Author: sisterkate

The Christian Monopoly on Spirituality Traders Moon Ceremony November 2017 The church became dominant in Europe following the fall of the Roman Empire. The only religion recognized in Middle Ages Europe was Christianity and specifically Catholicism. Christianity in the middle ages dominated the lives of both peasants and the nobility. Religious institutors including the Church…

Woman-Slaughter (witch-burning) Statistics Excerpts from Greg Laden’s Blog (Traders Moon Ceremony November 2017) If you ask the question, “How many witches were executed?” in any given place (Europe, America, England), you will get answers that range from fifty thousand to nine million.  Conventional wisdom holds that the witch burnings were contained to three places over…

Witches Brew was Actually Beer Kathleen Harrison, Contributing Author, Cannabis and Spirituality ‘Some 10 years ago, on a warm autumn afternoon, I saw a witch and had an epiphany – an overwhelming, instantaneous revelation that drew the threads of 30 years’ experience as a cultural anthropologist into crystal clear focus.’   So began the late Alan…

Energies of the Full Moon Seed Moon Ceremony May 2017 The full moon is a time of positive opportunity if you use it correctly. It can increase your positive energy or conversely, it can wreak havoc on your emotions.  Since the full moon pours down a tremendous amount of energy, you must be in a…

Michael and Lucifer Moon Ceremony, April 2017 God and the Angels were together in Oneness; everything was still united as One. Creation existed, but individual experience of Creation wasn’t yet possible.  It might have been like having a cake but being unable to eat it.  Creation wanted to experience itself being Creation, and so the…

The Empathy of the Moon Cold Moon Ceremony December 13, 2016 All of the year’s full moons have names, that very based on the ancient tribe that gave them their names.  “Amid the cold and deep snows of midwinter, the wolf packs howled hungrily outside Indian villages. Thus, the Native American name for January’s full…

The Significance of the Color Purple An Enclave Given Birth During the Dark Night of the Soul Traders Moon Ceremony, November 14, 2016 After a bountiful Traders moon feast, we gather here, Nine Holy Women, under this the Supermoon, which is casting a powerful healing light upon our wounded planet.  Before we call upon our…

Beltane and the Lovely Month of May This ceremony includes the crowning of our May Queen, May 5, 2016 Seed Moon Ceremony For most of our ceremonies and daily blessings, we embrace the good of modern-day Christianity and reject the corruption.  In remembrance of the victimization of our ancestral peoples by that religion, and because…

The Final Hours before the Final Vows by Sister Kate, February 2017 Last night’s full moon was a reminder to me of how far we have come in such a short time.  As I retreated to my room with laptop under arm to play some meditative music, light a candle, and rest in preparation for…

Expanding the Sisterhood Book of the New Beguines There is an old saying by the Catholic nuns that ‘Many are called; few are chosen’.  We find this to be true. The enclave of our Sisterhood/Brotherhood is not original.  It is not new. Beguine revivalism is happening in many places on planet earth right now, in…