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Quotes from The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Goddess — Starhawk

born 1951 United States

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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)

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)

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)

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)

Any creative work that is truly alive is influenced by a thousand chance factors in its generation.

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

Energy flows in spirals. Its motion is always circular, cyclical, wavelike.

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

The Censor deludes us with the belief that the pain we are in will go away if we don't name it or speak of it.

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

The God is wild, but his is the wildness of connection, not of domination. Wildness is not the same as violence. Gentleness and tenderness do not translate into wimpiness.

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

To become truly wild, we must not be sidetracked by the dramas of power-over, the seduction of addictions, or the thrill of control. We must go deeper.

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

The tide has turned!
The light will come again!
In a new dawn, in a new day,
The sun is rising!
Io! Evohe! Blessed Be!

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

Witchcraft offers the model of a religion of poetry, not theology. It presents metaphors, not doctrines, and leaves open the possibility of reconciliation of science and religion, of many ways of knowing.

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

In the Craft, we do not believe in the Goddess — we connect with her; through the moon, the stars, the ocean, the earth, through trees, animals, through other human beings, through ourselves. She is here. She is within us all.

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

The Conqueror, whose core issue is safety splits us into Conqueror and Enemy/Victim, tells us, "Don't trust!" and generates fear, paranoia, distortions of reality, and the need to annihilate enemies.

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

The primary principle of magic is connection. The universe is a fluid, everchanging energy pattern, not a collection of fixed and separate things. What affects one thing affects, in some way, all things: All is interwoven into the continuous fabric of being.

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

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