Together we'll create ritual that draws forth the Witch, the Priestess, and the Goddess in every woman the Wise Woman who has discovered the energy that connects all creation. We will awaken our power and energy and with it make magic.
In harmony with the season's energy, we'll look at our own lives, our choices, fulfillments, sacrifices, and compromises. Using meditation, dialogue, singing, dancing, drumming, sisterhood, and ritual, we'll summon the Goddess. We'll create ceremony not only for our own renewal, but also for the re-emergence of women's energy into the world. Together, we can reclaim the juice and mystery of the wild and the free.
"Twenty years ago I was a skeptical intellectual who couldn't envision
the Goddess, let alone experience Her as dwelling within me or in the natural
world. The first time I saw the Goddess, I saw Her in the unique and diverse
beauty and power of each of the women in my circle, and then I began to
believe the Divine Feminine might dwell within me as well." Women are invited
to come with open minds and open hearts, bringing instruments, drums, rattles,
and personal objects to place on a community altar.
Phyllis Curott has been a Wiccan priestess and an attorney fighting for Wiccan civil liberties for over 20 years. She is author of Witch Crafting: A Spiritual Guide to Making Magic and Book of Shadows: A Modern Woman's Journey into the Wisdom of Witchcraft and the Magic of the Goddess. Jane magazine honored her, along with Hilary Clinton, as one of the Ten Gutsiest Women of 1998. She is President Emerita of the Covenant of the Goddess (the oldest and largest international religious organization in the Wiccan tradition) and founded the Circle of Ara and the Temple of Ara. A highly visible advocate in the media, she addressed the Parliament of the World's Religions and United Nations conferences."Most people know intuitively that when you fall in love, the world is full of magic. What they don't know is that when you discover the universe is full of magic, you fall in love with the world." - Phyllis Curott in Book of Shadows
"I want to propose a new definition of magic: Magic is what happens when you encounter the Divine. It's the life-altering experience of connecting to the divinity that dwells within you and in the world. It's all the extraordinary events and manifestations that flow from your union with a real and present divinity. Making magic is a dynamic process by which you co-create reality with deity. Ultimately, all real magic is a manifestation of the Divine." - Phyllis Curott in Witch Crafting