Category Archives: Paganism/earth-based spirituality

Venus Transit and Recall Elections

By Starhawk | Published: June 5, 2012
So if you’re with me, let’s work on shifting the energy around all this. Why should we quietly lie down and suffer under the toxic thought-blanket the political fabricators are laying over us? What would happen if a whole lot of us used our intention and focused imaginations to shift the energies? And why not use some of the energy of this Venus transit—energies which will continue to flood in over the next weeks.
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Freedom Plaza–The First Day

By Starhawk | Published: October 6, 2011
With so many people new to consensus process, the meetings are sometimes ponderous—and yet there's an archetypal quality to it all, people sitting under a tree debating and discussing and coming to decisions together in a process designed to assure that everyone has a voice. I think we crave that experience, somewhere deep in the soul. It is exactly what democracy looks like, and right now it seems that all over the world people are hearing the call.
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Why I’m Going to Freedom Plaza

By Starhawk | Published: October 5, 2011
Yet, here I am. Do I really need to do this? Well, yes. Why? Because in the end, it always comes down to the streets. When the greed, the hypocrisy, the assaults on our freedoms, our pockets, our future and our common sense go so far beyond the level of toleration, there’s no substitute for the outrage of the streets.
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Lammas Blessings and Gratitude

By Starhawk | Published: August 1, 2011
Lammas morning—I woke up and saw that during the night we’d reached our first funding point on our Kickstarter campaign for The Fifth Sacred Thing ritual.
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A Tale of Two Movies

By Starhawk | Published: July 26, 2011
So—would you be willing to help us in this way? Go to our Kickstarter page and become an active backer, for even as little as dollar? As I write, we have almost 800—we’d love to get over 1000. If everyone on this list gave even the price of a cup of coffee—hopefully organic, shade-grown and fair-traded, of course—we’d be in the top echelon of Kickstarter projects as far as numbers of active backers.
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Summer Solstice: Dreams, Manifestation, Movies

By Starhawk | Published: June 22, 2011
We believe the world needs a powerful vision of a positive future here on earth. Once we might simply have told the tale around the fire. Two decades ago, I wrote it as a novel. Now, as the world becomes every more visual, we want to make it a film.
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A Maypole in Prison

By Starhawk | Published: May 17, 2011
“When Pagans get their rights, everyone gets their rights,” say Patrick McCollum, who for the last fifteen years has volunteered to serve as a Pagan chaplain in the California prisons.  McCollum, a talented jewelry designer and craftsman by nature, has in the last decade spent the bulk of his time—and money—helping prisoners and making interfaith [...]
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Save Tasmania’s Ancient Forests!

By Starhawk | Published: December 12, 2010
Tasmanian environmental groups are calling for an international day of action on December 14/15 to pressure the Australian Government to enforce a moratorium on logging the old growth.
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A Recipe for Diversity–or, A Bunch of Diverse Things and a Recipe!

By Starhawk | Published: November 26, 2010
And along with those two big events, I started teaching our long-term training program in Bayview Hunters Point, teaching permaculture design and environmental leadership to both garden coordinators and young adults who live in public housing in San Francisco’s poorest neighborhood.
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Some Quick Scenes from the Trip

By Starhawk | Published: October 1, 2010
Ooh--it's been a fast and furious few weeks! Hardly even time to check email, let alone write blogs, only intermittent email access--but here's a few highlights and pics if I can get them up before we leave for a fabulous Sicilian lunch and then out to begin the Demeter workshop...
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