\u201cThe Goddess (as Cerridwen, Kali, Siris and others) generates, dissolves, and regenerates life life within her churning womb\/cauldron. Here the Goddess is the vortex from which all things are spun into existence and sucked back out of it.\u201d -Melissa Raphael, \u201cTruth in Flux: Goddess Feminism as a Late Modern Religion\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMother Goddess is reawakening, and we can begin to recover our primal birthright, the sheer, intoxicating joy of being alive.\u00a0We can open new eyes and see that there is nothing to be saved\u00a0from<\/em>, no struggle of life\u00a0against<\/em>\u00a0the universe, no God outside the world to be feared and obeyed; only the Goddess, the Mother, the turning spiral that whirls us in and out of existence, whose winking eye is the pulse of being \u2013 birth, death, rebirth \u2013 whose laughter bubbles and courses through all things and who is found only through love.\u201d -Starhawk in\u00a0The Spiral Dance<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\nIn what ways is Goddess a womb, a cauldron, or a mother? In what ways is a womb, a cauldron, or a mother of the Goddess?<\/em><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In what ways is Goddess a womb, a cauldron, or a mother? In what ways is a womb, a cauldron, or a mother of the Goddess?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1289,"featured_media":2092,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,294],"tags":[327,30,191,192,32,33,328,302],"class_list":["post-1991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-birth","category-wednesday-wisdom","tag-cauldron","tag-goddess","tag-mother","tag-mother-goddess","tag-pagan","tag-paganism","tag-starhawk","tag-womb"],"yoast_head":"\n
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<\/a>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.<\/em><\/p>\n