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| Web Weaving at Tucson Spiral Dance (2000) |
Weaver, Weaver, weave our thread
whole & strong into your web
Healer, Healer, heal our pain
in love may we return again
We are dark and we are light
we are born of earth and light
of joy and pain our lives are spun
male and female, old and young
No one knows why we are born
A web is made, a web is torn
But love is the home that we come from
and at the core we all are one
Of life's Spring may we drink deep
and awake to dream and die to sleep
and dreaming weave another form
a shining thread of life reborn
Weaver, Weaver, weave our thread
whole and strong into your Web
Healer, Healer, heal our pain
in love may we return again
~~~Starhawk, (from "The Spiral Dance")
whole & strong into your web
Healer, Healer, heal our pain
in love may we return again
We are dark and we are light
we are born of earth and light
of joy and pain our lives are spun
male and female, old and young
No one knows why we are born
A web is made, a web is torn
But love is the home that we come from
and at the core we all are one
Of life's Spring may we drink deep
and awake to dream and die to sleep
and dreaming weave another form
a shining thread of life reborn
Weaver, Weaver, weave our thread
whole and strong into your Web
Healer, Healer, heal our pain
in love may we return again
~~~Starhawk, (from "The Spiral Dance")
Blessings at Samhain to all as we celebrate the year passed, and remember our Beloved Dead.
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| My first "Spider Woman" performance (1999) Rites of Passage Gallery |
The Wheel of the Year has turned again to a new Spiral Dance. Samhain, Dia de Los Muertos, the Witches New Year, the last Harvest Festival, and Halloween (once known as "Hallowed Eve") is almost here, and I remember the Spiral Dance , which was so very transformative for me. I brought this great Earth Religions High Mass to Tucson when I returned here in 2000. I've posted about this beautiful ritual before ...and I wanted to do so again. Believe me, when you have danced the Spiral Dance and in the process of the dance come face to face with 2,000 people - you have experienced something profound.
I looked up "The Spiral Dance" on UTube, and was surprised by two things. First, up came a picture of my former roomate, and inspirational mentor, Judy Foster. Judy was much loved in the Bay Area, as one of the founders of Reclaiming, and also one of the founders of Food Not Bombs in Northern California. She passed away in 2000, and when I brought the Spiral Dance to Tucson that year, with the help of Macha Nightmare (also one of the founders of Reclaiming) who came to facilitate the ritual, we had a place of honor for Judy on our North Altar, the altar of the Beloved Dead.
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| Judy Foster (1997) |
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| Hecate Mask made from Judy Foster's face (2001) |
There is no footage of the years I participated in the Ritual, unfortunately. I assisted in the "Invocation to the Goddess" with my first collection of the MASKS OF THE GODDESS . I also put together a "Fire Dance Troupe" for the 20th Annual Spiral Dance in 1999 as we called the South, the Element of Fire. I shall never forget that! They didn't allow photographs of the Ritual until 2008, but in the video I did find I see friends and valued colleagues - Macha Nightmare, Evelie Posche, Starhawk, Kala, Drissana Devananda and others. I wish I could attend this year, and I thank in spirit the many people I knew there. May we meet again soon.
The Spiral Dance Ritual (2009 video)
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