Wednesday Wisdom: Of the Earth

February 20, 2013 By Leave a Comment
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A weekly Wednesday Wisdom post with two or three profound or beautiful thoughts on a theme related to Paganism and childbearing. An invitation to meditate or just to pause a moment and consider. Earth body, mama body, Gaia, garden... "I am part of nature, connected in the web, born not only from my own mother, but from the body of Gaia."--Laura Paskell-Brown "I had a baby, I worked the soil; I nursed and fed her my milk/my garden. Our summer days were in the garden; the sun-drenched plot … [Read more...]

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Body Blessing to and from the Mother

January 22, 2013 By 2 Comments

I am a new contributor to the Pagan Families blog. I became introduced to Pagan Families when I bought Sarah's book Birth on the Labyrinth Path, enjoyed it very much, and blogged about it. I've been a childbirth educator since 2005, primarily teaching private classes to parents one-on-one in their homes, and I have an ongoing, sustained, and passionate interest in birth as well as in women's health in general (and breastfeeding too!). Another of my deepest passions is for Goddess spirituality … [Read more...]

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A Mother to Many

August 3, 2012 By 2 Comments

Editor's note: this is reposted from the Staff of Asclepius blog with permission By Tara “Masery” Miller I can’t have children. With that simple statement comes images of an infant’s downy checks under soft hazel eyes wrapped up in a blanket, a toddler racing up to me wanting her mommy to see what she’s found. There are many different children I see with different combinations of my traits and those of my husband. In my mind I hold these mourned children and they smile at me … [Read more...]

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