Somewhere a circle of hands will open to receive us, eyes will light up as we enter, voices will celebrate with us… — Starhawk Copy Share Image
Let there be beauty and strength, power and compassion, honor and humility, mirth and reverence within you. — Starhawk Beauty Copy Share Image
All began in love, all seeks to return in love. Love is the law, the teacher of wisdom, and the great revealer… — Starhawk Law Copy Share Image
Beware of organizations that proclaim their devotion to the light without embracing, bowing to the dark; for when they idealize half the… — Starhawk Dark Copy Share Image
Through the Goddess, we can discover our strength, enlighten our minds, own our bodies, and celebrate our emotions. — Starhawk Body Copy Share Image
At its essence, the message of the Occupations is simply this: ‘Here in the face of power we will sit and create… — Starhawk Essence Copy Share Image
“But a real vision, a real change, isn’t safe,” Maya said. “You don’t pay a workshop fee for it, you pay with… — Starhawk Change Copy Share Image
The long sleep of Mother Goddess is ended. May She awaken in each of our hearts - Merry meet, merry part, and… — Starhawk Blessed Copy Share Image
Magic is another word that makes people uneasy, so I use it deliberately, because words they are comfortable with, the words that… — Starhawk Copy Share Image
“You’re moping because you aren’t all you once were,” she’d snapped. “Well, get over it. We’re none of us what we once… — Starhawk Life Copy Share Image
From a magical point of view, the term 'nonviolence' doesn't work well. Every beginning Witch learns that you can't cast a spell… — Starhawk Copy Share Image
“And you who seek to know Me, know that the seeking and yearning will avail you not, unless you know the Mystery:… — Starhawk Desire Copy Share Image
A spiritual organization with a hierarchical structure can convey only the consciousness of estrangement, regardless of what teachings or deep inspirations are… — Starhawk Consciousness Copy Share Image
Any ritual is an opportunity for transformation. To do a ritual, you must be willing to be transformed in some way. The… — Starhawk Alive Copy Share Image
The Goddess is not separate from the world – She IS the world, and all things in it: moon, sun, earth, star,… — Starhawk Copy Share Image
Patriarchy values the hard over the soft; the tough over the tender; punishment, vengeance, and vindictiveness over compassion, negotiation, and reconciliation. The… — Starhawk Compassion Copy Share Image
On every full moon, rituals such as the one described above take place on hilltops, beaches, in open fields and in ordinary… — Starhawk Full moon Copy Share Image
The Crone, the Reaper... She is the Dark Moon, what you don't see coming at you, what you don't get away with,… — Starhawk Action Copy Share Image
The Old Religion, as we call it, is closer in spirit to Native American traditions or to shamanism of the Arctic. It… — Starhawk American tradition Copy Share Image
To work magic is to weave the unseen forces into form; to soar beyond sight; to explore the uncharted dream realm of… — Starhawk Dream Copy Share Image
Despair breeds fundamentalism, fanaticism, and terrorism. A world of truly shared abundance would be a safer world. — Starhawk Abundance Copy Share Image
I am a witch, by which I mean that I am somebody who believes that the earth is sacred, and that women… — Starhawk Copy Share Image
Energy moves in cycles, circles, spirals, vortexes, whirls, pulsations, waves, and rhythms—rarely if ever in simple straight lines. — Starhawk Circles Copy Share Image
The witches, the wise women, and the healers were also always the counselors. It's a whole other tradition of knowledge and learning… — Starhawk Counselor Copy Share Image
Magic has often been thought of us the art of making dreams come true; the art of realizing visions. Yet before we… — Starhawk Art Copy Share Image
My spirituality has always been linked to my feminism. Feminism is about challenging unequal power structures. — Starhawk Challenges Copy Share Image
Systems don't change easily. Systems try to maintain themselves, and seek equilibrium. To change a system, you need to shake it up,… — Starhawk Change Copy Share Image
The Goddess does not rule the world; She is the world. Manifest in each of us, She can be known internally by… — Starhawk Diversity Copy Share Image
In a culture where profit has become the true God, self-sacrifice can seem incomprehensible rather than noble. — Starhawk Culture Copy Share Image
Solidarity is based on the principle that we are willing to put ourselves at risk to protect each other. — Starhawk Ethics Copy Share Image
Ritual and myth are like seed crystals of new patterns that can eventually reshape culture around them. — Starhawk Crystals Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of power. One is power over, which is always destructive, and the other is power from within, which… — Starhawk Creative Copy Share Image
On every full moon, rituals ... take place on hilltops, beaches, in open fields and in ordinary houses. Writers, teachers, nurses, computer… — Starhawk Artist Copy Share Image
Now, on the longest day, light triumphs, and yet begins the decline into dark. We turn the Wheel for we have planted… — Starhawk Copy Share Image
Magic is the craft of shaping, the craft of the wise, exhilarating, dangerous - the ultimate adventure. The power of magic should… — Starhawk Adventure Copy Share Image
We need the discipline of magic, of consciousness-change, in order to hear and understand what the earth is saying to us. And… — Starhawk Copy Share Image
Ritual affirms the common patterns, the values, the shared joys, risks, sorrows, and changes that bind a community together. Ritual links together… — Starhawk Ancestor Copy Share Image
Another world is possible!' ... Another world is also necessary, for this one is unjust, unsustainable, and unsafe. It's up to us… — Starhawk Abundance Copy Share Image
To work magic is to weave the unseen forces into form; to soar beyond sight; to explore the uncharted dream realm of… — Starhawk Adventure Copy Share Image
The Goddess is the Encircler, the Ground of Being; the God is That-Which-Is-Brought-Forth, her mirror image, her other pole. She is the… — Starhawk Copy Share Image