WHY WOULD A MAN SEARCH FOR THE GODDESS? Especially a guy like me? “Oh, I get it! You’re getting in touch with your feminine side!” my friends say. No, I have to laugh. It’s just the opposite. It’s the darkest part of my masculinity that yearns for her, like a lost lover, like an orphaned child. It is as if a ghost touched me on the shoulder and as I […]
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Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee | Embracing the Beloved
To meet You I look at face after face, appearance after appearance…. To see Your face I pass by like the morning wind. — Al-Hallâj A woman is God shining through subtle veils. — Rûmî [1] Falling in love A young man once came to a Sufi sheikh with the intention of becoming one of his disciples. He had read many books about the path and begun practicing austerities. But to […]
Svetlana Meritt | Coming home to the Black Madonna
WE HAVE DECIDED TO TREAT OURSELVES. We’re staying in an elegant, eighteenth-century chateau-turned-hotel in Géménos, way out of our financial league. It’s absurd how much we’re paying for the demi-pension, but the restaurant serves refined cuisine, the Relais (French for a luxury-hotel-plus-gastronomic-heaven) is surrounded by a park of lavender and olive trees, and the guests can use the library replete with antique books and dine under the candle lights on […]
Rev. Dr. Karen Tate | Goddess spirituality and social justice
LET US LOOK AT SEVERAL brief examples of the Sacred Feminine as deity, metaphor or myth and how they give us a template for living or advice for values we might embrace with social justice in mind….. 1) Under the broad umbrella of Goddess we find many faces across continents and cultures, with no mandate that we worship one name, one face. Instead we see a metaphor for plurality, diversity […]
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