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born 1951 United States

Starhawk (born Miriam Simos on 17 June 1951) is an American writer, social activist and pagan in the Reclaiming tradition.

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When we practice magic we are always making connections, moving energy, identifying with other forms of being.

Dreaming the Dark: Magic, Sex and Politics (1982)

The long sleep of Mother Goddess is ended. May She awaken in each of our hearts — Merry meet, merry part, and blessed be.

Womanspirit Rising: A Feminist Reader in Religion (1979)

Spirituality and ritual are not something removed from the world, but are deeply embedded in it.

Toward an Activist Spirituality (2003)

The cosmos is interesting rather than perfect, and everything is not part of some greater plan, nor is all necessarily under control.

The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Goddess (1979)

Spirituality leaps where science cannot yet follow, because science must always test and measure, and much of reality and human experience is immeasurable.

The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Goddess (1979)

The Trickster represents the quality of randomness and chance in the universe, without which there could be no freedom.

The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Goddess (1979)

Sexual integrity means honestly recognizing our own impulses and desires and honoring them, whether or not we choose to act on them.

Dreaming the Dark: Magic, Sex and Politics (1982)

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.

The Burning Times (1990)

We are all longing to go home to some place we have never been — a place half-remembered and half-envisioned we can only catch glimpses of from time to time.

Dreaming the Dark: Magic, Sex and Politics (1982)

The goddess awakens in infinite forms and a thousand disguises. She is found where she is least expected, appears out of nowhere and everywhere to illumine the open heart.

To live with integrity in an unjust society we must work for justice. To walk with integrity through a landscape strewn with beer cans, we must stop and pick them up.

Dreaming the Dark: Magic, Sex and Politics (1982)

In time, all “fixed” things dissolve, only to coalesce again into new forms, new vehicles.

The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Goddess (1979)

The Goddess religion asserts that the earth is alive, and that everything on the earth is part of a living being.

Bodhi Tree lecture (1999)

When possessed by the Judge, we live in a world of comparisons, competition, and punishment, constantly rate ourselves and others, feel jealousy and guilt.

The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Goddess (1979)

Each being is sacred — meaning that each has inherent value that cannot be ranked in a hierarchy or compared to the value of another being.

The Fifth Sacred Thing (1994)

The word witch is related to the root of the word "willow," a very flexible tree.

Bodhi Tree lecture (1999)

The Orderer seduces us with the belief that order can be imposed from without, that the answer to chaos is more rigid order.

The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Goddess (1979)

Don't speak of it; don't see it; you're the only one who ever felt that.

The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Goddess (1979)

The test of a true myth is that each time you return to it, new insights and interpretations arise.

The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Goddess (1979)

For her law is to love all beings, and she is the cup of the drink of life. The circle is ever open, ever unbroken.

Bodhi Tree lecture (1999)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Starhawk (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.