzXiRrg07uld8X5ejlAJNeR/s3300/20230324_wounded_feminine_cover.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3300" data-original-width="2550" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlMxUl9Nvoef1-Z7_3cPxU3ah7O4cNy2rAno1mV9E44IdFzHZMw2t1WUNGHuQ61wfBR2oPMLzdpxVpq2enIpzjkkFpOVkWY8AcPFI4XFGT7-XloyksZ6W5qp_TFAa29THxPpST4kePt_06R1_uslIJ42hRU4m36HTjeIzXiRrg07uld8X5ejlAJNeR/w309-h400/20230324_wounded_feminine_cover.jpg" width="309" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cover art by Claire Dorey</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p></p><p align="center" class="Default" style="line-height: 22pt; margin-bottom: 20pt; text-align: center;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="background: rgb(252, 252, 252); font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-align: center; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-compound: simple; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-dash: solid; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-dpiwidth: 0pt; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-join: bevel; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-linecap: round; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-pctmiterlimit: 0%; mso-style-textoutline-type: none;"><span style="mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-align: center; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-compound: simple; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-dash: solid; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-dpiwidth: 0pt; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-join: bevel; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-linecap: round; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-pctmiterlimit: 0%; mso-style-textoutline-type: none;">Girl God Books is accepting submissions for our upcoming Anthology of
writing: </span></span><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="background: rgb(252, 252, 252); font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-align: center; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-compound: simple; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-dash: solid; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-dpiwidth: 0pt; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-join: bevel; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-linecap: round; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-pctmiterlimit: 0%; mso-style-textoutline-type: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="Default" style="line-height: 22pt; margin-bottom: 20pt; text-align: center;"><b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="background: rgb(252, 252, 252); font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-align: center; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-compound: simple; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-dash: solid; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-dpiwidth: 0pt; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-join: bevel; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-linecap: round; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-pctmiterlimit: 0%; mso-style-textoutline-type: none;"><span style="mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-align: center; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-compound: simple; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-dash: solid; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-dpiwidth: 0pt; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-join: bevel; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-linecap: round; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-pctmiterlimit: 0%; mso-style-textoutline-type: none;"><i>Wounded Feminine: Grieving with Goddess</i></span></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="Default" style="line-height: 22pt; margin-bottom: 20pt; mso-hyphenate: none; text-align: center;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="background: rgb(252, 252, 252); font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-align: center; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-compound: simple; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-dash: solid; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-dpiwidth: 0pt; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-join: bevel; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-linecap: round; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-pctmiterlimit: 0%; mso-style-textoutline-type: none;"><span style="mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-align: center; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-compound: simple; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-dash: solid; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-dpiwidth: 0pt; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-join: bevel; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-linecap: round; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-pctmiterlimit: 0%; mso-style-textoutline-type: none;">Personal essays or accounts (up to 2,000 words), academic papers,
poetry, prayers, and art are welcome. We want to hear ins<span style="mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-align: center; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-compound: simple; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-dash: solid; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-dpiwidth: 0pt; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-join: bevel; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-linecap: round; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-pctmiterlimit: 0%; mso-style-textoutline-type: none;">ights from felt experience to transformation on Grieving With Goddess
and surviving love and loss in the age of toxic m</span></span></span><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="PT" style="background: rgb(252, 252, 252); font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: PT; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-align: center; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-compound: simple; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-dash: solid; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-dpiwidth: 0pt; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-join: bevel; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-linecap: round; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-pctmiterlimit: 0%; mso-style-textoutline-type: none;"><span style="mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-align: center; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-compound: simple; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-dash: solid; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-dpiwidth: 0pt; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-join: bevel; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-linecap: round; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-pctmiterlimit: 0%; mso-style-textoutline-type: none;">asculinity.</span></span><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="background: rgb(252, 252, 252); font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-align: center; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-compound: simple; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-dash: solid; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-dpiwidth: 0pt; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-join: bevel; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-linecap: round; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-pctmiterlimit: 0%; mso-style-textoutline-type: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="Default" style="line-height: 22pt; margin-bottom: 20pt; mso-hyphenate: none; text-align: center;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="background: rgb(252, 252, 252); font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-align: center; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-compound: simple; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-dash: solid; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-dpiwidth: 0pt; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-join: bevel; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-linecap: round; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-pctmiterlimit: 0%; mso-style-textoutline-type: none;"><span style="mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-align: center; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-compound: simple; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-dash: solid; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-dpiwidth: 0pt; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-join: bevel; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-linecap: round; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-pctmiterlimit: 0%; mso-style-textoutline-type: none;">Inviting shared experience into the Goddess Space is cathartic for
those who tell their stories and healing for recipients. Grief resonates within
all of us <span style="mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-align: center; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-compound: simple; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-dash: solid; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-dpiwidth: 0pt; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-join: bevel; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-linecap: round; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-pctmiterlimit: 0%; mso-style-textoutline-type: none;">somewhere. We all have a story to tell. There is hope to pass on. </span></span></span><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="background: rgb(252, 252, 252); font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-align: center; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-compound: simple; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-dash: solid; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-dpiwidth: 0pt; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-join: bevel; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-linecap: round; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-pctmiterlimit: 0%; mso-style-textoutline-type: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="Default" style="line-height: 22pt; margin-bottom: 20pt; mso-hyphenate: none; text-align: center;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="background: rgb(252, 252, 252); font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-align: center; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-compound: simple; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-dash: solid; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-dpiwidth: 0pt; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-join: bevel; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-linecap: round; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-pctmiterlimit: 0%; mso-style-textoutline-type: none;"><span style="mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-align: center; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-compound: simple; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-dash: solid; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-dpiwidth: 0pt; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-join: bevel; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-linecap: round; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-pctmiterlimit: 0%; mso-style-textoutline-type: none;">We grieve the loss of what is important<span style="mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-align: center; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-compound: simple; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-dash: solid; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-dpiwidth: 0pt; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-join: bevel; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-linecap: round; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-pctmiterlimit: 0%; mso-style-textoutline-type: none;">: loved ones,
relationships, our youth, health, and our rights and freedoms because attachment
is part of the human condition. Perhaps we grieve for the person we might have
been, for our Wounded Feminine, if we weren’t victim to war, abuse, and
violence.</span></span></span><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="background: rgb(252, 252, 252); font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-align: center; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-compound: simple; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-dash: solid; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-dpiwidth: 0pt; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-join: bevel; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-linecap: round; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-pctmiterlimit: 0%; mso-style-textoutline-type: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="Default" style="line-height: 22pt; margin-bottom: 20pt; mso-hyphenate: none; text-align: center;"><i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="background: rgb(252, 252, 252); font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-align: center; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-compound: simple; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-dash: solid; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-dpiwidth: 0pt; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-join: bevel; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-linecap: round; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-pctmiterlimit: 0%; mso-style-textoutline-type: none;"><span style="mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-align: center; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-compound: simple; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-dash: solid; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-dpiwidth: 0pt; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-join: bevel; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-linecap: round; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-pctmiterlimit: 0%; mso-style-textoutline-type: none;">“What cannot be said will be wept.” - Sappho.</span></span></i><i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="background: rgb(252, 252, 252); font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-align: center; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-compound: simple; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-dash: solid; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-dpiwidth: 0pt; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-join: bevel; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-linecap: round; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-pctmiterlimit: 0%; mso-style-textoutline-type: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class="Default" style="line-height: 22pt; margin-bottom: 20pt; mso-hyphenate: none;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="background: rgb(252, 252, 252); font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-align: center; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-compound: simple; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-dash: solid; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-dpiwidth: 0pt; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-join: bevel; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-linecap: round; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-pctmiterlimit: 0%; mso-style-textoutline-type: none;"><span style="mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-align: center; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-compound: simple; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-dash: solid; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-dpiwidth: 0pt; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-join: bevel; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-linecap: round; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-pctmiterlimit: 0%; mso-style-textoutline-type: none;">Points to consider:</span></span></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Opening the yoni portal within the pages of a book. We need space to retreat, free from judgement and time as a monetised commodity, to go inward, sit with emotion and find our source of internal power.</li></ul><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Grief as a detour into a labyrinth to meet the dark stuff on the ‘straight line’ of our life plan. It’s the cinematic subconscious processing difficult emotion in the shadows – Shock – Denial – Rage – whilst life goes on for others out there in the sunshine. Treading water in an unfamiliar new world with all that grief releases rising to the surface.</li></ul><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>What if I told you the Goddess holds space beneath her wings for those who seek it? – Raising vibration through the written and spoken word, dance, music, through touch and in sharing circles.</li></ul><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>The Grief Space as wild cocoon for magic and alchemy – a doorway to self expression, access to the dark shadow, a catalyst for change.</li></ul><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Grieving the Wounded Feminine: Demonisation of Eve and Lilith represents the demonisation of all women and the silencing of Mary represents the silencing of all women.</li></ul><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Perhaps we feel nothing. Then grief creeps up on us. Trauma is incurred. Trauma is released. All this confusion, making sense of things, it’s a vulnerable time. Wherever the vulnerable are there will be predators. Perhaps the Banshee howl was a very vocal show of female force warning circling predators, “beware the matriarch is watching.”</li></ul><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>As gate keepers women were on the front line of life and death, ensuring we survived birth and controlled our own bodies. The funerary Goddess assisted souls to the afterlife. This was where the power was and it was in women’s hands. This is why patriarchy set about erasing women’s power.</li></ul><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Capitalist patriarchy shut the Grief Space down because it fears emotion in the same way Zeus feared Nyx and sailors feared the Siren. Emotion, public displays of emotion and the emotions of others became a source of shame. Patriarchy’s relentless denial of emotion stems from the fear of personal growth.</li></ul><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>In the hands of the unscrupulous the Grief Space became the Guilt Space, a place of dysfunction and propaganda, ritualised ostracism and humiliating misogyny with threats of hell and damnation. Vulnerable women have been shaved, burnt and buried alive or forced into a lifetime of mourning. They replaced transformation with solitude, bleakness and black robes, turning sadness into loneliness.</li></ul><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>To the detriment of the entire human race, unprocessed grief can escalate to the stuff of nightmares. As Carl Jung wrote, "Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life….” </li></ul><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>When state and religion collude to cement masculine power and undermine and control women it makes sense to look to a spiritual age when the Goddess held power.</li></ul><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Goddess honours emotion and cuts through the aloneness of grief showing us we are part of a huge cosmic cycle: birth, death, rebirth, with destruction making way for creation, all of which is governed by Mother Nature. She shows us how spirit lives on as vibration.</li></ul><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>How can we reclaim, reframe and contextualise the Grief Space so we can feel our feelings free of shame, tell our stories, speak our truth, let go and when we are ready, move on, knowing we are connected to a powerful and wise female lineage and support network?</li></ul> <p class="Default" style="line-height: 22pt; margin-bottom: 20pt; mso-hyphenate: none;"><i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="background: rgb(252, 252, 252); font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-align: center; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-compound: simple; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-dash: solid; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-dpiwidth: 0pt; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-join: bevel; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-linecap: round; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-pctmiterlimit: 0%; mso-style-textoutline-type: none;"><span style="mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-align: center; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-compound: simple; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-dash: solid; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-dpiwidth: 0pt; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-join: bevel; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-linecap: round; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-pctmiterlimit: 0%; mso-style-textoutline-type: none;">”Life is an unfoldment and the further we travel the more truth we can
comprehend.” - Hypatia.</span></span></i><i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="background: rgb(252, 252, 252); font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-align: center; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-compound: simple; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-dash: solid; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-dpiwidth: 0pt; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-join: bevel; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-linecap: round; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-pctmiterlimit: 0%; mso-style-textoutline-type: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class="Default" style="line-height: 22pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>The Girl Godhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10075164390400359665noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6197064158996872377.post-64896955150124801662022-11-12T07:33:00.002-08:002022-11-12T07:39:16.358-08:00Songs of Solstice Table of Contents<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXxVvfsehZAqyZO1VnT3Hg4u2obiT9Q9VzkHtk3BPgKDSpq16ySnldUo3064otzCLxGUMhtrewALAPKueI-T1y2XQq35n1Ky20OjqSkR2-sl0YQhLp4BaOIj95TMJkMqfWC1-StkZn9lpKZWl-QAsHkILAR-5nzwbPo2EM9EFjBCev4oo5yrQ3OyUD/s1080/sharon.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1080" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXxVvfsehZAqyZO1VnT3Hg4u2obiT9Q9VzkHtk3BPgKDSpq16ySnldUo3064otzCLxGUMhtrewALAPKueI-T1y2XQq35n1Ky20OjqSkR2-sl0YQhLp4BaOIj95TMJkMqfWC1-StkZn9lpKZWl-QAsHkILAR-5nzwbPo2EM9EFjBCev4oo5yrQ3OyUD/w400-h266/sharon.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cover art by Kat Shaw</td></tr></tbody></table><br />Solstice Carols? But I thought it was Christmas!<br />Sharon Smith<br /> <br /> Sun Lover Goddess (Art)<br />Kat Shaw<br /> <br /> About this Anthology<br /> Trista Hendren<br /> <br /> The Crowning (Art)<br /> Sara Star<br /> <br /> Winter Solstice as it is Told for PaGaian Ceremony<br /> Glenys Livingstone, Ph.D.<br /> <br /> Tlazolteotl (Art)<br /> Hallie Iglehart Austen<br /> <br /> Winter Solstice Prayer<br /> Mary Saracino<br /> <br /> Silent Night<br /> Mary Saracino<br /> <br /> I Will Set You Free (Art)<br /> Cheryl Braganza<br /> <br /> The Legend of Frau Perchta, Witch of Twelfth Night<br /> Kat Shaw<br /><p></p><p>Goddess Perchta (Art)<br />Kat Shaw</p><p>Berchta<br /> Rebekah Myers<br /> <br /> The GODDESS Origins of Hallelujah<br /> Laura Shannon<br /> <br /> Solstice Return to Light (Art)<br /> Barbara O’Meara<br /> <br /><a href="http://thegirlgod.com/songs_of_solstice_holy_night.php">O Holy Night</a><br /> Trista Hendren and Anders Løberg <br /><br />Oh Holy Dawn<br /> Dale Allen <br /><br /> Star Catcher (Art)<br /> Sue Ellen Parkinson <br /><br /> Winter Goddess Comes Alive In Me <br />(Sung to The Holly & the Ivy)<br /> Dr Lynne Sedgmore <br /><br /> The Holly & the Ivy<br /> Chelsea Arrington<br /> <br /> I am a Goddess (Art)<br /> Kat Shaw<br /> <br /> Glorious Goddess<br /> (Sung to the tune of Ave Maria)<br /> Anique Duc Radiant Heart<br /> <br /> Máthairagus Leanabh’ (Art)<br /> Barbara O'Meara<br /> <br />The Winter Solstice Carol<br /> (Sung to The Coventry Carol: Lullay, Thou Little Tiny Child)<br /> Sharon Smith<br /> <br /><a href="http://thegirlgod.com/songs_of_solstice_the_darkest_night_enfolds_us_here.php">The Darkest Night Enfolds Us Here</a><br /> (Sung to O Come, O Come, Immanuel)<br /> Rebekah Myers <br /><br /> Winter Queen (Art)<br /> Jassy Watson <br /><br /> Once in Chaos, Primordial Creation<br /> (Sung to Once in Royal David’s City)<br /> Kay Turner<br /> <br /> Spinning the Sun (Art)<br /> Cheryl Braganza<br /> <br /> Spiral to the Centre<br /> (Sung to Away in the Manger)<br /> Kay Turner<br /> <br /> From the First Oak Tree, the Acorn Did Say<br /> (Sung to The First Noel)<br /> Kay Turner<br /> <br /> The Blessing (Art)<br /> Sue Ellen Parkinson<br /> <br /> All Life is This, Who at the Breast<br /> (Sung to What Child is This)<br /> Kay Turner<br /> <br /> I Heard the Bells On Solstice Morn<br /> (Sung to I Heard The Bells On Christmas Day)<br /> Trista Hendren<br /> <br /> Snow Angel (Art)<br /> Cheryl Braganza <br /><br /> It Came Upon a Solstice Morn<br /> (Sung to It Came Upon a Midnight Clear)<br /> Carol P. Christ <br /><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dweQyw1MWXg&list=OLAK5uy_kK2c1QDk1iVqyRGZ5v8gvJzgxrq9yX7E4&index=10">It Came Upon A Midnight Clear</a><br /> Megha Morganfield<br /> <br /> Three Graces (Art)<br /> Cheryl Braganza<br /> <br /> The Pale Winter Sunlight<br /> (Sung to I Wonder as I Wander)<br /> Rebekah Myers<br /> <br /> Women of the World Unite (Art)<br /> Cheryl Braganza <br /><br /> Your Love Heals All Our Wounding<br /> (Sung to O Come All Ye Faithful)<br /> Dr. Lynne Sedgmore<br /> <br /> Home (Art)<br /> Barbara O'Meara <br /><br />Bring A Torch And Light The Watch Fires<br /> (Sung to the tune of Bring A Torch, Jeanette, Isabella)<br /> Deborah A. Meyerriecks<br /> <br /> Three Queens (Art)<br /> Barbara O'Meara<br /> <br /> We Sing in Deepest, Darkest Night<br /> (Sung to Three Kings from Persian Lands Afar)<br /> Kay Turner<br /> <br /> PaGaian Joy to the World<br /> Glenys Livingstone PhD<br /> <br /> PURNIMA (Art)<br /> Cheryl Braganza<br /> <br /><a href="http://thegirlgod.com/songs_of_solstice_joy_to_the_world.php">Joy to the World</a><br /> Alissa DeLaFuente <br /><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0L-0D_9Poe4&list=OLAK5uy_kK2c1QDk1iVqyRGZ5v8gvJzgxrq9yX7E4&index=3">Voices We Have Heard on High</a><br /> (Sung to Angels We Have Heard On High)<br /> Megha Morganfield<br /> <br /> The Crone Has Come! (Art)<br /> Andrea Redmond <br /><br />We Sing Her Creation Story<br /> (Sung to Gloria aka Iris - Angels from the Realms of Glory)<br /> Dr Lynne Sedgmore <br /><br />Yule Girl (Art)<br /> Andrea Redmond <br /><br />O Girl Child of the Great Goddess<br /> (Sung to O Little Town of Bethlehem)<br /> Kay Turner<br /> <br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKBIMnbXSBA&list=OLAK5uy_kK2c1QDk1iVqyRGZ5v8gvJzgxrq9yX7E4&index=4">Oh Mother Earth Our Sacred Home</a><br /> (Sung to Oh Little Town of Bethlehem)<br /> Megha Morganfield<br /> <br /> Cosmic Silent Night for Winter Solstice<br /> Connie Barlow<br /> <br /> All is One<br /> Barbara O'Meara</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUNHnAGX22Q&list=OLAK5uy_kK2c1QDk1iVqyRGZ5v8gvJzgxrq9yX7E4&index=2">To Folks and Friends</a><br /> (Sung to God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen)<br /> Megha Morganfield <br /><br /> Go Tell It On The Mountain<br /> Trista Hendren <br /><br /> Light We Now the Solstice Fire<br /> with We Wish You a Blessed Solstice<br /> (Sung to Here We Come A-caroling and <br /> We Wish You a Merry Christmas) <br /> Sharon Smith <br /><br /> Yule Crone (Art)<br /> Andrea Redmond<br /></p><p> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwvqR_tuqEs&list=OLAK5uy_kK2c1QDk1iVqyRGZ5v8gvJzgxrq9yX7E4&index=1">Hark, The Time Has Come to Sing</a><br /> (Sung to Hark, The Herald Angels Sing)<br /> Megha Morganfield <br /> <br /> Solstice Night<br /> (Sung to Jingle Bells)<br /> Sharon Smith<br /> <br /> Spirit of Dawn (Art)<br /> Sue Ellen Parkinson<br /> <br /> Arc Of Stars<br /> (Sung to Boston, an American Christmas hymn)<br /> Claire Dorey<br /> <br /> Winter Solstice Day is Here<br /> (Sung to the tune of Jolly Old Saint Nicholas)<br /> Sharon Smith<br /> <br /> Goddess of Galactic Balance (Art)<br /> Kat Shaw</p><p>THE TWELVE DAYS OF SOLSTICE<br /> Margi Curtis<br /> <br /> Bus Stop (Art)<br /> Cheryl Braganza<br /> <br /> Trim the Halls<br /> (Sung to Deck the Halls)<br /> Sharon Smith<br /> <br /> Notturno Doloroso (Art)<br /> Cheryl Braganza<br /> <br /> To the Future from Auld Lang Syne<br /> (Traditional tune with words by Robert Burns)<br /> Carolyn Lee Boyd<br /> <br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNgT-bF4kGA&list=OLAK5uy_kK2c1QDk1iVqyRGZ5v8gvJzgxrq9yX7E4&index=6">Halcyon Times</a> <br /> Megha Morganfield<br /> <br /> Astraea (Art)<br /> Kat Shaw<br /> <br /> Hallelujah Chorus<br /> Trista Hendren and Anders Løberg</p><p><b>Scheduled for December 2022.</b><br /><br />Pre-order <a href="http://thegirlgod.com/songs_of_solstice.php">here</a>.<br /><br />Join us on December 4th for our<a href="https://thegirlgod.com/solstice_singalong.php"> Solstice Sing-Along!</a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_5_cgdlBTJdKNh-ku5GMwpPqCejqgw9E2hBH-ytyqF6ko4a3gJ1EF_qIR8op3l6tFFY7_jidZCgfS_b2wGAjP1MYmc6pblZ3KFAdcOKxD5XihB_9u95VVvkS0JU8ghfPAmPU3o6v7s9SFkw3_RhHcvJs6bjYkyJ4OaHMbsIx5gNQgSAOX55Y02K2O/s1654/Solstice%20singalong.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1654" data-original-width="1654" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_5_cgdlBTJdKNh-ku5GMwpPqCejqgw9E2hBH-ytyqF6ko4a3gJ1EF_qIR8op3l6tFFY7_jidZCgfS_b2wGAjP1MYmc6pblZ3KFAdcOKxD5XihB_9u95VVvkS0JU8ghfPAmPU3o6v7s9SFkw3_RhHcvJs6bjYkyJ4OaHMbsIx5gNQgSAOX55Y02K2O/s320/Solstice%20singalong.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p>The Girl Godhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10075164390400359665noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6197064158996872377.post-53888595022817880002022-11-12T07:19:00.003-08:002022-11-12T07:47:43.599-08:00About Songs of Solstice<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkun_8Hyuz71oGqoyli7oqScZG6-jr7OYghX1wgHfAErqspEEp4ZMyPoXqte6JEOs9Upi51ko5WdPr6e3Ak8TmIBfbbsvT-qumohINcm8dz1ke2GhEuvC9s4fOB44wI6xrgxVKF4Om_YqKmg1e9lEKnXcFU7uRjamiJzRpqdHPBxJmoJsnVP-YOxjW/s2944/Trista%20New%203.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2944" data-original-width="2208" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkun_8Hyuz71oGqoyli7oqScZG6-jr7OYghX1wgHfAErqspEEp4ZMyPoXqte6JEOs9Upi51ko5WdPr6e3Ak8TmIBfbbsvT-qumohINcm8dz1ke2GhEuvC9s4fOB44wI6xrgxVKF4Om_YqKmg1e9lEKnXcFU7uRjamiJzRpqdHPBxJmoJsnVP-YOxjW/w300-h400/Trista%20New%203.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /> "Not everyone is Christian. Many of us, who prefer a Nature-centered, Goddess-based spirituality, rooted in our own *EIK (European Indigenous Knowledge), have found deep meaning in the Solstice, Equinox and Sabbat celebrations (Imbolc, Beltane, Lughnasadh, and Samhain), and enjoy singing songs that are based upon these sacred days/times of the year.<div><br />We, at Girl God Books, decided to create this special songbook with re-imagined Christmas carols and songs (only those in the public domain were used) to honor the original intent of late December, the Longest Night of the Year, known as the Winter Solstice.<br /><br />So, decorate that evergreen, set the Yule log ablaze, put on the Wassail, light the candles, and lift your voices in celebration." -Sharon Smith from her Introduction to Songs of Solstice.<br /><br />This Songbook celebrates the cycles of Nature—Birth, Life, and Death—through the changing Seasons (the Turning of the Wheel) from Autumn's abundance, for which we give thanks, to Winter's "Dead Time," when even the warmth of the Sun leaves us, and the world goes dark and cold. It is a celebration of both the Light and the Dark, since both are Sacred and both are needed for new Life to grow and flourish.<br /><br />This Song Book includes Goddess-affirming re-writes of the following:<br /><i><br /><a href="http://thegirlgod.com/songs_of_solstice_holy_night.php">O Holy Night</a><br /><br />The Holly & the Ivy<br /> <br />Ave Maria<br /><br /> The Coventry Carol: Lullay, Thou Little Tiny Child<br /> <br /> <a href="http://thegirlgod.com/songs_of_solstice_the_darkest_night_enfolds_us_here.php">O Come, O Come, Immanuel</a><br /><br /> Once in Royal David’s City<br /><br />Away in the Manger<br /> <br /> The First Noel<br /><br />What Child is This<br /><br />I Heard The Bells On Christmas Day<br /> <br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dweQyw1MWXg&list=OLAK5uy_kK2c1QDk1iVqyRGZ5v8gvJzgxrq9yX7E4&index=10">It Came Upon A Midnight Clear</a><br /><br />I Wonder as I Wander<br /> <br /> O Come All Ye Faithful<br /> <br /> Bring A Torch, Jeanette, Isabella<br /> <br /> Three Kings from Persian Lands Afar<br /> <br /> <a href="http://thegirlgod.com/songs_of_solstice_joy_to_the_world.php">Joy to the World</a><br /> <br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0L-0D_9Poe4&list=OLAK5uy_kK2c1QDk1iVqyRGZ5v8gvJzgxrq9yX7E4&index=3">Angels We Have Heard On High</a><br /> <br /> Angels from the Realms of Glory<br /> <br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKBIMnbXSBA&list=OLAK5uy_kK2c1QDk1iVqyRGZ5v8gvJzgxrq9yX7E4&index=4">Oh Little Town of Bethlehem</a><br /> <br /> Silent Night <br /> <br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUNHnAGX22Q&list=OLAK5uy_kK2c1QDk1iVqyRGZ5v8gvJzgxrq9yX7E4&index=2">God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen</a><br /> <br /> Go Tell It On The Mountain<br /><br />Here We Come A-caroling <br /><br />We Wish You a Merry Christmas <br /><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwvqR_tuqEs&list=OLAK5uy_kK2c1QDk1iVqyRGZ5v8gvJzgxrq9yX7E4&index=1">Hark, The Herald Angels Sing</a><br /><br />Jingle Bells<br /> <br /> Boston, an American Christmas hymn<br /><br />Jolly Old Saint Nicholas <br /><br />The Twelve Days of Christmas<br /><br />Deck the Halls<br /> <br /> To the Future from Auld Lang Syne<br /> <br /> Hallelujah Chorus </i><br /><br />This Song Book is also filled with glorious artwork, Solstice poetry, and writings on the Solstice from Glenys Livingstone, PhD., Kat Shaw, and Sharon Smith. Songs of Solstice also includes an essay by Laura Shannon on the original Goddess origins of the word “Hallelujah,”<br /><br />You can find a complete Table of Contents <a href="https://thegirlgod.blogspot.com/2022/11/songs-of-solstice-table-of-contents.html">here</a>.</div><div> <br />Scheduled for December 2022.<br /><br />Pre-order <a href="http://thegirlgod.com/songs_of_solstice.php">here</a>.<br /><br />Join us on December 4th for our<a href="https://thegirlgod.com/solstice_singalong.php"> Solstice Sing-Along!</a><br /><div class="oneComWebmail-html oneComWebmail-mail"><div class="oneComWebmail-body"><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiju5GFwyid2e3z5M_BBCQjHmTo_GUGLCTuR01qzZrZm4hv2sR7Jmdsd5Kfa4nBfztmxe9Mrdiw1hUzgpzWyGxsYQqJPc-pSUhOpqtBHovtmpZRkNqXqTVJyhCNcvm2_pi5U37gK3RZBcYPyDuepmFJfcmz8OOB6Qf1KA7yTDSgqC9etMDg7FeZpW43/s1654/Solstice%20singalong.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1654" data-original-width="1654" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiju5GFwyid2e3z5M_BBCQjHmTo_GUGLCTuR01qzZrZm4hv2sR7Jmdsd5Kfa4nBfztmxe9Mrdiw1hUzgpzWyGxsYQqJPc-pSUhOpqtBHovtmpZRkNqXqTVJyhCNcvm2_pi5U37gK3RZBcYPyDuepmFJfcmz8OOB6Qf1KA7yTDSgqC9etMDg7FeZpW43/s320/Solstice%20singalong.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><b><br /></b></div></div></div></div>The Girl Godhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10075164390400359665noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6197064158996872377.post-31981275377138657372022-07-15T01:47:00.004-07:002022-07-17T00:50:05.055-07:00Call for Submissions: Women's Sovereignty and Body Autonomy Beyond Roe v. Wade<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjV47Pyjsnk06UK_e3k-Yw-IzZ_xDzahZvXdIGph98lZbLpOqqW9gelxvizBdwxNR359Do-UVc5XMnsDYUi9gmDiv1uhtpuJng02l1FJfD_Wgw_PbLU_IQW6wlUl958ViDmGuo44HfW7a7JItbLRin4nGkQOB-K1Er1zgHaGo5izObDyV1jUNVFQGmk/s2700/800_20220713_cover_womens_%20sovereignty.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2700" data-original-width="1800" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjV47Pyjsnk06UK_e3k-Yw-IzZ_xDzahZvXdIGph98lZbLpOqqW9gelxvizBdwxNR359Do-UVc5XMnsDYUi9gmDiv1uhtpuJng02l1FJfD_Wgw_PbLU_IQW6wlUl958ViDmGuo44HfW7a7JItbLRin4nGkQOB-K1Er1zgHaGo5izObDyV1jUNVFQGmk/w266-h400/800_20220713_cover_womens_%20sovereignty.jpg" width="266" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-size: small;">Girl God Books is accepting submissions for our upcoming Anthology of writing: </span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: small;"><i>Women's Sovereignty and Body Autonomy Beyond Roe v. Wade.</i></span></p><p style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Personal essays or accounts (up to 2,000 words), academic papers, poetry, prayers, and art are welcome.</p>We want to hear how the recent overturning of Roe v. Wade in America impacts you, no matter where you live in the world. <div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>What are your thoughts and feelings concerning the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent overturning of this 1973 landmark decision, which granted American women the right to determine what happens in and to their own bodies (bodily autonomy). </li><li>Share your thoughts on how this affects you, your daughters and granddaughters, your nieces, or your neighbors if you live in America; or how it causes concern for your own bodily autonomy if you live anywhere in this world. </li><li>Do you feel a sense of unrest, fear, or full-blown rage? </li><li>And how might such feelings empower you and motivate positive actions?</li></ul></div><div><div style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br />Edited by Arlene Bailey, Pat Daly, Sharon Smith and Trista Hendren</div><div style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br />Cover Art by <span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #26282a;"><a href="https://www.ravynnephelan.com">Ravynne M Phelan</a></span><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Instagram: @ravynnephelan</span></div><div><a href="https://www.facebook.com/ravynnephelan" style="background-color: white; color: red; cursor: pointer; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; outline: none 0px;" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/ravynnephelan</a></div><div><br />Scheduled publication: TBA<br /><br /><b>Submission Guidelines:</b><br />Please send your finished piece in a Word document. Please send your finished piece in a Word document. Calibri size 12 font is preferred. Please do not use any fancy formatting or fonts as it creates a lot more work on our end. Make sure to spell check before you submit. Art should be sent in high resolution as a JPG. You may submit more than one piece for consideration, but due to the volume of submissions, please only send your best work and <b>keep it on topic.</b></div><div><br /></div><div>Please also include a bio in the third person under 150 words.<br /><br />Please send your submissions to <a href="mailto:submissions@girlgod.org" style="color: #d52a33; text-decoration-line: none;">submissions@girlgod.org</a> by September 30, 2022 with the book title in your subject line. Please note that we cannot accommodate any late submissions or corrections.</div></div></div>The Girl Godhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10075164390400359665noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6197064158996872377.post-75847683407907606302022-07-04T07:26:00.004-07:002022-07-04T08:00:44.327-07:00Where Does This Rage Come From? by Kaia Tingley <p> </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNlVaWOYWYb7FHakQo3t10QKaxhC_CkFVE4g2JGVlt1CZFf7DftxXOoQujb-affN8TYeiopFVIAaj6GEiAiWGY-XhQnSkLJG26YL6cceXhZUiwaDbWq5x6QezQis16KE96030ykK7MIqvg1CqV5ncpGWCaZnHDBlRq0E7ffnbvUbACBV0h20Lph74l/s640/Medusa's%20Scream%20II%20Claire.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNlVaWOYWYb7FHakQo3t10QKaxhC_CkFVE4g2JGVlt1CZFf7DftxXOoQujb-affN8TYeiopFVIAaj6GEiAiWGY-XhQnSkLJG26YL6cceXhZUiwaDbWq5x6QezQis16KE96030ykK7MIqvg1CqV5ncpGWCaZnHDBlRq0E7ffnbvUbACBV0h20Lph74l/w400-h300/Medusa's%20Scream%20II%20Claire.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Medusa's Scream II by Claire Dorey</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p></p><p><span style="background-color: white; vertical-align: super;">There
has been a deep trauma</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0.19in;"><sup><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">To
all of us.</span></span></span></sup></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0.19in;"><sup><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In
all of us.</span></span></span></sup></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0.19in;"><sup><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">By
all of us.</span></span></span></sup></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0.19in;"><sup><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Against
divinity herself.</span></span></span></sup></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0.19in;"><sup><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">We
have been the victims. We have been the perpetrators too.</span></span></span></sup></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0.19in;"><sup><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">I
do not know the name. I cannot describe the agony. But I bear witness
to it nonetheless. It is real. It happened and we can no longer
afford to pretend that it did not.</span></span></span></sup></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0.19in;"><sup><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">I
don’t have to know what happened. I don’t have to feel it all
over again. But the bedrock of truth is unyielding. A steady place to
rest, if even for just the briefest moment.</span></span></span></sup></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0.19in;"><sup><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">There
is no blame, actually. It just is </span></span></span></sup><sup><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">a
thing</span></i></span></span></sup><sup><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.
A block in the vibration of infinity. A hiccup in the grand scheme of
things.</span></span></span></sup></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0.19in;"><sup><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">But
it was painful all the same. Deeply painful in the way of giving
birth. The ring of fire.</span></span></span></sup></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0.19in;"><sup><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">THIS
is where the rage comes from.</span></span></span></sup></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0.19in;"><sup><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Deep
within us on a primal level.</span></span></span></sup></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0.19in;"><sup><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The
trauma happened a very long time ago. When some people discovered
that they could rule others through fear and power. Since domination
became the foundational zeitgeist of human progress. </span></span></span></sup><sup><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;">Since
we started trying to put an infinite, linear progression on top of
the cyclical rhythm of nature.</span></span></sup></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0.19in;"><sup><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Since
we decided a global economy (and its flow of profit to the few scions
of power at the top) was more important than the very skin of the
earth, and the stability of our families.</span></span></span></sup></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0.19in;"><sup><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">We
will continue to pass on the block in the darkness of unawareness for
so long as we continue to flee towards what we perceive as safety
rather than embrace the light of truth. Our physical gender in this
lifetime is irrelevant to this process.</span></span></span></sup></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0.19in;"><sup><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The
trauma shaped us. It brought us collectively to the point that we are
experiencing right here. Right now.</span></span></span></sup></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0.19in;"><sup><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Do
you see the edge? Do you feel it?</span></span></span></sup></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0.19in;"><sup><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Forgiveness
is not a logical thing.</span></span></span></sup></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0.19in;"><sup><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">It
is not something the mind can decide, or religion can dictate must
happen.</span></span></span></sup></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0.19in;"><sup><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">It
is not something to be broken down, analyzed, or understood.</span></span></span></sup></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0.19in;"><sup><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">It
is not even a one-time thing.</span></span></span></sup></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0.19in;"><sup><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;">Forgiveness
is a mystery. She’s the sister of Eros herself. We aren’t built
to understand. That’s ok.</span></span></sup></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0.19in;"><sup><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">She’s
the muse Dona Mwiria speaks of seducing. The harbinger of pleasure.
The very essence of what it means to be alive and to know it.</span></span></span></sup></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0.19in;"><sup><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">She
calls us back to beauty. She calls us to the bright blue sky and the
perfect beauty of the clouds chasing one another home. She sings the
siren song of coherence in a world gone mad. She is the ground under
our bare feet and the wind in our hair.</span></span></span></sup></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0.19in;"><sup><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Do
you hear her singing?</span></span></span></sup></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0.19in;"><sup><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Her
voice is beautiful despite the trauma she’s endured. Her seeds will
always sprout, even after they’ve been crushed and burned and
smeared into nothing. </span></span></span></sup><sup><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;">They
will still grow if we can imagine that love still exists.</span></span></sup></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0.19in;"><sup><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">She’s
more powerful than anyone can possibly imagine. The definition of
juicy. Forgiveness, dressed in her modest clothes, holds the secret
of the future in her small, carefully cupped hands.</span></span></span></sup></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0.19in;"><sup><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">She
offers us a cup of calming tea.</span></span></span></sup></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0.19in;"><sup><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Do
we dare to allow her softness again?</span></span></span></sup></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0.19in;"><sup><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">It
seems imprudent, but…</span></span></span></sup></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0.19in;"><sup><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;">I
take the cup of tea.</span></span></sup></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0.19in;"><sup><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The
world has always seemed to be trying to crush me into a tight little
square space when my nature has demanded flow. Get a job! says Amanda
Palmer. I feel that…</span></span></span></sup></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0.19in;"><sup><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;">But
I crave circular spaces. White walls and dark wooden floors. Healthy
dark green plants, soft breezes, wide-open skies. Cool pools in the
dark evening and the enchanted sound of music sung in low harmonious
voices. A warm hand on the small of my back. Permission granted to be
as I am. No different.</span></span></sup></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0.19in;"><sup><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;">I’ve
struggled with structure impose</span></span></sup><sup><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">d
upon form, and form animated by flow, in a never ending cycle.
Haven’t you?</span></span></span></sup></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0.19in;"><sup><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Is
this, at its heart, a problem of perception? Or is it the law of the
Tao?</span></span></span></sup></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0.19in;"><sup><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Must
there always be pain? Is the pain the necessary precursor to beauty?</span></span></span></sup></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0.19in;"><sup><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Is
this just the way it was supposed to be?</span></span></span></sup></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0.19in;"><sup><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">I
don’t feel in my heart that it is. But I release the attachment to
knowing.</span></span></span></sup></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0.19in;"><sup><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">I
release the story that I am supposed to be someone else in order to
have the right to know this. That I should suffer more. Enough with
the suffering!</span></span></span></sup></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0.19in;"><sup><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">If
these words come through me to you, then so be it! It is up to you
now to decide whether or not to receive them. I will never take that
from you.</span></span></span></sup></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0.19in;"><sup><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;">Contrast
doesn’t have to mean control.</span></span></sup></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0.19in;"><sup><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">We
</span></span></span></sup><sup><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">can</span></i></span></span></sup><sup><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
learn to allow for fluidity within a structure, can’t we? Coherence
is after all just an adjustment to the frequencies of previously
negating waveforms.</span></span></span></sup></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0.19in;"><sup><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The
inexorable pull of the tide brings me back to the place of stillness.
The space between the inhale and the exhale. The exhale and the
inhale.</span></span></span></sup></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0.19in;"><sup><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;">There
is beauty in both sides. </span></span></sup><sup><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The
union of the opposites could be just fine.</span></span></span></sup></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0.19in;"><sup><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">We
have been given the choice. It is upon us. Do you see it?</span></span></span></sup></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0.19in;"><sup><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">All
I can do is bear witness.</span></span></span></sup></p><p></p><p></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0.19in;"><sup><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">I
am content with the choice I have made.</span></span></span></sup></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0.19in;"><sup><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">I
sip my tea and smile.</span></span></span></sup></p><p></p><p><b>Art and essay from <span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-size: 13px;"> </span><i style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><a href="http://thegirlgod.com/re-membering.php" style="color: #d52a33;">Re-Membering with Goddess: Healing the Patriarchal Perpetuation of Trauma.</a></i></b></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 0; widows: 0;"><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="nb-NO"><span style="color: black;"><sup><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Kaia
Tingley</b></span></span></sup></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="nb-NO"><span style="color: black;"><sup><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;">
is a writer, artist, podcaster, digital strategy nerd, and sometimes
hot-tempered supernova with a wild, free soul. You can find her on
Instagram or on LinkedIn.</span></span></sup></span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 0; widows: 0;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="vertical-align: super;">https://www.instagram.com/muse.of.creativity
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kaiamaeve</span></p><p><br /></p>The Girl Godhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10075164390400359665noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6197064158996872377.post-31779106520542099872022-07-02T02:22:00.001-07:002022-07-07T04:06:43.597-07:00Call for Submissions - Kali Rising: Holy Rage<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmPUpOiOqgFsF5eOPTFWpkUlcS-A2J8Hxb_sdkJdEFia74n6xsvfsJInDQO3_qYP0X4F3mQ6LQs__XwJqjsHOIynoON4iSaMRVyMomo2A-UiveJL8oNCUDrJ3w6HlTga79uEAz-hBIxCj8n16SqP5QnczoktpEzhshcVF7rTrgO6RnXpUBe2GUHos-/s3377/Kali%20of%20the%20First%20Flame%20cover%20mock%20up%202.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3377" data-original-width="2480" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmPUpOiOqgFsF5eOPTFWpkUlcS-A2J8Hxb_sdkJdEFia74n6xsvfsJInDQO3_qYP0X4F3mQ6LQs__XwJqjsHOIynoON4iSaMRVyMomo2A-UiveJL8oNCUDrJ3w6HlTga79uEAz-hBIxCj8n16SqP5QnczoktpEzhshcVF7rTrgO6RnXpUBe2GUHos-/w294-h400/Kali%20of%20the%20First%20Flame%20cover%20mock%20up%202.jpg" width="294" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-size: 13px;">Girl God Books is accepting submissions for our upcoming Anthology of writing: </span><i style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Kali Rising: Holy Rage.</i></p><div style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Personal essays or accounts (up to 2,000 words), academic papers, poetry, prayers, and art are welcome.</div><div style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">We want to hear about your insight into this Goddess - and how you have used Her story, myth and dance of destruction to transform your life, take back your power and realize Sovereignty is a Human Right. How has Her justified rage empowered you?</div><div style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br />Edited by C. Ara Campbell, Jaclyn Cherie, Pat Daly, and Trista Hendren</div><div style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br />Cover Art by Kat Shaw<div><br />Scheduled publication: TBA<br /><br /><b>Submission Guidelines:</b><br />Please send your finished piece in a Word document. Please send your finished piece in a Word document. Calibri size 12 font is preferred. Please do not use any fancy formatting or fonts as it creates a lot more work on our end. Make sure to spell check before you submit. Art should be sent in high resolution as a JPG. You may submit more than one piece for consideration, but due to the volume of submissions, please only send your best work and <b>keep it on topic.</b></div><div><br /></div><div>We plan to do three anthologies dedicated to Kali - details to follow. <br /><br />Please also include a bio in the third person under 150 words.<br /><br />Please send your submissions to <a href="mailto:submissions@girlgod.org" style="color: #d52a33; text-decoration-line: none;">submissions@girlgod.org</a> by August 30, 2022 with the book title in your subject line. Please note that we cannot accommodate any late submissions or corrections.</div></div>The Girl Godhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10075164390400359665noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6197064158996872377.post-32279409222086785582022-07-01T00:52:00.004-07:002022-07-01T00:52:39.218-07:00COLLAPSE, MOTHER by Dawn Perez<p> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLjhxxomR3GlaKpia7yhVYJauXZYP_TlVJ4b_Th4VqTmt0gJWNzGx8TSXp2-ShAe6j5q3ol8bI1FRseyamaGHF6ZGlJq03nChRQwxLgQ_PKCwxTNtg13lbYS6BXE3mQcoZsoneY4wBoz1uoIx-gXLGLW0ih_cQqRsEtw1e-LE3MphrC_o8cOs-wxIU/s905/leticia%20Banegas%20mother%20mary%20wiping%20tear.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="905" data-original-width="724" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLjhxxomR3GlaKpia7yhVYJauXZYP_TlVJ4b_Th4VqTmt0gJWNzGx8TSXp2-ShAe6j5q3ol8bI1FRseyamaGHF6ZGlJq03nChRQwxLgQ_PKCwxTNtg13lbYS6BXE3mQcoZsoneY4wBoz1uoIx-gXLGLW0ih_cQqRsEtw1e-LE3MphrC_o8cOs-wxIU/w320-h400/leticia%20Banegas%20mother%20mary%20wiping%20tear.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Painting by Leticia Banegas </td></tr></tbody></table></p><p align="CENTER" lang="en-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); break-after: auto; break-before: page; break-inside: auto; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.06in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: always; page-break-inside: auto; text-decoration: none; widows: 2;"><br /></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">All your life,</p>you’ve been told to hold it in. <br /><br />Hold in your gut, woman, <br />Don’t let them think you’re fat. <br /><br />Hold in your feelings, mother, <br />Don’t let them think you’re hysterical. <br /><br />Hold in your worry, dear, <br />Don’t let them think you’re psychotic. <br /><br />Hold in your grief, mama, <br />Don’t let them see the pain in your heart. <br /><br />Hold in your rage, woman, <br />Don’t let them think you’re unrefined, wild, feral, magick. <br /><br />When you hold it all inside you, <br />Do you feel empowered? <br />Or do you feel exhausted? <br /><br />You don’t have to hold it in any longer, child, <br />I’m here. <br />You’re safe. <br /><br />Give it up. <br />Let it out. <br />Release it. <br />Let it go. <br /><br />Collapse, mother. <br />Cry your tears and let them <br />Permeate the earth with their healing power. <br /><br />You gut, <br />Your feelings, <br />Your worry, <br />Your grief, <br />Your rage. <br /><br />It’s all love, mother. <br />It’s a part of you. <br /><br />Embrace it, allow it. <br />Breathe it in. <br />Let it go.<p></p>Poem and painting from <i><a href="http://thegirlgod.com/re-membering.php">Re-Membering with Goddess: Healing the Patriarchal Perpetuation of Trauma.</a></i><div><br /><div><div><b>Dawn Perez</b> is a writer, mother, and feminist. Formerly, she was a music teacher in the public schools for ten years. She lives in NewvMexico with her amazing husband and two sons, who are the joy</div><div>of her life. When she’s not writing, she spends her time hiking, singing, and rock climbing. You can read more of her work at wildsimplejoy.com, which focuses on healing our bodies, minds,</div><div>and spirits as women and mothers.</div></div></div>The Girl Godhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10075164390400359665noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6197064158996872377.post-52546405190192907882022-03-12T00:26:00.001-08:002022-03-12T00:26:03.850-08:00Finding Myself by Caroline Selles<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjpmpDQPq5pGFXMi-neAaFFNHuNdm30gKb9jcIyC0iN8IxOh5AgWMKDhiiJO4sMeBvGcQu7g8-FpSCANnLTUfs7enXcPvWjiBmKENsy0B9HSxpsXJfQbPT2a4Z7-3KBq8oWEw_EFb_5Yl4iEtEnu51rObz8Nehrkc9XsZoEeQXA_-dL7zn_5OXX1Hyo=s2093" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2093" data-original-width="1029" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjpmpDQPq5pGFXMi-neAaFFNHuNdm30gKb9jcIyC0iN8IxOh5AgWMKDhiiJO4sMeBvGcQu7g8-FpSCANnLTUfs7enXcPvWjiBmKENsy0B9HSxpsXJfQbPT2a4Z7-3KBq8oWEw_EFb_5Yl4iEtEnu51rObz8Nehrkc9XsZoEeQXA_-dL7zn_5OXX1Hyo=w196-h400" width="196" /></a></div><br /><p></p>I open the box of puzzle pieces that are my pain. <br />As I sort through the jumble of jagged bleeding pieces, I notice <br />My illusions <br />My faults <br />My failures <br />My trauma. <br /><br />The edges form the suit of armor so familiar, comfortable, and suffocating. <br />The colors are muted and faded. <br />The design prescribed by others <br />My family <br />My peers <br />My rapist <br />My newsfeed. <br /><br />Edges no longer match. <br />Pieces no longer fit. <br />The picture on the box, so attractive and acceptable to others, <br />The image I am told I should want to form seems <br />Grotesque <br />Artificial <br />Offensive <br />Unacceptable to me. <br /><br />One by one, I lovingly scrape off the blood and reshape the pieces. <br />I add vibrant colors <br />Of laughter <br />Of tears <br />Of dancing <br />Of truth. <br /><br />The suit of armor is replaced by a blanket, warm, cozy, comforting and fluid. <br />I allow the tenderness to mold, not an image, but a feeling. A feeling <br />Of love <br />Of belonging <br />Of connection <br />Of safety. <br /><br />I am finding myself, one piece at a time.<div><br /></div><div>Poem and art from our upcoming anthology, <a href="http://thegirlgod.com/re-membering.php"><i>Re-Membering with Goddess: Healing the Patriarchal Perpetuation of Trauma</i></a><br /> <div><span style="color: #1c1e21;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="background: #ffffff;">Caroline
Selles</span></b></span></span></span><span style="color: #1c1e21;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">
is a veterinarian, reiki practitioner, poet and painter. A
self-taught intuitive artist, Caroline began painting as a way of
healing thru decades of physical and emotional trauma and illness.
What began as a meditative practice with a desire to see more
diversity of form and culture in art, has become a spiritual and
healing practice and the pathway to finding Goddess and reclaiming
her own suppressed cultural inheritance and feminine power. </span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Essential
themes of her art and poems include reclaiming female empowerment,
female divinity and diversity, integration after trauma and nature as
goddess imagery. Born in Valencia, Spain, she currently resides in
the United States. She can be found on social media as
@thegoddesswithinart or at </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">https://thegoddesswithinart.square.site.</span></div><div><br /></div></div>The Girl Godhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10075164390400359665noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6197064158996872377.post-24543411078709587392022-03-11T04:40:00.002-08:002022-03-11T04:44:48.938-08:00Warrior in Woad Ritual Meditation – The Spirit Marking Warrior of Andraste by Joey Morris<p> </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg0ewbsg_dxKtajZYWkJZXq8zBiPMxJp2ErUzSUpaAqwfYM03Xq3NPsmgL9USGEROE3gWW9bDPHVraV7dnLlv3z07cMoLYU2FBakaeWeWlO4H2vYi_gYwvE_7Evlum9mKOcTEY0A1ZR-ZvzUfF7iJno68vnbdk88zNZnppW1Vz7UBGtRNwPgtCQ66aI=s3249" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3249" data-original-width="2208" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg0ewbsg_dxKtajZYWkJZXq8zBiPMxJp2ErUzSUpaAqwfYM03Xq3NPsmgL9USGEROE3gWW9bDPHVraV7dnLlv3z07cMoLYU2FBakaeWeWlO4H2vYi_gYwvE_7Evlum9mKOcTEY0A1ZR-ZvzUfF7iJno68vnbdk88zNZnppW1Vz7UBGtRNwPgtCQ66aI=w271-h400" width="271" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Art by Kat Shaw</td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p align="CENTER" style="break-before: page; margin-bottom: 0.06in; page-break-before: always; text-decoration: none;"><br /></p>
<p align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">“<span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;">Hail
to You<br />Andraste<br />Goddess who will not be felled<br />By Time or
Suppression<br />As the Light and Dark hold their balance<br />We too
hold our heads high<br />On the precipice of all our battles,<br />Internal
and against those<br />Who seek to claim and destroy our Land.”</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">Warrior
in Woad Ritual Meditation – </span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">The
Spirit Marking Warrior of Andraste</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">After
we have cast the circle, called in the trees, spoken to the Mothers
of the Elements, and called out to Andraste and perhaps Boudicca
also, we may wish to invoke the spirit of the Equinox through the
Warrior in Woad.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">This
calls back to the Celtic people marking themselves with the blue
ritual paint made from Woad.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;">To
mark one's self before battle was a powerful act; you crushed herbs
and dyes in a form of battle potion making, calling on the essence of
these plants and the land to infuse you with their blessing, and
called on the War Gods to recognise you as being ‘marked’ as
theirs on the battle field, and ‘marked’ for protection and
victory.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">Prior
to the ritual you may wish to use the following chant:</span></p>
<br /><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">The Warrior in Woad<br /> “I am her<br /> And she is me<br /> The guardian in woad<br /> A story screams<br /> Across the void<br /> Marked in battle lines<br /> I hear her scream<br /> Guttering<br /> The pitch black chord of night<br /> I am her<br />and She is me<br />There is no true divide<br />I cross the ocean bruised <div style="text-align: left;">And weary</div><div>To speak at fire side </div><div>The lightning calls </div><div>As once it did </div><div>The drums of war unfold </div><div>I am Her </div><div>And She is me </div><div>The Warrior in Woad.”</div></blockquote><div><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;">Close
your eyes and visualise Andraste before you, standing on the top of a
grassy hill in Ancient Briton.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;">You
can feel the wind whipping around you, cold and bracing, with Spring
rain thrashing about.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;">You
are here to scout the land, the threat of Roman invasion and those
who wish to take away your inner Sovereignty.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;">In
this space you will not fight anyone, but you watch as the light
breaks through the clouds, listening for the Land Spirits and for
Andraste herself to speak to you.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;">Messages
of Rebirth, Re-emergence, and Reclaiming the self are all of pivotal
importance going forward – hear the words that are only for you.
How does Andraste appear to you? What does She say?</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;">Turn
to face Her, to listen, to seek to understand.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;">In
this process of remembering, Andraste reaches out, her fingertips
rich with Woad, to paint your face and body with markings that are
unique to you.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">Your
battle paint – reminders of your inner essence and that you can do
anything you set your mind to!</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">As
the paint swirls against your skin, see it moving and glowing with an
Otherworldly energy – it is more than just paint. Feel and know
that you are a part of something greater; sense that you are not
defeated, you will not give up on yourself, your sovereignty.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;">You
are not alone in your birthing of a new sense of yourself.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">Feel
yourself grow stronger, more courageous, more connected to the Land,
to the Goddess, to Yourself.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">Offer
your gratitude to Andraste and come back to the mundane world.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">The
Land remembers…</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">How
the changing nature of Warfare has impacted the Land.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;">For
a moment, I want you to consider what affect ancient Warfare versus
modern Warfare might have on the land and the Spirits of that Land.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;">As
I have already mentioned, modern Warfare has been moved ‘elsewhere’
by the powers that be – in what can be described as a political,
social, and economic shift to benefit the powerful. </span></span>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;">War
often follows the resources, and with the current choke hold the
powerful have over their own land in Europe (and the UK which is
sadly no longer part of Europe), and indeed in the USA, there is
little to be gained from fighting at home.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">Instead,
modern Warfare follows the Oil and benefits the powerful by providing
an “us versus them” narrative which fuels hatred against the
other.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">War
is as ancient as human history, as is the grasping at territory and
the resources that land would provide.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">To
the ancient Celts, it was an intimate part of everyday life, having
skirmishes with neighbouring tribes, seeking riches, land, and horses
or cattle from battle.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">War,
such as it was, fed into their honour system, with self-worth and
Sovereignty being claimed through battle.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">There
would be no sense to the ancient Celts in obliterating the land they
wished to inhabit.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">Indeed,
the idea of conquering armies of ancient times salting the Earth to
make it uninhabitable, which was a popular folklore motif by the
Middle ages, is thought by historians to be largely fanciful.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;">There
may have been rituals involving salt that was said to ‘curse’ the
land so that the defeated could never return and grow there, but the
idea of using so much salt that the Earth would be harmed beyond
repair is fairly ridiculous given the precious nature of salt, the
expense, as well as the logistics surrounding the amount needed to be
transported to a place to kill the Earth.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">The
application of toxic chemicals to the Earth in modern history,
however, is one of the travesties again the planet. I have said
before through my work with The Morrigan, that I view Celtic battle
and the life force spilt through blood on the Earth as a kind of
offering to the Goddess of War. This is tied to the sacred nature of
Life force within Blood.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;">The
idea of sacrifice we have mentioned being tied to ancient mythos
still survives in pagan tradition; albeit metaphorical rather than
physical. </span></span>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">It
is also usually applied to the harvest months rather than Spring, but
as we know the Celtic people performed sacrifices, both animal and
human, and this was directly tied to the well-being of the Land, I
find it unlikely that this was not part of their spiritual path in
Spring as the new seedlings sprouted.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">“<span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;">The
best archaeological data supporting Celtic human sacrifice is the
body of the man placed in Lindow bog in the first or second century
C.E. We actually have the body (well, most of it) so well preserved
that scientists were able to analyze his stomach contents to discover
his last meal (a partially scorched grain cake). Lindow man was
almost certainly a ritual sacrifice; he was strangled, hit on the
head, and had his throat cut, in quick order, then surrendered to the
bog. This pattern fits the “three-fold” death referred to in
medieval Irish tales. What’s more, the man seems to have been of
high social rank, and a willing victim.” - digitalmedievalist</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">Once
again this highlights a key lesson of War Goddesses; that there can
be multiple reactions to complicated energies. War is not a pleasant
business, but it condenses your life force into a single moment,
bringing complete clarity – all the reasons to resist death and
keep fighting.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">It
also shows in my mind, how the Land may have received the blood of
humans as a part of the ritual aspect of Death.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;">Warfare,
to the Celts, was a part of life, and in so dying the balance between
humankind and other life (the Land, the trees, the plants, the
animals, etc.) was more maintained. </span></span>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">Overpopulation
and destruction of the Earth is a modern issue.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;">Ancient
forms of Warfare maintained a balance which is no longer the case.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">Instead,
we have to alchemize our Warrior energy, and fight to protect the
Land, whenever and how so ever we can.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">This
does not mean sacrificing a noble to the bogs anymore (tempting as
that thought can be sometimes with the rich!)</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;">It
does mean fighting those in power who see the land as something to
serve their ends, which, inevitably, will be the end of the human
race as well.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">The
Earth will outlive us. We will not survive if we keep damaging the
planet this way.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">I
do not tell people how they should act. I think it is important to
raise the issue for consideration and allow a person to find their
own way.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">But
be it changed behaviour in ourselves, charitable donation, raising
awareness… whatever we do, is echoed throughout the spiritual
ecosystem.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">The
Land Spirits know how we are behaving, and they remember.</b></p><br /><p></p><div><p lang="en-US" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Joey
Morris</b> is a Celtic Creatrix and UK-based daughter of The
Morrigan. She is an author, creatrix CEO of <a href="https://www.facebook.com/StarryEyedSupplies">Starry Eyed Supplies</a>, and
co-owner of the What the Flux podcast.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;">Within
the spiritual landscape, her soul mission is to deepen the
understanding of our interconnectedness by honouring the sacred and
exploring the masks of the self through channelling relationships to
the Divine through written work, poetry, videos, <span style="text-decoration: none;">products,
and services. </span></span></span></span>
</p><br /></div></div>The Girl Godhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10075164390400359665noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6197064158996872377.post-57245683428356531502022-03-08T00:59:00.007-08:002022-03-08T01:00:12.529-08:00Reclamation of the Broken Spirit by Joey Morris<p> </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjHK2mtGpylNGDS3PBatj0RLtEmPcG5vIC-offus6LVtQ7XvlaYBvaCVzyyUCP4mnHyURqyZpkuOxLJqGAhZxi6gNTarUZVJpl4tz-XdW7e_Rvyf6oxuKE57-B4CfHmOA9Sq3gpOS5F5YSRTBqnSDKZ-rZ3Dq5xWKnkUWxBKzCR52YNEGb0kXTgmUlr=s720" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="504" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjHK2mtGpylNGDS3PBatj0RLtEmPcG5vIC-offus6LVtQ7XvlaYBvaCVzyyUCP4mnHyURqyZpkuOxLJqGAhZxi6gNTarUZVJpl4tz-XdW7e_Rvyf6oxuKE57-B4CfHmOA9Sq3gpOS5F5YSRTBqnSDKZ-rZ3Dq5xWKnkUWxBKzCR52YNEGb0kXTgmUlr=w280-h400" width="280" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Art by Arna Baartz</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p></p><p>We
remember.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">The
lost ones, the broken ones, the hurting.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">We
remember the moments where we stared vacantly out into the world,
feeling disconnected from it.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">Our
illusions shattered, the promises of a fair, safe, world dissolving
at our feet.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">For
myself, it was a moment in the back of a car, being driven away at
3am, watching the street light blur into one another in a seemingly
endless parade, each light stretching thin and eventually
disappearing, a weird recollection through hazy vision.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">The
distinct memory of dirt on the glass, and feeling like it ought to be
raining.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">The
rain was conspicuous by its absence.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">And
telling myself that life would never be the same again.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">It
leaves a mark somewhere, those kinds of memories, that if we are not
careful, we can slip back into the state of disconnection, feeling
present only in body to the world around us.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">The
world can be a hostile place, with an aggressive stance on conformity
played in front of our eyes on a seemingly endless loop, whilst we
are taught to always be ashamed.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">The
reclamation of self begins as we start to reject conformity; the
authentic self is seeking the courage to let the world see who we are
without concealment of all the idiosyncrasies peculiar to our unique
blend of human.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">It
is the acceptance of the broken self that lends itself to reigniting
the fires within ourselves.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">We
know what it is to feel the icy grip of despair, a cruelty that goes
beyond the painful into the realm of self-abandonment; we have lost
touch with the world around us for moments, leaving us an observer to
the patterns of it; we study and examine from a peculiar vantage
point.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">It
is in nature that I am reminded I can be moved by what this world has
to offer.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">When
the atmosphere cracks in thunder and destructive elements grip the
sky in a ballet of force so beyond us, or the rain rolls down a leaf
in softly spoken prayer, running its length before slowly descending
to the dirt beneath.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">Everything
seems to shift in these moments, time takes on a personality of its
own, slowing everything down or racing it forward, as the crows cry
out or the soul feels lifted into an endless night of stars.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">Was
the Witch always within me? For to see the world through 'other' eyes
is surely connected to that title, for all the good that titles do.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">I
think perhaps it was, as I stumbled through forests as a child
telling stories of ancient lands and magical spirits that others
could not see.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">So
how does one hold onto a spark of something wondrous when all else
has been forcibly removed from you, when hopelessness and violence
and abuse cling to your memories like dried on gory splatter?</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">I
tell the monsters that they do not own me.</b></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b>They
cannot have me; I am still here</b></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">I
will mark the world in every way I can—with honour, with truth,
with beauty.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">In
the retelling of stories both horrifying and true, refusing to be
ashamed or allow others to be so conditioned, help them to refuse to
be the same as one another, to discard the notion that there is a
safety in those numbers, when instead, it is handing over the power
to another to dictate who you are – instead of being who you want
to be, who you are shaping yourself into, honouring the magickal
spark within you that cannot be silenced.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">I
will not be the same again.</b></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">I
will be more. I will stand, time and time again, between those who
seek to abuse others, and rouse the war cry of the unprotected. I
will remind them they do not need to apologize for how they survived,
nor be taunted by a system which shuns them or encourages their
silence.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">I
will not be the same again.</b></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">I
will embody the witch. I will reclaim my wild heritage on this earth,
connected to the rolling thunderstorm and the lightning that crashes,
bathe myself in the vast unconquered depths of the ocean and speak to
the trees to hear their voices. I will remember the forgotten dead
and the disregarded spirits to harness a live wire of power and
magick.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">And
in the face of all who mock me, I will grin with fox fangs and raven
eyes in the knowing that they cannot shame me.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">I
will not be the same again.</b></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">I
know emptiness, and so I value connection. I know lies, and so I
honour truth. I know bleakness and so I liberate my senses into a
system of spiritual seeking. I know hatred and so I will pour out
love from my heart. I know shame, and so I reclaim my sexuality.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;">I
stand for the broken. I stand for the lost. I stand for the hurting.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">You
will not have us. We will be here.</span></b></p><br /><p></p><p>An excerpt from <a href="http://thegirlgod.com/boudicca.php"><i>In Defiance of Oppression -The Legacy of Boudicca</i></a>.</p><p lang="en-US" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><b>Joey
Morris</b> is a Celtic Creatrix and UK-based daughter of The
Morrigan. She is an author, creatrix CEO of Starry Eyed Supplies, and
co-owner of the What the Flux podcast.</span></span></p><p lang="en-US" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in;"><span style="color: black;">“<span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;">To
become a tempered blade of The Morrigan, one must be baptized in
blood and fire. These struggles within my lifetime have led me to
become a voice for the voiceless, to reach out to the broken, and to
poke the shadows in others so that they might begin to heal. </span></span></span>
</p><p lang="en-US" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 6pt;">.</span>Such
a path is dangerous. But so are we. This is the birth of a wild witch
who sees with their 'other eyes' and treads the path of edges, sharp
and unusual, but filled with adventure, magick of the liminal and the
in-between spaces.” – Joey Morris</span></span></p><p>
</p><p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">Within
the spiritual landscape, her soul mission is to deepen the
understanding of our interconnectedness by honouring the sacred and
exploring the masks of the self through channelling relationships to
the Divine through written work, poetry, videos, products,
and services. </span></span>
</p><p><br /></p>The Girl Godhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10075164390400359665noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6197064158996872377.post-40392590941412607272022-02-28T02:26:00.005-08:002022-02-28T07:27:57.965-08:00The Importance of SHEroes by Trista Hendren<p> </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhgdoA27fX3JEbBSamzmlJTLVXANc2F_TUKfoaaD3uMcen5IB2HRLtO-I7Lr9ZrKFA0UVnVnLkjk4YzA5wmm0qULMRM7pBReejoZJc86SxFsQVMNHnIAY4Q5igI8Az96CENBA3fAwrGfpaehQpyIjPdOvY_UrcYTSfpRPDSbLlGudsG2CPQIEmpYWjU=s3406" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3406" data-original-width="2338" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhgdoA27fX3JEbBSamzmlJTLVXANc2F_TUKfoaaD3uMcen5IB2HRLtO-I7Lr9ZrKFA0UVnVnLkjk4YzA5wmm0qULMRM7pBReejoZJc86SxFsQVMNHnIAY4Q5igI8Az96CENBA3fAwrGfpaehQpyIjPdOvY_UrcYTSfpRPDSbLlGudsG2CPQIEmpYWjU=w275-h400" width="275" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Art by Andrea Redmond</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p></p><p><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">It
is difficult for me to imagine how different my life would have been
had I been taught </span><i style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">any</i><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"> sort of HERstory growing up. It was not
until I started Women's Studies in 1994 that I began to see all that
had been hidden from me—and finally got a glimpse of all the power
I had yet to reclaim.</span></p><p>
</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">As
a Christian teenager, the legend of Boudicca would have given me an
entirely opposite view of what was possible for women than what I had
been led to believe through reading the Bible and attending church.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;">Mona
Eltahawy captured my approach to raising my daughter in </span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Headscarves
and Hymens</i></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;">.</span></span></p><p></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-size: x-small;">“What if instead of breaking their wildness like a rancher tames a bronco, we taught girls the importance and power of being dangerous? </span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-small;">I want to bottle-feed rage to every baby girl so that it fortifies her bones and muscles. I want her to flex, and feel the power growing inside her as she herself grows from a child into a young woman.”</span><a class="sdfootnoteanc" href="#sdfootnote1sym" name="sdfootnote1anc" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><sup>1</sup></a></p></blockquote><p>
</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">In
addition to physical strength and emotional intelligence, our
daughters also must learn HERstory.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">I
realized early on that my daughter was not going to learn much about
this at school (despite my requests!), so I took it upon myself to
seek out books and learning opportunities to teach her.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;">Some
of my favorite memories with Helani were reading the entire female
section of the <i>Who Was </i>series<a class="sdfootnoteanc" href="#sdfootnote2sym" name="sdfootnote2anc"><sup>2</sup></a>
for children. She brought some of her favorites with her to Norway,
even though we only had 4 suitcases between us when we moved here. </span></span>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">Unfortunately,
they do not offer a book on Boudicca—which is not surprising. Even
the limited HERstory children are taught is usually the same handful
of (mostly relatively tame) women. In her biography of Boudicca,
Vanessa Collingridge wrote:</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.49in;">“<span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;">There
are not many female heroes in our history books and even fewer were
known for having the same untamed thatch of red hair that cursed my
childhood. I was too much of a tomboy to be drawn to stories of
damsels in distress or cloistered princesses yet here was a queen who
fought for her people on muddy and bloody battlefields; a perfect
role-model for an ungainly ginger child. Boudica – or Boadicea as
she was to us then – became my personal mascot, someone who I could
look up to with a quiet sense of communion. The girls could have
their blonde-haired Barbies; I would have my kick-ass carrot-top
Queen.”<a class="sdfootnoteanc" href="#sdfootnote3sym" name="sdfootnote3anc"><sup>3</sup></a></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">I
believe all girls should grow up knowing about this kick ass Queen.
For those of us who did not, this anthology will serve as a starting
point. Joey Morris has also written a children's book about her that
we will publish shortly.</span><a class="sdfootnoteanc" href="#sdfootnote4sym" name="sdfootnote4anc" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><sup>4</sup></a></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">Mainstreaming
women's history is long-overdue. Gerda Lerner wrote, </span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“Women’s
history is the primary tool for women’s emancipation.”<a class="sdfootnoteanc" href="#sdfootnote5sym" name="sdfootnote5anc"><sup>5</sup></a>
When women learn their rich HERstory, there is a significant shift
that ripples through their entire way of be-ing.</span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;">Every
woman I know who took Women’s Studies in college talks about how
their whole world sort of opened up with their first class.</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"> Why
do we deprive our girls of this experience throughout most of their
education? Is it possible more children would love going to school if
it related back to them directly?</span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">How
can they have heroes that don’t reflect who they are?</span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Our
heroes are important: They guide us to where we can go (if we dare)
and save us from our own limiting beliefs about ourselves. </span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>How
do we guide our children to find role models who will empower them?</i></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent;">The
importance of giving our daughters and granddaughters a
woman-affirming education cannot be overstated. I have a lot of grief
centered around having to spend most of my life working to re-program
and heal myself. It has been a devotion of mine for far too long. I
wanted to give my daughter a different foundation—and I have, to
the extent I can. That said, even in so-called 'progressive' Norway,
my daughter has only had one-day of women's history.</span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">Yesterday,
my daughter lamented that she could never share anything I taught her
at school if she wanted to get good grades. She said that the
teachers only wanted her to parrot back what they taught—which of
course, is all male-centric.</span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">How
can it be, that in 2022, my daughter has no chance academically to
learn the exact things that have been foundational in my healing? Why
are we still depriving girls and young women of this wisdom?</span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: small;">Children
need to learn about people that they can identify with for guidance
and strength. Abby Wambach wrote that, “Women have had to find
themselves within content presented from the male perspective
forever. It's essential to flip this and allow men the opportunity to
find themselves within content presented from a woman's
perspective.”<a class="sdfootnoteanc" href="#sdfootnote6sym" name="sdfootnote6anc"><sup>6</sup></a>
</span></span></span></span></span>
</p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">If
you have boys in your life, they need to learn from this perspective
as well.</span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="text-indent: 0in;">Given
the fact that most of us are not taught anything other than white
male history in school, it is important that we take up the task of
educating ourselves—and our daughters, sons, and grandchildren. As
Assata Shakur wrote, “No one is going to give you the education you
need to overthrow them. Nobody is going to teach you your true
history, teach you your true heroes, if they know that that knowledge
will help set you free.”</span><a class="sdfootnoteanc" href="#sdfootnote7sym" name="sdfootnote7anc" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: 0in;"><sup>7</sup></a></p>
<p align="LEFT" class="sdfootnote" lang="en-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-left: 0in; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0in; widows: 2;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">Girls
and boys must begin to learn HERstory.</span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">It
is time to teach our children about Boudicca!</span></p><p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">An excerpt from <a href="http://thegirlgod.com/boudicca.php"><i>In Defiance of Oppression -The Lecacy of Boudicca</i></a>.</span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-style: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Trista Hendren</b> founded Girl God Books in 2011 to support a necessary unraveling of the patriarchal world view of divinity. Her first book—</span><em style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">The Girl God, a children's picture book</em><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-weight: normal;">—was a response to her own daughter's inability to see herself reflected in God. Since then, she has published more than 40 books by a dozen women from across the globe with help from her husband, Anders; mother, Pat; and son, Joey.</span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-style: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<b><span style="font-size: x-small;">References:</span></b></p>
<div id="sdfootnote1">
<p class="sdfootnote"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a class="sdfootnotesym" href="#sdfootnote1anc" name="sdfootnote1sym">1</a> <span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Eltahawy,
Mona. </span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>Headscarves
and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution.
</i></span></span><span style="color: #0f1111;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">HarperCollins
Publishers,</span></span></span></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i>
</i></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">2015.</span></span></span></span></p>
</div>
<div id="sdfootnote2">
<p class="sdfootnote"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a class="sdfootnotesym" href="#sdfootnote2anc" name="sdfootnote2sym">2</a> <span face="Calibri, sans-serif">When
we worked through these around 2012-2013, there were significantly
more men than women represented. I wrote to the publisher about this
at the time and never received a response. As of 9/1/21, by my
count, fewer than one-quarter of the books are about women (47 of
the 204 titles). </span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/series/DWY/who-was</span></span></p>
</div>
<div id="sdfootnote3">
<p class="sdfootnote"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a class="sdfootnotesym" href="#sdfootnote3anc" name="sdfootnote3sym">3</a> <span face="Calibri, sans-serif">Collingridge,
Vanessa. </span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><i>Boudica:
A Groundbreaking Biography of the True Warrior Queen</i></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">,
Ebury, 2006. </span>
</span></p>
</div>
<div id="sdfootnote4">
<p class="sdfootnote"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><a class="sdfootnotesym" href="#sdfootnote4anc" name="sdfootnote4sym">4</a> Morris,
Joey. <i>My Name is Boudica</i>. Girl God Books, 2022. </span>
</span></p>
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<p class="sdfootnote"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a class="sdfootnotesym" href="#sdfootnote5anc" name="sdfootnote5sym">5</a> Lerner,
Gerda. <i>The Creation of Patriarchy</i>. <span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Oxford
University Press; Reprint edition, 1987.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
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<p class="sdfootnote"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a class="sdfootnotesym" href="#sdfootnote6anc" name="sdfootnote6sym">6</a> <span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Wambach,
Abby. </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">Wolfpack:
How to Come Together, Unleash Our Power, and Change the Game.
</span></i></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #0f1111;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Celadon
Books, 2019.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
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<p class="sdfootnote"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a class="sdfootnotesym" href="#sdfootnote7anc" name="sdfootnote7sym">7</a> <span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Shakur,
Assata. </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">Assata:
An Autobiography.</span></i></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #0f1111;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Lawrence
Hill Books; 1st edition, 2001</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
</div><br /><p></p>The Girl Godhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10075164390400359665noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6197064158996872377.post-73479654873948097132022-01-27T10:30:00.000-08:002022-01-27T10:30:32.130-08:00Call for completion of an online research questionnaire: Embodied Education<p> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhLuJol9SUMe6WDULJzduxCXyzN0J0glzJ6m2xc56jv27XqIBHYdZlbWkh1dZqVOJx2ITT2inalaWOB1gLi9XULJrMY2_RlFN7WlJB1SAPrXbJY6uF3Nep9-6kc83tUNORwb8qg-aX1Jd3tA0HyiQ04LR6AB17SwdzQ96nETPmbnsOI3lp0xf10BV8S=s2700" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2700" data-original-width="1800" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhLuJol9SUMe6WDULJzduxCXyzN0J0glzJ6m2xc56jv27XqIBHYdZlbWkh1dZqVOJx2ITT2inalaWOB1gLi9XULJrMY2_RlFN7WlJB1SAPrXbJY6uF3Nep9-6kc83tUNORwb8qg-aX1Jd3tA0HyiQ04LR6AB17SwdzQ96nETPmbnsOI3lp0xf10BV8S=w266-h400" width="266" /></a></td></tr></tbody></table></p><div align="center">
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</div><p><br /><span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">A call for </span><b style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">participants</b><span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> willing
to complete an anonymous online questionnaire written by wife-and-husband
team Kay Turner and Dan Aldred for an upcoming Girl God publication </span><b style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><i>Embodied Education.</i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #FEFDFA; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">
<span style="background: #FEFDFA;">We invite <b>willing participants</b> to
share their experiences of schooling, learning and the education from the
perspective of student or teacher as part of the research for this book.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #FEFDFA; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">
<span style="background: #FEFDFA;">The book may explore the following topics in
relation to education, schooling and learning.</span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span lang="EN-GB" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The absence of the body and the feminine</span></span></li><li><span lang="EN-GB" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Balancing masculine and feminine energies</span></span></li><li><span lang="EN-GB" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Mind and body</span></span></li><li><span lang="EN-GB" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Body and learning</span></span></li><li><span lang="EN-GB" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Solutions for integrating embodiment</span></span></li><li><span lang="EN-GB" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Creativity</span></span></li><li><span lang="EN-GB" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Curriculum</span></span></li><li><span lang="EN-GB" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Systems, policies and procedures</span></span></li><li><span lang="EN-GB" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Pedagogy</span></span></li><li><span lang="EN-GB" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Patriarchy in education</span></span></li><li><span lang="EN-GB" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Power</span></span></li><li><span lang="EN-GB" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Leadership</span></span></li><li><span lang="EN-GB" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Student perspectives</span></span></li><li><span lang="EN-GB" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Teacher perspectives</span></span></li><li><span lang="EN-GB" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Visions for ch<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #fefdfa;">ange</span></span></span></span></li></ul><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #FEFDFA; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">
<span style="background: #FEFDFA;">Written and Edited by Kay Turner (co-author
Dan Aldred)</span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><br />
</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: #FEFDFA; color: #333333; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Art by Andrew Swiatkowski</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #FEFDFA; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">
Scheduled publication: <b>Summer Solstice, June 2023</b><br />
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<b>Questionnaire Guidelines:</b><br />
Questionnaires are anonymous and can be completed via this Google Forms link:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="http://www.docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScaVlkPd3Q5DrTy8VbVqubAYIFkoJCSl2KVDLIlhd9JdziFaQ/viewform"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">www.docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScaVlkPd3Q5DrTy8VbVqubAYIFkoJCSl2KVDLIlhd9JdziFaQ/viewform</span></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #FEFDFA; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Data collected will form the research for the book
and shares will remain anonymous within the text.<br />
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<b>Deadline for questionnaire completion is Sun 27<sup>th</sup> Feb 2022.</b></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #FEFDFA; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Please note that we cannot
accommodate any late submissions or corrections.</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><p></p>The Girl Godhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10075164390400359665noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6197064158996872377.post-14147840046455803802022-01-11T00:50:00.002-08:002022-01-12T00:41:15.180-08:00The Neurodivergent Goddess - Words and art by Kat Shaw<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhs9qWwfOlH3dNmI3YQDSBDA1oHUqZ9EHyCqFFcLoZ0Tl2pkoB7j5m9XNl1y-x_lk_BiU3g_exh_RSDZfVLM-DPuzRkLzHA33_flWz0JS-XmnLGBhsPE4u59_O3E3HIl_4qQPwAaGSPSPfNENCP6i4KRUaaVamlhiV4NK-Y9Z1VFSmqkHHewqjerRcj=s2505" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2505" data-original-width="1928" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhs9qWwfOlH3dNmI3YQDSBDA1oHUqZ9EHyCqFFcLoZ0Tl2pkoB7j5m9XNl1y-x_lk_BiU3g_exh_RSDZfVLM-DPuzRkLzHA33_flWz0JS-XmnLGBhsPE4u59_O3E3HIl_4qQPwAaGSPSPfNENCP6i4KRUaaVamlhiV4NK-Y9Z1VFSmqkHHewqjerRcj=w308-h400" width="308" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><span data-lexical-text="true">To the Goddess who is impulsive, restless and spontaneous.</span><br /><span data-lexical-text="true">To the Goddess who has an abundance of energy that cannot be controlled.</span><br /><span data-lexical-text="true">To the Goddess who is curious, asking never-ending questions, inventive, creative, fast-paced.</span><br /><span data-lexical-text="true">To the Goddess who has spent her whole life learning to compensate for her quirks.</span><br /><span data-lexical-text="true">To the Goddess who has learnt to suppress her natural instincts to conform.</span><br /><span data-lexical-text="true">To the Goddess who compulsively checks and organises to the extreme to avoid making mistakes.</span><br /><span data-lexical-text="true">To the Goddess who lives in fear of not living up to the expectations of others.</span><br /><span data-lexical-text="true">To the Goddess who berates herself every day for being different.</span><br /><span data-lexical-text="true">To the Goddess who never feels she does enough.</span><br /><span data-lexical-text="true">To the Goddess who tries desperately to keep her focus on conversations so as not to appear distracted or rude.</span><br /><span data-lexical-text="true">To the Goddess with social anxiety who tries desperately to learn how to fit in to society.</span><br /><span data-lexical-text="true">To the Goddess who constantly wonders what she will mess up next.</span><br /><span data-lexical-text="true">To the Goddess who dissociates when she becomes overwhelmed.</span><br /><span data-lexical-text="true">To the Goddess who cannot be still for a prolonged period.</span><br /><span data-lexical-text="true">To the Goddess who hyper focusses and forgets there is a world outside the task in hand.</span><br /><span data-lexical-text="true">To the Goddess with the constantly racing mind.</span><br /><span data-lexical-text="true">To the Goddess who doesn’t fit in.</span><br /><span data-lexical-text="true">To the goddess who is distraught at the realisation that there will never be enough time in the world to complete every idea in their head.</span><br /><span data-lexical-text="true">To the Goddess whose life is built upon a web of coping mechanisms.</span><br /><span data-lexical-text="true">To the Goddess who over plans constantly to feel safe.</span><br /><span data-lexical-text="true">To the Goddess who feels like she is constantly letting people down.</span><br /><span data-lexical-text="true">To the Goddess who is burnt out trying to blend into what she believes she should be.</span><br /><span data-lexical-text="true">To the Goddess who has never found her place on the earth.</span><br /><span data-lexical-text="true">To the Goddess who feels so intensely that every emotion is all-consuming.</span><br /><span data-lexical-text="true">To the Goddess who feels numb because she has too many emotions that she cannot process.</span><br /><span data-lexical-text="true">To the Goddess who has shut down.</span><br /><span data-lexical-text="true">To the Goddess who doesn’t feel safe with themselves.</span><br /><span data-lexical-text="true">To the Goddess who strives connection and company but struggles with social interaction.</span><br /><span data-lexical-text="true">To the Goddess who cries silently to themselves.</span><br /><span data-lexical-text="true">To the Goddess who doesn’t understand why she is rejected.</span><br /><span data-lexical-text="true">To the Goddess who lacks self esteem and never feels enough. </span><br /><span data-lexical-text="true">But also feels she is too much.</span><br /><span data-lexical-text="true">To the Goddess who over works constantly because she doesn’t feel worthy just being herself.</span><br /><span data-lexical-text="true">To the goddess who is called prolific, when really she would love to stop but cannot.</span><br /><span data-lexical-text="true">To the Goddess who has to constantly justify her worth.</span><br /><span data-lexical-text="true">To the Goddess whose leg never stops tapping.</span><br /><span data-lexical-text="true">To the Goddess who is exhausted when she wakes up.</span><br /><span data-lexical-text="true">To the Goddess whose best friend is insomnia.</span><br /><span data-lexical-text="true">To the Goddess who cannot turn off that 1 line of a song going over and over and over and over.</span><br /><span data-lexical-text="true">To the Goddess who is compulsive.</span><br /><span data-lexical-text="true">To the Goddess who is obsessive.</span><br /><span data-lexical-text="true">To the Goddess who feels unsafe because the routine has changed at the last minute.</span><br /><span data-lexical-text="true">To the Goddess who always feels on the outside.</span><br /><span data-lexical-text="true">To the Goddess who cannot focus.</span><br /><span data-lexical-text="true">To the Goddess who cannot regulate their emotional responses and then berates herself for acting up.</span><br /><span data-lexical-text="true">To the Goddess who is constantly tired.</span><br /><span data-lexical-text="true">To the Goddess is always on red alert.</span><br /><span data-lexical-text="true">To the Goddess who beats herself up.</span><br /><span data-lexical-text="true">To the Goddess who does not stop. Ever.</span><br /><span data-lexical-text="true">To the Goddess who wants to be held.</span><br /><span data-lexical-text="true">To the Goddess who wants to be seen.</span><br /><span data-lexical-text="true">I see you.</span><br /><span data-lexical-text="true">I am you.</span><br /><span data-lexical-text="true">I love you.</span><br /><span data-lexical-text="true">And I hold you in my arms to breathe.</span><br /><span data-lexical-text="true">You are not alone.</span><br /><span data-lexical-text="true">Come back into your body because you are magnificent.</span><br /><span data-lexical-text="true">Exactly as you are.</span></p><p><br /><span data-lexical-text="true">From <i><a href="http://thegirlgod.com/rainbow_goddess.php">Rainbow Goddess: Celebrating Neurodiversity</a></i> - Scheduled for 2022.</span></p><p><span data-lexical-text="true">Call for Submissions can be found <a href="https://thegirlgod.blogspot.com/2021/11/call-for-submissions-rainbow-goddess.html">here</a>.</span></p>The Girl Godhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10075164390400359665noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6197064158996872377.post-50262729754813238892022-01-11T00:46:00.001-08:002022-01-13T04:06:35.857-08:00Creativity, Aliveness and Embodied Education by Kay Turner<p> </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiv-3lVuYo4J1hwIuKWu9YMlMvuFdAtGkHrZC1t7r9D-KLVqIoFiUT7jQ6gX8t6CV_Xi_w5hFVojRZgGY_iwncnNkCgfkNMmq24rfGO-bqYSb_MemxUqyF50aN7m3RYaWuVG4hX6q8CyaDju_8T2KtNxDAsGxi_Z8P3eyj3Bxwo6moW7zjlRBkMZJm-=s960" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="687" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiv-3lVuYo4J1hwIuKWu9YMlMvuFdAtGkHrZC1t7r9D-KLVqIoFiUT7jQ6gX8t6CV_Xi_w5hFVojRZgGY_iwncnNkCgfkNMmq24rfGO-bqYSb_MemxUqyF50aN7m3RYaWuVG4hX6q8CyaDju_8T2KtNxDAsGxi_Z8P3eyj3Bxwo6moW7zjlRBkMZJm-=w286-h400" width="286" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Art by Arna Baartz</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p></p>Creativity 🌟 Soul embodiment 🌟 Self-expression 🌟 Lifeforce 🌟 Aliveness 🌟<br /><br />I used to think and believe I wasn't creative, having failed to flourish at school in subjects labelled 'creative' such as art, drama, textiles. These subjects were 'prescribed', straight jacketed and bound by curriculum rules like all the others of course. What was 'defined' as creativity in school was narrow and restrictive. There were rules, expectations and criteria to meet in order to achieve. ALL subjects existed in an educational system which extinguished any originality and authentic creative spark. They still do now.<br /><br />Creativity is:<br /><br />✨ the ability to transcend traditional ideas, rules, patterns, relationships, or the like, and to create meaningful new ideas, forms, methods, interpretations, etc<br /><br />✨ originality, progressiveness, or imagination<br /><br />(www.dictionary.com)<br /><br />It doesn't just mean we are gifted artists, poets, clothes designers (although this may be how we embody it). To be creative means we are progressive, think and live outside if the box, don't 'conform' to norms, don't settle into the expected, won't 'be told', continually receive, express and seek meaning.<br /><br />It means we choose to embody Soul - our unique Light and express Self - our fullest authenticity. It means we choose Life and energetically express what aliveness wants to animate through us.<br /><br />Having reclaimed my inexhaustible creative flow I am now curious about how we can educate and learn in a way which nurtures and cultivates creativity in our society.<br /><br />Insanity is trying to solve issues, problems and challenges with the same mind, methods, thoughts which caused them. Our education system as it exists isn't working. Are our children really thriving and well? Are we? <br /><br />This year I am delighted that I am authoring a Girl God book, Embodied Education, with my co-author husband, Dan Aldred, which will address some of these issues, alongside the absence and impact of and solution for embodiment in education. We want to hear about your experiences and your voice as part of the research process and will be putting out a call for shares soon. <br /><br />Kay Turner<br />Education. Evolution. Embodiment.<br />www.anotherlogonthefire.comThe Girl Godhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10075164390400359665noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6197064158996872377.post-91572898283413378902022-01-11T00:38:00.006-08:002022-08-17T02:41:09.633-07:00Neurodiversity is a Feminist Issue by Kay Louise Aldred<p> </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjNus2uG8hM9g2sFhqlH2L076t4lRfal_8wdjwB4Lq9q1FIHoTz2blcfFKjbcQMk-olATAZVSOorJEUWLOnyS_3A-sbpOhAHnMp0tsvR13oQ-QgdWgEH_GNfhGovYa1C27DIMbQZmYFNvPPBf9qhzRAsnfuNsYpY9sqeNTtBBQrwHw8GW8M8XOXPI1e=s960" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="768" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjNus2uG8hM9g2sFhqlH2L076t4lRfal_8wdjwB4Lq9q1FIHoTz2blcfFKjbcQMk-olATAZVSOorJEUWLOnyS_3A-sbpOhAHnMp0tsvR13oQ-QgdWgEH_GNfhGovYa1C27DIMbQZmYFNvPPBf9qhzRAsnfuNsYpY9sqeNTtBBQrwHw8GW8M8XOXPI1e=w320-h400" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Painting by Leticia Banegas</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">“Neuro” means “relating to the
nerves or <a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/neuroscience">nervous
system</a>,” which includes the brain. Neurological differences—or
neurodiversity—are the differences in brain structure, chemistry,
and functioning that are associated with differences in <a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/cognition">sensory
perception</a>, cognitive functioning, and mental health. As with
other human variations—size, culture, temperament, etc.—these
differences can lead to a variety of different outcomes and needs.
Diversity, including neurodiversity, is what makes each of us unique,
and gives our species the remarkable capacity to invent and adapt to
changing circumstances.'' -<a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/going-beyond-intelligence/202107/neurodiversity-and-gifted-education" style="font-family: "Proxima Nova Semi Bold", Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Dona Matthews Ph.D., Psychology Today</span></a></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Girl God books is compiling an Anthology called <i>Rainbow Goddess - Celebrating
Neurodiversity</i>. Around 15-20% people are ‘neurodiverse’.
There is a significant gender bias in diagnosis, and many girls and
women are overlooked, missed or misdiagnosed. Why? Some of the
reasons given include that they don’t fit the model and social norm
of neurodiversity (which by the way, is based on male presentation)
and that they are quieter, try harder to fit in and camouflage
(conditioned to be ‘good girls’). Increasing numbers of females
are ‘officially’ or self-diagnosed in adulthood and grieving the
impact of poor mental health and not being able to thrive, due to a
lack of celebration of their uniqueness, the gifts they do have,
self-understanding, rights and reasonable adjustment at work.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">For these reasons and many others
Neurodiversity is a feminist issue.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">The intention of this upcoming
Anthology is to address and celebrate Neurodiversity in Women and as
an aspect of Rainbow Goddess. It is a thanksgiving for the
creativity, imagination, self-awareness, super-power sensitivity,
problem-solving, planning abilities, resilience and ways of seeing
the world through a different lens and the solutions that brings for
societal issues that these women offer. It is a reclamation, call
for change and ‘outing’ of systemic and insidious sexism.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">You can pre-order the book <a href="http://thegirlgod.com/rainbow_goddess.php">here</a>.</p><br />Kay Louise Aldred<br />Educate. Evolve. Embody.<br />www.anotherlogonthefire.com<p><br /></p>The Girl Godhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10075164390400359665noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6197064158996872377.post-20065129857000055392022-01-05T04:06:00.004-08:002022-01-05T04:06:45.571-08:00The Face of Defiance by Sionainn McLean<p> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiCatX6zqrTjSkT372X7cnC0nTRMDdnYHSVEOaG4bHntGEJ_j24RCPM4ekZqBrxVv5HKSN-IYJ8KlCf3qT4nBR5DibzY6y7zsFuOVKwaYeXrvX5-0x_ESqObJYeLNO5DJlrl0VDfI_KVPHwErmVcaDoHzEdbwW_Akpg9XCgZ9_GNqtkH1gVh1-CvQRO=s2153" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2153" data-original-width="1648" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiCatX6zqrTjSkT372X7cnC0nTRMDdnYHSVEOaG4bHntGEJ_j24RCPM4ekZqBrxVv5HKSN-IYJ8KlCf3qT4nBR5DibzY6y7zsFuOVKwaYeXrvX5-0x_ESqObJYeLNO5DJlrl0VDfI_KVPHwErmVcaDoHzEdbwW_Akpg9XCgZ9_GNqtkH1gVh1-CvQRO=w306-h400" width="306" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Art by Molly Roberts</td></tr></tbody></table><br /></p><br /><br />“LOL! But she died, what was the point?”<br /><br />Every time there is a discussion somewhere on Boudicca, I see words similar to this. I can’t help but feel incredulous and angry.<br /><br /><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">Cu Chulainn.</blockquote><br /><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> Achilles.</blockquote><br /><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> Spartacus.</blockquote><br /><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> Leonidas I.</blockquote><br /><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> Tlahuicole.</blockquote><br /><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> Ragnar Lothbrook.</blockquote><br /><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> Galvarino.</blockquote><br /><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> William Wallace.</blockquote><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;">To name a few.<br /><br />Few men ever say “but they died, what was the point” about these “heroes” because they were men, standing up for what they believed in, fighting for their cause, facing their deaths proudly.<br /><br />So why do they shake their heads at Boudicca’s story? She died like her male counterparts, a message to the world in her actions – It was better to die fighting than it was to live on your knees.<br /><br />It’s almost as if women are held to a different standard. Men can live and die by the sword – avenging injustice, claiming what’s “theirs,” and fighting for what they believe in. For these men, few ever laugh and say, “but they died,” as if victory is only ever measured by staying alive.<br /><br />But when the topic of Boudicca is raised, that’s what I hear them do. The fact is that after her husband died, after her lands were stolen, after she was publicly whipped and after her daughters were raped, she picked up a spear and shield, and led her army to battle. She destroyed Camulodunum and burned Londinium and Verulamium, killing 70,000–80,000 in her wrath. Does that mean nothing, simply because she was a woman?<br /><br />We women have the heart of a warrior, the soul of a mama bear protecting her cubs. Inside each of us is a piece of Boudicca. But when we are children, society tries to stamp it out.<br /><br /></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: left;">Be Ladies.</div></blockquote><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"> Sugar and spice and everything nice.</div></blockquote><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"> Don’t swear. </div></blockquote><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"> Girls cry so easily.</div></blockquote><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"> Why are you so emotional? Is it that time of the month?</div></blockquote><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"> Don’t get muddy and dirty, girls are clean creatures.</div></blockquote><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"> Don’t shout.</div></blockquote><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"> Don’t learn to fight, or use weapons, or shoot big guns (Though sometimes you can carry this cute little camo pink gun, just in case you are foolish enough to put yourself in a situation where you could get robbed or raped.)</div></blockquote><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"> Don’t get raped.</div></blockquote><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"> Go to college to get your degree, but don’t make more money than your potential husband.</div></blockquote><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"> Be slim and fit, but not so you can fight. Do it so you look great on a man’s arm.</div></blockquote><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"> Die as an old widow, content with your children and grandchildren, tame and peaceful.</div></blockquote><div style="text-align: left;"><br />Our piece of Boudicca never gets stamped out though, it’s just pushed inside us, deep and forgotten. Sometimes a piece shines through, when we need to protect our children, our loved ones, even our homes, but in the end, society makes us push it back. Be tamed, Boudicca. You should’ve rolled over to the Romans.<br /><br />Had it been her husband Prasutagus, would these same men be jeering the man that he avenged his wife and daughters by burning cities? Would they dismiss the fact that he fought to the end to protect his people from slavery, a fate many might consider worse than death? Or would they lift his name in awe and consider him someone to emulate, a true hero to look up to? Of course they would. He would’ve died a hero, sword in hand, fighting for honorable reasons: justice, freedom, defiance.<br /><br />I look at the story of Boudicca, and I wonder what she was like before the Romans came along. I bet she was a strong-willed child who got dirty, who played against the boys, training in case she ever needed to fight. I bet she was a generous lover to her husband, and she loved her daughters more than life itself.<br /><br />I bet she laughed a lot, and enjoyed the beautiful warm days, and found meaning in the cold dark days. I wonder if she howled at the moon, in a moment of sheer bliss for her untamed, wild self, her unrestrained emotions and desires. I bet she worshipped strong Gods, and when her world shattered, I wonder if she had a moment of weakness, and asked why? Why her? Why her children, why her husband?<br /><br />Boudicca, in her grief, might’ve realized that the Roman army itself was enormous, and what could one person do? The Gods don’t grant wishes, they only give us the means to chase them. Did Andraste hand Boudicca her spear and tell her to fight, to extract her vengeance where she could? Maybe she knew it was a lost cause but chose to fight nonetheless. Because in the end, she knew her people would die anyway – either as slaves to the Romans, or as free people.<br /><br />And her vengeance she had. She wiped out everyone at Camulodunum, and then burned the cities of Londinium and Verulamium. Her armies showed no mercy, just as the Romans had shown no mercy to her or her daughters. Her wrath was so strong that Nero himself almost gave up, almost withdrawing his troops from Briton. <br /><br />However, it was not meant to be. The Iceni were not equipped for the last battle against Suetonius and his men, and perhaps Boudicca and her generals got too arrogant, after so many victories. We can never know why it befell as it did that day, only that it did, with Boudicca’s fate being death by her own hands. I choose to believe a woman so determined to defy Rome would rather have taken her own life rather than give them the satisfaction of taking her alive. To say she died in any other way was only to minimize her impact and shame her.<br /><br /> But Boudicca was as brave, if not braver than any man. She was... she IS the face of defiance against oppression, someone whose name should be on the lips of our daughters and sons. Boudicca, guided by Andraste, had her revenge against the wrongs Rome inflicted upon her and her people. May we learn from her strength, and her mistakes, and when faced with oppression, invoke her presence so our spears land true. So that we understand that some things are worth fighting for, and all fights have a risk of death. We should not back away from those fights because we are afraid.<br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">An excerpt from <a href="http://thegirlgod.com/boudicca.php"><i>In Defiance of Oppression -The Legacy of Boudicca</i></a>.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><b>Sionainn McLean</b> is a polytheist fire witch, on a crazy spiritual journey over the last 25 years. She has worked with The Morrigan for 5+ years. She is currently studying to get her certificate in Community Ministry, as well as a Spiritual Direction certificate with Cherry Hill Seminary. She is also studying magic and shamanistic practice with Three Worlds, One Heart School of Mystery. She’s also a mom, wife, writer, and gardener.The Girl Godhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10075164390400359665noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6197064158996872377.post-76384134760951279242022-01-04T03:36:00.000-08:002022-01-04T03:36:57.206-08:00Patriarchal Perpetuation of Trauma by Kay Turner<p> </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiTNEa4Fica1tNG6pvj7WnIhSf2Fg-FdMV9FCKIFSFvQWP6wxTHfeaLWclHe9TiYY083asB4UhixG8TnYePkaTzFNFgD9khlCQB0TthXB21djg_1lYy6BZa_RrrdtrCndGZ-E5GfqSPXFpZwpdfLTji6oM0eKaxdhJuvt_3Xe4pg7rqtayupa9X-9x8=s1800" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="1440" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiTNEa4Fica1tNG6pvj7WnIhSf2Fg-FdMV9FCKIFSFvQWP6wxTHfeaLWclHe9TiYY083asB4UhixG8TnYePkaTzFNFgD9khlCQB0TthXB21djg_1lYy6BZa_RrrdtrCndGZ-E5GfqSPXFpZwpdfLTji6oM0eKaxdhJuvt_3Xe4pg7rqtayupa9X-9x8=w320-h400" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Art by Arna Baartz</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><br /></p>Too much. Sit still. Too slow. <br />You’re wrong! I’m right! <br />Be grateful for all they did for you. <br />Take the Pill. Any pill. <br /><br />You’re unstable. Your depression is back. <br />Write it down to get it off your chest. <br />That’s not how we do things. <br />Take a paracetamol. <br /><br />Just breathe and let it pass. <br />Stop doodling. <br />That’s the wrong answer. <br />Have a hysterectomy. <br /><br />I think you need to see a professional. <br />Write in full sentences. <br />We haven’t got time for questions (or feelings).<br />Botox? Or at least a cream. <br /><br />It’s too late to report it. <br />It’s your word against his now. <br />Memory is subjective. <br />There’s no forensic evidence. <br /><br />You’ll understand if I don’t agree. <br />Or disagree, or challenge them, <br />Or support you. <br />They’ll come after me if I do. <br /><br />Don’t feel. <br />Don’t feel your body. <br />Don’t feel. <br />Don’t feel and express. <br /><br />God is male. <br />Meditation heals. Still your mind. <br />Ascend. Out. Up. Leave. <br />Higher states of consciousness are where it’s at. <br /><br />Don’t feel. <br /><br /> Poem from our upcoming anthology, <a href="http://thegirlgod.com/re-membering.php"><i>Re-Membering with Goddess: Healing the Patriarchal Perpetuation of Trauma</i></a><br /><br /><b style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;">Kay Turner </b><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333;">is a teacher, facilitator, researcher and writer who visions collective evolution. She catalyses individual, collective and institutional evolution through education, embodiment and creativity, and the amalgamation of metacognition, intuition and instinct.</span><br style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;" /><br style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;" /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333;">Kay has contributed to the Girl God Anthologies </span><a href="http://thegirlgod.com/warrior_queen.php" style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #d52a33; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; text-decoration-line: none;"><i>Warrior Queen: Answering the Call of the Morrigan</i></a><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333;"> and </span><a href="http://thegirlgod.com/boudicca.php" style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #d52a33; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; text-decoration-line: none;"><i>In Defiance of Oppression - The Legacy of Boudicca</i></a><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333;">. Kay will also feature in other upcoming Girl God Anthologies </span><a href="http://thegirlgod.com/just_as_i_am.php" style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #d52a33; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; text-decoration-line: none;"><i>Just as I am - Hymns Affirming the Divine Feminine</i></a><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333;"> and </span><i style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><a href="http://thegirlgod.com/songs_of_solistice.php" style="color: #d52a33; text-decoration-line: none;">Songs of Solstice - Goddess Carols</a>.</i><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333;"> Currently she is co-editing the upcoming Girl God Anthologies: </span><i style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><a href="http://thegirlgod.com/re-membering.php" style="color: #d52a33; text-decoration-line: none;">Re-Membering with Goddess: Healing the Patriarchal Perpetuation of Trauma</a>, <a href="http://thegirlgod.com/the_crone.php" style="color: #d52a33; text-decoration-line: none;">The Crone Initiation and Invitation: Women speak on the Menopause Journey</a>, </i><i style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><a href="http://thegirlgod.com/rainbow_goddess.php" style="color: #d52a33; text-decoration-line: none;">Rainbow Goddess - Celebrating Neurodiversity</a></i><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333;"> and </span><i style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;">Pain Perspectives: Finding Meaning in the Fire</i><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333;">. In addition, Kay is writing her own books: </span><a href="http://thegirlgod.com/mentorship_with_goddess.php" style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #d52a33; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; text-decoration-line: none;"><i>Mentorship of Goddess: Growing Sacred Womanhood</i></a><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333;"> and </span><i style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><a href="http://thegirlgod.com/making_love.php" style="color: #d52a33; text-decoration-line: none;">Making Love with the Divine: Sacred, Ecstatic, Erotic Experiences</a>.</span></i><br /> <br /><br />Kay Turner <br /><br /> <p></p>The Girl Godhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10075164390400359665noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6197064158996872377.post-31025449149941177272022-01-03T02:29:00.004-08:002022-01-03T02:29:23.079-08:00Boudicca and the Hare by Emma Clark<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhGB_F_bbgMXy-mmOnRPouXTe94nJ_tnjGtf0B12atLRcLMb6c5qtvGyQTClYduHdU8Zaoz2o0CDliQV_TQ3l40lTSw0nVtpZfKJYa5oROyaFotFzmf4qOby6EKWqS33hUBODBaCli-xm-BkcEd8lGh__YplnCd_Q7IPijbXJmJXyBHvflp7t34RJOA=s1440" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="1188" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhGB_F_bbgMXy-mmOnRPouXTe94nJ_tnjGtf0B12atLRcLMb6c5qtvGyQTClYduHdU8Zaoz2o0CDliQV_TQ3l40lTSw0nVtpZfKJYa5oROyaFotFzmf4qOby6EKWqS33hUBODBaCli-xm-BkcEd8lGh__YplnCd_Q7IPijbXJmJXyBHvflp7t34RJOA=w330-h400" width="330" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">She Who Is Art</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><div>When she released that hare from the folds of her dress,<br />Men held their breath in the still of morning,<br />Before their cheers resounded across the landscape.<br />Running on the right side for battle<br />She is still moving through history<br />Hind legs grazing the bare earth,<br />Showing the way for what will come.<br />The invaders built straight roads<br />But her way was not always so certain.<br />Her path was veering, oscillating,<br />In the diffused light of dawn and dusk<br />She outwitted her pursuers in the twist of divinatory fate.<br />What other fierce magic was unleashed from the darkness of her womanhood?<br />At the meeting-place when all is in balance,<br />At the tipping point,<br />At the equinox of souls,<br />She is the disruptor, the defiant one,<br />The protector of daughters,<br />The fire that will not be contained.<br />Her name is a scorched scar of memory,<br />Like Londinium's charred layer of earth.<br />When all is burning like the stubble of a harvest field,<br />When the world is changing,<br />And in the searing heat of oppression,<br />The hare rises from the hot earth,<br />And leaps through flame,<br />Guiding the way for She who would stand<br />Against an empire.</div><div><br /></div><div>A poem from our recently released anthology, <a href="http://thegirlgod.com/boudicca.php"><i>In Defiance of Oppression -The Legacy of Boudicca</i></a>.</div><div><br /></div><br /><br /><b>Emma Clark</b> is an editor and writer working in the field of Celtic scholarship, with an MA (Hons), MSc and PhD in Celtic Studies. She teaches classes in Celtic and Gaelic at the University of Edinburgh and has published books and articles on the subject of Gaelic literature and culture. Her PhD thesis centred on the politics of landscape in modern Scottish Gaelic poetry. <br /><br /> Emma is a Priestess of Cerridwen in-training within the Avalonian Tradition of the Glastonbury Goddess Temple and is currently working on a book about the interconnection between the path of motherhood and the priestess path.The Girl Godhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10075164390400359665noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6197064158996872377.post-11418071798692674102021-12-27T01:45:00.003-08:002021-12-27T01:46:34.977-08:00Making Love with the Divine. Sacred, Ecstatic, Erotic, Experiences by Kay Turner<p> </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh6v7IGz9bVR1KZoGBzMMAm57EAoJVJM_HDePAXP1I3zK7lybIIvV6gAmi4J27_VmKZnLiamGhT4C91mvKr_3dGcnH5WqnLWdzjl9ryTbQ-v9clQwIBhTb6oDIsj9DMazyscYfsJNab6pkvkqEYKfYaijcEoHcYVE-4WeSF3Zxnh9wsjJGo_JJNuamC=s960" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="748" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh6v7IGz9bVR1KZoGBzMMAm57EAoJVJM_HDePAXP1I3zK7lybIIvV6gAmi4J27_VmKZnLiamGhT4C91mvKr_3dGcnH5WqnLWdzjl9ryTbQ-v9clQwIBhTb6oDIsj9DMazyscYfsJNab6pkvkqEYKfYaijcEoHcYVE-4WeSF3Zxnh9wsjJGo_JJNuamC=w311-h400" width="311" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Art by Arna Baartz</td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p><br /></p><p>Making Love with the Divine. Sacred, Ecstatic, Erotic, Experiences.</p><p></p><p>Why this book and these topics?</p><p></p><p>Love Making – The Divine – Sacred – Ecstatic – Erotic – The Body</p><p></p><p>They all ‘found’ me. Actually, they’ve been present from my birth and have ‘followed me around’ my whole life. Nagging, messaging, urging. I’ve been curious. I’ve been explorative. I’ve been touched. And, I have carried a deep knowing that this is true for many of us, and that we’ve kept it buried, unconscious, hidden, because we carry shame about it.</p><p></p><p>The shame was outed and became visible when I put out a call for shares as part of the research and preparatory process. Replies were sparse, even when elicited from friendship, sisterhood and spiritual circles. I was getting ‘arms-length’ curt responses. Many were triggered. Most were silent. There was a lot of discomfort, shock and disgust. I suddenly felt alien, ‘different’ and that my intuition and instinct were skewed – that I’d misjudged and got it all wrong. I rapidly moved into processing my own discomfort at the nil and/or negative responses from others and their projections of you’re ‘too much’ and it’s all ‘grotesque’ being layered upon me both consciously verbally and energetically, often unconsciously. I journeyed deeper into my mind, heart and body asking my inner wisdom, what are these reactions all about? What is underneath it? What is hidden? What am I not seeing?</p><p></p><p>The answers came through rapidly, loud and clear. We are collectively dissociated, disconnected from our bodies, living from and as mind, as cognition. This is deeply entrenched phenomenon in religious and spiritual communities. We still carry shame and guilt about body pleasure of any type and believe it is wicked and separates us from ‘God’ and access to ‘heaven’. We are still carrying the conditioning that the body is sinful, evil and can’t be trusted. We are still looking to be saved by a male God who is out there and above. We often only trust mental images, constructs and teachings, believing we need to be told what the Divine is – we do not affirm accessing ‘knowledge’ of the Divine through our bodies or accept own personal direct experience and gnosis as valid or truth. We still believe the erotic is simply ‘dirty sex’. We carry in our bodies a shame around sex, sexual pleasure and self-touch. These, and the concept of ecstasy, activate a fear and disgust responses in the body. We are absolutely indoctrinated by religion and believe religious texts, clergy and tradition are the only authority about the Divine. We believe the sacred and everyday are not one in the same. We see no Divinity in or of the body and pleasure. The body, particularly the body of woman, and the Divine remain firmly in the grip of the Patriarchy. We continue to be controlled. Our bodies remain tamed and ensnared in narrative of The Fall.</p><p></p><p>I was horrified and shocked and then absolutely determined because of all these revelations that this book needed to be written – to set us, our bodies and the Divine free.</p><p></p><p>The book originally started out as a platform for showcasing and giving language to the mystical experiences of modern-day women which are happening all of the time, narrating their accounts of communion with the Divine and sense of the numinous. However, it morphed and changed during the research process. Whilst these accounts remain as the backbone of the book. the format has evolved into a handbook and workbook. The storytelling of (often unbeknown to them) the contemporary mystics I interviewed and received shares from prompted me to write from a more educational lens and formulate practises which I could offer readers within the text on how to begin the journey of liberating the body and forge their own direct pathway and access to the Divine. The book metamorphosised into a practical guide.</p><p></p><p>My path and service this lifetime is to create fusion of the mundane and sacred, divinity and humanity, the holiness of flesh and divine embodiment. Its to support the remembrance of our birth right, our natural state, our innate innocence – our spiritual soma - the remembrance of ourselves as a Sacred Human – fully human and fully divine.</p><p></p><p>Making love with the Divine is making love with life – allowing life to move and express through us. It is embodying creative flow, following instinct and impulse and body messages. Making love with the Divine is aliveness. Reclaiming our Sacred self, the sacredness of the mundane and ordinary we feel peace, contentment and meaning. In experiencing the ecstatic and erotic we create with joy and are energised with ease. Love flows. Love is made. Love is shared. This book demonstrates that all of this is on offer to us moment to moment, in day-to-day situations and life.</p><p></p><p>I am so grateful to the women who participated in the research process and shared their life experiences and inner wisdom with me. The demographic of the participants was wide, the women were a wide range of ages, background and lived around the globe. Some shared voice notes, others emails, some sent art, and others generously offered a more formal Zoom interview. The process of collecting women’s wisdom was humbling, profoundly impactful and a true honour. Without their grace and willingness to share so freely this book could not have been written.</p><p></p><p>The vision for the book was to anonymise the research, including my own personal experiences which are included in each section. This was partly for the women’s comfort, especially those who were sharing deeply intimate information. The main reason however, was so that we spoke as one. We speak as woman. A unified voice and body. Woman’s body is programmed to make love with the divine moment to moment, organically. It is our birth rite to live pleasurably and commune with the sacred within the mundane. In keeping shares anonymous the aim is that any reader may be able to imagine herself in the experience. It is of her body.</p><p></p><p>Once the window of sharing closed I knew it was time to collate and process 'woman's voice'. All shares were anonymised and woven into the text alongside research and my own gnosis, thematically and anecdotally so we became one. We speak as one. The voice moves from I to we, mine to ours. Individual to collective and shared experience. Woman. The Feminine. She. Making Love with the</p><p>Divine. I surrendered into process and flow, asking that I be guided and of service to Love and that the book catalyse Lovemaking with the Divine in all who read it. I released control knowing none of this is about me.</p><p></p><p>One of the women I interviewed said to me ‘ my deepest longing is to make myself and my life a prayer’. Making Love with the Divine is just that - living in constant communication, rapport and union with Goodness.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi8WE_uhRtOLc9SEXbtSOXsURdVCN-wB3VOoJFI_Uwmr_CMypKKuO6ouUm0sg-MllmMCtWeV9H5UHUqCt7VjxXC_B-JPOcquPfNOpQWESgCyQQAxVWokECBx7DbsRyjArgIGkCHOonX_mQ5AEnAB5Y6pQyb0JRJf-QaSCYvIMwVSZGq0CD5oWL7gPUa=s2700" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2700" data-original-width="1800" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi8WE_uhRtOLc9SEXbtSOXsURdVCN-wB3VOoJFI_Uwmr_CMypKKuO6ouUm0sg-MllmMCtWeV9H5UHUqCt7VjxXC_B-JPOcquPfNOpQWESgCyQQAxVWokECBx7DbsRyjArgIGkCHOonX_mQ5AEnAB5Y6pQyb0JRJf-QaSCYvIMwVSZGq0CD5oWL7gPUa=s320" width="213" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pre-order <a href="http://thegirlgod.com/making_love.php">here.</a>.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p><b style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Kay Turner </b><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">is a teacher, facilitator, researcher and writer who visions collective evolution. She catalyses individual, collective and institutional evolution through education, embodiment and creativity, and the amalgamation of metacognition, intuition and instinct.</span><br style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Kay has contributed to the Girl God Anthologies </span><a href="http://thegirlgod.com/warrior_queen.php" style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #d52a33; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-decoration-line: none;"><i>Warrior Queen: Answering the Call of the Morrigan</i></a><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> and </span><a href="http://thegirlgod.com/boudicca.php" style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #d52a33; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-decoration-line: none;"><i>In Defiance of Oppression - The Legacy of Boudicca</i></a><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">. Kay will also feature in other upcoming Girl God Anthologies </span><a href="http://thegirlgod.com/just_as_i_am.php" style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #d52a33; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-decoration-line: none;"><i>Just as I am - Hymns Affirming the Divine Feminine</i></a><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> and </span><i style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><a href="http://thegirlgod.com/songs_of_solistice.php" style="color: #d52a33; text-decoration-line: none;">Songs of Solstice - Goddess Carols</a>.</i><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> Currently she is co-editing the upcoming Girl God Anthologies: </span><i style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><a href="http://thegirlgod.com/re-membering.php" style="color: #d52a33; text-decoration-line: none;">Re-Membering with Goddess: Healing the Patriarchal Perpetuation of Trauma</a>, <a href="http://thegirlgod.com/the_crone.php" style="color: #d52a33; text-decoration-line: none;">The Crone Initiation and Invitation: Women speak on the Menopause Journey</a>, </i><i style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><a href="http://thegirlgod.com/rainbow_goddess.php" style="color: #d52a33; text-decoration-line: none;">Rainbow Goddess - Celebrating Neurodiversity</a></i><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> and </span><i style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Pain Perspectives: Finding Meaning in the Fire</i><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">. In addition, Kay is writing her own books: </span><a href="http://thegirlgod.com/mentorship_with_goddess.php" style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #d52a33; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-decoration-line: none;"><i>Mentorship of Goddess: Growing Sacred Womanhood</i></a><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> and </span><i style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: black;"><a href="http://thegirlgod.com/making_love.php" style="color: #d52a33; text-decoration-line: none;">Making Love with the Divine: Sacred, Ecstatic, Erotic Experiences</a>.</span></i></p><p><br /></p>The Girl Godhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10075164390400359665noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6197064158996872377.post-28051408079032163102021-12-15T03:29:00.007-08:002021-12-20T04:08:17.663-08:00Just as I Am: Hymns Affirming the Divine Female - Table of Contents with hyperlinks<p> </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhm2d8LYwXhebkc8rlPKTHf0vjsYqvFnI7KjJReL3hK7KadCuuwjCPmDd8fvTofmvhZ_a3PPtGDZbeCfkDu6OlmgkHD2Npu4qqvGFxNmiv8BZgZF4GKkncmmpz_4yB_Ch5dF2maWjTij42ctJUvnZ6sUh12jDlgZXW64u4M6IzGG7XJlXdylMx-5HNa=s1200" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="800" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhm2d8LYwXhebkc8rlPKTHf0vjsYqvFnI7KjJReL3hK7KadCuuwjCPmDd8fvTofmvhZ_a3PPtGDZbeCfkDu6OlmgkHD2Npu4qqvGFxNmiv8BZgZF4GKkncmmpz_4yB_Ch5dF2maWjTij42ctJUvnZ6sUh12jDlgZXW64u4M6IzGG7XJlXdylMx-5HNa=w266-h400" width="266" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cover art by Kat Shaw</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p></p><p>Excerpts will be updated when possible.</p><p><br /></p><p></p><p align="LEFT" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
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to </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent;">Morning
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to </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent;">Morning
Has Broken</span></span></i></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent;">)</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent;">Kay
Turner</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p align="LEFT" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">Goddess
of the Cauldron </span></i></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent;">Kat
Shaw</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>At
the Cauldron </i></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB"><span style="font-style: normal;">(Sung
to </span></span><i><span lang="en-GB">At the Cross</span>)</i></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent;">Sharon
Smith</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><br /></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">Our
Mother </span></i></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">(Sung
to </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">Our
Father</span></i></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">)</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent;">Patricia
Lynn Reilly</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<br />
</p>
<p align="LEFT" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">She
Who Is Our Mother! Goddess All-Lovely </span></i></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">(Sung
to </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">Holy,
Holy, Holy! Lord God Almighty)</span></i></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); break-after: auto; break-inside: auto; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-inside: auto; text-decoration: none; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent;">Sharon
Smith</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); break-after: auto; break-inside: auto; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-inside: auto; text-decoration: none; widows: 2;">
<br />
</p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); break-after: auto; break-inside: auto; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-inside: auto; text-decoration: none; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><i><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/thegirlgod/photos/a.3395745140474246/3531835456865213">Just as I Am </a></span></span></i></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); break-after: auto; break-inside: auto; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-inside: auto; text-decoration: none; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">Trista
Hendren</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); break-after: auto; break-inside: auto; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-inside: auto; text-decoration: none; widows: 2;">
<br />
</p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); break-after: auto; break-inside: auto; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-inside: auto; text-decoration: none; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><strong><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><i><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Goddess
of Willendorf </span></span></i></span></strong></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); break-after: auto; break-inside: auto; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-inside: auto; text-decoration: none; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">Arna
Baartz</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); break-after: auto; break-inside: auto; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-inside: auto; text-decoration: none; widows: 2;">
<br />
</p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); break-after: auto; break-inside: auto; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-inside: auto; text-decoration: none; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/thegirlgod/videos/757281582336561">There's
Power in the Blood </a></span></i></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); break-after: auto; break-inside: auto; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-inside: auto; text-decoration: none; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Patricia
Lynn Reilly</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); break-after: auto; break-inside: auto; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-inside: auto; text-decoration: none; widows: 2;">
<br />
</p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); break-after: auto; break-inside: auto; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-inside: auto; text-decoration: none; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="color: black;">Are
You Washed in the Blood? </span></i></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); break-after: auto; break-inside: auto; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 0; page-break-after: auto; page-break-inside: auto; text-decoration: none; widows: 0;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Trista
Hendren</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); break-after: auto; break-inside: auto; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 0; page-break-after: auto; page-break-inside: auto; text-decoration: none; widows: 0;">
<br />
</p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); break-after: auto; break-inside: auto; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 0; page-break-after: auto; page-break-inside: auto; text-decoration: none; widows: 0;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">She
of the Dance </span></i></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">(Sung
to</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">
Simple Gifts)</span></i></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 0; widows: 0;">
<span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Rebekah
Myers</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 0; widows: 0;">
<br />
</p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 0; widows: 0;">
<span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">Come
Fly With Me </span></i></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Cheryl
Braganza</span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p align="CENTER" lang="en-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); break-after: auto; break-inside: auto; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.08in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-inside: auto; text-decoration: none; widows: 2;"><br />
</p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); break-after: auto; break-inside: auto; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 0; page-break-after: auto; page-break-inside: auto; text-decoration: none; widows: 0;">
<span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>What
Wondrous Love is This? </i></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); break-after: auto; break-inside: auto; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-inside: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Alissa
DeLaFuente</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<br />
</p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-GB" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>What
an Allyship in Goddess! </i></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-GB" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">(Sung
to</span><i> What a Friend We Have in Jesus)</i></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-GB" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; text-decoration: none; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">Kay
Turner</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-GB" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; text-decoration: none; widows: 2;">
<br />
</p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Beautiful
Mother </span></span></i></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">(Sung
to </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Fairest
Lord Jesus)</span></span></i></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-GB" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; text-decoration: none; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Ruth
Calder-Murphy</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-GB" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; text-decoration: none; widows: 2;">
<br />
</p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">A
Mighty Fortress </span></span></i></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<h1 align="LEFT" class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Ruth
Calder-Murphy</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></h1>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<br />
</p>
<h1 align="LEFT" class="western" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Singing
and Dancing to Your Own Tune </span></span></i></span></span></span></span></span></h1>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-GB" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; text-decoration: none; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: #050505;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Barbara
O' Meara</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-GB" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; text-decoration: none; widows: 2;">
<br />
</p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-GB" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Weave
Us Together, Queen </i></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB"><span style="font-style: normal;">(Sung
to </span></span><i>Bind us Together, Lord)</i></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-GB" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; text-decoration: none; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Kay
Turner</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-GB" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; text-decoration: none; widows: 2;">
<br />
</p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); break-after: auto; break-inside: auto; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-inside: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CV-jS_fgwGz/">How Great the Mother’s Love for Us</a></span></span></i></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent;"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent;">(Sung
to How Deep the Father’s Love for Us)</span></span></i></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-GB" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; text-decoration: none; widows: 2;"><a name="docs-internal-guid-aa10e474-7fff-3a0a-ad24-5b1895aa46601"></a>
<span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Kate
Hilderbrandt</span></span></span></span><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</span></span></span></span></span></span></span>
</p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-GB" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; text-decoration: none; widows: 2;">
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</p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>She
Lives </i></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">(Sung
to</span><i> He Lives)</i></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Trista
Hendren</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
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</p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><a href="https://www.facebook.com/thegirlgod/videos/757281582336561">Amazing Grace (the Call of the Goddess)</a></i></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); break-after: auto; break-inside: auto; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-inside: auto; text-decoration: none; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Alissa
DeLaFuente</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); break-after: auto; break-inside: auto; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-inside: auto; text-decoration: none; widows: 2;">
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</p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); break-after: auto; break-inside: auto; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-inside: auto; text-decoration: none; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">Shesus </span></i></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; text-decoration: none; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Lisbeth
Cheever-Gessaman</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; text-decoration: none; widows: 2;">
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</p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); break-after: auto; break-inside: auto; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-inside: auto; text-decoration: none; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Turn
Your Eyes Upon Goddess </i></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">(Sung
to </span></span><span lang="en-US"><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">Turn
Your Eyes Upon Jesus)</span></i></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Sharon
Smith</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<br />
</p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
Heart of Love My Goddess Is </i></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); break-after: auto; break-inside: auto; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-inside: auto; text-decoration: none; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB"><span style="font-style: normal;">(Sung
to </span></span><i>The King of Love My Shepherd Is</i><span style="font-style: normal;">)</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); break-after: auto; break-inside: auto; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 0; page-break-after: auto; page-break-inside: auto; text-decoration: none; widows: 0;">
<span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Alissa
DeLaFuente</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); break-after: auto; break-inside: auto; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 0; page-break-after: auto; page-break-inside: auto; text-decoration: none; widows: 0;">
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</p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); break-after: auto; break-inside: auto; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 0; page-break-after: auto; page-break-inside: auto; text-decoration: none; widows: 0;">
<span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Her
Eye is on the Sparrow </i></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">(Sung
to</span><i> His Eye is on the Sparrow)</i></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Trista
Hendren</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; text-decoration: none; widows: 2;">
<br />
</p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; text-decoration: none; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Down
in the River </i></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); break-after: auto; break-inside: auto; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-inside: auto; text-decoration: none; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Liz
Childs Kelly</span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); break-after: auto; break-inside: auto; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-inside: auto; text-decoration: none; widows: 2;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">Grey
Power </span></i></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; text-decoration: none; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Cheryl
Braganza</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; text-decoration: none; widows: 2;">
<br />
</p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; text-decoration: none; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><a href="https://www.facebook.com/thegirlgod/videos/688893835409437">Life Spirals On </a></i></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); break-after: auto; break-inside: auto; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-inside: auto; text-decoration: none; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span lang="en-US">(</span></i><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">Sung
to the tune of </span></span><i><span lang="en-US">I</span>’<span lang="en-US">ll
Fly Away)</span></i></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); break-after: auto; break-inside: auto; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-inside: auto; text-decoration: none; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Liz
Childs Kelly </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>
</p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); break-after: auto; break-inside: auto; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-inside: auto; text-decoration: none; widows: 2;">
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</p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); break-after: auto; break-inside: auto; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-inside: auto; text-decoration: none; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://thegirlgod.blogspot.com/2021/08/i-love-to-tell-story-re-written-by.html">I Love to Tell the Story</a></span></i></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Monette
Chilson</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<br />
</p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>I
Love My Piano </i></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); break-after: auto; break-inside: auto; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 0; page-break-after: auto; page-break-inside: auto; text-decoration: none; widows: 0;">
<span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Cheryl
Braganza</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 0; text-decoration: none; widows: 0;">
<br />
</p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 0; text-decoration: none; widows: 0;">
<span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>I
Love to Tell Her Story </i></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 0; text-decoration: none; widows: 0;">
<span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB"><span style="font-style: normal;">(Sung
to </span></span><i>I Love to Tell the Story</i><span style="font-style: normal;">)</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); break-after: auto; break-inside: auto; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 0; page-break-after: auto; page-break-inside: auto; widows: 0;">
<span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Sharon
Smith</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 0; widows: 0;">
<br />
</p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 0; widows: 0;">
<span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Abide
with Me </i></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 0; widows: 0;">
<span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Jeanine
Elizabeth Otte</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 0; widows: 0;">
<br />
</p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 0; widows: 0;">
<span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
Old Rounded Crone </i></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB"><span style="font-style: normal;">(Sung
to </span></span><i><span lang="en-GB">The Old Rugged Cross</span></i><span lang="en-GB"><span style="font-style: normal;">)</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); break-after: auto; break-inside: auto; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 0; page-break-after: auto; page-break-inside: auto; text-decoration: none; widows: 0;">
<span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">Trista
Hendren</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); break-after: auto; break-inside: auto; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 0; page-break-after: auto; page-break-inside: auto; text-decoration: none; widows: 0;">
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</p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); break-after: auto; break-inside: auto; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 0; page-break-after: auto; page-break-inside: auto; text-decoration: none; widows: 0;">
<span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Belonging </i></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); break-after: auto; break-inside: auto; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 0; page-break-after: auto; page-break-inside: auto; widows: 0;">
<span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background: transparent;">Anique
Radiant Heart</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 0; widows: 0;">
<br />
</p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 0; widows: 0;">
<span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Rock
of Ages </i></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); break-after: auto; break-inside: auto; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-inside: auto; text-decoration: none; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Deborah
A. Meyerriecks</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); break-after: auto; break-inside: auto; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 0; page-break-after: auto; page-break-inside: auto; text-decoration: none; widows: 0;">
<br />
</p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); break-after: auto; break-inside: auto; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 0; page-break-after: auto; page-break-inside: auto; text-decoration: none; widows: 0;">
<span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Mother
Holy </i></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); break-after: auto; break-before: auto; break-inside: auto; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; page-break-inside: auto; text-decoration: none; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB"><span style="font-style: normal;">(Sung
to</span></span><span lang="en-GB"><i> Infant Holy)</i></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); break-after: auto; break-inside: auto; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 0; page-break-after: auto; page-break-inside: auto; text-decoration: none; widows: 0;">
<span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background: transparent;">Jeanine
Elizabeth Otte </span></span></span></span></span></span></span>
</p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); break-after: auto; break-inside: auto; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 0; page-break-after: auto; page-break-inside: auto; text-decoration: none; widows: 0;">
<br />
</p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); break-after: auto; break-inside: auto; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 0; page-break-after: auto; page-break-inside: auto; text-decoration: none; widows: 0;">
<span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Dear
Goddess Mother of us all </i></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB"><span style="font-style: normal;">(Sung
to </span></span><i>Dear Lord and Father of Mankind)</i></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 0; widows: 0;">
<span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="background: transparent;">Kay
Turner</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 0; widows: 0;">
<br />
</p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 0; widows: 0;">
<span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
Healing Circle </i></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 0; widows: 0;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent;">Sue
Ellen Parkinson</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<br />
</p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">Because
She Lives </span></i></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">(Sung
to </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">Because
He Lives</span></i></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">)</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial Narrow, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent;">Monette
Chilson</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<br />
</p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
Magdalene’s my Guide, I Shall not Want </i></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-GB" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;">(Sung
to <i>The Lord's My Shepherd</i>)</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; text-decoration: none; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent;">Kay
Turner</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; text-decoration: none; widows: 2;">
<br />
</p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; text-decoration: none; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
Mystic Mary Magdalene </i></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent;">Sue
Ellen Parkinson</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<br />
</p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>We
Give Our Thanks to Her </i></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); break-after: auto; break-inside: auto; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-inside: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB"><span style="font-style: normal;">(Sung
to </span></span><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Now
Thank We All Our God</i></span></span><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span lang="en-GB"><span style="font-style: normal;">)</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent;">Rebekah
Myers</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<br />
</p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Be Still and Know
that I am You </i></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">(Sung
to</span><i> Be Still and Know that I am God)</i></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent;">Kay
Turner</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<br />
</p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent;">Be
Still, For the Presence of Goddess </span></span></i></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en" style="border: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; padding: 0in; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: #050505;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent;">(Sung
to </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent;">Be
Still, For the Presence of the Lord</span></span></i></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent;">)</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent;">Dr.
Lynne Sedgmore</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<br />
</p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>From
the Garden </i></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB"><span style="font-style: normal;">(Sung
to </span></span><i>In the Garden)</i></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-GB" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; text-decoration: none; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent;">Sharon
Smith</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; text-decoration: none; widows: 2;">
<br />
</p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; text-decoration: none; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><a href="https://www.facebook.com/thegirlgod/photos/a.247135242001934/4493207147394701/">Lilith</a></i></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent;">Kat
Shaw</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<br />
</p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><a href="https://www.facebook.com/thegirlgod/photos/a.247135242001934/4493207147394701/">Lilith Paid It All </a></i></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); break-after: auto; break-inside: auto; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-inside: auto; text-decoration: none; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">(Sung
to </span><span lang="en-US"><i>Jesus Paid It All)</i></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); break-after: auto; break-inside: auto; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-inside: auto; text-decoration: none; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background: transparent;">Sharon
Smith</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); break-after: auto; break-inside: auto; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-inside: auto; text-decoration: none; widows: 2;">
<br />
</p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); break-after: auto; break-before: page; break-inside: auto; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: always; page-break-inside: auto; text-decoration: none; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>We
Gather Together </i></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); break-after: auto; break-inside: auto; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-inside: auto; text-decoration: none; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background: transparent;">Carol
P. Christ</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); break-after: auto; break-inside: auto; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-inside: auto; text-decoration: none; widows: 2;">
<br />
</p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); break-after: auto; break-inside: auto; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-inside: auto; text-decoration: none; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Five
Sisters Unite </i></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); break-after: auto; break-inside: auto; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-inside: auto; text-decoration: none; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Cheryl
Braganza</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; text-decoration: none; widows: 2;">
<br />
</p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; text-decoration: none; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Goddess
We Adore You </i></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB"><span style="font-style: normal;">(Sung
</span></span><i><span lang="en-GB">To</span></i><span lang="en-GB"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">God Be the
Glory</span>)</i></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); break-after: auto; break-inside: auto; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 0; page-break-after: auto; page-break-inside: auto; widows: 0;">
<span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Dr
Lynne Sedgmore</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
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<br />
</p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 0; widows: 0;">
<span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><a href="https://www.facebook.com/thegirlgod/photos/a.247135242001934/4493194320729317/">How Great Thou Art</a></i></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Trista
Hendren</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<br />
</p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">Song
Birds </span></i></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; text-decoration: none; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Cheryl
Braganza</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br />
</p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Earth,
She is our Mother </span></i></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); break-after: auto; break-inside: auto; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 0; page-break-after: auto; page-break-inside: auto; text-decoration: none; widows: 0;">
<span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB"><span style="font-style: normal;">(Sung
to </span></span><span lang="en-US"><i>This is My Father's World)</i></span><span lang="en-US">
</span></span></span></span>
</p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); break-after: auto; break-inside: auto; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-inside: auto; text-decoration: none; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Deborah
A. Meyerriecks</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; text-decoration: none; widows: 2;">
<br />
</p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">I
Surrender All </span></i></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Pat
Daly</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<br />
</p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">Salvatrix
Mundi </span></i></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; text-decoration: none; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">Lisbeth
Cheever-Gessaman</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; text-decoration: none; widows: 2;">
<br />
</p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 0; widows: 0;">
<span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Blessed
Assurance </i></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; text-decoration: none; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="background: transparent;">Trista
Hendren</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; text-decoration: none; widows: 2;">
<br />
</p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/thegirlgod/photos/a.247135242001934/4493175884064494">I am Worthy</a></span></i></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">(</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Sung
to</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">
Jesus Loves Me</span></i></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">)
</span></span></span></span></span></span></span>
</p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Michelle
Kathleen Elder</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<br />
</p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">Magdalene
Blessing Womankind </span></i></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Sue
Ellen Parkinson</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<br />
</p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">Sweet
Hour of Prayer </span></i></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; text-decoration: none; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Trista
Hendren and Sharon Smith</span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; text-decoration: none; widows: 2;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; text-decoration: none; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Lovingly,
Clearly </i></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); break-after: auto; break-inside: auto; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-inside: auto; text-decoration: none; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span lang="en-US">(</span></i><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">Sung
to the tune of </span></span><i><span lang="en-US">Softly and
Tenderly)</span></i></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); break-after: auto; break-inside: auto; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-inside: auto; text-decoration: none; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Liz
Childs Kelly</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); break-after: auto; break-inside: auto; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-inside: auto; text-decoration: none; widows: 2;">
<br />
</p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); break-after: auto; break-inside: auto; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-inside: auto; text-decoration: none; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">Harper </span></i></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 0; widows: 0;">
<span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">Andrea
Redmond</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 0; widows: 0;">
<br />
</p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 0; widows: 0;">
<span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Lift
up the Veil </span></i></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); break-after: auto; break-inside: auto; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 0; page-break-after: auto; page-break-inside: auto; text-decoration: none; widows: 0;">
<span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB"><span style="font-style: normal;">(Sung
to </span></span><span lang="en-US"><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Praise
to the Lord, the Almighty</span></i></span><span lang="en-US"><i>)</i></span><span lang="en-US">
</span></span></span></span>
</p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); break-after: auto; break-inside: auto; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 0; page-break-after: auto; page-break-inside: auto; text-decoration: none; widows: 0;">
<span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Deborah
A. Meyerriecks</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); break-after: auto; break-inside: auto; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 0; page-break-after: auto; page-break-inside: auto; text-decoration: none; widows: 0;">
<br />
</p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); break-after: auto; break-inside: auto; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 0; page-break-after: auto; page-break-inside: auto; text-decoration: none; widows: 0;">
<span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Is
The Morrigan Calling to you? </span></i></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); break-after: auto; break-inside: auto; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 0; page-break-after: auto; page-break-inside: auto; text-decoration: none; widows: 0;">
<span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB"><span style="font-style: normal;">(Sung
to </span></span><span lang="en-US"><i>All Creatures of Our God and
King!</i></span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">)
</span></span></span></span></span>
</p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); break-after: auto; break-inside: auto; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 0; page-break-after: auto; page-break-inside: auto; text-decoration: none; widows: 0;">
<span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Deborah
A. Meyerriecks</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); break-after: auto; break-inside: auto; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 0; page-break-after: auto; page-break-inside: auto; text-decoration: none; widows: 0;">
<br />
</p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); break-after: auto; break-inside: auto; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 0; page-break-after: auto; page-break-inside: auto; text-decoration: none; widows: 0;">
<span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Magic
and Mystery: Answering Her Call</i><i> </i></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); break-after: auto; break-inside: auto; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 0; page-break-after: auto; page-break-inside: auto; text-decoration: none; widows: 0;">
<span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">Arlene
Bailey</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); break-after: auto; break-inside: auto; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 0; page-break-after: auto; page-break-inside: auto; text-decoration: none; widows: 0;">
<br />
</p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); break-after: auto; break-inside: auto; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 0; page-break-after: auto; page-break-inside: auto; text-decoration: none; widows: 0;">
<span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In
the Shadow Before Dawn </span></i></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); break-after: auto; break-inside: auto; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 0; page-break-after: auto; page-break-inside: auto; text-decoration: none; widows: 0;">
<span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB"><span style="font-style: normal;">(Sung
to </span></span><span lang="en-US"><i>For the Beauty of the Earth)</i></span><span lang="en-US">
</span></span></span></span>
</p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); break-after: auto; break-inside: auto; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-inside: auto; text-decoration: none; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Deborah
A. Meyerriecks</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); break-after: auto; break-inside: auto; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-inside: auto; text-decoration: none; widows: 2;">
<br />
</p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); break-after: auto; break-inside: auto; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-inside: auto; text-decoration: none; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>LES
SIRENNES </i></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); break-after: auto; break-inside: auto; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-inside: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">Claire
Dorey</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<br />
</p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Support
My Quest To Know Myself </span></i></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); break-after: auto; break-inside: auto; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 0; page-break-after: auto; page-break-inside: auto; text-decoration: none; widows: 0;">
<span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB"><span style="font-style: normal;">(Sung
to </span></span><span lang="en-US"><i>Praise My Soul The King Of
Heaven)</i></span><span lang="en-US"> </span></span></span></span>
</p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); break-after: auto; break-inside: auto; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-inside: auto; text-decoration: none; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Deborah
A. Meyerriecks</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); break-after: auto; break-inside: auto; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-inside: auto; text-decoration: none; widows: 2;">
<br />
</p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); break-after: auto; break-inside: auto; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-inside: auto; text-decoration: none; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>LES
SIRENNES IV </i></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); break-after: auto; break-inside: auto; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-inside: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Claire
Dorey</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
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<span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Be
Thou My Vision </i></span></span></span></p>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-IE"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Barbara
O’Meara</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">Serenity
in Shekinah </span></i></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">(Sung
to </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">Victory
in Jesus)</span></i></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Monette
Chilson</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p align="LEFT" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Procession
to the Goddess Ériu </span></span></i></span></span></span></span></span></p>
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<span style="color: #050505;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span lang="en-US">Barbara
O' Meara</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
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<span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/thegirlgod/videos/688893835409437">Mother Goddess, We Adore Thee</a></span></i></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB"><span style="font-style: normal;">(Sung
to </span></span><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Joyful, Joyful
We Adore Thee</span></i><i>)</i></span></span></span></p>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Sharon
Smith</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/thegirlgod/photos/a.247135242001934/4493151117400304/">Faith of Our Mothers</a></span></i></span></span></span></span></span></p>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">(Sung
to </span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">Faith
of Our Fathers)</span></i></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Sharon
Smith</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent;">Praise
Goddess</span></span></i></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent;">(Sung
to</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent;">
Doxology)</span></span></i></span></span></span></span></span></p>
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Hilderbrandt</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">Praise
Her from Whom All Blessings Flow </span></i></span></span></span></span></span></p>
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P. Christ</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">Women
Rising </span></i></span></span></span></span></span></p>
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O' Meara</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">Singing
our Way to Freedom </span></i></span></span></span></span></span></p>
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<span style="color: black;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;">Trista
Hendren</span></span></span></p>
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</p>Order the book <a href="http://thegirlgod.com/just_as_i_am.php">here</a>.<p></p>The Girl Godhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10075164390400359665noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6197064158996872377.post-34178000034062426832021-12-12T07:12:00.006-08:002021-12-12T07:14:45.022-08:00 Pain Perspectives: This is my body. Broken with You by Kay Turner<p> </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhDLS_bI-7OCRMdPq4RuTZo0xvAAH6OeSuSfWCAmd2BG6oHaSvt4V89GKcbKxQOGjOqbq-pkAUhzcsxNyh64Hp0bwISKLANOq9I6DCgKlUwZ55ybDzpXuortZzQVR0Dthti6ILbgApI8huLGCaaZ0jVzaIlqvoby-Y4zR69e6ba1rSAr9BCZERJtElo=s1080" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="705" data-original-width="1080" height="261" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhDLS_bI-7OCRMdPq4RuTZo0xvAAH6OeSuSfWCAmd2BG6oHaSvt4V89GKcbKxQOGjOqbq-pkAUhzcsxNyh64Hp0bwISKLANOq9I6DCgKlUwZ55ybDzpXuortZzQVR0Dthti6ILbgApI8huLGCaaZ0jVzaIlqvoby-Y4zR69e6ba1rSAr9BCZERJtElo=w400-h261" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Art by Arna Baartz</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p></p><p>
</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Day-to-day I live with,
and manage, chronic pain - alongside millions of other women.</p>
<ul><li><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Globally it is
estimated that <a href="https://www.thelancet.com/series/chronic-pain">30%
of the world population experiences chronic pain</a>. I’m one of
them. <i>This is my body.</i></p>
</li><li><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">This pain type of
pain <a href="https://www.iasp-pain.org/advocacy/global-year/pain-in-women/">affects
more women</a> than men. I’m one of them. <i>Broken with you. </i>
</p>
</li></ul>
The reason I decided on this particular title for this article - which is a play on eucharistic and biblical phrase “Take, eat; this is my body which is given for you; do this in remembrance of me” – is because those of us who were raised in the Christian tradition will have heard a variation of these words an no doubt have pondered what they actually mean - within worship, bible study and religious education classes. Inevitably, through these words we have been ‘programmed’, to some extent, that the body is to be ‘given away’ or ‘sacrificed’ to intense suffering, for the sake of and to ‘feed’ ‘another’ and/or ‘God’, and that pain and suffering are an acceptable exchange, in God’s view, for redemption. This ‘programme’ layers on top of other Christian conditioning we have received around the body being sinful and ‘base’.
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><i style="text-align: left;"><b>Pain Perspective -
This is my body</b></i></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">The human body is not
meant to live in a state of perpetual pain. The reasons for chronic
pain, according to medical professionals, are complex and often
unexplainable. Whilst I may experience pain in my body it is not a
case for me that ‘this in my body’ - the pain is not my body –
it doesn’t define it. It is an aspect of what I process within it.
In simultaneously meditating on the words ‘this is my body’ and
feeling pain within it – I have observed the body and the pain are
two distinct and separate things. Shamanic journeying has given me
significant insight into the origins of the pain I feel. Much of it
is a physical manifestation of unresolved ancestral patterning and
trauma. This is not ‘my’ body. It is the ancestral trauma body.
The majority of it is patriarchal, societal and religious
conditioning – lack of rest, overworking, lack of pleasure. The
pain is an objection to this. It seems my body has been ‘given
away’ to intense suffering for the sake of the continuation of the
patriarchy and has been a resourced by a man (to raise his children),
the state (as an unpaid carer of my parents and children) and the
education system (as a teacher). My body’s pain and suffering keep
male omnipotence, a ‘Big Daddy’ rulership, in place and I am,
according to the Christian narrative, redeemed and favoured because
of my self-sacrifice. The Christian story and dynamic continue to
play out, interestingly, I notice, and primarily within and through
the female body. The male body has even been able to shirk that
responsibility. I wonder what the stories and perspectives of other
women are about pain and their body and their understanding of the
link.
</p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><i style="text-align: left;"><b>Pain Perspective -
Broken with You</b></i></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Whilst in the Eucharist
the bread is broken, for this article I wanted to explore the concept
of ‘broken body’ and how it relates to pain. When I looked up
the definition of the word broken, I saw a range of words which did
not resonate with my experience of pain. Of the non-resonant words,
three especially did not fit my personal experience of pain – these
words were ‘imperfect’, ‘not functioning’ and ‘severely
damaged’. Pain is not an imperfection from my perspective. Pain
is a perfect sensation – absolute, complete, having all the
qualities for its function – alerting me to a message from my body;
that it needs extra care or attention. Pain also demonstrates that
my body is functioning effectively and is undamaged and actually
fulfilling its task of sending a message. The resonant definitions
of the word broken in relation to my perspective of pain were
‘interrupted’ and ‘fractured’. The pain I experience
interrupts my sleepwalking through life and unconsciously
perpetuating and participating in the patriarchy play were are
characters within and acting out. The pain stops me in my tracks.
What I have observed is that the onset of pain happens when I am too
much ‘in my head’, serving others without reciprocation and/or
neglecting my pleasure. So, from that viewpoint, the pain is an
ally, showing me that I am imbalanced, fractured from joy,
embodiment, Goddess and the feminine. And as the words say broken
with you – they remind me that I am not alone in feeling this. My
body, along with the bodies of millions of other Sisters are
discerning through sensation that how we are living is not in
alignment with health, spirit or joy and we are rejecting the old
patriarchal patterning.
</p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="text-align: left;">My intuition is that the
worldwide epidemic of chronic pain is an inflammatory response in
humanity to the invasion of patriarchy and its effects. Our
collective spiritual and physical immune system is reacting and
saying NO. The wisdom of pain is showing us we are out of alignment
with our natural embodied, human birth right - pleasure, wellness and
ease.</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="text-align: left;">Pain is a political and
revolutionary statement from the body. A clear message that society,
paradigms, culture and systems – and religious narrative - need to
change.</span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="text-align: left;">From the upcoming Girl God Anthology, <a href="https://thegirlgod.blogspot.com/2021/12/call-for-submissions-pain-perspectives.html"><i>Pain Perspectives: Finding Meaning in the Fire</i></a>.</span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgCAbwPGl1IDwRhSmvukYQ3ryqUwKhGrTTNgO1-SpdMKD4qq0mup0xeVWZ8CLbDWKwuK6o6-Q58vcxVlyFvEFfn3JOOXVLBDQx780LQxcT7hzAzrgTMALs-9MCkypTnJTsORZU-aodvFjjYS1d5OucT4eDs6dmKirYZWeWhPaCuCWOvikcxDC2S3cxu=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1365" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgCAbwPGl1IDwRhSmvukYQ3ryqUwKhGrTTNgO1-SpdMKD4qq0mup0xeVWZ8CLbDWKwuK6o6-Q58vcxVlyFvEFfn3JOOXVLBDQx780LQxcT7hzAzrgTMALs-9MCkypTnJTsORZU-aodvFjjYS1d5OucT4eDs6dmKirYZWeWhPaCuCWOvikcxDC2S3cxu=s320" width="213" /></a></div><br /><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span><p></p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="text-align: left;"><b style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Kay Turner </b><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">is a teacher, facilitator, researcher and writer who visions collective evolution. She catalyses individual, collective and institutional evolution through education, embodiment and creativity, and the amalgamation of metacognition, intuition and instinct.</span><br style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Kay has contributed to the Girl God Anthologies </span><a href="http://thegirlgod.com/warrior_queen.php" style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #d52a33; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-decoration-line: none;"><i>Warrior Queen: Answering the Call of the Morrigan</i></a><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> and </span><a href="http://thegirlgod.com/boudicca.php" style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #d52a33; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-decoration-line: none;"><i>In Defiance of Oppression - The Legacy of Boudicca</i></a><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">. Kay will also feature in other upcoming Girl God Anthologies </span><a href="http://thegirlgod.com/just_as_i_am.php" style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #d52a33; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-decoration-line: none;"><i>Just as I am - Hymns Affirming the Divine Feminine</i></a><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> and </span><i style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><a href="http://thegirlgod.com/songs_of_solistice.php" style="color: #d52a33; text-decoration-line: none;">Songs of Solstice - Goddess Carols</a>.</i><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> Currently she is co-editing the upcoming Girl God Anthologies: </span><i style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><a href="http://thegirlgod.com/re-membering.php" style="color: #d52a33; text-decoration-line: none;">Re-Membering with Goddess: Healing the Patriarchal Perpetuation of Trauma</a>, <a href="http://thegirlgod.com/the_crone.php" style="color: #d52a33; text-decoration-line: none;">The Crone Initiation and Invitation: Women speak on the Menopause Journey</a>, </i><i style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><a href="http://thegirlgod.com/rainbow_goddess.php" style="color: #d52a33; text-decoration-line: none;">Rainbow Goddess - Celebrating Neurodiversity</a></i><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> and </span><i style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Pain Perspectives: Finding Meaning in the Fire</i><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">. In addition, Kay is writing her own books: </span><a href="http://thegirlgod.com/mentorship_with_goddess.php" style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #d52a33; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-decoration-line: none;"><i>Mentorship of Goddess: Growing Sacred Womanhood</i></a><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> and </span><i style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: black;"><a href="http://thegirlgod.com/making_love.php" style="color: #d52a33; text-decoration-line: none;">Making Love with the Divine: Sacred, Ecstatic, Erotic Experiences</a>.</span></i></span></p><br /><p></p>The Girl Godhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10075164390400359665noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6197064158996872377.post-72699670753868163992021-12-08T05:33:00.005-08:002022-05-16T06:18:04.402-07:00Call for Submissions: Pain Perspectives: Finding Meaning in the Fire<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEEXM8aEgJTDo2Noz6lN_LLvDiY4gFVUH3v1GSYm5kYghBdy3ivUETdbZ1yydYtH9T-Gem81lr-ijCO7XgRdFH5jyjvlexg4_yfklRgW5Vc1NlvOzIVJ8zvNxAy_soaKjZUyCxBAiYU-USYB0L5WDrvjZnwZpgoOXImvu3OBcbBdAg8NGkvZJdnGwh/s600/pain_perspectives_cover.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="400" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEEXM8aEgJTDo2Noz6lN_LLvDiY4gFVUH3v1GSYm5kYghBdy3ivUETdbZ1yydYtH9T-Gem81lr-ijCO7XgRdFH5jyjvlexg4_yfklRgW5Vc1NlvOzIVJ8zvNxAy_soaKjZUyCxBAiYU-USYB0L5WDrvjZnwZpgoOXImvu3OBcbBdAg8NGkvZJdnGwh/s320/pain_perspectives_cover.jpg" width="213" /></a></div><br /><div>Girl God Books is accepting submissions for our upcoming Anthology of women’s writing: <i>Pain Perspectives: Finding Meaning in the Fire.</i><div><i><br /></i>Personal essays or accounts (up to 2,000 words), academic papers, poetry, prayers, and art are welcome.</div><div><br />Themes to consider in your submissions might include:<br /><br /><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><ul><li>How Goddess supports you with chronic pain or illness</li><li>Goddess Spirituality and chronic pain or illness</li><li>Spiritual and Feminist Theological reflections on pain</li><li>Chronic pain and Goddess</li><li>Chronic illness and Goddess</li><li>Chronic pain origins</li><li>Patriarchy and chronic pain</li><li>How patriarchy perpetuates chronic pain</li></ul></blockquote><br />Edited by Kay Louise Aldred, Trista Hendren and Pat Daly<br />Cover Art by Kat Shaw<div><br />Scheduled publication: Samhain 2023<br /><br /><b>Submission Guidelines:</b><br />Please send your finished piece in a Word document. Please send your finished piece in a Word document. Calibri size 12 font is preferred. Please do not use any fancy formatting or fonts as it creates a lot more work on our end. Make sure to spell check before your submission. Art should be sent in high resolution as a JPG. You may submit more than one piece for consideration, but due to the volume of submissions, please only send your best work and keep it on topic.<br /><br />Please also include a bio in the third person under 150 words.<br /><br />Please send your submissions to <a href="mailto:submissions@girlgod.org">submissions@girlgod.org</a> by March 21, 2023 with the book title in your subject line. Please note that we cannot accommodate any late submissions or corrections.</div></div></div>The Girl Godhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10075164390400359665noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6197064158996872377.post-31516723745457077672021-12-07T05:37:00.000-08:002021-12-07T05:37:00.313-08:00The Crone: Invitation and Initiation by Kay Turner<p> </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdlk3GgzmyMSYHYyUEkSNUxjWcmZW3E4MqGN0fpcxBoDP88H7WYOMjzGClTM-grjq4ZSW4z369vOu8K_LDBy90DPe8HzOE5DKfYSXzHII1L2B_6Z9-fg9TGVFzPcVUHexrK-UO5StZziE/s800/crone+hecate+lauren+raine+mask.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="786" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdlk3GgzmyMSYHYyUEkSNUxjWcmZW3E4MqGN0fpcxBoDP88H7WYOMjzGClTM-grjq4ZSW4z369vOu8K_LDBy90DPe8HzOE5DKfYSXzHII1L2B_6Z9-fg9TGVFzPcVUHexrK-UO5StZziE/w393-h400/crone+hecate+lauren+raine+mask.jpg" width="393" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Art by Lauren Raine</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p></p><p><b><span lang="EN-GB">The Invitation.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">When she first arrived in my energy field I
was terrified of Crone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I felt her grip
on my body and psyche as the breaking down began - hormones and mood spiralling
me out of control and togetherness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her
invitation was carried by Jaguar.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She
waited in the shadows.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The envelope was
jet black.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The writing was jagged and
punctuated with ancient symbols, which I later deciphered from runes, and was
penned in coagulated old blood and a Crow feather quill I believe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She spoke to me in her obscurity, in a
non-reactive and sovereign voice <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">“This is an invitation and initiation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You can resist or engage.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You can stay and wither or you can journey
and thrive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You choose”.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Fear of the ‘lack of control’ meant I did
resist for several years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As I clung
tightly to the old paradigms, ways and layers of Self, body symptoms
intensified – hot sweats trying to process the internal rage and migraines – my
splitting psyche unable to hold revelations and knowing and see the
conditioning and programming it had been running on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mood instability was my whole being messaging<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“YOU.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>HAVE.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>TO.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>CHANGE. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>EVERYTHING”.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">And so eventually I said yes to her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She gave me a hand along the way to the yield.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Toxic relationships.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A
divorce.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>An exquisite new lover turned
soul-full husband.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A serious
accident.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She was insistent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I caved in to be honest.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was on my knees, completely collapsed, already
withering at a rapid rate, frail.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It
turns out saying yes to her invitation is the best decision I have ever
made.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The breaking down was actually a
breaking out - an escape route from falsity, repression and denial.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Acceptance was the key which opened the door
onto a road of freedom.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB">The Initiation.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">The invitation was handed to me when I
turned 37 years old.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The initiation
itself, also known as perimenopause, seems a lengthy process.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m still moving through the stages so I
can’t speak to the outcome, finale or ‘end product’.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I do wonder if there actually is one or if
Crone’s advancing and closing in is an ongoing undoing of that which is not the
truth of Self and of Soul and a taking of the place of ‘elder’ and all that
means and represents in its fullest and most exalted expression in society.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">What I can share is that the most profound and
unexpected aspect of the initiation so far has been the igniting of Sacred Rage.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Righteous, Holy, Rage.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Tapping into this copious lifeforce and
allowing it to literally rip through every area of my life, catalysed the onset
of the restoration of my boundaries and all aspects of my health.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pure Sacred Rage is savage, indiscriminate
and ferocious.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is the primordial current
of Gaia which I’ve discovered is alive within me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is not anger.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Anger is tempered in comparison and can be
channelled, consciously deployed, in many ways.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Sacred Rage is untamed and wild.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It has one purpose – to obliterate – injustice, untruth, inauthenticity.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">As I write this, I can feel this frequency simmering,
pulsating and coursing through my blood.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I feel the Earth’s annihilating energies and their manifestations – the tsunami,
the volcano – and I feel powerful.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Crone
has gifted me the ability to destroy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I track
it moving though me in every hot flush, which are less frequent now I have plugged
into this force.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When rage floods my
system I pay attention to where I am, the situation and my thoughts, and notice
what I need to address, face and change.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>A devastating demolition is detonated and as I sit in the aftermath -
the tatters and ruins – I rest and reflect and wait for the next blitz.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">The Crone initiation is not graceful,
picturesque or a state of easeful flow.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It is not a ‘tidy’ cyclical experience of letting go gently, making
space, planting new seeds and watching them flourish and grow.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The initiation is brutal, relentless and
thorny.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is barren, barbed and
brazen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Crippling anxiety, the darkest
depression, social avoidance, are all part of Crone’s training, as she asks
time and time again – will you stay the course?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>She is a no-nonsense mentor, offering tough-love and truth telling.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She promises nothing – other than integrity
and authenticity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is no
celebration or collaboration and camaraderie in this initiation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is a solitary path.<o:p></o:p></span></p>An excerpt from our upcoming anthology, <a href="https://thegirlgod.blogspot.com/2021/05/call-for-submissions-crone-initiation.html"><i>The Crone Initiation and Invitation. Women speak on the Menopause Journey</i></a>.<div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh1jahFBmwAUQMHWLkaq7pDyAGluuLuWiLhVb6FErC0floH4o57PmlIREx1VXRHN9wF9VD6Tc25k-kvzC0tSghQ6XE6kMBWmI-E-NdsIgrzZAuw4poNiqPIEUotFi4R6H8Bxt-PRXXFR8LAl1PrAuNqZ-ITw6F-gblGf7SS7lMvE6GauS9ZoOMrk2Nk=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1365" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh1jahFBmwAUQMHWLkaq7pDyAGluuLuWiLhVb6FErC0floH4o57PmlIREx1VXRHN9wF9VD6Tc25k-kvzC0tSghQ6XE6kMBWmI-E-NdsIgrzZAuw4poNiqPIEUotFi4R6H8Bxt-PRXXFR8LAl1PrAuNqZ-ITw6F-gblGf7SS7lMvE6GauS9ZoOMrk2Nk=s320" width="213" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /><p></p><div><p align="LEFT" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); break-after: auto; break-inside: auto; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; orphans: 1;"><b style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; orphans: 2;">Kay Turner </b><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; orphans: 2;">is a teacher, facilitator, researcher and writer who visions collective evolution. She catalyses individual, collective and institutional evolution through education, embodiment and creativity, and the amalgamation of metacognition, intuition and instinct.</span><br style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; orphans: 2;" /><br style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; orphans: 2;" /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; orphans: 2;">Kay has contributed to the Girl God Anthologies </span><a href="http://thegirlgod.com/warrior_queen.php" style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #d52a33; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; orphans: 2; text-decoration-line: none;"><i>Warrior Queen: Answering the Call of the Morrigan</i></a><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; orphans: 2;"> and </span><a href="http://thegirlgod.com/boudicca.php" style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #d52a33; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; orphans: 2; text-decoration-line: none;"><i>In Defiance of Oppression - The Legacy of Boudicca</i></a><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; orphans: 2;">. Kay will also feature in other upcoming Girl God Anthologies </span><a href="http://thegirlgod.com/just_as_i_am.php" style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #d52a33; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; orphans: 2; text-decoration-line: none;"><i>Just as I am - Hymns Affirming the Divine Feminine</i></a><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; orphans: 2;"> and </span><i style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; orphans: 2;"><a href="http://thegirlgod.com/songs_of_solistice.php" style="color: #d52a33; text-decoration-line: none;">Songs of Solstice - Goddess Carols</a>.</i><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; orphans: 2;"> Currently she is co-editing the upcoming Girl God Anthologies: </span><i style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; orphans: 2;"><a href="http://thegirlgod.com/re-membering.php" style="color: #d52a33; text-decoration-line: none;">Re-Membering with Goddess: Healing the Patriarchal Perpetuation of Trauma</a>, <a href="http://thegirlgod.com/the_crone.php" style="color: #d52a33; text-decoration-line: none;">The Crone Initiation and Invitation: Women speak on the Menopause Journey</a>, </i><i style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; orphans: 2;"><a href="http://thegirlgod.com/rainbow_goddess.php" style="color: #d52a33; text-decoration-line: none;">Rainbow Goddess - Celebrating Neurodiversity</a></i><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; orphans: 2;"> and </span><i style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; orphans: 2;">Pain Perspectives: Finding Meaning in the Fire</i><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; orphans: 2;">. In addition, Kay is writing her own books: </span><a href="http://thegirlgod.com/mentorship_with_goddess.php" style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #d52a33; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; orphans: 2; text-decoration-line: none;"><i>Mentorship of Goddess: Growing Sacred Womanhood</i></a><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; orphans: 2;"> and </span><i style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; orphans: 2;"><span style="color: black;"><a href="http://thegirlgod.com/making_love.php" style="color: #d52a33; text-decoration-line: none;">Making Love with the Divine: Sacred, Ecstatic, Erotic Experiences</a>.</span></i></p></div></div>The Girl Godhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10075164390400359665noreply@blogger.com1