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Grief and Gratitude – A Midwinter Ritual
There’s an old story that has been holding me through the last months of this ragged year: a story of the Cailleach, otherwise known as the Hag, the Ancient One, Old Woman Herself. It’s a story I learnt from the exceptional storyteller Tracy Chipman, but it feels like one I’ve always known in my bones. If you’d like to get … Read More
Protected: ‘Self Marriage’ – A Personal Ceremony
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Singing the Great Mother
Imagine climbing into the lap of a great mother, a soft, powerful, being who loves you through and through. She cradles you in her arms. She whispers to you that all is well, and in some unfathomable way, despite everything, you know this to be true. I don’t find this too hard to imagine because my mum was good at … Read More
Holding Against Extremes – Mothering and Making in a Time of Climate Emergency
Here we are, in an upstairs room at Oxford Playhouse: a circle of 20 adults, mostly women, and inside our circle are soft carpet, beanbags, babies. On our publicity is a delicate tissue-papercut of a pangolin, an endangered mammal, whose soft centre is protected by its scaly armoured back. ‘Fierce protection’ are the words chosen by one woman to describe her work … Read More
Imagining the Divine . . . as a Woman?
This is a tale of three statues, and the stories chiselled into them. It’s a personal story, and it is part of the reawakening of the power of the feminine; more hidden but no less important that the campaigns to bring equality to the workplace or the ballot box. One hundred years after getting the vote, women still have some … Read More
Journey to the Divine Feminine
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Journey to the Divine Feminine
Sunday 11th March 2 – 5pm An experiential workshop as part of Oxford International Womens Festival. How differently might we feel as women (or about women) if we had a model of ultimate authority and goodness in female form? If we trusted that we could be both powerful and feminine? In this workshop we will take a guided journey with … Read More
Embodying the Goddess
This transformational course starts April 2018. Just 12 places available, so do get in touch if you’d like to book! The post Embodying the Goddess appeared first on The Hummingbird Lodge. Source: Hummingbird Lodge
The Day of the Dead Ceilidh
The Day of the Dead Ceilidh The music is driving, the people young and old, with painted faces swirling, laughing. The lights are low, and candles in front of an altar flickering. On the altar are photographs of departed loved ones, flowers, fruit, bottles of beer. This could be Mexico. But it’s Oxford: Wolvercote Village Hall, to be precise. It’s … Read More