“It’s the same struggle for each of us, and the same path out: the utterly simple, infinitely wise, ultimately defiant act of loving one thing and then another, loving our way back to life.”
- Barbara Kingsolver

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Spirituality in practice

Women and spirituality

Below are resources that include, enhance, and honor women's spiritual history and experience.

Feminist ethics top^

Feminist Ethics

A good overview article on feminist ethics as a discipline that revises, reformulates, or rethinks those aspects of traditional western ethics that depreciate or devalue women's moral experience.
Rosemary Tong & Nancy Williams, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, linked 09/10
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/feminism-ethics/#FemistAppEth

Reclaiming and the Goddess top^

13 Grandmothers Share Their Earthly Wisdom

The International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers came together in 2004 as the fulfillment of a shared prophecy among female spiritual leaders. Since then they've been traveling the world and working locally as spiritual activists, medicine women, tribal elders and advocates for sustaining indigenous ways of life.
Women's E news, Kristin Bender, 11/25/07, linked 09/10
http://www.womensenews.org/story/equalitywomen%E2%80%99s-rights/071125/13-grandmothers-share-their-earthly-wisdom

AboutWisdom.com

Products and services that encourage women and girls to build healthy self-esteem through uncovering their natural wisdom. The site includes a 'Goddess Quiz' which can be interpreted as a snapshot of your personality/goddess type at the time you take the quiz.
Website, linked 09/10
http://neamatia.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?

Ariadne Institute for the Study of Myth and Ritual

Life-transforming programs for women in Greece linked to exploring the ancient and contemporary myths and rituals of the Goddess.
Website, linked 09/10
http://www.goddessariadne.org/ariadne.htm

Covenant of the Goddess

An international organization of cooperating, autonomous Wiccan congregations and solitary practitioners. The website is an excellent source of information about the CoG organization and activities, as well as the religious beliefs and practices which comprise Wicca.
Website, linked 09/10
http://www.cog.org/

Faces of WomanSpirit

A site designed to honor the Goddess and Her many guises as She reveals It through the Moon, the Planets, Worlds, Time, and of course yourself.
Website, linked 09/10
http://www.facesofwomanspirit.com/index.php

Goddess Resource Page

An excellent cross-section of resources.
Belili Productions, linked 09/10
http://www.gimbutas.org/goddess_resource_page.html

MatriFocus

A web cross-quarterly magazine for Goddess women.
Website, linked 09/10
http://www.matrifocus.com/

PaGaian Cosmology

A website celebrating cosmogenesis – the Triple Spiral – each particular beautiful Self, new in every moment – deep relationship and communion with Other, the web of life – direct participation in the sentience of the Creative Cosmos, the Well of Creativity.
Website, linked 09/10
http://www.pagaian.org/

Reclaiming

A worldwide community of women and men working to unify spirit and politics, with a vision rooted in the religion and magic of the Goddess, the Immanent Life Force. Multiple resources are available on the site.
Website, linked 09/10
http://www.reclaiming.org/

SageWoman

A journal celebrating the Goddess in every woman.
Website, linked 09/10
http://www.sagewoman.com/

Starhawk's Tangled Web

Provides a wide range of resources on the Goddess movement and Earth-based, feminist spirituality, as well as specific information on Starhawk's writings, projects, and schedule.
Website, linked 09/10
http://www.starhawk.org/

Witches' Voice

A proactive educational network providing news, information services and resources for and about Pagans, Heathens, Witches and Wiccans open to all adherents who follow a positive code of ethics such as The Wiccan Rede or The Ring of Troth's, Nine Virtues. An excellent clearinghouse.
Website, linked 09/10
http://www.witchvox.com/