Every Spring Equinox, I join a circle of women who gather and celebrate the coming spring by telling the story of Ostara, a goddess from Europe from whose name the word “Easter” comes. Since elements of her story are part of the Easter tradition being observed today all over the world, I thought I would… Continue reading Leaving Eggs in Ostara’s Forest
Author: Carolyn Lee Boyd
Carolyn Lee Boyd has been writing about the sacred in everyday life and the wisdom of being in community for over 40 years. She has published fiction, essays, and poetry about feminism, women’s spirituality, and art in print and online periodicals including Women Artists News, SageWoman, Feminism and Religion, Return to Mago, Matrifocus, The Beltane Papers, We’ Moon, and more. Her work is seasoned by her decades-long human services career in which she got to know the life stories of a diversity of extraordinary “ordinary” women. She would love for you to visit her at her website, www.goddessinateapot.com, where you can read and download some of her previously published work as well as a little music.
Inviting Goddess to Your Tea Party
We all know how heavenly tea is, but even from ancient times it has had a mist of sacredness about it. And in all the years the teapot has symbolized the sacred in women’s everyday lives on this blog, I have never written about the close connection between goddesses and tea. So, as the… Continue reading Inviting Goddess to Your Tea Party
Spring Goddesses with Their Golden Apples of Hope
I tried, I really did. I so wanted to write a light and happy post for spring and went looking for sweet, floral, and effervescent goddesses to welcome in the season. But, it seems that every time I found a good candidate, she ended up having tragedy in her story. Of course, probably the best… Continue reading Spring Goddesses with Their Golden Apples of Hope
Merlin Stone: A Foremother of Women’s Spirituality
You may have heard that Merlin Stone died last month. The world, and my world, is a more enlightened, courageous, and spiritually rich place because she lived. She changed so many lives with her 1976 book When God Was a Woman, describing ancient Goddess religions and cultures and how we ended up where we are… Continue reading Merlin Stone: A Foremother of Women’s Spirituality
Apocalypse…Not So Much
It has been awhile since I have posted. The past year has been spent doing important but time-and-mind consuming day-to-day tasks. I wanted the first post in a few months to be humorous and uplifting. What came out of my fingers isn’t really – it has been snowing in New England. A lot. These are… Continue reading Apocalypse…Not So Much
Lili Boulanger: Composer for the Great Wheel of Life
Lili Boulanger, in just a few short years until her death in 1918 at the age of 24, composed orchestral, choral, and operatic works that, to me, bridge the three realms of existence: the underworld of our deepest thoughts, intuitions and emotions, the “ordinary” realm in which we live out each day, and the heavenly… Continue reading Lili Boulanger: Composer for the Great Wheel of Life
Beauty’s Revolution in a Rose
This first appeared in Moondance in Summer, 2010. A shoot rises from the wet, fertile-scented earth, crisply green and strong. Soon exuberant pink, in the shape of the sun, bursts from the stalk. The bloom does not live to be admired; it is simply perfect, as are all the flowers, grasses, and ivies that gloriously… Continue reading Beauty’s Revolution in a Rose
The Wisdom of the Silent Sunset
In order to make articles and columns available to readers here, I am reprinting them as posts. This was first published in Mused: The Bella Online Literary Review in Spring, 2009. A few days ago, I looked out of my study window and witnessed a stunning sunset. The plum and rose radiance, the stark streaks… Continue reading The Wisdom of the Silent Sunset
The Winter Queen of the Soul
In order to make articles and columns available to readers here, I am reprinting them as posts. This first appeared in Moondance, December, 2008. Where I live in New England winter’s snow cover makes the land seem frozen into eternal barrenness. Yet, during this cold season, nature labors below the surface to recreate the earth;… Continue reading The Winter Queen of the Soul
Now Is the Time to Take Flight
In order to make articles and columns available to readers here, I am reprinting them as posts. This appeared in Moondance in March, 2009. Lately it seems as if a chaos-making sludge has seeped into the inner mechanics of the world. Each morning when I wake up, one more thing I took for granted is… Continue reading Now Is the Time to Take Flight
