Starhawk

The test of a true myth is that each time you return to it, new insights and interpretations arise.

The test of a true myth is that each time you return to it, new insights and interpretations arise.

The cosmos is interesting rather than perfect, and everything is not part of some greater plan, nor is all necessarily read more

The cosmos is interesting rather than perfect, and everything is not part of some greater plan, nor is all necessarily under control

The word "Witch" carries so many negative connotations that many people wonder why we use the word at all. Yet read more

The word "Witch" carries so many negative connotations that many people wonder why we use the word at all. Yet to reclaim the word "Witch" is to reclaim our right, as women, to be powerful; as men, to know the feminine within as divine.

The ascetism of early Christianity, which turned its back on the world of the flesh, had degrenerated, in some quarters read more

The ascetism of early Christianity, which turned its back on the world of the flesh, had degrenerated, in some quarters of the Church, into hatred of those who those who brought that flesh into being. Misogyny, the hatred of women, had become a strong element in medieval Christianity. Women who menstruate, and give birth, were identified with sexuality and therefore with evil. "All witchcraft stems from carnal lust, which is in women insatiable," stated the Malleus Maleficarum.

Magic has always been an element of Witchcraft, but in the Craft its techniques were practiced within a context of read more

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