Beltane: The Dark Goddess, Erotic Fire, and Abundance

Beltane is a time to celebrate the fertility of the Earth, the fountain of all life. Long ago the Priestess and her consort enacted Great Rite, the Sacred Marriage, or Heiros gamos, to ensure the fertility of the fields and flocks, and the fertility of the people too. Sex and Wealth were natural partners in their ritual life.

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Carla Sanders
Wombs Carry the Family Heirlooms

Look at the family heirlooms and see what is valuable and worth keeping and passing on. You’ll travel lighter, and go farther, with pleasure and ease, and the company of wise companions. You will fulfill your purpose as Embodied Divine Love.

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WTC 9/11 Medicine Wheel

19 years ago today, my old neighborhood was destroyed when two commercial jets loaded with passengers flew into the World Trade Center Towers in New York City.

This is my prayer of remembrance and healing.

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Carla Sanders
What is a Virgin?

Sex education, if it exists at all, focuses on preventing pregnancy and disease. In a society that has forgotten the initiations into womanhood, manhood, and the rites and arts of sexuality and pleasure, women receive conflicting messages about virginity.

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Carla Sanders
The Sacred Sexual Roots of Easter

In pre-Christianized Europe, this spring festival time was dedicated to the Goddess of Renewal, Ostara. It is from her name that the word Easter derives, as well as the word East, the direction of the rising sun. She is the shining one, the goddess that brings renewal, rebirth, fertility and abundance. Many of her symbols--eggs, the rabbit, flowers, sweets--are incorporated into the Christian festival which co-opted her name.

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Winter Solstice Cake

A rich buttery spirit-filled cake for the holy days, made grainfree/sugar free. Almost keto except for the essential presence of dried fruit soaked in port and rum.

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Carla Sanders