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....

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 last of the waning year sabbats, Beltane is Persephone rising up out of the earth, Demeter welcomin...

    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 F...

" 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...

     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 from the first reaped grains. We eat it with gratitude for this nourishment and pray for more to come in the future....

     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 (sou...

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 almost a quarter of a century (!) of service to the goddess, creating nourishing spaces, teaching values of...