Tag: Women

To Be a Woman

TO BE A WOMAN
‘What’s it like to be a woman?’a little bird whispered in my ear.‘Is it just like being human?’oh it is so much more, my dear.
We are the holders, we are the keepers,of the secrets and the truth.We are the safe place in a storm,the creator of all youth.
We are the place where life is softest,we are the colour in the story.We are the wisdom and the instinct,Mother Nature in all her glory.
We are the taker of all worry,we keep it deep within our heartsSo that others may unburden,so that great new lives may start.
We are the makers of the home,not just the walls but of the spirit.Bringing everyone together,letting love and laughter fill it.
We are sisters, mothers, wives,so many things in every day.We are the start of every life,we are the reason, we are the way.
We are fuelled by intuition,call it magic, if you likeWe are women, so much more,than any words that I could write.
Donna AshworthFrom ‘to the women’
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Art by Catrin Welz-Stein #catrinwelzsteinart 
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Lilith

”Patriarchy’s treatment of Lilith has been similar to its treatment of Eve. Both figures have been demonized—Lilith for her independence and open sexuality, and Eve for her quest for knowledge. The Zohar, the ‘Book of Enlightenment’ from which late thirteenth century SpanishJewish Kabbalistic teachings emanated, repeatedly links Lilith and Eve in their ‘sinfulness’.”
-Kohenet Deborah J. Grenn, Lilith’s Fire: Examining Original Sources of Power Re-defining Sacred Texts as Transformative Theological Practice

Garden of Eden by Asia Morgenthaler

Eve claims her power

”Imagine that it didn’t happen the way you were told in the religious communities of childhood. Imagine hearing Eve’s words read from the sacred text one morning at your church, synagogue, mosque, or women’s circle:

As the Mother of all Living, I pick the fruit of life. It is good and satisfies hunger. It is pleasant to the eye. It is wise and opens the way to self-discovery and understanding. Those among you who are curious, who lust for life in all its fluidity, dare with me—bite into your life and the fullness of its possibility.

After Eve’s words are read, the elder women give an apple to the first person in the row. As the crone hands you an apple, she looks into your eyes and says:

Take and eat of the good fruit of life. You are good. You are very good. Bite into the apple and savor its sweetness.

After everyone has partaken of the good fruit of life, the closing blessing is spoken:

Open to the depths of goodness within you. Believe in your goodness. Live out of the abundance of who you are as a child of life. Affirm the original goodness of your children until the stories of old hold no sway in their hearts. Bite into your life and the fullness of its possibility.”

-Patricia Lynn Reilly, A Deeper Wisdom: The 12 Steps from a Woman’s Perspective

“Eve Claims Her Power” by Jennifer Bothast

Hunger not the Devil tempted Eve…I concur

“The snake who tempted Eve to eat the forbidden fruit was not the Devil, but her own instinctive nature saying, Honor your hunger and feed yourself.”
― Terry Tempest Williams, When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice

Painting by Sue Ellen Parkinson

Wise Woman

“I knew a Wise Woman
And she said to me
That the river would mold me
And the wild wind would cool me
That the trickster the coyote
He would fool me
That father Sun would warm me
Mother Earth would clothe me
Grandmother Moon would greet me
And of the old ways she would teach me
Wise woman, she told me
To always walk lightly
Tread the earth ever gently
Lovingly so preciously
And take from her sparingly
She said, to share with others
What you have learned from me
Be still and breathe, ever patiently
For the web of life
Has woven what is to be
But you must still chose
Your own path, you will see
And lastly, the wise woman said to me
To listen to the wise one
That dwells within me
To walk my path in balance
Is too be free
More than just words
So mote it be”…