Women of the Wise Earth

INTRODUCTION

Celebrating the Rainbow Symphony

A revolution is stirring in the hearts and souls of sisters around the globe. Can you feel it? It is the palpable call to live from our full power and feminine radiance. Our brothers around the globe are equally awakening to this celebration of empowered human wholeness. This urge to individuate and be our greatest potential is ancient and has forged deep and beautiful guiding paths through the eons. What is special about this point in time is that we are being offered an opportunity to collectively grow and experience true communion—common sacred union. Globally and personally we are being presented with abundant opportunities to enter a space of responsibility, respect and love for self, our companions, our families, our communities, our regions, our Earth home and the wider cosmos. I wonder what we will choose.

Women of the Wise Earth is a juicy drop in this very large ocean. It is an invitation to sisters around the globe to remember and celebrate the divine beauty that we are. It is an offering to all who wish to honour and attune to the wild, free-flowing and infinitely creative feminine spirit. It is a nourishing feast of story, poetry, image and inspiration woven through the embodied feminine form. It is a collaboration by women who are passionate about and dedicated to living authentically and fully. It is our gift to you, to be savoured as you wish.

The inspiration for this book arrived one full moon as I was taking the first steps of a new chapter in my own life. It was a time when I was learning to fully meet the path organically unfolding before me in whatever form it took. I was becoming acquainted with the force running through me, seeking expression in the world. I was learning to trust more completely the invisible guiding hand nudging me along. Like a child, I was learning to walk again. I would not have arrived at that point without the support of many wise women, those incredible living resources who go about their work humbly and diligently, always with noble intention to bring vibrant health, happiness and healing to all. I knew the power of their stories and expertise for I had benefitted first hand and I sought a way for this richness to reach others. Suffering might be universal but so is the ability to overcome it, step up, and assist others to do the same with a generous dollop of loving-kindness. When we come alive to ourselves it is contagious and like wildfire, we ignite each other.

So the call went out to women who had assisted me along the way and from there ripples spread to more amazing women. The Women of the Wise Earth journey had begun. The intention was set to create a book that would serve sisters around the world—YOU—and honour the soulful creatures we and this Earth home are. There was no plan other than to gather in sacred natural space seven times (once for each chakra) and allow the unfolding of whatever wished to come forth, trusting the hand of Spirit would guide the way. We have laughed, cried, sung, danced, meditated, roared, rolled in the dirt, and reflected back to one another the many different faces of the divine feminine. It has been an exquisite experience of which I feel privileged to have been a part. Each voice in these pages naturally represents the thoughts and experiences of the woman who speaks it, yet beneath all that I believe there is a common voice of ‘woman’ to which we are all connected, who speaks between the spaces.

I hold the deepest love and gratitude for the women who joined this adventure. From the bottom of my heart I honour and thank you for the magnificent beings you are. To all siSTARs into whose hands this book finds its way, I greet and bow to the divine spark in you. May you know and relish your splendour and allow it to ignite the hearts of others.