“Women's stories are
as powerful, inspiring, and terrifying as the goddess herself. And in fact,
these are the stories of the goddess. As women, we know her because we are her.
Each woman, no matter how powerless she might feel, is a cell within her vast
form, an embodiment of her essence, and each woman's story is a chapter in the
biography of the sacred feminine."
Jalaja Bonheim
Jalaja Bonheim
Welcome to “GODDESS: When She Rules: Expressions by Contemporary
Women”, the fourth anthology to emerge from
the Journey of the Heart: Women’s Spiritual Poetry Project.
The time
is here to celebrate the contemporary woman: our strengths, our
passions, our creativity and our beliefs and how they relate to the world
around us and within us .We are all part of something more: we are a
sisterhood whose voices rise in love, in strength and in support of one another.
Proud to share that proceeds from this book will to go to the Malala Fund
Proud to share that proceeds from this book will to go to the Malala Fund
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I have come to understand the ‘
Goddess’, once unknown to me, as an
extension of my own spirituality—I see her as the source of inner
strength that guides our feminine self; I sense that she lives in each of us as
our spiritual guide, especially in times of turmoil. In an era of
change, she is our inner calm, our voice of reason, the whisperer of compassion,
a proponent for persistence, our endorser for resistence, and our promoter of peace. Within each of her many identities, she reminds us that we are not alone: that our words and voices can be source of hope, of transformation; drawing light out of darkness as we travel the pathways of understanding on this continuing journey of self-discovery
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I am so very honored to have two poems in this book: Birthing Rites which reflects upon that moment during childbirth when we finally grasp what it means to be the conduit
that brings new life into the world. The second, Illumination is about
embracing our courage and inner strength, and about conceding that we are so much
more than even we may realize.
Please join me along with our other contemporary poets and
writers as we celebrate the Goddess, and embrace the Sacred Feminine, on this newest and most sacred Journey of the Heart!
Available Here at Amazon: GODDESS: When She Rules
With very special thanks to our primary Editor in Chief, Catherine
L. Schweig for her tireless efforts and never-ending support, enthusiasm and
encouragement, and much gratitude to her editorial assistants for this project: Sandra M.
Allagapen, Julia W. Prentice, and Tammy Stone Takahashi; and all of the
amazing poets and writers who share these pages.
And please check out our other publications at Amazon:
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| Journey of the Heart |
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| Poetry as a Spiritual Practice |
