The healing of our relationship with place begins with the preservation of the natural environment. We cannot go to the wild for renewal if no wilderness is left.
Despair breeds fundamentalism, fanaticism, and terrorism. A world of truly shared abundance would be a safer world.
What affects one thing affects, in some way, all things: All is interwoven into the continuous fabric of being. Its warp and weft are energy, which is the essence of magic.
Fascination with the psychic – or the psychological – can be a dangerous sidetrack on any spiritual path.
Ritual affirms the common patterns, the values, the shared joys, risks, sorrows, and changes that bind a community together. Ritual links together our ancestors and descendants, those who went before with those will come after us.
The witches, the wise women, and the healers were also always the counselors. It’s a whole other tradition of knowledge and learning that has been suppressed because it had political implications.
All began in love, all seeks to return in love. Love is the law, the teacher of wisdom, and the great revealer of mysteries.
Life demands honesty, the ability to face, admit, and express oneself.
Our goal is not to get out of the world or to get out of life, but to integrate it, to celebrate it, to embrace it fully, and to embrace all the different cycles within it.
Force, punishment, and violence are patriarchy’s answer to conflicts and social problems. Patriarchy finds its ultimate expression in war.
Magic has often been thought of us the art of making dreams come true; the art of realizing visions. Yet before we can bring birth to the vision we have to see it.
If we are to reclaim our culture, we cannot afford narrow definitions.
Only poetry can address grief.
Identifying as a Pagan, feminist, Witch, and anarchist is possibly a way to alarm great segments of the general public, but at least it keeps me from sinking into a boring and respectable middle age.
Magic is the craft of shaping, the craft of the wise, exhilarating, dangerous – the ultimate adventure. The power of magic should not be underestimated. It works, often in ways that are unexpected and difficult to control.
Ritual and myth are like seed crystals of new patterns that can eventually reshape culture around them.
What we name must answer to us; we can shape it if not control it.
Sexuality is a sacrament.
Panic is not an effective long-term organizing strategy.
Where there’s fear, there is power.