Reclaiming our power and ourselves.
We are Spinsters/Hags/Crones/ Harpies/Furies...and
A-mazing Amazons
The woman warrior does not indulge in self pity.
Breaking through the
Male Maze is both exorcism and ecstasy.
However possessed males
may be within patriarchy, it is their order; it is they who feed
on women's stolen energy.
They rob us of everything:
our myths, our energy, our divinity, our Selves.
Patriarchy has
stolen our cosmos and returned it in the form of Cosmopolitan magazine
and cosmetics.
A-mazing Amazons must be aware of the male methods of mystification. Spinsters are not only A-mazing Amazons cutting away layers of deceptions, Spinsters are also Survivors. We must survive, not merely in the sense of "living on," but in the sense of living beyond. Surviving I take to mean living above, through, around the obstacles thrown in our paths.
Overcoming the silencing
of women is an extreme act, a sequence of extreme acts. Breaking
our silence means living in existential courage.
Mary Daly
Remember...
Face with being spooked, Spinsters are learning to Spook/Speak back.
This Spinster-Spooking is also re-calling/re-membering/re-claiming our Witches' power to cast spells, to charm, to employ occult grammar, to enthrall, to bewitch. Spinster-Spooking is both cognitive and tactical.
Since Spooking cannot be done alone. Spinsters need fire.
Sparking is necessary to re-claim our
fire.
Sparking is making possible Female
Friendship, which is totally Other from male comradeship.
At first, it is hard to generate enough
sparks for building the fires of Female Friendship. this is particularly
the case since patriarchal males, sensing the ultimate threat of Female
Sparking, make every effort to put out women's fires whenever we start
them. They try to steal the fire of Furies in order to destroy us
in their perpetual witchcraze. Like Cinderellas, Hags stand among
the cinders, but we know that they are cinders of our burned foresisters.
We know that the cinders still Spark.
Crones need to sharpen our minds/wits
so that they become the Sacred Double Axes of Amazons. The A-mazing
Female Mind is the Labrys.
The Warriors Prayer
I am what I am.
In having faith in the
beauty within me, I develop trust.
In softness I have strength.
In silence I walk with
the goddesses.
In peace I understand
myself and the world.
In conflict I walk away.
In detachment I am free.
In respecting all things,
I respect myself.
In dedication I honor
the courage within me.
In eternity I have compassion
for the nature of all things.
In love I unconditionally
accept the evolution of others.
In freedom I have power.
In my individuality
I express the Goddess Force within me.
In service I give of
what I have become.
I am what I am:
Eternal, immortal, universal
and infinite.
And so be it.
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