By Donna Fontanarose Rabuck, Ph.D. On Monday morning, December 28th, I was sitting on the front porch having a cup of tea. I was also praying, a long prayer for the world, the earth, people I have lost this year and friends I am holding in my heart, and ending with prayers for our family; my husband, daughter. and myself. Feeling especially downhearted, I plaintively asked the Goddess for a sign to help me along my path. The very moment I finished the prayer, I heard what so

Dear Sister, I write to you in the liminal time before dawn. I so love the liminal spaces-before dawn, at dusk before sunset, when the veils between the worlds are thin and magic is all around. This is especially true today, Hallowmas, a portal to remembering, honoring, and celebrating those who have come before us, those who can be more easily accessed in this mystical, timeless realm. Happy Blue Moon Samhain, an event that hasn’t occurred since 1944. It is also in October,

Blessed Lammastide, the first fruits harvest in the wheel of nature's year. The name is derived from "loaf mass," to honor the bread made from the first reaped grains. We eat it with gratitude for this nourishment and pray for more to come in the future. I have often discussed earth holy days as portals, times to take a sacred pause, to look back at what "seeds" you planted in the last cycle and to see how you and they are growing. As portals, they don't last just one da

Blessed Beltane, "Bright Fire" time (May 1 or 2) a celebration of ripening, blossoming, coming into one's own body, a time to honor the sacred fire of embodied life, the flame of passion and love. At Beltane time, I've been considering the nature of love and recognizing that self-love is the root of personal flowering. Yet "self" is a loaded term; it conjures up the personality rather than the soul self, that spiritual part of us. This is why, I think, admonitions to love one

Blessings of this new year to you! I hope you have been able to claim some solitude and space for yourself in January and that it has been rich and deep. Contrary to our consumer-culture beliefs, the time between Winter Solstice on December 21st and Candlemas on February 2nd is not one for rushing around buying things, and then making hasty resolutions, but for dreaming and listening to our intuition. It is a time to be tender to ourselves and to tend the sacred flame of our

" Grandmother, where do I begin? What thread begins the yarn? What story begins the weave?" "Begin at the center, begin at the center, in your own dark center, begin." Gwendolyn Endicott At this opening in time near Hallowmas, when the veils between the living and the dead are thinnest, I hold both joy and sorrow. The joy - celebrating the 24th birthday of the Center at the Women's Circle November 1st. What began as a dream was real-ized as the first woman walked through the

Blessed Lammas, the first fruits harvest in the wheel of nature's year. The name is derived from "loaf mass," to honor the bread made...

Blessed Midsummer! I recently returned from a solitary writer's retreat in Ocean Beach, California. It was a gift I gave myself as part of a year's circle and retreat work on self-love and pleasure where I found that I was teaching what I most needed to learn (sound familiar?!) . I was the worst student, the unmothered child, but now I am catching up. How? By taking a sacred pause from my life to nurture my soul. Solstices, Equinoxes, all Earth Holy Days are portals of oppor

Welcome to the new website of the Center for the Sacred Feminine. It has been a delightful experience to work with Brian Hanner on creating it and to reflect on over a quarter of a century (!) of service to the goddess, creating nourishing spaces, teaching values of peace, partnership, and power from within. More than ever, women need a sanctuary, a safe space to gather together and share our wisdom, share our stories, and create new ones. If we wish to be the change we want