Ran across this elsewhere, and thought it really resonates with everyone here:
“The Dalai Lama says that the world will be saved by Western women. Not any women, perhaps not all women, but Burning Women. Women who have stepped out of silence and into the fullness of their power. Angry women who love the world and her creatures too much to let it be destroyed so thoughtlessly for a moment longer.
Burning Woman is the heart and soul of revolution – inner and outer. She burns for change, she dances in the fire of the old, all the while visioning and weaving the new.”
― Lucy H. Pearce, Burning Woman
We have a lot of burning women here, many who found their power and rose up years ago, others who feel the call and are joining in and holding up the others in unity. In our own spirits, we feel it, know it and vibrate with the power of the Divine Feminine.
The quotation is lovely and comes from her book by the same name. It won the 2017 Nautilis Silver award for outanding books about or for women. I'm thinking it takes the historical and cultural approach.
I have not read it but I did love Clarrisa Pinkola Estes book "Women Who Run with Wolves".
Burning Woman book:
https://www.amazon.com/Burning-Woman-Lucy-H-Pearce/dp/1910559164
Women Who Run With Wolves ..Many versions to check out:
Burning women are strong powerful women who know who they are in their original or true nature, but who may have been subjugated , pushed aside, pushed down, and physically, emotionally or spiritually burned at the stake.
But a small voice rises up and demands to be heard. First by whatever body she currently inhabits and then into rising awareness and a higher consciousness and finally bursts into flame in a larger world with a bigger and stronger voice that pushes and rises and grows into it's brilliance.
“The Dalai Lama says that the world will be saved by Western women. Not any women, perhaps not all women, but Burning Women. Women who have stepped out of silence and into the fullness of their power. Angry women who love the world and her creatures too much to let it be destroyed so thoughtlessly for a moment longer.
Burning Woman is the heart and soul of revolution – inner and outer. She burns for change, she dances in the fire of the old, all the while visioning and weaving the new.”
― Lucy H. Pearce, Burning Woman
We have more and more rising women niw. Women who are spiritually, emotionally, and physically manifesting into a greater and more powerful state of being. Catalyzed by the flames of transmutation they are reclaiming their primordial powers and true selves through the alchemical energies of this time of transmutation.
One such woman has come into her true self and her power and showing herself, our world and those who tried to silence her that her time/our time, her story/our story has come.
Trans woman Danica Roem (Democrat) just defeated Anti-LGBT candidate Bob Marshall the Republican in Virginia.
Danica Roem has become the first transgender state legislator in America.
"to every person who's ever been singled out, who's ever been stigmatized, who's ever been the misfit, who's ever been the kid in the corner, who's ever needed someone to stand up for them when they didn't have a voice of their own. This one is for you." danica roem
Democrat Kyrsten Sinema has defeated Republican Martha McSally to win the Arizona Senate race, the Associated Press projected Monday evening.
She becomes the first Democrat Arizona has elected to the Senate since 1988. She will not only be the state's first female senator but will also be the first openly bisexual senator in U.S. history.
Another woman rising/ burning women event in the news:
From https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/10/business/fearless-girl-move/index.html: "Fearless Girl" (the iconic statue of the young girl standing up for herself and others) has officially arrived at its new location at the New York Stock Exchange.]
"Now instead of staring down the bull, she's going to be staring down all of business," New York Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney said.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/10/business/fearless-girl-move/index.html
The chief justice of California's Supreme Court just left the Republican Party following the confirmation of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. Read more:
I thought I would share this NYT piece about the increasing numbers of women in the western US who are taking over their families' ranches and introducing a more environmentally-informed land stewardship ethic.
A highlight: "Ms. Eller said there was something different, spiritual even, about women working the land together.
'If the tractor breaks down, I’m like, ‘Oh, I’m thankful my dad is here.’ But when it comes to everyday work, like feeding the cows, I would much rather go with my mom, because we can actually enjoy it,' she said. 'We’ll both say, ‘Oh, isn’t this beautiful out here today?’ We notice how beautiful it is when the sun’s shining on the snow.'"
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/11/business/women-ranchers-american-west-photo-essay.html
Coyote, I especially like the quote you chose from this piece. Thank you!
I LOVED this article!
"Ms. Eller said there was just something different, spiritual even, about women working the land together."
YES!