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25.01.2022 May your full moon be fruitful

25.01.2022 ...give us the courage to change what must be altered, serenity to accept what cannot be changed, and the insight to know one from the other. ~original version of the serenity prayer by Reinhold Niebuhr (minus the Father bit at start to allow for other interpretations of divinity) ~artwork by female artist Meinrad Craighead~ Wisdom

25.01.2022 Often women come to our circles and wonder why we call it the Red Tent? Below is a passage from the 2007 book The Red Tent by Anita Diamant that sparked a worldwide phenomenon of women longing for a space just for them ~ to laugh and grieve together, to truly hear one another and learn from one another. Now, there are Red Tent circles springing up all over the globe. While we may not birth babies in the tent, or go there specifically to bleed, we meet once a month close to th...e dark moon to remember and revive this way of connection; to tell our stories and to be witnessed. Women of all ages and stages of life are welcome. Next circle happening on December 13th. And now to the passage from the book... The great mother whom we call Innana gave a gift to woman that is not known among men, and this is the secret of blood. The flow at the dark of the moon, the healing blood of the moon’s birth - to men, this is flux and distemper, bother and pain. They imagine we suffer and consider themselves lucky. We do not disabuse them. In the red tent, the truth is known. In the red tent, where days pass like a gentle stream, as the gift of Innana courses through us, cleansing the body of last month’s death, preparing the body to receive the new month’s life, women give thanks for repose and restoration, for the knowledge that life comes from between our legs, and that life costs blood. ~ Anita Diamant, The Red Tent

24.01.2022 Take this as a sign. <3 GoddessCeremony.com

22.01.2022 Ladies, needing numbers to determine if circle going ahead this Sunday....pls PM if you intend on joining... And if no one bringing children this time the child-minders will need to know... Art by Trevor Nickolls

22.01.2022 Beautiful message, from Sharon Blackie (creator of book If Women Rose Rooted, among other things...) What is your unique flame? We all have one even if weve not yet discovered or fully claimed it

22.01.2022 Welcoming the dark moon and all it brings. Remember that seeds grow in the dark moist earth . There is life and renewal there in the darkness...

20.01.2022 The time has come. For reclaiming our heritage, and changing paradigms, and challenging the status quo. The time has come for picking up those long-forgotten threads, Sisters. The time has come for weaving the circle.

20.01.2022 Let’s put away the scissors and make tall poppy syndrome a thing of the past. Can we celebrate when our Sisters shine? Photo by Toko-Pa Turner

19.01.2022 Women...this coming Sunday evening, you are invited to join other women and sit in sacred space together Tickets limited and available at: www.goddesstemplebellingen.org $10, for an evening of magic that sisterhood always creates!

18.01.2022 This is a step in the right direction but reports say it's still a widespread procedure and that outlawing it may only drive it further underground... We are starting to donate a percentage of the offerings from each Red Tent Circle to causes like this one. The September Red Tent will donate to TreeSisters and the October circle will donate to an organisation that is working on educating and spreading the word about this horrific mutilation that happens to millions of girls and women every year, some as early as age 8 -9 from what reports say.

18.01.2022 Bring a crystal you resonate with to Sundays new moon circle AND if its raining bring cushions/sheepskin etc to sit on inside

17.01.2022 This little one was waiting for me when I returned from Red Tent circle last night... Thank you to the women who joined us around the fire and under the sprinkles of rain from the heavens, and thank you Cassie for guiding us through a beautiful meditation Event date for next Dark/New moon circle to be posted soon!

17.01.2022 Anyone find themselves in the swamps of despair lately? Heres hope...

17.01.2022 For the Mummas

14.01.2022 Goosebumps of a prayer offering

13.01.2022 All the True Vows are secret vows, the ones we speak out loud are the ones we break.... ~Excerpt from All the True Vows by David Whyte

12.01.2022 We are the night ocean filled With glints if light. We are the space between the fish and the moon, while we sit here together.... ~Rumi ~image by Janelle Walters Roberts

12.01.2022 Looking to our natural world for guidance and wisdom and also remembering we are not separate from this ~ it makes sense

12.01.2022 On Jeju, in a fitting example of the respect in which women are held for their strength, independence, and persistence, halmang means both grandmother and goddess. ~from the book The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See (Jeju is an island off South Korea) ~Image from cover of book; no artist named

12.01.2022 Thanks Cassandra for sharing ~Art by Rob Gonsalves Water Dancing

11.01.2022 Our ground is precisely where we find ourselves each morning when we wake; it is a place of genesis, of sparking to life over and over again, despite it's apparent flaws, the cracks in the pristine glaze of our grandest plans and greatest obsessions. Here, with our bare feet firm on the ground, we embody our inner altar regardless of where our story has taken us. We understand that whatever wounds have scarred our skin, whatever agonies have brought us here to this fateful incarnation, we are eternally whole. We are unruined. We are precisely who we need to be, precisely who we have always been. ~Danielle Dulsky in "The Holy Wild. A Heathen Bible for the Untamed Woman" ~Art by Kat Shaw

11.01.2022 Found by a sister in a moon lodge on the land of a Goddess Temple. Just beautiful

11.01.2022 Shes an inspiration!!

11.01.2022 Circle going ahead this Sunday! Around a fire outside weather permitting From 5:30 pm; please message for location. And at this stage therell be no babysitting as no one has raised need for this Art by Phillyfire

10.01.2022 Translated excerpt of an old Gaelic (Scottish) poem written by Catherine MacCauley, a travelling woman who would write and sing songs, incantations and hymns for people in the 1700's. Likely written for a maiden preparing for marriage and used as such but also recited to children and young men too. Original hymn was a blend of Christian and older traditional Scottish lore. If you had ancestors in Scotland it's likely they may have heard or recited this poem as it's thought to be widely known and recited for over a century. The first known time fragments of it was written down was in the late 1800's. We’ll be singing this together at our next circle, in celebration of one another

10.01.2022 Rest In Peace

08.01.2022 Fire a woman cant survive by her own breath alone... she must know the voices of mountains she must recognize the foreverness of blue sky she must flow with the elusive bodies of night winds who will take her into herself look at me i am not a separate woman i am a continuance of blue sky i am the throat of the mountains a night wind who burns with every breath she takes ~Poet Joy Harjo ~art by Jakki Moore

08.01.2022 May you walk in beauty today, Beauties

07.01.2022 Some music for you today ladies ~ reminders of the less tangible things to be grateful for like consequence, disillusionment, silence, and forgiveness...Thanks Alanis Morissette

03.01.2022 Reminder 20th September is next Red Tent gathering There will be babysitters on hand weather permitting but booking necessary so message if interested and everyone please click going on event so weve got some idea of total number of Goddesses attending

03.01.2022 Another inspiring woman - Temple Grandin- who has shown us that an autism diagnosis does not mean we have to accept an idea that it limits us or makes us less than

03.01.2022 IMPORTANT...if rain this evening please bring cushions/comfort to sit on in hall :)

02.01.2022 2021 upcoming attractions at the Red Tent include...a sampling of breathwork with the beautiful Freea Fontanella of Freeflow Bliss; a crafting evening including a local wise woman Lyn who will demonstrate the ancient art of spinning for us; more singing, music, drumming, dancing and more...including looking at how we can make the Red Tent circles more accessible to the sole parent Mama's out there. Please message us if you are a sole Mama and would like regular opportunities ...to sit with your sisters in circle... The Red Tent will be taking a sacred and restful pause during the month of January. Our last circle for the year is on December 13th from 5:30 pm - see event on this page and message for location if you'd like to join. Our circles welcome woman of ALL ages and stages of life. We aim to create a safe and sacred container where women can feel truly heard, seen and held by their sisters. And yes, we talk openly about menstruation, bleeding, menopause and how we experience these...to make this normal, to remember that we are part of the cycles of nature, and to learn, laugh and cry together. We sit in circle to remember we are all equal, that despite our differences we can uplift and inspire one another ~Image by Canadian artist Gaia Orion

02.01.2022 Empowered women empower women!!!...AND this is true too...(image) Come along to the next Circle September 20th. Your power and your tears and weariness are all welcome ~image from the Ladies Pass it On page

02.01.2022 Thanks to Jodie for sharing