Dear community of beloveds,
Late last month we celebrated the Celtic festival of Samhain (pronounced ‘sow-in’). The patriarchy has cleverly distracted us from this deeply spiritual pagan festival with ‘Halloween’, just as it has done with every powerful pagan holy day on the calendar. In every case, the true spiritual teachings and lessons are hidden under layers of distortion to keep us from remembering their true power and meaning.
But we will not be fooled. We will no longer be in a trance of forgetting. We will remember. We will take time to pause
… to drop into the true frequency of this moment
… to have ears to hear and eyes to see
… to listen with our Sacred Feminine heart
… and to act from Mother’s deepest wisdom .
This is the season of deep spiritual mystery. It is a time when the veil between worlds is the thinnest and we have closer access to messages,
to the ancient wisdom of our many and diverse spiritual lineages.
We invite love, grace and wisdom in this present moment.
We surrender to our confusion in these complex times and take time to exhale.
What is next? Who are we in this moment and who are we becoming?
Because we are surely together
on this journey-
in the moments of deep loss and grief.
In the moments of profound transcendent joy.
In all the moments
of our amazing
becoming-through-remembering
pilgrimage.
The Ceile De teachings described this important opportunity with these words:
“We are bewildered. That is what grows our souls.”
We sit with one another and we listen.
GIVING THANKS
In just a few weeks we will also be invited into the season of Thanksgiving.
Again, we can chose to be present and not distracted by the consumerism and the feast.
This is an opportunity to feel deep gratitude for those who have guided and supported us on our spiritual walk. We speak aloud the names of those who have passed over to the other realms and we honor the deep root system under the ground of every true community. We listen for messages.
At WSF, we are deeply engaged in a rich conversation about our past and our future, about the lineage of women who make up our root system and the winds of change rustling our leaves and inviting us to imagine something new and transcendent.
Let’s keep feeding each other, supporting each other and working together for the Good.
Kathe Schaaf
Kay Lindahl
Anne Fitzgerald
Ginny Matthews
Adelia Sandoval
Mohini Mundy
Alison Fast
Alisa Roadcup Bhachu
Julia Jameson
Amy Jones
Erin Erickson
Kate Twomey
Alyssa Bishop
Aliyah Middleton
Noelle Schendzielos
Bianca Garcia
Faith Sinclair