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Goddess Magazine from Z Budapest and the Susan B. Anthony Coven Number One celebrating Women's Spirituality, Dianic Wicca, the Goddess Movement, and full-frontal Feminist Witchcraft. Come and make action your first step towards spiritual liberation. For, when women unite the world is healing.

TRANSCRIPT

Page 1: Goddess Magazine (March 2011)

On My Mind

The 2010 Goddess Festival was absolutely one of the best ever The blend of Goddess women and the

sacred lands surrounded by majestic redwoods was pure magic We had meant to publish a Goddess

Magazine right after the Festival but sad times followed our joyous high

Our little Yorkie dog Sierra was ill with two types of cancer going into the Festival Afterwards she fell

ill and required constant attention and love until she passed mid-November On the same day Sierra

passed we learned that our Sheltie dog Sage was ill with Kushings Disease She required immediate

attention and love if we were going to prolong her life And if that wasnrsquot bad enough my beloved Puli

dog Zena just fell ill one day in January Within ten days she too passed from us While Sage continues

to show improvement itrsquos been a rough winter for us caring for and losing our beloveds We had to

table a few of our projects until we had the energies to pick them back up Now is the time

We will talk about the Goddess Festival in another issue of Goddess Magazine because this issue has

much more pressing topics to share

Prayers for Margo Adler Irsquod like to take a moment to ask you to light a candle for healing love and peace for our dear sister

Margo This has been a rough year for her too Letrsquos show her some love and good wishes

Prayers for Merlin Stone ndash Memorial Plans As many of you know Merlin Stone has passed away and I was asked by Merlin and her family to

conduct her memorial services Irsquom going to do better by her that just a service

We have erected a memorial website wwwMerlinStonenet and on this website you will find all the

information to stay in-the-know ongoing as we continue to work on her projects

There are three projects in the works 1 DVD 2 Book 3 Benefit Memorial Celebration

It was a few weeks before Merlinrsquos passing Bobbie and I had been looking for her for over four years now and to no avail My Bobbie hears things sometimes and she came downstairs and told me we were going to do a documentary called In Search of Merlin Stone We didnrsquot really understand the depth of that whisper in her ear but now it makes perfect sense The DVD In Search of Merlin Stone will be a lovely documentary chronicling our search for Merlin and will include some of the other women who have also passed on We are contacting everyone we can find who knew Merlin and could share stories with the world about her If thatrsquos you please email me The book also titled In Search of Merlin Stone is an anthology of remembrances articles discussing Merlinrsquos influences and academic white papers If you would like to participate in the book project please email me and explain your contribution On September 24 2011 just a few days before Merlinrsquos

Birthday (Sept 27th) we are going to have a global benefit memorial celebration to remember the life

and times of Merlin Stone We are working hard to make sure that everyone who wants to can

participate no matter where you live but the memorial itself will be held in Clearwater Florida

Why Clearwater Florida you ask Merlin passed away in the state of Florida and many of her friends

were there Clearwater is where my resources are (Hecatersquos Wheel) and where the most beautiful

Unitarian Universalist Church is located We have rented that church

Benefit Memorial Celebration for Merlin Stone September 24 2011 11am-3pm Unitarian Universalists of Clearwater 2470 Nursery Road Clearwater FL 33764 Benefit admission donation required

Yes there is an admission donation price because we have to pay for the facilities for the cost incurred

in making a documentary for the costs incurred in publishing a book and for the costs incurred in

producing a globally accessible memorial service There will be very notable people attending this

memorial service and we will be filming the service itself This is a her-storical moment in time when the

womenrsquos spirituality community comes together to remember the life of a remarkable woman Merlin

Stone All of us can help keep Merlinrsquos memory alive by donating either through attending her memorial

or by donating online at wwwMerlinStonenet

We will be providing a live video stream from the memorial out to the Internet Gather your groups or

participate individually but we are working to make sure that all of you can participate in some way We

will be sharing more information with you on the MerlinStonenet website So mark you calendars for

September 24th

If you would like to attend the memorial in-person you can make your donation to reserve your seat

here online httpmerlinstonenetmerlin-stone-memorial-florida

This is a huge undertaking We need all of you to help get the word out about this eventhellip make it go

viral sisters We can never repay the debt of what Merlin Stone did for womenrsquos spirituality but we can

give her the accolades of this memorial service

Have you got any audio video or photos of Merlin Stone that yoursquod like to share Please email me right

now

April 10th Dumb Supper for Merlin Stone

Dumb Supper means a quiet meal and pagans hold it as a sacred event in remembrance of a beloved

soul

When we do our dumb Supper we bring photos (and in this case her books) of our departed to set

around their place setting It helps us to visualize our beloved and remember them well Make it a

special occasion You can even add some decorations or flowers that you think the departed might like

While it is a solemn occasion it can still be appealing to the living and dead alike

The meal begins with a prayer and a welcoming of the departed and then goes totally silent

Blessed be the good Spirits of our ancestors

(pause)

We invite the awakening Spirit of Merlin Stone come Merlin sister be with us

You have slept your deep sleep now come as we elevate your spirit

We set your place at our table We set out your food apple sauce and black coffee

Please eat this with us and take strength for your journey in the spirit world

The food is served up to all plates and then everyone eats together No one leaves the table until

everyone is finished Then finally the silence is broken as everyone thanks the departed for coming to

supper with them

Thank you sweet spirit for your attendance

Merlin let these lines you have written now serve you as wings as you fly

(Read them 3 times)

Ancient Mirrors of Womanhood has many more selections you can use

(From When God was a Woman)

ldquo Most ancient Mother

Great radiant One

Lady of the Stars

Mistress of celestial Oceans

Highest Judge

Fiery One who rose from primordial floods

It is Neit who reaches down from heavens

To take the hand of each who dies

Taking them in her arms

To place them as stars of the Universerdquo

Dearest Goddess Neit reach down to our sister Merlin take her in your arms and place her as

a star in our Universe Blessed be

After the meal is over nobody eats the food on the plate of the departed You can feed the departedrsquos

food to the family pets or the earth Itrsquos believed that the departed ate of the essence of the meal and

thus shared the meal with their living relatives Now Merlin Stone is fortified to enter the spirit world

Two of my books are beautifully back in Print So exciting

List Price $1999 Add to Cart

GRANDMOTHER MOON by Zsuzsanna E Budapest Inviting us to look at the moon as the old ally she is renowned feminist witch Zsuzsanna Budapest shows how to tap into the moons powers for peace health and energy With delightful wit and wisdom she shares practical and entertaining lunar lore from ancient moon-based rituals to lunar cycle diet tips Budapest reveals how by acting in harmony with the moon women can balance everything from their mood and weight to fertility Here is a spirited illumination of the natural cycles that influence our lives as lunar primates Rewritten and new materials added Available on Kindle

List Price $1199 Add to Cart

Selene - The Most Famous Bull-leaper on Earth by Zsuzsanna E Budapest Selene is far more than a coloring book The story of Selene the bull-leaper is a story of a young woman who defeats fear and socialization and gains self-hood through accomplishments of her own Her name means moon and this name was common for young women to take up in honor of the Moon Goddess Selene Selene was pictured on the temples and walls of Asia Minor sitting atop a white sow So while this story is fictional it is based on the history we do know

Please enjoy this issue of Goddess Magazine and blessing to you and all your beloveds

Blessed be

Z Budapest

Thank you sisters who have donated $1 a month to help support our Goddess efforts

You can sponsor Goddess magazine too Click here to helphellip

In Search of Merlin Stone

by Bobbie Grennier Marilyn C ldquoMerlinrdquo Stone passed away on February 23 2011 from complications caused by an extended illness She was born September 27 1931 in Brooklyn New York Merlin loved education and was a devoted student She attended New York State College where she earned her Bachelorrsquos of Science in Art Education Albright Art School California College of Arts and Crafts where she earned her Doctorate of Philosophy and Ashmolean Museum in Oxford England for five years of independent studies Merlin Stone is best remembered for her impressive literary body of work From 1971-1976 she traveled to Turkey Lebanon Cyprus Crete Greece among others where she uncovered the lost Goddess culture She wrote about her discoveries in two landmark books When God was a Woman (originally titled The Paradise Papers) and Ancient Mirrors of Womanhood ndash Our Goddess and Heroine Heritage She also wrote a third book called Three Thousand Years of Racism and she was also published in many magazines and anthologies

She was a noted American Artist and Sculptor working her craft from 1958-1967 Merlin Stonersquos artwork still stands throughout the state of New York and she received a personal letter of thanks from Robert F Kennedy for the loan of her art work which was on display in his New York City office To say that Merlin Stone changed the religious landscape is an understatement Her work influenced the budding Womenrsquos Studies Departments with thoughts of womenrsquos theology and history She fostered new thinking throughout the academic world In the same way that Marija Gimbutas gave women their own historical record of artifacts Merlin Stone gave women their own spiritual culture

Merlin Stone was recognized by liberal thinkers She once wrote ldquohellipYoko [Ono] and John [Lennon] had taken turns reading ldquoWhen God was a Womanrdquo to each other I knew they had the book because I had been asked to autograph a copy for them hellipit touched me deeplyrdquo There is so much more to say about Merlin Stonersquos life much of it we are just beginning to understand because Merlin led a very private existence With the help of her life-partner Len Schneir and her two daughters Cynthia Davis and Jenny Hirst we are creating three memorial projects

1 DVD documentary called In Search of Merlin Stone chronicling her life

2 A book of the same title featuring remembrances personal influences and white papers all focused on Merlin and her body of work

3 The Benefit Memorial Celebration on September 24 2011 in Clearwater Florida

When God was a Woman by Merlin Stone

The Benefit Memorial Celebration will take place at the Unitarian Universalist Church 2470 Nursery

Road Clearwater FL 33764 This celebration of Merlin Stonersquos life is in production and updated

information will be posted on the wwwMerlinStonenet website You may also donate to Merlin

Stonersquos Memorial Fund at the wwwMerlinStonenet website All donations are thankfully welcomed

ldquoI want the world to remember her for the goddess she wasrdquo said her life-partner Len Schneir ldquoI must

admit that it took me a long time to finally believe and fully trust the Goddess and Merlin everything I

am is because of her wisdomrdquo

If you have a Merlin Stone story photo audio recording video recording to share etc please contact Z

Budapest (wwwZBudapestcom) The September 24th Memorial will be streamed live onto the

Internet details will be announced at the wwwMerlinStonenet website

She touched the hearts of women and men globally Merlin Stone is recognized and remembered most

by her contemporaries

Today we are no longer spiritual orphans of the world It was sister Merlin who gave her entire

life to this sacred reclaiming All of us stand to thank her for this very potent gift of the

legitimized woman spirit When you came back with ldquoWhen God was a Womanrdquo and enough

material for its follow up ldquoAncient Mirrors of Womanhoodrdquo we all knew you had found the

cultural Goddess mother lode You are much too hard to let go

-Zsuzsanna Budapest author of The Holy book of Womenrsquos Mysteries and Grandmother Moon

In the beginning God was a woman Do you remember Those words still give me chills

ldquoWhen God was a Womanrdquo changed my life I remember Merlins penetrating wit and intellect

and her wild henna red hair She will be missed Blessed be

- Carol P Christ author of Rebirth of the Goddess and She Who Changes

Few people have inspired me like Merlin Stone and her work Because of her I found Goddess

deity archetype and ideal Because of her my life has been filled with inspiration meaning and

direction Thank you beloved Merlin Stone May you smile down on us and guide us from that

special resting place in the arms of the Mother

- Karen Tate author of Sacred Places of Goddess

Merlin Stones work brought knowledge of the Divine Feminine to the consciousness of the

Western world We are very grateful to her for her pioneering work

- Miriam Robbins Dexter PhD author of Sacred Display and Whence the Goddesses

Merlin Stone was a great inspiration when I first read When God was a Woman in the early

80s It spoke to something deep inside me and affirmed my own knowing We all owe her

gratitude for the Goddess work she did

- Kathy Jones author of The Goddess in Glastonbury and Priestess of Avalon Priestess of the

Goddess

She [Merlin] was so so amazing I am really saddened to learn this ---as it came like a shock I

knew her pretty well in the days when my book was happening What a terrible loss--but what a

great gain for women in our time She opened up so much for all of us---and it was because she

wanted to be a sculptor and was searching for empowered images of women--thats how she

came upon all the goddess images The story is very amazing

- Gloria Orenstein author of Reweaving the World The Emergence of Ecofeminism

I remember Merlin when we met in 1986 to film Goddess Remembered in San Francisco She was

not originally scheduled to be at the dinner party we filmed but mysterious forces made it

possible for her to arrive in SF just in time I enjoyed Merlins contribution to the conversation we

filmed and especially enjoyed some pleasant hours months later in New York with her I feel her

passing very much and remember her life as one of the great blessings all women have shared

In love may she return again

- Donna Read director of Goddess Remembered The Burning Times and Full Circle

Requiem for Merlin Stone By Zsuzsanna Budapest I have tried to write this memorial several times You are much too hard to let go I cannot celebrate you and bemoan you and preserve you forever all at once So I will just talk to you as you once were here in my house many years ago Merlin sweet sister recline comfortably on my leather couch Here is your black coffee letrsquos talk and remember together For a long time I didnrsquot know what happened to you ldquoHave you heard from Merlinrdquo I asked everybody I knew Your phone no longer worked Letters to your address were

returned That was your last footstep for most of us Then nothing for decades and many years I spent

in search of Merlin Stone

Suddenly your man Lenny called and he told us you passed away February 23 2011 You had been ill a

long time and didnrsquot want to show yourself You knew years ago that your beautiful mind was changing

You didnrsquot want to be remembered for the long illness but for the contributions of art and literature I

get it

Once there was the Heroic Age of the 70rsquos you were amongst this generation of the brave seed- casters

inventors and artists who has sown seeds of knowledge about all things good for all women Even in

these fertile times women were still spiritual orphans We had no soul reflection in the high spiritual

places We had no knowledge of where we had been as women or where we could aspire to go We had

politics and feminism We needed more Some important part of us was still very empty

We simply had no spiritual past

It was not good form to believe in the existences of the Amazons of Anatolia or Asia or of the global

Goddess womenrsquos cultures No evidence for that Even feminists were frowning We didnrsquot dare to

believe in that it would have been one more reason to disqualify spirited women from any meaningful

conversation or visibility on the feminist cultural canvas Some politicos called us bliss bunnies We had

no ground to stand on

Our cultural past had been stolen from us Schools certainly never mentioned us the divine feminine

was either a perfume or a lipstick shade or maybe a salad dressing but certainly not an all powerful real

Goddess

Merlin Stonehellip you felt this part of feminist thought was sorely missing We simply had no information

about our own great people as a gender Who did we pray to Always men

Who went back in time and stole it all back for us Who was smart enough to read the old musty out-

of-print books in hopes of finding a couple of lines the patriarchs missed when they erased the Goddess

culture

Like an Amazon of the libraries it was you who hunted down the hard-to-come-by books visiting

museums and traveling to far-off distant lands for research When you came back with ldquoWhen God was

a Womanrdquo and enough material for its follow-up ldquoAncient Mirrors of Womanhoodrdquo we all knew you

had found the cultural Goddess motherlode

The brilliance richness and diversity of the global Goddess traditions were beyond anybodyrsquos hopes All

around the globe Merlin Stone had found our traditions of celebrations our goddesses and our moral

codes

We did come from somewhere awesome and our foremothers had left us treasures in ritual sacred

poetry and arthellip footsteps for us to follow And it was Merlin Stone who found it and published it

She published in England as The Paradise Papers because American publishers would not touch it Now

the books are with Beacon Press

Today we are no longer spiritual orphans of the world It was sister Merlin who gave her entire life to

this sacred reclaiming All of us stand to thank her for this very potent gift of the legitimized woman

spirit

As usual Merlin would just smile and make little of my accolade

She felt ldquocalledrdquo she said

She was an acclaimed American artist a sculptress and national treasure She taught Art History and

that led her to the surviving images of the Goddess which called her to see more Her welded art

sculptures took on more and more triple goddess themes and finally dissolved into the physical

research which took her to Turkey - Anatolia of old the land of the Mothers

She was lovingly protected hitch-hiking alone with long red hair flowing down her back she had little

money slept in caves a sacred stranger in her own once fertile Goddess homeland

ldquoHow did you find the booksrdquo I once asked her

ldquoStrange thingrdquo she explained ldquoI heard a hum - a hum of women when I got close to a book that had

useful information for us I just reached out and there it was I was led by a humrdquo

ldquoOh yes the humrdquo Merlin had come to dinner in Santa Monica we feminist witches were much

honored We held hands over my barley dish and hummed together as we usually did praying our

blessing Merlin burst into tears I was worried Who hurt our highly esteemed guest

ldquoNobody hurt merdquo she said ldquoBut this was the hum I heard in the libraries of Turkey This was the hum

that led me to the great Goddess booksrdquo

Then the witches fell silent and one by one we also teared up at this miracle How could a ragtag

revolutionary group of witches hum on a California mountaintop and a woman on the Goddess search

hear it all the way in Turkey Never mind the multiplication of the fishes and the loaves this was a much

better miracle Our belief in the all-pervasive omnipresent Goddess was never stronger

Which Goddess shall I invoke for your memorial You have given us hundreds

As a Dianic witch I love Hecate the transformer She who takes the tired souls away on her chariot

drawn by the dragons of time She is the healer of wounds the Queen of the dark side of the Moon

But Merlin loved Anahita She is the one ldquowho is the Cosmic Ocean in which the stars do float It is

Anahita who provides the nourishing rain sending waters from the heavens to the springs and rivers

protecting the flocks in pastures and causing them to bear their young -- as it is Anahita who fills the

womb with life Her chariot is drawn by white steeds named rain and wind and clouds and sleet or as

she rides on the back of a gliding eagle or even upon a splendid lionrdquo

At Anahitarsquos shrines still visible in Sardis and Susa in Kangawar and Ecbatana her inscription reads ldquoI

am the conscience of thine own selfrdquo

Rest sweetly dearest sister and if you wish to live on in our hearts please guide us like the hum once

guided you Donrsquot hurry linger amongst us

Merlin my beloved sister your chariot can wait

Ancient Mirrors of Womanhood Merlin Stone 1979 p210

I am going to be a guest speaker at the Women of Spirit and Faith Conference April 28- May 1

The Alchemy of Our Spiritual Leadership Women Redefining Power

Calling all women of spirit and faith This is not your typical womens conference

Imagine the energy of more than 300 women ready for inspiration deep wisdom and potent co-creation

Alchemy Highlights

Inspiring Keynote wisdom from Sister Joan Chittister Valarie Kaur and Naomi Tutu Stimulating Leadership Conversations featuring the wisdom and experience of a dozen diverse women

leaders Informative workshops with a focus on building practical skills and new models for collaborative

leadership Many opportunities for circle dialogue and structured conversation Optional activities such as Open Space Offerings Morning Meditations Yoga Movement Labyrinth Walks

and more The Alchemy Marketplace where you can shop for books jewelry art and music A Beautiful Meditation and Prayer Room for silence and reflection Art music poetry laughter and lots of right-brain fun and stimulation

I am also going to be attending the Glastonbury Goddess Conference 2011

Now five full days of Goddess-loving celebration with Fringe events from Sunday July 24 ndash 31

Celebrating the Great Mother of Water at Lammas details are online wwwgoddessconferencecom

Welcoming two USA two pioneers of the Goddess movement -

Vicki Noble co-creator of the Motherpeace Tarot

Zsuzsanna Budapest Founder of the Dianic Wiccan Tradition and Womenrsquos Spirituality Movement

With Conference Favorites Anique Radiant Heart Barbara Meiklejohn-Free Carolyn Hillyer Julie Felix

Kathy Jones Lydia Ruyle and Lady Olivia Durdin Robertson

With Ceremonies Adorations and Praise Songs to the Great Goddess of Water She who is the Source

and Womb of all Life Participate in moving Sacred Ceremonies take part in inspiring Workshops listen

to fascinating Presentations see beautiful Artwork amp Stalls Performances Music Song Poetry and

Dance Visit the Holy Wells of the Goddess in Avalon cleansing and immersing yourself in Her Healing

Waters Join one of Nine Wells - circles of support and participation in Conference Ceremonies Dance

the night away at the Goddess Gala Buffet and Masque and join our Goddess Procession through the

Landscape to the River Brue with a Fruit Feast

Plus Presenters Priestesses and Spinners Amanda Baker Annabel Du Boulay Anna Saqqara Price

Charissa Schipper Caroline Lir Deonesea la Fey Emma Rose Knight Erin McCauliffe Ganga Ashworth

Georgina Sirett-Hardie Graell Corsini Heloise Pilkington Isabella Verbruggen Isis Queen Jacqui

Woodward-Smith Jennifer Cooper Katinka Soetens Kaye Cooksey Koko Newport Lauren Raine Lisa

Newing Louise Bell Louise Tarrier Lydia Lite Marion van Eupen Mary Bruce Michelle Patten Miriam

Raven Morgaine Noam Zimin Oshia Drury Rose Flint Roz Bound Sally Pullinger Sharlea Johnson

Shirley-Ann Millar Shoshana Horobin Sophie Pullinger Sue Quatermass Tegwyn Hyndman Thalia

Brown Tiana Pitman amp Tina Free plus more great Priestesses amazing helpful Melissas amp lots more

wonderful women and men

My Workshops at Glastonbury

ZSUZSANNA BUDAPEST WE ALL COME FROM THE GODDESS (Women Only)

Sunday July 25th Women from all walks of life come together with High Priestess Zsuzsanna (Z) Budapest in a flowing woman-only Dianic circle celebrating our expanding global sisterhood Beginning with the sacred Dianic purification we enter the circle commune with our ancestors and our divine selves lift up a joyous dedication to the Goddess Sedna of the Deep as we bless all waters inside and outside Chanting dancing and strengthening our bonds of sisterhood We are the flow we are the ebb When the women are healed the whole world is healed Drummers musical instruments voices welcome Dress comfortably Come garlanded with something in season greens or flowers

Z Budapest is the founder of the Dianic (Feminist) Tradition of Wicca in the USA initiating the worldrsquos most famous coven the Susan B Anthony Coven Number One which continues to thrive and brings womenrsquos spirituality into mainstream consciousness (SusanBAnthonyCovencom) Z has led rituals lectured taught classes given workshops written articles tirelessly and published in hundreds of womens newspapers across the country She has powerfully influenced many of the future teachers and writers about the Goddess She is the director of the Womens Spirituality Forum a nonprofit organization and Z founded and sponsors the Dianic Universityrsquos Goddess College (GoddessCollegecom) Her books include Holy Book of Womens Mysteries Grandmother of Time Grandmother Moon See wwwZBudapestcom Venue Glastonbury Assembly Rooms Time 1000am-400pm Fee pound50$85euro65 register online wwwgoddessconferencecom

ZSUZSANNA BUDAPEST ndash TAROT SOCIAL IN MY ROOM (Glastonbury)

July 26-27th Tarot Social information and exact date to be announced

ZSUZSANNA BUDAPEST ndash THE HERSTORY OF THE DIANIC TRADITION (Mixed Audience)

July 28th A multi-media presentation on the Herstory of the Dianic Tradition for a mixed audience Z

Budapest provides the historical background to the origins of the Dianic Tradition as well as important

triumphs that the Dianics fought for and won for the Pagan community and beyond Like the right to

perform divination readings in the United States in public and charge for it Historically it was Z and

Dianics who fought for the rights of this civil liberty in California which then opened the door to other

states to follow suit You can learn more about that at WitchTrialnet This presentation also clears up

some urban legends about the Dianic Tradition Such as itrsquos a man-hating tradition the accusations of

separatism Nothing could be farther from the truth Z Budapest founded the Womenrsquos Spirituality

Movement in 1971 Since then there has been an uninterrupted Goddess worship for the past 40 plus

years of women circling together in sacred celebration of all the Sabbaths and many moons This Dianic

Tradition has spread all over the globe After a brief break the second half of the workshop will involve

spiritual movement and dancing the meeting Dance Finally we will finish with an inspiring multi-media

presentation Prayers to the Mother all living creatures are one

Hope to see you at the Glastonbury Goddess Conference 2011

Follow Z Budapest on Facebook And Twitter

ZSUZSANNA BUDAPEST ndash TAROT SOCIAL

I am doing another women-only Tarot Social on April 23rd at my own home Who wants to host a Tarot

Social For more information visit TarotSocialcom and contact me

After more than thirty years in circulation The Holy Book of Womenrsquos Mysteries is still a ground-breaking book in the forefront of womenrsquos spirituality

Get your own copy of Zrsquos out of print books and DVDs at the Womenrsquos Spirituality Forum online store

Irsquom also available for Tarot Readings I know many of you are going through some tough times and

thatrsquos really when you should be reaching out for a reading Irsquom here if you need me

This magazine is sponsored by the Womenrsquos Spirituality Forum

Please help support our efforts to help keep the Goddess Alive

The Application for Dianic Clergy Priestess is online

Goddess College Updates amp More

We have changed the way the online school is doing business After offering free memberships over

the last four years the changes in the economy have forced us to make changes hellip good changes

The Dianic University has now become the Goddess College and has its own website to boot It was

necessary to update the schoolrsquos software but with all the free accounts the database had gotten too

big to migrate So we were forced to start over from scratch eliminating all the free accounts If you

were a student in good standing and part of a paid class in old Dianic University then we are working to

grandmother you into the new school

The way to gain entry into the new Goddess College is through membership in the Susan B Anthony

Coven 1 Everyone in the Goddess College will be active members of the SBA with only a handful of

exceptions Join the Susan B Anthony Coven 1 - You can apply for membership here

The Susan B Anthony Coven 1 now meets inside the Goddess College and the old DU area is closed

We have updated and moved over the Dianic Feminist Philosophy class and the first Holy Book class The

Holy Book series of classes is being totally reworked and improved Thatrsquos partly due to an alliance wersquove

made with the Ocean Seminary College which will allow us to offer degrees for our course of study We

are currently in process with meeting their requirements to make this happen Very exciting stuff for

womenrsquos spirituality I will keep you updated in my column here in the Goddess Magazine

We are networked up the Hoola-Hoop in Facebook Itrsquos hard to miss everything wersquore doing and yet

some of you are still contacting me and saying you hadnrsquot heard of this or that Get your face into

Facebook my sisters and friend the following pages so you can stay in the know

Z Budapest on Facebook

Z Budapest Fan Page

Goddess Magazine Radio Show Fan Page

Goddess Festival Fan Page

Food Magic Fan Page

Susan B Anthony Coven Fan Page

Why arenrsquot you more active in the Dianic Tradition We have a lot of women who read this Goddess

Magazine every month and it would awesome to have more of you join in with us at the Susan B

Anthony Coven 1 A membership into the worldrsquos most famous all-womenrsquos coven makes for a nice gift

to yourself Give it some thought and then come join us The Womens Spirituality Forum is an IRS

501(c)3 non-profit Your registration fees and your membership are tax deductible

Check out our mobile-friendly portal website wwwGoddessLivecom hellip Wersquove pulled all our

information and articles into one location for you and it doesnrsquot matter if yoursquore a computer user or a

mobile user because wersquove programmed the site to be able to switch back and forth

Goddess Magazine Radio Show

Goddess Magazine Radio Show will be forced to go to a half hour program because of changes at

Blogtalk Radio We will bring you more chats with Z very soon Promise

Look for announcements of the new Goddess Magazine Radio Shows on our Facebook fan page Are you

a member of the Goddess Magazine Radio Show Fan page And now you can listen to Goddess

Magazine Radio Shows on iTunes So open you iTunes and subscribe to our podcasted show

Itrsquos free

Goddess Live Toolbar

Every Sister in Goddess who wants to stay linked in to what Z Budapest is doing should have this

toolbar Itrsquos free Itrsquos easy to install and itrsquos secure Get your own Goddess Live Toolbar right now by

clicking here

Follow the Goddess Festival on Facebook And Twitter

Get your new copy here

OTHER WOMENrsquoS SACRED EVENTS amp TOURS TELL THEM Z SENT YOU A WOMENrsquoS RITUAL RETREAT IN CRETE A JOURNEY TO THE GODDESS MAY 23-JUNE 5TH 2011

Facilitated by Ruth Barrett and Catherine Ridder YES We still have spaces still available for our fourth

ritual retreat to Crete Space is limited to 13 women on a first-come basis If you are interested in

hearing more information about this incredible trip contact Catherine Ridder at 626-793-7520 or email

caridder2netzerocom

Sacred Sites of Avalon England with Donna Virgilio April 27 to May 3 2011 Travel to Stonehenge for a private ceremony in the inner circle Walk to the Tor considered to be the legendary Camelot Tour Roman and Medieval Baths and honor the Goddess Minerva visit and pray at the Chalice Well and see the Sacred Gardens Tour the Glastonbury Goddess Temple and participate in the official Beltaine Festivities and Ceremony See the Boscastle Witchcraft Museum and Journey to Tintagel the mystical birthplace of King Arthur and peek inside Merlinrsquos Cave Walk through Avebury Stonecircle West Kennet Long Barrows Silsbury Hill and see Crop Circles Finally dance at the Avalon Beltaine Fairy Ball featuring Doreen Virtues Band Obsidian

On the Trail of the Goddess in Turkey - Anatolia - Land of the Nourishing Mothers

ON THE TRAIL OF THE GREAT GODDESS

Sacred Journey to Turkey

November 2 - 14 2011

featuring

Karen and Roy Tate

Guided by Rashid Ergener

Visit the sacred goddess sites in Turkey Catalhoyuk Lagina Ephesus Troy and Sardis

httpwwwexaminercomwomen-s-goddess-spirituality-in-los-angelessacred-tour-of-goddess-sites-turkey-coming-november-2011-for-women-men

Check out the new video of sacred places in Turkey Hear the hauntingly beautiful music as the Ancient Mother calls httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=Twbcx8IicxI

8th ANNUAL WISE WOMANS FESTIVAL IN FLORIDA

Come and Greet the Springtime with Our Lady of the Faery

Greenwood April 9th and 10th

Nymphs Dryads Devas Kami Apsaras and Sprites Oh My What is the connection between Goddesses

and Faeryfolk Itrsquos Springtime and even though we have April showers you wonrsquot have to wait for May

to enjoy the flowers Join Morning Glory Zell noted Goddess historian and Priestess for the latest in her

series of Great Goddess Retreats and find out why the Green Goddess is more than a salad dressing

With her 36 years of experience and a collection of over 200 votive Goddess statues get ready for an

unforgettable weekend journey of sacred learning and transformational experience

This Retreat will be held at the Raven Haven Morning Gloryrsquos beautiful 10 acre home in Sonoma County

California Raven Haven is nice and roomy with a deck a pool and a spa and a special magickal Faery

Porch covered with flowering wisteria The Temple Room has huge floor to ceiling glass cases displaying

her collection of Goddess figurines and a large altar covered in beautiful Goddess images If you come

from out of town there is room to camp out (if itrsquos dry) sleep over if you like or you can choose from the

many excellent nearby hotels

The Retreat begins on Saturday the 24th at 200pm and ends on Sunday the 25th at 800pm Saturday

we will devote ourselves to learning and exploring the many Goddesses who have a connection to the

realm of Faery from Danu to Ma Ku Hold the images in your hands and hear their fascinating stories

Later we will journey deep in guided meditation to discover the special one which calls to you

Sunday starts with fun and relaxation as we learn the ancient art of weaving wreaths of living flowers

and plants to make a magickal faery wreath or perhaps you would like to learn how to make a faery

house outside on the Faery Porch that will be covered with blooming wisteria Later we will have a ritual

bath in the spa and a procession to decorate the various Goddess shrines around the property The

Retreat culminates with a ceremony to honor the Goddesses and the Fae in a Council where we sing

together and where each Goddess or Faery can share Her Truth

The fee for the entire weekend Retreat is only $10000 or you may attend only Saturdayrsquos program of

the lecture and meditation for $6000 Sunday however is not open to anyone who has not already

attended the Saturday session Meals are shared in an easygoing potluck fashion You truly have never

had any other experience quite like this one and you will come away re-energized as well as transformed

by the power of your new divine connection

Phone (707) 795-8047

mythicimcnorg

PO Box 758

Cotati CA 94931

Tryst ndash Handfasting Commitment Ceremonies

Z is back sisters And shersquos available to officiate your Trysting wedding ceremonies again The most popular pagan Goddess wedding ceremony was created by Z Budapest in The Holy Book of Womens Mysteries where Z coined the term Tryst Ritual as an expressly feminine marriage ceremony and rite of passage that can be used for heterosexual couples as well as same sex couples

Z Budapest has been conducting Pagan marriage rituals for over 40 years as a celebrated High Priestess within the Dianic Tradition which she founded Z is available to officiate your handfasting ceremony as well Whether its a civil union or a licensed marriage certificate Z is able to offer you her services as clergy She has legal standings through the Womens Spirituality Forum an IRS 501(c)3 non-profit in the state of California making your clergy fees tax deductible You can learn more about Zrsquos Trysting Ritual and schedule your wedding ceremony with her in 2010

Crete Archaeologists discover skeleton covered with gold foil in 2700-year-old grave

Greek archaeologists have found an ancient skeleton covered with gold foil in a grave on the island of Crete officials said Tuesday

Excavator Nicholas Stampolidis said his team discovered more than 3000 pieces of gold foil in the 7th-century BC twin grave near the ancient town of Eleutherna

Cemeteries there have produced a wealth of outstanding artifacts in recent years

The tiny gold ornaments from 1 to 4 centimetres (04 to 15 inches) long had been sewn onto a lavish robe or shroud that initially wrapped the body of a woman and has almost completely rotted away but for a few off-white threads

The whole length of the (grave) was covered with small pieces of gold foil mdash square circular and lozenge-shaped Stampolidis told The Associated Press We were literally digging up gold interspersed with earth not earth with some gold in it

The woman who presumably had a high social or religious status was buried with a second skeleton in a large jar sealed with a stone slab weighing more than half a ton It was hidden behind a false wall to confuse grave robbers

Experts are trying to determine the other skeletons sex The grave also contained a copper bowl pottery perfume bottles imported from Egypt or Syria and Palestine hundreds of amber rock crystal and faience beads as well as a gold pendant in the form of a bee goddess that probably was part of a rock crystal and gold necklace

If you look at it one way up its shaped like a lily said Stampolidis a professor of archaeology at the University of Crete who has worked at Eleutherna for the 25 years Turned upside down you see a female figure holding her breasts whose lower body is shaped as a bee with wings The workmanship is exquisite

The ruins of Eleutherna stand on the northern foothills of Mount Ida mdash the mythical birthplace of Zeus chief of the ancient Greek gods Past excavations have discovered a citadel homes and an important cemetery with lavish female burials

The town flourished from the 9th century BC mdash the dark ages of Greek archaeology that followed the fall of Cretes great Minoan palatial culture mdash and endured until the Middle Ages

httparchaeologynewsnetworkblogspotcom201009archaeologists-on-crete-find-skeletonhtml

SWEET TASTE OF SPRING Susun S Weed

March winds blow the sweet scent of maple sap boiling to my questing nose When the days are warm

and sunny and the nights below freezing the sap rises in the trees If those trees are sugar maples then

it is worth drilling a hole in the bark inserting a tap and collecting their sweet sap There is so much

sugar in sugar maple sap that it can be boiled and turned into maple syrup and maple sugar

Therersquos about one gallon of maple syrup and ninety-nine gallons of water in one hundred gallons of

maple sap A hot fire and a slow but steady boil send that sweet-smelling water vapor high in the clear

cold sky The March wind blows it to me I close my eyes and remember my years of ldquosugaringrdquo making

maple syrup

Therersquos something special about a task that requires one to stay up all night Maple sap starts to ferment

if it is left at normal temperatures for very long Once ten or so gallons of sap have been collected the

boiling begins hellip and cannot be stopped until the finished syrup is achieved many many many hours

later

I have never sugared without at least one overnighter and sometimes two A large operation boils sap

for weeks without stopping just drawing off the syrup as it forms if the run is steady and copious

It was a picture of Helen Nearing driving a team of horses through the woods standing on a sleigh

loaded with buckets of maple sap that made me long for a homestead where I could lead The Simple

Life like her Two years later I had my own ldquosugar bushrdquo (an acre or more of woodlot where large sugar

maples grow) Spring equinox found me with my drill in hand a pocket full of taps and a bunch of funny

buckets with lids to hang from the taps ldquoTing tingrdquo the ping of sap filling the metal buckets echoes

tying me through time to every woman who has ever sugared and bringing a smile to my heart and

face

My groves of sugar maples have never been large enough to require a team of horses or a sleigh Irsquove

always lugged a big bucket out to the trees and poured the sap from the collecting buckets into it When

I have two or three buckets full I pour them into a big galvanized tub set up on cinder blocks over a fire

and commence to boil it down

Native peoples valued maple sugar so highly that they set up camp in the sugar bush and lived there

until the sap stopped flowing Lacking metal drill bits they cut a shallow groove in the bark and pressed

hollow elder stems into service as taps to direct the flow of sap into birch bark containers

I can heat the sap directly in my metal tub while they had to hollow out a log put smooth rocks into the

fire heat them and put the hot rocks into the sap in the hollowed out log to boil it down into maple

syrup and sugar Whew I am impressed with the power of the desire for sweet It takes far more

calories in fuel and human energy to make maple syrup or maple sugar than it returns

Grandmother Twylah taught us that maple trees are friendly and companionable colorful and

expressive They always have a positive attitude and are adept at helping us see solutions to impossible

problems Maple trees are devoted and true Make friends with a maple and you will have a friend for

life she advised

Ellen Everet Hopman green witch reminds us that maple-syrup-making time is Eostrersquos time Eostre

(ee-oh-stir) is the Teutonic goddess of fertility and manifestation Her symbols are the egg and the

rabbit her time is Spring Equinox A lovely custom still enacted but without the underlying magic is to

paint a picture of something you desire on an egg and plant it in the ground so Eostre can help it grow

and become real

If itrsquos too late to tap your maples or you live too far south for the sap to flow strongly you can still be

blessed and embraced by maple A decoction of maple bark boiled in water can be used to ease sore

eyes externally and to tonify the uterus after birth internally

A magical wand of maple wood is used for spells that bring harmony especially in the home And maple

leaves sewn into a charm made of green flannel tied with a golden string will bring abundance into

your life

Indulge your desire for sweet Celebrate spring equinox and Eostre who loves sweet things Have a

stack of pancakes swimming in butter and maple syrup Or pour maple syrup over plain vanilla ice cream

and savor the sweet taste of the friendly maple tree

Green blessings

How much sugar per gallon of sap is quite variable depending on the type of maple the growing

conditions and especially the amount of sun the tree gets Sugar maple (Acer saccharum) sap is the

sweetest followed by the saps of silver maple (Acer saccharinum) Northern red maple (Acer rubrum)

and Norway maple (Acer platanoides)

Susun Weed

PO Box 64

Woodstock NY 12498

Fax 1-845-246-8081

Visit Susun Weed at wwwsusunweedcom and wwwashtreepublishingcom

Vibrant passionate and involved Susun Weed has garnered an international reputation for her

groundbreaking lectures teachings and writings on health and nutrition She challenges conventional

medical approaches with humor insight and her vast encyclopedic knowledge of herbal medicine

Unabashedly pro-woman her animated and enthusiastic lectures are engaging and often profoundly

provocative

Susun is one of Americas best-known authorities on herbal medicine and natural approaches to

womens health Her four best-selling books are recommended by expert herbalists and well-known

physicians and are used and cherished by millions of women around the world Learn more at

wwwsusunweedcom

Susun Weedrsquos books include

Wise Woman Herbal for the Childbearing Year

Author Susun S Weed Simple safe remedies for pregnancy childbirth lactation and

newborns Includes herbs for fertility and birth control Foreword by Jeannine Parvati

Baker 196 pages index illustrations

Healing Wise

Author Susun S Weed Superb herbal in the feminine-intuitive mode Complete

instructions for using common plants for food beauty medicine and longevity

Introduction by Jean Houston 312 pages index illustrations

Menopausal Years the Wise Woman Way

Author Susun S Weed The best book on menopause is now better Completely

revised with 100 new pages All the remedies women know and trust plus hundreds

of new ones New sections on thyroid health fibromyalgia hairy problems male

menopause and herbs for women taking hormones Recommended by Susan Love

MD and Christiane Northrup MD Foreword by Juliette de Bairacli Levy 304 pages

index illustrations

For more info on menopause visit wwwmenopause-metamorphosiscom

Breast Cancer Breast Health

Author Susun S Weed Foods exercises and attitudes to keep your breasts healthy

Supportive complimentary medicines to ease side-effects of surgery radiation

chemotherapy or tamoxifen Foreword by Christiane Northrup MD 380 pages index

illustrations

UPCOMING DIANIC EVENTS

Pagan Examiner ndash Read the articles written by Bobbie and myself Zrsquos Calendar of Events ndash Want to know where I am appearing Goddess Festival ndash You think the last was good Goddess is Alive Tarot Social - A joyful coming-together of the Womenrsquos Tarot community a

Revival of the 70rsquos TRAVELING MAGIC SHOW by a FOREMOTHER of GODDESS SPIRITUALITY The QUEEN of TAROT READINGS and the woman responsible for LEGALIZING TAROT in California hellip Z Budapest

Z Budapest is conducting a most entertaining Tarot Social at her home in

Oakland CA on April 23rd For more information and registration go to

TarotSocialcom

The Dianic University for Women in Goddess

Study the Dianic Tradition with Z Budapest the woman who rebirthed it into modern culture Classes at the Dianic University are designed for women only

Sisterhood of the Moon ~ Womenrsquos Spirituality Coven in the Z Budapest Dianic Tradition

Events in the Sisterhood of the Moon are for women-born-women only Located in Hayward CA You must contact Jesamyn Angelica for more information Many of the members of this group are also members of the Susan B Anthony Coven No1 Facebookpage

Hands of Demeter ~ Womenrsquos Spirituality Coven in the Z Budapest Dianic Tradition

Events in the Hands of Demeter are for women-born-women only Located in Semi Valley CA You must contact httpearthmothercovenantcom for more information Many of the members of this group are also members of the Susan B Anthony Coven No1 Facebook page

The Sacred Circle ~ Recovering amp Reclaiming Ancient Ways to Heal

Events in The Sacred Circle are for members only unless otherwise stated Call JoAnna 775-882-1599 for membership inquiries

Sisterhood of the Turning Tides ~ Womenrsquos Spirituality Coven in the Z Budapest Dianic Tradition

They meet on Esbats and Sabbats and have a Tuesday night drumritual circle Located in Mendocino CA You must contact Sage Simon for more information Many of the members of this group are also members of the Susan B Anthony Coven No1 Facebookpage

You can sponsor Goddess magazine too Click here to helphellip

Deepest Gratitude to Sisters in Goddess for their Donations

The Application for Dianic Clergy Priestess is online

Follow the Goddess Festival on Facebook And Twitter

Thank you sisters who have donated $1 a month to help support our Goddess efforts

You can sponsor Goddess magazine too Click here to helphellip

Vicki Scotti LuAnn Morris and Amy Otero are

Hecatersquos Wheel an acoustic folk trio Their

music is inspired by and dedicated to the

Goddess in all her guises They sing an eclectic

variety of cover songs and original music

Hecatersquos Wheel has been playing and

singing together for several years and their

voices have found a natural harmonious blend

We VERY much enjoyed their Beltaine concert

Goddess Resource Links Z Budapest Website Goddess College Online Goddess Blog ndash Sponsored by the Susan B Anthony Coven Z Budapest Blog Goddess Festival Susan B Anthony Coven Dianic Wicca Tarot Social Witch Trial ndash the last great witch trial in America Zs Events Schedule Zs University Calendar

Zs Books Summoning the Fates Holy Book of Womens Mysteries Celestial Wisdom Grandmother of Time Grandmother Moon Goddess in the Office Goddess in the Bedroom

Page 2: Goddess Magazine (March 2011)

We have erected a memorial website wwwMerlinStonenet and on this website you will find all the

information to stay in-the-know ongoing as we continue to work on her projects

There are three projects in the works 1 DVD 2 Book 3 Benefit Memorial Celebration

It was a few weeks before Merlinrsquos passing Bobbie and I had been looking for her for over four years now and to no avail My Bobbie hears things sometimes and she came downstairs and told me we were going to do a documentary called In Search of Merlin Stone We didnrsquot really understand the depth of that whisper in her ear but now it makes perfect sense The DVD In Search of Merlin Stone will be a lovely documentary chronicling our search for Merlin and will include some of the other women who have also passed on We are contacting everyone we can find who knew Merlin and could share stories with the world about her If thatrsquos you please email me The book also titled In Search of Merlin Stone is an anthology of remembrances articles discussing Merlinrsquos influences and academic white papers If you would like to participate in the book project please email me and explain your contribution On September 24 2011 just a few days before Merlinrsquos

Birthday (Sept 27th) we are going to have a global benefit memorial celebration to remember the life

and times of Merlin Stone We are working hard to make sure that everyone who wants to can

participate no matter where you live but the memorial itself will be held in Clearwater Florida

Why Clearwater Florida you ask Merlin passed away in the state of Florida and many of her friends

were there Clearwater is where my resources are (Hecatersquos Wheel) and where the most beautiful

Unitarian Universalist Church is located We have rented that church

Benefit Memorial Celebration for Merlin Stone September 24 2011 11am-3pm Unitarian Universalists of Clearwater 2470 Nursery Road Clearwater FL 33764 Benefit admission donation required

Yes there is an admission donation price because we have to pay for the facilities for the cost incurred

in making a documentary for the costs incurred in publishing a book and for the costs incurred in

producing a globally accessible memorial service There will be very notable people attending this

memorial service and we will be filming the service itself This is a her-storical moment in time when the

womenrsquos spirituality community comes together to remember the life of a remarkable woman Merlin

Stone All of us can help keep Merlinrsquos memory alive by donating either through attending her memorial

or by donating online at wwwMerlinStonenet

We will be providing a live video stream from the memorial out to the Internet Gather your groups or

participate individually but we are working to make sure that all of you can participate in some way We

will be sharing more information with you on the MerlinStonenet website So mark you calendars for

September 24th

If you would like to attend the memorial in-person you can make your donation to reserve your seat

here online httpmerlinstonenetmerlin-stone-memorial-florida

This is a huge undertaking We need all of you to help get the word out about this eventhellip make it go

viral sisters We can never repay the debt of what Merlin Stone did for womenrsquos spirituality but we can

give her the accolades of this memorial service

Have you got any audio video or photos of Merlin Stone that yoursquod like to share Please email me right

now

April 10th Dumb Supper for Merlin Stone

Dumb Supper means a quiet meal and pagans hold it as a sacred event in remembrance of a beloved

soul

When we do our dumb Supper we bring photos (and in this case her books) of our departed to set

around their place setting It helps us to visualize our beloved and remember them well Make it a

special occasion You can even add some decorations or flowers that you think the departed might like

While it is a solemn occasion it can still be appealing to the living and dead alike

The meal begins with a prayer and a welcoming of the departed and then goes totally silent

Blessed be the good Spirits of our ancestors

(pause)

We invite the awakening Spirit of Merlin Stone come Merlin sister be with us

You have slept your deep sleep now come as we elevate your spirit

We set your place at our table We set out your food apple sauce and black coffee

Please eat this with us and take strength for your journey in the spirit world

The food is served up to all plates and then everyone eats together No one leaves the table until

everyone is finished Then finally the silence is broken as everyone thanks the departed for coming to

supper with them

Thank you sweet spirit for your attendance

Merlin let these lines you have written now serve you as wings as you fly

(Read them 3 times)

Ancient Mirrors of Womanhood has many more selections you can use

(From When God was a Woman)

ldquo Most ancient Mother

Great radiant One

Lady of the Stars

Mistress of celestial Oceans

Highest Judge

Fiery One who rose from primordial floods

It is Neit who reaches down from heavens

To take the hand of each who dies

Taking them in her arms

To place them as stars of the Universerdquo

Dearest Goddess Neit reach down to our sister Merlin take her in your arms and place her as

a star in our Universe Blessed be

After the meal is over nobody eats the food on the plate of the departed You can feed the departedrsquos

food to the family pets or the earth Itrsquos believed that the departed ate of the essence of the meal and

thus shared the meal with their living relatives Now Merlin Stone is fortified to enter the spirit world

Two of my books are beautifully back in Print So exciting

List Price $1999 Add to Cart

GRANDMOTHER MOON by Zsuzsanna E Budapest Inviting us to look at the moon as the old ally she is renowned feminist witch Zsuzsanna Budapest shows how to tap into the moons powers for peace health and energy With delightful wit and wisdom she shares practical and entertaining lunar lore from ancient moon-based rituals to lunar cycle diet tips Budapest reveals how by acting in harmony with the moon women can balance everything from their mood and weight to fertility Here is a spirited illumination of the natural cycles that influence our lives as lunar primates Rewritten and new materials added Available on Kindle

List Price $1199 Add to Cart

Selene - The Most Famous Bull-leaper on Earth by Zsuzsanna E Budapest Selene is far more than a coloring book The story of Selene the bull-leaper is a story of a young woman who defeats fear and socialization and gains self-hood through accomplishments of her own Her name means moon and this name was common for young women to take up in honor of the Moon Goddess Selene Selene was pictured on the temples and walls of Asia Minor sitting atop a white sow So while this story is fictional it is based on the history we do know

Please enjoy this issue of Goddess Magazine and blessing to you and all your beloveds

Blessed be

Z Budapest

Thank you sisters who have donated $1 a month to help support our Goddess efforts

You can sponsor Goddess magazine too Click here to helphellip

In Search of Merlin Stone

by Bobbie Grennier Marilyn C ldquoMerlinrdquo Stone passed away on February 23 2011 from complications caused by an extended illness She was born September 27 1931 in Brooklyn New York Merlin loved education and was a devoted student She attended New York State College where she earned her Bachelorrsquos of Science in Art Education Albright Art School California College of Arts and Crafts where she earned her Doctorate of Philosophy and Ashmolean Museum in Oxford England for five years of independent studies Merlin Stone is best remembered for her impressive literary body of work From 1971-1976 she traveled to Turkey Lebanon Cyprus Crete Greece among others where she uncovered the lost Goddess culture She wrote about her discoveries in two landmark books When God was a Woman (originally titled The Paradise Papers) and Ancient Mirrors of Womanhood ndash Our Goddess and Heroine Heritage She also wrote a third book called Three Thousand Years of Racism and she was also published in many magazines and anthologies

She was a noted American Artist and Sculptor working her craft from 1958-1967 Merlin Stonersquos artwork still stands throughout the state of New York and she received a personal letter of thanks from Robert F Kennedy for the loan of her art work which was on display in his New York City office To say that Merlin Stone changed the religious landscape is an understatement Her work influenced the budding Womenrsquos Studies Departments with thoughts of womenrsquos theology and history She fostered new thinking throughout the academic world In the same way that Marija Gimbutas gave women their own historical record of artifacts Merlin Stone gave women their own spiritual culture

Merlin Stone was recognized by liberal thinkers She once wrote ldquohellipYoko [Ono] and John [Lennon] had taken turns reading ldquoWhen God was a Womanrdquo to each other I knew they had the book because I had been asked to autograph a copy for them hellipit touched me deeplyrdquo There is so much more to say about Merlin Stonersquos life much of it we are just beginning to understand because Merlin led a very private existence With the help of her life-partner Len Schneir and her two daughters Cynthia Davis and Jenny Hirst we are creating three memorial projects

1 DVD documentary called In Search of Merlin Stone chronicling her life

2 A book of the same title featuring remembrances personal influences and white papers all focused on Merlin and her body of work

3 The Benefit Memorial Celebration on September 24 2011 in Clearwater Florida

When God was a Woman by Merlin Stone

The Benefit Memorial Celebration will take place at the Unitarian Universalist Church 2470 Nursery

Road Clearwater FL 33764 This celebration of Merlin Stonersquos life is in production and updated

information will be posted on the wwwMerlinStonenet website You may also donate to Merlin

Stonersquos Memorial Fund at the wwwMerlinStonenet website All donations are thankfully welcomed

ldquoI want the world to remember her for the goddess she wasrdquo said her life-partner Len Schneir ldquoI must

admit that it took me a long time to finally believe and fully trust the Goddess and Merlin everything I

am is because of her wisdomrdquo

If you have a Merlin Stone story photo audio recording video recording to share etc please contact Z

Budapest (wwwZBudapestcom) The September 24th Memorial will be streamed live onto the

Internet details will be announced at the wwwMerlinStonenet website

She touched the hearts of women and men globally Merlin Stone is recognized and remembered most

by her contemporaries

Today we are no longer spiritual orphans of the world It was sister Merlin who gave her entire

life to this sacred reclaiming All of us stand to thank her for this very potent gift of the

legitimized woman spirit When you came back with ldquoWhen God was a Womanrdquo and enough

material for its follow up ldquoAncient Mirrors of Womanhoodrdquo we all knew you had found the

cultural Goddess mother lode You are much too hard to let go

-Zsuzsanna Budapest author of The Holy book of Womenrsquos Mysteries and Grandmother Moon

In the beginning God was a woman Do you remember Those words still give me chills

ldquoWhen God was a Womanrdquo changed my life I remember Merlins penetrating wit and intellect

and her wild henna red hair She will be missed Blessed be

- Carol P Christ author of Rebirth of the Goddess and She Who Changes

Few people have inspired me like Merlin Stone and her work Because of her I found Goddess

deity archetype and ideal Because of her my life has been filled with inspiration meaning and

direction Thank you beloved Merlin Stone May you smile down on us and guide us from that

special resting place in the arms of the Mother

- Karen Tate author of Sacred Places of Goddess

Merlin Stones work brought knowledge of the Divine Feminine to the consciousness of the

Western world We are very grateful to her for her pioneering work

- Miriam Robbins Dexter PhD author of Sacred Display and Whence the Goddesses

Merlin Stone was a great inspiration when I first read When God was a Woman in the early

80s It spoke to something deep inside me and affirmed my own knowing We all owe her

gratitude for the Goddess work she did

- Kathy Jones author of The Goddess in Glastonbury and Priestess of Avalon Priestess of the

Goddess

She [Merlin] was so so amazing I am really saddened to learn this ---as it came like a shock I

knew her pretty well in the days when my book was happening What a terrible loss--but what a

great gain for women in our time She opened up so much for all of us---and it was because she

wanted to be a sculptor and was searching for empowered images of women--thats how she

came upon all the goddess images The story is very amazing

- Gloria Orenstein author of Reweaving the World The Emergence of Ecofeminism

I remember Merlin when we met in 1986 to film Goddess Remembered in San Francisco She was

not originally scheduled to be at the dinner party we filmed but mysterious forces made it

possible for her to arrive in SF just in time I enjoyed Merlins contribution to the conversation we

filmed and especially enjoyed some pleasant hours months later in New York with her I feel her

passing very much and remember her life as one of the great blessings all women have shared

In love may she return again

- Donna Read director of Goddess Remembered The Burning Times and Full Circle

Requiem for Merlin Stone By Zsuzsanna Budapest I have tried to write this memorial several times You are much too hard to let go I cannot celebrate you and bemoan you and preserve you forever all at once So I will just talk to you as you once were here in my house many years ago Merlin sweet sister recline comfortably on my leather couch Here is your black coffee letrsquos talk and remember together For a long time I didnrsquot know what happened to you ldquoHave you heard from Merlinrdquo I asked everybody I knew Your phone no longer worked Letters to your address were

returned That was your last footstep for most of us Then nothing for decades and many years I spent

in search of Merlin Stone

Suddenly your man Lenny called and he told us you passed away February 23 2011 You had been ill a

long time and didnrsquot want to show yourself You knew years ago that your beautiful mind was changing

You didnrsquot want to be remembered for the long illness but for the contributions of art and literature I

get it

Once there was the Heroic Age of the 70rsquos you were amongst this generation of the brave seed- casters

inventors and artists who has sown seeds of knowledge about all things good for all women Even in

these fertile times women were still spiritual orphans We had no soul reflection in the high spiritual

places We had no knowledge of where we had been as women or where we could aspire to go We had

politics and feminism We needed more Some important part of us was still very empty

We simply had no spiritual past

It was not good form to believe in the existences of the Amazons of Anatolia or Asia or of the global

Goddess womenrsquos cultures No evidence for that Even feminists were frowning We didnrsquot dare to

believe in that it would have been one more reason to disqualify spirited women from any meaningful

conversation or visibility on the feminist cultural canvas Some politicos called us bliss bunnies We had

no ground to stand on

Our cultural past had been stolen from us Schools certainly never mentioned us the divine feminine

was either a perfume or a lipstick shade or maybe a salad dressing but certainly not an all powerful real

Goddess

Merlin Stonehellip you felt this part of feminist thought was sorely missing We simply had no information

about our own great people as a gender Who did we pray to Always men

Who went back in time and stole it all back for us Who was smart enough to read the old musty out-

of-print books in hopes of finding a couple of lines the patriarchs missed when they erased the Goddess

culture

Like an Amazon of the libraries it was you who hunted down the hard-to-come-by books visiting

museums and traveling to far-off distant lands for research When you came back with ldquoWhen God was

a Womanrdquo and enough material for its follow-up ldquoAncient Mirrors of Womanhoodrdquo we all knew you

had found the cultural Goddess motherlode

The brilliance richness and diversity of the global Goddess traditions were beyond anybodyrsquos hopes All

around the globe Merlin Stone had found our traditions of celebrations our goddesses and our moral

codes

We did come from somewhere awesome and our foremothers had left us treasures in ritual sacred

poetry and arthellip footsteps for us to follow And it was Merlin Stone who found it and published it

She published in England as The Paradise Papers because American publishers would not touch it Now

the books are with Beacon Press

Today we are no longer spiritual orphans of the world It was sister Merlin who gave her entire life to

this sacred reclaiming All of us stand to thank her for this very potent gift of the legitimized woman

spirit

As usual Merlin would just smile and make little of my accolade

She felt ldquocalledrdquo she said

She was an acclaimed American artist a sculptress and national treasure She taught Art History and

that led her to the surviving images of the Goddess which called her to see more Her welded art

sculptures took on more and more triple goddess themes and finally dissolved into the physical

research which took her to Turkey - Anatolia of old the land of the Mothers

She was lovingly protected hitch-hiking alone with long red hair flowing down her back she had little

money slept in caves a sacred stranger in her own once fertile Goddess homeland

ldquoHow did you find the booksrdquo I once asked her

ldquoStrange thingrdquo she explained ldquoI heard a hum - a hum of women when I got close to a book that had

useful information for us I just reached out and there it was I was led by a humrdquo

ldquoOh yes the humrdquo Merlin had come to dinner in Santa Monica we feminist witches were much

honored We held hands over my barley dish and hummed together as we usually did praying our

blessing Merlin burst into tears I was worried Who hurt our highly esteemed guest

ldquoNobody hurt merdquo she said ldquoBut this was the hum I heard in the libraries of Turkey This was the hum

that led me to the great Goddess booksrdquo

Then the witches fell silent and one by one we also teared up at this miracle How could a ragtag

revolutionary group of witches hum on a California mountaintop and a woman on the Goddess search

hear it all the way in Turkey Never mind the multiplication of the fishes and the loaves this was a much

better miracle Our belief in the all-pervasive omnipresent Goddess was never stronger

Which Goddess shall I invoke for your memorial You have given us hundreds

As a Dianic witch I love Hecate the transformer She who takes the tired souls away on her chariot

drawn by the dragons of time She is the healer of wounds the Queen of the dark side of the Moon

But Merlin loved Anahita She is the one ldquowho is the Cosmic Ocean in which the stars do float It is

Anahita who provides the nourishing rain sending waters from the heavens to the springs and rivers

protecting the flocks in pastures and causing them to bear their young -- as it is Anahita who fills the

womb with life Her chariot is drawn by white steeds named rain and wind and clouds and sleet or as

she rides on the back of a gliding eagle or even upon a splendid lionrdquo

At Anahitarsquos shrines still visible in Sardis and Susa in Kangawar and Ecbatana her inscription reads ldquoI

am the conscience of thine own selfrdquo

Rest sweetly dearest sister and if you wish to live on in our hearts please guide us like the hum once

guided you Donrsquot hurry linger amongst us

Merlin my beloved sister your chariot can wait

Ancient Mirrors of Womanhood Merlin Stone 1979 p210

I am going to be a guest speaker at the Women of Spirit and Faith Conference April 28- May 1

The Alchemy of Our Spiritual Leadership Women Redefining Power

Calling all women of spirit and faith This is not your typical womens conference

Imagine the energy of more than 300 women ready for inspiration deep wisdom and potent co-creation

Alchemy Highlights

Inspiring Keynote wisdom from Sister Joan Chittister Valarie Kaur and Naomi Tutu Stimulating Leadership Conversations featuring the wisdom and experience of a dozen diverse women

leaders Informative workshops with a focus on building practical skills and new models for collaborative

leadership Many opportunities for circle dialogue and structured conversation Optional activities such as Open Space Offerings Morning Meditations Yoga Movement Labyrinth Walks

and more The Alchemy Marketplace where you can shop for books jewelry art and music A Beautiful Meditation and Prayer Room for silence and reflection Art music poetry laughter and lots of right-brain fun and stimulation

I am also going to be attending the Glastonbury Goddess Conference 2011

Now five full days of Goddess-loving celebration with Fringe events from Sunday July 24 ndash 31

Celebrating the Great Mother of Water at Lammas details are online wwwgoddessconferencecom

Welcoming two USA two pioneers of the Goddess movement -

Vicki Noble co-creator of the Motherpeace Tarot

Zsuzsanna Budapest Founder of the Dianic Wiccan Tradition and Womenrsquos Spirituality Movement

With Conference Favorites Anique Radiant Heart Barbara Meiklejohn-Free Carolyn Hillyer Julie Felix

Kathy Jones Lydia Ruyle and Lady Olivia Durdin Robertson

With Ceremonies Adorations and Praise Songs to the Great Goddess of Water She who is the Source

and Womb of all Life Participate in moving Sacred Ceremonies take part in inspiring Workshops listen

to fascinating Presentations see beautiful Artwork amp Stalls Performances Music Song Poetry and

Dance Visit the Holy Wells of the Goddess in Avalon cleansing and immersing yourself in Her Healing

Waters Join one of Nine Wells - circles of support and participation in Conference Ceremonies Dance

the night away at the Goddess Gala Buffet and Masque and join our Goddess Procession through the

Landscape to the River Brue with a Fruit Feast

Plus Presenters Priestesses and Spinners Amanda Baker Annabel Du Boulay Anna Saqqara Price

Charissa Schipper Caroline Lir Deonesea la Fey Emma Rose Knight Erin McCauliffe Ganga Ashworth

Georgina Sirett-Hardie Graell Corsini Heloise Pilkington Isabella Verbruggen Isis Queen Jacqui

Woodward-Smith Jennifer Cooper Katinka Soetens Kaye Cooksey Koko Newport Lauren Raine Lisa

Newing Louise Bell Louise Tarrier Lydia Lite Marion van Eupen Mary Bruce Michelle Patten Miriam

Raven Morgaine Noam Zimin Oshia Drury Rose Flint Roz Bound Sally Pullinger Sharlea Johnson

Shirley-Ann Millar Shoshana Horobin Sophie Pullinger Sue Quatermass Tegwyn Hyndman Thalia

Brown Tiana Pitman amp Tina Free plus more great Priestesses amazing helpful Melissas amp lots more

wonderful women and men

My Workshops at Glastonbury

ZSUZSANNA BUDAPEST WE ALL COME FROM THE GODDESS (Women Only)

Sunday July 25th Women from all walks of life come together with High Priestess Zsuzsanna (Z) Budapest in a flowing woman-only Dianic circle celebrating our expanding global sisterhood Beginning with the sacred Dianic purification we enter the circle commune with our ancestors and our divine selves lift up a joyous dedication to the Goddess Sedna of the Deep as we bless all waters inside and outside Chanting dancing and strengthening our bonds of sisterhood We are the flow we are the ebb When the women are healed the whole world is healed Drummers musical instruments voices welcome Dress comfortably Come garlanded with something in season greens or flowers

Z Budapest is the founder of the Dianic (Feminist) Tradition of Wicca in the USA initiating the worldrsquos most famous coven the Susan B Anthony Coven Number One which continues to thrive and brings womenrsquos spirituality into mainstream consciousness (SusanBAnthonyCovencom) Z has led rituals lectured taught classes given workshops written articles tirelessly and published in hundreds of womens newspapers across the country She has powerfully influenced many of the future teachers and writers about the Goddess She is the director of the Womens Spirituality Forum a nonprofit organization and Z founded and sponsors the Dianic Universityrsquos Goddess College (GoddessCollegecom) Her books include Holy Book of Womens Mysteries Grandmother of Time Grandmother Moon See wwwZBudapestcom Venue Glastonbury Assembly Rooms Time 1000am-400pm Fee pound50$85euro65 register online wwwgoddessconferencecom

ZSUZSANNA BUDAPEST ndash TAROT SOCIAL IN MY ROOM (Glastonbury)

July 26-27th Tarot Social information and exact date to be announced

ZSUZSANNA BUDAPEST ndash THE HERSTORY OF THE DIANIC TRADITION (Mixed Audience)

July 28th A multi-media presentation on the Herstory of the Dianic Tradition for a mixed audience Z

Budapest provides the historical background to the origins of the Dianic Tradition as well as important

triumphs that the Dianics fought for and won for the Pagan community and beyond Like the right to

perform divination readings in the United States in public and charge for it Historically it was Z and

Dianics who fought for the rights of this civil liberty in California which then opened the door to other

states to follow suit You can learn more about that at WitchTrialnet This presentation also clears up

some urban legends about the Dianic Tradition Such as itrsquos a man-hating tradition the accusations of

separatism Nothing could be farther from the truth Z Budapest founded the Womenrsquos Spirituality

Movement in 1971 Since then there has been an uninterrupted Goddess worship for the past 40 plus

years of women circling together in sacred celebration of all the Sabbaths and many moons This Dianic

Tradition has spread all over the globe After a brief break the second half of the workshop will involve

spiritual movement and dancing the meeting Dance Finally we will finish with an inspiring multi-media

presentation Prayers to the Mother all living creatures are one

Hope to see you at the Glastonbury Goddess Conference 2011

Follow Z Budapest on Facebook And Twitter

ZSUZSANNA BUDAPEST ndash TAROT SOCIAL

I am doing another women-only Tarot Social on April 23rd at my own home Who wants to host a Tarot

Social For more information visit TarotSocialcom and contact me

After more than thirty years in circulation The Holy Book of Womenrsquos Mysteries is still a ground-breaking book in the forefront of womenrsquos spirituality

Get your own copy of Zrsquos out of print books and DVDs at the Womenrsquos Spirituality Forum online store

Irsquom also available for Tarot Readings I know many of you are going through some tough times and

thatrsquos really when you should be reaching out for a reading Irsquom here if you need me

This magazine is sponsored by the Womenrsquos Spirituality Forum

Please help support our efforts to help keep the Goddess Alive

The Application for Dianic Clergy Priestess is online

Goddess College Updates amp More

We have changed the way the online school is doing business After offering free memberships over

the last four years the changes in the economy have forced us to make changes hellip good changes

The Dianic University has now become the Goddess College and has its own website to boot It was

necessary to update the schoolrsquos software but with all the free accounts the database had gotten too

big to migrate So we were forced to start over from scratch eliminating all the free accounts If you

were a student in good standing and part of a paid class in old Dianic University then we are working to

grandmother you into the new school

The way to gain entry into the new Goddess College is through membership in the Susan B Anthony

Coven 1 Everyone in the Goddess College will be active members of the SBA with only a handful of

exceptions Join the Susan B Anthony Coven 1 - You can apply for membership here

The Susan B Anthony Coven 1 now meets inside the Goddess College and the old DU area is closed

We have updated and moved over the Dianic Feminist Philosophy class and the first Holy Book class The

Holy Book series of classes is being totally reworked and improved Thatrsquos partly due to an alliance wersquove

made with the Ocean Seminary College which will allow us to offer degrees for our course of study We

are currently in process with meeting their requirements to make this happen Very exciting stuff for

womenrsquos spirituality I will keep you updated in my column here in the Goddess Magazine

We are networked up the Hoola-Hoop in Facebook Itrsquos hard to miss everything wersquore doing and yet

some of you are still contacting me and saying you hadnrsquot heard of this or that Get your face into

Facebook my sisters and friend the following pages so you can stay in the know

Z Budapest on Facebook

Z Budapest Fan Page

Goddess Magazine Radio Show Fan Page

Goddess Festival Fan Page

Food Magic Fan Page

Susan B Anthony Coven Fan Page

Why arenrsquot you more active in the Dianic Tradition We have a lot of women who read this Goddess

Magazine every month and it would awesome to have more of you join in with us at the Susan B

Anthony Coven 1 A membership into the worldrsquos most famous all-womenrsquos coven makes for a nice gift

to yourself Give it some thought and then come join us The Womens Spirituality Forum is an IRS

501(c)3 non-profit Your registration fees and your membership are tax deductible

Check out our mobile-friendly portal website wwwGoddessLivecom hellip Wersquove pulled all our

information and articles into one location for you and it doesnrsquot matter if yoursquore a computer user or a

mobile user because wersquove programmed the site to be able to switch back and forth

Goddess Magazine Radio Show

Goddess Magazine Radio Show will be forced to go to a half hour program because of changes at

Blogtalk Radio We will bring you more chats with Z very soon Promise

Look for announcements of the new Goddess Magazine Radio Shows on our Facebook fan page Are you

a member of the Goddess Magazine Radio Show Fan page And now you can listen to Goddess

Magazine Radio Shows on iTunes So open you iTunes and subscribe to our podcasted show

Itrsquos free

Goddess Live Toolbar

Every Sister in Goddess who wants to stay linked in to what Z Budapest is doing should have this

toolbar Itrsquos free Itrsquos easy to install and itrsquos secure Get your own Goddess Live Toolbar right now by

clicking here

Follow the Goddess Festival on Facebook And Twitter

Get your new copy here

OTHER WOMENrsquoS SACRED EVENTS amp TOURS TELL THEM Z SENT YOU A WOMENrsquoS RITUAL RETREAT IN CRETE A JOURNEY TO THE GODDESS MAY 23-JUNE 5TH 2011

Facilitated by Ruth Barrett and Catherine Ridder YES We still have spaces still available for our fourth

ritual retreat to Crete Space is limited to 13 women on a first-come basis If you are interested in

hearing more information about this incredible trip contact Catherine Ridder at 626-793-7520 or email

caridder2netzerocom

Sacred Sites of Avalon England with Donna Virgilio April 27 to May 3 2011 Travel to Stonehenge for a private ceremony in the inner circle Walk to the Tor considered to be the legendary Camelot Tour Roman and Medieval Baths and honor the Goddess Minerva visit and pray at the Chalice Well and see the Sacred Gardens Tour the Glastonbury Goddess Temple and participate in the official Beltaine Festivities and Ceremony See the Boscastle Witchcraft Museum and Journey to Tintagel the mystical birthplace of King Arthur and peek inside Merlinrsquos Cave Walk through Avebury Stonecircle West Kennet Long Barrows Silsbury Hill and see Crop Circles Finally dance at the Avalon Beltaine Fairy Ball featuring Doreen Virtues Band Obsidian

On the Trail of the Goddess in Turkey - Anatolia - Land of the Nourishing Mothers

ON THE TRAIL OF THE GREAT GODDESS

Sacred Journey to Turkey

November 2 - 14 2011

featuring

Karen and Roy Tate

Guided by Rashid Ergener

Visit the sacred goddess sites in Turkey Catalhoyuk Lagina Ephesus Troy and Sardis

httpwwwexaminercomwomen-s-goddess-spirituality-in-los-angelessacred-tour-of-goddess-sites-turkey-coming-november-2011-for-women-men

Check out the new video of sacred places in Turkey Hear the hauntingly beautiful music as the Ancient Mother calls httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=Twbcx8IicxI

8th ANNUAL WISE WOMANS FESTIVAL IN FLORIDA

Come and Greet the Springtime with Our Lady of the Faery

Greenwood April 9th and 10th

Nymphs Dryads Devas Kami Apsaras and Sprites Oh My What is the connection between Goddesses

and Faeryfolk Itrsquos Springtime and even though we have April showers you wonrsquot have to wait for May

to enjoy the flowers Join Morning Glory Zell noted Goddess historian and Priestess for the latest in her

series of Great Goddess Retreats and find out why the Green Goddess is more than a salad dressing

With her 36 years of experience and a collection of over 200 votive Goddess statues get ready for an

unforgettable weekend journey of sacred learning and transformational experience

This Retreat will be held at the Raven Haven Morning Gloryrsquos beautiful 10 acre home in Sonoma County

California Raven Haven is nice and roomy with a deck a pool and a spa and a special magickal Faery

Porch covered with flowering wisteria The Temple Room has huge floor to ceiling glass cases displaying

her collection of Goddess figurines and a large altar covered in beautiful Goddess images If you come

from out of town there is room to camp out (if itrsquos dry) sleep over if you like or you can choose from the

many excellent nearby hotels

The Retreat begins on Saturday the 24th at 200pm and ends on Sunday the 25th at 800pm Saturday

we will devote ourselves to learning and exploring the many Goddesses who have a connection to the

realm of Faery from Danu to Ma Ku Hold the images in your hands and hear their fascinating stories

Later we will journey deep in guided meditation to discover the special one which calls to you

Sunday starts with fun and relaxation as we learn the ancient art of weaving wreaths of living flowers

and plants to make a magickal faery wreath or perhaps you would like to learn how to make a faery

house outside on the Faery Porch that will be covered with blooming wisteria Later we will have a ritual

bath in the spa and a procession to decorate the various Goddess shrines around the property The

Retreat culminates with a ceremony to honor the Goddesses and the Fae in a Council where we sing

together and where each Goddess or Faery can share Her Truth

The fee for the entire weekend Retreat is only $10000 or you may attend only Saturdayrsquos program of

the lecture and meditation for $6000 Sunday however is not open to anyone who has not already

attended the Saturday session Meals are shared in an easygoing potluck fashion You truly have never

had any other experience quite like this one and you will come away re-energized as well as transformed

by the power of your new divine connection

Phone (707) 795-8047

mythicimcnorg

PO Box 758

Cotati CA 94931

Tryst ndash Handfasting Commitment Ceremonies

Z is back sisters And shersquos available to officiate your Trysting wedding ceremonies again The most popular pagan Goddess wedding ceremony was created by Z Budapest in The Holy Book of Womens Mysteries where Z coined the term Tryst Ritual as an expressly feminine marriage ceremony and rite of passage that can be used for heterosexual couples as well as same sex couples

Z Budapest has been conducting Pagan marriage rituals for over 40 years as a celebrated High Priestess within the Dianic Tradition which she founded Z is available to officiate your handfasting ceremony as well Whether its a civil union or a licensed marriage certificate Z is able to offer you her services as clergy She has legal standings through the Womens Spirituality Forum an IRS 501(c)3 non-profit in the state of California making your clergy fees tax deductible You can learn more about Zrsquos Trysting Ritual and schedule your wedding ceremony with her in 2010

Crete Archaeologists discover skeleton covered with gold foil in 2700-year-old grave

Greek archaeologists have found an ancient skeleton covered with gold foil in a grave on the island of Crete officials said Tuesday

Excavator Nicholas Stampolidis said his team discovered more than 3000 pieces of gold foil in the 7th-century BC twin grave near the ancient town of Eleutherna

Cemeteries there have produced a wealth of outstanding artifacts in recent years

The tiny gold ornaments from 1 to 4 centimetres (04 to 15 inches) long had been sewn onto a lavish robe or shroud that initially wrapped the body of a woman and has almost completely rotted away but for a few off-white threads

The whole length of the (grave) was covered with small pieces of gold foil mdash square circular and lozenge-shaped Stampolidis told The Associated Press We were literally digging up gold interspersed with earth not earth with some gold in it

The woman who presumably had a high social or religious status was buried with a second skeleton in a large jar sealed with a stone slab weighing more than half a ton It was hidden behind a false wall to confuse grave robbers

Experts are trying to determine the other skeletons sex The grave also contained a copper bowl pottery perfume bottles imported from Egypt or Syria and Palestine hundreds of amber rock crystal and faience beads as well as a gold pendant in the form of a bee goddess that probably was part of a rock crystal and gold necklace

If you look at it one way up its shaped like a lily said Stampolidis a professor of archaeology at the University of Crete who has worked at Eleutherna for the 25 years Turned upside down you see a female figure holding her breasts whose lower body is shaped as a bee with wings The workmanship is exquisite

The ruins of Eleutherna stand on the northern foothills of Mount Ida mdash the mythical birthplace of Zeus chief of the ancient Greek gods Past excavations have discovered a citadel homes and an important cemetery with lavish female burials

The town flourished from the 9th century BC mdash the dark ages of Greek archaeology that followed the fall of Cretes great Minoan palatial culture mdash and endured until the Middle Ages

httparchaeologynewsnetworkblogspotcom201009archaeologists-on-crete-find-skeletonhtml

SWEET TASTE OF SPRING Susun S Weed

March winds blow the sweet scent of maple sap boiling to my questing nose When the days are warm

and sunny and the nights below freezing the sap rises in the trees If those trees are sugar maples then

it is worth drilling a hole in the bark inserting a tap and collecting their sweet sap There is so much

sugar in sugar maple sap that it can be boiled and turned into maple syrup and maple sugar

Therersquos about one gallon of maple syrup and ninety-nine gallons of water in one hundred gallons of

maple sap A hot fire and a slow but steady boil send that sweet-smelling water vapor high in the clear

cold sky The March wind blows it to me I close my eyes and remember my years of ldquosugaringrdquo making

maple syrup

Therersquos something special about a task that requires one to stay up all night Maple sap starts to ferment

if it is left at normal temperatures for very long Once ten or so gallons of sap have been collected the

boiling begins hellip and cannot be stopped until the finished syrup is achieved many many many hours

later

I have never sugared without at least one overnighter and sometimes two A large operation boils sap

for weeks without stopping just drawing off the syrup as it forms if the run is steady and copious

It was a picture of Helen Nearing driving a team of horses through the woods standing on a sleigh

loaded with buckets of maple sap that made me long for a homestead where I could lead The Simple

Life like her Two years later I had my own ldquosugar bushrdquo (an acre or more of woodlot where large sugar

maples grow) Spring equinox found me with my drill in hand a pocket full of taps and a bunch of funny

buckets with lids to hang from the taps ldquoTing tingrdquo the ping of sap filling the metal buckets echoes

tying me through time to every woman who has ever sugared and bringing a smile to my heart and

face

My groves of sugar maples have never been large enough to require a team of horses or a sleigh Irsquove

always lugged a big bucket out to the trees and poured the sap from the collecting buckets into it When

I have two or three buckets full I pour them into a big galvanized tub set up on cinder blocks over a fire

and commence to boil it down

Native peoples valued maple sugar so highly that they set up camp in the sugar bush and lived there

until the sap stopped flowing Lacking metal drill bits they cut a shallow groove in the bark and pressed

hollow elder stems into service as taps to direct the flow of sap into birch bark containers

I can heat the sap directly in my metal tub while they had to hollow out a log put smooth rocks into the

fire heat them and put the hot rocks into the sap in the hollowed out log to boil it down into maple

syrup and sugar Whew I am impressed with the power of the desire for sweet It takes far more

calories in fuel and human energy to make maple syrup or maple sugar than it returns

Grandmother Twylah taught us that maple trees are friendly and companionable colorful and

expressive They always have a positive attitude and are adept at helping us see solutions to impossible

problems Maple trees are devoted and true Make friends with a maple and you will have a friend for

life she advised

Ellen Everet Hopman green witch reminds us that maple-syrup-making time is Eostrersquos time Eostre

(ee-oh-stir) is the Teutonic goddess of fertility and manifestation Her symbols are the egg and the

rabbit her time is Spring Equinox A lovely custom still enacted but without the underlying magic is to

paint a picture of something you desire on an egg and plant it in the ground so Eostre can help it grow

and become real

If itrsquos too late to tap your maples or you live too far south for the sap to flow strongly you can still be

blessed and embraced by maple A decoction of maple bark boiled in water can be used to ease sore

eyes externally and to tonify the uterus after birth internally

A magical wand of maple wood is used for spells that bring harmony especially in the home And maple

leaves sewn into a charm made of green flannel tied with a golden string will bring abundance into

your life

Indulge your desire for sweet Celebrate spring equinox and Eostre who loves sweet things Have a

stack of pancakes swimming in butter and maple syrup Or pour maple syrup over plain vanilla ice cream

and savor the sweet taste of the friendly maple tree

Green blessings

How much sugar per gallon of sap is quite variable depending on the type of maple the growing

conditions and especially the amount of sun the tree gets Sugar maple (Acer saccharum) sap is the

sweetest followed by the saps of silver maple (Acer saccharinum) Northern red maple (Acer rubrum)

and Norway maple (Acer platanoides)

Susun Weed

PO Box 64

Woodstock NY 12498

Fax 1-845-246-8081

Visit Susun Weed at wwwsusunweedcom and wwwashtreepublishingcom

Vibrant passionate and involved Susun Weed has garnered an international reputation for her

groundbreaking lectures teachings and writings on health and nutrition She challenges conventional

medical approaches with humor insight and her vast encyclopedic knowledge of herbal medicine

Unabashedly pro-woman her animated and enthusiastic lectures are engaging and often profoundly

provocative

Susun is one of Americas best-known authorities on herbal medicine and natural approaches to

womens health Her four best-selling books are recommended by expert herbalists and well-known

physicians and are used and cherished by millions of women around the world Learn more at

wwwsusunweedcom

Susun Weedrsquos books include

Wise Woman Herbal for the Childbearing Year

Author Susun S Weed Simple safe remedies for pregnancy childbirth lactation and

newborns Includes herbs for fertility and birth control Foreword by Jeannine Parvati

Baker 196 pages index illustrations

Healing Wise

Author Susun S Weed Superb herbal in the feminine-intuitive mode Complete

instructions for using common plants for food beauty medicine and longevity

Introduction by Jean Houston 312 pages index illustrations

Menopausal Years the Wise Woman Way

Author Susun S Weed The best book on menopause is now better Completely

revised with 100 new pages All the remedies women know and trust plus hundreds

of new ones New sections on thyroid health fibromyalgia hairy problems male

menopause and herbs for women taking hormones Recommended by Susan Love

MD and Christiane Northrup MD Foreword by Juliette de Bairacli Levy 304 pages

index illustrations

For more info on menopause visit wwwmenopause-metamorphosiscom

Breast Cancer Breast Health

Author Susun S Weed Foods exercises and attitudes to keep your breasts healthy

Supportive complimentary medicines to ease side-effects of surgery radiation

chemotherapy or tamoxifen Foreword by Christiane Northrup MD 380 pages index

illustrations

UPCOMING DIANIC EVENTS

Pagan Examiner ndash Read the articles written by Bobbie and myself Zrsquos Calendar of Events ndash Want to know where I am appearing Goddess Festival ndash You think the last was good Goddess is Alive Tarot Social - A joyful coming-together of the Womenrsquos Tarot community a

Revival of the 70rsquos TRAVELING MAGIC SHOW by a FOREMOTHER of GODDESS SPIRITUALITY The QUEEN of TAROT READINGS and the woman responsible for LEGALIZING TAROT in California hellip Z Budapest

Z Budapest is conducting a most entertaining Tarot Social at her home in

Oakland CA on April 23rd For more information and registration go to

TarotSocialcom

The Dianic University for Women in Goddess

Study the Dianic Tradition with Z Budapest the woman who rebirthed it into modern culture Classes at the Dianic University are designed for women only

Sisterhood of the Moon ~ Womenrsquos Spirituality Coven in the Z Budapest Dianic Tradition

Events in the Sisterhood of the Moon are for women-born-women only Located in Hayward CA You must contact Jesamyn Angelica for more information Many of the members of this group are also members of the Susan B Anthony Coven No1 Facebookpage

Hands of Demeter ~ Womenrsquos Spirituality Coven in the Z Budapest Dianic Tradition

Events in the Hands of Demeter are for women-born-women only Located in Semi Valley CA You must contact httpearthmothercovenantcom for more information Many of the members of this group are also members of the Susan B Anthony Coven No1 Facebook page

The Sacred Circle ~ Recovering amp Reclaiming Ancient Ways to Heal

Events in The Sacred Circle are for members only unless otherwise stated Call JoAnna 775-882-1599 for membership inquiries

Sisterhood of the Turning Tides ~ Womenrsquos Spirituality Coven in the Z Budapest Dianic Tradition

They meet on Esbats and Sabbats and have a Tuesday night drumritual circle Located in Mendocino CA You must contact Sage Simon for more information Many of the members of this group are also members of the Susan B Anthony Coven No1 Facebookpage

You can sponsor Goddess magazine too Click here to helphellip

Deepest Gratitude to Sisters in Goddess for their Donations

The Application for Dianic Clergy Priestess is online

Follow the Goddess Festival on Facebook And Twitter

Thank you sisters who have donated $1 a month to help support our Goddess efforts

You can sponsor Goddess magazine too Click here to helphellip

Vicki Scotti LuAnn Morris and Amy Otero are

Hecatersquos Wheel an acoustic folk trio Their

music is inspired by and dedicated to the

Goddess in all her guises They sing an eclectic

variety of cover songs and original music

Hecatersquos Wheel has been playing and

singing together for several years and their

voices have found a natural harmonious blend

We VERY much enjoyed their Beltaine concert

Goddess Resource Links Z Budapest Website Goddess College Online Goddess Blog ndash Sponsored by the Susan B Anthony Coven Z Budapest Blog Goddess Festival Susan B Anthony Coven Dianic Wicca Tarot Social Witch Trial ndash the last great witch trial in America Zs Events Schedule Zs University Calendar

Zs Books Summoning the Fates Holy Book of Womens Mysteries Celestial Wisdom Grandmother of Time Grandmother Moon Goddess in the Office Goddess in the Bedroom

Page 3: Goddess Magazine (March 2011)

producing a globally accessible memorial service There will be very notable people attending this

memorial service and we will be filming the service itself This is a her-storical moment in time when the

womenrsquos spirituality community comes together to remember the life of a remarkable woman Merlin

Stone All of us can help keep Merlinrsquos memory alive by donating either through attending her memorial

or by donating online at wwwMerlinStonenet

We will be providing a live video stream from the memorial out to the Internet Gather your groups or

participate individually but we are working to make sure that all of you can participate in some way We

will be sharing more information with you on the MerlinStonenet website So mark you calendars for

September 24th

If you would like to attend the memorial in-person you can make your donation to reserve your seat

here online httpmerlinstonenetmerlin-stone-memorial-florida

This is a huge undertaking We need all of you to help get the word out about this eventhellip make it go

viral sisters We can never repay the debt of what Merlin Stone did for womenrsquos spirituality but we can

give her the accolades of this memorial service

Have you got any audio video or photos of Merlin Stone that yoursquod like to share Please email me right

now

April 10th Dumb Supper for Merlin Stone

Dumb Supper means a quiet meal and pagans hold it as a sacred event in remembrance of a beloved

soul

When we do our dumb Supper we bring photos (and in this case her books) of our departed to set

around their place setting It helps us to visualize our beloved and remember them well Make it a

special occasion You can even add some decorations or flowers that you think the departed might like

While it is a solemn occasion it can still be appealing to the living and dead alike

The meal begins with a prayer and a welcoming of the departed and then goes totally silent

Blessed be the good Spirits of our ancestors

(pause)

We invite the awakening Spirit of Merlin Stone come Merlin sister be with us

You have slept your deep sleep now come as we elevate your spirit

We set your place at our table We set out your food apple sauce and black coffee

Please eat this with us and take strength for your journey in the spirit world

The food is served up to all plates and then everyone eats together No one leaves the table until

everyone is finished Then finally the silence is broken as everyone thanks the departed for coming to

supper with them

Thank you sweet spirit for your attendance

Merlin let these lines you have written now serve you as wings as you fly

(Read them 3 times)

Ancient Mirrors of Womanhood has many more selections you can use

(From When God was a Woman)

ldquo Most ancient Mother

Great radiant One

Lady of the Stars

Mistress of celestial Oceans

Highest Judge

Fiery One who rose from primordial floods

It is Neit who reaches down from heavens

To take the hand of each who dies

Taking them in her arms

To place them as stars of the Universerdquo

Dearest Goddess Neit reach down to our sister Merlin take her in your arms and place her as

a star in our Universe Blessed be

After the meal is over nobody eats the food on the plate of the departed You can feed the departedrsquos

food to the family pets or the earth Itrsquos believed that the departed ate of the essence of the meal and

thus shared the meal with their living relatives Now Merlin Stone is fortified to enter the spirit world

Two of my books are beautifully back in Print So exciting

List Price $1999 Add to Cart

GRANDMOTHER MOON by Zsuzsanna E Budapest Inviting us to look at the moon as the old ally she is renowned feminist witch Zsuzsanna Budapest shows how to tap into the moons powers for peace health and energy With delightful wit and wisdom she shares practical and entertaining lunar lore from ancient moon-based rituals to lunar cycle diet tips Budapest reveals how by acting in harmony with the moon women can balance everything from their mood and weight to fertility Here is a spirited illumination of the natural cycles that influence our lives as lunar primates Rewritten and new materials added Available on Kindle

List Price $1199 Add to Cart

Selene - The Most Famous Bull-leaper on Earth by Zsuzsanna E Budapest Selene is far more than a coloring book The story of Selene the bull-leaper is a story of a young woman who defeats fear and socialization and gains self-hood through accomplishments of her own Her name means moon and this name was common for young women to take up in honor of the Moon Goddess Selene Selene was pictured on the temples and walls of Asia Minor sitting atop a white sow So while this story is fictional it is based on the history we do know

Please enjoy this issue of Goddess Magazine and blessing to you and all your beloveds

Blessed be

Z Budapest

Thank you sisters who have donated $1 a month to help support our Goddess efforts

You can sponsor Goddess magazine too Click here to helphellip

In Search of Merlin Stone

by Bobbie Grennier Marilyn C ldquoMerlinrdquo Stone passed away on February 23 2011 from complications caused by an extended illness She was born September 27 1931 in Brooklyn New York Merlin loved education and was a devoted student She attended New York State College where she earned her Bachelorrsquos of Science in Art Education Albright Art School California College of Arts and Crafts where she earned her Doctorate of Philosophy and Ashmolean Museum in Oxford England for five years of independent studies Merlin Stone is best remembered for her impressive literary body of work From 1971-1976 she traveled to Turkey Lebanon Cyprus Crete Greece among others where she uncovered the lost Goddess culture She wrote about her discoveries in two landmark books When God was a Woman (originally titled The Paradise Papers) and Ancient Mirrors of Womanhood ndash Our Goddess and Heroine Heritage She also wrote a third book called Three Thousand Years of Racism and she was also published in many magazines and anthologies

She was a noted American Artist and Sculptor working her craft from 1958-1967 Merlin Stonersquos artwork still stands throughout the state of New York and she received a personal letter of thanks from Robert F Kennedy for the loan of her art work which was on display in his New York City office To say that Merlin Stone changed the religious landscape is an understatement Her work influenced the budding Womenrsquos Studies Departments with thoughts of womenrsquos theology and history She fostered new thinking throughout the academic world In the same way that Marija Gimbutas gave women their own historical record of artifacts Merlin Stone gave women their own spiritual culture

Merlin Stone was recognized by liberal thinkers She once wrote ldquohellipYoko [Ono] and John [Lennon] had taken turns reading ldquoWhen God was a Womanrdquo to each other I knew they had the book because I had been asked to autograph a copy for them hellipit touched me deeplyrdquo There is so much more to say about Merlin Stonersquos life much of it we are just beginning to understand because Merlin led a very private existence With the help of her life-partner Len Schneir and her two daughters Cynthia Davis and Jenny Hirst we are creating three memorial projects

1 DVD documentary called In Search of Merlin Stone chronicling her life

2 A book of the same title featuring remembrances personal influences and white papers all focused on Merlin and her body of work

3 The Benefit Memorial Celebration on September 24 2011 in Clearwater Florida

When God was a Woman by Merlin Stone

The Benefit Memorial Celebration will take place at the Unitarian Universalist Church 2470 Nursery

Road Clearwater FL 33764 This celebration of Merlin Stonersquos life is in production and updated

information will be posted on the wwwMerlinStonenet website You may also donate to Merlin

Stonersquos Memorial Fund at the wwwMerlinStonenet website All donations are thankfully welcomed

ldquoI want the world to remember her for the goddess she wasrdquo said her life-partner Len Schneir ldquoI must

admit that it took me a long time to finally believe and fully trust the Goddess and Merlin everything I

am is because of her wisdomrdquo

If you have a Merlin Stone story photo audio recording video recording to share etc please contact Z

Budapest (wwwZBudapestcom) The September 24th Memorial will be streamed live onto the

Internet details will be announced at the wwwMerlinStonenet website

She touched the hearts of women and men globally Merlin Stone is recognized and remembered most

by her contemporaries

Today we are no longer spiritual orphans of the world It was sister Merlin who gave her entire

life to this sacred reclaiming All of us stand to thank her for this very potent gift of the

legitimized woman spirit When you came back with ldquoWhen God was a Womanrdquo and enough

material for its follow up ldquoAncient Mirrors of Womanhoodrdquo we all knew you had found the

cultural Goddess mother lode You are much too hard to let go

-Zsuzsanna Budapest author of The Holy book of Womenrsquos Mysteries and Grandmother Moon

In the beginning God was a woman Do you remember Those words still give me chills

ldquoWhen God was a Womanrdquo changed my life I remember Merlins penetrating wit and intellect

and her wild henna red hair She will be missed Blessed be

- Carol P Christ author of Rebirth of the Goddess and She Who Changes

Few people have inspired me like Merlin Stone and her work Because of her I found Goddess

deity archetype and ideal Because of her my life has been filled with inspiration meaning and

direction Thank you beloved Merlin Stone May you smile down on us and guide us from that

special resting place in the arms of the Mother

- Karen Tate author of Sacred Places of Goddess

Merlin Stones work brought knowledge of the Divine Feminine to the consciousness of the

Western world We are very grateful to her for her pioneering work

- Miriam Robbins Dexter PhD author of Sacred Display and Whence the Goddesses

Merlin Stone was a great inspiration when I first read When God was a Woman in the early

80s It spoke to something deep inside me and affirmed my own knowing We all owe her

gratitude for the Goddess work she did

- Kathy Jones author of The Goddess in Glastonbury and Priestess of Avalon Priestess of the

Goddess

She [Merlin] was so so amazing I am really saddened to learn this ---as it came like a shock I

knew her pretty well in the days when my book was happening What a terrible loss--but what a

great gain for women in our time She opened up so much for all of us---and it was because she

wanted to be a sculptor and was searching for empowered images of women--thats how she

came upon all the goddess images The story is very amazing

- Gloria Orenstein author of Reweaving the World The Emergence of Ecofeminism

I remember Merlin when we met in 1986 to film Goddess Remembered in San Francisco She was

not originally scheduled to be at the dinner party we filmed but mysterious forces made it

possible for her to arrive in SF just in time I enjoyed Merlins contribution to the conversation we

filmed and especially enjoyed some pleasant hours months later in New York with her I feel her

passing very much and remember her life as one of the great blessings all women have shared

In love may she return again

- Donna Read director of Goddess Remembered The Burning Times and Full Circle

Requiem for Merlin Stone By Zsuzsanna Budapest I have tried to write this memorial several times You are much too hard to let go I cannot celebrate you and bemoan you and preserve you forever all at once So I will just talk to you as you once were here in my house many years ago Merlin sweet sister recline comfortably on my leather couch Here is your black coffee letrsquos talk and remember together For a long time I didnrsquot know what happened to you ldquoHave you heard from Merlinrdquo I asked everybody I knew Your phone no longer worked Letters to your address were

returned That was your last footstep for most of us Then nothing for decades and many years I spent

in search of Merlin Stone

Suddenly your man Lenny called and he told us you passed away February 23 2011 You had been ill a

long time and didnrsquot want to show yourself You knew years ago that your beautiful mind was changing

You didnrsquot want to be remembered for the long illness but for the contributions of art and literature I

get it

Once there was the Heroic Age of the 70rsquos you were amongst this generation of the brave seed- casters

inventors and artists who has sown seeds of knowledge about all things good for all women Even in

these fertile times women were still spiritual orphans We had no soul reflection in the high spiritual

places We had no knowledge of where we had been as women or where we could aspire to go We had

politics and feminism We needed more Some important part of us was still very empty

We simply had no spiritual past

It was not good form to believe in the existences of the Amazons of Anatolia or Asia or of the global

Goddess womenrsquos cultures No evidence for that Even feminists were frowning We didnrsquot dare to

believe in that it would have been one more reason to disqualify spirited women from any meaningful

conversation or visibility on the feminist cultural canvas Some politicos called us bliss bunnies We had

no ground to stand on

Our cultural past had been stolen from us Schools certainly never mentioned us the divine feminine

was either a perfume or a lipstick shade or maybe a salad dressing but certainly not an all powerful real

Goddess

Merlin Stonehellip you felt this part of feminist thought was sorely missing We simply had no information

about our own great people as a gender Who did we pray to Always men

Who went back in time and stole it all back for us Who was smart enough to read the old musty out-

of-print books in hopes of finding a couple of lines the patriarchs missed when they erased the Goddess

culture

Like an Amazon of the libraries it was you who hunted down the hard-to-come-by books visiting

museums and traveling to far-off distant lands for research When you came back with ldquoWhen God was

a Womanrdquo and enough material for its follow-up ldquoAncient Mirrors of Womanhoodrdquo we all knew you

had found the cultural Goddess motherlode

The brilliance richness and diversity of the global Goddess traditions were beyond anybodyrsquos hopes All

around the globe Merlin Stone had found our traditions of celebrations our goddesses and our moral

codes

We did come from somewhere awesome and our foremothers had left us treasures in ritual sacred

poetry and arthellip footsteps for us to follow And it was Merlin Stone who found it and published it

She published in England as The Paradise Papers because American publishers would not touch it Now

the books are with Beacon Press

Today we are no longer spiritual orphans of the world It was sister Merlin who gave her entire life to

this sacred reclaiming All of us stand to thank her for this very potent gift of the legitimized woman

spirit

As usual Merlin would just smile and make little of my accolade

She felt ldquocalledrdquo she said

She was an acclaimed American artist a sculptress and national treasure She taught Art History and

that led her to the surviving images of the Goddess which called her to see more Her welded art

sculptures took on more and more triple goddess themes and finally dissolved into the physical

research which took her to Turkey - Anatolia of old the land of the Mothers

She was lovingly protected hitch-hiking alone with long red hair flowing down her back she had little

money slept in caves a sacred stranger in her own once fertile Goddess homeland

ldquoHow did you find the booksrdquo I once asked her

ldquoStrange thingrdquo she explained ldquoI heard a hum - a hum of women when I got close to a book that had

useful information for us I just reached out and there it was I was led by a humrdquo

ldquoOh yes the humrdquo Merlin had come to dinner in Santa Monica we feminist witches were much

honored We held hands over my barley dish and hummed together as we usually did praying our

blessing Merlin burst into tears I was worried Who hurt our highly esteemed guest

ldquoNobody hurt merdquo she said ldquoBut this was the hum I heard in the libraries of Turkey This was the hum

that led me to the great Goddess booksrdquo

Then the witches fell silent and one by one we also teared up at this miracle How could a ragtag

revolutionary group of witches hum on a California mountaintop and a woman on the Goddess search

hear it all the way in Turkey Never mind the multiplication of the fishes and the loaves this was a much

better miracle Our belief in the all-pervasive omnipresent Goddess was never stronger

Which Goddess shall I invoke for your memorial You have given us hundreds

As a Dianic witch I love Hecate the transformer She who takes the tired souls away on her chariot

drawn by the dragons of time She is the healer of wounds the Queen of the dark side of the Moon

But Merlin loved Anahita She is the one ldquowho is the Cosmic Ocean in which the stars do float It is

Anahita who provides the nourishing rain sending waters from the heavens to the springs and rivers

protecting the flocks in pastures and causing them to bear their young -- as it is Anahita who fills the

womb with life Her chariot is drawn by white steeds named rain and wind and clouds and sleet or as

she rides on the back of a gliding eagle or even upon a splendid lionrdquo

At Anahitarsquos shrines still visible in Sardis and Susa in Kangawar and Ecbatana her inscription reads ldquoI

am the conscience of thine own selfrdquo

Rest sweetly dearest sister and if you wish to live on in our hearts please guide us like the hum once

guided you Donrsquot hurry linger amongst us

Merlin my beloved sister your chariot can wait

Ancient Mirrors of Womanhood Merlin Stone 1979 p210

I am going to be a guest speaker at the Women of Spirit and Faith Conference April 28- May 1

The Alchemy of Our Spiritual Leadership Women Redefining Power

Calling all women of spirit and faith This is not your typical womens conference

Imagine the energy of more than 300 women ready for inspiration deep wisdom and potent co-creation

Alchemy Highlights

Inspiring Keynote wisdom from Sister Joan Chittister Valarie Kaur and Naomi Tutu Stimulating Leadership Conversations featuring the wisdom and experience of a dozen diverse women

leaders Informative workshops with a focus on building practical skills and new models for collaborative

leadership Many opportunities for circle dialogue and structured conversation Optional activities such as Open Space Offerings Morning Meditations Yoga Movement Labyrinth Walks

and more The Alchemy Marketplace where you can shop for books jewelry art and music A Beautiful Meditation and Prayer Room for silence and reflection Art music poetry laughter and lots of right-brain fun and stimulation

I am also going to be attending the Glastonbury Goddess Conference 2011

Now five full days of Goddess-loving celebration with Fringe events from Sunday July 24 ndash 31

Celebrating the Great Mother of Water at Lammas details are online wwwgoddessconferencecom

Welcoming two USA two pioneers of the Goddess movement -

Vicki Noble co-creator of the Motherpeace Tarot

Zsuzsanna Budapest Founder of the Dianic Wiccan Tradition and Womenrsquos Spirituality Movement

With Conference Favorites Anique Radiant Heart Barbara Meiklejohn-Free Carolyn Hillyer Julie Felix

Kathy Jones Lydia Ruyle and Lady Olivia Durdin Robertson

With Ceremonies Adorations and Praise Songs to the Great Goddess of Water She who is the Source

and Womb of all Life Participate in moving Sacred Ceremonies take part in inspiring Workshops listen

to fascinating Presentations see beautiful Artwork amp Stalls Performances Music Song Poetry and

Dance Visit the Holy Wells of the Goddess in Avalon cleansing and immersing yourself in Her Healing

Waters Join one of Nine Wells - circles of support and participation in Conference Ceremonies Dance

the night away at the Goddess Gala Buffet and Masque and join our Goddess Procession through the

Landscape to the River Brue with a Fruit Feast

Plus Presenters Priestesses and Spinners Amanda Baker Annabel Du Boulay Anna Saqqara Price

Charissa Schipper Caroline Lir Deonesea la Fey Emma Rose Knight Erin McCauliffe Ganga Ashworth

Georgina Sirett-Hardie Graell Corsini Heloise Pilkington Isabella Verbruggen Isis Queen Jacqui

Woodward-Smith Jennifer Cooper Katinka Soetens Kaye Cooksey Koko Newport Lauren Raine Lisa

Newing Louise Bell Louise Tarrier Lydia Lite Marion van Eupen Mary Bruce Michelle Patten Miriam

Raven Morgaine Noam Zimin Oshia Drury Rose Flint Roz Bound Sally Pullinger Sharlea Johnson

Shirley-Ann Millar Shoshana Horobin Sophie Pullinger Sue Quatermass Tegwyn Hyndman Thalia

Brown Tiana Pitman amp Tina Free plus more great Priestesses amazing helpful Melissas amp lots more

wonderful women and men

My Workshops at Glastonbury

ZSUZSANNA BUDAPEST WE ALL COME FROM THE GODDESS (Women Only)

Sunday July 25th Women from all walks of life come together with High Priestess Zsuzsanna (Z) Budapest in a flowing woman-only Dianic circle celebrating our expanding global sisterhood Beginning with the sacred Dianic purification we enter the circle commune with our ancestors and our divine selves lift up a joyous dedication to the Goddess Sedna of the Deep as we bless all waters inside and outside Chanting dancing and strengthening our bonds of sisterhood We are the flow we are the ebb When the women are healed the whole world is healed Drummers musical instruments voices welcome Dress comfortably Come garlanded with something in season greens or flowers

Z Budapest is the founder of the Dianic (Feminist) Tradition of Wicca in the USA initiating the worldrsquos most famous coven the Susan B Anthony Coven Number One which continues to thrive and brings womenrsquos spirituality into mainstream consciousness (SusanBAnthonyCovencom) Z has led rituals lectured taught classes given workshops written articles tirelessly and published in hundreds of womens newspapers across the country She has powerfully influenced many of the future teachers and writers about the Goddess She is the director of the Womens Spirituality Forum a nonprofit organization and Z founded and sponsors the Dianic Universityrsquos Goddess College (GoddessCollegecom) Her books include Holy Book of Womens Mysteries Grandmother of Time Grandmother Moon See wwwZBudapestcom Venue Glastonbury Assembly Rooms Time 1000am-400pm Fee pound50$85euro65 register online wwwgoddessconferencecom

ZSUZSANNA BUDAPEST ndash TAROT SOCIAL IN MY ROOM (Glastonbury)

July 26-27th Tarot Social information and exact date to be announced

ZSUZSANNA BUDAPEST ndash THE HERSTORY OF THE DIANIC TRADITION (Mixed Audience)

July 28th A multi-media presentation on the Herstory of the Dianic Tradition for a mixed audience Z

Budapest provides the historical background to the origins of the Dianic Tradition as well as important

triumphs that the Dianics fought for and won for the Pagan community and beyond Like the right to

perform divination readings in the United States in public and charge for it Historically it was Z and

Dianics who fought for the rights of this civil liberty in California which then opened the door to other

states to follow suit You can learn more about that at WitchTrialnet This presentation also clears up

some urban legends about the Dianic Tradition Such as itrsquos a man-hating tradition the accusations of

separatism Nothing could be farther from the truth Z Budapest founded the Womenrsquos Spirituality

Movement in 1971 Since then there has been an uninterrupted Goddess worship for the past 40 plus

years of women circling together in sacred celebration of all the Sabbaths and many moons This Dianic

Tradition has spread all over the globe After a brief break the second half of the workshop will involve

spiritual movement and dancing the meeting Dance Finally we will finish with an inspiring multi-media

presentation Prayers to the Mother all living creatures are one

Hope to see you at the Glastonbury Goddess Conference 2011

Follow Z Budapest on Facebook And Twitter

ZSUZSANNA BUDAPEST ndash TAROT SOCIAL

I am doing another women-only Tarot Social on April 23rd at my own home Who wants to host a Tarot

Social For more information visit TarotSocialcom and contact me

After more than thirty years in circulation The Holy Book of Womenrsquos Mysteries is still a ground-breaking book in the forefront of womenrsquos spirituality

Get your own copy of Zrsquos out of print books and DVDs at the Womenrsquos Spirituality Forum online store

Irsquom also available for Tarot Readings I know many of you are going through some tough times and

thatrsquos really when you should be reaching out for a reading Irsquom here if you need me

This magazine is sponsored by the Womenrsquos Spirituality Forum

Please help support our efforts to help keep the Goddess Alive

The Application for Dianic Clergy Priestess is online

Goddess College Updates amp More

We have changed the way the online school is doing business After offering free memberships over

the last four years the changes in the economy have forced us to make changes hellip good changes

The Dianic University has now become the Goddess College and has its own website to boot It was

necessary to update the schoolrsquos software but with all the free accounts the database had gotten too

big to migrate So we were forced to start over from scratch eliminating all the free accounts If you

were a student in good standing and part of a paid class in old Dianic University then we are working to

grandmother you into the new school

The way to gain entry into the new Goddess College is through membership in the Susan B Anthony

Coven 1 Everyone in the Goddess College will be active members of the SBA with only a handful of

exceptions Join the Susan B Anthony Coven 1 - You can apply for membership here

The Susan B Anthony Coven 1 now meets inside the Goddess College and the old DU area is closed

We have updated and moved over the Dianic Feminist Philosophy class and the first Holy Book class The

Holy Book series of classes is being totally reworked and improved Thatrsquos partly due to an alliance wersquove

made with the Ocean Seminary College which will allow us to offer degrees for our course of study We

are currently in process with meeting their requirements to make this happen Very exciting stuff for

womenrsquos spirituality I will keep you updated in my column here in the Goddess Magazine

We are networked up the Hoola-Hoop in Facebook Itrsquos hard to miss everything wersquore doing and yet

some of you are still contacting me and saying you hadnrsquot heard of this or that Get your face into

Facebook my sisters and friend the following pages so you can stay in the know

Z Budapest on Facebook

Z Budapest Fan Page

Goddess Magazine Radio Show Fan Page

Goddess Festival Fan Page

Food Magic Fan Page

Susan B Anthony Coven Fan Page

Why arenrsquot you more active in the Dianic Tradition We have a lot of women who read this Goddess

Magazine every month and it would awesome to have more of you join in with us at the Susan B

Anthony Coven 1 A membership into the worldrsquos most famous all-womenrsquos coven makes for a nice gift

to yourself Give it some thought and then come join us The Womens Spirituality Forum is an IRS

501(c)3 non-profit Your registration fees and your membership are tax deductible

Check out our mobile-friendly portal website wwwGoddessLivecom hellip Wersquove pulled all our

information and articles into one location for you and it doesnrsquot matter if yoursquore a computer user or a

mobile user because wersquove programmed the site to be able to switch back and forth

Goddess Magazine Radio Show

Goddess Magazine Radio Show will be forced to go to a half hour program because of changes at

Blogtalk Radio We will bring you more chats with Z very soon Promise

Look for announcements of the new Goddess Magazine Radio Shows on our Facebook fan page Are you

a member of the Goddess Magazine Radio Show Fan page And now you can listen to Goddess

Magazine Radio Shows on iTunes So open you iTunes and subscribe to our podcasted show

Itrsquos free

Goddess Live Toolbar

Every Sister in Goddess who wants to stay linked in to what Z Budapest is doing should have this

toolbar Itrsquos free Itrsquos easy to install and itrsquos secure Get your own Goddess Live Toolbar right now by

clicking here

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Get your new copy here

OTHER WOMENrsquoS SACRED EVENTS amp TOURS TELL THEM Z SENT YOU A WOMENrsquoS RITUAL RETREAT IN CRETE A JOURNEY TO THE GODDESS MAY 23-JUNE 5TH 2011

Facilitated by Ruth Barrett and Catherine Ridder YES We still have spaces still available for our fourth

ritual retreat to Crete Space is limited to 13 women on a first-come basis If you are interested in

hearing more information about this incredible trip contact Catherine Ridder at 626-793-7520 or email

caridder2netzerocom

Sacred Sites of Avalon England with Donna Virgilio April 27 to May 3 2011 Travel to Stonehenge for a private ceremony in the inner circle Walk to the Tor considered to be the legendary Camelot Tour Roman and Medieval Baths and honor the Goddess Minerva visit and pray at the Chalice Well and see the Sacred Gardens Tour the Glastonbury Goddess Temple and participate in the official Beltaine Festivities and Ceremony See the Boscastle Witchcraft Museum and Journey to Tintagel the mystical birthplace of King Arthur and peek inside Merlinrsquos Cave Walk through Avebury Stonecircle West Kennet Long Barrows Silsbury Hill and see Crop Circles Finally dance at the Avalon Beltaine Fairy Ball featuring Doreen Virtues Band Obsidian

On the Trail of the Goddess in Turkey - Anatolia - Land of the Nourishing Mothers

ON THE TRAIL OF THE GREAT GODDESS

Sacred Journey to Turkey

November 2 - 14 2011

featuring

Karen and Roy Tate

Guided by Rashid Ergener

Visit the sacred goddess sites in Turkey Catalhoyuk Lagina Ephesus Troy and Sardis

httpwwwexaminercomwomen-s-goddess-spirituality-in-los-angelessacred-tour-of-goddess-sites-turkey-coming-november-2011-for-women-men

Check out the new video of sacred places in Turkey Hear the hauntingly beautiful music as the Ancient Mother calls httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=Twbcx8IicxI

8th ANNUAL WISE WOMANS FESTIVAL IN FLORIDA

Come and Greet the Springtime with Our Lady of the Faery

Greenwood April 9th and 10th

Nymphs Dryads Devas Kami Apsaras and Sprites Oh My What is the connection between Goddesses

and Faeryfolk Itrsquos Springtime and even though we have April showers you wonrsquot have to wait for May

to enjoy the flowers Join Morning Glory Zell noted Goddess historian and Priestess for the latest in her

series of Great Goddess Retreats and find out why the Green Goddess is more than a salad dressing

With her 36 years of experience and a collection of over 200 votive Goddess statues get ready for an

unforgettable weekend journey of sacred learning and transformational experience

This Retreat will be held at the Raven Haven Morning Gloryrsquos beautiful 10 acre home in Sonoma County

California Raven Haven is nice and roomy with a deck a pool and a spa and a special magickal Faery

Porch covered with flowering wisteria The Temple Room has huge floor to ceiling glass cases displaying

her collection of Goddess figurines and a large altar covered in beautiful Goddess images If you come

from out of town there is room to camp out (if itrsquos dry) sleep over if you like or you can choose from the

many excellent nearby hotels

The Retreat begins on Saturday the 24th at 200pm and ends on Sunday the 25th at 800pm Saturday

we will devote ourselves to learning and exploring the many Goddesses who have a connection to the

realm of Faery from Danu to Ma Ku Hold the images in your hands and hear their fascinating stories

Later we will journey deep in guided meditation to discover the special one which calls to you

Sunday starts with fun and relaxation as we learn the ancient art of weaving wreaths of living flowers

and plants to make a magickal faery wreath or perhaps you would like to learn how to make a faery

house outside on the Faery Porch that will be covered with blooming wisteria Later we will have a ritual

bath in the spa and a procession to decorate the various Goddess shrines around the property The

Retreat culminates with a ceremony to honor the Goddesses and the Fae in a Council where we sing

together and where each Goddess or Faery can share Her Truth

The fee for the entire weekend Retreat is only $10000 or you may attend only Saturdayrsquos program of

the lecture and meditation for $6000 Sunday however is not open to anyone who has not already

attended the Saturday session Meals are shared in an easygoing potluck fashion You truly have never

had any other experience quite like this one and you will come away re-energized as well as transformed

by the power of your new divine connection

Phone (707) 795-8047

mythicimcnorg

PO Box 758

Cotati CA 94931

Tryst ndash Handfasting Commitment Ceremonies

Z is back sisters And shersquos available to officiate your Trysting wedding ceremonies again The most popular pagan Goddess wedding ceremony was created by Z Budapest in The Holy Book of Womens Mysteries where Z coined the term Tryst Ritual as an expressly feminine marriage ceremony and rite of passage that can be used for heterosexual couples as well as same sex couples

Z Budapest has been conducting Pagan marriage rituals for over 40 years as a celebrated High Priestess within the Dianic Tradition which she founded Z is available to officiate your handfasting ceremony as well Whether its a civil union or a licensed marriage certificate Z is able to offer you her services as clergy She has legal standings through the Womens Spirituality Forum an IRS 501(c)3 non-profit in the state of California making your clergy fees tax deductible You can learn more about Zrsquos Trysting Ritual and schedule your wedding ceremony with her in 2010

Crete Archaeologists discover skeleton covered with gold foil in 2700-year-old grave

Greek archaeologists have found an ancient skeleton covered with gold foil in a grave on the island of Crete officials said Tuesday

Excavator Nicholas Stampolidis said his team discovered more than 3000 pieces of gold foil in the 7th-century BC twin grave near the ancient town of Eleutherna

Cemeteries there have produced a wealth of outstanding artifacts in recent years

The tiny gold ornaments from 1 to 4 centimetres (04 to 15 inches) long had been sewn onto a lavish robe or shroud that initially wrapped the body of a woman and has almost completely rotted away but for a few off-white threads

The whole length of the (grave) was covered with small pieces of gold foil mdash square circular and lozenge-shaped Stampolidis told The Associated Press We were literally digging up gold interspersed with earth not earth with some gold in it

The woman who presumably had a high social or religious status was buried with a second skeleton in a large jar sealed with a stone slab weighing more than half a ton It was hidden behind a false wall to confuse grave robbers

Experts are trying to determine the other skeletons sex The grave also contained a copper bowl pottery perfume bottles imported from Egypt or Syria and Palestine hundreds of amber rock crystal and faience beads as well as a gold pendant in the form of a bee goddess that probably was part of a rock crystal and gold necklace

If you look at it one way up its shaped like a lily said Stampolidis a professor of archaeology at the University of Crete who has worked at Eleutherna for the 25 years Turned upside down you see a female figure holding her breasts whose lower body is shaped as a bee with wings The workmanship is exquisite

The ruins of Eleutherna stand on the northern foothills of Mount Ida mdash the mythical birthplace of Zeus chief of the ancient Greek gods Past excavations have discovered a citadel homes and an important cemetery with lavish female burials

The town flourished from the 9th century BC mdash the dark ages of Greek archaeology that followed the fall of Cretes great Minoan palatial culture mdash and endured until the Middle Ages

httparchaeologynewsnetworkblogspotcom201009archaeologists-on-crete-find-skeletonhtml

SWEET TASTE OF SPRING Susun S Weed

March winds blow the sweet scent of maple sap boiling to my questing nose When the days are warm

and sunny and the nights below freezing the sap rises in the trees If those trees are sugar maples then

it is worth drilling a hole in the bark inserting a tap and collecting their sweet sap There is so much

sugar in sugar maple sap that it can be boiled and turned into maple syrup and maple sugar

Therersquos about one gallon of maple syrup and ninety-nine gallons of water in one hundred gallons of

maple sap A hot fire and a slow but steady boil send that sweet-smelling water vapor high in the clear

cold sky The March wind blows it to me I close my eyes and remember my years of ldquosugaringrdquo making

maple syrup

Therersquos something special about a task that requires one to stay up all night Maple sap starts to ferment

if it is left at normal temperatures for very long Once ten or so gallons of sap have been collected the

boiling begins hellip and cannot be stopped until the finished syrup is achieved many many many hours

later

I have never sugared without at least one overnighter and sometimes two A large operation boils sap

for weeks without stopping just drawing off the syrup as it forms if the run is steady and copious

It was a picture of Helen Nearing driving a team of horses through the woods standing on a sleigh

loaded with buckets of maple sap that made me long for a homestead where I could lead The Simple

Life like her Two years later I had my own ldquosugar bushrdquo (an acre or more of woodlot where large sugar

maples grow) Spring equinox found me with my drill in hand a pocket full of taps and a bunch of funny

buckets with lids to hang from the taps ldquoTing tingrdquo the ping of sap filling the metal buckets echoes

tying me through time to every woman who has ever sugared and bringing a smile to my heart and

face

My groves of sugar maples have never been large enough to require a team of horses or a sleigh Irsquove

always lugged a big bucket out to the trees and poured the sap from the collecting buckets into it When

I have two or three buckets full I pour them into a big galvanized tub set up on cinder blocks over a fire

and commence to boil it down

Native peoples valued maple sugar so highly that they set up camp in the sugar bush and lived there

until the sap stopped flowing Lacking metal drill bits they cut a shallow groove in the bark and pressed

hollow elder stems into service as taps to direct the flow of sap into birch bark containers

I can heat the sap directly in my metal tub while they had to hollow out a log put smooth rocks into the

fire heat them and put the hot rocks into the sap in the hollowed out log to boil it down into maple

syrup and sugar Whew I am impressed with the power of the desire for sweet It takes far more

calories in fuel and human energy to make maple syrup or maple sugar than it returns

Grandmother Twylah taught us that maple trees are friendly and companionable colorful and

expressive They always have a positive attitude and are adept at helping us see solutions to impossible

problems Maple trees are devoted and true Make friends with a maple and you will have a friend for

life she advised

Ellen Everet Hopman green witch reminds us that maple-syrup-making time is Eostrersquos time Eostre

(ee-oh-stir) is the Teutonic goddess of fertility and manifestation Her symbols are the egg and the

rabbit her time is Spring Equinox A lovely custom still enacted but without the underlying magic is to

paint a picture of something you desire on an egg and plant it in the ground so Eostre can help it grow

and become real

If itrsquos too late to tap your maples or you live too far south for the sap to flow strongly you can still be

blessed and embraced by maple A decoction of maple bark boiled in water can be used to ease sore

eyes externally and to tonify the uterus after birth internally

A magical wand of maple wood is used for spells that bring harmony especially in the home And maple

leaves sewn into a charm made of green flannel tied with a golden string will bring abundance into

your life

Indulge your desire for sweet Celebrate spring equinox and Eostre who loves sweet things Have a

stack of pancakes swimming in butter and maple syrup Or pour maple syrup over plain vanilla ice cream

and savor the sweet taste of the friendly maple tree

Green blessings

How much sugar per gallon of sap is quite variable depending on the type of maple the growing

conditions and especially the amount of sun the tree gets Sugar maple (Acer saccharum) sap is the

sweetest followed by the saps of silver maple (Acer saccharinum) Northern red maple (Acer rubrum)

and Norway maple (Acer platanoides)

Susun Weed

PO Box 64

Woodstock NY 12498

Fax 1-845-246-8081

Visit Susun Weed at wwwsusunweedcom and wwwashtreepublishingcom

Vibrant passionate and involved Susun Weed has garnered an international reputation for her

groundbreaking lectures teachings and writings on health and nutrition She challenges conventional

medical approaches with humor insight and her vast encyclopedic knowledge of herbal medicine

Unabashedly pro-woman her animated and enthusiastic lectures are engaging and often profoundly

provocative

Susun is one of Americas best-known authorities on herbal medicine and natural approaches to

womens health Her four best-selling books are recommended by expert herbalists and well-known

physicians and are used and cherished by millions of women around the world Learn more at

wwwsusunweedcom

Susun Weedrsquos books include

Wise Woman Herbal for the Childbearing Year

Author Susun S Weed Simple safe remedies for pregnancy childbirth lactation and

newborns Includes herbs for fertility and birth control Foreword by Jeannine Parvati

Baker 196 pages index illustrations

Healing Wise

Author Susun S Weed Superb herbal in the feminine-intuitive mode Complete

instructions for using common plants for food beauty medicine and longevity

Introduction by Jean Houston 312 pages index illustrations

Menopausal Years the Wise Woman Way

Author Susun S Weed The best book on menopause is now better Completely

revised with 100 new pages All the remedies women know and trust plus hundreds

of new ones New sections on thyroid health fibromyalgia hairy problems male

menopause and herbs for women taking hormones Recommended by Susan Love

MD and Christiane Northrup MD Foreword by Juliette de Bairacli Levy 304 pages

index illustrations

For more info on menopause visit wwwmenopause-metamorphosiscom

Breast Cancer Breast Health

Author Susun S Weed Foods exercises and attitudes to keep your breasts healthy

Supportive complimentary medicines to ease side-effects of surgery radiation

chemotherapy or tamoxifen Foreword by Christiane Northrup MD 380 pages index

illustrations

UPCOMING DIANIC EVENTS

Pagan Examiner ndash Read the articles written by Bobbie and myself Zrsquos Calendar of Events ndash Want to know where I am appearing Goddess Festival ndash You think the last was good Goddess is Alive Tarot Social - A joyful coming-together of the Womenrsquos Tarot community a

Revival of the 70rsquos TRAVELING MAGIC SHOW by a FOREMOTHER of GODDESS SPIRITUALITY The QUEEN of TAROT READINGS and the woman responsible for LEGALIZING TAROT in California hellip Z Budapest

Z Budapest is conducting a most entertaining Tarot Social at her home in

Oakland CA on April 23rd For more information and registration go to

TarotSocialcom

The Dianic University for Women in Goddess

Study the Dianic Tradition with Z Budapest the woman who rebirthed it into modern culture Classes at the Dianic University are designed for women only

Sisterhood of the Moon ~ Womenrsquos Spirituality Coven in the Z Budapest Dianic Tradition

Events in the Sisterhood of the Moon are for women-born-women only Located in Hayward CA You must contact Jesamyn Angelica for more information Many of the members of this group are also members of the Susan B Anthony Coven No1 Facebookpage

Hands of Demeter ~ Womenrsquos Spirituality Coven in the Z Budapest Dianic Tradition

Events in the Hands of Demeter are for women-born-women only Located in Semi Valley CA You must contact httpearthmothercovenantcom for more information Many of the members of this group are also members of the Susan B Anthony Coven No1 Facebook page

The Sacred Circle ~ Recovering amp Reclaiming Ancient Ways to Heal

Events in The Sacred Circle are for members only unless otherwise stated Call JoAnna 775-882-1599 for membership inquiries

Sisterhood of the Turning Tides ~ Womenrsquos Spirituality Coven in the Z Budapest Dianic Tradition

They meet on Esbats and Sabbats and have a Tuesday night drumritual circle Located in Mendocino CA You must contact Sage Simon for more information Many of the members of this group are also members of the Susan B Anthony Coven No1 Facebookpage

You can sponsor Goddess magazine too Click here to helphellip

Deepest Gratitude to Sisters in Goddess for their Donations

The Application for Dianic Clergy Priestess is online

Follow the Goddess Festival on Facebook And Twitter

Thank you sisters who have donated $1 a month to help support our Goddess efforts

You can sponsor Goddess magazine too Click here to helphellip

Vicki Scotti LuAnn Morris and Amy Otero are

Hecatersquos Wheel an acoustic folk trio Their

music is inspired by and dedicated to the

Goddess in all her guises They sing an eclectic

variety of cover songs and original music

Hecatersquos Wheel has been playing and

singing together for several years and their

voices have found a natural harmonious blend

We VERY much enjoyed their Beltaine concert

Goddess Resource Links Z Budapest Website Goddess College Online Goddess Blog ndash Sponsored by the Susan B Anthony Coven Z Budapest Blog Goddess Festival Susan B Anthony Coven Dianic Wicca Tarot Social Witch Trial ndash the last great witch trial in America Zs Events Schedule Zs University Calendar

Zs Books Summoning the Fates Holy Book of Womens Mysteries Celestial Wisdom Grandmother of Time Grandmother Moon Goddess in the Office Goddess in the Bedroom

Page 4: Goddess Magazine (March 2011)

The food is served up to all plates and then everyone eats together No one leaves the table until

everyone is finished Then finally the silence is broken as everyone thanks the departed for coming to

supper with them

Thank you sweet spirit for your attendance

Merlin let these lines you have written now serve you as wings as you fly

(Read them 3 times)

Ancient Mirrors of Womanhood has many more selections you can use

(From When God was a Woman)

ldquo Most ancient Mother

Great radiant One

Lady of the Stars

Mistress of celestial Oceans

Highest Judge

Fiery One who rose from primordial floods

It is Neit who reaches down from heavens

To take the hand of each who dies

Taking them in her arms

To place them as stars of the Universerdquo

Dearest Goddess Neit reach down to our sister Merlin take her in your arms and place her as

a star in our Universe Blessed be

After the meal is over nobody eats the food on the plate of the departed You can feed the departedrsquos

food to the family pets or the earth Itrsquos believed that the departed ate of the essence of the meal and

thus shared the meal with their living relatives Now Merlin Stone is fortified to enter the spirit world

Two of my books are beautifully back in Print So exciting

List Price $1999 Add to Cart

GRANDMOTHER MOON by Zsuzsanna E Budapest Inviting us to look at the moon as the old ally she is renowned feminist witch Zsuzsanna Budapest shows how to tap into the moons powers for peace health and energy With delightful wit and wisdom she shares practical and entertaining lunar lore from ancient moon-based rituals to lunar cycle diet tips Budapest reveals how by acting in harmony with the moon women can balance everything from their mood and weight to fertility Here is a spirited illumination of the natural cycles that influence our lives as lunar primates Rewritten and new materials added Available on Kindle

List Price $1199 Add to Cart

Selene - The Most Famous Bull-leaper on Earth by Zsuzsanna E Budapest Selene is far more than a coloring book The story of Selene the bull-leaper is a story of a young woman who defeats fear and socialization and gains self-hood through accomplishments of her own Her name means moon and this name was common for young women to take up in honor of the Moon Goddess Selene Selene was pictured on the temples and walls of Asia Minor sitting atop a white sow So while this story is fictional it is based on the history we do know

Please enjoy this issue of Goddess Magazine and blessing to you and all your beloveds

Blessed be

Z Budapest

Thank you sisters who have donated $1 a month to help support our Goddess efforts

You can sponsor Goddess magazine too Click here to helphellip

In Search of Merlin Stone

by Bobbie Grennier Marilyn C ldquoMerlinrdquo Stone passed away on February 23 2011 from complications caused by an extended illness She was born September 27 1931 in Brooklyn New York Merlin loved education and was a devoted student She attended New York State College where she earned her Bachelorrsquos of Science in Art Education Albright Art School California College of Arts and Crafts where she earned her Doctorate of Philosophy and Ashmolean Museum in Oxford England for five years of independent studies Merlin Stone is best remembered for her impressive literary body of work From 1971-1976 she traveled to Turkey Lebanon Cyprus Crete Greece among others where she uncovered the lost Goddess culture She wrote about her discoveries in two landmark books When God was a Woman (originally titled The Paradise Papers) and Ancient Mirrors of Womanhood ndash Our Goddess and Heroine Heritage She also wrote a third book called Three Thousand Years of Racism and she was also published in many magazines and anthologies

She was a noted American Artist and Sculptor working her craft from 1958-1967 Merlin Stonersquos artwork still stands throughout the state of New York and she received a personal letter of thanks from Robert F Kennedy for the loan of her art work which was on display in his New York City office To say that Merlin Stone changed the religious landscape is an understatement Her work influenced the budding Womenrsquos Studies Departments with thoughts of womenrsquos theology and history She fostered new thinking throughout the academic world In the same way that Marija Gimbutas gave women their own historical record of artifacts Merlin Stone gave women their own spiritual culture

Merlin Stone was recognized by liberal thinkers She once wrote ldquohellipYoko [Ono] and John [Lennon] had taken turns reading ldquoWhen God was a Womanrdquo to each other I knew they had the book because I had been asked to autograph a copy for them hellipit touched me deeplyrdquo There is so much more to say about Merlin Stonersquos life much of it we are just beginning to understand because Merlin led a very private existence With the help of her life-partner Len Schneir and her two daughters Cynthia Davis and Jenny Hirst we are creating three memorial projects

1 DVD documentary called In Search of Merlin Stone chronicling her life

2 A book of the same title featuring remembrances personal influences and white papers all focused on Merlin and her body of work

3 The Benefit Memorial Celebration on September 24 2011 in Clearwater Florida

When God was a Woman by Merlin Stone

The Benefit Memorial Celebration will take place at the Unitarian Universalist Church 2470 Nursery

Road Clearwater FL 33764 This celebration of Merlin Stonersquos life is in production and updated

information will be posted on the wwwMerlinStonenet website You may also donate to Merlin

Stonersquos Memorial Fund at the wwwMerlinStonenet website All donations are thankfully welcomed

ldquoI want the world to remember her for the goddess she wasrdquo said her life-partner Len Schneir ldquoI must

admit that it took me a long time to finally believe and fully trust the Goddess and Merlin everything I

am is because of her wisdomrdquo

If you have a Merlin Stone story photo audio recording video recording to share etc please contact Z

Budapest (wwwZBudapestcom) The September 24th Memorial will be streamed live onto the

Internet details will be announced at the wwwMerlinStonenet website

She touched the hearts of women and men globally Merlin Stone is recognized and remembered most

by her contemporaries

Today we are no longer spiritual orphans of the world It was sister Merlin who gave her entire

life to this sacred reclaiming All of us stand to thank her for this very potent gift of the

legitimized woman spirit When you came back with ldquoWhen God was a Womanrdquo and enough

material for its follow up ldquoAncient Mirrors of Womanhoodrdquo we all knew you had found the

cultural Goddess mother lode You are much too hard to let go

-Zsuzsanna Budapest author of The Holy book of Womenrsquos Mysteries and Grandmother Moon

In the beginning God was a woman Do you remember Those words still give me chills

ldquoWhen God was a Womanrdquo changed my life I remember Merlins penetrating wit and intellect

and her wild henna red hair She will be missed Blessed be

- Carol P Christ author of Rebirth of the Goddess and She Who Changes

Few people have inspired me like Merlin Stone and her work Because of her I found Goddess

deity archetype and ideal Because of her my life has been filled with inspiration meaning and

direction Thank you beloved Merlin Stone May you smile down on us and guide us from that

special resting place in the arms of the Mother

- Karen Tate author of Sacred Places of Goddess

Merlin Stones work brought knowledge of the Divine Feminine to the consciousness of the

Western world We are very grateful to her for her pioneering work

- Miriam Robbins Dexter PhD author of Sacred Display and Whence the Goddesses

Merlin Stone was a great inspiration when I first read When God was a Woman in the early

80s It spoke to something deep inside me and affirmed my own knowing We all owe her

gratitude for the Goddess work she did

- Kathy Jones author of The Goddess in Glastonbury and Priestess of Avalon Priestess of the

Goddess

She [Merlin] was so so amazing I am really saddened to learn this ---as it came like a shock I

knew her pretty well in the days when my book was happening What a terrible loss--but what a

great gain for women in our time She opened up so much for all of us---and it was because she

wanted to be a sculptor and was searching for empowered images of women--thats how she

came upon all the goddess images The story is very amazing

- Gloria Orenstein author of Reweaving the World The Emergence of Ecofeminism

I remember Merlin when we met in 1986 to film Goddess Remembered in San Francisco She was

not originally scheduled to be at the dinner party we filmed but mysterious forces made it

possible for her to arrive in SF just in time I enjoyed Merlins contribution to the conversation we

filmed and especially enjoyed some pleasant hours months later in New York with her I feel her

passing very much and remember her life as one of the great blessings all women have shared

In love may she return again

- Donna Read director of Goddess Remembered The Burning Times and Full Circle

Requiem for Merlin Stone By Zsuzsanna Budapest I have tried to write this memorial several times You are much too hard to let go I cannot celebrate you and bemoan you and preserve you forever all at once So I will just talk to you as you once were here in my house many years ago Merlin sweet sister recline comfortably on my leather couch Here is your black coffee letrsquos talk and remember together For a long time I didnrsquot know what happened to you ldquoHave you heard from Merlinrdquo I asked everybody I knew Your phone no longer worked Letters to your address were

returned That was your last footstep for most of us Then nothing for decades and many years I spent

in search of Merlin Stone

Suddenly your man Lenny called and he told us you passed away February 23 2011 You had been ill a

long time and didnrsquot want to show yourself You knew years ago that your beautiful mind was changing

You didnrsquot want to be remembered for the long illness but for the contributions of art and literature I

get it

Once there was the Heroic Age of the 70rsquos you were amongst this generation of the brave seed- casters

inventors and artists who has sown seeds of knowledge about all things good for all women Even in

these fertile times women were still spiritual orphans We had no soul reflection in the high spiritual

places We had no knowledge of where we had been as women or where we could aspire to go We had

politics and feminism We needed more Some important part of us was still very empty

We simply had no spiritual past

It was not good form to believe in the existences of the Amazons of Anatolia or Asia or of the global

Goddess womenrsquos cultures No evidence for that Even feminists were frowning We didnrsquot dare to

believe in that it would have been one more reason to disqualify spirited women from any meaningful

conversation or visibility on the feminist cultural canvas Some politicos called us bliss bunnies We had

no ground to stand on

Our cultural past had been stolen from us Schools certainly never mentioned us the divine feminine

was either a perfume or a lipstick shade or maybe a salad dressing but certainly not an all powerful real

Goddess

Merlin Stonehellip you felt this part of feminist thought was sorely missing We simply had no information

about our own great people as a gender Who did we pray to Always men

Who went back in time and stole it all back for us Who was smart enough to read the old musty out-

of-print books in hopes of finding a couple of lines the patriarchs missed when they erased the Goddess

culture

Like an Amazon of the libraries it was you who hunted down the hard-to-come-by books visiting

museums and traveling to far-off distant lands for research When you came back with ldquoWhen God was

a Womanrdquo and enough material for its follow-up ldquoAncient Mirrors of Womanhoodrdquo we all knew you

had found the cultural Goddess motherlode

The brilliance richness and diversity of the global Goddess traditions were beyond anybodyrsquos hopes All

around the globe Merlin Stone had found our traditions of celebrations our goddesses and our moral

codes

We did come from somewhere awesome and our foremothers had left us treasures in ritual sacred

poetry and arthellip footsteps for us to follow And it was Merlin Stone who found it and published it

She published in England as The Paradise Papers because American publishers would not touch it Now

the books are with Beacon Press

Today we are no longer spiritual orphans of the world It was sister Merlin who gave her entire life to

this sacred reclaiming All of us stand to thank her for this very potent gift of the legitimized woman

spirit

As usual Merlin would just smile and make little of my accolade

She felt ldquocalledrdquo she said

She was an acclaimed American artist a sculptress and national treasure She taught Art History and

that led her to the surviving images of the Goddess which called her to see more Her welded art

sculptures took on more and more triple goddess themes and finally dissolved into the physical

research which took her to Turkey - Anatolia of old the land of the Mothers

She was lovingly protected hitch-hiking alone with long red hair flowing down her back she had little

money slept in caves a sacred stranger in her own once fertile Goddess homeland

ldquoHow did you find the booksrdquo I once asked her

ldquoStrange thingrdquo she explained ldquoI heard a hum - a hum of women when I got close to a book that had

useful information for us I just reached out and there it was I was led by a humrdquo

ldquoOh yes the humrdquo Merlin had come to dinner in Santa Monica we feminist witches were much

honored We held hands over my barley dish and hummed together as we usually did praying our

blessing Merlin burst into tears I was worried Who hurt our highly esteemed guest

ldquoNobody hurt merdquo she said ldquoBut this was the hum I heard in the libraries of Turkey This was the hum

that led me to the great Goddess booksrdquo

Then the witches fell silent and one by one we also teared up at this miracle How could a ragtag

revolutionary group of witches hum on a California mountaintop and a woman on the Goddess search

hear it all the way in Turkey Never mind the multiplication of the fishes and the loaves this was a much

better miracle Our belief in the all-pervasive omnipresent Goddess was never stronger

Which Goddess shall I invoke for your memorial You have given us hundreds

As a Dianic witch I love Hecate the transformer She who takes the tired souls away on her chariot

drawn by the dragons of time She is the healer of wounds the Queen of the dark side of the Moon

But Merlin loved Anahita She is the one ldquowho is the Cosmic Ocean in which the stars do float It is

Anahita who provides the nourishing rain sending waters from the heavens to the springs and rivers

protecting the flocks in pastures and causing them to bear their young -- as it is Anahita who fills the

womb with life Her chariot is drawn by white steeds named rain and wind and clouds and sleet or as

she rides on the back of a gliding eagle or even upon a splendid lionrdquo

At Anahitarsquos shrines still visible in Sardis and Susa in Kangawar and Ecbatana her inscription reads ldquoI

am the conscience of thine own selfrdquo

Rest sweetly dearest sister and if you wish to live on in our hearts please guide us like the hum once

guided you Donrsquot hurry linger amongst us

Merlin my beloved sister your chariot can wait

Ancient Mirrors of Womanhood Merlin Stone 1979 p210

I am going to be a guest speaker at the Women of Spirit and Faith Conference April 28- May 1

The Alchemy of Our Spiritual Leadership Women Redefining Power

Calling all women of spirit and faith This is not your typical womens conference

Imagine the energy of more than 300 women ready for inspiration deep wisdom and potent co-creation

Alchemy Highlights

Inspiring Keynote wisdom from Sister Joan Chittister Valarie Kaur and Naomi Tutu Stimulating Leadership Conversations featuring the wisdom and experience of a dozen diverse women

leaders Informative workshops with a focus on building practical skills and new models for collaborative

leadership Many opportunities for circle dialogue and structured conversation Optional activities such as Open Space Offerings Morning Meditations Yoga Movement Labyrinth Walks

and more The Alchemy Marketplace where you can shop for books jewelry art and music A Beautiful Meditation and Prayer Room for silence and reflection Art music poetry laughter and lots of right-brain fun and stimulation

I am also going to be attending the Glastonbury Goddess Conference 2011

Now five full days of Goddess-loving celebration with Fringe events from Sunday July 24 ndash 31

Celebrating the Great Mother of Water at Lammas details are online wwwgoddessconferencecom

Welcoming two USA two pioneers of the Goddess movement -

Vicki Noble co-creator of the Motherpeace Tarot

Zsuzsanna Budapest Founder of the Dianic Wiccan Tradition and Womenrsquos Spirituality Movement

With Conference Favorites Anique Radiant Heart Barbara Meiklejohn-Free Carolyn Hillyer Julie Felix

Kathy Jones Lydia Ruyle and Lady Olivia Durdin Robertson

With Ceremonies Adorations and Praise Songs to the Great Goddess of Water She who is the Source

and Womb of all Life Participate in moving Sacred Ceremonies take part in inspiring Workshops listen

to fascinating Presentations see beautiful Artwork amp Stalls Performances Music Song Poetry and

Dance Visit the Holy Wells of the Goddess in Avalon cleansing and immersing yourself in Her Healing

Waters Join one of Nine Wells - circles of support and participation in Conference Ceremonies Dance

the night away at the Goddess Gala Buffet and Masque and join our Goddess Procession through the

Landscape to the River Brue with a Fruit Feast

Plus Presenters Priestesses and Spinners Amanda Baker Annabel Du Boulay Anna Saqqara Price

Charissa Schipper Caroline Lir Deonesea la Fey Emma Rose Knight Erin McCauliffe Ganga Ashworth

Georgina Sirett-Hardie Graell Corsini Heloise Pilkington Isabella Verbruggen Isis Queen Jacqui

Woodward-Smith Jennifer Cooper Katinka Soetens Kaye Cooksey Koko Newport Lauren Raine Lisa

Newing Louise Bell Louise Tarrier Lydia Lite Marion van Eupen Mary Bruce Michelle Patten Miriam

Raven Morgaine Noam Zimin Oshia Drury Rose Flint Roz Bound Sally Pullinger Sharlea Johnson

Shirley-Ann Millar Shoshana Horobin Sophie Pullinger Sue Quatermass Tegwyn Hyndman Thalia

Brown Tiana Pitman amp Tina Free plus more great Priestesses amazing helpful Melissas amp lots more

wonderful women and men

My Workshops at Glastonbury

ZSUZSANNA BUDAPEST WE ALL COME FROM THE GODDESS (Women Only)

Sunday July 25th Women from all walks of life come together with High Priestess Zsuzsanna (Z) Budapest in a flowing woman-only Dianic circle celebrating our expanding global sisterhood Beginning with the sacred Dianic purification we enter the circle commune with our ancestors and our divine selves lift up a joyous dedication to the Goddess Sedna of the Deep as we bless all waters inside and outside Chanting dancing and strengthening our bonds of sisterhood We are the flow we are the ebb When the women are healed the whole world is healed Drummers musical instruments voices welcome Dress comfortably Come garlanded with something in season greens or flowers

Z Budapest is the founder of the Dianic (Feminist) Tradition of Wicca in the USA initiating the worldrsquos most famous coven the Susan B Anthony Coven Number One which continues to thrive and brings womenrsquos spirituality into mainstream consciousness (SusanBAnthonyCovencom) Z has led rituals lectured taught classes given workshops written articles tirelessly and published in hundreds of womens newspapers across the country She has powerfully influenced many of the future teachers and writers about the Goddess She is the director of the Womens Spirituality Forum a nonprofit organization and Z founded and sponsors the Dianic Universityrsquos Goddess College (GoddessCollegecom) Her books include Holy Book of Womens Mysteries Grandmother of Time Grandmother Moon See wwwZBudapestcom Venue Glastonbury Assembly Rooms Time 1000am-400pm Fee pound50$85euro65 register online wwwgoddessconferencecom

ZSUZSANNA BUDAPEST ndash TAROT SOCIAL IN MY ROOM (Glastonbury)

July 26-27th Tarot Social information and exact date to be announced

ZSUZSANNA BUDAPEST ndash THE HERSTORY OF THE DIANIC TRADITION (Mixed Audience)

July 28th A multi-media presentation on the Herstory of the Dianic Tradition for a mixed audience Z

Budapest provides the historical background to the origins of the Dianic Tradition as well as important

triumphs that the Dianics fought for and won for the Pagan community and beyond Like the right to

perform divination readings in the United States in public and charge for it Historically it was Z and

Dianics who fought for the rights of this civil liberty in California which then opened the door to other

states to follow suit You can learn more about that at WitchTrialnet This presentation also clears up

some urban legends about the Dianic Tradition Such as itrsquos a man-hating tradition the accusations of

separatism Nothing could be farther from the truth Z Budapest founded the Womenrsquos Spirituality

Movement in 1971 Since then there has been an uninterrupted Goddess worship for the past 40 plus

years of women circling together in sacred celebration of all the Sabbaths and many moons This Dianic

Tradition has spread all over the globe After a brief break the second half of the workshop will involve

spiritual movement and dancing the meeting Dance Finally we will finish with an inspiring multi-media

presentation Prayers to the Mother all living creatures are one

Hope to see you at the Glastonbury Goddess Conference 2011

Follow Z Budapest on Facebook And Twitter

ZSUZSANNA BUDAPEST ndash TAROT SOCIAL

I am doing another women-only Tarot Social on April 23rd at my own home Who wants to host a Tarot

Social For more information visit TarotSocialcom and contact me

After more than thirty years in circulation The Holy Book of Womenrsquos Mysteries is still a ground-breaking book in the forefront of womenrsquos spirituality

Get your own copy of Zrsquos out of print books and DVDs at the Womenrsquos Spirituality Forum online store

Irsquom also available for Tarot Readings I know many of you are going through some tough times and

thatrsquos really when you should be reaching out for a reading Irsquom here if you need me

This magazine is sponsored by the Womenrsquos Spirituality Forum

Please help support our efforts to help keep the Goddess Alive

The Application for Dianic Clergy Priestess is online

Goddess College Updates amp More

We have changed the way the online school is doing business After offering free memberships over

the last four years the changes in the economy have forced us to make changes hellip good changes

The Dianic University has now become the Goddess College and has its own website to boot It was

necessary to update the schoolrsquos software but with all the free accounts the database had gotten too

big to migrate So we were forced to start over from scratch eliminating all the free accounts If you

were a student in good standing and part of a paid class in old Dianic University then we are working to

grandmother you into the new school

The way to gain entry into the new Goddess College is through membership in the Susan B Anthony

Coven 1 Everyone in the Goddess College will be active members of the SBA with only a handful of

exceptions Join the Susan B Anthony Coven 1 - You can apply for membership here

The Susan B Anthony Coven 1 now meets inside the Goddess College and the old DU area is closed

We have updated and moved over the Dianic Feminist Philosophy class and the first Holy Book class The

Holy Book series of classes is being totally reworked and improved Thatrsquos partly due to an alliance wersquove

made with the Ocean Seminary College which will allow us to offer degrees for our course of study We

are currently in process with meeting their requirements to make this happen Very exciting stuff for

womenrsquos spirituality I will keep you updated in my column here in the Goddess Magazine

We are networked up the Hoola-Hoop in Facebook Itrsquos hard to miss everything wersquore doing and yet

some of you are still contacting me and saying you hadnrsquot heard of this or that Get your face into

Facebook my sisters and friend the following pages so you can stay in the know

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Magazine every month and it would awesome to have more of you join in with us at the Susan B

Anthony Coven 1 A membership into the worldrsquos most famous all-womenrsquos coven makes for a nice gift

to yourself Give it some thought and then come join us The Womens Spirituality Forum is an IRS

501(c)3 non-profit Your registration fees and your membership are tax deductible

Check out our mobile-friendly portal website wwwGoddessLivecom hellip Wersquove pulled all our

information and articles into one location for you and it doesnrsquot matter if yoursquore a computer user or a

mobile user because wersquove programmed the site to be able to switch back and forth

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Goddess Magazine Radio Show will be forced to go to a half hour program because of changes at

Blogtalk Radio We will bring you more chats with Z very soon Promise

Look for announcements of the new Goddess Magazine Radio Shows on our Facebook fan page Are you

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OTHER WOMENrsquoS SACRED EVENTS amp TOURS TELL THEM Z SENT YOU A WOMENrsquoS RITUAL RETREAT IN CRETE A JOURNEY TO THE GODDESS MAY 23-JUNE 5TH 2011

Facilitated by Ruth Barrett and Catherine Ridder YES We still have spaces still available for our fourth

ritual retreat to Crete Space is limited to 13 women on a first-come basis If you are interested in

hearing more information about this incredible trip contact Catherine Ridder at 626-793-7520 or email

caridder2netzerocom

Sacred Sites of Avalon England with Donna Virgilio April 27 to May 3 2011 Travel to Stonehenge for a private ceremony in the inner circle Walk to the Tor considered to be the legendary Camelot Tour Roman and Medieval Baths and honor the Goddess Minerva visit and pray at the Chalice Well and see the Sacred Gardens Tour the Glastonbury Goddess Temple and participate in the official Beltaine Festivities and Ceremony See the Boscastle Witchcraft Museum and Journey to Tintagel the mystical birthplace of King Arthur and peek inside Merlinrsquos Cave Walk through Avebury Stonecircle West Kennet Long Barrows Silsbury Hill and see Crop Circles Finally dance at the Avalon Beltaine Fairy Ball featuring Doreen Virtues Band Obsidian

On the Trail of the Goddess in Turkey - Anatolia - Land of the Nourishing Mothers

ON THE TRAIL OF THE GREAT GODDESS

Sacred Journey to Turkey

November 2 - 14 2011

featuring

Karen and Roy Tate

Guided by Rashid Ergener

Visit the sacred goddess sites in Turkey Catalhoyuk Lagina Ephesus Troy and Sardis

httpwwwexaminercomwomen-s-goddess-spirituality-in-los-angelessacred-tour-of-goddess-sites-turkey-coming-november-2011-for-women-men

Check out the new video of sacred places in Turkey Hear the hauntingly beautiful music as the Ancient Mother calls httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=Twbcx8IicxI

8th ANNUAL WISE WOMANS FESTIVAL IN FLORIDA

Come and Greet the Springtime with Our Lady of the Faery

Greenwood April 9th and 10th

Nymphs Dryads Devas Kami Apsaras and Sprites Oh My What is the connection between Goddesses

and Faeryfolk Itrsquos Springtime and even though we have April showers you wonrsquot have to wait for May

to enjoy the flowers Join Morning Glory Zell noted Goddess historian and Priestess for the latest in her

series of Great Goddess Retreats and find out why the Green Goddess is more than a salad dressing

With her 36 years of experience and a collection of over 200 votive Goddess statues get ready for an

unforgettable weekend journey of sacred learning and transformational experience

This Retreat will be held at the Raven Haven Morning Gloryrsquos beautiful 10 acre home in Sonoma County

California Raven Haven is nice and roomy with a deck a pool and a spa and a special magickal Faery

Porch covered with flowering wisteria The Temple Room has huge floor to ceiling glass cases displaying

her collection of Goddess figurines and a large altar covered in beautiful Goddess images If you come

from out of town there is room to camp out (if itrsquos dry) sleep over if you like or you can choose from the

many excellent nearby hotels

The Retreat begins on Saturday the 24th at 200pm and ends on Sunday the 25th at 800pm Saturday

we will devote ourselves to learning and exploring the many Goddesses who have a connection to the

realm of Faery from Danu to Ma Ku Hold the images in your hands and hear their fascinating stories

Later we will journey deep in guided meditation to discover the special one which calls to you

Sunday starts with fun and relaxation as we learn the ancient art of weaving wreaths of living flowers

and plants to make a magickal faery wreath or perhaps you would like to learn how to make a faery

house outside on the Faery Porch that will be covered with blooming wisteria Later we will have a ritual

bath in the spa and a procession to decorate the various Goddess shrines around the property The

Retreat culminates with a ceremony to honor the Goddesses and the Fae in a Council where we sing

together and where each Goddess or Faery can share Her Truth

The fee for the entire weekend Retreat is only $10000 or you may attend only Saturdayrsquos program of

the lecture and meditation for $6000 Sunday however is not open to anyone who has not already

attended the Saturday session Meals are shared in an easygoing potluck fashion You truly have never

had any other experience quite like this one and you will come away re-energized as well as transformed

by the power of your new divine connection

Phone (707) 795-8047

mythicimcnorg

PO Box 758

Cotati CA 94931

Tryst ndash Handfasting Commitment Ceremonies

Z is back sisters And shersquos available to officiate your Trysting wedding ceremonies again The most popular pagan Goddess wedding ceremony was created by Z Budapest in The Holy Book of Womens Mysteries where Z coined the term Tryst Ritual as an expressly feminine marriage ceremony and rite of passage that can be used for heterosexual couples as well as same sex couples

Z Budapest has been conducting Pagan marriage rituals for over 40 years as a celebrated High Priestess within the Dianic Tradition which she founded Z is available to officiate your handfasting ceremony as well Whether its a civil union or a licensed marriage certificate Z is able to offer you her services as clergy She has legal standings through the Womens Spirituality Forum an IRS 501(c)3 non-profit in the state of California making your clergy fees tax deductible You can learn more about Zrsquos Trysting Ritual and schedule your wedding ceremony with her in 2010

Crete Archaeologists discover skeleton covered with gold foil in 2700-year-old grave

Greek archaeologists have found an ancient skeleton covered with gold foil in a grave on the island of Crete officials said Tuesday

Excavator Nicholas Stampolidis said his team discovered more than 3000 pieces of gold foil in the 7th-century BC twin grave near the ancient town of Eleutherna

Cemeteries there have produced a wealth of outstanding artifacts in recent years

The tiny gold ornaments from 1 to 4 centimetres (04 to 15 inches) long had been sewn onto a lavish robe or shroud that initially wrapped the body of a woman and has almost completely rotted away but for a few off-white threads

The whole length of the (grave) was covered with small pieces of gold foil mdash square circular and lozenge-shaped Stampolidis told The Associated Press We were literally digging up gold interspersed with earth not earth with some gold in it

The woman who presumably had a high social or religious status was buried with a second skeleton in a large jar sealed with a stone slab weighing more than half a ton It was hidden behind a false wall to confuse grave robbers

Experts are trying to determine the other skeletons sex The grave also contained a copper bowl pottery perfume bottles imported from Egypt or Syria and Palestine hundreds of amber rock crystal and faience beads as well as a gold pendant in the form of a bee goddess that probably was part of a rock crystal and gold necklace

If you look at it one way up its shaped like a lily said Stampolidis a professor of archaeology at the University of Crete who has worked at Eleutherna for the 25 years Turned upside down you see a female figure holding her breasts whose lower body is shaped as a bee with wings The workmanship is exquisite

The ruins of Eleutherna stand on the northern foothills of Mount Ida mdash the mythical birthplace of Zeus chief of the ancient Greek gods Past excavations have discovered a citadel homes and an important cemetery with lavish female burials

The town flourished from the 9th century BC mdash the dark ages of Greek archaeology that followed the fall of Cretes great Minoan palatial culture mdash and endured until the Middle Ages

httparchaeologynewsnetworkblogspotcom201009archaeologists-on-crete-find-skeletonhtml

SWEET TASTE OF SPRING Susun S Weed

March winds blow the sweet scent of maple sap boiling to my questing nose When the days are warm

and sunny and the nights below freezing the sap rises in the trees If those trees are sugar maples then

it is worth drilling a hole in the bark inserting a tap and collecting their sweet sap There is so much

sugar in sugar maple sap that it can be boiled and turned into maple syrup and maple sugar

Therersquos about one gallon of maple syrup and ninety-nine gallons of water in one hundred gallons of

maple sap A hot fire and a slow but steady boil send that sweet-smelling water vapor high in the clear

cold sky The March wind blows it to me I close my eyes and remember my years of ldquosugaringrdquo making

maple syrup

Therersquos something special about a task that requires one to stay up all night Maple sap starts to ferment

if it is left at normal temperatures for very long Once ten or so gallons of sap have been collected the

boiling begins hellip and cannot be stopped until the finished syrup is achieved many many many hours

later

I have never sugared without at least one overnighter and sometimes two A large operation boils sap

for weeks without stopping just drawing off the syrup as it forms if the run is steady and copious

It was a picture of Helen Nearing driving a team of horses through the woods standing on a sleigh

loaded with buckets of maple sap that made me long for a homestead where I could lead The Simple

Life like her Two years later I had my own ldquosugar bushrdquo (an acre or more of woodlot where large sugar

maples grow) Spring equinox found me with my drill in hand a pocket full of taps and a bunch of funny

buckets with lids to hang from the taps ldquoTing tingrdquo the ping of sap filling the metal buckets echoes

tying me through time to every woman who has ever sugared and bringing a smile to my heart and

face

My groves of sugar maples have never been large enough to require a team of horses or a sleigh Irsquove

always lugged a big bucket out to the trees and poured the sap from the collecting buckets into it When

I have two or three buckets full I pour them into a big galvanized tub set up on cinder blocks over a fire

and commence to boil it down

Native peoples valued maple sugar so highly that they set up camp in the sugar bush and lived there

until the sap stopped flowing Lacking metal drill bits they cut a shallow groove in the bark and pressed

hollow elder stems into service as taps to direct the flow of sap into birch bark containers

I can heat the sap directly in my metal tub while they had to hollow out a log put smooth rocks into the

fire heat them and put the hot rocks into the sap in the hollowed out log to boil it down into maple

syrup and sugar Whew I am impressed with the power of the desire for sweet It takes far more

calories in fuel and human energy to make maple syrup or maple sugar than it returns

Grandmother Twylah taught us that maple trees are friendly and companionable colorful and

expressive They always have a positive attitude and are adept at helping us see solutions to impossible

problems Maple trees are devoted and true Make friends with a maple and you will have a friend for

life she advised

Ellen Everet Hopman green witch reminds us that maple-syrup-making time is Eostrersquos time Eostre

(ee-oh-stir) is the Teutonic goddess of fertility and manifestation Her symbols are the egg and the

rabbit her time is Spring Equinox A lovely custom still enacted but without the underlying magic is to

paint a picture of something you desire on an egg and plant it in the ground so Eostre can help it grow

and become real

If itrsquos too late to tap your maples or you live too far south for the sap to flow strongly you can still be

blessed and embraced by maple A decoction of maple bark boiled in water can be used to ease sore

eyes externally and to tonify the uterus after birth internally

A magical wand of maple wood is used for spells that bring harmony especially in the home And maple

leaves sewn into a charm made of green flannel tied with a golden string will bring abundance into

your life

Indulge your desire for sweet Celebrate spring equinox and Eostre who loves sweet things Have a

stack of pancakes swimming in butter and maple syrup Or pour maple syrup over plain vanilla ice cream

and savor the sweet taste of the friendly maple tree

Green blessings

How much sugar per gallon of sap is quite variable depending on the type of maple the growing

conditions and especially the amount of sun the tree gets Sugar maple (Acer saccharum) sap is the

sweetest followed by the saps of silver maple (Acer saccharinum) Northern red maple (Acer rubrum)

and Norway maple (Acer platanoides)

Susun Weed

PO Box 64

Woodstock NY 12498

Fax 1-845-246-8081

Visit Susun Weed at wwwsusunweedcom and wwwashtreepublishingcom

Vibrant passionate and involved Susun Weed has garnered an international reputation for her

groundbreaking lectures teachings and writings on health and nutrition She challenges conventional

medical approaches with humor insight and her vast encyclopedic knowledge of herbal medicine

Unabashedly pro-woman her animated and enthusiastic lectures are engaging and often profoundly

provocative

Susun is one of Americas best-known authorities on herbal medicine and natural approaches to

womens health Her four best-selling books are recommended by expert herbalists and well-known

physicians and are used and cherished by millions of women around the world Learn more at

wwwsusunweedcom

Susun Weedrsquos books include

Wise Woman Herbal for the Childbearing Year

Author Susun S Weed Simple safe remedies for pregnancy childbirth lactation and

newborns Includes herbs for fertility and birth control Foreword by Jeannine Parvati

Baker 196 pages index illustrations

Healing Wise

Author Susun S Weed Superb herbal in the feminine-intuitive mode Complete

instructions for using common plants for food beauty medicine and longevity

Introduction by Jean Houston 312 pages index illustrations

Menopausal Years the Wise Woman Way

Author Susun S Weed The best book on menopause is now better Completely

revised with 100 new pages All the remedies women know and trust plus hundreds

of new ones New sections on thyroid health fibromyalgia hairy problems male

menopause and herbs for women taking hormones Recommended by Susan Love

MD and Christiane Northrup MD Foreword by Juliette de Bairacli Levy 304 pages

index illustrations

For more info on menopause visit wwwmenopause-metamorphosiscom

Breast Cancer Breast Health

Author Susun S Weed Foods exercises and attitudes to keep your breasts healthy

Supportive complimentary medicines to ease side-effects of surgery radiation

chemotherapy or tamoxifen Foreword by Christiane Northrup MD 380 pages index

illustrations

UPCOMING DIANIC EVENTS

Pagan Examiner ndash Read the articles written by Bobbie and myself Zrsquos Calendar of Events ndash Want to know where I am appearing Goddess Festival ndash You think the last was good Goddess is Alive Tarot Social - A joyful coming-together of the Womenrsquos Tarot community a

Revival of the 70rsquos TRAVELING MAGIC SHOW by a FOREMOTHER of GODDESS SPIRITUALITY The QUEEN of TAROT READINGS and the woman responsible for LEGALIZING TAROT in California hellip Z Budapest

Z Budapest is conducting a most entertaining Tarot Social at her home in

Oakland CA on April 23rd For more information and registration go to

TarotSocialcom

The Dianic University for Women in Goddess

Study the Dianic Tradition with Z Budapest the woman who rebirthed it into modern culture Classes at the Dianic University are designed for women only

Sisterhood of the Moon ~ Womenrsquos Spirituality Coven in the Z Budapest Dianic Tradition

Events in the Sisterhood of the Moon are for women-born-women only Located in Hayward CA You must contact Jesamyn Angelica for more information Many of the members of this group are also members of the Susan B Anthony Coven No1 Facebookpage

Hands of Demeter ~ Womenrsquos Spirituality Coven in the Z Budapest Dianic Tradition

Events in the Hands of Demeter are for women-born-women only Located in Semi Valley CA You must contact httpearthmothercovenantcom for more information Many of the members of this group are also members of the Susan B Anthony Coven No1 Facebook page

The Sacred Circle ~ Recovering amp Reclaiming Ancient Ways to Heal

Events in The Sacred Circle are for members only unless otherwise stated Call JoAnna 775-882-1599 for membership inquiries

Sisterhood of the Turning Tides ~ Womenrsquos Spirituality Coven in the Z Budapest Dianic Tradition

They meet on Esbats and Sabbats and have a Tuesday night drumritual circle Located in Mendocino CA You must contact Sage Simon for more information Many of the members of this group are also members of the Susan B Anthony Coven No1 Facebookpage

You can sponsor Goddess magazine too Click here to helphellip

Deepest Gratitude to Sisters in Goddess for their Donations

The Application for Dianic Clergy Priestess is online

Follow the Goddess Festival on Facebook And Twitter

Thank you sisters who have donated $1 a month to help support our Goddess efforts

You can sponsor Goddess magazine too Click here to helphellip

Vicki Scotti LuAnn Morris and Amy Otero are

Hecatersquos Wheel an acoustic folk trio Their

music is inspired by and dedicated to the

Goddess in all her guises They sing an eclectic

variety of cover songs and original music

Hecatersquos Wheel has been playing and

singing together for several years and their

voices have found a natural harmonious blend

We VERY much enjoyed their Beltaine concert

Goddess Resource Links Z Budapest Website Goddess College Online Goddess Blog ndash Sponsored by the Susan B Anthony Coven Z Budapest Blog Goddess Festival Susan B Anthony Coven Dianic Wicca Tarot Social Witch Trial ndash the last great witch trial in America Zs Events Schedule Zs University Calendar

Zs Books Summoning the Fates Holy Book of Womens Mysteries Celestial Wisdom Grandmother of Time Grandmother Moon Goddess in the Office Goddess in the Bedroom

Page 5: Goddess Magazine (March 2011)

Two of my books are beautifully back in Print So exciting

List Price $1999 Add to Cart

GRANDMOTHER MOON by Zsuzsanna E Budapest Inviting us to look at the moon as the old ally she is renowned feminist witch Zsuzsanna Budapest shows how to tap into the moons powers for peace health and energy With delightful wit and wisdom she shares practical and entertaining lunar lore from ancient moon-based rituals to lunar cycle diet tips Budapest reveals how by acting in harmony with the moon women can balance everything from their mood and weight to fertility Here is a spirited illumination of the natural cycles that influence our lives as lunar primates Rewritten and new materials added Available on Kindle

List Price $1199 Add to Cart

Selene - The Most Famous Bull-leaper on Earth by Zsuzsanna E Budapest Selene is far more than a coloring book The story of Selene the bull-leaper is a story of a young woman who defeats fear and socialization and gains self-hood through accomplishments of her own Her name means moon and this name was common for young women to take up in honor of the Moon Goddess Selene Selene was pictured on the temples and walls of Asia Minor sitting atop a white sow So while this story is fictional it is based on the history we do know

Please enjoy this issue of Goddess Magazine and blessing to you and all your beloveds

Blessed be

Z Budapest

Thank you sisters who have donated $1 a month to help support our Goddess efforts

You can sponsor Goddess magazine too Click here to helphellip

In Search of Merlin Stone

by Bobbie Grennier Marilyn C ldquoMerlinrdquo Stone passed away on February 23 2011 from complications caused by an extended illness She was born September 27 1931 in Brooklyn New York Merlin loved education and was a devoted student She attended New York State College where she earned her Bachelorrsquos of Science in Art Education Albright Art School California College of Arts and Crafts where she earned her Doctorate of Philosophy and Ashmolean Museum in Oxford England for five years of independent studies Merlin Stone is best remembered for her impressive literary body of work From 1971-1976 she traveled to Turkey Lebanon Cyprus Crete Greece among others where she uncovered the lost Goddess culture She wrote about her discoveries in two landmark books When God was a Woman (originally titled The Paradise Papers) and Ancient Mirrors of Womanhood ndash Our Goddess and Heroine Heritage She also wrote a third book called Three Thousand Years of Racism and she was also published in many magazines and anthologies

She was a noted American Artist and Sculptor working her craft from 1958-1967 Merlin Stonersquos artwork still stands throughout the state of New York and she received a personal letter of thanks from Robert F Kennedy for the loan of her art work which was on display in his New York City office To say that Merlin Stone changed the religious landscape is an understatement Her work influenced the budding Womenrsquos Studies Departments with thoughts of womenrsquos theology and history She fostered new thinking throughout the academic world In the same way that Marija Gimbutas gave women their own historical record of artifacts Merlin Stone gave women their own spiritual culture

Merlin Stone was recognized by liberal thinkers She once wrote ldquohellipYoko [Ono] and John [Lennon] had taken turns reading ldquoWhen God was a Womanrdquo to each other I knew they had the book because I had been asked to autograph a copy for them hellipit touched me deeplyrdquo There is so much more to say about Merlin Stonersquos life much of it we are just beginning to understand because Merlin led a very private existence With the help of her life-partner Len Schneir and her two daughters Cynthia Davis and Jenny Hirst we are creating three memorial projects

1 DVD documentary called In Search of Merlin Stone chronicling her life

2 A book of the same title featuring remembrances personal influences and white papers all focused on Merlin and her body of work

3 The Benefit Memorial Celebration on September 24 2011 in Clearwater Florida

When God was a Woman by Merlin Stone

The Benefit Memorial Celebration will take place at the Unitarian Universalist Church 2470 Nursery

Road Clearwater FL 33764 This celebration of Merlin Stonersquos life is in production and updated

information will be posted on the wwwMerlinStonenet website You may also donate to Merlin

Stonersquos Memorial Fund at the wwwMerlinStonenet website All donations are thankfully welcomed

ldquoI want the world to remember her for the goddess she wasrdquo said her life-partner Len Schneir ldquoI must

admit that it took me a long time to finally believe and fully trust the Goddess and Merlin everything I

am is because of her wisdomrdquo

If you have a Merlin Stone story photo audio recording video recording to share etc please contact Z

Budapest (wwwZBudapestcom) The September 24th Memorial will be streamed live onto the

Internet details will be announced at the wwwMerlinStonenet website

She touched the hearts of women and men globally Merlin Stone is recognized and remembered most

by her contemporaries

Today we are no longer spiritual orphans of the world It was sister Merlin who gave her entire

life to this sacred reclaiming All of us stand to thank her for this very potent gift of the

legitimized woman spirit When you came back with ldquoWhen God was a Womanrdquo and enough

material for its follow up ldquoAncient Mirrors of Womanhoodrdquo we all knew you had found the

cultural Goddess mother lode You are much too hard to let go

-Zsuzsanna Budapest author of The Holy book of Womenrsquos Mysteries and Grandmother Moon

In the beginning God was a woman Do you remember Those words still give me chills

ldquoWhen God was a Womanrdquo changed my life I remember Merlins penetrating wit and intellect

and her wild henna red hair She will be missed Blessed be

- Carol P Christ author of Rebirth of the Goddess and She Who Changes

Few people have inspired me like Merlin Stone and her work Because of her I found Goddess

deity archetype and ideal Because of her my life has been filled with inspiration meaning and

direction Thank you beloved Merlin Stone May you smile down on us and guide us from that

special resting place in the arms of the Mother

- Karen Tate author of Sacred Places of Goddess

Merlin Stones work brought knowledge of the Divine Feminine to the consciousness of the

Western world We are very grateful to her for her pioneering work

- Miriam Robbins Dexter PhD author of Sacred Display and Whence the Goddesses

Merlin Stone was a great inspiration when I first read When God was a Woman in the early

80s It spoke to something deep inside me and affirmed my own knowing We all owe her

gratitude for the Goddess work she did

- Kathy Jones author of The Goddess in Glastonbury and Priestess of Avalon Priestess of the

Goddess

She [Merlin] was so so amazing I am really saddened to learn this ---as it came like a shock I

knew her pretty well in the days when my book was happening What a terrible loss--but what a

great gain for women in our time She opened up so much for all of us---and it was because she

wanted to be a sculptor and was searching for empowered images of women--thats how she

came upon all the goddess images The story is very amazing

- Gloria Orenstein author of Reweaving the World The Emergence of Ecofeminism

I remember Merlin when we met in 1986 to film Goddess Remembered in San Francisco She was

not originally scheduled to be at the dinner party we filmed but mysterious forces made it

possible for her to arrive in SF just in time I enjoyed Merlins contribution to the conversation we

filmed and especially enjoyed some pleasant hours months later in New York with her I feel her

passing very much and remember her life as one of the great blessings all women have shared

In love may she return again

- Donna Read director of Goddess Remembered The Burning Times and Full Circle

Requiem for Merlin Stone By Zsuzsanna Budapest I have tried to write this memorial several times You are much too hard to let go I cannot celebrate you and bemoan you and preserve you forever all at once So I will just talk to you as you once were here in my house many years ago Merlin sweet sister recline comfortably on my leather couch Here is your black coffee letrsquos talk and remember together For a long time I didnrsquot know what happened to you ldquoHave you heard from Merlinrdquo I asked everybody I knew Your phone no longer worked Letters to your address were

returned That was your last footstep for most of us Then nothing for decades and many years I spent

in search of Merlin Stone

Suddenly your man Lenny called and he told us you passed away February 23 2011 You had been ill a

long time and didnrsquot want to show yourself You knew years ago that your beautiful mind was changing

You didnrsquot want to be remembered for the long illness but for the contributions of art and literature I

get it

Once there was the Heroic Age of the 70rsquos you were amongst this generation of the brave seed- casters

inventors and artists who has sown seeds of knowledge about all things good for all women Even in

these fertile times women were still spiritual orphans We had no soul reflection in the high spiritual

places We had no knowledge of where we had been as women or where we could aspire to go We had

politics and feminism We needed more Some important part of us was still very empty

We simply had no spiritual past

It was not good form to believe in the existences of the Amazons of Anatolia or Asia or of the global

Goddess womenrsquos cultures No evidence for that Even feminists were frowning We didnrsquot dare to

believe in that it would have been one more reason to disqualify spirited women from any meaningful

conversation or visibility on the feminist cultural canvas Some politicos called us bliss bunnies We had

no ground to stand on

Our cultural past had been stolen from us Schools certainly never mentioned us the divine feminine

was either a perfume or a lipstick shade or maybe a salad dressing but certainly not an all powerful real

Goddess

Merlin Stonehellip you felt this part of feminist thought was sorely missing We simply had no information

about our own great people as a gender Who did we pray to Always men

Who went back in time and stole it all back for us Who was smart enough to read the old musty out-

of-print books in hopes of finding a couple of lines the patriarchs missed when they erased the Goddess

culture

Like an Amazon of the libraries it was you who hunted down the hard-to-come-by books visiting

museums and traveling to far-off distant lands for research When you came back with ldquoWhen God was

a Womanrdquo and enough material for its follow-up ldquoAncient Mirrors of Womanhoodrdquo we all knew you

had found the cultural Goddess motherlode

The brilliance richness and diversity of the global Goddess traditions were beyond anybodyrsquos hopes All

around the globe Merlin Stone had found our traditions of celebrations our goddesses and our moral

codes

We did come from somewhere awesome and our foremothers had left us treasures in ritual sacred

poetry and arthellip footsteps for us to follow And it was Merlin Stone who found it and published it

She published in England as The Paradise Papers because American publishers would not touch it Now

the books are with Beacon Press

Today we are no longer spiritual orphans of the world It was sister Merlin who gave her entire life to

this sacred reclaiming All of us stand to thank her for this very potent gift of the legitimized woman

spirit

As usual Merlin would just smile and make little of my accolade

She felt ldquocalledrdquo she said

She was an acclaimed American artist a sculptress and national treasure She taught Art History and

that led her to the surviving images of the Goddess which called her to see more Her welded art

sculptures took on more and more triple goddess themes and finally dissolved into the physical

research which took her to Turkey - Anatolia of old the land of the Mothers

She was lovingly protected hitch-hiking alone with long red hair flowing down her back she had little

money slept in caves a sacred stranger in her own once fertile Goddess homeland

ldquoHow did you find the booksrdquo I once asked her

ldquoStrange thingrdquo she explained ldquoI heard a hum - a hum of women when I got close to a book that had

useful information for us I just reached out and there it was I was led by a humrdquo

ldquoOh yes the humrdquo Merlin had come to dinner in Santa Monica we feminist witches were much

honored We held hands over my barley dish and hummed together as we usually did praying our

blessing Merlin burst into tears I was worried Who hurt our highly esteemed guest

ldquoNobody hurt merdquo she said ldquoBut this was the hum I heard in the libraries of Turkey This was the hum

that led me to the great Goddess booksrdquo

Then the witches fell silent and one by one we also teared up at this miracle How could a ragtag

revolutionary group of witches hum on a California mountaintop and a woman on the Goddess search

hear it all the way in Turkey Never mind the multiplication of the fishes and the loaves this was a much

better miracle Our belief in the all-pervasive omnipresent Goddess was never stronger

Which Goddess shall I invoke for your memorial You have given us hundreds

As a Dianic witch I love Hecate the transformer She who takes the tired souls away on her chariot

drawn by the dragons of time She is the healer of wounds the Queen of the dark side of the Moon

But Merlin loved Anahita She is the one ldquowho is the Cosmic Ocean in which the stars do float It is

Anahita who provides the nourishing rain sending waters from the heavens to the springs and rivers

protecting the flocks in pastures and causing them to bear their young -- as it is Anahita who fills the

womb with life Her chariot is drawn by white steeds named rain and wind and clouds and sleet or as

she rides on the back of a gliding eagle or even upon a splendid lionrdquo

At Anahitarsquos shrines still visible in Sardis and Susa in Kangawar and Ecbatana her inscription reads ldquoI

am the conscience of thine own selfrdquo

Rest sweetly dearest sister and if you wish to live on in our hearts please guide us like the hum once

guided you Donrsquot hurry linger amongst us

Merlin my beloved sister your chariot can wait

Ancient Mirrors of Womanhood Merlin Stone 1979 p210

I am going to be a guest speaker at the Women of Spirit and Faith Conference April 28- May 1

The Alchemy of Our Spiritual Leadership Women Redefining Power

Calling all women of spirit and faith This is not your typical womens conference

Imagine the energy of more than 300 women ready for inspiration deep wisdom and potent co-creation

Alchemy Highlights

Inspiring Keynote wisdom from Sister Joan Chittister Valarie Kaur and Naomi Tutu Stimulating Leadership Conversations featuring the wisdom and experience of a dozen diverse women

leaders Informative workshops with a focus on building practical skills and new models for collaborative

leadership Many opportunities for circle dialogue and structured conversation Optional activities such as Open Space Offerings Morning Meditations Yoga Movement Labyrinth Walks

and more The Alchemy Marketplace where you can shop for books jewelry art and music A Beautiful Meditation and Prayer Room for silence and reflection Art music poetry laughter and lots of right-brain fun and stimulation

I am also going to be attending the Glastonbury Goddess Conference 2011

Now five full days of Goddess-loving celebration with Fringe events from Sunday July 24 ndash 31

Celebrating the Great Mother of Water at Lammas details are online wwwgoddessconferencecom

Welcoming two USA two pioneers of the Goddess movement -

Vicki Noble co-creator of the Motherpeace Tarot

Zsuzsanna Budapest Founder of the Dianic Wiccan Tradition and Womenrsquos Spirituality Movement

With Conference Favorites Anique Radiant Heart Barbara Meiklejohn-Free Carolyn Hillyer Julie Felix

Kathy Jones Lydia Ruyle and Lady Olivia Durdin Robertson

With Ceremonies Adorations and Praise Songs to the Great Goddess of Water She who is the Source

and Womb of all Life Participate in moving Sacred Ceremonies take part in inspiring Workshops listen

to fascinating Presentations see beautiful Artwork amp Stalls Performances Music Song Poetry and

Dance Visit the Holy Wells of the Goddess in Avalon cleansing and immersing yourself in Her Healing

Waters Join one of Nine Wells - circles of support and participation in Conference Ceremonies Dance

the night away at the Goddess Gala Buffet and Masque and join our Goddess Procession through the

Landscape to the River Brue with a Fruit Feast

Plus Presenters Priestesses and Spinners Amanda Baker Annabel Du Boulay Anna Saqqara Price

Charissa Schipper Caroline Lir Deonesea la Fey Emma Rose Knight Erin McCauliffe Ganga Ashworth

Georgina Sirett-Hardie Graell Corsini Heloise Pilkington Isabella Verbruggen Isis Queen Jacqui

Woodward-Smith Jennifer Cooper Katinka Soetens Kaye Cooksey Koko Newport Lauren Raine Lisa

Newing Louise Bell Louise Tarrier Lydia Lite Marion van Eupen Mary Bruce Michelle Patten Miriam

Raven Morgaine Noam Zimin Oshia Drury Rose Flint Roz Bound Sally Pullinger Sharlea Johnson

Shirley-Ann Millar Shoshana Horobin Sophie Pullinger Sue Quatermass Tegwyn Hyndman Thalia

Brown Tiana Pitman amp Tina Free plus more great Priestesses amazing helpful Melissas amp lots more

wonderful women and men

My Workshops at Glastonbury

ZSUZSANNA BUDAPEST WE ALL COME FROM THE GODDESS (Women Only)

Sunday July 25th Women from all walks of life come together with High Priestess Zsuzsanna (Z) Budapest in a flowing woman-only Dianic circle celebrating our expanding global sisterhood Beginning with the sacred Dianic purification we enter the circle commune with our ancestors and our divine selves lift up a joyous dedication to the Goddess Sedna of the Deep as we bless all waters inside and outside Chanting dancing and strengthening our bonds of sisterhood We are the flow we are the ebb When the women are healed the whole world is healed Drummers musical instruments voices welcome Dress comfortably Come garlanded with something in season greens or flowers

Z Budapest is the founder of the Dianic (Feminist) Tradition of Wicca in the USA initiating the worldrsquos most famous coven the Susan B Anthony Coven Number One which continues to thrive and brings womenrsquos spirituality into mainstream consciousness (SusanBAnthonyCovencom) Z has led rituals lectured taught classes given workshops written articles tirelessly and published in hundreds of womens newspapers across the country She has powerfully influenced many of the future teachers and writers about the Goddess She is the director of the Womens Spirituality Forum a nonprofit organization and Z founded and sponsors the Dianic Universityrsquos Goddess College (GoddessCollegecom) Her books include Holy Book of Womens Mysteries Grandmother of Time Grandmother Moon See wwwZBudapestcom Venue Glastonbury Assembly Rooms Time 1000am-400pm Fee pound50$85euro65 register online wwwgoddessconferencecom

ZSUZSANNA BUDAPEST ndash TAROT SOCIAL IN MY ROOM (Glastonbury)

July 26-27th Tarot Social information and exact date to be announced

ZSUZSANNA BUDAPEST ndash THE HERSTORY OF THE DIANIC TRADITION (Mixed Audience)

July 28th A multi-media presentation on the Herstory of the Dianic Tradition for a mixed audience Z

Budapest provides the historical background to the origins of the Dianic Tradition as well as important

triumphs that the Dianics fought for and won for the Pagan community and beyond Like the right to

perform divination readings in the United States in public and charge for it Historically it was Z and

Dianics who fought for the rights of this civil liberty in California which then opened the door to other

states to follow suit You can learn more about that at WitchTrialnet This presentation also clears up

some urban legends about the Dianic Tradition Such as itrsquos a man-hating tradition the accusations of

separatism Nothing could be farther from the truth Z Budapest founded the Womenrsquos Spirituality

Movement in 1971 Since then there has been an uninterrupted Goddess worship for the past 40 plus

years of women circling together in sacred celebration of all the Sabbaths and many moons This Dianic

Tradition has spread all over the globe After a brief break the second half of the workshop will involve

spiritual movement and dancing the meeting Dance Finally we will finish with an inspiring multi-media

presentation Prayers to the Mother all living creatures are one

Hope to see you at the Glastonbury Goddess Conference 2011

Follow Z Budapest on Facebook And Twitter

ZSUZSANNA BUDAPEST ndash TAROT SOCIAL

I am doing another women-only Tarot Social on April 23rd at my own home Who wants to host a Tarot

Social For more information visit TarotSocialcom and contact me

After more than thirty years in circulation The Holy Book of Womenrsquos Mysteries is still a ground-breaking book in the forefront of womenrsquos spirituality

Get your own copy of Zrsquos out of print books and DVDs at the Womenrsquos Spirituality Forum online store

Irsquom also available for Tarot Readings I know many of you are going through some tough times and

thatrsquos really when you should be reaching out for a reading Irsquom here if you need me

This magazine is sponsored by the Womenrsquos Spirituality Forum

Please help support our efforts to help keep the Goddess Alive

The Application for Dianic Clergy Priestess is online

Goddess College Updates amp More

We have changed the way the online school is doing business After offering free memberships over

the last four years the changes in the economy have forced us to make changes hellip good changes

The Dianic University has now become the Goddess College and has its own website to boot It was

necessary to update the schoolrsquos software but with all the free accounts the database had gotten too

big to migrate So we were forced to start over from scratch eliminating all the free accounts If you

were a student in good standing and part of a paid class in old Dianic University then we are working to

grandmother you into the new school

The way to gain entry into the new Goddess College is through membership in the Susan B Anthony

Coven 1 Everyone in the Goddess College will be active members of the SBA with only a handful of

exceptions Join the Susan B Anthony Coven 1 - You can apply for membership here

The Susan B Anthony Coven 1 now meets inside the Goddess College and the old DU area is closed

We have updated and moved over the Dianic Feminist Philosophy class and the first Holy Book class The

Holy Book series of classes is being totally reworked and improved Thatrsquos partly due to an alliance wersquove

made with the Ocean Seminary College which will allow us to offer degrees for our course of study We

are currently in process with meeting their requirements to make this happen Very exciting stuff for

womenrsquos spirituality I will keep you updated in my column here in the Goddess Magazine

We are networked up the Hoola-Hoop in Facebook Itrsquos hard to miss everything wersquore doing and yet

some of you are still contacting me and saying you hadnrsquot heard of this or that Get your face into

Facebook my sisters and friend the following pages so you can stay in the know

Z Budapest on Facebook

Z Budapest Fan Page

Goddess Magazine Radio Show Fan Page

Goddess Festival Fan Page

Food Magic Fan Page

Susan B Anthony Coven Fan Page

Why arenrsquot you more active in the Dianic Tradition We have a lot of women who read this Goddess

Magazine every month and it would awesome to have more of you join in with us at the Susan B

Anthony Coven 1 A membership into the worldrsquos most famous all-womenrsquos coven makes for a nice gift

to yourself Give it some thought and then come join us The Womens Spirituality Forum is an IRS

501(c)3 non-profit Your registration fees and your membership are tax deductible

Check out our mobile-friendly portal website wwwGoddessLivecom hellip Wersquove pulled all our

information and articles into one location for you and it doesnrsquot matter if yoursquore a computer user or a

mobile user because wersquove programmed the site to be able to switch back and forth

Goddess Magazine Radio Show

Goddess Magazine Radio Show will be forced to go to a half hour program because of changes at

Blogtalk Radio We will bring you more chats with Z very soon Promise

Look for announcements of the new Goddess Magazine Radio Shows on our Facebook fan page Are you

a member of the Goddess Magazine Radio Show Fan page And now you can listen to Goddess

Magazine Radio Shows on iTunes So open you iTunes and subscribe to our podcasted show

Itrsquos free

Goddess Live Toolbar

Every Sister in Goddess who wants to stay linked in to what Z Budapest is doing should have this

toolbar Itrsquos free Itrsquos easy to install and itrsquos secure Get your own Goddess Live Toolbar right now by

clicking here

Follow the Goddess Festival on Facebook And Twitter

Get your new copy here

OTHER WOMENrsquoS SACRED EVENTS amp TOURS TELL THEM Z SENT YOU A WOMENrsquoS RITUAL RETREAT IN CRETE A JOURNEY TO THE GODDESS MAY 23-JUNE 5TH 2011

Facilitated by Ruth Barrett and Catherine Ridder YES We still have spaces still available for our fourth

ritual retreat to Crete Space is limited to 13 women on a first-come basis If you are interested in

hearing more information about this incredible trip contact Catherine Ridder at 626-793-7520 or email

caridder2netzerocom

Sacred Sites of Avalon England with Donna Virgilio April 27 to May 3 2011 Travel to Stonehenge for a private ceremony in the inner circle Walk to the Tor considered to be the legendary Camelot Tour Roman and Medieval Baths and honor the Goddess Minerva visit and pray at the Chalice Well and see the Sacred Gardens Tour the Glastonbury Goddess Temple and participate in the official Beltaine Festivities and Ceremony See the Boscastle Witchcraft Museum and Journey to Tintagel the mystical birthplace of King Arthur and peek inside Merlinrsquos Cave Walk through Avebury Stonecircle West Kennet Long Barrows Silsbury Hill and see Crop Circles Finally dance at the Avalon Beltaine Fairy Ball featuring Doreen Virtues Band Obsidian

On the Trail of the Goddess in Turkey - Anatolia - Land of the Nourishing Mothers

ON THE TRAIL OF THE GREAT GODDESS

Sacred Journey to Turkey

November 2 - 14 2011

featuring

Karen and Roy Tate

Guided by Rashid Ergener

Visit the sacred goddess sites in Turkey Catalhoyuk Lagina Ephesus Troy and Sardis

httpwwwexaminercomwomen-s-goddess-spirituality-in-los-angelessacred-tour-of-goddess-sites-turkey-coming-november-2011-for-women-men

Check out the new video of sacred places in Turkey Hear the hauntingly beautiful music as the Ancient Mother calls httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=Twbcx8IicxI

8th ANNUAL WISE WOMANS FESTIVAL IN FLORIDA

Come and Greet the Springtime with Our Lady of the Faery

Greenwood April 9th and 10th

Nymphs Dryads Devas Kami Apsaras and Sprites Oh My What is the connection between Goddesses

and Faeryfolk Itrsquos Springtime and even though we have April showers you wonrsquot have to wait for May

to enjoy the flowers Join Morning Glory Zell noted Goddess historian and Priestess for the latest in her

series of Great Goddess Retreats and find out why the Green Goddess is more than a salad dressing

With her 36 years of experience and a collection of over 200 votive Goddess statues get ready for an

unforgettable weekend journey of sacred learning and transformational experience

This Retreat will be held at the Raven Haven Morning Gloryrsquos beautiful 10 acre home in Sonoma County

California Raven Haven is nice and roomy with a deck a pool and a spa and a special magickal Faery

Porch covered with flowering wisteria The Temple Room has huge floor to ceiling glass cases displaying

her collection of Goddess figurines and a large altar covered in beautiful Goddess images If you come

from out of town there is room to camp out (if itrsquos dry) sleep over if you like or you can choose from the

many excellent nearby hotels

The Retreat begins on Saturday the 24th at 200pm and ends on Sunday the 25th at 800pm Saturday

we will devote ourselves to learning and exploring the many Goddesses who have a connection to the

realm of Faery from Danu to Ma Ku Hold the images in your hands and hear their fascinating stories

Later we will journey deep in guided meditation to discover the special one which calls to you

Sunday starts with fun and relaxation as we learn the ancient art of weaving wreaths of living flowers

and plants to make a magickal faery wreath or perhaps you would like to learn how to make a faery

house outside on the Faery Porch that will be covered with blooming wisteria Later we will have a ritual

bath in the spa and a procession to decorate the various Goddess shrines around the property The

Retreat culminates with a ceremony to honor the Goddesses and the Fae in a Council where we sing

together and where each Goddess or Faery can share Her Truth

The fee for the entire weekend Retreat is only $10000 or you may attend only Saturdayrsquos program of

the lecture and meditation for $6000 Sunday however is not open to anyone who has not already

attended the Saturday session Meals are shared in an easygoing potluck fashion You truly have never

had any other experience quite like this one and you will come away re-energized as well as transformed

by the power of your new divine connection

Phone (707) 795-8047

mythicimcnorg

PO Box 758

Cotati CA 94931

Tryst ndash Handfasting Commitment Ceremonies

Z is back sisters And shersquos available to officiate your Trysting wedding ceremonies again The most popular pagan Goddess wedding ceremony was created by Z Budapest in The Holy Book of Womens Mysteries where Z coined the term Tryst Ritual as an expressly feminine marriage ceremony and rite of passage that can be used for heterosexual couples as well as same sex couples

Z Budapest has been conducting Pagan marriage rituals for over 40 years as a celebrated High Priestess within the Dianic Tradition which she founded Z is available to officiate your handfasting ceremony as well Whether its a civil union or a licensed marriage certificate Z is able to offer you her services as clergy She has legal standings through the Womens Spirituality Forum an IRS 501(c)3 non-profit in the state of California making your clergy fees tax deductible You can learn more about Zrsquos Trysting Ritual and schedule your wedding ceremony with her in 2010

Crete Archaeologists discover skeleton covered with gold foil in 2700-year-old grave

Greek archaeologists have found an ancient skeleton covered with gold foil in a grave on the island of Crete officials said Tuesday

Excavator Nicholas Stampolidis said his team discovered more than 3000 pieces of gold foil in the 7th-century BC twin grave near the ancient town of Eleutherna

Cemeteries there have produced a wealth of outstanding artifacts in recent years

The tiny gold ornaments from 1 to 4 centimetres (04 to 15 inches) long had been sewn onto a lavish robe or shroud that initially wrapped the body of a woman and has almost completely rotted away but for a few off-white threads

The whole length of the (grave) was covered with small pieces of gold foil mdash square circular and lozenge-shaped Stampolidis told The Associated Press We were literally digging up gold interspersed with earth not earth with some gold in it

The woman who presumably had a high social or religious status was buried with a second skeleton in a large jar sealed with a stone slab weighing more than half a ton It was hidden behind a false wall to confuse grave robbers

Experts are trying to determine the other skeletons sex The grave also contained a copper bowl pottery perfume bottles imported from Egypt or Syria and Palestine hundreds of amber rock crystal and faience beads as well as a gold pendant in the form of a bee goddess that probably was part of a rock crystal and gold necklace

If you look at it one way up its shaped like a lily said Stampolidis a professor of archaeology at the University of Crete who has worked at Eleutherna for the 25 years Turned upside down you see a female figure holding her breasts whose lower body is shaped as a bee with wings The workmanship is exquisite

The ruins of Eleutherna stand on the northern foothills of Mount Ida mdash the mythical birthplace of Zeus chief of the ancient Greek gods Past excavations have discovered a citadel homes and an important cemetery with lavish female burials

The town flourished from the 9th century BC mdash the dark ages of Greek archaeology that followed the fall of Cretes great Minoan palatial culture mdash and endured until the Middle Ages

httparchaeologynewsnetworkblogspotcom201009archaeologists-on-crete-find-skeletonhtml

SWEET TASTE OF SPRING Susun S Weed

March winds blow the sweet scent of maple sap boiling to my questing nose When the days are warm

and sunny and the nights below freezing the sap rises in the trees If those trees are sugar maples then

it is worth drilling a hole in the bark inserting a tap and collecting their sweet sap There is so much

sugar in sugar maple sap that it can be boiled and turned into maple syrup and maple sugar

Therersquos about one gallon of maple syrup and ninety-nine gallons of water in one hundred gallons of

maple sap A hot fire and a slow but steady boil send that sweet-smelling water vapor high in the clear

cold sky The March wind blows it to me I close my eyes and remember my years of ldquosugaringrdquo making

maple syrup

Therersquos something special about a task that requires one to stay up all night Maple sap starts to ferment

if it is left at normal temperatures for very long Once ten or so gallons of sap have been collected the

boiling begins hellip and cannot be stopped until the finished syrup is achieved many many many hours

later

I have never sugared without at least one overnighter and sometimes two A large operation boils sap

for weeks without stopping just drawing off the syrup as it forms if the run is steady and copious

It was a picture of Helen Nearing driving a team of horses through the woods standing on a sleigh

loaded with buckets of maple sap that made me long for a homestead where I could lead The Simple

Life like her Two years later I had my own ldquosugar bushrdquo (an acre or more of woodlot where large sugar

maples grow) Spring equinox found me with my drill in hand a pocket full of taps and a bunch of funny

buckets with lids to hang from the taps ldquoTing tingrdquo the ping of sap filling the metal buckets echoes

tying me through time to every woman who has ever sugared and bringing a smile to my heart and

face

My groves of sugar maples have never been large enough to require a team of horses or a sleigh Irsquove

always lugged a big bucket out to the trees and poured the sap from the collecting buckets into it When

I have two or three buckets full I pour them into a big galvanized tub set up on cinder blocks over a fire

and commence to boil it down

Native peoples valued maple sugar so highly that they set up camp in the sugar bush and lived there

until the sap stopped flowing Lacking metal drill bits they cut a shallow groove in the bark and pressed

hollow elder stems into service as taps to direct the flow of sap into birch bark containers

I can heat the sap directly in my metal tub while they had to hollow out a log put smooth rocks into the

fire heat them and put the hot rocks into the sap in the hollowed out log to boil it down into maple

syrup and sugar Whew I am impressed with the power of the desire for sweet It takes far more

calories in fuel and human energy to make maple syrup or maple sugar than it returns

Grandmother Twylah taught us that maple trees are friendly and companionable colorful and

expressive They always have a positive attitude and are adept at helping us see solutions to impossible

problems Maple trees are devoted and true Make friends with a maple and you will have a friend for

life she advised

Ellen Everet Hopman green witch reminds us that maple-syrup-making time is Eostrersquos time Eostre

(ee-oh-stir) is the Teutonic goddess of fertility and manifestation Her symbols are the egg and the

rabbit her time is Spring Equinox A lovely custom still enacted but without the underlying magic is to

paint a picture of something you desire on an egg and plant it in the ground so Eostre can help it grow

and become real

If itrsquos too late to tap your maples or you live too far south for the sap to flow strongly you can still be

blessed and embraced by maple A decoction of maple bark boiled in water can be used to ease sore

eyes externally and to tonify the uterus after birth internally

A magical wand of maple wood is used for spells that bring harmony especially in the home And maple

leaves sewn into a charm made of green flannel tied with a golden string will bring abundance into

your life

Indulge your desire for sweet Celebrate spring equinox and Eostre who loves sweet things Have a

stack of pancakes swimming in butter and maple syrup Or pour maple syrup over plain vanilla ice cream

and savor the sweet taste of the friendly maple tree

Green blessings

How much sugar per gallon of sap is quite variable depending on the type of maple the growing

conditions and especially the amount of sun the tree gets Sugar maple (Acer saccharum) sap is the

sweetest followed by the saps of silver maple (Acer saccharinum) Northern red maple (Acer rubrum)

and Norway maple (Acer platanoides)

Susun Weed

PO Box 64

Woodstock NY 12498

Fax 1-845-246-8081

Visit Susun Weed at wwwsusunweedcom and wwwashtreepublishingcom

Vibrant passionate and involved Susun Weed has garnered an international reputation for her

groundbreaking lectures teachings and writings on health and nutrition She challenges conventional

medical approaches with humor insight and her vast encyclopedic knowledge of herbal medicine

Unabashedly pro-woman her animated and enthusiastic lectures are engaging and often profoundly

provocative

Susun is one of Americas best-known authorities on herbal medicine and natural approaches to

womens health Her four best-selling books are recommended by expert herbalists and well-known

physicians and are used and cherished by millions of women around the world Learn more at

wwwsusunweedcom

Susun Weedrsquos books include

Wise Woman Herbal for the Childbearing Year

Author Susun S Weed Simple safe remedies for pregnancy childbirth lactation and

newborns Includes herbs for fertility and birth control Foreword by Jeannine Parvati

Baker 196 pages index illustrations

Healing Wise

Author Susun S Weed Superb herbal in the feminine-intuitive mode Complete

instructions for using common plants for food beauty medicine and longevity

Introduction by Jean Houston 312 pages index illustrations

Menopausal Years the Wise Woman Way

Author Susun S Weed The best book on menopause is now better Completely

revised with 100 new pages All the remedies women know and trust plus hundreds

of new ones New sections on thyroid health fibromyalgia hairy problems male

menopause and herbs for women taking hormones Recommended by Susan Love

MD and Christiane Northrup MD Foreword by Juliette de Bairacli Levy 304 pages

index illustrations

For more info on menopause visit wwwmenopause-metamorphosiscom

Breast Cancer Breast Health

Author Susun S Weed Foods exercises and attitudes to keep your breasts healthy

Supportive complimentary medicines to ease side-effects of surgery radiation

chemotherapy or tamoxifen Foreword by Christiane Northrup MD 380 pages index

illustrations

UPCOMING DIANIC EVENTS

Pagan Examiner ndash Read the articles written by Bobbie and myself Zrsquos Calendar of Events ndash Want to know where I am appearing Goddess Festival ndash You think the last was good Goddess is Alive Tarot Social - A joyful coming-together of the Womenrsquos Tarot community a

Revival of the 70rsquos TRAVELING MAGIC SHOW by a FOREMOTHER of GODDESS SPIRITUALITY The QUEEN of TAROT READINGS and the woman responsible for LEGALIZING TAROT in California hellip Z Budapest

Z Budapest is conducting a most entertaining Tarot Social at her home in

Oakland CA on April 23rd For more information and registration go to

TarotSocialcom

The Dianic University for Women in Goddess

Study the Dianic Tradition with Z Budapest the woman who rebirthed it into modern culture Classes at the Dianic University are designed for women only

Sisterhood of the Moon ~ Womenrsquos Spirituality Coven in the Z Budapest Dianic Tradition

Events in the Sisterhood of the Moon are for women-born-women only Located in Hayward CA You must contact Jesamyn Angelica for more information Many of the members of this group are also members of the Susan B Anthony Coven No1 Facebookpage

Hands of Demeter ~ Womenrsquos Spirituality Coven in the Z Budapest Dianic Tradition

Events in the Hands of Demeter are for women-born-women only Located in Semi Valley CA You must contact httpearthmothercovenantcom for more information Many of the members of this group are also members of the Susan B Anthony Coven No1 Facebook page

The Sacred Circle ~ Recovering amp Reclaiming Ancient Ways to Heal

Events in The Sacred Circle are for members only unless otherwise stated Call JoAnna 775-882-1599 for membership inquiries

Sisterhood of the Turning Tides ~ Womenrsquos Spirituality Coven in the Z Budapest Dianic Tradition

They meet on Esbats and Sabbats and have a Tuesday night drumritual circle Located in Mendocino CA You must contact Sage Simon for more information Many of the members of this group are also members of the Susan B Anthony Coven No1 Facebookpage

You can sponsor Goddess magazine too Click here to helphellip

Deepest Gratitude to Sisters in Goddess for their Donations

The Application for Dianic Clergy Priestess is online

Follow the Goddess Festival on Facebook And Twitter

Thank you sisters who have donated $1 a month to help support our Goddess efforts

You can sponsor Goddess magazine too Click here to helphellip

Vicki Scotti LuAnn Morris and Amy Otero are

Hecatersquos Wheel an acoustic folk trio Their

music is inspired by and dedicated to the

Goddess in all her guises They sing an eclectic

variety of cover songs and original music

Hecatersquos Wheel has been playing and

singing together for several years and their

voices have found a natural harmonious blend

We VERY much enjoyed their Beltaine concert

Goddess Resource Links Z Budapest Website Goddess College Online Goddess Blog ndash Sponsored by the Susan B Anthony Coven Z Budapest Blog Goddess Festival Susan B Anthony Coven Dianic Wicca Tarot Social Witch Trial ndash the last great witch trial in America Zs Events Schedule Zs University Calendar

Zs Books Summoning the Fates Holy Book of Womens Mysteries Celestial Wisdom Grandmother of Time Grandmother Moon Goddess in the Office Goddess in the Bedroom

Page 6: Goddess Magazine (March 2011)

Thank you sisters who have donated $1 a month to help support our Goddess efforts

You can sponsor Goddess magazine too Click here to helphellip

In Search of Merlin Stone

by Bobbie Grennier Marilyn C ldquoMerlinrdquo Stone passed away on February 23 2011 from complications caused by an extended illness She was born September 27 1931 in Brooklyn New York Merlin loved education and was a devoted student She attended New York State College where she earned her Bachelorrsquos of Science in Art Education Albright Art School California College of Arts and Crafts where she earned her Doctorate of Philosophy and Ashmolean Museum in Oxford England for five years of independent studies Merlin Stone is best remembered for her impressive literary body of work From 1971-1976 she traveled to Turkey Lebanon Cyprus Crete Greece among others where she uncovered the lost Goddess culture She wrote about her discoveries in two landmark books When God was a Woman (originally titled The Paradise Papers) and Ancient Mirrors of Womanhood ndash Our Goddess and Heroine Heritage She also wrote a third book called Three Thousand Years of Racism and she was also published in many magazines and anthologies

She was a noted American Artist and Sculptor working her craft from 1958-1967 Merlin Stonersquos artwork still stands throughout the state of New York and she received a personal letter of thanks from Robert F Kennedy for the loan of her art work which was on display in his New York City office To say that Merlin Stone changed the religious landscape is an understatement Her work influenced the budding Womenrsquos Studies Departments with thoughts of womenrsquos theology and history She fostered new thinking throughout the academic world In the same way that Marija Gimbutas gave women their own historical record of artifacts Merlin Stone gave women their own spiritual culture

Merlin Stone was recognized by liberal thinkers She once wrote ldquohellipYoko [Ono] and John [Lennon] had taken turns reading ldquoWhen God was a Womanrdquo to each other I knew they had the book because I had been asked to autograph a copy for them hellipit touched me deeplyrdquo There is so much more to say about Merlin Stonersquos life much of it we are just beginning to understand because Merlin led a very private existence With the help of her life-partner Len Schneir and her two daughters Cynthia Davis and Jenny Hirst we are creating three memorial projects

1 DVD documentary called In Search of Merlin Stone chronicling her life

2 A book of the same title featuring remembrances personal influences and white papers all focused on Merlin and her body of work

3 The Benefit Memorial Celebration on September 24 2011 in Clearwater Florida

When God was a Woman by Merlin Stone

The Benefit Memorial Celebration will take place at the Unitarian Universalist Church 2470 Nursery

Road Clearwater FL 33764 This celebration of Merlin Stonersquos life is in production and updated

information will be posted on the wwwMerlinStonenet website You may also donate to Merlin

Stonersquos Memorial Fund at the wwwMerlinStonenet website All donations are thankfully welcomed

ldquoI want the world to remember her for the goddess she wasrdquo said her life-partner Len Schneir ldquoI must

admit that it took me a long time to finally believe and fully trust the Goddess and Merlin everything I

am is because of her wisdomrdquo

If you have a Merlin Stone story photo audio recording video recording to share etc please contact Z

Budapest (wwwZBudapestcom) The September 24th Memorial will be streamed live onto the

Internet details will be announced at the wwwMerlinStonenet website

She touched the hearts of women and men globally Merlin Stone is recognized and remembered most

by her contemporaries

Today we are no longer spiritual orphans of the world It was sister Merlin who gave her entire

life to this sacred reclaiming All of us stand to thank her for this very potent gift of the

legitimized woman spirit When you came back with ldquoWhen God was a Womanrdquo and enough

material for its follow up ldquoAncient Mirrors of Womanhoodrdquo we all knew you had found the

cultural Goddess mother lode You are much too hard to let go

-Zsuzsanna Budapest author of The Holy book of Womenrsquos Mysteries and Grandmother Moon

In the beginning God was a woman Do you remember Those words still give me chills

ldquoWhen God was a Womanrdquo changed my life I remember Merlins penetrating wit and intellect

and her wild henna red hair She will be missed Blessed be

- Carol P Christ author of Rebirth of the Goddess and She Who Changes

Few people have inspired me like Merlin Stone and her work Because of her I found Goddess

deity archetype and ideal Because of her my life has been filled with inspiration meaning and

direction Thank you beloved Merlin Stone May you smile down on us and guide us from that

special resting place in the arms of the Mother

- Karen Tate author of Sacred Places of Goddess

Merlin Stones work brought knowledge of the Divine Feminine to the consciousness of the

Western world We are very grateful to her for her pioneering work

- Miriam Robbins Dexter PhD author of Sacred Display and Whence the Goddesses

Merlin Stone was a great inspiration when I first read When God was a Woman in the early

80s It spoke to something deep inside me and affirmed my own knowing We all owe her

gratitude for the Goddess work she did

- Kathy Jones author of The Goddess in Glastonbury and Priestess of Avalon Priestess of the

Goddess

She [Merlin] was so so amazing I am really saddened to learn this ---as it came like a shock I

knew her pretty well in the days when my book was happening What a terrible loss--but what a

great gain for women in our time She opened up so much for all of us---and it was because she

wanted to be a sculptor and was searching for empowered images of women--thats how she

came upon all the goddess images The story is very amazing

- Gloria Orenstein author of Reweaving the World The Emergence of Ecofeminism

I remember Merlin when we met in 1986 to film Goddess Remembered in San Francisco She was

not originally scheduled to be at the dinner party we filmed but mysterious forces made it

possible for her to arrive in SF just in time I enjoyed Merlins contribution to the conversation we

filmed and especially enjoyed some pleasant hours months later in New York with her I feel her

passing very much and remember her life as one of the great blessings all women have shared

In love may she return again

- Donna Read director of Goddess Remembered The Burning Times and Full Circle

Requiem for Merlin Stone By Zsuzsanna Budapest I have tried to write this memorial several times You are much too hard to let go I cannot celebrate you and bemoan you and preserve you forever all at once So I will just talk to you as you once were here in my house many years ago Merlin sweet sister recline comfortably on my leather couch Here is your black coffee letrsquos talk and remember together For a long time I didnrsquot know what happened to you ldquoHave you heard from Merlinrdquo I asked everybody I knew Your phone no longer worked Letters to your address were

returned That was your last footstep for most of us Then nothing for decades and many years I spent

in search of Merlin Stone

Suddenly your man Lenny called and he told us you passed away February 23 2011 You had been ill a

long time and didnrsquot want to show yourself You knew years ago that your beautiful mind was changing

You didnrsquot want to be remembered for the long illness but for the contributions of art and literature I

get it

Once there was the Heroic Age of the 70rsquos you were amongst this generation of the brave seed- casters

inventors and artists who has sown seeds of knowledge about all things good for all women Even in

these fertile times women were still spiritual orphans We had no soul reflection in the high spiritual

places We had no knowledge of where we had been as women or where we could aspire to go We had

politics and feminism We needed more Some important part of us was still very empty

We simply had no spiritual past

It was not good form to believe in the existences of the Amazons of Anatolia or Asia or of the global

Goddess womenrsquos cultures No evidence for that Even feminists were frowning We didnrsquot dare to

believe in that it would have been one more reason to disqualify spirited women from any meaningful

conversation or visibility on the feminist cultural canvas Some politicos called us bliss bunnies We had

no ground to stand on

Our cultural past had been stolen from us Schools certainly never mentioned us the divine feminine

was either a perfume or a lipstick shade or maybe a salad dressing but certainly not an all powerful real

Goddess

Merlin Stonehellip you felt this part of feminist thought was sorely missing We simply had no information

about our own great people as a gender Who did we pray to Always men

Who went back in time and stole it all back for us Who was smart enough to read the old musty out-

of-print books in hopes of finding a couple of lines the patriarchs missed when they erased the Goddess

culture

Like an Amazon of the libraries it was you who hunted down the hard-to-come-by books visiting

museums and traveling to far-off distant lands for research When you came back with ldquoWhen God was

a Womanrdquo and enough material for its follow-up ldquoAncient Mirrors of Womanhoodrdquo we all knew you

had found the cultural Goddess motherlode

The brilliance richness and diversity of the global Goddess traditions were beyond anybodyrsquos hopes All

around the globe Merlin Stone had found our traditions of celebrations our goddesses and our moral

codes

We did come from somewhere awesome and our foremothers had left us treasures in ritual sacred

poetry and arthellip footsteps for us to follow And it was Merlin Stone who found it and published it

She published in England as The Paradise Papers because American publishers would not touch it Now

the books are with Beacon Press

Today we are no longer spiritual orphans of the world It was sister Merlin who gave her entire life to

this sacred reclaiming All of us stand to thank her for this very potent gift of the legitimized woman

spirit

As usual Merlin would just smile and make little of my accolade

She felt ldquocalledrdquo she said

She was an acclaimed American artist a sculptress and national treasure She taught Art History and

that led her to the surviving images of the Goddess which called her to see more Her welded art

sculptures took on more and more triple goddess themes and finally dissolved into the physical

research which took her to Turkey - Anatolia of old the land of the Mothers

She was lovingly protected hitch-hiking alone with long red hair flowing down her back she had little

money slept in caves a sacred stranger in her own once fertile Goddess homeland

ldquoHow did you find the booksrdquo I once asked her

ldquoStrange thingrdquo she explained ldquoI heard a hum - a hum of women when I got close to a book that had

useful information for us I just reached out and there it was I was led by a humrdquo

ldquoOh yes the humrdquo Merlin had come to dinner in Santa Monica we feminist witches were much

honored We held hands over my barley dish and hummed together as we usually did praying our

blessing Merlin burst into tears I was worried Who hurt our highly esteemed guest

ldquoNobody hurt merdquo she said ldquoBut this was the hum I heard in the libraries of Turkey This was the hum

that led me to the great Goddess booksrdquo

Then the witches fell silent and one by one we also teared up at this miracle How could a ragtag

revolutionary group of witches hum on a California mountaintop and a woman on the Goddess search

hear it all the way in Turkey Never mind the multiplication of the fishes and the loaves this was a much

better miracle Our belief in the all-pervasive omnipresent Goddess was never stronger

Which Goddess shall I invoke for your memorial You have given us hundreds

As a Dianic witch I love Hecate the transformer She who takes the tired souls away on her chariot

drawn by the dragons of time She is the healer of wounds the Queen of the dark side of the Moon

But Merlin loved Anahita She is the one ldquowho is the Cosmic Ocean in which the stars do float It is

Anahita who provides the nourishing rain sending waters from the heavens to the springs and rivers

protecting the flocks in pastures and causing them to bear their young -- as it is Anahita who fills the

womb with life Her chariot is drawn by white steeds named rain and wind and clouds and sleet or as

she rides on the back of a gliding eagle or even upon a splendid lionrdquo

At Anahitarsquos shrines still visible in Sardis and Susa in Kangawar and Ecbatana her inscription reads ldquoI

am the conscience of thine own selfrdquo

Rest sweetly dearest sister and if you wish to live on in our hearts please guide us like the hum once

guided you Donrsquot hurry linger amongst us

Merlin my beloved sister your chariot can wait

Ancient Mirrors of Womanhood Merlin Stone 1979 p210

I am going to be a guest speaker at the Women of Spirit and Faith Conference April 28- May 1

The Alchemy of Our Spiritual Leadership Women Redefining Power

Calling all women of spirit and faith This is not your typical womens conference

Imagine the energy of more than 300 women ready for inspiration deep wisdom and potent co-creation

Alchemy Highlights

Inspiring Keynote wisdom from Sister Joan Chittister Valarie Kaur and Naomi Tutu Stimulating Leadership Conversations featuring the wisdom and experience of a dozen diverse women

leaders Informative workshops with a focus on building practical skills and new models for collaborative

leadership Many opportunities for circle dialogue and structured conversation Optional activities such as Open Space Offerings Morning Meditations Yoga Movement Labyrinth Walks

and more The Alchemy Marketplace where you can shop for books jewelry art and music A Beautiful Meditation and Prayer Room for silence and reflection Art music poetry laughter and lots of right-brain fun and stimulation

I am also going to be attending the Glastonbury Goddess Conference 2011

Now five full days of Goddess-loving celebration with Fringe events from Sunday July 24 ndash 31

Celebrating the Great Mother of Water at Lammas details are online wwwgoddessconferencecom

Welcoming two USA two pioneers of the Goddess movement -

Vicki Noble co-creator of the Motherpeace Tarot

Zsuzsanna Budapest Founder of the Dianic Wiccan Tradition and Womenrsquos Spirituality Movement

With Conference Favorites Anique Radiant Heart Barbara Meiklejohn-Free Carolyn Hillyer Julie Felix

Kathy Jones Lydia Ruyle and Lady Olivia Durdin Robertson

With Ceremonies Adorations and Praise Songs to the Great Goddess of Water She who is the Source

and Womb of all Life Participate in moving Sacred Ceremonies take part in inspiring Workshops listen

to fascinating Presentations see beautiful Artwork amp Stalls Performances Music Song Poetry and

Dance Visit the Holy Wells of the Goddess in Avalon cleansing and immersing yourself in Her Healing

Waters Join one of Nine Wells - circles of support and participation in Conference Ceremonies Dance

the night away at the Goddess Gala Buffet and Masque and join our Goddess Procession through the

Landscape to the River Brue with a Fruit Feast

Plus Presenters Priestesses and Spinners Amanda Baker Annabel Du Boulay Anna Saqqara Price

Charissa Schipper Caroline Lir Deonesea la Fey Emma Rose Knight Erin McCauliffe Ganga Ashworth

Georgina Sirett-Hardie Graell Corsini Heloise Pilkington Isabella Verbruggen Isis Queen Jacqui

Woodward-Smith Jennifer Cooper Katinka Soetens Kaye Cooksey Koko Newport Lauren Raine Lisa

Newing Louise Bell Louise Tarrier Lydia Lite Marion van Eupen Mary Bruce Michelle Patten Miriam

Raven Morgaine Noam Zimin Oshia Drury Rose Flint Roz Bound Sally Pullinger Sharlea Johnson

Shirley-Ann Millar Shoshana Horobin Sophie Pullinger Sue Quatermass Tegwyn Hyndman Thalia

Brown Tiana Pitman amp Tina Free plus more great Priestesses amazing helpful Melissas amp lots more

wonderful women and men

My Workshops at Glastonbury

ZSUZSANNA BUDAPEST WE ALL COME FROM THE GODDESS (Women Only)

Sunday July 25th Women from all walks of life come together with High Priestess Zsuzsanna (Z) Budapest in a flowing woman-only Dianic circle celebrating our expanding global sisterhood Beginning with the sacred Dianic purification we enter the circle commune with our ancestors and our divine selves lift up a joyous dedication to the Goddess Sedna of the Deep as we bless all waters inside and outside Chanting dancing and strengthening our bonds of sisterhood We are the flow we are the ebb When the women are healed the whole world is healed Drummers musical instruments voices welcome Dress comfortably Come garlanded with something in season greens or flowers

Z Budapest is the founder of the Dianic (Feminist) Tradition of Wicca in the USA initiating the worldrsquos most famous coven the Susan B Anthony Coven Number One which continues to thrive and brings womenrsquos spirituality into mainstream consciousness (SusanBAnthonyCovencom) Z has led rituals lectured taught classes given workshops written articles tirelessly and published in hundreds of womens newspapers across the country She has powerfully influenced many of the future teachers and writers about the Goddess She is the director of the Womens Spirituality Forum a nonprofit organization and Z founded and sponsors the Dianic Universityrsquos Goddess College (GoddessCollegecom) Her books include Holy Book of Womens Mysteries Grandmother of Time Grandmother Moon See wwwZBudapestcom Venue Glastonbury Assembly Rooms Time 1000am-400pm Fee pound50$85euro65 register online wwwgoddessconferencecom

ZSUZSANNA BUDAPEST ndash TAROT SOCIAL IN MY ROOM (Glastonbury)

July 26-27th Tarot Social information and exact date to be announced

ZSUZSANNA BUDAPEST ndash THE HERSTORY OF THE DIANIC TRADITION (Mixed Audience)

July 28th A multi-media presentation on the Herstory of the Dianic Tradition for a mixed audience Z

Budapest provides the historical background to the origins of the Dianic Tradition as well as important

triumphs that the Dianics fought for and won for the Pagan community and beyond Like the right to

perform divination readings in the United States in public and charge for it Historically it was Z and

Dianics who fought for the rights of this civil liberty in California which then opened the door to other

states to follow suit You can learn more about that at WitchTrialnet This presentation also clears up

some urban legends about the Dianic Tradition Such as itrsquos a man-hating tradition the accusations of

separatism Nothing could be farther from the truth Z Budapest founded the Womenrsquos Spirituality

Movement in 1971 Since then there has been an uninterrupted Goddess worship for the past 40 plus

years of women circling together in sacred celebration of all the Sabbaths and many moons This Dianic

Tradition has spread all over the globe After a brief break the second half of the workshop will involve

spiritual movement and dancing the meeting Dance Finally we will finish with an inspiring multi-media

presentation Prayers to the Mother all living creatures are one

Hope to see you at the Glastonbury Goddess Conference 2011

Follow Z Budapest on Facebook And Twitter

ZSUZSANNA BUDAPEST ndash TAROT SOCIAL

I am doing another women-only Tarot Social on April 23rd at my own home Who wants to host a Tarot

Social For more information visit TarotSocialcom and contact me

After more than thirty years in circulation The Holy Book of Womenrsquos Mysteries is still a ground-breaking book in the forefront of womenrsquos spirituality

Get your own copy of Zrsquos out of print books and DVDs at the Womenrsquos Spirituality Forum online store

Irsquom also available for Tarot Readings I know many of you are going through some tough times and

thatrsquos really when you should be reaching out for a reading Irsquom here if you need me

This magazine is sponsored by the Womenrsquos Spirituality Forum

Please help support our efforts to help keep the Goddess Alive

The Application for Dianic Clergy Priestess is online

Goddess College Updates amp More

We have changed the way the online school is doing business After offering free memberships over

the last four years the changes in the economy have forced us to make changes hellip good changes

The Dianic University has now become the Goddess College and has its own website to boot It was

necessary to update the schoolrsquos software but with all the free accounts the database had gotten too

big to migrate So we were forced to start over from scratch eliminating all the free accounts If you

were a student in good standing and part of a paid class in old Dianic University then we are working to

grandmother you into the new school

The way to gain entry into the new Goddess College is through membership in the Susan B Anthony

Coven 1 Everyone in the Goddess College will be active members of the SBA with only a handful of

exceptions Join the Susan B Anthony Coven 1 - You can apply for membership here

The Susan B Anthony Coven 1 now meets inside the Goddess College and the old DU area is closed

We have updated and moved over the Dianic Feminist Philosophy class and the first Holy Book class The

Holy Book series of classes is being totally reworked and improved Thatrsquos partly due to an alliance wersquove

made with the Ocean Seminary College which will allow us to offer degrees for our course of study We

are currently in process with meeting their requirements to make this happen Very exciting stuff for

womenrsquos spirituality I will keep you updated in my column here in the Goddess Magazine

We are networked up the Hoola-Hoop in Facebook Itrsquos hard to miss everything wersquore doing and yet

some of you are still contacting me and saying you hadnrsquot heard of this or that Get your face into

Facebook my sisters and friend the following pages so you can stay in the know

Z Budapest on Facebook

Z Budapest Fan Page

Goddess Magazine Radio Show Fan Page

Goddess Festival Fan Page

Food Magic Fan Page

Susan B Anthony Coven Fan Page

Why arenrsquot you more active in the Dianic Tradition We have a lot of women who read this Goddess

Magazine every month and it would awesome to have more of you join in with us at the Susan B

Anthony Coven 1 A membership into the worldrsquos most famous all-womenrsquos coven makes for a nice gift

to yourself Give it some thought and then come join us The Womens Spirituality Forum is an IRS

501(c)3 non-profit Your registration fees and your membership are tax deductible

Check out our mobile-friendly portal website wwwGoddessLivecom hellip Wersquove pulled all our

information and articles into one location for you and it doesnrsquot matter if yoursquore a computer user or a

mobile user because wersquove programmed the site to be able to switch back and forth

Goddess Magazine Radio Show

Goddess Magazine Radio Show will be forced to go to a half hour program because of changes at

Blogtalk Radio We will bring you more chats with Z very soon Promise

Look for announcements of the new Goddess Magazine Radio Shows on our Facebook fan page Are you

a member of the Goddess Magazine Radio Show Fan page And now you can listen to Goddess

Magazine Radio Shows on iTunes So open you iTunes and subscribe to our podcasted show

Itrsquos free

Goddess Live Toolbar

Every Sister in Goddess who wants to stay linked in to what Z Budapest is doing should have this

toolbar Itrsquos free Itrsquos easy to install and itrsquos secure Get your own Goddess Live Toolbar right now by

clicking here

Follow the Goddess Festival on Facebook And Twitter

Get your new copy here

OTHER WOMENrsquoS SACRED EVENTS amp TOURS TELL THEM Z SENT YOU A WOMENrsquoS RITUAL RETREAT IN CRETE A JOURNEY TO THE GODDESS MAY 23-JUNE 5TH 2011

Facilitated by Ruth Barrett and Catherine Ridder YES We still have spaces still available for our fourth

ritual retreat to Crete Space is limited to 13 women on a first-come basis If you are interested in

hearing more information about this incredible trip contact Catherine Ridder at 626-793-7520 or email

caridder2netzerocom

Sacred Sites of Avalon England with Donna Virgilio April 27 to May 3 2011 Travel to Stonehenge for a private ceremony in the inner circle Walk to the Tor considered to be the legendary Camelot Tour Roman and Medieval Baths and honor the Goddess Minerva visit and pray at the Chalice Well and see the Sacred Gardens Tour the Glastonbury Goddess Temple and participate in the official Beltaine Festivities and Ceremony See the Boscastle Witchcraft Museum and Journey to Tintagel the mystical birthplace of King Arthur and peek inside Merlinrsquos Cave Walk through Avebury Stonecircle West Kennet Long Barrows Silsbury Hill and see Crop Circles Finally dance at the Avalon Beltaine Fairy Ball featuring Doreen Virtues Band Obsidian

On the Trail of the Goddess in Turkey - Anatolia - Land of the Nourishing Mothers

ON THE TRAIL OF THE GREAT GODDESS

Sacred Journey to Turkey

November 2 - 14 2011

featuring

Karen and Roy Tate

Guided by Rashid Ergener

Visit the sacred goddess sites in Turkey Catalhoyuk Lagina Ephesus Troy and Sardis

httpwwwexaminercomwomen-s-goddess-spirituality-in-los-angelessacred-tour-of-goddess-sites-turkey-coming-november-2011-for-women-men

Check out the new video of sacred places in Turkey Hear the hauntingly beautiful music as the Ancient Mother calls httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=Twbcx8IicxI

8th ANNUAL WISE WOMANS FESTIVAL IN FLORIDA

Come and Greet the Springtime with Our Lady of the Faery

Greenwood April 9th and 10th

Nymphs Dryads Devas Kami Apsaras and Sprites Oh My What is the connection between Goddesses

and Faeryfolk Itrsquos Springtime and even though we have April showers you wonrsquot have to wait for May

to enjoy the flowers Join Morning Glory Zell noted Goddess historian and Priestess for the latest in her

series of Great Goddess Retreats and find out why the Green Goddess is more than a salad dressing

With her 36 years of experience and a collection of over 200 votive Goddess statues get ready for an

unforgettable weekend journey of sacred learning and transformational experience

This Retreat will be held at the Raven Haven Morning Gloryrsquos beautiful 10 acre home in Sonoma County

California Raven Haven is nice and roomy with a deck a pool and a spa and a special magickal Faery

Porch covered with flowering wisteria The Temple Room has huge floor to ceiling glass cases displaying

her collection of Goddess figurines and a large altar covered in beautiful Goddess images If you come

from out of town there is room to camp out (if itrsquos dry) sleep over if you like or you can choose from the

many excellent nearby hotels

The Retreat begins on Saturday the 24th at 200pm and ends on Sunday the 25th at 800pm Saturday

we will devote ourselves to learning and exploring the many Goddesses who have a connection to the

realm of Faery from Danu to Ma Ku Hold the images in your hands and hear their fascinating stories

Later we will journey deep in guided meditation to discover the special one which calls to you

Sunday starts with fun and relaxation as we learn the ancient art of weaving wreaths of living flowers

and plants to make a magickal faery wreath or perhaps you would like to learn how to make a faery

house outside on the Faery Porch that will be covered with blooming wisteria Later we will have a ritual

bath in the spa and a procession to decorate the various Goddess shrines around the property The

Retreat culminates with a ceremony to honor the Goddesses and the Fae in a Council where we sing

together and where each Goddess or Faery can share Her Truth

The fee for the entire weekend Retreat is only $10000 or you may attend only Saturdayrsquos program of

the lecture and meditation for $6000 Sunday however is not open to anyone who has not already

attended the Saturday session Meals are shared in an easygoing potluck fashion You truly have never

had any other experience quite like this one and you will come away re-energized as well as transformed

by the power of your new divine connection

Phone (707) 795-8047

mythicimcnorg

PO Box 758

Cotati CA 94931

Tryst ndash Handfasting Commitment Ceremonies

Z is back sisters And shersquos available to officiate your Trysting wedding ceremonies again The most popular pagan Goddess wedding ceremony was created by Z Budapest in The Holy Book of Womens Mysteries where Z coined the term Tryst Ritual as an expressly feminine marriage ceremony and rite of passage that can be used for heterosexual couples as well as same sex couples

Z Budapest has been conducting Pagan marriage rituals for over 40 years as a celebrated High Priestess within the Dianic Tradition which she founded Z is available to officiate your handfasting ceremony as well Whether its a civil union or a licensed marriage certificate Z is able to offer you her services as clergy She has legal standings through the Womens Spirituality Forum an IRS 501(c)3 non-profit in the state of California making your clergy fees tax deductible You can learn more about Zrsquos Trysting Ritual and schedule your wedding ceremony with her in 2010

Crete Archaeologists discover skeleton covered with gold foil in 2700-year-old grave

Greek archaeologists have found an ancient skeleton covered with gold foil in a grave on the island of Crete officials said Tuesday

Excavator Nicholas Stampolidis said his team discovered more than 3000 pieces of gold foil in the 7th-century BC twin grave near the ancient town of Eleutherna

Cemeteries there have produced a wealth of outstanding artifacts in recent years

The tiny gold ornaments from 1 to 4 centimetres (04 to 15 inches) long had been sewn onto a lavish robe or shroud that initially wrapped the body of a woman and has almost completely rotted away but for a few off-white threads

The whole length of the (grave) was covered with small pieces of gold foil mdash square circular and lozenge-shaped Stampolidis told The Associated Press We were literally digging up gold interspersed with earth not earth with some gold in it

The woman who presumably had a high social or religious status was buried with a second skeleton in a large jar sealed with a stone slab weighing more than half a ton It was hidden behind a false wall to confuse grave robbers

Experts are trying to determine the other skeletons sex The grave also contained a copper bowl pottery perfume bottles imported from Egypt or Syria and Palestine hundreds of amber rock crystal and faience beads as well as a gold pendant in the form of a bee goddess that probably was part of a rock crystal and gold necklace

If you look at it one way up its shaped like a lily said Stampolidis a professor of archaeology at the University of Crete who has worked at Eleutherna for the 25 years Turned upside down you see a female figure holding her breasts whose lower body is shaped as a bee with wings The workmanship is exquisite

The ruins of Eleutherna stand on the northern foothills of Mount Ida mdash the mythical birthplace of Zeus chief of the ancient Greek gods Past excavations have discovered a citadel homes and an important cemetery with lavish female burials

The town flourished from the 9th century BC mdash the dark ages of Greek archaeology that followed the fall of Cretes great Minoan palatial culture mdash and endured until the Middle Ages

httparchaeologynewsnetworkblogspotcom201009archaeologists-on-crete-find-skeletonhtml

SWEET TASTE OF SPRING Susun S Weed

March winds blow the sweet scent of maple sap boiling to my questing nose When the days are warm

and sunny and the nights below freezing the sap rises in the trees If those trees are sugar maples then

it is worth drilling a hole in the bark inserting a tap and collecting their sweet sap There is so much

sugar in sugar maple sap that it can be boiled and turned into maple syrup and maple sugar

Therersquos about one gallon of maple syrup and ninety-nine gallons of water in one hundred gallons of

maple sap A hot fire and a slow but steady boil send that sweet-smelling water vapor high in the clear

cold sky The March wind blows it to me I close my eyes and remember my years of ldquosugaringrdquo making

maple syrup

Therersquos something special about a task that requires one to stay up all night Maple sap starts to ferment

if it is left at normal temperatures for very long Once ten or so gallons of sap have been collected the

boiling begins hellip and cannot be stopped until the finished syrup is achieved many many many hours

later

I have never sugared without at least one overnighter and sometimes two A large operation boils sap

for weeks without stopping just drawing off the syrup as it forms if the run is steady and copious

It was a picture of Helen Nearing driving a team of horses through the woods standing on a sleigh

loaded with buckets of maple sap that made me long for a homestead where I could lead The Simple

Life like her Two years later I had my own ldquosugar bushrdquo (an acre or more of woodlot where large sugar

maples grow) Spring equinox found me with my drill in hand a pocket full of taps and a bunch of funny

buckets with lids to hang from the taps ldquoTing tingrdquo the ping of sap filling the metal buckets echoes

tying me through time to every woman who has ever sugared and bringing a smile to my heart and

face

My groves of sugar maples have never been large enough to require a team of horses or a sleigh Irsquove

always lugged a big bucket out to the trees and poured the sap from the collecting buckets into it When

I have two or three buckets full I pour them into a big galvanized tub set up on cinder blocks over a fire

and commence to boil it down

Native peoples valued maple sugar so highly that they set up camp in the sugar bush and lived there

until the sap stopped flowing Lacking metal drill bits they cut a shallow groove in the bark and pressed

hollow elder stems into service as taps to direct the flow of sap into birch bark containers

I can heat the sap directly in my metal tub while they had to hollow out a log put smooth rocks into the

fire heat them and put the hot rocks into the sap in the hollowed out log to boil it down into maple

syrup and sugar Whew I am impressed with the power of the desire for sweet It takes far more

calories in fuel and human energy to make maple syrup or maple sugar than it returns

Grandmother Twylah taught us that maple trees are friendly and companionable colorful and

expressive They always have a positive attitude and are adept at helping us see solutions to impossible

problems Maple trees are devoted and true Make friends with a maple and you will have a friend for

life she advised

Ellen Everet Hopman green witch reminds us that maple-syrup-making time is Eostrersquos time Eostre

(ee-oh-stir) is the Teutonic goddess of fertility and manifestation Her symbols are the egg and the

rabbit her time is Spring Equinox A lovely custom still enacted but without the underlying magic is to

paint a picture of something you desire on an egg and plant it in the ground so Eostre can help it grow

and become real

If itrsquos too late to tap your maples or you live too far south for the sap to flow strongly you can still be

blessed and embraced by maple A decoction of maple bark boiled in water can be used to ease sore

eyes externally and to tonify the uterus after birth internally

A magical wand of maple wood is used for spells that bring harmony especially in the home And maple

leaves sewn into a charm made of green flannel tied with a golden string will bring abundance into

your life

Indulge your desire for sweet Celebrate spring equinox and Eostre who loves sweet things Have a

stack of pancakes swimming in butter and maple syrup Or pour maple syrup over plain vanilla ice cream

and savor the sweet taste of the friendly maple tree

Green blessings

How much sugar per gallon of sap is quite variable depending on the type of maple the growing

conditions and especially the amount of sun the tree gets Sugar maple (Acer saccharum) sap is the

sweetest followed by the saps of silver maple (Acer saccharinum) Northern red maple (Acer rubrum)

and Norway maple (Acer platanoides)

Susun Weed

PO Box 64

Woodstock NY 12498

Fax 1-845-246-8081

Visit Susun Weed at wwwsusunweedcom and wwwashtreepublishingcom

Vibrant passionate and involved Susun Weed has garnered an international reputation for her

groundbreaking lectures teachings and writings on health and nutrition She challenges conventional

medical approaches with humor insight and her vast encyclopedic knowledge of herbal medicine

Unabashedly pro-woman her animated and enthusiastic lectures are engaging and often profoundly

provocative

Susun is one of Americas best-known authorities on herbal medicine and natural approaches to

womens health Her four best-selling books are recommended by expert herbalists and well-known

physicians and are used and cherished by millions of women around the world Learn more at

wwwsusunweedcom

Susun Weedrsquos books include

Wise Woman Herbal for the Childbearing Year

Author Susun S Weed Simple safe remedies for pregnancy childbirth lactation and

newborns Includes herbs for fertility and birth control Foreword by Jeannine Parvati

Baker 196 pages index illustrations

Healing Wise

Author Susun S Weed Superb herbal in the feminine-intuitive mode Complete

instructions for using common plants for food beauty medicine and longevity

Introduction by Jean Houston 312 pages index illustrations

Menopausal Years the Wise Woman Way

Author Susun S Weed The best book on menopause is now better Completely

revised with 100 new pages All the remedies women know and trust plus hundreds

of new ones New sections on thyroid health fibromyalgia hairy problems male

menopause and herbs for women taking hormones Recommended by Susan Love

MD and Christiane Northrup MD Foreword by Juliette de Bairacli Levy 304 pages

index illustrations

For more info on menopause visit wwwmenopause-metamorphosiscom

Breast Cancer Breast Health

Author Susun S Weed Foods exercises and attitudes to keep your breasts healthy

Supportive complimentary medicines to ease side-effects of surgery radiation

chemotherapy or tamoxifen Foreword by Christiane Northrup MD 380 pages index

illustrations

UPCOMING DIANIC EVENTS

Pagan Examiner ndash Read the articles written by Bobbie and myself Zrsquos Calendar of Events ndash Want to know where I am appearing Goddess Festival ndash You think the last was good Goddess is Alive Tarot Social - A joyful coming-together of the Womenrsquos Tarot community a

Revival of the 70rsquos TRAVELING MAGIC SHOW by a FOREMOTHER of GODDESS SPIRITUALITY The QUEEN of TAROT READINGS and the woman responsible for LEGALIZING TAROT in California hellip Z Budapest

Z Budapest is conducting a most entertaining Tarot Social at her home in

Oakland CA on April 23rd For more information and registration go to

TarotSocialcom

The Dianic University for Women in Goddess

Study the Dianic Tradition with Z Budapest the woman who rebirthed it into modern culture Classes at the Dianic University are designed for women only

Sisterhood of the Moon ~ Womenrsquos Spirituality Coven in the Z Budapest Dianic Tradition

Events in the Sisterhood of the Moon are for women-born-women only Located in Hayward CA You must contact Jesamyn Angelica for more information Many of the members of this group are also members of the Susan B Anthony Coven No1 Facebookpage

Hands of Demeter ~ Womenrsquos Spirituality Coven in the Z Budapest Dianic Tradition

Events in the Hands of Demeter are for women-born-women only Located in Semi Valley CA You must contact httpearthmothercovenantcom for more information Many of the members of this group are also members of the Susan B Anthony Coven No1 Facebook page

The Sacred Circle ~ Recovering amp Reclaiming Ancient Ways to Heal

Events in The Sacred Circle are for members only unless otherwise stated Call JoAnna 775-882-1599 for membership inquiries

Sisterhood of the Turning Tides ~ Womenrsquos Spirituality Coven in the Z Budapest Dianic Tradition

They meet on Esbats and Sabbats and have a Tuesday night drumritual circle Located in Mendocino CA You must contact Sage Simon for more information Many of the members of this group are also members of the Susan B Anthony Coven No1 Facebookpage

You can sponsor Goddess magazine too Click here to helphellip

Deepest Gratitude to Sisters in Goddess for their Donations

The Application for Dianic Clergy Priestess is online

Follow the Goddess Festival on Facebook And Twitter

Thank you sisters who have donated $1 a month to help support our Goddess efforts

You can sponsor Goddess magazine too Click here to helphellip

Vicki Scotti LuAnn Morris and Amy Otero are

Hecatersquos Wheel an acoustic folk trio Their

music is inspired by and dedicated to the

Goddess in all her guises They sing an eclectic

variety of cover songs and original music

Hecatersquos Wheel has been playing and

singing together for several years and their

voices have found a natural harmonious blend

We VERY much enjoyed their Beltaine concert

Goddess Resource Links Z Budapest Website Goddess College Online Goddess Blog ndash Sponsored by the Susan B Anthony Coven Z Budapest Blog Goddess Festival Susan B Anthony Coven Dianic Wicca Tarot Social Witch Trial ndash the last great witch trial in America Zs Events Schedule Zs University Calendar

Zs Books Summoning the Fates Holy Book of Womens Mysteries Celestial Wisdom Grandmother of Time Grandmother Moon Goddess in the Office Goddess in the Bedroom

Page 7: Goddess Magazine (March 2011)

In Search of Merlin Stone

by Bobbie Grennier Marilyn C ldquoMerlinrdquo Stone passed away on February 23 2011 from complications caused by an extended illness She was born September 27 1931 in Brooklyn New York Merlin loved education and was a devoted student She attended New York State College where she earned her Bachelorrsquos of Science in Art Education Albright Art School California College of Arts and Crafts where she earned her Doctorate of Philosophy and Ashmolean Museum in Oxford England for five years of independent studies Merlin Stone is best remembered for her impressive literary body of work From 1971-1976 she traveled to Turkey Lebanon Cyprus Crete Greece among others where she uncovered the lost Goddess culture She wrote about her discoveries in two landmark books When God was a Woman (originally titled The Paradise Papers) and Ancient Mirrors of Womanhood ndash Our Goddess and Heroine Heritage She also wrote a third book called Three Thousand Years of Racism and she was also published in many magazines and anthologies

She was a noted American Artist and Sculptor working her craft from 1958-1967 Merlin Stonersquos artwork still stands throughout the state of New York and she received a personal letter of thanks from Robert F Kennedy for the loan of her art work which was on display in his New York City office To say that Merlin Stone changed the religious landscape is an understatement Her work influenced the budding Womenrsquos Studies Departments with thoughts of womenrsquos theology and history She fostered new thinking throughout the academic world In the same way that Marija Gimbutas gave women their own historical record of artifacts Merlin Stone gave women their own spiritual culture

Merlin Stone was recognized by liberal thinkers She once wrote ldquohellipYoko [Ono] and John [Lennon] had taken turns reading ldquoWhen God was a Womanrdquo to each other I knew they had the book because I had been asked to autograph a copy for them hellipit touched me deeplyrdquo There is so much more to say about Merlin Stonersquos life much of it we are just beginning to understand because Merlin led a very private existence With the help of her life-partner Len Schneir and her two daughters Cynthia Davis and Jenny Hirst we are creating three memorial projects

1 DVD documentary called In Search of Merlin Stone chronicling her life

2 A book of the same title featuring remembrances personal influences and white papers all focused on Merlin and her body of work

3 The Benefit Memorial Celebration on September 24 2011 in Clearwater Florida

When God was a Woman by Merlin Stone

The Benefit Memorial Celebration will take place at the Unitarian Universalist Church 2470 Nursery

Road Clearwater FL 33764 This celebration of Merlin Stonersquos life is in production and updated

information will be posted on the wwwMerlinStonenet website You may also donate to Merlin

Stonersquos Memorial Fund at the wwwMerlinStonenet website All donations are thankfully welcomed

ldquoI want the world to remember her for the goddess she wasrdquo said her life-partner Len Schneir ldquoI must

admit that it took me a long time to finally believe and fully trust the Goddess and Merlin everything I

am is because of her wisdomrdquo

If you have a Merlin Stone story photo audio recording video recording to share etc please contact Z

Budapest (wwwZBudapestcom) The September 24th Memorial will be streamed live onto the

Internet details will be announced at the wwwMerlinStonenet website

She touched the hearts of women and men globally Merlin Stone is recognized and remembered most

by her contemporaries

Today we are no longer spiritual orphans of the world It was sister Merlin who gave her entire

life to this sacred reclaiming All of us stand to thank her for this very potent gift of the

legitimized woman spirit When you came back with ldquoWhen God was a Womanrdquo and enough

material for its follow up ldquoAncient Mirrors of Womanhoodrdquo we all knew you had found the

cultural Goddess mother lode You are much too hard to let go

-Zsuzsanna Budapest author of The Holy book of Womenrsquos Mysteries and Grandmother Moon

In the beginning God was a woman Do you remember Those words still give me chills

ldquoWhen God was a Womanrdquo changed my life I remember Merlins penetrating wit and intellect

and her wild henna red hair She will be missed Blessed be

- Carol P Christ author of Rebirth of the Goddess and She Who Changes

Few people have inspired me like Merlin Stone and her work Because of her I found Goddess

deity archetype and ideal Because of her my life has been filled with inspiration meaning and

direction Thank you beloved Merlin Stone May you smile down on us and guide us from that

special resting place in the arms of the Mother

- Karen Tate author of Sacred Places of Goddess

Merlin Stones work brought knowledge of the Divine Feminine to the consciousness of the

Western world We are very grateful to her for her pioneering work

- Miriam Robbins Dexter PhD author of Sacred Display and Whence the Goddesses

Merlin Stone was a great inspiration when I first read When God was a Woman in the early

80s It spoke to something deep inside me and affirmed my own knowing We all owe her

gratitude for the Goddess work she did

- Kathy Jones author of The Goddess in Glastonbury and Priestess of Avalon Priestess of the

Goddess

She [Merlin] was so so amazing I am really saddened to learn this ---as it came like a shock I

knew her pretty well in the days when my book was happening What a terrible loss--but what a

great gain for women in our time She opened up so much for all of us---and it was because she

wanted to be a sculptor and was searching for empowered images of women--thats how she

came upon all the goddess images The story is very amazing

- Gloria Orenstein author of Reweaving the World The Emergence of Ecofeminism

I remember Merlin when we met in 1986 to film Goddess Remembered in San Francisco She was

not originally scheduled to be at the dinner party we filmed but mysterious forces made it

possible for her to arrive in SF just in time I enjoyed Merlins contribution to the conversation we

filmed and especially enjoyed some pleasant hours months later in New York with her I feel her

passing very much and remember her life as one of the great blessings all women have shared

In love may she return again

- Donna Read director of Goddess Remembered The Burning Times and Full Circle

Requiem for Merlin Stone By Zsuzsanna Budapest I have tried to write this memorial several times You are much too hard to let go I cannot celebrate you and bemoan you and preserve you forever all at once So I will just talk to you as you once were here in my house many years ago Merlin sweet sister recline comfortably on my leather couch Here is your black coffee letrsquos talk and remember together For a long time I didnrsquot know what happened to you ldquoHave you heard from Merlinrdquo I asked everybody I knew Your phone no longer worked Letters to your address were

returned That was your last footstep for most of us Then nothing for decades and many years I spent

in search of Merlin Stone

Suddenly your man Lenny called and he told us you passed away February 23 2011 You had been ill a

long time and didnrsquot want to show yourself You knew years ago that your beautiful mind was changing

You didnrsquot want to be remembered for the long illness but for the contributions of art and literature I

get it

Once there was the Heroic Age of the 70rsquos you were amongst this generation of the brave seed- casters

inventors and artists who has sown seeds of knowledge about all things good for all women Even in

these fertile times women were still spiritual orphans We had no soul reflection in the high spiritual

places We had no knowledge of where we had been as women or where we could aspire to go We had

politics and feminism We needed more Some important part of us was still very empty

We simply had no spiritual past

It was not good form to believe in the existences of the Amazons of Anatolia or Asia or of the global

Goddess womenrsquos cultures No evidence for that Even feminists were frowning We didnrsquot dare to

believe in that it would have been one more reason to disqualify spirited women from any meaningful

conversation or visibility on the feminist cultural canvas Some politicos called us bliss bunnies We had

no ground to stand on

Our cultural past had been stolen from us Schools certainly never mentioned us the divine feminine

was either a perfume or a lipstick shade or maybe a salad dressing but certainly not an all powerful real

Goddess

Merlin Stonehellip you felt this part of feminist thought was sorely missing We simply had no information

about our own great people as a gender Who did we pray to Always men

Who went back in time and stole it all back for us Who was smart enough to read the old musty out-

of-print books in hopes of finding a couple of lines the patriarchs missed when they erased the Goddess

culture

Like an Amazon of the libraries it was you who hunted down the hard-to-come-by books visiting

museums and traveling to far-off distant lands for research When you came back with ldquoWhen God was

a Womanrdquo and enough material for its follow-up ldquoAncient Mirrors of Womanhoodrdquo we all knew you

had found the cultural Goddess motherlode

The brilliance richness and diversity of the global Goddess traditions were beyond anybodyrsquos hopes All

around the globe Merlin Stone had found our traditions of celebrations our goddesses and our moral

codes

We did come from somewhere awesome and our foremothers had left us treasures in ritual sacred

poetry and arthellip footsteps for us to follow And it was Merlin Stone who found it and published it

She published in England as The Paradise Papers because American publishers would not touch it Now

the books are with Beacon Press

Today we are no longer spiritual orphans of the world It was sister Merlin who gave her entire life to

this sacred reclaiming All of us stand to thank her for this very potent gift of the legitimized woman

spirit

As usual Merlin would just smile and make little of my accolade

She felt ldquocalledrdquo she said

She was an acclaimed American artist a sculptress and national treasure She taught Art History and

that led her to the surviving images of the Goddess which called her to see more Her welded art

sculptures took on more and more triple goddess themes and finally dissolved into the physical

research which took her to Turkey - Anatolia of old the land of the Mothers

She was lovingly protected hitch-hiking alone with long red hair flowing down her back she had little

money slept in caves a sacred stranger in her own once fertile Goddess homeland

ldquoHow did you find the booksrdquo I once asked her

ldquoStrange thingrdquo she explained ldquoI heard a hum - a hum of women when I got close to a book that had

useful information for us I just reached out and there it was I was led by a humrdquo

ldquoOh yes the humrdquo Merlin had come to dinner in Santa Monica we feminist witches were much

honored We held hands over my barley dish and hummed together as we usually did praying our

blessing Merlin burst into tears I was worried Who hurt our highly esteemed guest

ldquoNobody hurt merdquo she said ldquoBut this was the hum I heard in the libraries of Turkey This was the hum

that led me to the great Goddess booksrdquo

Then the witches fell silent and one by one we also teared up at this miracle How could a ragtag

revolutionary group of witches hum on a California mountaintop and a woman on the Goddess search

hear it all the way in Turkey Never mind the multiplication of the fishes and the loaves this was a much

better miracle Our belief in the all-pervasive omnipresent Goddess was never stronger

Which Goddess shall I invoke for your memorial You have given us hundreds

As a Dianic witch I love Hecate the transformer She who takes the tired souls away on her chariot

drawn by the dragons of time She is the healer of wounds the Queen of the dark side of the Moon

But Merlin loved Anahita She is the one ldquowho is the Cosmic Ocean in which the stars do float It is

Anahita who provides the nourishing rain sending waters from the heavens to the springs and rivers

protecting the flocks in pastures and causing them to bear their young -- as it is Anahita who fills the

womb with life Her chariot is drawn by white steeds named rain and wind and clouds and sleet or as

she rides on the back of a gliding eagle or even upon a splendid lionrdquo

At Anahitarsquos shrines still visible in Sardis and Susa in Kangawar and Ecbatana her inscription reads ldquoI

am the conscience of thine own selfrdquo

Rest sweetly dearest sister and if you wish to live on in our hearts please guide us like the hum once

guided you Donrsquot hurry linger amongst us

Merlin my beloved sister your chariot can wait

Ancient Mirrors of Womanhood Merlin Stone 1979 p210

I am going to be a guest speaker at the Women of Spirit and Faith Conference April 28- May 1

The Alchemy of Our Spiritual Leadership Women Redefining Power

Calling all women of spirit and faith This is not your typical womens conference

Imagine the energy of more than 300 women ready for inspiration deep wisdom and potent co-creation

Alchemy Highlights

Inspiring Keynote wisdom from Sister Joan Chittister Valarie Kaur and Naomi Tutu Stimulating Leadership Conversations featuring the wisdom and experience of a dozen diverse women

leaders Informative workshops with a focus on building practical skills and new models for collaborative

leadership Many opportunities for circle dialogue and structured conversation Optional activities such as Open Space Offerings Morning Meditations Yoga Movement Labyrinth Walks

and more The Alchemy Marketplace where you can shop for books jewelry art and music A Beautiful Meditation and Prayer Room for silence and reflection Art music poetry laughter and lots of right-brain fun and stimulation

I am also going to be attending the Glastonbury Goddess Conference 2011

Now five full days of Goddess-loving celebration with Fringe events from Sunday July 24 ndash 31

Celebrating the Great Mother of Water at Lammas details are online wwwgoddessconferencecom

Welcoming two USA two pioneers of the Goddess movement -

Vicki Noble co-creator of the Motherpeace Tarot

Zsuzsanna Budapest Founder of the Dianic Wiccan Tradition and Womenrsquos Spirituality Movement

With Conference Favorites Anique Radiant Heart Barbara Meiklejohn-Free Carolyn Hillyer Julie Felix

Kathy Jones Lydia Ruyle and Lady Olivia Durdin Robertson

With Ceremonies Adorations and Praise Songs to the Great Goddess of Water She who is the Source

and Womb of all Life Participate in moving Sacred Ceremonies take part in inspiring Workshops listen

to fascinating Presentations see beautiful Artwork amp Stalls Performances Music Song Poetry and

Dance Visit the Holy Wells of the Goddess in Avalon cleansing and immersing yourself in Her Healing

Waters Join one of Nine Wells - circles of support and participation in Conference Ceremonies Dance

the night away at the Goddess Gala Buffet and Masque and join our Goddess Procession through the

Landscape to the River Brue with a Fruit Feast

Plus Presenters Priestesses and Spinners Amanda Baker Annabel Du Boulay Anna Saqqara Price

Charissa Schipper Caroline Lir Deonesea la Fey Emma Rose Knight Erin McCauliffe Ganga Ashworth

Georgina Sirett-Hardie Graell Corsini Heloise Pilkington Isabella Verbruggen Isis Queen Jacqui

Woodward-Smith Jennifer Cooper Katinka Soetens Kaye Cooksey Koko Newport Lauren Raine Lisa

Newing Louise Bell Louise Tarrier Lydia Lite Marion van Eupen Mary Bruce Michelle Patten Miriam

Raven Morgaine Noam Zimin Oshia Drury Rose Flint Roz Bound Sally Pullinger Sharlea Johnson

Shirley-Ann Millar Shoshana Horobin Sophie Pullinger Sue Quatermass Tegwyn Hyndman Thalia

Brown Tiana Pitman amp Tina Free plus more great Priestesses amazing helpful Melissas amp lots more

wonderful women and men

My Workshops at Glastonbury

ZSUZSANNA BUDAPEST WE ALL COME FROM THE GODDESS (Women Only)

Sunday July 25th Women from all walks of life come together with High Priestess Zsuzsanna (Z) Budapest in a flowing woman-only Dianic circle celebrating our expanding global sisterhood Beginning with the sacred Dianic purification we enter the circle commune with our ancestors and our divine selves lift up a joyous dedication to the Goddess Sedna of the Deep as we bless all waters inside and outside Chanting dancing and strengthening our bonds of sisterhood We are the flow we are the ebb When the women are healed the whole world is healed Drummers musical instruments voices welcome Dress comfortably Come garlanded with something in season greens or flowers

Z Budapest is the founder of the Dianic (Feminist) Tradition of Wicca in the USA initiating the worldrsquos most famous coven the Susan B Anthony Coven Number One which continues to thrive and brings womenrsquos spirituality into mainstream consciousness (SusanBAnthonyCovencom) Z has led rituals lectured taught classes given workshops written articles tirelessly and published in hundreds of womens newspapers across the country She has powerfully influenced many of the future teachers and writers about the Goddess She is the director of the Womens Spirituality Forum a nonprofit organization and Z founded and sponsors the Dianic Universityrsquos Goddess College (GoddessCollegecom) Her books include Holy Book of Womens Mysteries Grandmother of Time Grandmother Moon See wwwZBudapestcom Venue Glastonbury Assembly Rooms Time 1000am-400pm Fee pound50$85euro65 register online wwwgoddessconferencecom

ZSUZSANNA BUDAPEST ndash TAROT SOCIAL IN MY ROOM (Glastonbury)

July 26-27th Tarot Social information and exact date to be announced

ZSUZSANNA BUDAPEST ndash THE HERSTORY OF THE DIANIC TRADITION (Mixed Audience)

July 28th A multi-media presentation on the Herstory of the Dianic Tradition for a mixed audience Z

Budapest provides the historical background to the origins of the Dianic Tradition as well as important

triumphs that the Dianics fought for and won for the Pagan community and beyond Like the right to

perform divination readings in the United States in public and charge for it Historically it was Z and

Dianics who fought for the rights of this civil liberty in California which then opened the door to other

states to follow suit You can learn more about that at WitchTrialnet This presentation also clears up

some urban legends about the Dianic Tradition Such as itrsquos a man-hating tradition the accusations of

separatism Nothing could be farther from the truth Z Budapest founded the Womenrsquos Spirituality

Movement in 1971 Since then there has been an uninterrupted Goddess worship for the past 40 plus

years of women circling together in sacred celebration of all the Sabbaths and many moons This Dianic

Tradition has spread all over the globe After a brief break the second half of the workshop will involve

spiritual movement and dancing the meeting Dance Finally we will finish with an inspiring multi-media

presentation Prayers to the Mother all living creatures are one

Hope to see you at the Glastonbury Goddess Conference 2011

Follow Z Budapest on Facebook And Twitter

ZSUZSANNA BUDAPEST ndash TAROT SOCIAL

I am doing another women-only Tarot Social on April 23rd at my own home Who wants to host a Tarot

Social For more information visit TarotSocialcom and contact me

After more than thirty years in circulation The Holy Book of Womenrsquos Mysteries is still a ground-breaking book in the forefront of womenrsquos spirituality

Get your own copy of Zrsquos out of print books and DVDs at the Womenrsquos Spirituality Forum online store

Irsquom also available for Tarot Readings I know many of you are going through some tough times and

thatrsquos really when you should be reaching out for a reading Irsquom here if you need me

This magazine is sponsored by the Womenrsquos Spirituality Forum

Please help support our efforts to help keep the Goddess Alive

The Application for Dianic Clergy Priestess is online

Goddess College Updates amp More

We have changed the way the online school is doing business After offering free memberships over

the last four years the changes in the economy have forced us to make changes hellip good changes

The Dianic University has now become the Goddess College and has its own website to boot It was

necessary to update the schoolrsquos software but with all the free accounts the database had gotten too

big to migrate So we were forced to start over from scratch eliminating all the free accounts If you

were a student in good standing and part of a paid class in old Dianic University then we are working to

grandmother you into the new school

The way to gain entry into the new Goddess College is through membership in the Susan B Anthony

Coven 1 Everyone in the Goddess College will be active members of the SBA with only a handful of

exceptions Join the Susan B Anthony Coven 1 - You can apply for membership here

The Susan B Anthony Coven 1 now meets inside the Goddess College and the old DU area is closed

We have updated and moved over the Dianic Feminist Philosophy class and the first Holy Book class The

Holy Book series of classes is being totally reworked and improved Thatrsquos partly due to an alliance wersquove

made with the Ocean Seminary College which will allow us to offer degrees for our course of study We

are currently in process with meeting their requirements to make this happen Very exciting stuff for

womenrsquos spirituality I will keep you updated in my column here in the Goddess Magazine

We are networked up the Hoola-Hoop in Facebook Itrsquos hard to miss everything wersquore doing and yet

some of you are still contacting me and saying you hadnrsquot heard of this or that Get your face into

Facebook my sisters and friend the following pages so you can stay in the know

Z Budapest on Facebook

Z Budapest Fan Page

Goddess Magazine Radio Show Fan Page

Goddess Festival Fan Page

Food Magic Fan Page

Susan B Anthony Coven Fan Page

Why arenrsquot you more active in the Dianic Tradition We have a lot of women who read this Goddess

Magazine every month and it would awesome to have more of you join in with us at the Susan B

Anthony Coven 1 A membership into the worldrsquos most famous all-womenrsquos coven makes for a nice gift

to yourself Give it some thought and then come join us The Womens Spirituality Forum is an IRS

501(c)3 non-profit Your registration fees and your membership are tax deductible

Check out our mobile-friendly portal website wwwGoddessLivecom hellip Wersquove pulled all our

information and articles into one location for you and it doesnrsquot matter if yoursquore a computer user or a

mobile user because wersquove programmed the site to be able to switch back and forth

Goddess Magazine Radio Show

Goddess Magazine Radio Show will be forced to go to a half hour program because of changes at

Blogtalk Radio We will bring you more chats with Z very soon Promise

Look for announcements of the new Goddess Magazine Radio Shows on our Facebook fan page Are you

a member of the Goddess Magazine Radio Show Fan page And now you can listen to Goddess

Magazine Radio Shows on iTunes So open you iTunes and subscribe to our podcasted show

Itrsquos free

Goddess Live Toolbar

Every Sister in Goddess who wants to stay linked in to what Z Budapest is doing should have this

toolbar Itrsquos free Itrsquos easy to install and itrsquos secure Get your own Goddess Live Toolbar right now by

clicking here

Follow the Goddess Festival on Facebook And Twitter

Get your new copy here

OTHER WOMENrsquoS SACRED EVENTS amp TOURS TELL THEM Z SENT YOU A WOMENrsquoS RITUAL RETREAT IN CRETE A JOURNEY TO THE GODDESS MAY 23-JUNE 5TH 2011

Facilitated by Ruth Barrett and Catherine Ridder YES We still have spaces still available for our fourth

ritual retreat to Crete Space is limited to 13 women on a first-come basis If you are interested in

hearing more information about this incredible trip contact Catherine Ridder at 626-793-7520 or email

caridder2netzerocom

Sacred Sites of Avalon England with Donna Virgilio April 27 to May 3 2011 Travel to Stonehenge for a private ceremony in the inner circle Walk to the Tor considered to be the legendary Camelot Tour Roman and Medieval Baths and honor the Goddess Minerva visit and pray at the Chalice Well and see the Sacred Gardens Tour the Glastonbury Goddess Temple and participate in the official Beltaine Festivities and Ceremony See the Boscastle Witchcraft Museum and Journey to Tintagel the mystical birthplace of King Arthur and peek inside Merlinrsquos Cave Walk through Avebury Stonecircle West Kennet Long Barrows Silsbury Hill and see Crop Circles Finally dance at the Avalon Beltaine Fairy Ball featuring Doreen Virtues Band Obsidian

On the Trail of the Goddess in Turkey - Anatolia - Land of the Nourishing Mothers

ON THE TRAIL OF THE GREAT GODDESS

Sacred Journey to Turkey

November 2 - 14 2011

featuring

Karen and Roy Tate

Guided by Rashid Ergener

Visit the sacred goddess sites in Turkey Catalhoyuk Lagina Ephesus Troy and Sardis

httpwwwexaminercomwomen-s-goddess-spirituality-in-los-angelessacred-tour-of-goddess-sites-turkey-coming-november-2011-for-women-men

Check out the new video of sacred places in Turkey Hear the hauntingly beautiful music as the Ancient Mother calls httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=Twbcx8IicxI

8th ANNUAL WISE WOMANS FESTIVAL IN FLORIDA

Come and Greet the Springtime with Our Lady of the Faery

Greenwood April 9th and 10th

Nymphs Dryads Devas Kami Apsaras and Sprites Oh My What is the connection between Goddesses

and Faeryfolk Itrsquos Springtime and even though we have April showers you wonrsquot have to wait for May

to enjoy the flowers Join Morning Glory Zell noted Goddess historian and Priestess for the latest in her

series of Great Goddess Retreats and find out why the Green Goddess is more than a salad dressing

With her 36 years of experience and a collection of over 200 votive Goddess statues get ready for an

unforgettable weekend journey of sacred learning and transformational experience

This Retreat will be held at the Raven Haven Morning Gloryrsquos beautiful 10 acre home in Sonoma County

California Raven Haven is nice and roomy with a deck a pool and a spa and a special magickal Faery

Porch covered with flowering wisteria The Temple Room has huge floor to ceiling glass cases displaying

her collection of Goddess figurines and a large altar covered in beautiful Goddess images If you come

from out of town there is room to camp out (if itrsquos dry) sleep over if you like or you can choose from the

many excellent nearby hotels

The Retreat begins on Saturday the 24th at 200pm and ends on Sunday the 25th at 800pm Saturday

we will devote ourselves to learning and exploring the many Goddesses who have a connection to the

realm of Faery from Danu to Ma Ku Hold the images in your hands and hear their fascinating stories

Later we will journey deep in guided meditation to discover the special one which calls to you

Sunday starts with fun and relaxation as we learn the ancient art of weaving wreaths of living flowers

and plants to make a magickal faery wreath or perhaps you would like to learn how to make a faery

house outside on the Faery Porch that will be covered with blooming wisteria Later we will have a ritual

bath in the spa and a procession to decorate the various Goddess shrines around the property The

Retreat culminates with a ceremony to honor the Goddesses and the Fae in a Council where we sing

together and where each Goddess or Faery can share Her Truth

The fee for the entire weekend Retreat is only $10000 or you may attend only Saturdayrsquos program of

the lecture and meditation for $6000 Sunday however is not open to anyone who has not already

attended the Saturday session Meals are shared in an easygoing potluck fashion You truly have never

had any other experience quite like this one and you will come away re-energized as well as transformed

by the power of your new divine connection

Phone (707) 795-8047

mythicimcnorg

PO Box 758

Cotati CA 94931

Tryst ndash Handfasting Commitment Ceremonies

Z is back sisters And shersquos available to officiate your Trysting wedding ceremonies again The most popular pagan Goddess wedding ceremony was created by Z Budapest in The Holy Book of Womens Mysteries where Z coined the term Tryst Ritual as an expressly feminine marriage ceremony and rite of passage that can be used for heterosexual couples as well as same sex couples

Z Budapest has been conducting Pagan marriage rituals for over 40 years as a celebrated High Priestess within the Dianic Tradition which she founded Z is available to officiate your handfasting ceremony as well Whether its a civil union or a licensed marriage certificate Z is able to offer you her services as clergy She has legal standings through the Womens Spirituality Forum an IRS 501(c)3 non-profit in the state of California making your clergy fees tax deductible You can learn more about Zrsquos Trysting Ritual and schedule your wedding ceremony with her in 2010

Crete Archaeologists discover skeleton covered with gold foil in 2700-year-old grave

Greek archaeologists have found an ancient skeleton covered with gold foil in a grave on the island of Crete officials said Tuesday

Excavator Nicholas Stampolidis said his team discovered more than 3000 pieces of gold foil in the 7th-century BC twin grave near the ancient town of Eleutherna

Cemeteries there have produced a wealth of outstanding artifacts in recent years

The tiny gold ornaments from 1 to 4 centimetres (04 to 15 inches) long had been sewn onto a lavish robe or shroud that initially wrapped the body of a woman and has almost completely rotted away but for a few off-white threads

The whole length of the (grave) was covered with small pieces of gold foil mdash square circular and lozenge-shaped Stampolidis told The Associated Press We were literally digging up gold interspersed with earth not earth with some gold in it

The woman who presumably had a high social or religious status was buried with a second skeleton in a large jar sealed with a stone slab weighing more than half a ton It was hidden behind a false wall to confuse grave robbers

Experts are trying to determine the other skeletons sex The grave also contained a copper bowl pottery perfume bottles imported from Egypt or Syria and Palestine hundreds of amber rock crystal and faience beads as well as a gold pendant in the form of a bee goddess that probably was part of a rock crystal and gold necklace

If you look at it one way up its shaped like a lily said Stampolidis a professor of archaeology at the University of Crete who has worked at Eleutherna for the 25 years Turned upside down you see a female figure holding her breasts whose lower body is shaped as a bee with wings The workmanship is exquisite

The ruins of Eleutherna stand on the northern foothills of Mount Ida mdash the mythical birthplace of Zeus chief of the ancient Greek gods Past excavations have discovered a citadel homes and an important cemetery with lavish female burials

The town flourished from the 9th century BC mdash the dark ages of Greek archaeology that followed the fall of Cretes great Minoan palatial culture mdash and endured until the Middle Ages

httparchaeologynewsnetworkblogspotcom201009archaeologists-on-crete-find-skeletonhtml

SWEET TASTE OF SPRING Susun S Weed

March winds blow the sweet scent of maple sap boiling to my questing nose When the days are warm

and sunny and the nights below freezing the sap rises in the trees If those trees are sugar maples then

it is worth drilling a hole in the bark inserting a tap and collecting their sweet sap There is so much

sugar in sugar maple sap that it can be boiled and turned into maple syrup and maple sugar

Therersquos about one gallon of maple syrup and ninety-nine gallons of water in one hundred gallons of

maple sap A hot fire and a slow but steady boil send that sweet-smelling water vapor high in the clear

cold sky The March wind blows it to me I close my eyes and remember my years of ldquosugaringrdquo making

maple syrup

Therersquos something special about a task that requires one to stay up all night Maple sap starts to ferment

if it is left at normal temperatures for very long Once ten or so gallons of sap have been collected the

boiling begins hellip and cannot be stopped until the finished syrup is achieved many many many hours

later

I have never sugared without at least one overnighter and sometimes two A large operation boils sap

for weeks without stopping just drawing off the syrup as it forms if the run is steady and copious

It was a picture of Helen Nearing driving a team of horses through the woods standing on a sleigh

loaded with buckets of maple sap that made me long for a homestead where I could lead The Simple

Life like her Two years later I had my own ldquosugar bushrdquo (an acre or more of woodlot where large sugar

maples grow) Spring equinox found me with my drill in hand a pocket full of taps and a bunch of funny

buckets with lids to hang from the taps ldquoTing tingrdquo the ping of sap filling the metal buckets echoes

tying me through time to every woman who has ever sugared and bringing a smile to my heart and

face

My groves of sugar maples have never been large enough to require a team of horses or a sleigh Irsquove

always lugged a big bucket out to the trees and poured the sap from the collecting buckets into it When

I have two or three buckets full I pour them into a big galvanized tub set up on cinder blocks over a fire

and commence to boil it down

Native peoples valued maple sugar so highly that they set up camp in the sugar bush and lived there

until the sap stopped flowing Lacking metal drill bits they cut a shallow groove in the bark and pressed

hollow elder stems into service as taps to direct the flow of sap into birch bark containers

I can heat the sap directly in my metal tub while they had to hollow out a log put smooth rocks into the

fire heat them and put the hot rocks into the sap in the hollowed out log to boil it down into maple

syrup and sugar Whew I am impressed with the power of the desire for sweet It takes far more

calories in fuel and human energy to make maple syrup or maple sugar than it returns

Grandmother Twylah taught us that maple trees are friendly and companionable colorful and

expressive They always have a positive attitude and are adept at helping us see solutions to impossible

problems Maple trees are devoted and true Make friends with a maple and you will have a friend for

life she advised

Ellen Everet Hopman green witch reminds us that maple-syrup-making time is Eostrersquos time Eostre

(ee-oh-stir) is the Teutonic goddess of fertility and manifestation Her symbols are the egg and the

rabbit her time is Spring Equinox A lovely custom still enacted but without the underlying magic is to

paint a picture of something you desire on an egg and plant it in the ground so Eostre can help it grow

and become real

If itrsquos too late to tap your maples or you live too far south for the sap to flow strongly you can still be

blessed and embraced by maple A decoction of maple bark boiled in water can be used to ease sore

eyes externally and to tonify the uterus after birth internally

A magical wand of maple wood is used for spells that bring harmony especially in the home And maple

leaves sewn into a charm made of green flannel tied with a golden string will bring abundance into

your life

Indulge your desire for sweet Celebrate spring equinox and Eostre who loves sweet things Have a

stack of pancakes swimming in butter and maple syrup Or pour maple syrup over plain vanilla ice cream

and savor the sweet taste of the friendly maple tree

Green blessings

How much sugar per gallon of sap is quite variable depending on the type of maple the growing

conditions and especially the amount of sun the tree gets Sugar maple (Acer saccharum) sap is the

sweetest followed by the saps of silver maple (Acer saccharinum) Northern red maple (Acer rubrum)

and Norway maple (Acer platanoides)

Susun Weed

PO Box 64

Woodstock NY 12498

Fax 1-845-246-8081

Visit Susun Weed at wwwsusunweedcom and wwwashtreepublishingcom

Vibrant passionate and involved Susun Weed has garnered an international reputation for her

groundbreaking lectures teachings and writings on health and nutrition She challenges conventional

medical approaches with humor insight and her vast encyclopedic knowledge of herbal medicine

Unabashedly pro-woman her animated and enthusiastic lectures are engaging and often profoundly

provocative

Susun is one of Americas best-known authorities on herbal medicine and natural approaches to

womens health Her four best-selling books are recommended by expert herbalists and well-known

physicians and are used and cherished by millions of women around the world Learn more at

wwwsusunweedcom

Susun Weedrsquos books include

Wise Woman Herbal for the Childbearing Year

Author Susun S Weed Simple safe remedies for pregnancy childbirth lactation and

newborns Includes herbs for fertility and birth control Foreword by Jeannine Parvati

Baker 196 pages index illustrations

Healing Wise

Author Susun S Weed Superb herbal in the feminine-intuitive mode Complete

instructions for using common plants for food beauty medicine and longevity

Introduction by Jean Houston 312 pages index illustrations

Menopausal Years the Wise Woman Way

Author Susun S Weed The best book on menopause is now better Completely

revised with 100 new pages All the remedies women know and trust plus hundreds

of new ones New sections on thyroid health fibromyalgia hairy problems male

menopause and herbs for women taking hormones Recommended by Susan Love

MD and Christiane Northrup MD Foreword by Juliette de Bairacli Levy 304 pages

index illustrations

For more info on menopause visit wwwmenopause-metamorphosiscom

Breast Cancer Breast Health

Author Susun S Weed Foods exercises and attitudes to keep your breasts healthy

Supportive complimentary medicines to ease side-effects of surgery radiation

chemotherapy or tamoxifen Foreword by Christiane Northrup MD 380 pages index

illustrations

UPCOMING DIANIC EVENTS

Pagan Examiner ndash Read the articles written by Bobbie and myself Zrsquos Calendar of Events ndash Want to know where I am appearing Goddess Festival ndash You think the last was good Goddess is Alive Tarot Social - A joyful coming-together of the Womenrsquos Tarot community a

Revival of the 70rsquos TRAVELING MAGIC SHOW by a FOREMOTHER of GODDESS SPIRITUALITY The QUEEN of TAROT READINGS and the woman responsible for LEGALIZING TAROT in California hellip Z Budapest

Z Budapest is conducting a most entertaining Tarot Social at her home in

Oakland CA on April 23rd For more information and registration go to

TarotSocialcom

The Dianic University for Women in Goddess

Study the Dianic Tradition with Z Budapest the woman who rebirthed it into modern culture Classes at the Dianic University are designed for women only

Sisterhood of the Moon ~ Womenrsquos Spirituality Coven in the Z Budapest Dianic Tradition

Events in the Sisterhood of the Moon are for women-born-women only Located in Hayward CA You must contact Jesamyn Angelica for more information Many of the members of this group are also members of the Susan B Anthony Coven No1 Facebookpage

Hands of Demeter ~ Womenrsquos Spirituality Coven in the Z Budapest Dianic Tradition

Events in the Hands of Demeter are for women-born-women only Located in Semi Valley CA You must contact httpearthmothercovenantcom for more information Many of the members of this group are also members of the Susan B Anthony Coven No1 Facebook page

The Sacred Circle ~ Recovering amp Reclaiming Ancient Ways to Heal

Events in The Sacred Circle are for members only unless otherwise stated Call JoAnna 775-882-1599 for membership inquiries

Sisterhood of the Turning Tides ~ Womenrsquos Spirituality Coven in the Z Budapest Dianic Tradition

They meet on Esbats and Sabbats and have a Tuesday night drumritual circle Located in Mendocino CA You must contact Sage Simon for more information Many of the members of this group are also members of the Susan B Anthony Coven No1 Facebookpage

You can sponsor Goddess magazine too Click here to helphellip

Deepest Gratitude to Sisters in Goddess for their Donations

The Application for Dianic Clergy Priestess is online

Follow the Goddess Festival on Facebook And Twitter

Thank you sisters who have donated $1 a month to help support our Goddess efforts

You can sponsor Goddess magazine too Click here to helphellip

Vicki Scotti LuAnn Morris and Amy Otero are

Hecatersquos Wheel an acoustic folk trio Their

music is inspired by and dedicated to the

Goddess in all her guises They sing an eclectic

variety of cover songs and original music

Hecatersquos Wheel has been playing and

singing together for several years and their

voices have found a natural harmonious blend

We VERY much enjoyed their Beltaine concert

Goddess Resource Links Z Budapest Website Goddess College Online Goddess Blog ndash Sponsored by the Susan B Anthony Coven Z Budapest Blog Goddess Festival Susan B Anthony Coven Dianic Wicca Tarot Social Witch Trial ndash the last great witch trial in America Zs Events Schedule Zs University Calendar

Zs Books Summoning the Fates Holy Book of Womens Mysteries Celestial Wisdom Grandmother of Time Grandmother Moon Goddess in the Office Goddess in the Bedroom

Page 8: Goddess Magazine (March 2011)

Merlin Stone was recognized by liberal thinkers She once wrote ldquohellipYoko [Ono] and John [Lennon] had taken turns reading ldquoWhen God was a Womanrdquo to each other I knew they had the book because I had been asked to autograph a copy for them hellipit touched me deeplyrdquo There is so much more to say about Merlin Stonersquos life much of it we are just beginning to understand because Merlin led a very private existence With the help of her life-partner Len Schneir and her two daughters Cynthia Davis and Jenny Hirst we are creating three memorial projects

1 DVD documentary called In Search of Merlin Stone chronicling her life

2 A book of the same title featuring remembrances personal influences and white papers all focused on Merlin and her body of work

3 The Benefit Memorial Celebration on September 24 2011 in Clearwater Florida

When God was a Woman by Merlin Stone

The Benefit Memorial Celebration will take place at the Unitarian Universalist Church 2470 Nursery

Road Clearwater FL 33764 This celebration of Merlin Stonersquos life is in production and updated

information will be posted on the wwwMerlinStonenet website You may also donate to Merlin

Stonersquos Memorial Fund at the wwwMerlinStonenet website All donations are thankfully welcomed

ldquoI want the world to remember her for the goddess she wasrdquo said her life-partner Len Schneir ldquoI must

admit that it took me a long time to finally believe and fully trust the Goddess and Merlin everything I

am is because of her wisdomrdquo

If you have a Merlin Stone story photo audio recording video recording to share etc please contact Z

Budapest (wwwZBudapestcom) The September 24th Memorial will be streamed live onto the

Internet details will be announced at the wwwMerlinStonenet website

She touched the hearts of women and men globally Merlin Stone is recognized and remembered most

by her contemporaries

Today we are no longer spiritual orphans of the world It was sister Merlin who gave her entire

life to this sacred reclaiming All of us stand to thank her for this very potent gift of the

legitimized woman spirit When you came back with ldquoWhen God was a Womanrdquo and enough

material for its follow up ldquoAncient Mirrors of Womanhoodrdquo we all knew you had found the

cultural Goddess mother lode You are much too hard to let go

-Zsuzsanna Budapest author of The Holy book of Womenrsquos Mysteries and Grandmother Moon

In the beginning God was a woman Do you remember Those words still give me chills

ldquoWhen God was a Womanrdquo changed my life I remember Merlins penetrating wit and intellect

and her wild henna red hair She will be missed Blessed be

- Carol P Christ author of Rebirth of the Goddess and She Who Changes

Few people have inspired me like Merlin Stone and her work Because of her I found Goddess

deity archetype and ideal Because of her my life has been filled with inspiration meaning and

direction Thank you beloved Merlin Stone May you smile down on us and guide us from that

special resting place in the arms of the Mother

- Karen Tate author of Sacred Places of Goddess

Merlin Stones work brought knowledge of the Divine Feminine to the consciousness of the

Western world We are very grateful to her for her pioneering work

- Miriam Robbins Dexter PhD author of Sacred Display and Whence the Goddesses

Merlin Stone was a great inspiration when I first read When God was a Woman in the early

80s It spoke to something deep inside me and affirmed my own knowing We all owe her

gratitude for the Goddess work she did

- Kathy Jones author of The Goddess in Glastonbury and Priestess of Avalon Priestess of the

Goddess

She [Merlin] was so so amazing I am really saddened to learn this ---as it came like a shock I

knew her pretty well in the days when my book was happening What a terrible loss--but what a

great gain for women in our time She opened up so much for all of us---and it was because she

wanted to be a sculptor and was searching for empowered images of women--thats how she

came upon all the goddess images The story is very amazing

- Gloria Orenstein author of Reweaving the World The Emergence of Ecofeminism

I remember Merlin when we met in 1986 to film Goddess Remembered in San Francisco She was

not originally scheduled to be at the dinner party we filmed but mysterious forces made it

possible for her to arrive in SF just in time I enjoyed Merlins contribution to the conversation we

filmed and especially enjoyed some pleasant hours months later in New York with her I feel her

passing very much and remember her life as one of the great blessings all women have shared

In love may she return again

- Donna Read director of Goddess Remembered The Burning Times and Full Circle

Requiem for Merlin Stone By Zsuzsanna Budapest I have tried to write this memorial several times You are much too hard to let go I cannot celebrate you and bemoan you and preserve you forever all at once So I will just talk to you as you once were here in my house many years ago Merlin sweet sister recline comfortably on my leather couch Here is your black coffee letrsquos talk and remember together For a long time I didnrsquot know what happened to you ldquoHave you heard from Merlinrdquo I asked everybody I knew Your phone no longer worked Letters to your address were

returned That was your last footstep for most of us Then nothing for decades and many years I spent

in search of Merlin Stone

Suddenly your man Lenny called and he told us you passed away February 23 2011 You had been ill a

long time and didnrsquot want to show yourself You knew years ago that your beautiful mind was changing

You didnrsquot want to be remembered for the long illness but for the contributions of art and literature I

get it

Once there was the Heroic Age of the 70rsquos you were amongst this generation of the brave seed- casters

inventors and artists who has sown seeds of knowledge about all things good for all women Even in

these fertile times women were still spiritual orphans We had no soul reflection in the high spiritual

places We had no knowledge of where we had been as women or where we could aspire to go We had

politics and feminism We needed more Some important part of us was still very empty

We simply had no spiritual past

It was not good form to believe in the existences of the Amazons of Anatolia or Asia or of the global

Goddess womenrsquos cultures No evidence for that Even feminists were frowning We didnrsquot dare to

believe in that it would have been one more reason to disqualify spirited women from any meaningful

conversation or visibility on the feminist cultural canvas Some politicos called us bliss bunnies We had

no ground to stand on

Our cultural past had been stolen from us Schools certainly never mentioned us the divine feminine

was either a perfume or a lipstick shade or maybe a salad dressing but certainly not an all powerful real

Goddess

Merlin Stonehellip you felt this part of feminist thought was sorely missing We simply had no information

about our own great people as a gender Who did we pray to Always men

Who went back in time and stole it all back for us Who was smart enough to read the old musty out-

of-print books in hopes of finding a couple of lines the patriarchs missed when they erased the Goddess

culture

Like an Amazon of the libraries it was you who hunted down the hard-to-come-by books visiting

museums and traveling to far-off distant lands for research When you came back with ldquoWhen God was

a Womanrdquo and enough material for its follow-up ldquoAncient Mirrors of Womanhoodrdquo we all knew you

had found the cultural Goddess motherlode

The brilliance richness and diversity of the global Goddess traditions were beyond anybodyrsquos hopes All

around the globe Merlin Stone had found our traditions of celebrations our goddesses and our moral

codes

We did come from somewhere awesome and our foremothers had left us treasures in ritual sacred

poetry and arthellip footsteps for us to follow And it was Merlin Stone who found it and published it

She published in England as The Paradise Papers because American publishers would not touch it Now

the books are with Beacon Press

Today we are no longer spiritual orphans of the world It was sister Merlin who gave her entire life to

this sacred reclaiming All of us stand to thank her for this very potent gift of the legitimized woman

spirit

As usual Merlin would just smile and make little of my accolade

She felt ldquocalledrdquo she said

She was an acclaimed American artist a sculptress and national treasure She taught Art History and

that led her to the surviving images of the Goddess which called her to see more Her welded art

sculptures took on more and more triple goddess themes and finally dissolved into the physical

research which took her to Turkey - Anatolia of old the land of the Mothers

She was lovingly protected hitch-hiking alone with long red hair flowing down her back she had little

money slept in caves a sacred stranger in her own once fertile Goddess homeland

ldquoHow did you find the booksrdquo I once asked her

ldquoStrange thingrdquo she explained ldquoI heard a hum - a hum of women when I got close to a book that had

useful information for us I just reached out and there it was I was led by a humrdquo

ldquoOh yes the humrdquo Merlin had come to dinner in Santa Monica we feminist witches were much

honored We held hands over my barley dish and hummed together as we usually did praying our

blessing Merlin burst into tears I was worried Who hurt our highly esteemed guest

ldquoNobody hurt merdquo she said ldquoBut this was the hum I heard in the libraries of Turkey This was the hum

that led me to the great Goddess booksrdquo

Then the witches fell silent and one by one we also teared up at this miracle How could a ragtag

revolutionary group of witches hum on a California mountaintop and a woman on the Goddess search

hear it all the way in Turkey Never mind the multiplication of the fishes and the loaves this was a much

better miracle Our belief in the all-pervasive omnipresent Goddess was never stronger

Which Goddess shall I invoke for your memorial You have given us hundreds

As a Dianic witch I love Hecate the transformer She who takes the tired souls away on her chariot

drawn by the dragons of time She is the healer of wounds the Queen of the dark side of the Moon

But Merlin loved Anahita She is the one ldquowho is the Cosmic Ocean in which the stars do float It is

Anahita who provides the nourishing rain sending waters from the heavens to the springs and rivers

protecting the flocks in pastures and causing them to bear their young -- as it is Anahita who fills the

womb with life Her chariot is drawn by white steeds named rain and wind and clouds and sleet or as

she rides on the back of a gliding eagle or even upon a splendid lionrdquo

At Anahitarsquos shrines still visible in Sardis and Susa in Kangawar and Ecbatana her inscription reads ldquoI

am the conscience of thine own selfrdquo

Rest sweetly dearest sister and if you wish to live on in our hearts please guide us like the hum once

guided you Donrsquot hurry linger amongst us

Merlin my beloved sister your chariot can wait

Ancient Mirrors of Womanhood Merlin Stone 1979 p210

I am going to be a guest speaker at the Women of Spirit and Faith Conference April 28- May 1

The Alchemy of Our Spiritual Leadership Women Redefining Power

Calling all women of spirit and faith This is not your typical womens conference

Imagine the energy of more than 300 women ready for inspiration deep wisdom and potent co-creation

Alchemy Highlights

Inspiring Keynote wisdom from Sister Joan Chittister Valarie Kaur and Naomi Tutu Stimulating Leadership Conversations featuring the wisdom and experience of a dozen diverse women

leaders Informative workshops with a focus on building practical skills and new models for collaborative

leadership Many opportunities for circle dialogue and structured conversation Optional activities such as Open Space Offerings Morning Meditations Yoga Movement Labyrinth Walks

and more The Alchemy Marketplace where you can shop for books jewelry art and music A Beautiful Meditation and Prayer Room for silence and reflection Art music poetry laughter and lots of right-brain fun and stimulation

I am also going to be attending the Glastonbury Goddess Conference 2011

Now five full days of Goddess-loving celebration with Fringe events from Sunday July 24 ndash 31

Celebrating the Great Mother of Water at Lammas details are online wwwgoddessconferencecom

Welcoming two USA two pioneers of the Goddess movement -

Vicki Noble co-creator of the Motherpeace Tarot

Zsuzsanna Budapest Founder of the Dianic Wiccan Tradition and Womenrsquos Spirituality Movement

With Conference Favorites Anique Radiant Heart Barbara Meiklejohn-Free Carolyn Hillyer Julie Felix

Kathy Jones Lydia Ruyle and Lady Olivia Durdin Robertson

With Ceremonies Adorations and Praise Songs to the Great Goddess of Water She who is the Source

and Womb of all Life Participate in moving Sacred Ceremonies take part in inspiring Workshops listen

to fascinating Presentations see beautiful Artwork amp Stalls Performances Music Song Poetry and

Dance Visit the Holy Wells of the Goddess in Avalon cleansing and immersing yourself in Her Healing

Waters Join one of Nine Wells - circles of support and participation in Conference Ceremonies Dance

the night away at the Goddess Gala Buffet and Masque and join our Goddess Procession through the

Landscape to the River Brue with a Fruit Feast

Plus Presenters Priestesses and Spinners Amanda Baker Annabel Du Boulay Anna Saqqara Price

Charissa Schipper Caroline Lir Deonesea la Fey Emma Rose Knight Erin McCauliffe Ganga Ashworth

Georgina Sirett-Hardie Graell Corsini Heloise Pilkington Isabella Verbruggen Isis Queen Jacqui

Woodward-Smith Jennifer Cooper Katinka Soetens Kaye Cooksey Koko Newport Lauren Raine Lisa

Newing Louise Bell Louise Tarrier Lydia Lite Marion van Eupen Mary Bruce Michelle Patten Miriam

Raven Morgaine Noam Zimin Oshia Drury Rose Flint Roz Bound Sally Pullinger Sharlea Johnson

Shirley-Ann Millar Shoshana Horobin Sophie Pullinger Sue Quatermass Tegwyn Hyndman Thalia

Brown Tiana Pitman amp Tina Free plus more great Priestesses amazing helpful Melissas amp lots more

wonderful women and men

My Workshops at Glastonbury

ZSUZSANNA BUDAPEST WE ALL COME FROM THE GODDESS (Women Only)

Sunday July 25th Women from all walks of life come together with High Priestess Zsuzsanna (Z) Budapest in a flowing woman-only Dianic circle celebrating our expanding global sisterhood Beginning with the sacred Dianic purification we enter the circle commune with our ancestors and our divine selves lift up a joyous dedication to the Goddess Sedna of the Deep as we bless all waters inside and outside Chanting dancing and strengthening our bonds of sisterhood We are the flow we are the ebb When the women are healed the whole world is healed Drummers musical instruments voices welcome Dress comfortably Come garlanded with something in season greens or flowers

Z Budapest is the founder of the Dianic (Feminist) Tradition of Wicca in the USA initiating the worldrsquos most famous coven the Susan B Anthony Coven Number One which continues to thrive and brings womenrsquos spirituality into mainstream consciousness (SusanBAnthonyCovencom) Z has led rituals lectured taught classes given workshops written articles tirelessly and published in hundreds of womens newspapers across the country She has powerfully influenced many of the future teachers and writers about the Goddess She is the director of the Womens Spirituality Forum a nonprofit organization and Z founded and sponsors the Dianic Universityrsquos Goddess College (GoddessCollegecom) Her books include Holy Book of Womens Mysteries Grandmother of Time Grandmother Moon See wwwZBudapestcom Venue Glastonbury Assembly Rooms Time 1000am-400pm Fee pound50$85euro65 register online wwwgoddessconferencecom

ZSUZSANNA BUDAPEST ndash TAROT SOCIAL IN MY ROOM (Glastonbury)

July 26-27th Tarot Social information and exact date to be announced

ZSUZSANNA BUDAPEST ndash THE HERSTORY OF THE DIANIC TRADITION (Mixed Audience)

July 28th A multi-media presentation on the Herstory of the Dianic Tradition for a mixed audience Z

Budapest provides the historical background to the origins of the Dianic Tradition as well as important

triumphs that the Dianics fought for and won for the Pagan community and beyond Like the right to

perform divination readings in the United States in public and charge for it Historically it was Z and

Dianics who fought for the rights of this civil liberty in California which then opened the door to other

states to follow suit You can learn more about that at WitchTrialnet This presentation also clears up

some urban legends about the Dianic Tradition Such as itrsquos a man-hating tradition the accusations of

separatism Nothing could be farther from the truth Z Budapest founded the Womenrsquos Spirituality

Movement in 1971 Since then there has been an uninterrupted Goddess worship for the past 40 plus

years of women circling together in sacred celebration of all the Sabbaths and many moons This Dianic

Tradition has spread all over the globe After a brief break the second half of the workshop will involve

spiritual movement and dancing the meeting Dance Finally we will finish with an inspiring multi-media

presentation Prayers to the Mother all living creatures are one

Hope to see you at the Glastonbury Goddess Conference 2011

Follow Z Budapest on Facebook And Twitter

ZSUZSANNA BUDAPEST ndash TAROT SOCIAL

I am doing another women-only Tarot Social on April 23rd at my own home Who wants to host a Tarot

Social For more information visit TarotSocialcom and contact me

After more than thirty years in circulation The Holy Book of Womenrsquos Mysteries is still a ground-breaking book in the forefront of womenrsquos spirituality

Get your own copy of Zrsquos out of print books and DVDs at the Womenrsquos Spirituality Forum online store

Irsquom also available for Tarot Readings I know many of you are going through some tough times and

thatrsquos really when you should be reaching out for a reading Irsquom here if you need me

This magazine is sponsored by the Womenrsquos Spirituality Forum

Please help support our efforts to help keep the Goddess Alive

The Application for Dianic Clergy Priestess is online

Goddess College Updates amp More

We have changed the way the online school is doing business After offering free memberships over

the last four years the changes in the economy have forced us to make changes hellip good changes

The Dianic University has now become the Goddess College and has its own website to boot It was

necessary to update the schoolrsquos software but with all the free accounts the database had gotten too

big to migrate So we were forced to start over from scratch eliminating all the free accounts If you

were a student in good standing and part of a paid class in old Dianic University then we are working to

grandmother you into the new school

The way to gain entry into the new Goddess College is through membership in the Susan B Anthony

Coven 1 Everyone in the Goddess College will be active members of the SBA with only a handful of

exceptions Join the Susan B Anthony Coven 1 - You can apply for membership here

The Susan B Anthony Coven 1 now meets inside the Goddess College and the old DU area is closed

We have updated and moved over the Dianic Feminist Philosophy class and the first Holy Book class The

Holy Book series of classes is being totally reworked and improved Thatrsquos partly due to an alliance wersquove

made with the Ocean Seminary College which will allow us to offer degrees for our course of study We

are currently in process with meeting their requirements to make this happen Very exciting stuff for

womenrsquos spirituality I will keep you updated in my column here in the Goddess Magazine

We are networked up the Hoola-Hoop in Facebook Itrsquos hard to miss everything wersquore doing and yet

some of you are still contacting me and saying you hadnrsquot heard of this or that Get your face into

Facebook my sisters and friend the following pages so you can stay in the know

Z Budapest on Facebook

Z Budapest Fan Page

Goddess Magazine Radio Show Fan Page

Goddess Festival Fan Page

Food Magic Fan Page

Susan B Anthony Coven Fan Page

Why arenrsquot you more active in the Dianic Tradition We have a lot of women who read this Goddess

Magazine every month and it would awesome to have more of you join in with us at the Susan B

Anthony Coven 1 A membership into the worldrsquos most famous all-womenrsquos coven makes for a nice gift

to yourself Give it some thought and then come join us The Womens Spirituality Forum is an IRS

501(c)3 non-profit Your registration fees and your membership are tax deductible

Check out our mobile-friendly portal website wwwGoddessLivecom hellip Wersquove pulled all our

information and articles into one location for you and it doesnrsquot matter if yoursquore a computer user or a

mobile user because wersquove programmed the site to be able to switch back and forth

Goddess Magazine Radio Show

Goddess Magazine Radio Show will be forced to go to a half hour program because of changes at

Blogtalk Radio We will bring you more chats with Z very soon Promise

Look for announcements of the new Goddess Magazine Radio Shows on our Facebook fan page Are you

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OTHER WOMENrsquoS SACRED EVENTS amp TOURS TELL THEM Z SENT YOU A WOMENrsquoS RITUAL RETREAT IN CRETE A JOURNEY TO THE GODDESS MAY 23-JUNE 5TH 2011

Facilitated by Ruth Barrett and Catherine Ridder YES We still have spaces still available for our fourth

ritual retreat to Crete Space is limited to 13 women on a first-come basis If you are interested in

hearing more information about this incredible trip contact Catherine Ridder at 626-793-7520 or email

caridder2netzerocom

Sacred Sites of Avalon England with Donna Virgilio April 27 to May 3 2011 Travel to Stonehenge for a private ceremony in the inner circle Walk to the Tor considered to be the legendary Camelot Tour Roman and Medieval Baths and honor the Goddess Minerva visit and pray at the Chalice Well and see the Sacred Gardens Tour the Glastonbury Goddess Temple and participate in the official Beltaine Festivities and Ceremony See the Boscastle Witchcraft Museum and Journey to Tintagel the mystical birthplace of King Arthur and peek inside Merlinrsquos Cave Walk through Avebury Stonecircle West Kennet Long Barrows Silsbury Hill and see Crop Circles Finally dance at the Avalon Beltaine Fairy Ball featuring Doreen Virtues Band Obsidian

On the Trail of the Goddess in Turkey - Anatolia - Land of the Nourishing Mothers

ON THE TRAIL OF THE GREAT GODDESS

Sacred Journey to Turkey

November 2 - 14 2011

featuring

Karen and Roy Tate

Guided by Rashid Ergener

Visit the sacred goddess sites in Turkey Catalhoyuk Lagina Ephesus Troy and Sardis

httpwwwexaminercomwomen-s-goddess-spirituality-in-los-angelessacred-tour-of-goddess-sites-turkey-coming-november-2011-for-women-men

Check out the new video of sacred places in Turkey Hear the hauntingly beautiful music as the Ancient Mother calls httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=Twbcx8IicxI

8th ANNUAL WISE WOMANS FESTIVAL IN FLORIDA

Come and Greet the Springtime with Our Lady of the Faery

Greenwood April 9th and 10th

Nymphs Dryads Devas Kami Apsaras and Sprites Oh My What is the connection between Goddesses

and Faeryfolk Itrsquos Springtime and even though we have April showers you wonrsquot have to wait for May

to enjoy the flowers Join Morning Glory Zell noted Goddess historian and Priestess for the latest in her

series of Great Goddess Retreats and find out why the Green Goddess is more than a salad dressing

With her 36 years of experience and a collection of over 200 votive Goddess statues get ready for an

unforgettable weekend journey of sacred learning and transformational experience

This Retreat will be held at the Raven Haven Morning Gloryrsquos beautiful 10 acre home in Sonoma County

California Raven Haven is nice and roomy with a deck a pool and a spa and a special magickal Faery

Porch covered with flowering wisteria The Temple Room has huge floor to ceiling glass cases displaying

her collection of Goddess figurines and a large altar covered in beautiful Goddess images If you come

from out of town there is room to camp out (if itrsquos dry) sleep over if you like or you can choose from the

many excellent nearby hotels

The Retreat begins on Saturday the 24th at 200pm and ends on Sunday the 25th at 800pm Saturday

we will devote ourselves to learning and exploring the many Goddesses who have a connection to the

realm of Faery from Danu to Ma Ku Hold the images in your hands and hear their fascinating stories

Later we will journey deep in guided meditation to discover the special one which calls to you

Sunday starts with fun and relaxation as we learn the ancient art of weaving wreaths of living flowers

and plants to make a magickal faery wreath or perhaps you would like to learn how to make a faery

house outside on the Faery Porch that will be covered with blooming wisteria Later we will have a ritual

bath in the spa and a procession to decorate the various Goddess shrines around the property The

Retreat culminates with a ceremony to honor the Goddesses and the Fae in a Council where we sing

together and where each Goddess or Faery can share Her Truth

The fee for the entire weekend Retreat is only $10000 or you may attend only Saturdayrsquos program of

the lecture and meditation for $6000 Sunday however is not open to anyone who has not already

attended the Saturday session Meals are shared in an easygoing potluck fashion You truly have never

had any other experience quite like this one and you will come away re-energized as well as transformed

by the power of your new divine connection

Phone (707) 795-8047

mythicimcnorg

PO Box 758

Cotati CA 94931

Tryst ndash Handfasting Commitment Ceremonies

Z is back sisters And shersquos available to officiate your Trysting wedding ceremonies again The most popular pagan Goddess wedding ceremony was created by Z Budapest in The Holy Book of Womens Mysteries where Z coined the term Tryst Ritual as an expressly feminine marriage ceremony and rite of passage that can be used for heterosexual couples as well as same sex couples

Z Budapest has been conducting Pagan marriage rituals for over 40 years as a celebrated High Priestess within the Dianic Tradition which she founded Z is available to officiate your handfasting ceremony as well Whether its a civil union or a licensed marriage certificate Z is able to offer you her services as clergy She has legal standings through the Womens Spirituality Forum an IRS 501(c)3 non-profit in the state of California making your clergy fees tax deductible You can learn more about Zrsquos Trysting Ritual and schedule your wedding ceremony with her in 2010

Crete Archaeologists discover skeleton covered with gold foil in 2700-year-old grave

Greek archaeologists have found an ancient skeleton covered with gold foil in a grave on the island of Crete officials said Tuesday

Excavator Nicholas Stampolidis said his team discovered more than 3000 pieces of gold foil in the 7th-century BC twin grave near the ancient town of Eleutherna

Cemeteries there have produced a wealth of outstanding artifacts in recent years

The tiny gold ornaments from 1 to 4 centimetres (04 to 15 inches) long had been sewn onto a lavish robe or shroud that initially wrapped the body of a woman and has almost completely rotted away but for a few off-white threads

The whole length of the (grave) was covered with small pieces of gold foil mdash square circular and lozenge-shaped Stampolidis told The Associated Press We were literally digging up gold interspersed with earth not earth with some gold in it

The woman who presumably had a high social or religious status was buried with a second skeleton in a large jar sealed with a stone slab weighing more than half a ton It was hidden behind a false wall to confuse grave robbers

Experts are trying to determine the other skeletons sex The grave also contained a copper bowl pottery perfume bottles imported from Egypt or Syria and Palestine hundreds of amber rock crystal and faience beads as well as a gold pendant in the form of a bee goddess that probably was part of a rock crystal and gold necklace

If you look at it one way up its shaped like a lily said Stampolidis a professor of archaeology at the University of Crete who has worked at Eleutherna for the 25 years Turned upside down you see a female figure holding her breasts whose lower body is shaped as a bee with wings The workmanship is exquisite

The ruins of Eleutherna stand on the northern foothills of Mount Ida mdash the mythical birthplace of Zeus chief of the ancient Greek gods Past excavations have discovered a citadel homes and an important cemetery with lavish female burials

The town flourished from the 9th century BC mdash the dark ages of Greek archaeology that followed the fall of Cretes great Minoan palatial culture mdash and endured until the Middle Ages

httparchaeologynewsnetworkblogspotcom201009archaeologists-on-crete-find-skeletonhtml

SWEET TASTE OF SPRING Susun S Weed

March winds blow the sweet scent of maple sap boiling to my questing nose When the days are warm

and sunny and the nights below freezing the sap rises in the trees If those trees are sugar maples then

it is worth drilling a hole in the bark inserting a tap and collecting their sweet sap There is so much

sugar in sugar maple sap that it can be boiled and turned into maple syrup and maple sugar

Therersquos about one gallon of maple syrup and ninety-nine gallons of water in one hundred gallons of

maple sap A hot fire and a slow but steady boil send that sweet-smelling water vapor high in the clear

cold sky The March wind blows it to me I close my eyes and remember my years of ldquosugaringrdquo making

maple syrup

Therersquos something special about a task that requires one to stay up all night Maple sap starts to ferment

if it is left at normal temperatures for very long Once ten or so gallons of sap have been collected the

boiling begins hellip and cannot be stopped until the finished syrup is achieved many many many hours

later

I have never sugared without at least one overnighter and sometimes two A large operation boils sap

for weeks without stopping just drawing off the syrup as it forms if the run is steady and copious

It was a picture of Helen Nearing driving a team of horses through the woods standing on a sleigh

loaded with buckets of maple sap that made me long for a homestead where I could lead The Simple

Life like her Two years later I had my own ldquosugar bushrdquo (an acre or more of woodlot where large sugar

maples grow) Spring equinox found me with my drill in hand a pocket full of taps and a bunch of funny

buckets with lids to hang from the taps ldquoTing tingrdquo the ping of sap filling the metal buckets echoes

tying me through time to every woman who has ever sugared and bringing a smile to my heart and

face

My groves of sugar maples have never been large enough to require a team of horses or a sleigh Irsquove

always lugged a big bucket out to the trees and poured the sap from the collecting buckets into it When

I have two or three buckets full I pour them into a big galvanized tub set up on cinder blocks over a fire

and commence to boil it down

Native peoples valued maple sugar so highly that they set up camp in the sugar bush and lived there

until the sap stopped flowing Lacking metal drill bits they cut a shallow groove in the bark and pressed

hollow elder stems into service as taps to direct the flow of sap into birch bark containers

I can heat the sap directly in my metal tub while they had to hollow out a log put smooth rocks into the

fire heat them and put the hot rocks into the sap in the hollowed out log to boil it down into maple

syrup and sugar Whew I am impressed with the power of the desire for sweet It takes far more

calories in fuel and human energy to make maple syrup or maple sugar than it returns

Grandmother Twylah taught us that maple trees are friendly and companionable colorful and

expressive They always have a positive attitude and are adept at helping us see solutions to impossible

problems Maple trees are devoted and true Make friends with a maple and you will have a friend for

life she advised

Ellen Everet Hopman green witch reminds us that maple-syrup-making time is Eostrersquos time Eostre

(ee-oh-stir) is the Teutonic goddess of fertility and manifestation Her symbols are the egg and the

rabbit her time is Spring Equinox A lovely custom still enacted but without the underlying magic is to

paint a picture of something you desire on an egg and plant it in the ground so Eostre can help it grow

and become real

If itrsquos too late to tap your maples or you live too far south for the sap to flow strongly you can still be

blessed and embraced by maple A decoction of maple bark boiled in water can be used to ease sore

eyes externally and to tonify the uterus after birth internally

A magical wand of maple wood is used for spells that bring harmony especially in the home And maple

leaves sewn into a charm made of green flannel tied with a golden string will bring abundance into

your life

Indulge your desire for sweet Celebrate spring equinox and Eostre who loves sweet things Have a

stack of pancakes swimming in butter and maple syrup Or pour maple syrup over plain vanilla ice cream

and savor the sweet taste of the friendly maple tree

Green blessings

How much sugar per gallon of sap is quite variable depending on the type of maple the growing

conditions and especially the amount of sun the tree gets Sugar maple (Acer saccharum) sap is the

sweetest followed by the saps of silver maple (Acer saccharinum) Northern red maple (Acer rubrum)

and Norway maple (Acer platanoides)

Susun Weed

PO Box 64

Woodstock NY 12498

Fax 1-845-246-8081

Visit Susun Weed at wwwsusunweedcom and wwwashtreepublishingcom

Vibrant passionate and involved Susun Weed has garnered an international reputation for her

groundbreaking lectures teachings and writings on health and nutrition She challenges conventional

medical approaches with humor insight and her vast encyclopedic knowledge of herbal medicine

Unabashedly pro-woman her animated and enthusiastic lectures are engaging and often profoundly

provocative

Susun is one of Americas best-known authorities on herbal medicine and natural approaches to

womens health Her four best-selling books are recommended by expert herbalists and well-known

physicians and are used and cherished by millions of women around the world Learn more at

wwwsusunweedcom

Susun Weedrsquos books include

Wise Woman Herbal for the Childbearing Year

Author Susun S Weed Simple safe remedies for pregnancy childbirth lactation and

newborns Includes herbs for fertility and birth control Foreword by Jeannine Parvati

Baker 196 pages index illustrations

Healing Wise

Author Susun S Weed Superb herbal in the feminine-intuitive mode Complete

instructions for using common plants for food beauty medicine and longevity

Introduction by Jean Houston 312 pages index illustrations

Menopausal Years the Wise Woman Way

Author Susun S Weed The best book on menopause is now better Completely

revised with 100 new pages All the remedies women know and trust plus hundreds

of new ones New sections on thyroid health fibromyalgia hairy problems male

menopause and herbs for women taking hormones Recommended by Susan Love

MD and Christiane Northrup MD Foreword by Juliette de Bairacli Levy 304 pages

index illustrations

For more info on menopause visit wwwmenopause-metamorphosiscom

Breast Cancer Breast Health

Author Susun S Weed Foods exercises and attitudes to keep your breasts healthy

Supportive complimentary medicines to ease side-effects of surgery radiation

chemotherapy or tamoxifen Foreword by Christiane Northrup MD 380 pages index

illustrations

UPCOMING DIANIC EVENTS

Pagan Examiner ndash Read the articles written by Bobbie and myself Zrsquos Calendar of Events ndash Want to know where I am appearing Goddess Festival ndash You think the last was good Goddess is Alive Tarot Social - A joyful coming-together of the Womenrsquos Tarot community a

Revival of the 70rsquos TRAVELING MAGIC SHOW by a FOREMOTHER of GODDESS SPIRITUALITY The QUEEN of TAROT READINGS and the woman responsible for LEGALIZING TAROT in California hellip Z Budapest

Z Budapest is conducting a most entertaining Tarot Social at her home in

Oakland CA on April 23rd For more information and registration go to

TarotSocialcom

The Dianic University for Women in Goddess

Study the Dianic Tradition with Z Budapest the woman who rebirthed it into modern culture Classes at the Dianic University are designed for women only

Sisterhood of the Moon ~ Womenrsquos Spirituality Coven in the Z Budapest Dianic Tradition

Events in the Sisterhood of the Moon are for women-born-women only Located in Hayward CA You must contact Jesamyn Angelica for more information Many of the members of this group are also members of the Susan B Anthony Coven No1 Facebookpage

Hands of Demeter ~ Womenrsquos Spirituality Coven in the Z Budapest Dianic Tradition

Events in the Hands of Demeter are for women-born-women only Located in Semi Valley CA You must contact httpearthmothercovenantcom for more information Many of the members of this group are also members of the Susan B Anthony Coven No1 Facebook page

The Sacred Circle ~ Recovering amp Reclaiming Ancient Ways to Heal

Events in The Sacred Circle are for members only unless otherwise stated Call JoAnna 775-882-1599 for membership inquiries

Sisterhood of the Turning Tides ~ Womenrsquos Spirituality Coven in the Z Budapest Dianic Tradition

They meet on Esbats and Sabbats and have a Tuesday night drumritual circle Located in Mendocino CA You must contact Sage Simon for more information Many of the members of this group are also members of the Susan B Anthony Coven No1 Facebookpage

You can sponsor Goddess magazine too Click here to helphellip

Deepest Gratitude to Sisters in Goddess for their Donations

The Application for Dianic Clergy Priestess is online

Follow the Goddess Festival on Facebook And Twitter

Thank you sisters who have donated $1 a month to help support our Goddess efforts

You can sponsor Goddess magazine too Click here to helphellip

Vicki Scotti LuAnn Morris and Amy Otero are

Hecatersquos Wheel an acoustic folk trio Their

music is inspired by and dedicated to the

Goddess in all her guises They sing an eclectic

variety of cover songs and original music

Hecatersquos Wheel has been playing and

singing together for several years and their

voices have found a natural harmonious blend

We VERY much enjoyed their Beltaine concert

Goddess Resource Links Z Budapest Website Goddess College Online Goddess Blog ndash Sponsored by the Susan B Anthony Coven Z Budapest Blog Goddess Festival Susan B Anthony Coven Dianic Wicca Tarot Social Witch Trial ndash the last great witch trial in America Zs Events Schedule Zs University Calendar

Zs Books Summoning the Fates Holy Book of Womens Mysteries Celestial Wisdom Grandmother of Time Grandmother Moon Goddess in the Office Goddess in the Bedroom

Page 9: Goddess Magazine (March 2011)

In the beginning God was a woman Do you remember Those words still give me chills

ldquoWhen God was a Womanrdquo changed my life I remember Merlins penetrating wit and intellect

and her wild henna red hair She will be missed Blessed be

- Carol P Christ author of Rebirth of the Goddess and She Who Changes

Few people have inspired me like Merlin Stone and her work Because of her I found Goddess

deity archetype and ideal Because of her my life has been filled with inspiration meaning and

direction Thank you beloved Merlin Stone May you smile down on us and guide us from that

special resting place in the arms of the Mother

- Karen Tate author of Sacred Places of Goddess

Merlin Stones work brought knowledge of the Divine Feminine to the consciousness of the

Western world We are very grateful to her for her pioneering work

- Miriam Robbins Dexter PhD author of Sacred Display and Whence the Goddesses

Merlin Stone was a great inspiration when I first read When God was a Woman in the early

80s It spoke to something deep inside me and affirmed my own knowing We all owe her

gratitude for the Goddess work she did

- Kathy Jones author of The Goddess in Glastonbury and Priestess of Avalon Priestess of the

Goddess

She [Merlin] was so so amazing I am really saddened to learn this ---as it came like a shock I

knew her pretty well in the days when my book was happening What a terrible loss--but what a

great gain for women in our time She opened up so much for all of us---and it was because she

wanted to be a sculptor and was searching for empowered images of women--thats how she

came upon all the goddess images The story is very amazing

- Gloria Orenstein author of Reweaving the World The Emergence of Ecofeminism

I remember Merlin when we met in 1986 to film Goddess Remembered in San Francisco She was

not originally scheduled to be at the dinner party we filmed but mysterious forces made it

possible for her to arrive in SF just in time I enjoyed Merlins contribution to the conversation we

filmed and especially enjoyed some pleasant hours months later in New York with her I feel her

passing very much and remember her life as one of the great blessings all women have shared

In love may she return again

- Donna Read director of Goddess Remembered The Burning Times and Full Circle

Requiem for Merlin Stone By Zsuzsanna Budapest I have tried to write this memorial several times You are much too hard to let go I cannot celebrate you and bemoan you and preserve you forever all at once So I will just talk to you as you once were here in my house many years ago Merlin sweet sister recline comfortably on my leather couch Here is your black coffee letrsquos talk and remember together For a long time I didnrsquot know what happened to you ldquoHave you heard from Merlinrdquo I asked everybody I knew Your phone no longer worked Letters to your address were

returned That was your last footstep for most of us Then nothing for decades and many years I spent

in search of Merlin Stone

Suddenly your man Lenny called and he told us you passed away February 23 2011 You had been ill a

long time and didnrsquot want to show yourself You knew years ago that your beautiful mind was changing

You didnrsquot want to be remembered for the long illness but for the contributions of art and literature I

get it

Once there was the Heroic Age of the 70rsquos you were amongst this generation of the brave seed- casters

inventors and artists who has sown seeds of knowledge about all things good for all women Even in

these fertile times women were still spiritual orphans We had no soul reflection in the high spiritual

places We had no knowledge of where we had been as women or where we could aspire to go We had

politics and feminism We needed more Some important part of us was still very empty

We simply had no spiritual past

It was not good form to believe in the existences of the Amazons of Anatolia or Asia or of the global

Goddess womenrsquos cultures No evidence for that Even feminists were frowning We didnrsquot dare to

believe in that it would have been one more reason to disqualify spirited women from any meaningful

conversation or visibility on the feminist cultural canvas Some politicos called us bliss bunnies We had

no ground to stand on

Our cultural past had been stolen from us Schools certainly never mentioned us the divine feminine

was either a perfume or a lipstick shade or maybe a salad dressing but certainly not an all powerful real

Goddess

Merlin Stonehellip you felt this part of feminist thought was sorely missing We simply had no information

about our own great people as a gender Who did we pray to Always men

Who went back in time and stole it all back for us Who was smart enough to read the old musty out-

of-print books in hopes of finding a couple of lines the patriarchs missed when they erased the Goddess

culture

Like an Amazon of the libraries it was you who hunted down the hard-to-come-by books visiting

museums and traveling to far-off distant lands for research When you came back with ldquoWhen God was

a Womanrdquo and enough material for its follow-up ldquoAncient Mirrors of Womanhoodrdquo we all knew you

had found the cultural Goddess motherlode

The brilliance richness and diversity of the global Goddess traditions were beyond anybodyrsquos hopes All

around the globe Merlin Stone had found our traditions of celebrations our goddesses and our moral

codes

We did come from somewhere awesome and our foremothers had left us treasures in ritual sacred

poetry and arthellip footsteps for us to follow And it was Merlin Stone who found it and published it

She published in England as The Paradise Papers because American publishers would not touch it Now

the books are with Beacon Press

Today we are no longer spiritual orphans of the world It was sister Merlin who gave her entire life to

this sacred reclaiming All of us stand to thank her for this very potent gift of the legitimized woman

spirit

As usual Merlin would just smile and make little of my accolade

She felt ldquocalledrdquo she said

She was an acclaimed American artist a sculptress and national treasure She taught Art History and

that led her to the surviving images of the Goddess which called her to see more Her welded art

sculptures took on more and more triple goddess themes and finally dissolved into the physical

research which took her to Turkey - Anatolia of old the land of the Mothers

She was lovingly protected hitch-hiking alone with long red hair flowing down her back she had little

money slept in caves a sacred stranger in her own once fertile Goddess homeland

ldquoHow did you find the booksrdquo I once asked her

ldquoStrange thingrdquo she explained ldquoI heard a hum - a hum of women when I got close to a book that had

useful information for us I just reached out and there it was I was led by a humrdquo

ldquoOh yes the humrdquo Merlin had come to dinner in Santa Monica we feminist witches were much

honored We held hands over my barley dish and hummed together as we usually did praying our

blessing Merlin burst into tears I was worried Who hurt our highly esteemed guest

ldquoNobody hurt merdquo she said ldquoBut this was the hum I heard in the libraries of Turkey This was the hum

that led me to the great Goddess booksrdquo

Then the witches fell silent and one by one we also teared up at this miracle How could a ragtag

revolutionary group of witches hum on a California mountaintop and a woman on the Goddess search

hear it all the way in Turkey Never mind the multiplication of the fishes and the loaves this was a much

better miracle Our belief in the all-pervasive omnipresent Goddess was never stronger

Which Goddess shall I invoke for your memorial You have given us hundreds

As a Dianic witch I love Hecate the transformer She who takes the tired souls away on her chariot

drawn by the dragons of time She is the healer of wounds the Queen of the dark side of the Moon

But Merlin loved Anahita She is the one ldquowho is the Cosmic Ocean in which the stars do float It is

Anahita who provides the nourishing rain sending waters from the heavens to the springs and rivers

protecting the flocks in pastures and causing them to bear their young -- as it is Anahita who fills the

womb with life Her chariot is drawn by white steeds named rain and wind and clouds and sleet or as

she rides on the back of a gliding eagle or even upon a splendid lionrdquo

At Anahitarsquos shrines still visible in Sardis and Susa in Kangawar and Ecbatana her inscription reads ldquoI

am the conscience of thine own selfrdquo

Rest sweetly dearest sister and if you wish to live on in our hearts please guide us like the hum once

guided you Donrsquot hurry linger amongst us

Merlin my beloved sister your chariot can wait

Ancient Mirrors of Womanhood Merlin Stone 1979 p210

I am going to be a guest speaker at the Women of Spirit and Faith Conference April 28- May 1

The Alchemy of Our Spiritual Leadership Women Redefining Power

Calling all women of spirit and faith This is not your typical womens conference

Imagine the energy of more than 300 women ready for inspiration deep wisdom and potent co-creation

Alchemy Highlights

Inspiring Keynote wisdom from Sister Joan Chittister Valarie Kaur and Naomi Tutu Stimulating Leadership Conversations featuring the wisdom and experience of a dozen diverse women

leaders Informative workshops with a focus on building practical skills and new models for collaborative

leadership Many opportunities for circle dialogue and structured conversation Optional activities such as Open Space Offerings Morning Meditations Yoga Movement Labyrinth Walks

and more The Alchemy Marketplace where you can shop for books jewelry art and music A Beautiful Meditation and Prayer Room for silence and reflection Art music poetry laughter and lots of right-brain fun and stimulation

I am also going to be attending the Glastonbury Goddess Conference 2011

Now five full days of Goddess-loving celebration with Fringe events from Sunday July 24 ndash 31

Celebrating the Great Mother of Water at Lammas details are online wwwgoddessconferencecom

Welcoming two USA two pioneers of the Goddess movement -

Vicki Noble co-creator of the Motherpeace Tarot

Zsuzsanna Budapest Founder of the Dianic Wiccan Tradition and Womenrsquos Spirituality Movement

With Conference Favorites Anique Radiant Heart Barbara Meiklejohn-Free Carolyn Hillyer Julie Felix

Kathy Jones Lydia Ruyle and Lady Olivia Durdin Robertson

With Ceremonies Adorations and Praise Songs to the Great Goddess of Water She who is the Source

and Womb of all Life Participate in moving Sacred Ceremonies take part in inspiring Workshops listen

to fascinating Presentations see beautiful Artwork amp Stalls Performances Music Song Poetry and

Dance Visit the Holy Wells of the Goddess in Avalon cleansing and immersing yourself in Her Healing

Waters Join one of Nine Wells - circles of support and participation in Conference Ceremonies Dance

the night away at the Goddess Gala Buffet and Masque and join our Goddess Procession through the

Landscape to the River Brue with a Fruit Feast

Plus Presenters Priestesses and Spinners Amanda Baker Annabel Du Boulay Anna Saqqara Price

Charissa Schipper Caroline Lir Deonesea la Fey Emma Rose Knight Erin McCauliffe Ganga Ashworth

Georgina Sirett-Hardie Graell Corsini Heloise Pilkington Isabella Verbruggen Isis Queen Jacqui

Woodward-Smith Jennifer Cooper Katinka Soetens Kaye Cooksey Koko Newport Lauren Raine Lisa

Newing Louise Bell Louise Tarrier Lydia Lite Marion van Eupen Mary Bruce Michelle Patten Miriam

Raven Morgaine Noam Zimin Oshia Drury Rose Flint Roz Bound Sally Pullinger Sharlea Johnson

Shirley-Ann Millar Shoshana Horobin Sophie Pullinger Sue Quatermass Tegwyn Hyndman Thalia

Brown Tiana Pitman amp Tina Free plus more great Priestesses amazing helpful Melissas amp lots more

wonderful women and men

My Workshops at Glastonbury

ZSUZSANNA BUDAPEST WE ALL COME FROM THE GODDESS (Women Only)

Sunday July 25th Women from all walks of life come together with High Priestess Zsuzsanna (Z) Budapest in a flowing woman-only Dianic circle celebrating our expanding global sisterhood Beginning with the sacred Dianic purification we enter the circle commune with our ancestors and our divine selves lift up a joyous dedication to the Goddess Sedna of the Deep as we bless all waters inside and outside Chanting dancing and strengthening our bonds of sisterhood We are the flow we are the ebb When the women are healed the whole world is healed Drummers musical instruments voices welcome Dress comfortably Come garlanded with something in season greens or flowers

Z Budapest is the founder of the Dianic (Feminist) Tradition of Wicca in the USA initiating the worldrsquos most famous coven the Susan B Anthony Coven Number One which continues to thrive and brings womenrsquos spirituality into mainstream consciousness (SusanBAnthonyCovencom) Z has led rituals lectured taught classes given workshops written articles tirelessly and published in hundreds of womens newspapers across the country She has powerfully influenced many of the future teachers and writers about the Goddess She is the director of the Womens Spirituality Forum a nonprofit organization and Z founded and sponsors the Dianic Universityrsquos Goddess College (GoddessCollegecom) Her books include Holy Book of Womens Mysteries Grandmother of Time Grandmother Moon See wwwZBudapestcom Venue Glastonbury Assembly Rooms Time 1000am-400pm Fee pound50$85euro65 register online wwwgoddessconferencecom

ZSUZSANNA BUDAPEST ndash TAROT SOCIAL IN MY ROOM (Glastonbury)

July 26-27th Tarot Social information and exact date to be announced

ZSUZSANNA BUDAPEST ndash THE HERSTORY OF THE DIANIC TRADITION (Mixed Audience)

July 28th A multi-media presentation on the Herstory of the Dianic Tradition for a mixed audience Z

Budapest provides the historical background to the origins of the Dianic Tradition as well as important

triumphs that the Dianics fought for and won for the Pagan community and beyond Like the right to

perform divination readings in the United States in public and charge for it Historically it was Z and

Dianics who fought for the rights of this civil liberty in California which then opened the door to other

states to follow suit You can learn more about that at WitchTrialnet This presentation also clears up

some urban legends about the Dianic Tradition Such as itrsquos a man-hating tradition the accusations of

separatism Nothing could be farther from the truth Z Budapest founded the Womenrsquos Spirituality

Movement in 1971 Since then there has been an uninterrupted Goddess worship for the past 40 plus

years of women circling together in sacred celebration of all the Sabbaths and many moons This Dianic

Tradition has spread all over the globe After a brief break the second half of the workshop will involve

spiritual movement and dancing the meeting Dance Finally we will finish with an inspiring multi-media

presentation Prayers to the Mother all living creatures are one

Hope to see you at the Glastonbury Goddess Conference 2011

Follow Z Budapest on Facebook And Twitter

ZSUZSANNA BUDAPEST ndash TAROT SOCIAL

I am doing another women-only Tarot Social on April 23rd at my own home Who wants to host a Tarot

Social For more information visit TarotSocialcom and contact me

After more than thirty years in circulation The Holy Book of Womenrsquos Mysteries is still a ground-breaking book in the forefront of womenrsquos spirituality

Get your own copy of Zrsquos out of print books and DVDs at the Womenrsquos Spirituality Forum online store

Irsquom also available for Tarot Readings I know many of you are going through some tough times and

thatrsquos really when you should be reaching out for a reading Irsquom here if you need me

This magazine is sponsored by the Womenrsquos Spirituality Forum

Please help support our efforts to help keep the Goddess Alive

The Application for Dianic Clergy Priestess is online

Goddess College Updates amp More

We have changed the way the online school is doing business After offering free memberships over

the last four years the changes in the economy have forced us to make changes hellip good changes

The Dianic University has now become the Goddess College and has its own website to boot It was

necessary to update the schoolrsquos software but with all the free accounts the database had gotten too

big to migrate So we were forced to start over from scratch eliminating all the free accounts If you

were a student in good standing and part of a paid class in old Dianic University then we are working to

grandmother you into the new school

The way to gain entry into the new Goddess College is through membership in the Susan B Anthony

Coven 1 Everyone in the Goddess College will be active members of the SBA with only a handful of

exceptions Join the Susan B Anthony Coven 1 - You can apply for membership here

The Susan B Anthony Coven 1 now meets inside the Goddess College and the old DU area is closed

We have updated and moved over the Dianic Feminist Philosophy class and the first Holy Book class The

Holy Book series of classes is being totally reworked and improved Thatrsquos partly due to an alliance wersquove

made with the Ocean Seminary College which will allow us to offer degrees for our course of study We

are currently in process with meeting their requirements to make this happen Very exciting stuff for

womenrsquos spirituality I will keep you updated in my column here in the Goddess Magazine

We are networked up the Hoola-Hoop in Facebook Itrsquos hard to miss everything wersquore doing and yet

some of you are still contacting me and saying you hadnrsquot heard of this or that Get your face into

Facebook my sisters and friend the following pages so you can stay in the know

Z Budapest on Facebook

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Goddess Magazine Radio Show Fan Page

Goddess Festival Fan Page

Food Magic Fan Page

Susan B Anthony Coven Fan Page

Why arenrsquot you more active in the Dianic Tradition We have a lot of women who read this Goddess

Magazine every month and it would awesome to have more of you join in with us at the Susan B

Anthony Coven 1 A membership into the worldrsquos most famous all-womenrsquos coven makes for a nice gift

to yourself Give it some thought and then come join us The Womens Spirituality Forum is an IRS

501(c)3 non-profit Your registration fees and your membership are tax deductible

Check out our mobile-friendly portal website wwwGoddessLivecom hellip Wersquove pulled all our

information and articles into one location for you and it doesnrsquot matter if yoursquore a computer user or a

mobile user because wersquove programmed the site to be able to switch back and forth

Goddess Magazine Radio Show

Goddess Magazine Radio Show will be forced to go to a half hour program because of changes at

Blogtalk Radio We will bring you more chats with Z very soon Promise

Look for announcements of the new Goddess Magazine Radio Shows on our Facebook fan page Are you

a member of the Goddess Magazine Radio Show Fan page And now you can listen to Goddess

Magazine Radio Shows on iTunes So open you iTunes and subscribe to our podcasted show

Itrsquos free

Goddess Live Toolbar

Every Sister in Goddess who wants to stay linked in to what Z Budapest is doing should have this

toolbar Itrsquos free Itrsquos easy to install and itrsquos secure Get your own Goddess Live Toolbar right now by

clicking here

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OTHER WOMENrsquoS SACRED EVENTS amp TOURS TELL THEM Z SENT YOU A WOMENrsquoS RITUAL RETREAT IN CRETE A JOURNEY TO THE GODDESS MAY 23-JUNE 5TH 2011

Facilitated by Ruth Barrett and Catherine Ridder YES We still have spaces still available for our fourth

ritual retreat to Crete Space is limited to 13 women on a first-come basis If you are interested in

hearing more information about this incredible trip contact Catherine Ridder at 626-793-7520 or email

caridder2netzerocom

Sacred Sites of Avalon England with Donna Virgilio April 27 to May 3 2011 Travel to Stonehenge for a private ceremony in the inner circle Walk to the Tor considered to be the legendary Camelot Tour Roman and Medieval Baths and honor the Goddess Minerva visit and pray at the Chalice Well and see the Sacred Gardens Tour the Glastonbury Goddess Temple and participate in the official Beltaine Festivities and Ceremony See the Boscastle Witchcraft Museum and Journey to Tintagel the mystical birthplace of King Arthur and peek inside Merlinrsquos Cave Walk through Avebury Stonecircle West Kennet Long Barrows Silsbury Hill and see Crop Circles Finally dance at the Avalon Beltaine Fairy Ball featuring Doreen Virtues Band Obsidian

On the Trail of the Goddess in Turkey - Anatolia - Land of the Nourishing Mothers

ON THE TRAIL OF THE GREAT GODDESS

Sacred Journey to Turkey

November 2 - 14 2011

featuring

Karen and Roy Tate

Guided by Rashid Ergener

Visit the sacred goddess sites in Turkey Catalhoyuk Lagina Ephesus Troy and Sardis

httpwwwexaminercomwomen-s-goddess-spirituality-in-los-angelessacred-tour-of-goddess-sites-turkey-coming-november-2011-for-women-men

Check out the new video of sacred places in Turkey Hear the hauntingly beautiful music as the Ancient Mother calls httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=Twbcx8IicxI

8th ANNUAL WISE WOMANS FESTIVAL IN FLORIDA

Come and Greet the Springtime with Our Lady of the Faery

Greenwood April 9th and 10th

Nymphs Dryads Devas Kami Apsaras and Sprites Oh My What is the connection between Goddesses

and Faeryfolk Itrsquos Springtime and even though we have April showers you wonrsquot have to wait for May

to enjoy the flowers Join Morning Glory Zell noted Goddess historian and Priestess for the latest in her

series of Great Goddess Retreats and find out why the Green Goddess is more than a salad dressing

With her 36 years of experience and a collection of over 200 votive Goddess statues get ready for an

unforgettable weekend journey of sacred learning and transformational experience

This Retreat will be held at the Raven Haven Morning Gloryrsquos beautiful 10 acre home in Sonoma County

California Raven Haven is nice and roomy with a deck a pool and a spa and a special magickal Faery

Porch covered with flowering wisteria The Temple Room has huge floor to ceiling glass cases displaying

her collection of Goddess figurines and a large altar covered in beautiful Goddess images If you come

from out of town there is room to camp out (if itrsquos dry) sleep over if you like or you can choose from the

many excellent nearby hotels

The Retreat begins on Saturday the 24th at 200pm and ends on Sunday the 25th at 800pm Saturday

we will devote ourselves to learning and exploring the many Goddesses who have a connection to the

realm of Faery from Danu to Ma Ku Hold the images in your hands and hear their fascinating stories

Later we will journey deep in guided meditation to discover the special one which calls to you

Sunday starts with fun and relaxation as we learn the ancient art of weaving wreaths of living flowers

and plants to make a magickal faery wreath or perhaps you would like to learn how to make a faery

house outside on the Faery Porch that will be covered with blooming wisteria Later we will have a ritual

bath in the spa and a procession to decorate the various Goddess shrines around the property The

Retreat culminates with a ceremony to honor the Goddesses and the Fae in a Council where we sing

together and where each Goddess or Faery can share Her Truth

The fee for the entire weekend Retreat is only $10000 or you may attend only Saturdayrsquos program of

the lecture and meditation for $6000 Sunday however is not open to anyone who has not already

attended the Saturday session Meals are shared in an easygoing potluck fashion You truly have never

had any other experience quite like this one and you will come away re-energized as well as transformed

by the power of your new divine connection

Phone (707) 795-8047

mythicimcnorg

PO Box 758

Cotati CA 94931

Tryst ndash Handfasting Commitment Ceremonies

Z is back sisters And shersquos available to officiate your Trysting wedding ceremonies again The most popular pagan Goddess wedding ceremony was created by Z Budapest in The Holy Book of Womens Mysteries where Z coined the term Tryst Ritual as an expressly feminine marriage ceremony and rite of passage that can be used for heterosexual couples as well as same sex couples

Z Budapest has been conducting Pagan marriage rituals for over 40 years as a celebrated High Priestess within the Dianic Tradition which she founded Z is available to officiate your handfasting ceremony as well Whether its a civil union or a licensed marriage certificate Z is able to offer you her services as clergy She has legal standings through the Womens Spirituality Forum an IRS 501(c)3 non-profit in the state of California making your clergy fees tax deductible You can learn more about Zrsquos Trysting Ritual and schedule your wedding ceremony with her in 2010

Crete Archaeologists discover skeleton covered with gold foil in 2700-year-old grave

Greek archaeologists have found an ancient skeleton covered with gold foil in a grave on the island of Crete officials said Tuesday

Excavator Nicholas Stampolidis said his team discovered more than 3000 pieces of gold foil in the 7th-century BC twin grave near the ancient town of Eleutherna

Cemeteries there have produced a wealth of outstanding artifacts in recent years

The tiny gold ornaments from 1 to 4 centimetres (04 to 15 inches) long had been sewn onto a lavish robe or shroud that initially wrapped the body of a woman and has almost completely rotted away but for a few off-white threads

The whole length of the (grave) was covered with small pieces of gold foil mdash square circular and lozenge-shaped Stampolidis told The Associated Press We were literally digging up gold interspersed with earth not earth with some gold in it

The woman who presumably had a high social or religious status was buried with a second skeleton in a large jar sealed with a stone slab weighing more than half a ton It was hidden behind a false wall to confuse grave robbers

Experts are trying to determine the other skeletons sex The grave also contained a copper bowl pottery perfume bottles imported from Egypt or Syria and Palestine hundreds of amber rock crystal and faience beads as well as a gold pendant in the form of a bee goddess that probably was part of a rock crystal and gold necklace

If you look at it one way up its shaped like a lily said Stampolidis a professor of archaeology at the University of Crete who has worked at Eleutherna for the 25 years Turned upside down you see a female figure holding her breasts whose lower body is shaped as a bee with wings The workmanship is exquisite

The ruins of Eleutherna stand on the northern foothills of Mount Ida mdash the mythical birthplace of Zeus chief of the ancient Greek gods Past excavations have discovered a citadel homes and an important cemetery with lavish female burials

The town flourished from the 9th century BC mdash the dark ages of Greek archaeology that followed the fall of Cretes great Minoan palatial culture mdash and endured until the Middle Ages

httparchaeologynewsnetworkblogspotcom201009archaeologists-on-crete-find-skeletonhtml

SWEET TASTE OF SPRING Susun S Weed

March winds blow the sweet scent of maple sap boiling to my questing nose When the days are warm

and sunny and the nights below freezing the sap rises in the trees If those trees are sugar maples then

it is worth drilling a hole in the bark inserting a tap and collecting their sweet sap There is so much

sugar in sugar maple sap that it can be boiled and turned into maple syrup and maple sugar

Therersquos about one gallon of maple syrup and ninety-nine gallons of water in one hundred gallons of

maple sap A hot fire and a slow but steady boil send that sweet-smelling water vapor high in the clear

cold sky The March wind blows it to me I close my eyes and remember my years of ldquosugaringrdquo making

maple syrup

Therersquos something special about a task that requires one to stay up all night Maple sap starts to ferment

if it is left at normal temperatures for very long Once ten or so gallons of sap have been collected the

boiling begins hellip and cannot be stopped until the finished syrup is achieved many many many hours

later

I have never sugared without at least one overnighter and sometimes two A large operation boils sap

for weeks without stopping just drawing off the syrup as it forms if the run is steady and copious

It was a picture of Helen Nearing driving a team of horses through the woods standing on a sleigh

loaded with buckets of maple sap that made me long for a homestead where I could lead The Simple

Life like her Two years later I had my own ldquosugar bushrdquo (an acre or more of woodlot where large sugar

maples grow) Spring equinox found me with my drill in hand a pocket full of taps and a bunch of funny

buckets with lids to hang from the taps ldquoTing tingrdquo the ping of sap filling the metal buckets echoes

tying me through time to every woman who has ever sugared and bringing a smile to my heart and

face

My groves of sugar maples have never been large enough to require a team of horses or a sleigh Irsquove

always lugged a big bucket out to the trees and poured the sap from the collecting buckets into it When

I have two or three buckets full I pour them into a big galvanized tub set up on cinder blocks over a fire

and commence to boil it down

Native peoples valued maple sugar so highly that they set up camp in the sugar bush and lived there

until the sap stopped flowing Lacking metal drill bits they cut a shallow groove in the bark and pressed

hollow elder stems into service as taps to direct the flow of sap into birch bark containers

I can heat the sap directly in my metal tub while they had to hollow out a log put smooth rocks into the

fire heat them and put the hot rocks into the sap in the hollowed out log to boil it down into maple

syrup and sugar Whew I am impressed with the power of the desire for sweet It takes far more

calories in fuel and human energy to make maple syrup or maple sugar than it returns

Grandmother Twylah taught us that maple trees are friendly and companionable colorful and

expressive They always have a positive attitude and are adept at helping us see solutions to impossible

problems Maple trees are devoted and true Make friends with a maple and you will have a friend for

life she advised

Ellen Everet Hopman green witch reminds us that maple-syrup-making time is Eostrersquos time Eostre

(ee-oh-stir) is the Teutonic goddess of fertility and manifestation Her symbols are the egg and the

rabbit her time is Spring Equinox A lovely custom still enacted but without the underlying magic is to

paint a picture of something you desire on an egg and plant it in the ground so Eostre can help it grow

and become real

If itrsquos too late to tap your maples or you live too far south for the sap to flow strongly you can still be

blessed and embraced by maple A decoction of maple bark boiled in water can be used to ease sore

eyes externally and to tonify the uterus after birth internally

A magical wand of maple wood is used for spells that bring harmony especially in the home And maple

leaves sewn into a charm made of green flannel tied with a golden string will bring abundance into

your life

Indulge your desire for sweet Celebrate spring equinox and Eostre who loves sweet things Have a

stack of pancakes swimming in butter and maple syrup Or pour maple syrup over plain vanilla ice cream

and savor the sweet taste of the friendly maple tree

Green blessings

How much sugar per gallon of sap is quite variable depending on the type of maple the growing

conditions and especially the amount of sun the tree gets Sugar maple (Acer saccharum) sap is the

sweetest followed by the saps of silver maple (Acer saccharinum) Northern red maple (Acer rubrum)

and Norway maple (Acer platanoides)

Susun Weed

PO Box 64

Woodstock NY 12498

Fax 1-845-246-8081

Visit Susun Weed at wwwsusunweedcom and wwwashtreepublishingcom

Vibrant passionate and involved Susun Weed has garnered an international reputation for her

groundbreaking lectures teachings and writings on health and nutrition She challenges conventional

medical approaches with humor insight and her vast encyclopedic knowledge of herbal medicine

Unabashedly pro-woman her animated and enthusiastic lectures are engaging and often profoundly

provocative

Susun is one of Americas best-known authorities on herbal medicine and natural approaches to

womens health Her four best-selling books are recommended by expert herbalists and well-known

physicians and are used and cherished by millions of women around the world Learn more at

wwwsusunweedcom

Susun Weedrsquos books include

Wise Woman Herbal for the Childbearing Year

Author Susun S Weed Simple safe remedies for pregnancy childbirth lactation and

newborns Includes herbs for fertility and birth control Foreword by Jeannine Parvati

Baker 196 pages index illustrations

Healing Wise

Author Susun S Weed Superb herbal in the feminine-intuitive mode Complete

instructions for using common plants for food beauty medicine and longevity

Introduction by Jean Houston 312 pages index illustrations

Menopausal Years the Wise Woman Way

Author Susun S Weed The best book on menopause is now better Completely

revised with 100 new pages All the remedies women know and trust plus hundreds

of new ones New sections on thyroid health fibromyalgia hairy problems male

menopause and herbs for women taking hormones Recommended by Susan Love

MD and Christiane Northrup MD Foreword by Juliette de Bairacli Levy 304 pages

index illustrations

For more info on menopause visit wwwmenopause-metamorphosiscom

Breast Cancer Breast Health

Author Susun S Weed Foods exercises and attitudes to keep your breasts healthy

Supportive complimentary medicines to ease side-effects of surgery radiation

chemotherapy or tamoxifen Foreword by Christiane Northrup MD 380 pages index

illustrations

UPCOMING DIANIC EVENTS

Pagan Examiner ndash Read the articles written by Bobbie and myself Zrsquos Calendar of Events ndash Want to know where I am appearing Goddess Festival ndash You think the last was good Goddess is Alive Tarot Social - A joyful coming-together of the Womenrsquos Tarot community a

Revival of the 70rsquos TRAVELING MAGIC SHOW by a FOREMOTHER of GODDESS SPIRITUALITY The QUEEN of TAROT READINGS and the woman responsible for LEGALIZING TAROT in California hellip Z Budapest

Z Budapest is conducting a most entertaining Tarot Social at her home in

Oakland CA on April 23rd For more information and registration go to

TarotSocialcom

The Dianic University for Women in Goddess

Study the Dianic Tradition with Z Budapest the woman who rebirthed it into modern culture Classes at the Dianic University are designed for women only

Sisterhood of the Moon ~ Womenrsquos Spirituality Coven in the Z Budapest Dianic Tradition

Events in the Sisterhood of the Moon are for women-born-women only Located in Hayward CA You must contact Jesamyn Angelica for more information Many of the members of this group are also members of the Susan B Anthony Coven No1 Facebookpage

Hands of Demeter ~ Womenrsquos Spirituality Coven in the Z Budapest Dianic Tradition

Events in the Hands of Demeter are for women-born-women only Located in Semi Valley CA You must contact httpearthmothercovenantcom for more information Many of the members of this group are also members of the Susan B Anthony Coven No1 Facebook page

The Sacred Circle ~ Recovering amp Reclaiming Ancient Ways to Heal

Events in The Sacred Circle are for members only unless otherwise stated Call JoAnna 775-882-1599 for membership inquiries

Sisterhood of the Turning Tides ~ Womenrsquos Spirituality Coven in the Z Budapest Dianic Tradition

They meet on Esbats and Sabbats and have a Tuesday night drumritual circle Located in Mendocino CA You must contact Sage Simon for more information Many of the members of this group are also members of the Susan B Anthony Coven No1 Facebookpage

You can sponsor Goddess magazine too Click here to helphellip

Deepest Gratitude to Sisters in Goddess for their Donations

The Application for Dianic Clergy Priestess is online

Follow the Goddess Festival on Facebook And Twitter

Thank you sisters who have donated $1 a month to help support our Goddess efforts

You can sponsor Goddess magazine too Click here to helphellip

Vicki Scotti LuAnn Morris and Amy Otero are

Hecatersquos Wheel an acoustic folk trio Their

music is inspired by and dedicated to the

Goddess in all her guises They sing an eclectic

variety of cover songs and original music

Hecatersquos Wheel has been playing and

singing together for several years and their

voices have found a natural harmonious blend

We VERY much enjoyed their Beltaine concert

Goddess Resource Links Z Budapest Website Goddess College Online Goddess Blog ndash Sponsored by the Susan B Anthony Coven Z Budapest Blog Goddess Festival Susan B Anthony Coven Dianic Wicca Tarot Social Witch Trial ndash the last great witch trial in America Zs Events Schedule Zs University Calendar

Zs Books Summoning the Fates Holy Book of Womens Mysteries Celestial Wisdom Grandmother of Time Grandmother Moon Goddess in the Office Goddess in the Bedroom

Page 10: Goddess Magazine (March 2011)

Requiem for Merlin Stone By Zsuzsanna Budapest I have tried to write this memorial several times You are much too hard to let go I cannot celebrate you and bemoan you and preserve you forever all at once So I will just talk to you as you once were here in my house many years ago Merlin sweet sister recline comfortably on my leather couch Here is your black coffee letrsquos talk and remember together For a long time I didnrsquot know what happened to you ldquoHave you heard from Merlinrdquo I asked everybody I knew Your phone no longer worked Letters to your address were

returned That was your last footstep for most of us Then nothing for decades and many years I spent

in search of Merlin Stone

Suddenly your man Lenny called and he told us you passed away February 23 2011 You had been ill a

long time and didnrsquot want to show yourself You knew years ago that your beautiful mind was changing

You didnrsquot want to be remembered for the long illness but for the contributions of art and literature I

get it

Once there was the Heroic Age of the 70rsquos you were amongst this generation of the brave seed- casters

inventors and artists who has sown seeds of knowledge about all things good for all women Even in

these fertile times women were still spiritual orphans We had no soul reflection in the high spiritual

places We had no knowledge of where we had been as women or where we could aspire to go We had

politics and feminism We needed more Some important part of us was still very empty

We simply had no spiritual past

It was not good form to believe in the existences of the Amazons of Anatolia or Asia or of the global

Goddess womenrsquos cultures No evidence for that Even feminists were frowning We didnrsquot dare to

believe in that it would have been one more reason to disqualify spirited women from any meaningful

conversation or visibility on the feminist cultural canvas Some politicos called us bliss bunnies We had

no ground to stand on

Our cultural past had been stolen from us Schools certainly never mentioned us the divine feminine

was either a perfume or a lipstick shade or maybe a salad dressing but certainly not an all powerful real

Goddess

Merlin Stonehellip you felt this part of feminist thought was sorely missing We simply had no information

about our own great people as a gender Who did we pray to Always men

Who went back in time and stole it all back for us Who was smart enough to read the old musty out-

of-print books in hopes of finding a couple of lines the patriarchs missed when they erased the Goddess

culture

Like an Amazon of the libraries it was you who hunted down the hard-to-come-by books visiting

museums and traveling to far-off distant lands for research When you came back with ldquoWhen God was

a Womanrdquo and enough material for its follow-up ldquoAncient Mirrors of Womanhoodrdquo we all knew you

had found the cultural Goddess motherlode

The brilliance richness and diversity of the global Goddess traditions were beyond anybodyrsquos hopes All

around the globe Merlin Stone had found our traditions of celebrations our goddesses and our moral

codes

We did come from somewhere awesome and our foremothers had left us treasures in ritual sacred

poetry and arthellip footsteps for us to follow And it was Merlin Stone who found it and published it

She published in England as The Paradise Papers because American publishers would not touch it Now

the books are with Beacon Press

Today we are no longer spiritual orphans of the world It was sister Merlin who gave her entire life to

this sacred reclaiming All of us stand to thank her for this very potent gift of the legitimized woman

spirit

As usual Merlin would just smile and make little of my accolade

She felt ldquocalledrdquo she said

She was an acclaimed American artist a sculptress and national treasure She taught Art History and

that led her to the surviving images of the Goddess which called her to see more Her welded art

sculptures took on more and more triple goddess themes and finally dissolved into the physical

research which took her to Turkey - Anatolia of old the land of the Mothers

She was lovingly protected hitch-hiking alone with long red hair flowing down her back she had little

money slept in caves a sacred stranger in her own once fertile Goddess homeland

ldquoHow did you find the booksrdquo I once asked her

ldquoStrange thingrdquo she explained ldquoI heard a hum - a hum of women when I got close to a book that had

useful information for us I just reached out and there it was I was led by a humrdquo

ldquoOh yes the humrdquo Merlin had come to dinner in Santa Monica we feminist witches were much

honored We held hands over my barley dish and hummed together as we usually did praying our

blessing Merlin burst into tears I was worried Who hurt our highly esteemed guest

ldquoNobody hurt merdquo she said ldquoBut this was the hum I heard in the libraries of Turkey This was the hum

that led me to the great Goddess booksrdquo

Then the witches fell silent and one by one we also teared up at this miracle How could a ragtag

revolutionary group of witches hum on a California mountaintop and a woman on the Goddess search

hear it all the way in Turkey Never mind the multiplication of the fishes and the loaves this was a much

better miracle Our belief in the all-pervasive omnipresent Goddess was never stronger

Which Goddess shall I invoke for your memorial You have given us hundreds

As a Dianic witch I love Hecate the transformer She who takes the tired souls away on her chariot

drawn by the dragons of time She is the healer of wounds the Queen of the dark side of the Moon

But Merlin loved Anahita She is the one ldquowho is the Cosmic Ocean in which the stars do float It is

Anahita who provides the nourishing rain sending waters from the heavens to the springs and rivers

protecting the flocks in pastures and causing them to bear their young -- as it is Anahita who fills the

womb with life Her chariot is drawn by white steeds named rain and wind and clouds and sleet or as

she rides on the back of a gliding eagle or even upon a splendid lionrdquo

At Anahitarsquos shrines still visible in Sardis and Susa in Kangawar and Ecbatana her inscription reads ldquoI

am the conscience of thine own selfrdquo

Rest sweetly dearest sister and if you wish to live on in our hearts please guide us like the hum once

guided you Donrsquot hurry linger amongst us

Merlin my beloved sister your chariot can wait

Ancient Mirrors of Womanhood Merlin Stone 1979 p210

I am going to be a guest speaker at the Women of Spirit and Faith Conference April 28- May 1

The Alchemy of Our Spiritual Leadership Women Redefining Power

Calling all women of spirit and faith This is not your typical womens conference

Imagine the energy of more than 300 women ready for inspiration deep wisdom and potent co-creation

Alchemy Highlights

Inspiring Keynote wisdom from Sister Joan Chittister Valarie Kaur and Naomi Tutu Stimulating Leadership Conversations featuring the wisdom and experience of a dozen diverse women

leaders Informative workshops with a focus on building practical skills and new models for collaborative

leadership Many opportunities for circle dialogue and structured conversation Optional activities such as Open Space Offerings Morning Meditations Yoga Movement Labyrinth Walks

and more The Alchemy Marketplace where you can shop for books jewelry art and music A Beautiful Meditation and Prayer Room for silence and reflection Art music poetry laughter and lots of right-brain fun and stimulation

I am also going to be attending the Glastonbury Goddess Conference 2011

Now five full days of Goddess-loving celebration with Fringe events from Sunday July 24 ndash 31

Celebrating the Great Mother of Water at Lammas details are online wwwgoddessconferencecom

Welcoming two USA two pioneers of the Goddess movement -

Vicki Noble co-creator of the Motherpeace Tarot

Zsuzsanna Budapest Founder of the Dianic Wiccan Tradition and Womenrsquos Spirituality Movement

With Conference Favorites Anique Radiant Heart Barbara Meiklejohn-Free Carolyn Hillyer Julie Felix

Kathy Jones Lydia Ruyle and Lady Olivia Durdin Robertson

With Ceremonies Adorations and Praise Songs to the Great Goddess of Water She who is the Source

and Womb of all Life Participate in moving Sacred Ceremonies take part in inspiring Workshops listen

to fascinating Presentations see beautiful Artwork amp Stalls Performances Music Song Poetry and

Dance Visit the Holy Wells of the Goddess in Avalon cleansing and immersing yourself in Her Healing

Waters Join one of Nine Wells - circles of support and participation in Conference Ceremonies Dance

the night away at the Goddess Gala Buffet and Masque and join our Goddess Procession through the

Landscape to the River Brue with a Fruit Feast

Plus Presenters Priestesses and Spinners Amanda Baker Annabel Du Boulay Anna Saqqara Price

Charissa Schipper Caroline Lir Deonesea la Fey Emma Rose Knight Erin McCauliffe Ganga Ashworth

Georgina Sirett-Hardie Graell Corsini Heloise Pilkington Isabella Verbruggen Isis Queen Jacqui

Woodward-Smith Jennifer Cooper Katinka Soetens Kaye Cooksey Koko Newport Lauren Raine Lisa

Newing Louise Bell Louise Tarrier Lydia Lite Marion van Eupen Mary Bruce Michelle Patten Miriam

Raven Morgaine Noam Zimin Oshia Drury Rose Flint Roz Bound Sally Pullinger Sharlea Johnson

Shirley-Ann Millar Shoshana Horobin Sophie Pullinger Sue Quatermass Tegwyn Hyndman Thalia

Brown Tiana Pitman amp Tina Free plus more great Priestesses amazing helpful Melissas amp lots more

wonderful women and men

My Workshops at Glastonbury

ZSUZSANNA BUDAPEST WE ALL COME FROM THE GODDESS (Women Only)

Sunday July 25th Women from all walks of life come together with High Priestess Zsuzsanna (Z) Budapest in a flowing woman-only Dianic circle celebrating our expanding global sisterhood Beginning with the sacred Dianic purification we enter the circle commune with our ancestors and our divine selves lift up a joyous dedication to the Goddess Sedna of the Deep as we bless all waters inside and outside Chanting dancing and strengthening our bonds of sisterhood We are the flow we are the ebb When the women are healed the whole world is healed Drummers musical instruments voices welcome Dress comfortably Come garlanded with something in season greens or flowers

Z Budapest is the founder of the Dianic (Feminist) Tradition of Wicca in the USA initiating the worldrsquos most famous coven the Susan B Anthony Coven Number One which continues to thrive and brings womenrsquos spirituality into mainstream consciousness (SusanBAnthonyCovencom) Z has led rituals lectured taught classes given workshops written articles tirelessly and published in hundreds of womens newspapers across the country She has powerfully influenced many of the future teachers and writers about the Goddess She is the director of the Womens Spirituality Forum a nonprofit organization and Z founded and sponsors the Dianic Universityrsquos Goddess College (GoddessCollegecom) Her books include Holy Book of Womens Mysteries Grandmother of Time Grandmother Moon See wwwZBudapestcom Venue Glastonbury Assembly Rooms Time 1000am-400pm Fee pound50$85euro65 register online wwwgoddessconferencecom

ZSUZSANNA BUDAPEST ndash TAROT SOCIAL IN MY ROOM (Glastonbury)

July 26-27th Tarot Social information and exact date to be announced

ZSUZSANNA BUDAPEST ndash THE HERSTORY OF THE DIANIC TRADITION (Mixed Audience)

July 28th A multi-media presentation on the Herstory of the Dianic Tradition for a mixed audience Z

Budapest provides the historical background to the origins of the Dianic Tradition as well as important

triumphs that the Dianics fought for and won for the Pagan community and beyond Like the right to

perform divination readings in the United States in public and charge for it Historically it was Z and

Dianics who fought for the rights of this civil liberty in California which then opened the door to other

states to follow suit You can learn more about that at WitchTrialnet This presentation also clears up

some urban legends about the Dianic Tradition Such as itrsquos a man-hating tradition the accusations of

separatism Nothing could be farther from the truth Z Budapest founded the Womenrsquos Spirituality

Movement in 1971 Since then there has been an uninterrupted Goddess worship for the past 40 plus

years of women circling together in sacred celebration of all the Sabbaths and many moons This Dianic

Tradition has spread all over the globe After a brief break the second half of the workshop will involve

spiritual movement and dancing the meeting Dance Finally we will finish with an inspiring multi-media

presentation Prayers to the Mother all living creatures are one

Hope to see you at the Glastonbury Goddess Conference 2011

Follow Z Budapest on Facebook And Twitter

ZSUZSANNA BUDAPEST ndash TAROT SOCIAL

I am doing another women-only Tarot Social on April 23rd at my own home Who wants to host a Tarot

Social For more information visit TarotSocialcom and contact me

After more than thirty years in circulation The Holy Book of Womenrsquos Mysteries is still a ground-breaking book in the forefront of womenrsquos spirituality

Get your own copy of Zrsquos out of print books and DVDs at the Womenrsquos Spirituality Forum online store

Irsquom also available for Tarot Readings I know many of you are going through some tough times and

thatrsquos really when you should be reaching out for a reading Irsquom here if you need me

This magazine is sponsored by the Womenrsquos Spirituality Forum

Please help support our efforts to help keep the Goddess Alive

The Application for Dianic Clergy Priestess is online

Goddess College Updates amp More

We have changed the way the online school is doing business After offering free memberships over

the last four years the changes in the economy have forced us to make changes hellip good changes

The Dianic University has now become the Goddess College and has its own website to boot It was

necessary to update the schoolrsquos software but with all the free accounts the database had gotten too

big to migrate So we were forced to start over from scratch eliminating all the free accounts If you

were a student in good standing and part of a paid class in old Dianic University then we are working to

grandmother you into the new school

The way to gain entry into the new Goddess College is through membership in the Susan B Anthony

Coven 1 Everyone in the Goddess College will be active members of the SBA with only a handful of

exceptions Join the Susan B Anthony Coven 1 - You can apply for membership here

The Susan B Anthony Coven 1 now meets inside the Goddess College and the old DU area is closed

We have updated and moved over the Dianic Feminist Philosophy class and the first Holy Book class The

Holy Book series of classes is being totally reworked and improved Thatrsquos partly due to an alliance wersquove

made with the Ocean Seminary College which will allow us to offer degrees for our course of study We

are currently in process with meeting their requirements to make this happen Very exciting stuff for

womenrsquos spirituality I will keep you updated in my column here in the Goddess Magazine

We are networked up the Hoola-Hoop in Facebook Itrsquos hard to miss everything wersquore doing and yet

some of you are still contacting me and saying you hadnrsquot heard of this or that Get your face into

Facebook my sisters and friend the following pages so you can stay in the know

Z Budapest on Facebook

Z Budapest Fan Page

Goddess Magazine Radio Show Fan Page

Goddess Festival Fan Page

Food Magic Fan Page

Susan B Anthony Coven Fan Page

Why arenrsquot you more active in the Dianic Tradition We have a lot of women who read this Goddess

Magazine every month and it would awesome to have more of you join in with us at the Susan B

Anthony Coven 1 A membership into the worldrsquos most famous all-womenrsquos coven makes for a nice gift

to yourself Give it some thought and then come join us The Womens Spirituality Forum is an IRS

501(c)3 non-profit Your registration fees and your membership are tax deductible

Check out our mobile-friendly portal website wwwGoddessLivecom hellip Wersquove pulled all our

information and articles into one location for you and it doesnrsquot matter if yoursquore a computer user or a

mobile user because wersquove programmed the site to be able to switch back and forth

Goddess Magazine Radio Show

Goddess Magazine Radio Show will be forced to go to a half hour program because of changes at

Blogtalk Radio We will bring you more chats with Z very soon Promise

Look for announcements of the new Goddess Magazine Radio Shows on our Facebook fan page Are you

a member of the Goddess Magazine Radio Show Fan page And now you can listen to Goddess

Magazine Radio Shows on iTunes So open you iTunes and subscribe to our podcasted show

Itrsquos free

Goddess Live Toolbar

Every Sister in Goddess who wants to stay linked in to what Z Budapest is doing should have this

toolbar Itrsquos free Itrsquos easy to install and itrsquos secure Get your own Goddess Live Toolbar right now by

clicking here

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Get your new copy here

OTHER WOMENrsquoS SACRED EVENTS amp TOURS TELL THEM Z SENT YOU A WOMENrsquoS RITUAL RETREAT IN CRETE A JOURNEY TO THE GODDESS MAY 23-JUNE 5TH 2011

Facilitated by Ruth Barrett and Catherine Ridder YES We still have spaces still available for our fourth

ritual retreat to Crete Space is limited to 13 women on a first-come basis If you are interested in

hearing more information about this incredible trip contact Catherine Ridder at 626-793-7520 or email

caridder2netzerocom

Sacred Sites of Avalon England with Donna Virgilio April 27 to May 3 2011 Travel to Stonehenge for a private ceremony in the inner circle Walk to the Tor considered to be the legendary Camelot Tour Roman and Medieval Baths and honor the Goddess Minerva visit and pray at the Chalice Well and see the Sacred Gardens Tour the Glastonbury Goddess Temple and participate in the official Beltaine Festivities and Ceremony See the Boscastle Witchcraft Museum and Journey to Tintagel the mystical birthplace of King Arthur and peek inside Merlinrsquos Cave Walk through Avebury Stonecircle West Kennet Long Barrows Silsbury Hill and see Crop Circles Finally dance at the Avalon Beltaine Fairy Ball featuring Doreen Virtues Band Obsidian

On the Trail of the Goddess in Turkey - Anatolia - Land of the Nourishing Mothers

ON THE TRAIL OF THE GREAT GODDESS

Sacred Journey to Turkey

November 2 - 14 2011

featuring

Karen and Roy Tate

Guided by Rashid Ergener

Visit the sacred goddess sites in Turkey Catalhoyuk Lagina Ephesus Troy and Sardis

httpwwwexaminercomwomen-s-goddess-spirituality-in-los-angelessacred-tour-of-goddess-sites-turkey-coming-november-2011-for-women-men

Check out the new video of sacred places in Turkey Hear the hauntingly beautiful music as the Ancient Mother calls httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=Twbcx8IicxI

8th ANNUAL WISE WOMANS FESTIVAL IN FLORIDA

Come and Greet the Springtime with Our Lady of the Faery

Greenwood April 9th and 10th

Nymphs Dryads Devas Kami Apsaras and Sprites Oh My What is the connection between Goddesses

and Faeryfolk Itrsquos Springtime and even though we have April showers you wonrsquot have to wait for May

to enjoy the flowers Join Morning Glory Zell noted Goddess historian and Priestess for the latest in her

series of Great Goddess Retreats and find out why the Green Goddess is more than a salad dressing

With her 36 years of experience and a collection of over 200 votive Goddess statues get ready for an

unforgettable weekend journey of sacred learning and transformational experience

This Retreat will be held at the Raven Haven Morning Gloryrsquos beautiful 10 acre home in Sonoma County

California Raven Haven is nice and roomy with a deck a pool and a spa and a special magickal Faery

Porch covered with flowering wisteria The Temple Room has huge floor to ceiling glass cases displaying

her collection of Goddess figurines and a large altar covered in beautiful Goddess images If you come

from out of town there is room to camp out (if itrsquos dry) sleep over if you like or you can choose from the

many excellent nearby hotels

The Retreat begins on Saturday the 24th at 200pm and ends on Sunday the 25th at 800pm Saturday

we will devote ourselves to learning and exploring the many Goddesses who have a connection to the

realm of Faery from Danu to Ma Ku Hold the images in your hands and hear their fascinating stories

Later we will journey deep in guided meditation to discover the special one which calls to you

Sunday starts with fun and relaxation as we learn the ancient art of weaving wreaths of living flowers

and plants to make a magickal faery wreath or perhaps you would like to learn how to make a faery

house outside on the Faery Porch that will be covered with blooming wisteria Later we will have a ritual

bath in the spa and a procession to decorate the various Goddess shrines around the property The

Retreat culminates with a ceremony to honor the Goddesses and the Fae in a Council where we sing

together and where each Goddess or Faery can share Her Truth

The fee for the entire weekend Retreat is only $10000 or you may attend only Saturdayrsquos program of

the lecture and meditation for $6000 Sunday however is not open to anyone who has not already

attended the Saturday session Meals are shared in an easygoing potluck fashion You truly have never

had any other experience quite like this one and you will come away re-energized as well as transformed

by the power of your new divine connection

Phone (707) 795-8047

mythicimcnorg

PO Box 758

Cotati CA 94931

Tryst ndash Handfasting Commitment Ceremonies

Z is back sisters And shersquos available to officiate your Trysting wedding ceremonies again The most popular pagan Goddess wedding ceremony was created by Z Budapest in The Holy Book of Womens Mysteries where Z coined the term Tryst Ritual as an expressly feminine marriage ceremony and rite of passage that can be used for heterosexual couples as well as same sex couples

Z Budapest has been conducting Pagan marriage rituals for over 40 years as a celebrated High Priestess within the Dianic Tradition which she founded Z is available to officiate your handfasting ceremony as well Whether its a civil union or a licensed marriage certificate Z is able to offer you her services as clergy She has legal standings through the Womens Spirituality Forum an IRS 501(c)3 non-profit in the state of California making your clergy fees tax deductible You can learn more about Zrsquos Trysting Ritual and schedule your wedding ceremony with her in 2010

Crete Archaeologists discover skeleton covered with gold foil in 2700-year-old grave

Greek archaeologists have found an ancient skeleton covered with gold foil in a grave on the island of Crete officials said Tuesday

Excavator Nicholas Stampolidis said his team discovered more than 3000 pieces of gold foil in the 7th-century BC twin grave near the ancient town of Eleutherna

Cemeteries there have produced a wealth of outstanding artifacts in recent years

The tiny gold ornaments from 1 to 4 centimetres (04 to 15 inches) long had been sewn onto a lavish robe or shroud that initially wrapped the body of a woman and has almost completely rotted away but for a few off-white threads

The whole length of the (grave) was covered with small pieces of gold foil mdash square circular and lozenge-shaped Stampolidis told The Associated Press We were literally digging up gold interspersed with earth not earth with some gold in it

The woman who presumably had a high social or religious status was buried with a second skeleton in a large jar sealed with a stone slab weighing more than half a ton It was hidden behind a false wall to confuse grave robbers

Experts are trying to determine the other skeletons sex The grave also contained a copper bowl pottery perfume bottles imported from Egypt or Syria and Palestine hundreds of amber rock crystal and faience beads as well as a gold pendant in the form of a bee goddess that probably was part of a rock crystal and gold necklace

If you look at it one way up its shaped like a lily said Stampolidis a professor of archaeology at the University of Crete who has worked at Eleutherna for the 25 years Turned upside down you see a female figure holding her breasts whose lower body is shaped as a bee with wings The workmanship is exquisite

The ruins of Eleutherna stand on the northern foothills of Mount Ida mdash the mythical birthplace of Zeus chief of the ancient Greek gods Past excavations have discovered a citadel homes and an important cemetery with lavish female burials

The town flourished from the 9th century BC mdash the dark ages of Greek archaeology that followed the fall of Cretes great Minoan palatial culture mdash and endured until the Middle Ages

httparchaeologynewsnetworkblogspotcom201009archaeologists-on-crete-find-skeletonhtml

SWEET TASTE OF SPRING Susun S Weed

March winds blow the sweet scent of maple sap boiling to my questing nose When the days are warm

and sunny and the nights below freezing the sap rises in the trees If those trees are sugar maples then

it is worth drilling a hole in the bark inserting a tap and collecting their sweet sap There is so much

sugar in sugar maple sap that it can be boiled and turned into maple syrup and maple sugar

Therersquos about one gallon of maple syrup and ninety-nine gallons of water in one hundred gallons of

maple sap A hot fire and a slow but steady boil send that sweet-smelling water vapor high in the clear

cold sky The March wind blows it to me I close my eyes and remember my years of ldquosugaringrdquo making

maple syrup

Therersquos something special about a task that requires one to stay up all night Maple sap starts to ferment

if it is left at normal temperatures for very long Once ten or so gallons of sap have been collected the

boiling begins hellip and cannot be stopped until the finished syrup is achieved many many many hours

later

I have never sugared without at least one overnighter and sometimes two A large operation boils sap

for weeks without stopping just drawing off the syrup as it forms if the run is steady and copious

It was a picture of Helen Nearing driving a team of horses through the woods standing on a sleigh

loaded with buckets of maple sap that made me long for a homestead where I could lead The Simple

Life like her Two years later I had my own ldquosugar bushrdquo (an acre or more of woodlot where large sugar

maples grow) Spring equinox found me with my drill in hand a pocket full of taps and a bunch of funny

buckets with lids to hang from the taps ldquoTing tingrdquo the ping of sap filling the metal buckets echoes

tying me through time to every woman who has ever sugared and bringing a smile to my heart and

face

My groves of sugar maples have never been large enough to require a team of horses or a sleigh Irsquove

always lugged a big bucket out to the trees and poured the sap from the collecting buckets into it When

I have two or three buckets full I pour them into a big galvanized tub set up on cinder blocks over a fire

and commence to boil it down

Native peoples valued maple sugar so highly that they set up camp in the sugar bush and lived there

until the sap stopped flowing Lacking metal drill bits they cut a shallow groove in the bark and pressed

hollow elder stems into service as taps to direct the flow of sap into birch bark containers

I can heat the sap directly in my metal tub while they had to hollow out a log put smooth rocks into the

fire heat them and put the hot rocks into the sap in the hollowed out log to boil it down into maple

syrup and sugar Whew I am impressed with the power of the desire for sweet It takes far more

calories in fuel and human energy to make maple syrup or maple sugar than it returns

Grandmother Twylah taught us that maple trees are friendly and companionable colorful and

expressive They always have a positive attitude and are adept at helping us see solutions to impossible

problems Maple trees are devoted and true Make friends with a maple and you will have a friend for

life she advised

Ellen Everet Hopman green witch reminds us that maple-syrup-making time is Eostrersquos time Eostre

(ee-oh-stir) is the Teutonic goddess of fertility and manifestation Her symbols are the egg and the

rabbit her time is Spring Equinox A lovely custom still enacted but without the underlying magic is to

paint a picture of something you desire on an egg and plant it in the ground so Eostre can help it grow

and become real

If itrsquos too late to tap your maples or you live too far south for the sap to flow strongly you can still be

blessed and embraced by maple A decoction of maple bark boiled in water can be used to ease sore

eyes externally and to tonify the uterus after birth internally

A magical wand of maple wood is used for spells that bring harmony especially in the home And maple

leaves sewn into a charm made of green flannel tied with a golden string will bring abundance into

your life

Indulge your desire for sweet Celebrate spring equinox and Eostre who loves sweet things Have a

stack of pancakes swimming in butter and maple syrup Or pour maple syrup over plain vanilla ice cream

and savor the sweet taste of the friendly maple tree

Green blessings

How much sugar per gallon of sap is quite variable depending on the type of maple the growing

conditions and especially the amount of sun the tree gets Sugar maple (Acer saccharum) sap is the

sweetest followed by the saps of silver maple (Acer saccharinum) Northern red maple (Acer rubrum)

and Norway maple (Acer platanoides)

Susun Weed

PO Box 64

Woodstock NY 12498

Fax 1-845-246-8081

Visit Susun Weed at wwwsusunweedcom and wwwashtreepublishingcom

Vibrant passionate and involved Susun Weed has garnered an international reputation for her

groundbreaking lectures teachings and writings on health and nutrition She challenges conventional

medical approaches with humor insight and her vast encyclopedic knowledge of herbal medicine

Unabashedly pro-woman her animated and enthusiastic lectures are engaging and often profoundly

provocative

Susun is one of Americas best-known authorities on herbal medicine and natural approaches to

womens health Her four best-selling books are recommended by expert herbalists and well-known

physicians and are used and cherished by millions of women around the world Learn more at

wwwsusunweedcom

Susun Weedrsquos books include

Wise Woman Herbal for the Childbearing Year

Author Susun S Weed Simple safe remedies for pregnancy childbirth lactation and

newborns Includes herbs for fertility and birth control Foreword by Jeannine Parvati

Baker 196 pages index illustrations

Healing Wise

Author Susun S Weed Superb herbal in the feminine-intuitive mode Complete

instructions for using common plants for food beauty medicine and longevity

Introduction by Jean Houston 312 pages index illustrations

Menopausal Years the Wise Woman Way

Author Susun S Weed The best book on menopause is now better Completely

revised with 100 new pages All the remedies women know and trust plus hundreds

of new ones New sections on thyroid health fibromyalgia hairy problems male

menopause and herbs for women taking hormones Recommended by Susan Love

MD and Christiane Northrup MD Foreword by Juliette de Bairacli Levy 304 pages

index illustrations

For more info on menopause visit wwwmenopause-metamorphosiscom

Breast Cancer Breast Health

Author Susun S Weed Foods exercises and attitudes to keep your breasts healthy

Supportive complimentary medicines to ease side-effects of surgery radiation

chemotherapy or tamoxifen Foreword by Christiane Northrup MD 380 pages index

illustrations

UPCOMING DIANIC EVENTS

Pagan Examiner ndash Read the articles written by Bobbie and myself Zrsquos Calendar of Events ndash Want to know where I am appearing Goddess Festival ndash You think the last was good Goddess is Alive Tarot Social - A joyful coming-together of the Womenrsquos Tarot community a

Revival of the 70rsquos TRAVELING MAGIC SHOW by a FOREMOTHER of GODDESS SPIRITUALITY The QUEEN of TAROT READINGS and the woman responsible for LEGALIZING TAROT in California hellip Z Budapest

Z Budapest is conducting a most entertaining Tarot Social at her home in

Oakland CA on April 23rd For more information and registration go to

TarotSocialcom

The Dianic University for Women in Goddess

Study the Dianic Tradition with Z Budapest the woman who rebirthed it into modern culture Classes at the Dianic University are designed for women only

Sisterhood of the Moon ~ Womenrsquos Spirituality Coven in the Z Budapest Dianic Tradition

Events in the Sisterhood of the Moon are for women-born-women only Located in Hayward CA You must contact Jesamyn Angelica for more information Many of the members of this group are also members of the Susan B Anthony Coven No1 Facebookpage

Hands of Demeter ~ Womenrsquos Spirituality Coven in the Z Budapest Dianic Tradition

Events in the Hands of Demeter are for women-born-women only Located in Semi Valley CA You must contact httpearthmothercovenantcom for more information Many of the members of this group are also members of the Susan B Anthony Coven No1 Facebook page

The Sacred Circle ~ Recovering amp Reclaiming Ancient Ways to Heal

Events in The Sacred Circle are for members only unless otherwise stated Call JoAnna 775-882-1599 for membership inquiries

Sisterhood of the Turning Tides ~ Womenrsquos Spirituality Coven in the Z Budapest Dianic Tradition

They meet on Esbats and Sabbats and have a Tuesday night drumritual circle Located in Mendocino CA You must contact Sage Simon for more information Many of the members of this group are also members of the Susan B Anthony Coven No1 Facebookpage

You can sponsor Goddess magazine too Click here to helphellip

Deepest Gratitude to Sisters in Goddess for their Donations

The Application for Dianic Clergy Priestess is online

Follow the Goddess Festival on Facebook And Twitter

Thank you sisters who have donated $1 a month to help support our Goddess efforts

You can sponsor Goddess magazine too Click here to helphellip

Vicki Scotti LuAnn Morris and Amy Otero are

Hecatersquos Wheel an acoustic folk trio Their

music is inspired by and dedicated to the

Goddess in all her guises They sing an eclectic

variety of cover songs and original music

Hecatersquos Wheel has been playing and

singing together for several years and their

voices have found a natural harmonious blend

We VERY much enjoyed their Beltaine concert

Goddess Resource Links Z Budapest Website Goddess College Online Goddess Blog ndash Sponsored by the Susan B Anthony Coven Z Budapest Blog Goddess Festival Susan B Anthony Coven Dianic Wicca Tarot Social Witch Trial ndash the last great witch trial in America Zs Events Schedule Zs University Calendar

Zs Books Summoning the Fates Holy Book of Womens Mysteries Celestial Wisdom Grandmother of Time Grandmother Moon Goddess in the Office Goddess in the Bedroom

Page 11: Goddess Magazine (March 2011)

Merlin Stonehellip you felt this part of feminist thought was sorely missing We simply had no information

about our own great people as a gender Who did we pray to Always men

Who went back in time and stole it all back for us Who was smart enough to read the old musty out-

of-print books in hopes of finding a couple of lines the patriarchs missed when they erased the Goddess

culture

Like an Amazon of the libraries it was you who hunted down the hard-to-come-by books visiting

museums and traveling to far-off distant lands for research When you came back with ldquoWhen God was

a Womanrdquo and enough material for its follow-up ldquoAncient Mirrors of Womanhoodrdquo we all knew you

had found the cultural Goddess motherlode

The brilliance richness and diversity of the global Goddess traditions were beyond anybodyrsquos hopes All

around the globe Merlin Stone had found our traditions of celebrations our goddesses and our moral

codes

We did come from somewhere awesome and our foremothers had left us treasures in ritual sacred

poetry and arthellip footsteps for us to follow And it was Merlin Stone who found it and published it

She published in England as The Paradise Papers because American publishers would not touch it Now

the books are with Beacon Press

Today we are no longer spiritual orphans of the world It was sister Merlin who gave her entire life to

this sacred reclaiming All of us stand to thank her for this very potent gift of the legitimized woman

spirit

As usual Merlin would just smile and make little of my accolade

She felt ldquocalledrdquo she said

She was an acclaimed American artist a sculptress and national treasure She taught Art History and

that led her to the surviving images of the Goddess which called her to see more Her welded art

sculptures took on more and more triple goddess themes and finally dissolved into the physical

research which took her to Turkey - Anatolia of old the land of the Mothers

She was lovingly protected hitch-hiking alone with long red hair flowing down her back she had little

money slept in caves a sacred stranger in her own once fertile Goddess homeland

ldquoHow did you find the booksrdquo I once asked her

ldquoStrange thingrdquo she explained ldquoI heard a hum - a hum of women when I got close to a book that had

useful information for us I just reached out and there it was I was led by a humrdquo

ldquoOh yes the humrdquo Merlin had come to dinner in Santa Monica we feminist witches were much

honored We held hands over my barley dish and hummed together as we usually did praying our

blessing Merlin burst into tears I was worried Who hurt our highly esteemed guest

ldquoNobody hurt merdquo she said ldquoBut this was the hum I heard in the libraries of Turkey This was the hum

that led me to the great Goddess booksrdquo

Then the witches fell silent and one by one we also teared up at this miracle How could a ragtag

revolutionary group of witches hum on a California mountaintop and a woman on the Goddess search

hear it all the way in Turkey Never mind the multiplication of the fishes and the loaves this was a much

better miracle Our belief in the all-pervasive omnipresent Goddess was never stronger

Which Goddess shall I invoke for your memorial You have given us hundreds

As a Dianic witch I love Hecate the transformer She who takes the tired souls away on her chariot

drawn by the dragons of time She is the healer of wounds the Queen of the dark side of the Moon

But Merlin loved Anahita She is the one ldquowho is the Cosmic Ocean in which the stars do float It is

Anahita who provides the nourishing rain sending waters from the heavens to the springs and rivers

protecting the flocks in pastures and causing them to bear their young -- as it is Anahita who fills the

womb with life Her chariot is drawn by white steeds named rain and wind and clouds and sleet or as

she rides on the back of a gliding eagle or even upon a splendid lionrdquo

At Anahitarsquos shrines still visible in Sardis and Susa in Kangawar and Ecbatana her inscription reads ldquoI

am the conscience of thine own selfrdquo

Rest sweetly dearest sister and if you wish to live on in our hearts please guide us like the hum once

guided you Donrsquot hurry linger amongst us

Merlin my beloved sister your chariot can wait

Ancient Mirrors of Womanhood Merlin Stone 1979 p210

I am going to be a guest speaker at the Women of Spirit and Faith Conference April 28- May 1

The Alchemy of Our Spiritual Leadership Women Redefining Power

Calling all women of spirit and faith This is not your typical womens conference

Imagine the energy of more than 300 women ready for inspiration deep wisdom and potent co-creation

Alchemy Highlights

Inspiring Keynote wisdom from Sister Joan Chittister Valarie Kaur and Naomi Tutu Stimulating Leadership Conversations featuring the wisdom and experience of a dozen diverse women

leaders Informative workshops with a focus on building practical skills and new models for collaborative

leadership Many opportunities for circle dialogue and structured conversation Optional activities such as Open Space Offerings Morning Meditations Yoga Movement Labyrinth Walks

and more The Alchemy Marketplace where you can shop for books jewelry art and music A Beautiful Meditation and Prayer Room for silence and reflection Art music poetry laughter and lots of right-brain fun and stimulation

I am also going to be attending the Glastonbury Goddess Conference 2011

Now five full days of Goddess-loving celebration with Fringe events from Sunday July 24 ndash 31

Celebrating the Great Mother of Water at Lammas details are online wwwgoddessconferencecom

Welcoming two USA two pioneers of the Goddess movement -

Vicki Noble co-creator of the Motherpeace Tarot

Zsuzsanna Budapest Founder of the Dianic Wiccan Tradition and Womenrsquos Spirituality Movement

With Conference Favorites Anique Radiant Heart Barbara Meiklejohn-Free Carolyn Hillyer Julie Felix

Kathy Jones Lydia Ruyle and Lady Olivia Durdin Robertson

With Ceremonies Adorations and Praise Songs to the Great Goddess of Water She who is the Source

and Womb of all Life Participate in moving Sacred Ceremonies take part in inspiring Workshops listen

to fascinating Presentations see beautiful Artwork amp Stalls Performances Music Song Poetry and

Dance Visit the Holy Wells of the Goddess in Avalon cleansing and immersing yourself in Her Healing

Waters Join one of Nine Wells - circles of support and participation in Conference Ceremonies Dance

the night away at the Goddess Gala Buffet and Masque and join our Goddess Procession through the

Landscape to the River Brue with a Fruit Feast

Plus Presenters Priestesses and Spinners Amanda Baker Annabel Du Boulay Anna Saqqara Price

Charissa Schipper Caroline Lir Deonesea la Fey Emma Rose Knight Erin McCauliffe Ganga Ashworth

Georgina Sirett-Hardie Graell Corsini Heloise Pilkington Isabella Verbruggen Isis Queen Jacqui

Woodward-Smith Jennifer Cooper Katinka Soetens Kaye Cooksey Koko Newport Lauren Raine Lisa

Newing Louise Bell Louise Tarrier Lydia Lite Marion van Eupen Mary Bruce Michelle Patten Miriam

Raven Morgaine Noam Zimin Oshia Drury Rose Flint Roz Bound Sally Pullinger Sharlea Johnson

Shirley-Ann Millar Shoshana Horobin Sophie Pullinger Sue Quatermass Tegwyn Hyndman Thalia

Brown Tiana Pitman amp Tina Free plus more great Priestesses amazing helpful Melissas amp lots more

wonderful women and men

My Workshops at Glastonbury

ZSUZSANNA BUDAPEST WE ALL COME FROM THE GODDESS (Women Only)

Sunday July 25th Women from all walks of life come together with High Priestess Zsuzsanna (Z) Budapest in a flowing woman-only Dianic circle celebrating our expanding global sisterhood Beginning with the sacred Dianic purification we enter the circle commune with our ancestors and our divine selves lift up a joyous dedication to the Goddess Sedna of the Deep as we bless all waters inside and outside Chanting dancing and strengthening our bonds of sisterhood We are the flow we are the ebb When the women are healed the whole world is healed Drummers musical instruments voices welcome Dress comfortably Come garlanded with something in season greens or flowers

Z Budapest is the founder of the Dianic (Feminist) Tradition of Wicca in the USA initiating the worldrsquos most famous coven the Susan B Anthony Coven Number One which continues to thrive and brings womenrsquos spirituality into mainstream consciousness (SusanBAnthonyCovencom) Z has led rituals lectured taught classes given workshops written articles tirelessly and published in hundreds of womens newspapers across the country She has powerfully influenced many of the future teachers and writers about the Goddess She is the director of the Womens Spirituality Forum a nonprofit organization and Z founded and sponsors the Dianic Universityrsquos Goddess College (GoddessCollegecom) Her books include Holy Book of Womens Mysteries Grandmother of Time Grandmother Moon See wwwZBudapestcom Venue Glastonbury Assembly Rooms Time 1000am-400pm Fee pound50$85euro65 register online wwwgoddessconferencecom

ZSUZSANNA BUDAPEST ndash TAROT SOCIAL IN MY ROOM (Glastonbury)

July 26-27th Tarot Social information and exact date to be announced

ZSUZSANNA BUDAPEST ndash THE HERSTORY OF THE DIANIC TRADITION (Mixed Audience)

July 28th A multi-media presentation on the Herstory of the Dianic Tradition for a mixed audience Z

Budapest provides the historical background to the origins of the Dianic Tradition as well as important

triumphs that the Dianics fought for and won for the Pagan community and beyond Like the right to

perform divination readings in the United States in public and charge for it Historically it was Z and

Dianics who fought for the rights of this civil liberty in California which then opened the door to other

states to follow suit You can learn more about that at WitchTrialnet This presentation also clears up

some urban legends about the Dianic Tradition Such as itrsquos a man-hating tradition the accusations of

separatism Nothing could be farther from the truth Z Budapest founded the Womenrsquos Spirituality

Movement in 1971 Since then there has been an uninterrupted Goddess worship for the past 40 plus

years of women circling together in sacred celebration of all the Sabbaths and many moons This Dianic

Tradition has spread all over the globe After a brief break the second half of the workshop will involve

spiritual movement and dancing the meeting Dance Finally we will finish with an inspiring multi-media

presentation Prayers to the Mother all living creatures are one

Hope to see you at the Glastonbury Goddess Conference 2011

Follow Z Budapest on Facebook And Twitter

ZSUZSANNA BUDAPEST ndash TAROT SOCIAL

I am doing another women-only Tarot Social on April 23rd at my own home Who wants to host a Tarot

Social For more information visit TarotSocialcom and contact me

After more than thirty years in circulation The Holy Book of Womenrsquos Mysteries is still a ground-breaking book in the forefront of womenrsquos spirituality

Get your own copy of Zrsquos out of print books and DVDs at the Womenrsquos Spirituality Forum online store

Irsquom also available for Tarot Readings I know many of you are going through some tough times and

thatrsquos really when you should be reaching out for a reading Irsquom here if you need me

This magazine is sponsored by the Womenrsquos Spirituality Forum

Please help support our efforts to help keep the Goddess Alive

The Application for Dianic Clergy Priestess is online

Goddess College Updates amp More

We have changed the way the online school is doing business After offering free memberships over

the last four years the changes in the economy have forced us to make changes hellip good changes

The Dianic University has now become the Goddess College and has its own website to boot It was

necessary to update the schoolrsquos software but with all the free accounts the database had gotten too

big to migrate So we were forced to start over from scratch eliminating all the free accounts If you

were a student in good standing and part of a paid class in old Dianic University then we are working to

grandmother you into the new school

The way to gain entry into the new Goddess College is through membership in the Susan B Anthony

Coven 1 Everyone in the Goddess College will be active members of the SBA with only a handful of

exceptions Join the Susan B Anthony Coven 1 - You can apply for membership here

The Susan B Anthony Coven 1 now meets inside the Goddess College and the old DU area is closed

We have updated and moved over the Dianic Feminist Philosophy class and the first Holy Book class The

Holy Book series of classes is being totally reworked and improved Thatrsquos partly due to an alliance wersquove

made with the Ocean Seminary College which will allow us to offer degrees for our course of study We

are currently in process with meeting their requirements to make this happen Very exciting stuff for

womenrsquos spirituality I will keep you updated in my column here in the Goddess Magazine

We are networked up the Hoola-Hoop in Facebook Itrsquos hard to miss everything wersquore doing and yet

some of you are still contacting me and saying you hadnrsquot heard of this or that Get your face into

Facebook my sisters and friend the following pages so you can stay in the know

Z Budapest on Facebook

Z Budapest Fan Page

Goddess Magazine Radio Show Fan Page

Goddess Festival Fan Page

Food Magic Fan Page

Susan B Anthony Coven Fan Page

Why arenrsquot you more active in the Dianic Tradition We have a lot of women who read this Goddess

Magazine every month and it would awesome to have more of you join in with us at the Susan B

Anthony Coven 1 A membership into the worldrsquos most famous all-womenrsquos coven makes for a nice gift

to yourself Give it some thought and then come join us The Womens Spirituality Forum is an IRS

501(c)3 non-profit Your registration fees and your membership are tax deductible

Check out our mobile-friendly portal website wwwGoddessLivecom hellip Wersquove pulled all our

information and articles into one location for you and it doesnrsquot matter if yoursquore a computer user or a

mobile user because wersquove programmed the site to be able to switch back and forth

Goddess Magazine Radio Show

Goddess Magazine Radio Show will be forced to go to a half hour program because of changes at

Blogtalk Radio We will bring you more chats with Z very soon Promise

Look for announcements of the new Goddess Magazine Radio Shows on our Facebook fan page Are you

a member of the Goddess Magazine Radio Show Fan page And now you can listen to Goddess

Magazine Radio Shows on iTunes So open you iTunes and subscribe to our podcasted show

Itrsquos free

Goddess Live Toolbar

Every Sister in Goddess who wants to stay linked in to what Z Budapest is doing should have this

toolbar Itrsquos free Itrsquos easy to install and itrsquos secure Get your own Goddess Live Toolbar right now by

clicking here

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Get your new copy here

OTHER WOMENrsquoS SACRED EVENTS amp TOURS TELL THEM Z SENT YOU A WOMENrsquoS RITUAL RETREAT IN CRETE A JOURNEY TO THE GODDESS MAY 23-JUNE 5TH 2011

Facilitated by Ruth Barrett and Catherine Ridder YES We still have spaces still available for our fourth

ritual retreat to Crete Space is limited to 13 women on a first-come basis If you are interested in

hearing more information about this incredible trip contact Catherine Ridder at 626-793-7520 or email

caridder2netzerocom

Sacred Sites of Avalon England with Donna Virgilio April 27 to May 3 2011 Travel to Stonehenge for a private ceremony in the inner circle Walk to the Tor considered to be the legendary Camelot Tour Roman and Medieval Baths and honor the Goddess Minerva visit and pray at the Chalice Well and see the Sacred Gardens Tour the Glastonbury Goddess Temple and participate in the official Beltaine Festivities and Ceremony See the Boscastle Witchcraft Museum and Journey to Tintagel the mystical birthplace of King Arthur and peek inside Merlinrsquos Cave Walk through Avebury Stonecircle West Kennet Long Barrows Silsbury Hill and see Crop Circles Finally dance at the Avalon Beltaine Fairy Ball featuring Doreen Virtues Band Obsidian

On the Trail of the Goddess in Turkey - Anatolia - Land of the Nourishing Mothers

ON THE TRAIL OF THE GREAT GODDESS

Sacred Journey to Turkey

November 2 - 14 2011

featuring

Karen and Roy Tate

Guided by Rashid Ergener

Visit the sacred goddess sites in Turkey Catalhoyuk Lagina Ephesus Troy and Sardis

httpwwwexaminercomwomen-s-goddess-spirituality-in-los-angelessacred-tour-of-goddess-sites-turkey-coming-november-2011-for-women-men

Check out the new video of sacred places in Turkey Hear the hauntingly beautiful music as the Ancient Mother calls httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=Twbcx8IicxI

8th ANNUAL WISE WOMANS FESTIVAL IN FLORIDA

Come and Greet the Springtime with Our Lady of the Faery

Greenwood April 9th and 10th

Nymphs Dryads Devas Kami Apsaras and Sprites Oh My What is the connection between Goddesses

and Faeryfolk Itrsquos Springtime and even though we have April showers you wonrsquot have to wait for May

to enjoy the flowers Join Morning Glory Zell noted Goddess historian and Priestess for the latest in her

series of Great Goddess Retreats and find out why the Green Goddess is more than a salad dressing

With her 36 years of experience and a collection of over 200 votive Goddess statues get ready for an

unforgettable weekend journey of sacred learning and transformational experience

This Retreat will be held at the Raven Haven Morning Gloryrsquos beautiful 10 acre home in Sonoma County

California Raven Haven is nice and roomy with a deck a pool and a spa and a special magickal Faery

Porch covered with flowering wisteria The Temple Room has huge floor to ceiling glass cases displaying

her collection of Goddess figurines and a large altar covered in beautiful Goddess images If you come

from out of town there is room to camp out (if itrsquos dry) sleep over if you like or you can choose from the

many excellent nearby hotels

The Retreat begins on Saturday the 24th at 200pm and ends on Sunday the 25th at 800pm Saturday

we will devote ourselves to learning and exploring the many Goddesses who have a connection to the

realm of Faery from Danu to Ma Ku Hold the images in your hands and hear their fascinating stories

Later we will journey deep in guided meditation to discover the special one which calls to you

Sunday starts with fun and relaxation as we learn the ancient art of weaving wreaths of living flowers

and plants to make a magickal faery wreath or perhaps you would like to learn how to make a faery

house outside on the Faery Porch that will be covered with blooming wisteria Later we will have a ritual

bath in the spa and a procession to decorate the various Goddess shrines around the property The

Retreat culminates with a ceremony to honor the Goddesses and the Fae in a Council where we sing

together and where each Goddess or Faery can share Her Truth

The fee for the entire weekend Retreat is only $10000 or you may attend only Saturdayrsquos program of

the lecture and meditation for $6000 Sunday however is not open to anyone who has not already

attended the Saturday session Meals are shared in an easygoing potluck fashion You truly have never

had any other experience quite like this one and you will come away re-energized as well as transformed

by the power of your new divine connection

Phone (707) 795-8047

mythicimcnorg

PO Box 758

Cotati CA 94931

Tryst ndash Handfasting Commitment Ceremonies

Z is back sisters And shersquos available to officiate your Trysting wedding ceremonies again The most popular pagan Goddess wedding ceremony was created by Z Budapest in The Holy Book of Womens Mysteries where Z coined the term Tryst Ritual as an expressly feminine marriage ceremony and rite of passage that can be used for heterosexual couples as well as same sex couples

Z Budapest has been conducting Pagan marriage rituals for over 40 years as a celebrated High Priestess within the Dianic Tradition which she founded Z is available to officiate your handfasting ceremony as well Whether its a civil union or a licensed marriage certificate Z is able to offer you her services as clergy She has legal standings through the Womens Spirituality Forum an IRS 501(c)3 non-profit in the state of California making your clergy fees tax deductible You can learn more about Zrsquos Trysting Ritual and schedule your wedding ceremony with her in 2010

Crete Archaeologists discover skeleton covered with gold foil in 2700-year-old grave

Greek archaeologists have found an ancient skeleton covered with gold foil in a grave on the island of Crete officials said Tuesday

Excavator Nicholas Stampolidis said his team discovered more than 3000 pieces of gold foil in the 7th-century BC twin grave near the ancient town of Eleutherna

Cemeteries there have produced a wealth of outstanding artifacts in recent years

The tiny gold ornaments from 1 to 4 centimetres (04 to 15 inches) long had been sewn onto a lavish robe or shroud that initially wrapped the body of a woman and has almost completely rotted away but for a few off-white threads

The whole length of the (grave) was covered with small pieces of gold foil mdash square circular and lozenge-shaped Stampolidis told The Associated Press We were literally digging up gold interspersed with earth not earth with some gold in it

The woman who presumably had a high social or religious status was buried with a second skeleton in a large jar sealed with a stone slab weighing more than half a ton It was hidden behind a false wall to confuse grave robbers

Experts are trying to determine the other skeletons sex The grave also contained a copper bowl pottery perfume bottles imported from Egypt or Syria and Palestine hundreds of amber rock crystal and faience beads as well as a gold pendant in the form of a bee goddess that probably was part of a rock crystal and gold necklace

If you look at it one way up its shaped like a lily said Stampolidis a professor of archaeology at the University of Crete who has worked at Eleutherna for the 25 years Turned upside down you see a female figure holding her breasts whose lower body is shaped as a bee with wings The workmanship is exquisite

The ruins of Eleutherna stand on the northern foothills of Mount Ida mdash the mythical birthplace of Zeus chief of the ancient Greek gods Past excavations have discovered a citadel homes and an important cemetery with lavish female burials

The town flourished from the 9th century BC mdash the dark ages of Greek archaeology that followed the fall of Cretes great Minoan palatial culture mdash and endured until the Middle Ages

httparchaeologynewsnetworkblogspotcom201009archaeologists-on-crete-find-skeletonhtml

SWEET TASTE OF SPRING Susun S Weed

March winds blow the sweet scent of maple sap boiling to my questing nose When the days are warm

and sunny and the nights below freezing the sap rises in the trees If those trees are sugar maples then

it is worth drilling a hole in the bark inserting a tap and collecting their sweet sap There is so much

sugar in sugar maple sap that it can be boiled and turned into maple syrup and maple sugar

Therersquos about one gallon of maple syrup and ninety-nine gallons of water in one hundred gallons of

maple sap A hot fire and a slow but steady boil send that sweet-smelling water vapor high in the clear

cold sky The March wind blows it to me I close my eyes and remember my years of ldquosugaringrdquo making

maple syrup

Therersquos something special about a task that requires one to stay up all night Maple sap starts to ferment

if it is left at normal temperatures for very long Once ten or so gallons of sap have been collected the

boiling begins hellip and cannot be stopped until the finished syrup is achieved many many many hours

later

I have never sugared without at least one overnighter and sometimes two A large operation boils sap

for weeks without stopping just drawing off the syrup as it forms if the run is steady and copious

It was a picture of Helen Nearing driving a team of horses through the woods standing on a sleigh

loaded with buckets of maple sap that made me long for a homestead where I could lead The Simple

Life like her Two years later I had my own ldquosugar bushrdquo (an acre or more of woodlot where large sugar

maples grow) Spring equinox found me with my drill in hand a pocket full of taps and a bunch of funny

buckets with lids to hang from the taps ldquoTing tingrdquo the ping of sap filling the metal buckets echoes

tying me through time to every woman who has ever sugared and bringing a smile to my heart and

face

My groves of sugar maples have never been large enough to require a team of horses or a sleigh Irsquove

always lugged a big bucket out to the trees and poured the sap from the collecting buckets into it When

I have two or three buckets full I pour them into a big galvanized tub set up on cinder blocks over a fire

and commence to boil it down

Native peoples valued maple sugar so highly that they set up camp in the sugar bush and lived there

until the sap stopped flowing Lacking metal drill bits they cut a shallow groove in the bark and pressed

hollow elder stems into service as taps to direct the flow of sap into birch bark containers

I can heat the sap directly in my metal tub while they had to hollow out a log put smooth rocks into the

fire heat them and put the hot rocks into the sap in the hollowed out log to boil it down into maple

syrup and sugar Whew I am impressed with the power of the desire for sweet It takes far more

calories in fuel and human energy to make maple syrup or maple sugar than it returns

Grandmother Twylah taught us that maple trees are friendly and companionable colorful and

expressive They always have a positive attitude and are adept at helping us see solutions to impossible

problems Maple trees are devoted and true Make friends with a maple and you will have a friend for

life she advised

Ellen Everet Hopman green witch reminds us that maple-syrup-making time is Eostrersquos time Eostre

(ee-oh-stir) is the Teutonic goddess of fertility and manifestation Her symbols are the egg and the

rabbit her time is Spring Equinox A lovely custom still enacted but without the underlying magic is to

paint a picture of something you desire on an egg and plant it in the ground so Eostre can help it grow

and become real

If itrsquos too late to tap your maples or you live too far south for the sap to flow strongly you can still be

blessed and embraced by maple A decoction of maple bark boiled in water can be used to ease sore

eyes externally and to tonify the uterus after birth internally

A magical wand of maple wood is used for spells that bring harmony especially in the home And maple

leaves sewn into a charm made of green flannel tied with a golden string will bring abundance into

your life

Indulge your desire for sweet Celebrate spring equinox and Eostre who loves sweet things Have a

stack of pancakes swimming in butter and maple syrup Or pour maple syrup over plain vanilla ice cream

and savor the sweet taste of the friendly maple tree

Green blessings

How much sugar per gallon of sap is quite variable depending on the type of maple the growing

conditions and especially the amount of sun the tree gets Sugar maple (Acer saccharum) sap is the

sweetest followed by the saps of silver maple (Acer saccharinum) Northern red maple (Acer rubrum)

and Norway maple (Acer platanoides)

Susun Weed

PO Box 64

Woodstock NY 12498

Fax 1-845-246-8081

Visit Susun Weed at wwwsusunweedcom and wwwashtreepublishingcom

Vibrant passionate and involved Susun Weed has garnered an international reputation for her

groundbreaking lectures teachings and writings on health and nutrition She challenges conventional

medical approaches with humor insight and her vast encyclopedic knowledge of herbal medicine

Unabashedly pro-woman her animated and enthusiastic lectures are engaging and often profoundly

provocative

Susun is one of Americas best-known authorities on herbal medicine and natural approaches to

womens health Her four best-selling books are recommended by expert herbalists and well-known

physicians and are used and cherished by millions of women around the world Learn more at

wwwsusunweedcom

Susun Weedrsquos books include

Wise Woman Herbal for the Childbearing Year

Author Susun S Weed Simple safe remedies for pregnancy childbirth lactation and

newborns Includes herbs for fertility and birth control Foreword by Jeannine Parvati

Baker 196 pages index illustrations

Healing Wise

Author Susun S Weed Superb herbal in the feminine-intuitive mode Complete

instructions for using common plants for food beauty medicine and longevity

Introduction by Jean Houston 312 pages index illustrations

Menopausal Years the Wise Woman Way

Author Susun S Weed The best book on menopause is now better Completely

revised with 100 new pages All the remedies women know and trust plus hundreds

of new ones New sections on thyroid health fibromyalgia hairy problems male

menopause and herbs for women taking hormones Recommended by Susan Love

MD and Christiane Northrup MD Foreword by Juliette de Bairacli Levy 304 pages

index illustrations

For more info on menopause visit wwwmenopause-metamorphosiscom

Breast Cancer Breast Health

Author Susun S Weed Foods exercises and attitudes to keep your breasts healthy

Supportive complimentary medicines to ease side-effects of surgery radiation

chemotherapy or tamoxifen Foreword by Christiane Northrup MD 380 pages index

illustrations

UPCOMING DIANIC EVENTS

Pagan Examiner ndash Read the articles written by Bobbie and myself Zrsquos Calendar of Events ndash Want to know where I am appearing Goddess Festival ndash You think the last was good Goddess is Alive Tarot Social - A joyful coming-together of the Womenrsquos Tarot community a

Revival of the 70rsquos TRAVELING MAGIC SHOW by a FOREMOTHER of GODDESS SPIRITUALITY The QUEEN of TAROT READINGS and the woman responsible for LEGALIZING TAROT in California hellip Z Budapest

Z Budapest is conducting a most entertaining Tarot Social at her home in

Oakland CA on April 23rd For more information and registration go to

TarotSocialcom

The Dianic University for Women in Goddess

Study the Dianic Tradition with Z Budapest the woman who rebirthed it into modern culture Classes at the Dianic University are designed for women only

Sisterhood of the Moon ~ Womenrsquos Spirituality Coven in the Z Budapest Dianic Tradition

Events in the Sisterhood of the Moon are for women-born-women only Located in Hayward CA You must contact Jesamyn Angelica for more information Many of the members of this group are also members of the Susan B Anthony Coven No1 Facebookpage

Hands of Demeter ~ Womenrsquos Spirituality Coven in the Z Budapest Dianic Tradition

Events in the Hands of Demeter are for women-born-women only Located in Semi Valley CA You must contact httpearthmothercovenantcom for more information Many of the members of this group are also members of the Susan B Anthony Coven No1 Facebook page

The Sacred Circle ~ Recovering amp Reclaiming Ancient Ways to Heal

Events in The Sacred Circle are for members only unless otherwise stated Call JoAnna 775-882-1599 for membership inquiries

Sisterhood of the Turning Tides ~ Womenrsquos Spirituality Coven in the Z Budapest Dianic Tradition

They meet on Esbats and Sabbats and have a Tuesday night drumritual circle Located in Mendocino CA You must contact Sage Simon for more information Many of the members of this group are also members of the Susan B Anthony Coven No1 Facebookpage

You can sponsor Goddess magazine too Click here to helphellip

Deepest Gratitude to Sisters in Goddess for their Donations

The Application for Dianic Clergy Priestess is online

Follow the Goddess Festival on Facebook And Twitter

Thank you sisters who have donated $1 a month to help support our Goddess efforts

You can sponsor Goddess magazine too Click here to helphellip

Vicki Scotti LuAnn Morris and Amy Otero are

Hecatersquos Wheel an acoustic folk trio Their

music is inspired by and dedicated to the

Goddess in all her guises They sing an eclectic

variety of cover songs and original music

Hecatersquos Wheel has been playing and

singing together for several years and their

voices have found a natural harmonious blend

We VERY much enjoyed their Beltaine concert

Goddess Resource Links Z Budapest Website Goddess College Online Goddess Blog ndash Sponsored by the Susan B Anthony Coven Z Budapest Blog Goddess Festival Susan B Anthony Coven Dianic Wicca Tarot Social Witch Trial ndash the last great witch trial in America Zs Events Schedule Zs University Calendar

Zs Books Summoning the Fates Holy Book of Womens Mysteries Celestial Wisdom Grandmother of Time Grandmother Moon Goddess in the Office Goddess in the Bedroom

Page 12: Goddess Magazine (March 2011)

ldquoNobody hurt merdquo she said ldquoBut this was the hum I heard in the libraries of Turkey This was the hum

that led me to the great Goddess booksrdquo

Then the witches fell silent and one by one we also teared up at this miracle How could a ragtag

revolutionary group of witches hum on a California mountaintop and a woman on the Goddess search

hear it all the way in Turkey Never mind the multiplication of the fishes and the loaves this was a much

better miracle Our belief in the all-pervasive omnipresent Goddess was never stronger

Which Goddess shall I invoke for your memorial You have given us hundreds

As a Dianic witch I love Hecate the transformer She who takes the tired souls away on her chariot

drawn by the dragons of time She is the healer of wounds the Queen of the dark side of the Moon

But Merlin loved Anahita She is the one ldquowho is the Cosmic Ocean in which the stars do float It is

Anahita who provides the nourishing rain sending waters from the heavens to the springs and rivers

protecting the flocks in pastures and causing them to bear their young -- as it is Anahita who fills the

womb with life Her chariot is drawn by white steeds named rain and wind and clouds and sleet or as

she rides on the back of a gliding eagle or even upon a splendid lionrdquo

At Anahitarsquos shrines still visible in Sardis and Susa in Kangawar and Ecbatana her inscription reads ldquoI

am the conscience of thine own selfrdquo

Rest sweetly dearest sister and if you wish to live on in our hearts please guide us like the hum once

guided you Donrsquot hurry linger amongst us

Merlin my beloved sister your chariot can wait

Ancient Mirrors of Womanhood Merlin Stone 1979 p210

I am going to be a guest speaker at the Women of Spirit and Faith Conference April 28- May 1

The Alchemy of Our Spiritual Leadership Women Redefining Power

Calling all women of spirit and faith This is not your typical womens conference

Imagine the energy of more than 300 women ready for inspiration deep wisdom and potent co-creation

Alchemy Highlights

Inspiring Keynote wisdom from Sister Joan Chittister Valarie Kaur and Naomi Tutu Stimulating Leadership Conversations featuring the wisdom and experience of a dozen diverse women

leaders Informative workshops with a focus on building practical skills and new models for collaborative

leadership Many opportunities for circle dialogue and structured conversation Optional activities such as Open Space Offerings Morning Meditations Yoga Movement Labyrinth Walks

and more The Alchemy Marketplace where you can shop for books jewelry art and music A Beautiful Meditation and Prayer Room for silence and reflection Art music poetry laughter and lots of right-brain fun and stimulation

I am also going to be attending the Glastonbury Goddess Conference 2011

Now five full days of Goddess-loving celebration with Fringe events from Sunday July 24 ndash 31

Celebrating the Great Mother of Water at Lammas details are online wwwgoddessconferencecom

Welcoming two USA two pioneers of the Goddess movement -

Vicki Noble co-creator of the Motherpeace Tarot

Zsuzsanna Budapest Founder of the Dianic Wiccan Tradition and Womenrsquos Spirituality Movement

With Conference Favorites Anique Radiant Heart Barbara Meiklejohn-Free Carolyn Hillyer Julie Felix

Kathy Jones Lydia Ruyle and Lady Olivia Durdin Robertson

With Ceremonies Adorations and Praise Songs to the Great Goddess of Water She who is the Source

and Womb of all Life Participate in moving Sacred Ceremonies take part in inspiring Workshops listen

to fascinating Presentations see beautiful Artwork amp Stalls Performances Music Song Poetry and

Dance Visit the Holy Wells of the Goddess in Avalon cleansing and immersing yourself in Her Healing

Waters Join one of Nine Wells - circles of support and participation in Conference Ceremonies Dance

the night away at the Goddess Gala Buffet and Masque and join our Goddess Procession through the

Landscape to the River Brue with a Fruit Feast

Plus Presenters Priestesses and Spinners Amanda Baker Annabel Du Boulay Anna Saqqara Price

Charissa Schipper Caroline Lir Deonesea la Fey Emma Rose Knight Erin McCauliffe Ganga Ashworth

Georgina Sirett-Hardie Graell Corsini Heloise Pilkington Isabella Verbruggen Isis Queen Jacqui

Woodward-Smith Jennifer Cooper Katinka Soetens Kaye Cooksey Koko Newport Lauren Raine Lisa

Newing Louise Bell Louise Tarrier Lydia Lite Marion van Eupen Mary Bruce Michelle Patten Miriam

Raven Morgaine Noam Zimin Oshia Drury Rose Flint Roz Bound Sally Pullinger Sharlea Johnson

Shirley-Ann Millar Shoshana Horobin Sophie Pullinger Sue Quatermass Tegwyn Hyndman Thalia

Brown Tiana Pitman amp Tina Free plus more great Priestesses amazing helpful Melissas amp lots more

wonderful women and men

My Workshops at Glastonbury

ZSUZSANNA BUDAPEST WE ALL COME FROM THE GODDESS (Women Only)

Sunday July 25th Women from all walks of life come together with High Priestess Zsuzsanna (Z) Budapest in a flowing woman-only Dianic circle celebrating our expanding global sisterhood Beginning with the sacred Dianic purification we enter the circle commune with our ancestors and our divine selves lift up a joyous dedication to the Goddess Sedna of the Deep as we bless all waters inside and outside Chanting dancing and strengthening our bonds of sisterhood We are the flow we are the ebb When the women are healed the whole world is healed Drummers musical instruments voices welcome Dress comfortably Come garlanded with something in season greens or flowers

Z Budapest is the founder of the Dianic (Feminist) Tradition of Wicca in the USA initiating the worldrsquos most famous coven the Susan B Anthony Coven Number One which continues to thrive and brings womenrsquos spirituality into mainstream consciousness (SusanBAnthonyCovencom) Z has led rituals lectured taught classes given workshops written articles tirelessly and published in hundreds of womens newspapers across the country She has powerfully influenced many of the future teachers and writers about the Goddess She is the director of the Womens Spirituality Forum a nonprofit organization and Z founded and sponsors the Dianic Universityrsquos Goddess College (GoddessCollegecom) Her books include Holy Book of Womens Mysteries Grandmother of Time Grandmother Moon See wwwZBudapestcom Venue Glastonbury Assembly Rooms Time 1000am-400pm Fee pound50$85euro65 register online wwwgoddessconferencecom

ZSUZSANNA BUDAPEST ndash TAROT SOCIAL IN MY ROOM (Glastonbury)

July 26-27th Tarot Social information and exact date to be announced

ZSUZSANNA BUDAPEST ndash THE HERSTORY OF THE DIANIC TRADITION (Mixed Audience)

July 28th A multi-media presentation on the Herstory of the Dianic Tradition for a mixed audience Z

Budapest provides the historical background to the origins of the Dianic Tradition as well as important

triumphs that the Dianics fought for and won for the Pagan community and beyond Like the right to

perform divination readings in the United States in public and charge for it Historically it was Z and

Dianics who fought for the rights of this civil liberty in California which then opened the door to other

states to follow suit You can learn more about that at WitchTrialnet This presentation also clears up

some urban legends about the Dianic Tradition Such as itrsquos a man-hating tradition the accusations of

separatism Nothing could be farther from the truth Z Budapest founded the Womenrsquos Spirituality

Movement in 1971 Since then there has been an uninterrupted Goddess worship for the past 40 plus

years of women circling together in sacred celebration of all the Sabbaths and many moons This Dianic

Tradition has spread all over the globe After a brief break the second half of the workshop will involve

spiritual movement and dancing the meeting Dance Finally we will finish with an inspiring multi-media

presentation Prayers to the Mother all living creatures are one

Hope to see you at the Glastonbury Goddess Conference 2011

Follow Z Budapest on Facebook And Twitter

ZSUZSANNA BUDAPEST ndash TAROT SOCIAL

I am doing another women-only Tarot Social on April 23rd at my own home Who wants to host a Tarot

Social For more information visit TarotSocialcom and contact me

After more than thirty years in circulation The Holy Book of Womenrsquos Mysteries is still a ground-breaking book in the forefront of womenrsquos spirituality

Get your own copy of Zrsquos out of print books and DVDs at the Womenrsquos Spirituality Forum online store

Irsquom also available for Tarot Readings I know many of you are going through some tough times and

thatrsquos really when you should be reaching out for a reading Irsquom here if you need me

This magazine is sponsored by the Womenrsquos Spirituality Forum

Please help support our efforts to help keep the Goddess Alive

The Application for Dianic Clergy Priestess is online

Goddess College Updates amp More

We have changed the way the online school is doing business After offering free memberships over

the last four years the changes in the economy have forced us to make changes hellip good changes

The Dianic University has now become the Goddess College and has its own website to boot It was

necessary to update the schoolrsquos software but with all the free accounts the database had gotten too

big to migrate So we were forced to start over from scratch eliminating all the free accounts If you

were a student in good standing and part of a paid class in old Dianic University then we are working to

grandmother you into the new school

The way to gain entry into the new Goddess College is through membership in the Susan B Anthony

Coven 1 Everyone in the Goddess College will be active members of the SBA with only a handful of

exceptions Join the Susan B Anthony Coven 1 - You can apply for membership here

The Susan B Anthony Coven 1 now meets inside the Goddess College and the old DU area is closed

We have updated and moved over the Dianic Feminist Philosophy class and the first Holy Book class The

Holy Book series of classes is being totally reworked and improved Thatrsquos partly due to an alliance wersquove

made with the Ocean Seminary College which will allow us to offer degrees for our course of study We

are currently in process with meeting their requirements to make this happen Very exciting stuff for

womenrsquos spirituality I will keep you updated in my column here in the Goddess Magazine

We are networked up the Hoola-Hoop in Facebook Itrsquos hard to miss everything wersquore doing and yet

some of you are still contacting me and saying you hadnrsquot heard of this or that Get your face into

Facebook my sisters and friend the following pages so you can stay in the know

Z Budapest on Facebook

Z Budapest Fan Page

Goddess Magazine Radio Show Fan Page

Goddess Festival Fan Page

Food Magic Fan Page

Susan B Anthony Coven Fan Page

Why arenrsquot you more active in the Dianic Tradition We have a lot of women who read this Goddess

Magazine every month and it would awesome to have more of you join in with us at the Susan B

Anthony Coven 1 A membership into the worldrsquos most famous all-womenrsquos coven makes for a nice gift

to yourself Give it some thought and then come join us The Womens Spirituality Forum is an IRS

501(c)3 non-profit Your registration fees and your membership are tax deductible

Check out our mobile-friendly portal website wwwGoddessLivecom hellip Wersquove pulled all our

information and articles into one location for you and it doesnrsquot matter if yoursquore a computer user or a

mobile user because wersquove programmed the site to be able to switch back and forth

Goddess Magazine Radio Show

Goddess Magazine Radio Show will be forced to go to a half hour program because of changes at

Blogtalk Radio We will bring you more chats with Z very soon Promise

Look for announcements of the new Goddess Magazine Radio Shows on our Facebook fan page Are you

a member of the Goddess Magazine Radio Show Fan page And now you can listen to Goddess

Magazine Radio Shows on iTunes So open you iTunes and subscribe to our podcasted show

Itrsquos free

Goddess Live Toolbar

Every Sister in Goddess who wants to stay linked in to what Z Budapest is doing should have this

toolbar Itrsquos free Itrsquos easy to install and itrsquos secure Get your own Goddess Live Toolbar right now by

clicking here

Follow the Goddess Festival on Facebook And Twitter

Get your new copy here

OTHER WOMENrsquoS SACRED EVENTS amp TOURS TELL THEM Z SENT YOU A WOMENrsquoS RITUAL RETREAT IN CRETE A JOURNEY TO THE GODDESS MAY 23-JUNE 5TH 2011

Facilitated by Ruth Barrett and Catherine Ridder YES We still have spaces still available for our fourth

ritual retreat to Crete Space is limited to 13 women on a first-come basis If you are interested in

hearing more information about this incredible trip contact Catherine Ridder at 626-793-7520 or email

caridder2netzerocom

Sacred Sites of Avalon England with Donna Virgilio April 27 to May 3 2011 Travel to Stonehenge for a private ceremony in the inner circle Walk to the Tor considered to be the legendary Camelot Tour Roman and Medieval Baths and honor the Goddess Minerva visit and pray at the Chalice Well and see the Sacred Gardens Tour the Glastonbury Goddess Temple and participate in the official Beltaine Festivities and Ceremony See the Boscastle Witchcraft Museum and Journey to Tintagel the mystical birthplace of King Arthur and peek inside Merlinrsquos Cave Walk through Avebury Stonecircle West Kennet Long Barrows Silsbury Hill and see Crop Circles Finally dance at the Avalon Beltaine Fairy Ball featuring Doreen Virtues Band Obsidian

On the Trail of the Goddess in Turkey - Anatolia - Land of the Nourishing Mothers

ON THE TRAIL OF THE GREAT GODDESS

Sacred Journey to Turkey

November 2 - 14 2011

featuring

Karen and Roy Tate

Guided by Rashid Ergener

Visit the sacred goddess sites in Turkey Catalhoyuk Lagina Ephesus Troy and Sardis

httpwwwexaminercomwomen-s-goddess-spirituality-in-los-angelessacred-tour-of-goddess-sites-turkey-coming-november-2011-for-women-men

Check out the new video of sacred places in Turkey Hear the hauntingly beautiful music as the Ancient Mother calls httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=Twbcx8IicxI

8th ANNUAL WISE WOMANS FESTIVAL IN FLORIDA

Come and Greet the Springtime with Our Lady of the Faery

Greenwood April 9th and 10th

Nymphs Dryads Devas Kami Apsaras and Sprites Oh My What is the connection between Goddesses

and Faeryfolk Itrsquos Springtime and even though we have April showers you wonrsquot have to wait for May

to enjoy the flowers Join Morning Glory Zell noted Goddess historian and Priestess for the latest in her

series of Great Goddess Retreats and find out why the Green Goddess is more than a salad dressing

With her 36 years of experience and a collection of over 200 votive Goddess statues get ready for an

unforgettable weekend journey of sacred learning and transformational experience

This Retreat will be held at the Raven Haven Morning Gloryrsquos beautiful 10 acre home in Sonoma County

California Raven Haven is nice and roomy with a deck a pool and a spa and a special magickal Faery

Porch covered with flowering wisteria The Temple Room has huge floor to ceiling glass cases displaying

her collection of Goddess figurines and a large altar covered in beautiful Goddess images If you come

from out of town there is room to camp out (if itrsquos dry) sleep over if you like or you can choose from the

many excellent nearby hotels

The Retreat begins on Saturday the 24th at 200pm and ends on Sunday the 25th at 800pm Saturday

we will devote ourselves to learning and exploring the many Goddesses who have a connection to the

realm of Faery from Danu to Ma Ku Hold the images in your hands and hear their fascinating stories

Later we will journey deep in guided meditation to discover the special one which calls to you

Sunday starts with fun and relaxation as we learn the ancient art of weaving wreaths of living flowers

and plants to make a magickal faery wreath or perhaps you would like to learn how to make a faery

house outside on the Faery Porch that will be covered with blooming wisteria Later we will have a ritual

bath in the spa and a procession to decorate the various Goddess shrines around the property The

Retreat culminates with a ceremony to honor the Goddesses and the Fae in a Council where we sing

together and where each Goddess or Faery can share Her Truth

The fee for the entire weekend Retreat is only $10000 or you may attend only Saturdayrsquos program of

the lecture and meditation for $6000 Sunday however is not open to anyone who has not already

attended the Saturday session Meals are shared in an easygoing potluck fashion You truly have never

had any other experience quite like this one and you will come away re-energized as well as transformed

by the power of your new divine connection

Phone (707) 795-8047

mythicimcnorg

PO Box 758

Cotati CA 94931

Tryst ndash Handfasting Commitment Ceremonies

Z is back sisters And shersquos available to officiate your Trysting wedding ceremonies again The most popular pagan Goddess wedding ceremony was created by Z Budapest in The Holy Book of Womens Mysteries where Z coined the term Tryst Ritual as an expressly feminine marriage ceremony and rite of passage that can be used for heterosexual couples as well as same sex couples

Z Budapest has been conducting Pagan marriage rituals for over 40 years as a celebrated High Priestess within the Dianic Tradition which she founded Z is available to officiate your handfasting ceremony as well Whether its a civil union or a licensed marriage certificate Z is able to offer you her services as clergy She has legal standings through the Womens Spirituality Forum an IRS 501(c)3 non-profit in the state of California making your clergy fees tax deductible You can learn more about Zrsquos Trysting Ritual and schedule your wedding ceremony with her in 2010

Crete Archaeologists discover skeleton covered with gold foil in 2700-year-old grave

Greek archaeologists have found an ancient skeleton covered with gold foil in a grave on the island of Crete officials said Tuesday

Excavator Nicholas Stampolidis said his team discovered more than 3000 pieces of gold foil in the 7th-century BC twin grave near the ancient town of Eleutherna

Cemeteries there have produced a wealth of outstanding artifacts in recent years

The tiny gold ornaments from 1 to 4 centimetres (04 to 15 inches) long had been sewn onto a lavish robe or shroud that initially wrapped the body of a woman and has almost completely rotted away but for a few off-white threads

The whole length of the (grave) was covered with small pieces of gold foil mdash square circular and lozenge-shaped Stampolidis told The Associated Press We were literally digging up gold interspersed with earth not earth with some gold in it

The woman who presumably had a high social or religious status was buried with a second skeleton in a large jar sealed with a stone slab weighing more than half a ton It was hidden behind a false wall to confuse grave robbers

Experts are trying to determine the other skeletons sex The grave also contained a copper bowl pottery perfume bottles imported from Egypt or Syria and Palestine hundreds of amber rock crystal and faience beads as well as a gold pendant in the form of a bee goddess that probably was part of a rock crystal and gold necklace

If you look at it one way up its shaped like a lily said Stampolidis a professor of archaeology at the University of Crete who has worked at Eleutherna for the 25 years Turned upside down you see a female figure holding her breasts whose lower body is shaped as a bee with wings The workmanship is exquisite

The ruins of Eleutherna stand on the northern foothills of Mount Ida mdash the mythical birthplace of Zeus chief of the ancient Greek gods Past excavations have discovered a citadel homes and an important cemetery with lavish female burials

The town flourished from the 9th century BC mdash the dark ages of Greek archaeology that followed the fall of Cretes great Minoan palatial culture mdash and endured until the Middle Ages

httparchaeologynewsnetworkblogspotcom201009archaeologists-on-crete-find-skeletonhtml

SWEET TASTE OF SPRING Susun S Weed

March winds blow the sweet scent of maple sap boiling to my questing nose When the days are warm

and sunny and the nights below freezing the sap rises in the trees If those trees are sugar maples then

it is worth drilling a hole in the bark inserting a tap and collecting their sweet sap There is so much

sugar in sugar maple sap that it can be boiled and turned into maple syrup and maple sugar

Therersquos about one gallon of maple syrup and ninety-nine gallons of water in one hundred gallons of

maple sap A hot fire and a slow but steady boil send that sweet-smelling water vapor high in the clear

cold sky The March wind blows it to me I close my eyes and remember my years of ldquosugaringrdquo making

maple syrup

Therersquos something special about a task that requires one to stay up all night Maple sap starts to ferment

if it is left at normal temperatures for very long Once ten or so gallons of sap have been collected the

boiling begins hellip and cannot be stopped until the finished syrup is achieved many many many hours

later

I have never sugared without at least one overnighter and sometimes two A large operation boils sap

for weeks without stopping just drawing off the syrup as it forms if the run is steady and copious

It was a picture of Helen Nearing driving a team of horses through the woods standing on a sleigh

loaded with buckets of maple sap that made me long for a homestead where I could lead The Simple

Life like her Two years later I had my own ldquosugar bushrdquo (an acre or more of woodlot where large sugar

maples grow) Spring equinox found me with my drill in hand a pocket full of taps and a bunch of funny

buckets with lids to hang from the taps ldquoTing tingrdquo the ping of sap filling the metal buckets echoes

tying me through time to every woman who has ever sugared and bringing a smile to my heart and

face

My groves of sugar maples have never been large enough to require a team of horses or a sleigh Irsquove

always lugged a big bucket out to the trees and poured the sap from the collecting buckets into it When

I have two or three buckets full I pour them into a big galvanized tub set up on cinder blocks over a fire

and commence to boil it down

Native peoples valued maple sugar so highly that they set up camp in the sugar bush and lived there

until the sap stopped flowing Lacking metal drill bits they cut a shallow groove in the bark and pressed

hollow elder stems into service as taps to direct the flow of sap into birch bark containers

I can heat the sap directly in my metal tub while they had to hollow out a log put smooth rocks into the

fire heat them and put the hot rocks into the sap in the hollowed out log to boil it down into maple

syrup and sugar Whew I am impressed with the power of the desire for sweet It takes far more

calories in fuel and human energy to make maple syrup or maple sugar than it returns

Grandmother Twylah taught us that maple trees are friendly and companionable colorful and

expressive They always have a positive attitude and are adept at helping us see solutions to impossible

problems Maple trees are devoted and true Make friends with a maple and you will have a friend for

life she advised

Ellen Everet Hopman green witch reminds us that maple-syrup-making time is Eostrersquos time Eostre

(ee-oh-stir) is the Teutonic goddess of fertility and manifestation Her symbols are the egg and the

rabbit her time is Spring Equinox A lovely custom still enacted but without the underlying magic is to

paint a picture of something you desire on an egg and plant it in the ground so Eostre can help it grow

and become real

If itrsquos too late to tap your maples or you live too far south for the sap to flow strongly you can still be

blessed and embraced by maple A decoction of maple bark boiled in water can be used to ease sore

eyes externally and to tonify the uterus after birth internally

A magical wand of maple wood is used for spells that bring harmony especially in the home And maple

leaves sewn into a charm made of green flannel tied with a golden string will bring abundance into

your life

Indulge your desire for sweet Celebrate spring equinox and Eostre who loves sweet things Have a

stack of pancakes swimming in butter and maple syrup Or pour maple syrup over plain vanilla ice cream

and savor the sweet taste of the friendly maple tree

Green blessings

How much sugar per gallon of sap is quite variable depending on the type of maple the growing

conditions and especially the amount of sun the tree gets Sugar maple (Acer saccharum) sap is the

sweetest followed by the saps of silver maple (Acer saccharinum) Northern red maple (Acer rubrum)

and Norway maple (Acer platanoides)

Susun Weed

PO Box 64

Woodstock NY 12498

Fax 1-845-246-8081

Visit Susun Weed at wwwsusunweedcom and wwwashtreepublishingcom

Vibrant passionate and involved Susun Weed has garnered an international reputation for her

groundbreaking lectures teachings and writings on health and nutrition She challenges conventional

medical approaches with humor insight and her vast encyclopedic knowledge of herbal medicine

Unabashedly pro-woman her animated and enthusiastic lectures are engaging and often profoundly

provocative

Susun is one of Americas best-known authorities on herbal medicine and natural approaches to

womens health Her four best-selling books are recommended by expert herbalists and well-known

physicians and are used and cherished by millions of women around the world Learn more at

wwwsusunweedcom

Susun Weedrsquos books include

Wise Woman Herbal for the Childbearing Year

Author Susun S Weed Simple safe remedies for pregnancy childbirth lactation and

newborns Includes herbs for fertility and birth control Foreword by Jeannine Parvati

Baker 196 pages index illustrations

Healing Wise

Author Susun S Weed Superb herbal in the feminine-intuitive mode Complete

instructions for using common plants for food beauty medicine and longevity

Introduction by Jean Houston 312 pages index illustrations

Menopausal Years the Wise Woman Way

Author Susun S Weed The best book on menopause is now better Completely

revised with 100 new pages All the remedies women know and trust plus hundreds

of new ones New sections on thyroid health fibromyalgia hairy problems male

menopause and herbs for women taking hormones Recommended by Susan Love

MD and Christiane Northrup MD Foreword by Juliette de Bairacli Levy 304 pages

index illustrations

For more info on menopause visit wwwmenopause-metamorphosiscom

Breast Cancer Breast Health

Author Susun S Weed Foods exercises and attitudes to keep your breasts healthy

Supportive complimentary medicines to ease side-effects of surgery radiation

chemotherapy or tamoxifen Foreword by Christiane Northrup MD 380 pages index

illustrations

UPCOMING DIANIC EVENTS

Pagan Examiner ndash Read the articles written by Bobbie and myself Zrsquos Calendar of Events ndash Want to know where I am appearing Goddess Festival ndash You think the last was good Goddess is Alive Tarot Social - A joyful coming-together of the Womenrsquos Tarot community a

Revival of the 70rsquos TRAVELING MAGIC SHOW by a FOREMOTHER of GODDESS SPIRITUALITY The QUEEN of TAROT READINGS and the woman responsible for LEGALIZING TAROT in California hellip Z Budapest

Z Budapest is conducting a most entertaining Tarot Social at her home in

Oakland CA on April 23rd For more information and registration go to

TarotSocialcom

The Dianic University for Women in Goddess

Study the Dianic Tradition with Z Budapest the woman who rebirthed it into modern culture Classes at the Dianic University are designed for women only

Sisterhood of the Moon ~ Womenrsquos Spirituality Coven in the Z Budapest Dianic Tradition

Events in the Sisterhood of the Moon are for women-born-women only Located in Hayward CA You must contact Jesamyn Angelica for more information Many of the members of this group are also members of the Susan B Anthony Coven No1 Facebookpage

Hands of Demeter ~ Womenrsquos Spirituality Coven in the Z Budapest Dianic Tradition

Events in the Hands of Demeter are for women-born-women only Located in Semi Valley CA You must contact httpearthmothercovenantcom for more information Many of the members of this group are also members of the Susan B Anthony Coven No1 Facebook page

The Sacred Circle ~ Recovering amp Reclaiming Ancient Ways to Heal

Events in The Sacred Circle are for members only unless otherwise stated Call JoAnna 775-882-1599 for membership inquiries

Sisterhood of the Turning Tides ~ Womenrsquos Spirituality Coven in the Z Budapest Dianic Tradition

They meet on Esbats and Sabbats and have a Tuesday night drumritual circle Located in Mendocino CA You must contact Sage Simon for more information Many of the members of this group are also members of the Susan B Anthony Coven No1 Facebookpage

You can sponsor Goddess magazine too Click here to helphellip

Deepest Gratitude to Sisters in Goddess for their Donations

The Application for Dianic Clergy Priestess is online

Follow the Goddess Festival on Facebook And Twitter

Thank you sisters who have donated $1 a month to help support our Goddess efforts

You can sponsor Goddess magazine too Click here to helphellip

Vicki Scotti LuAnn Morris and Amy Otero are

Hecatersquos Wheel an acoustic folk trio Their

music is inspired by and dedicated to the

Goddess in all her guises They sing an eclectic

variety of cover songs and original music

Hecatersquos Wheel has been playing and

singing together for several years and their

voices have found a natural harmonious blend

We VERY much enjoyed their Beltaine concert

Goddess Resource Links Z Budapest Website Goddess College Online Goddess Blog ndash Sponsored by the Susan B Anthony Coven Z Budapest Blog Goddess Festival Susan B Anthony Coven Dianic Wicca Tarot Social Witch Trial ndash the last great witch trial in America Zs Events Schedule Zs University Calendar

Zs Books Summoning the Fates Holy Book of Womens Mysteries Celestial Wisdom Grandmother of Time Grandmother Moon Goddess in the Office Goddess in the Bedroom

Page 13: Goddess Magazine (March 2011)

I am going to be a guest speaker at the Women of Spirit and Faith Conference April 28- May 1

The Alchemy of Our Spiritual Leadership Women Redefining Power

Calling all women of spirit and faith This is not your typical womens conference

Imagine the energy of more than 300 women ready for inspiration deep wisdom and potent co-creation

Alchemy Highlights

Inspiring Keynote wisdom from Sister Joan Chittister Valarie Kaur and Naomi Tutu Stimulating Leadership Conversations featuring the wisdom and experience of a dozen diverse women

leaders Informative workshops with a focus on building practical skills and new models for collaborative

leadership Many opportunities for circle dialogue and structured conversation Optional activities such as Open Space Offerings Morning Meditations Yoga Movement Labyrinth Walks

and more The Alchemy Marketplace where you can shop for books jewelry art and music A Beautiful Meditation and Prayer Room for silence and reflection Art music poetry laughter and lots of right-brain fun and stimulation

I am also going to be attending the Glastonbury Goddess Conference 2011

Now five full days of Goddess-loving celebration with Fringe events from Sunday July 24 ndash 31

Celebrating the Great Mother of Water at Lammas details are online wwwgoddessconferencecom

Welcoming two USA two pioneers of the Goddess movement -

Vicki Noble co-creator of the Motherpeace Tarot

Zsuzsanna Budapest Founder of the Dianic Wiccan Tradition and Womenrsquos Spirituality Movement

With Conference Favorites Anique Radiant Heart Barbara Meiklejohn-Free Carolyn Hillyer Julie Felix

Kathy Jones Lydia Ruyle and Lady Olivia Durdin Robertson

With Ceremonies Adorations and Praise Songs to the Great Goddess of Water She who is the Source

and Womb of all Life Participate in moving Sacred Ceremonies take part in inspiring Workshops listen

to fascinating Presentations see beautiful Artwork amp Stalls Performances Music Song Poetry and

Dance Visit the Holy Wells of the Goddess in Avalon cleansing and immersing yourself in Her Healing

Waters Join one of Nine Wells - circles of support and participation in Conference Ceremonies Dance

the night away at the Goddess Gala Buffet and Masque and join our Goddess Procession through the

Landscape to the River Brue with a Fruit Feast

Plus Presenters Priestesses and Spinners Amanda Baker Annabel Du Boulay Anna Saqqara Price

Charissa Schipper Caroline Lir Deonesea la Fey Emma Rose Knight Erin McCauliffe Ganga Ashworth

Georgina Sirett-Hardie Graell Corsini Heloise Pilkington Isabella Verbruggen Isis Queen Jacqui

Woodward-Smith Jennifer Cooper Katinka Soetens Kaye Cooksey Koko Newport Lauren Raine Lisa

Newing Louise Bell Louise Tarrier Lydia Lite Marion van Eupen Mary Bruce Michelle Patten Miriam

Raven Morgaine Noam Zimin Oshia Drury Rose Flint Roz Bound Sally Pullinger Sharlea Johnson

Shirley-Ann Millar Shoshana Horobin Sophie Pullinger Sue Quatermass Tegwyn Hyndman Thalia

Brown Tiana Pitman amp Tina Free plus more great Priestesses amazing helpful Melissas amp lots more

wonderful women and men

My Workshops at Glastonbury

ZSUZSANNA BUDAPEST WE ALL COME FROM THE GODDESS (Women Only)

Sunday July 25th Women from all walks of life come together with High Priestess Zsuzsanna (Z) Budapest in a flowing woman-only Dianic circle celebrating our expanding global sisterhood Beginning with the sacred Dianic purification we enter the circle commune with our ancestors and our divine selves lift up a joyous dedication to the Goddess Sedna of the Deep as we bless all waters inside and outside Chanting dancing and strengthening our bonds of sisterhood We are the flow we are the ebb When the women are healed the whole world is healed Drummers musical instruments voices welcome Dress comfortably Come garlanded with something in season greens or flowers

Z Budapest is the founder of the Dianic (Feminist) Tradition of Wicca in the USA initiating the worldrsquos most famous coven the Susan B Anthony Coven Number One which continues to thrive and brings womenrsquos spirituality into mainstream consciousness (SusanBAnthonyCovencom) Z has led rituals lectured taught classes given workshops written articles tirelessly and published in hundreds of womens newspapers across the country She has powerfully influenced many of the future teachers and writers about the Goddess She is the director of the Womens Spirituality Forum a nonprofit organization and Z founded and sponsors the Dianic Universityrsquos Goddess College (GoddessCollegecom) Her books include Holy Book of Womens Mysteries Grandmother of Time Grandmother Moon See wwwZBudapestcom Venue Glastonbury Assembly Rooms Time 1000am-400pm Fee pound50$85euro65 register online wwwgoddessconferencecom

ZSUZSANNA BUDAPEST ndash TAROT SOCIAL IN MY ROOM (Glastonbury)

July 26-27th Tarot Social information and exact date to be announced

ZSUZSANNA BUDAPEST ndash THE HERSTORY OF THE DIANIC TRADITION (Mixed Audience)

July 28th A multi-media presentation on the Herstory of the Dianic Tradition for a mixed audience Z

Budapest provides the historical background to the origins of the Dianic Tradition as well as important

triumphs that the Dianics fought for and won for the Pagan community and beyond Like the right to

perform divination readings in the United States in public and charge for it Historically it was Z and

Dianics who fought for the rights of this civil liberty in California which then opened the door to other

states to follow suit You can learn more about that at WitchTrialnet This presentation also clears up

some urban legends about the Dianic Tradition Such as itrsquos a man-hating tradition the accusations of

separatism Nothing could be farther from the truth Z Budapest founded the Womenrsquos Spirituality

Movement in 1971 Since then there has been an uninterrupted Goddess worship for the past 40 plus

years of women circling together in sacred celebration of all the Sabbaths and many moons This Dianic

Tradition has spread all over the globe After a brief break the second half of the workshop will involve

spiritual movement and dancing the meeting Dance Finally we will finish with an inspiring multi-media

presentation Prayers to the Mother all living creatures are one

Hope to see you at the Glastonbury Goddess Conference 2011

Follow Z Budapest on Facebook And Twitter

ZSUZSANNA BUDAPEST ndash TAROT SOCIAL

I am doing another women-only Tarot Social on April 23rd at my own home Who wants to host a Tarot

Social For more information visit TarotSocialcom and contact me

After more than thirty years in circulation The Holy Book of Womenrsquos Mysteries is still a ground-breaking book in the forefront of womenrsquos spirituality

Get your own copy of Zrsquos out of print books and DVDs at the Womenrsquos Spirituality Forum online store

Irsquom also available for Tarot Readings I know many of you are going through some tough times and

thatrsquos really when you should be reaching out for a reading Irsquom here if you need me

This magazine is sponsored by the Womenrsquos Spirituality Forum

Please help support our efforts to help keep the Goddess Alive

The Application for Dianic Clergy Priestess is online

Goddess College Updates amp More

We have changed the way the online school is doing business After offering free memberships over

the last four years the changes in the economy have forced us to make changes hellip good changes

The Dianic University has now become the Goddess College and has its own website to boot It was

necessary to update the schoolrsquos software but with all the free accounts the database had gotten too

big to migrate So we were forced to start over from scratch eliminating all the free accounts If you

were a student in good standing and part of a paid class in old Dianic University then we are working to

grandmother you into the new school

The way to gain entry into the new Goddess College is through membership in the Susan B Anthony

Coven 1 Everyone in the Goddess College will be active members of the SBA with only a handful of

exceptions Join the Susan B Anthony Coven 1 - You can apply for membership here

The Susan B Anthony Coven 1 now meets inside the Goddess College and the old DU area is closed

We have updated and moved over the Dianic Feminist Philosophy class and the first Holy Book class The

Holy Book series of classes is being totally reworked and improved Thatrsquos partly due to an alliance wersquove

made with the Ocean Seminary College which will allow us to offer degrees for our course of study We

are currently in process with meeting their requirements to make this happen Very exciting stuff for

womenrsquos spirituality I will keep you updated in my column here in the Goddess Magazine

We are networked up the Hoola-Hoop in Facebook Itrsquos hard to miss everything wersquore doing and yet

some of you are still contacting me and saying you hadnrsquot heard of this or that Get your face into

Facebook my sisters and friend the following pages so you can stay in the know

Z Budapest on Facebook

Z Budapest Fan Page

Goddess Magazine Radio Show Fan Page

Goddess Festival Fan Page

Food Magic Fan Page

Susan B Anthony Coven Fan Page

Why arenrsquot you more active in the Dianic Tradition We have a lot of women who read this Goddess

Magazine every month and it would awesome to have more of you join in with us at the Susan B

Anthony Coven 1 A membership into the worldrsquos most famous all-womenrsquos coven makes for a nice gift

to yourself Give it some thought and then come join us The Womens Spirituality Forum is an IRS

501(c)3 non-profit Your registration fees and your membership are tax deductible

Check out our mobile-friendly portal website wwwGoddessLivecom hellip Wersquove pulled all our

information and articles into one location for you and it doesnrsquot matter if yoursquore a computer user or a

mobile user because wersquove programmed the site to be able to switch back and forth

Goddess Magazine Radio Show

Goddess Magazine Radio Show will be forced to go to a half hour program because of changes at

Blogtalk Radio We will bring you more chats with Z very soon Promise

Look for announcements of the new Goddess Magazine Radio Shows on our Facebook fan page Are you

a member of the Goddess Magazine Radio Show Fan page And now you can listen to Goddess

Magazine Radio Shows on iTunes So open you iTunes and subscribe to our podcasted show

Itrsquos free

Goddess Live Toolbar

Every Sister in Goddess who wants to stay linked in to what Z Budapest is doing should have this

toolbar Itrsquos free Itrsquos easy to install and itrsquos secure Get your own Goddess Live Toolbar right now by

clicking here

Follow the Goddess Festival on Facebook And Twitter

Get your new copy here

OTHER WOMENrsquoS SACRED EVENTS amp TOURS TELL THEM Z SENT YOU A WOMENrsquoS RITUAL RETREAT IN CRETE A JOURNEY TO THE GODDESS MAY 23-JUNE 5TH 2011

Facilitated by Ruth Barrett and Catherine Ridder YES We still have spaces still available for our fourth

ritual retreat to Crete Space is limited to 13 women on a first-come basis If you are interested in

hearing more information about this incredible trip contact Catherine Ridder at 626-793-7520 or email

caridder2netzerocom

Sacred Sites of Avalon England with Donna Virgilio April 27 to May 3 2011 Travel to Stonehenge for a private ceremony in the inner circle Walk to the Tor considered to be the legendary Camelot Tour Roman and Medieval Baths and honor the Goddess Minerva visit and pray at the Chalice Well and see the Sacred Gardens Tour the Glastonbury Goddess Temple and participate in the official Beltaine Festivities and Ceremony See the Boscastle Witchcraft Museum and Journey to Tintagel the mystical birthplace of King Arthur and peek inside Merlinrsquos Cave Walk through Avebury Stonecircle West Kennet Long Barrows Silsbury Hill and see Crop Circles Finally dance at the Avalon Beltaine Fairy Ball featuring Doreen Virtues Band Obsidian

On the Trail of the Goddess in Turkey - Anatolia - Land of the Nourishing Mothers

ON THE TRAIL OF THE GREAT GODDESS

Sacred Journey to Turkey

November 2 - 14 2011

featuring

Karen and Roy Tate

Guided by Rashid Ergener

Visit the sacred goddess sites in Turkey Catalhoyuk Lagina Ephesus Troy and Sardis

httpwwwexaminercomwomen-s-goddess-spirituality-in-los-angelessacred-tour-of-goddess-sites-turkey-coming-november-2011-for-women-men

Check out the new video of sacred places in Turkey Hear the hauntingly beautiful music as the Ancient Mother calls httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=Twbcx8IicxI

8th ANNUAL WISE WOMANS FESTIVAL IN FLORIDA

Come and Greet the Springtime with Our Lady of the Faery

Greenwood April 9th and 10th

Nymphs Dryads Devas Kami Apsaras and Sprites Oh My What is the connection between Goddesses

and Faeryfolk Itrsquos Springtime and even though we have April showers you wonrsquot have to wait for May

to enjoy the flowers Join Morning Glory Zell noted Goddess historian and Priestess for the latest in her

series of Great Goddess Retreats and find out why the Green Goddess is more than a salad dressing

With her 36 years of experience and a collection of over 200 votive Goddess statues get ready for an

unforgettable weekend journey of sacred learning and transformational experience

This Retreat will be held at the Raven Haven Morning Gloryrsquos beautiful 10 acre home in Sonoma County

California Raven Haven is nice and roomy with a deck a pool and a spa and a special magickal Faery

Porch covered with flowering wisteria The Temple Room has huge floor to ceiling glass cases displaying

her collection of Goddess figurines and a large altar covered in beautiful Goddess images If you come

from out of town there is room to camp out (if itrsquos dry) sleep over if you like or you can choose from the

many excellent nearby hotels

The Retreat begins on Saturday the 24th at 200pm and ends on Sunday the 25th at 800pm Saturday

we will devote ourselves to learning and exploring the many Goddesses who have a connection to the

realm of Faery from Danu to Ma Ku Hold the images in your hands and hear their fascinating stories

Later we will journey deep in guided meditation to discover the special one which calls to you

Sunday starts with fun and relaxation as we learn the ancient art of weaving wreaths of living flowers

and plants to make a magickal faery wreath or perhaps you would like to learn how to make a faery

house outside on the Faery Porch that will be covered with blooming wisteria Later we will have a ritual

bath in the spa and a procession to decorate the various Goddess shrines around the property The

Retreat culminates with a ceremony to honor the Goddesses and the Fae in a Council where we sing

together and where each Goddess or Faery can share Her Truth

The fee for the entire weekend Retreat is only $10000 or you may attend only Saturdayrsquos program of

the lecture and meditation for $6000 Sunday however is not open to anyone who has not already

attended the Saturday session Meals are shared in an easygoing potluck fashion You truly have never

had any other experience quite like this one and you will come away re-energized as well as transformed

by the power of your new divine connection

Phone (707) 795-8047

mythicimcnorg

PO Box 758

Cotati CA 94931

Tryst ndash Handfasting Commitment Ceremonies

Z is back sisters And shersquos available to officiate your Trysting wedding ceremonies again The most popular pagan Goddess wedding ceremony was created by Z Budapest in The Holy Book of Womens Mysteries where Z coined the term Tryst Ritual as an expressly feminine marriage ceremony and rite of passage that can be used for heterosexual couples as well as same sex couples

Z Budapest has been conducting Pagan marriage rituals for over 40 years as a celebrated High Priestess within the Dianic Tradition which she founded Z is available to officiate your handfasting ceremony as well Whether its a civil union or a licensed marriage certificate Z is able to offer you her services as clergy She has legal standings through the Womens Spirituality Forum an IRS 501(c)3 non-profit in the state of California making your clergy fees tax deductible You can learn more about Zrsquos Trysting Ritual and schedule your wedding ceremony with her in 2010

Crete Archaeologists discover skeleton covered with gold foil in 2700-year-old grave

Greek archaeologists have found an ancient skeleton covered with gold foil in a grave on the island of Crete officials said Tuesday

Excavator Nicholas Stampolidis said his team discovered more than 3000 pieces of gold foil in the 7th-century BC twin grave near the ancient town of Eleutherna

Cemeteries there have produced a wealth of outstanding artifacts in recent years

The tiny gold ornaments from 1 to 4 centimetres (04 to 15 inches) long had been sewn onto a lavish robe or shroud that initially wrapped the body of a woman and has almost completely rotted away but for a few off-white threads

The whole length of the (grave) was covered with small pieces of gold foil mdash square circular and lozenge-shaped Stampolidis told The Associated Press We were literally digging up gold interspersed with earth not earth with some gold in it

The woman who presumably had a high social or religious status was buried with a second skeleton in a large jar sealed with a stone slab weighing more than half a ton It was hidden behind a false wall to confuse grave robbers

Experts are trying to determine the other skeletons sex The grave also contained a copper bowl pottery perfume bottles imported from Egypt or Syria and Palestine hundreds of amber rock crystal and faience beads as well as a gold pendant in the form of a bee goddess that probably was part of a rock crystal and gold necklace

If you look at it one way up its shaped like a lily said Stampolidis a professor of archaeology at the University of Crete who has worked at Eleutherna for the 25 years Turned upside down you see a female figure holding her breasts whose lower body is shaped as a bee with wings The workmanship is exquisite

The ruins of Eleutherna stand on the northern foothills of Mount Ida mdash the mythical birthplace of Zeus chief of the ancient Greek gods Past excavations have discovered a citadel homes and an important cemetery with lavish female burials

The town flourished from the 9th century BC mdash the dark ages of Greek archaeology that followed the fall of Cretes great Minoan palatial culture mdash and endured until the Middle Ages

httparchaeologynewsnetworkblogspotcom201009archaeologists-on-crete-find-skeletonhtml

SWEET TASTE OF SPRING Susun S Weed

March winds blow the sweet scent of maple sap boiling to my questing nose When the days are warm

and sunny and the nights below freezing the sap rises in the trees If those trees are sugar maples then

it is worth drilling a hole in the bark inserting a tap and collecting their sweet sap There is so much

sugar in sugar maple sap that it can be boiled and turned into maple syrup and maple sugar

Therersquos about one gallon of maple syrup and ninety-nine gallons of water in one hundred gallons of

maple sap A hot fire and a slow but steady boil send that sweet-smelling water vapor high in the clear

cold sky The March wind blows it to me I close my eyes and remember my years of ldquosugaringrdquo making

maple syrup

Therersquos something special about a task that requires one to stay up all night Maple sap starts to ferment

if it is left at normal temperatures for very long Once ten or so gallons of sap have been collected the

boiling begins hellip and cannot be stopped until the finished syrup is achieved many many many hours

later

I have never sugared without at least one overnighter and sometimes two A large operation boils sap

for weeks without stopping just drawing off the syrup as it forms if the run is steady and copious

It was a picture of Helen Nearing driving a team of horses through the woods standing on a sleigh

loaded with buckets of maple sap that made me long for a homestead where I could lead The Simple

Life like her Two years later I had my own ldquosugar bushrdquo (an acre or more of woodlot where large sugar

maples grow) Spring equinox found me with my drill in hand a pocket full of taps and a bunch of funny

buckets with lids to hang from the taps ldquoTing tingrdquo the ping of sap filling the metal buckets echoes

tying me through time to every woman who has ever sugared and bringing a smile to my heart and

face

My groves of sugar maples have never been large enough to require a team of horses or a sleigh Irsquove

always lugged a big bucket out to the trees and poured the sap from the collecting buckets into it When

I have two or three buckets full I pour them into a big galvanized tub set up on cinder blocks over a fire

and commence to boil it down

Native peoples valued maple sugar so highly that they set up camp in the sugar bush and lived there

until the sap stopped flowing Lacking metal drill bits they cut a shallow groove in the bark and pressed

hollow elder stems into service as taps to direct the flow of sap into birch bark containers

I can heat the sap directly in my metal tub while they had to hollow out a log put smooth rocks into the

fire heat them and put the hot rocks into the sap in the hollowed out log to boil it down into maple

syrup and sugar Whew I am impressed with the power of the desire for sweet It takes far more

calories in fuel and human energy to make maple syrup or maple sugar than it returns

Grandmother Twylah taught us that maple trees are friendly and companionable colorful and

expressive They always have a positive attitude and are adept at helping us see solutions to impossible

problems Maple trees are devoted and true Make friends with a maple and you will have a friend for

life she advised

Ellen Everet Hopman green witch reminds us that maple-syrup-making time is Eostrersquos time Eostre

(ee-oh-stir) is the Teutonic goddess of fertility and manifestation Her symbols are the egg and the

rabbit her time is Spring Equinox A lovely custom still enacted but without the underlying magic is to

paint a picture of something you desire on an egg and plant it in the ground so Eostre can help it grow

and become real

If itrsquos too late to tap your maples or you live too far south for the sap to flow strongly you can still be

blessed and embraced by maple A decoction of maple bark boiled in water can be used to ease sore

eyes externally and to tonify the uterus after birth internally

A magical wand of maple wood is used for spells that bring harmony especially in the home And maple

leaves sewn into a charm made of green flannel tied with a golden string will bring abundance into

your life

Indulge your desire for sweet Celebrate spring equinox and Eostre who loves sweet things Have a

stack of pancakes swimming in butter and maple syrup Or pour maple syrup over plain vanilla ice cream

and savor the sweet taste of the friendly maple tree

Green blessings

How much sugar per gallon of sap is quite variable depending on the type of maple the growing

conditions and especially the amount of sun the tree gets Sugar maple (Acer saccharum) sap is the

sweetest followed by the saps of silver maple (Acer saccharinum) Northern red maple (Acer rubrum)

and Norway maple (Acer platanoides)

Susun Weed

PO Box 64

Woodstock NY 12498

Fax 1-845-246-8081

Visit Susun Weed at wwwsusunweedcom and wwwashtreepublishingcom

Vibrant passionate and involved Susun Weed has garnered an international reputation for her

groundbreaking lectures teachings and writings on health and nutrition She challenges conventional

medical approaches with humor insight and her vast encyclopedic knowledge of herbal medicine

Unabashedly pro-woman her animated and enthusiastic lectures are engaging and often profoundly

provocative

Susun is one of Americas best-known authorities on herbal medicine and natural approaches to

womens health Her four best-selling books are recommended by expert herbalists and well-known

physicians and are used and cherished by millions of women around the world Learn more at

wwwsusunweedcom

Susun Weedrsquos books include

Wise Woman Herbal for the Childbearing Year

Author Susun S Weed Simple safe remedies for pregnancy childbirth lactation and

newborns Includes herbs for fertility and birth control Foreword by Jeannine Parvati

Baker 196 pages index illustrations

Healing Wise

Author Susun S Weed Superb herbal in the feminine-intuitive mode Complete

instructions for using common plants for food beauty medicine and longevity

Introduction by Jean Houston 312 pages index illustrations

Menopausal Years the Wise Woman Way

Author Susun S Weed The best book on menopause is now better Completely

revised with 100 new pages All the remedies women know and trust plus hundreds

of new ones New sections on thyroid health fibromyalgia hairy problems male

menopause and herbs for women taking hormones Recommended by Susan Love

MD and Christiane Northrup MD Foreword by Juliette de Bairacli Levy 304 pages

index illustrations

For more info on menopause visit wwwmenopause-metamorphosiscom

Breast Cancer Breast Health

Author Susun S Weed Foods exercises and attitudes to keep your breasts healthy

Supportive complimentary medicines to ease side-effects of surgery radiation

chemotherapy or tamoxifen Foreword by Christiane Northrup MD 380 pages index

illustrations

UPCOMING DIANIC EVENTS

Pagan Examiner ndash Read the articles written by Bobbie and myself Zrsquos Calendar of Events ndash Want to know where I am appearing Goddess Festival ndash You think the last was good Goddess is Alive Tarot Social - A joyful coming-together of the Womenrsquos Tarot community a

Revival of the 70rsquos TRAVELING MAGIC SHOW by a FOREMOTHER of GODDESS SPIRITUALITY The QUEEN of TAROT READINGS and the woman responsible for LEGALIZING TAROT in California hellip Z Budapest

Z Budapest is conducting a most entertaining Tarot Social at her home in

Oakland CA on April 23rd For more information and registration go to

TarotSocialcom

The Dianic University for Women in Goddess

Study the Dianic Tradition with Z Budapest the woman who rebirthed it into modern culture Classes at the Dianic University are designed for women only

Sisterhood of the Moon ~ Womenrsquos Spirituality Coven in the Z Budapest Dianic Tradition

Events in the Sisterhood of the Moon are for women-born-women only Located in Hayward CA You must contact Jesamyn Angelica for more information Many of the members of this group are also members of the Susan B Anthony Coven No1 Facebookpage

Hands of Demeter ~ Womenrsquos Spirituality Coven in the Z Budapest Dianic Tradition

Events in the Hands of Demeter are for women-born-women only Located in Semi Valley CA You must contact httpearthmothercovenantcom for more information Many of the members of this group are also members of the Susan B Anthony Coven No1 Facebook page

The Sacred Circle ~ Recovering amp Reclaiming Ancient Ways to Heal

Events in The Sacred Circle are for members only unless otherwise stated Call JoAnna 775-882-1599 for membership inquiries

Sisterhood of the Turning Tides ~ Womenrsquos Spirituality Coven in the Z Budapest Dianic Tradition

They meet on Esbats and Sabbats and have a Tuesday night drumritual circle Located in Mendocino CA You must contact Sage Simon for more information Many of the members of this group are also members of the Susan B Anthony Coven No1 Facebookpage

You can sponsor Goddess magazine too Click here to helphellip

Deepest Gratitude to Sisters in Goddess for their Donations

The Application for Dianic Clergy Priestess is online

Follow the Goddess Festival on Facebook And Twitter

Thank you sisters who have donated $1 a month to help support our Goddess efforts

You can sponsor Goddess magazine too Click here to helphellip

Vicki Scotti LuAnn Morris and Amy Otero are

Hecatersquos Wheel an acoustic folk trio Their

music is inspired by and dedicated to the

Goddess in all her guises They sing an eclectic

variety of cover songs and original music

Hecatersquos Wheel has been playing and

singing together for several years and their

voices have found a natural harmonious blend

We VERY much enjoyed their Beltaine concert

Goddess Resource Links Z Budapest Website Goddess College Online Goddess Blog ndash Sponsored by the Susan B Anthony Coven Z Budapest Blog Goddess Festival Susan B Anthony Coven Dianic Wicca Tarot Social Witch Trial ndash the last great witch trial in America Zs Events Schedule Zs University Calendar

Zs Books Summoning the Fates Holy Book of Womens Mysteries Celestial Wisdom Grandmother of Time Grandmother Moon Goddess in the Office Goddess in the Bedroom

Page 14: Goddess Magazine (March 2011)

With Ceremonies Adorations and Praise Songs to the Great Goddess of Water She who is the Source

and Womb of all Life Participate in moving Sacred Ceremonies take part in inspiring Workshops listen

to fascinating Presentations see beautiful Artwork amp Stalls Performances Music Song Poetry and

Dance Visit the Holy Wells of the Goddess in Avalon cleansing and immersing yourself in Her Healing

Waters Join one of Nine Wells - circles of support and participation in Conference Ceremonies Dance

the night away at the Goddess Gala Buffet and Masque and join our Goddess Procession through the

Landscape to the River Brue with a Fruit Feast

Plus Presenters Priestesses and Spinners Amanda Baker Annabel Du Boulay Anna Saqqara Price

Charissa Schipper Caroline Lir Deonesea la Fey Emma Rose Knight Erin McCauliffe Ganga Ashworth

Georgina Sirett-Hardie Graell Corsini Heloise Pilkington Isabella Verbruggen Isis Queen Jacqui

Woodward-Smith Jennifer Cooper Katinka Soetens Kaye Cooksey Koko Newport Lauren Raine Lisa

Newing Louise Bell Louise Tarrier Lydia Lite Marion van Eupen Mary Bruce Michelle Patten Miriam

Raven Morgaine Noam Zimin Oshia Drury Rose Flint Roz Bound Sally Pullinger Sharlea Johnson

Shirley-Ann Millar Shoshana Horobin Sophie Pullinger Sue Quatermass Tegwyn Hyndman Thalia

Brown Tiana Pitman amp Tina Free plus more great Priestesses amazing helpful Melissas amp lots more

wonderful women and men

My Workshops at Glastonbury

ZSUZSANNA BUDAPEST WE ALL COME FROM THE GODDESS (Women Only)

Sunday July 25th Women from all walks of life come together with High Priestess Zsuzsanna (Z) Budapest in a flowing woman-only Dianic circle celebrating our expanding global sisterhood Beginning with the sacred Dianic purification we enter the circle commune with our ancestors and our divine selves lift up a joyous dedication to the Goddess Sedna of the Deep as we bless all waters inside and outside Chanting dancing and strengthening our bonds of sisterhood We are the flow we are the ebb When the women are healed the whole world is healed Drummers musical instruments voices welcome Dress comfortably Come garlanded with something in season greens or flowers

Z Budapest is the founder of the Dianic (Feminist) Tradition of Wicca in the USA initiating the worldrsquos most famous coven the Susan B Anthony Coven Number One which continues to thrive and brings womenrsquos spirituality into mainstream consciousness (SusanBAnthonyCovencom) Z has led rituals lectured taught classes given workshops written articles tirelessly and published in hundreds of womens newspapers across the country She has powerfully influenced many of the future teachers and writers about the Goddess She is the director of the Womens Spirituality Forum a nonprofit organization and Z founded and sponsors the Dianic Universityrsquos Goddess College (GoddessCollegecom) Her books include Holy Book of Womens Mysteries Grandmother of Time Grandmother Moon See wwwZBudapestcom Venue Glastonbury Assembly Rooms Time 1000am-400pm Fee pound50$85euro65 register online wwwgoddessconferencecom

ZSUZSANNA BUDAPEST ndash TAROT SOCIAL IN MY ROOM (Glastonbury)

July 26-27th Tarot Social information and exact date to be announced

ZSUZSANNA BUDAPEST ndash THE HERSTORY OF THE DIANIC TRADITION (Mixed Audience)

July 28th A multi-media presentation on the Herstory of the Dianic Tradition for a mixed audience Z

Budapest provides the historical background to the origins of the Dianic Tradition as well as important

triumphs that the Dianics fought for and won for the Pagan community and beyond Like the right to

perform divination readings in the United States in public and charge for it Historically it was Z and

Dianics who fought for the rights of this civil liberty in California which then opened the door to other

states to follow suit You can learn more about that at WitchTrialnet This presentation also clears up

some urban legends about the Dianic Tradition Such as itrsquos a man-hating tradition the accusations of

separatism Nothing could be farther from the truth Z Budapest founded the Womenrsquos Spirituality

Movement in 1971 Since then there has been an uninterrupted Goddess worship for the past 40 plus

years of women circling together in sacred celebration of all the Sabbaths and many moons This Dianic

Tradition has spread all over the globe After a brief break the second half of the workshop will involve

spiritual movement and dancing the meeting Dance Finally we will finish with an inspiring multi-media

presentation Prayers to the Mother all living creatures are one

Hope to see you at the Glastonbury Goddess Conference 2011

Follow Z Budapest on Facebook And Twitter

ZSUZSANNA BUDAPEST ndash TAROT SOCIAL

I am doing another women-only Tarot Social on April 23rd at my own home Who wants to host a Tarot

Social For more information visit TarotSocialcom and contact me

After more than thirty years in circulation The Holy Book of Womenrsquos Mysteries is still a ground-breaking book in the forefront of womenrsquos spirituality

Get your own copy of Zrsquos out of print books and DVDs at the Womenrsquos Spirituality Forum online store

Irsquom also available for Tarot Readings I know many of you are going through some tough times and

thatrsquos really when you should be reaching out for a reading Irsquom here if you need me

This magazine is sponsored by the Womenrsquos Spirituality Forum

Please help support our efforts to help keep the Goddess Alive

The Application for Dianic Clergy Priestess is online

Goddess College Updates amp More

We have changed the way the online school is doing business After offering free memberships over

the last four years the changes in the economy have forced us to make changes hellip good changes

The Dianic University has now become the Goddess College and has its own website to boot It was

necessary to update the schoolrsquos software but with all the free accounts the database had gotten too

big to migrate So we were forced to start over from scratch eliminating all the free accounts If you

were a student in good standing and part of a paid class in old Dianic University then we are working to

grandmother you into the new school

The way to gain entry into the new Goddess College is through membership in the Susan B Anthony

Coven 1 Everyone in the Goddess College will be active members of the SBA with only a handful of

exceptions Join the Susan B Anthony Coven 1 - You can apply for membership here

The Susan B Anthony Coven 1 now meets inside the Goddess College and the old DU area is closed

We have updated and moved over the Dianic Feminist Philosophy class and the first Holy Book class The

Holy Book series of classes is being totally reworked and improved Thatrsquos partly due to an alliance wersquove

made with the Ocean Seminary College which will allow us to offer degrees for our course of study We

are currently in process with meeting their requirements to make this happen Very exciting stuff for

womenrsquos spirituality I will keep you updated in my column here in the Goddess Magazine

We are networked up the Hoola-Hoop in Facebook Itrsquos hard to miss everything wersquore doing and yet

some of you are still contacting me and saying you hadnrsquot heard of this or that Get your face into

Facebook my sisters and friend the following pages so you can stay in the know

Z Budapest on Facebook

Z Budapest Fan Page

Goddess Magazine Radio Show Fan Page

Goddess Festival Fan Page

Food Magic Fan Page

Susan B Anthony Coven Fan Page

Why arenrsquot you more active in the Dianic Tradition We have a lot of women who read this Goddess

Magazine every month and it would awesome to have more of you join in with us at the Susan B

Anthony Coven 1 A membership into the worldrsquos most famous all-womenrsquos coven makes for a nice gift

to yourself Give it some thought and then come join us The Womens Spirituality Forum is an IRS

501(c)3 non-profit Your registration fees and your membership are tax deductible

Check out our mobile-friendly portal website wwwGoddessLivecom hellip Wersquove pulled all our

information and articles into one location for you and it doesnrsquot matter if yoursquore a computer user or a

mobile user because wersquove programmed the site to be able to switch back and forth

Goddess Magazine Radio Show

Goddess Magazine Radio Show will be forced to go to a half hour program because of changes at

Blogtalk Radio We will bring you more chats with Z very soon Promise

Look for announcements of the new Goddess Magazine Radio Shows on our Facebook fan page Are you

a member of the Goddess Magazine Radio Show Fan page And now you can listen to Goddess

Magazine Radio Shows on iTunes So open you iTunes and subscribe to our podcasted show

Itrsquos free

Goddess Live Toolbar

Every Sister in Goddess who wants to stay linked in to what Z Budapest is doing should have this

toolbar Itrsquos free Itrsquos easy to install and itrsquos secure Get your own Goddess Live Toolbar right now by

clicking here

Follow the Goddess Festival on Facebook And Twitter

Get your new copy here

OTHER WOMENrsquoS SACRED EVENTS amp TOURS TELL THEM Z SENT YOU A WOMENrsquoS RITUAL RETREAT IN CRETE A JOURNEY TO THE GODDESS MAY 23-JUNE 5TH 2011

Facilitated by Ruth Barrett and Catherine Ridder YES We still have spaces still available for our fourth

ritual retreat to Crete Space is limited to 13 women on a first-come basis If you are interested in

hearing more information about this incredible trip contact Catherine Ridder at 626-793-7520 or email

caridder2netzerocom

Sacred Sites of Avalon England with Donna Virgilio April 27 to May 3 2011 Travel to Stonehenge for a private ceremony in the inner circle Walk to the Tor considered to be the legendary Camelot Tour Roman and Medieval Baths and honor the Goddess Minerva visit and pray at the Chalice Well and see the Sacred Gardens Tour the Glastonbury Goddess Temple and participate in the official Beltaine Festivities and Ceremony See the Boscastle Witchcraft Museum and Journey to Tintagel the mystical birthplace of King Arthur and peek inside Merlinrsquos Cave Walk through Avebury Stonecircle West Kennet Long Barrows Silsbury Hill and see Crop Circles Finally dance at the Avalon Beltaine Fairy Ball featuring Doreen Virtues Band Obsidian

On the Trail of the Goddess in Turkey - Anatolia - Land of the Nourishing Mothers

ON THE TRAIL OF THE GREAT GODDESS

Sacred Journey to Turkey

November 2 - 14 2011

featuring

Karen and Roy Tate

Guided by Rashid Ergener

Visit the sacred goddess sites in Turkey Catalhoyuk Lagina Ephesus Troy and Sardis

httpwwwexaminercomwomen-s-goddess-spirituality-in-los-angelessacred-tour-of-goddess-sites-turkey-coming-november-2011-for-women-men

Check out the new video of sacred places in Turkey Hear the hauntingly beautiful music as the Ancient Mother calls httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=Twbcx8IicxI

8th ANNUAL WISE WOMANS FESTIVAL IN FLORIDA

Come and Greet the Springtime with Our Lady of the Faery

Greenwood April 9th and 10th

Nymphs Dryads Devas Kami Apsaras and Sprites Oh My What is the connection between Goddesses

and Faeryfolk Itrsquos Springtime and even though we have April showers you wonrsquot have to wait for May

to enjoy the flowers Join Morning Glory Zell noted Goddess historian and Priestess for the latest in her

series of Great Goddess Retreats and find out why the Green Goddess is more than a salad dressing

With her 36 years of experience and a collection of over 200 votive Goddess statues get ready for an

unforgettable weekend journey of sacred learning and transformational experience

This Retreat will be held at the Raven Haven Morning Gloryrsquos beautiful 10 acre home in Sonoma County

California Raven Haven is nice and roomy with a deck a pool and a spa and a special magickal Faery

Porch covered with flowering wisteria The Temple Room has huge floor to ceiling glass cases displaying

her collection of Goddess figurines and a large altar covered in beautiful Goddess images If you come

from out of town there is room to camp out (if itrsquos dry) sleep over if you like or you can choose from the

many excellent nearby hotels

The Retreat begins on Saturday the 24th at 200pm and ends on Sunday the 25th at 800pm Saturday

we will devote ourselves to learning and exploring the many Goddesses who have a connection to the

realm of Faery from Danu to Ma Ku Hold the images in your hands and hear their fascinating stories

Later we will journey deep in guided meditation to discover the special one which calls to you

Sunday starts with fun and relaxation as we learn the ancient art of weaving wreaths of living flowers

and plants to make a magickal faery wreath or perhaps you would like to learn how to make a faery

house outside on the Faery Porch that will be covered with blooming wisteria Later we will have a ritual

bath in the spa and a procession to decorate the various Goddess shrines around the property The

Retreat culminates with a ceremony to honor the Goddesses and the Fae in a Council where we sing

together and where each Goddess or Faery can share Her Truth

The fee for the entire weekend Retreat is only $10000 or you may attend only Saturdayrsquos program of

the lecture and meditation for $6000 Sunday however is not open to anyone who has not already

attended the Saturday session Meals are shared in an easygoing potluck fashion You truly have never

had any other experience quite like this one and you will come away re-energized as well as transformed

by the power of your new divine connection

Phone (707) 795-8047

mythicimcnorg

PO Box 758

Cotati CA 94931

Tryst ndash Handfasting Commitment Ceremonies

Z is back sisters And shersquos available to officiate your Trysting wedding ceremonies again The most popular pagan Goddess wedding ceremony was created by Z Budapest in The Holy Book of Womens Mysteries where Z coined the term Tryst Ritual as an expressly feminine marriage ceremony and rite of passage that can be used for heterosexual couples as well as same sex couples

Z Budapest has been conducting Pagan marriage rituals for over 40 years as a celebrated High Priestess within the Dianic Tradition which she founded Z is available to officiate your handfasting ceremony as well Whether its a civil union or a licensed marriage certificate Z is able to offer you her services as clergy She has legal standings through the Womens Spirituality Forum an IRS 501(c)3 non-profit in the state of California making your clergy fees tax deductible You can learn more about Zrsquos Trysting Ritual and schedule your wedding ceremony with her in 2010

Crete Archaeologists discover skeleton covered with gold foil in 2700-year-old grave

Greek archaeologists have found an ancient skeleton covered with gold foil in a grave on the island of Crete officials said Tuesday

Excavator Nicholas Stampolidis said his team discovered more than 3000 pieces of gold foil in the 7th-century BC twin grave near the ancient town of Eleutherna

Cemeteries there have produced a wealth of outstanding artifacts in recent years

The tiny gold ornaments from 1 to 4 centimetres (04 to 15 inches) long had been sewn onto a lavish robe or shroud that initially wrapped the body of a woman and has almost completely rotted away but for a few off-white threads

The whole length of the (grave) was covered with small pieces of gold foil mdash square circular and lozenge-shaped Stampolidis told The Associated Press We were literally digging up gold interspersed with earth not earth with some gold in it

The woman who presumably had a high social or religious status was buried with a second skeleton in a large jar sealed with a stone slab weighing more than half a ton It was hidden behind a false wall to confuse grave robbers

Experts are trying to determine the other skeletons sex The grave also contained a copper bowl pottery perfume bottles imported from Egypt or Syria and Palestine hundreds of amber rock crystal and faience beads as well as a gold pendant in the form of a bee goddess that probably was part of a rock crystal and gold necklace

If you look at it one way up its shaped like a lily said Stampolidis a professor of archaeology at the University of Crete who has worked at Eleutherna for the 25 years Turned upside down you see a female figure holding her breasts whose lower body is shaped as a bee with wings The workmanship is exquisite

The ruins of Eleutherna stand on the northern foothills of Mount Ida mdash the mythical birthplace of Zeus chief of the ancient Greek gods Past excavations have discovered a citadel homes and an important cemetery with lavish female burials

The town flourished from the 9th century BC mdash the dark ages of Greek archaeology that followed the fall of Cretes great Minoan palatial culture mdash and endured until the Middle Ages

httparchaeologynewsnetworkblogspotcom201009archaeologists-on-crete-find-skeletonhtml

SWEET TASTE OF SPRING Susun S Weed

March winds blow the sweet scent of maple sap boiling to my questing nose When the days are warm

and sunny and the nights below freezing the sap rises in the trees If those trees are sugar maples then

it is worth drilling a hole in the bark inserting a tap and collecting their sweet sap There is so much

sugar in sugar maple sap that it can be boiled and turned into maple syrup and maple sugar

Therersquos about one gallon of maple syrup and ninety-nine gallons of water in one hundred gallons of

maple sap A hot fire and a slow but steady boil send that sweet-smelling water vapor high in the clear

cold sky The March wind blows it to me I close my eyes and remember my years of ldquosugaringrdquo making

maple syrup

Therersquos something special about a task that requires one to stay up all night Maple sap starts to ferment

if it is left at normal temperatures for very long Once ten or so gallons of sap have been collected the

boiling begins hellip and cannot be stopped until the finished syrup is achieved many many many hours

later

I have never sugared without at least one overnighter and sometimes two A large operation boils sap

for weeks without stopping just drawing off the syrup as it forms if the run is steady and copious

It was a picture of Helen Nearing driving a team of horses through the woods standing on a sleigh

loaded with buckets of maple sap that made me long for a homestead where I could lead The Simple

Life like her Two years later I had my own ldquosugar bushrdquo (an acre or more of woodlot where large sugar

maples grow) Spring equinox found me with my drill in hand a pocket full of taps and a bunch of funny

buckets with lids to hang from the taps ldquoTing tingrdquo the ping of sap filling the metal buckets echoes

tying me through time to every woman who has ever sugared and bringing a smile to my heart and

face

My groves of sugar maples have never been large enough to require a team of horses or a sleigh Irsquove

always lugged a big bucket out to the trees and poured the sap from the collecting buckets into it When

I have two or three buckets full I pour them into a big galvanized tub set up on cinder blocks over a fire

and commence to boil it down

Native peoples valued maple sugar so highly that they set up camp in the sugar bush and lived there

until the sap stopped flowing Lacking metal drill bits they cut a shallow groove in the bark and pressed

hollow elder stems into service as taps to direct the flow of sap into birch bark containers

I can heat the sap directly in my metal tub while they had to hollow out a log put smooth rocks into the

fire heat them and put the hot rocks into the sap in the hollowed out log to boil it down into maple

syrup and sugar Whew I am impressed with the power of the desire for sweet It takes far more

calories in fuel and human energy to make maple syrup or maple sugar than it returns

Grandmother Twylah taught us that maple trees are friendly and companionable colorful and

expressive They always have a positive attitude and are adept at helping us see solutions to impossible

problems Maple trees are devoted and true Make friends with a maple and you will have a friend for

life she advised

Ellen Everet Hopman green witch reminds us that maple-syrup-making time is Eostrersquos time Eostre

(ee-oh-stir) is the Teutonic goddess of fertility and manifestation Her symbols are the egg and the

rabbit her time is Spring Equinox A lovely custom still enacted but without the underlying magic is to

paint a picture of something you desire on an egg and plant it in the ground so Eostre can help it grow

and become real

If itrsquos too late to tap your maples or you live too far south for the sap to flow strongly you can still be

blessed and embraced by maple A decoction of maple bark boiled in water can be used to ease sore

eyes externally and to tonify the uterus after birth internally

A magical wand of maple wood is used for spells that bring harmony especially in the home And maple

leaves sewn into a charm made of green flannel tied with a golden string will bring abundance into

your life

Indulge your desire for sweet Celebrate spring equinox and Eostre who loves sweet things Have a

stack of pancakes swimming in butter and maple syrup Or pour maple syrup over plain vanilla ice cream

and savor the sweet taste of the friendly maple tree

Green blessings

How much sugar per gallon of sap is quite variable depending on the type of maple the growing

conditions and especially the amount of sun the tree gets Sugar maple (Acer saccharum) sap is the

sweetest followed by the saps of silver maple (Acer saccharinum) Northern red maple (Acer rubrum)

and Norway maple (Acer platanoides)

Susun Weed

PO Box 64

Woodstock NY 12498

Fax 1-845-246-8081

Visit Susun Weed at wwwsusunweedcom and wwwashtreepublishingcom

Vibrant passionate and involved Susun Weed has garnered an international reputation for her

groundbreaking lectures teachings and writings on health and nutrition She challenges conventional

medical approaches with humor insight and her vast encyclopedic knowledge of herbal medicine

Unabashedly pro-woman her animated and enthusiastic lectures are engaging and often profoundly

provocative

Susun is one of Americas best-known authorities on herbal medicine and natural approaches to

womens health Her four best-selling books are recommended by expert herbalists and well-known

physicians and are used and cherished by millions of women around the world Learn more at

wwwsusunweedcom

Susun Weedrsquos books include

Wise Woman Herbal for the Childbearing Year

Author Susun S Weed Simple safe remedies for pregnancy childbirth lactation and

newborns Includes herbs for fertility and birth control Foreword by Jeannine Parvati

Baker 196 pages index illustrations

Healing Wise

Author Susun S Weed Superb herbal in the feminine-intuitive mode Complete

instructions for using common plants for food beauty medicine and longevity

Introduction by Jean Houston 312 pages index illustrations

Menopausal Years the Wise Woman Way

Author Susun S Weed The best book on menopause is now better Completely

revised with 100 new pages All the remedies women know and trust plus hundreds

of new ones New sections on thyroid health fibromyalgia hairy problems male

menopause and herbs for women taking hormones Recommended by Susan Love

MD and Christiane Northrup MD Foreword by Juliette de Bairacli Levy 304 pages

index illustrations

For more info on menopause visit wwwmenopause-metamorphosiscom

Breast Cancer Breast Health

Author Susun S Weed Foods exercises and attitudes to keep your breasts healthy

Supportive complimentary medicines to ease side-effects of surgery radiation

chemotherapy or tamoxifen Foreword by Christiane Northrup MD 380 pages index

illustrations

UPCOMING DIANIC EVENTS

Pagan Examiner ndash Read the articles written by Bobbie and myself Zrsquos Calendar of Events ndash Want to know where I am appearing Goddess Festival ndash You think the last was good Goddess is Alive Tarot Social - A joyful coming-together of the Womenrsquos Tarot community a

Revival of the 70rsquos TRAVELING MAGIC SHOW by a FOREMOTHER of GODDESS SPIRITUALITY The QUEEN of TAROT READINGS and the woman responsible for LEGALIZING TAROT in California hellip Z Budapest

Z Budapest is conducting a most entertaining Tarot Social at her home in

Oakland CA on April 23rd For more information and registration go to

TarotSocialcom

The Dianic University for Women in Goddess

Study the Dianic Tradition with Z Budapest the woman who rebirthed it into modern culture Classes at the Dianic University are designed for women only

Sisterhood of the Moon ~ Womenrsquos Spirituality Coven in the Z Budapest Dianic Tradition

Events in the Sisterhood of the Moon are for women-born-women only Located in Hayward CA You must contact Jesamyn Angelica for more information Many of the members of this group are also members of the Susan B Anthony Coven No1 Facebookpage

Hands of Demeter ~ Womenrsquos Spirituality Coven in the Z Budapest Dianic Tradition

Events in the Hands of Demeter are for women-born-women only Located in Semi Valley CA You must contact httpearthmothercovenantcom for more information Many of the members of this group are also members of the Susan B Anthony Coven No1 Facebook page

The Sacred Circle ~ Recovering amp Reclaiming Ancient Ways to Heal

Events in The Sacred Circle are for members only unless otherwise stated Call JoAnna 775-882-1599 for membership inquiries

Sisterhood of the Turning Tides ~ Womenrsquos Spirituality Coven in the Z Budapest Dianic Tradition

They meet on Esbats and Sabbats and have a Tuesday night drumritual circle Located in Mendocino CA You must contact Sage Simon for more information Many of the members of this group are also members of the Susan B Anthony Coven No1 Facebookpage

You can sponsor Goddess magazine too Click here to helphellip

Deepest Gratitude to Sisters in Goddess for their Donations

The Application for Dianic Clergy Priestess is online

Follow the Goddess Festival on Facebook And Twitter

Thank you sisters who have donated $1 a month to help support our Goddess efforts

You can sponsor Goddess magazine too Click here to helphellip

Vicki Scotti LuAnn Morris and Amy Otero are

Hecatersquos Wheel an acoustic folk trio Their

music is inspired by and dedicated to the

Goddess in all her guises They sing an eclectic

variety of cover songs and original music

Hecatersquos Wheel has been playing and

singing together for several years and their

voices have found a natural harmonious blend

We VERY much enjoyed their Beltaine concert

Goddess Resource Links Z Budapest Website Goddess College Online Goddess Blog ndash Sponsored by the Susan B Anthony Coven Z Budapest Blog Goddess Festival Susan B Anthony Coven Dianic Wicca Tarot Social Witch Trial ndash the last great witch trial in America Zs Events Schedule Zs University Calendar

Zs Books Summoning the Fates Holy Book of Womens Mysteries Celestial Wisdom Grandmother of Time Grandmother Moon Goddess in the Office Goddess in the Bedroom

Page 15: Goddess Magazine (March 2011)

ZSUZSANNA BUDAPEST ndash TAROT SOCIAL IN MY ROOM (Glastonbury)

July 26-27th Tarot Social information and exact date to be announced

ZSUZSANNA BUDAPEST ndash THE HERSTORY OF THE DIANIC TRADITION (Mixed Audience)

July 28th A multi-media presentation on the Herstory of the Dianic Tradition for a mixed audience Z

Budapest provides the historical background to the origins of the Dianic Tradition as well as important

triumphs that the Dianics fought for and won for the Pagan community and beyond Like the right to

perform divination readings in the United States in public and charge for it Historically it was Z and

Dianics who fought for the rights of this civil liberty in California which then opened the door to other

states to follow suit You can learn more about that at WitchTrialnet This presentation also clears up

some urban legends about the Dianic Tradition Such as itrsquos a man-hating tradition the accusations of

separatism Nothing could be farther from the truth Z Budapest founded the Womenrsquos Spirituality

Movement in 1971 Since then there has been an uninterrupted Goddess worship for the past 40 plus

years of women circling together in sacred celebration of all the Sabbaths and many moons This Dianic

Tradition has spread all over the globe After a brief break the second half of the workshop will involve

spiritual movement and dancing the meeting Dance Finally we will finish with an inspiring multi-media

presentation Prayers to the Mother all living creatures are one

Hope to see you at the Glastonbury Goddess Conference 2011

Follow Z Budapest on Facebook And Twitter

ZSUZSANNA BUDAPEST ndash TAROT SOCIAL

I am doing another women-only Tarot Social on April 23rd at my own home Who wants to host a Tarot

Social For more information visit TarotSocialcom and contact me

After more than thirty years in circulation The Holy Book of Womenrsquos Mysteries is still a ground-breaking book in the forefront of womenrsquos spirituality

Get your own copy of Zrsquos out of print books and DVDs at the Womenrsquos Spirituality Forum online store

Irsquom also available for Tarot Readings I know many of you are going through some tough times and

thatrsquos really when you should be reaching out for a reading Irsquom here if you need me

This magazine is sponsored by the Womenrsquos Spirituality Forum

Please help support our efforts to help keep the Goddess Alive

The Application for Dianic Clergy Priestess is online

Goddess College Updates amp More

We have changed the way the online school is doing business After offering free memberships over

the last four years the changes in the economy have forced us to make changes hellip good changes

The Dianic University has now become the Goddess College and has its own website to boot It was

necessary to update the schoolrsquos software but with all the free accounts the database had gotten too

big to migrate So we were forced to start over from scratch eliminating all the free accounts If you

were a student in good standing and part of a paid class in old Dianic University then we are working to

grandmother you into the new school

The way to gain entry into the new Goddess College is through membership in the Susan B Anthony

Coven 1 Everyone in the Goddess College will be active members of the SBA with only a handful of

exceptions Join the Susan B Anthony Coven 1 - You can apply for membership here

The Susan B Anthony Coven 1 now meets inside the Goddess College and the old DU area is closed

We have updated and moved over the Dianic Feminist Philosophy class and the first Holy Book class The

Holy Book series of classes is being totally reworked and improved Thatrsquos partly due to an alliance wersquove

made with the Ocean Seminary College which will allow us to offer degrees for our course of study We

are currently in process with meeting their requirements to make this happen Very exciting stuff for

womenrsquos spirituality I will keep you updated in my column here in the Goddess Magazine

We are networked up the Hoola-Hoop in Facebook Itrsquos hard to miss everything wersquore doing and yet

some of you are still contacting me and saying you hadnrsquot heard of this or that Get your face into

Facebook my sisters and friend the following pages so you can stay in the know

Z Budapest on Facebook

Z Budapest Fan Page

Goddess Magazine Radio Show Fan Page

Goddess Festival Fan Page

Food Magic Fan Page

Susan B Anthony Coven Fan Page

Why arenrsquot you more active in the Dianic Tradition We have a lot of women who read this Goddess

Magazine every month and it would awesome to have more of you join in with us at the Susan B

Anthony Coven 1 A membership into the worldrsquos most famous all-womenrsquos coven makes for a nice gift

to yourself Give it some thought and then come join us The Womens Spirituality Forum is an IRS

501(c)3 non-profit Your registration fees and your membership are tax deductible

Check out our mobile-friendly portal website wwwGoddessLivecom hellip Wersquove pulled all our

information and articles into one location for you and it doesnrsquot matter if yoursquore a computer user or a

mobile user because wersquove programmed the site to be able to switch back and forth

Goddess Magazine Radio Show

Goddess Magazine Radio Show will be forced to go to a half hour program because of changes at

Blogtalk Radio We will bring you more chats with Z very soon Promise

Look for announcements of the new Goddess Magazine Radio Shows on our Facebook fan page Are you

a member of the Goddess Magazine Radio Show Fan page And now you can listen to Goddess

Magazine Radio Shows on iTunes So open you iTunes and subscribe to our podcasted show

Itrsquos free

Goddess Live Toolbar

Every Sister in Goddess who wants to stay linked in to what Z Budapest is doing should have this

toolbar Itrsquos free Itrsquos easy to install and itrsquos secure Get your own Goddess Live Toolbar right now by

clicking here

Follow the Goddess Festival on Facebook And Twitter

Get your new copy here

OTHER WOMENrsquoS SACRED EVENTS amp TOURS TELL THEM Z SENT YOU A WOMENrsquoS RITUAL RETREAT IN CRETE A JOURNEY TO THE GODDESS MAY 23-JUNE 5TH 2011

Facilitated by Ruth Barrett and Catherine Ridder YES We still have spaces still available for our fourth

ritual retreat to Crete Space is limited to 13 women on a first-come basis If you are interested in

hearing more information about this incredible trip contact Catherine Ridder at 626-793-7520 or email

caridder2netzerocom

Sacred Sites of Avalon England with Donna Virgilio April 27 to May 3 2011 Travel to Stonehenge for a private ceremony in the inner circle Walk to the Tor considered to be the legendary Camelot Tour Roman and Medieval Baths and honor the Goddess Minerva visit and pray at the Chalice Well and see the Sacred Gardens Tour the Glastonbury Goddess Temple and participate in the official Beltaine Festivities and Ceremony See the Boscastle Witchcraft Museum and Journey to Tintagel the mystical birthplace of King Arthur and peek inside Merlinrsquos Cave Walk through Avebury Stonecircle West Kennet Long Barrows Silsbury Hill and see Crop Circles Finally dance at the Avalon Beltaine Fairy Ball featuring Doreen Virtues Band Obsidian

On the Trail of the Goddess in Turkey - Anatolia - Land of the Nourishing Mothers

ON THE TRAIL OF THE GREAT GODDESS

Sacred Journey to Turkey

November 2 - 14 2011

featuring

Karen and Roy Tate

Guided by Rashid Ergener

Visit the sacred goddess sites in Turkey Catalhoyuk Lagina Ephesus Troy and Sardis

httpwwwexaminercomwomen-s-goddess-spirituality-in-los-angelessacred-tour-of-goddess-sites-turkey-coming-november-2011-for-women-men

Check out the new video of sacred places in Turkey Hear the hauntingly beautiful music as the Ancient Mother calls httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=Twbcx8IicxI

8th ANNUAL WISE WOMANS FESTIVAL IN FLORIDA

Come and Greet the Springtime with Our Lady of the Faery

Greenwood April 9th and 10th

Nymphs Dryads Devas Kami Apsaras and Sprites Oh My What is the connection between Goddesses

and Faeryfolk Itrsquos Springtime and even though we have April showers you wonrsquot have to wait for May

to enjoy the flowers Join Morning Glory Zell noted Goddess historian and Priestess for the latest in her

series of Great Goddess Retreats and find out why the Green Goddess is more than a salad dressing

With her 36 years of experience and a collection of over 200 votive Goddess statues get ready for an

unforgettable weekend journey of sacred learning and transformational experience

This Retreat will be held at the Raven Haven Morning Gloryrsquos beautiful 10 acre home in Sonoma County

California Raven Haven is nice and roomy with a deck a pool and a spa and a special magickal Faery

Porch covered with flowering wisteria The Temple Room has huge floor to ceiling glass cases displaying

her collection of Goddess figurines and a large altar covered in beautiful Goddess images If you come

from out of town there is room to camp out (if itrsquos dry) sleep over if you like or you can choose from the

many excellent nearby hotels

The Retreat begins on Saturday the 24th at 200pm and ends on Sunday the 25th at 800pm Saturday

we will devote ourselves to learning and exploring the many Goddesses who have a connection to the

realm of Faery from Danu to Ma Ku Hold the images in your hands and hear their fascinating stories

Later we will journey deep in guided meditation to discover the special one which calls to you

Sunday starts with fun and relaxation as we learn the ancient art of weaving wreaths of living flowers

and plants to make a magickal faery wreath or perhaps you would like to learn how to make a faery

house outside on the Faery Porch that will be covered with blooming wisteria Later we will have a ritual

bath in the spa and a procession to decorate the various Goddess shrines around the property The

Retreat culminates with a ceremony to honor the Goddesses and the Fae in a Council where we sing

together and where each Goddess or Faery can share Her Truth

The fee for the entire weekend Retreat is only $10000 or you may attend only Saturdayrsquos program of

the lecture and meditation for $6000 Sunday however is not open to anyone who has not already

attended the Saturday session Meals are shared in an easygoing potluck fashion You truly have never

had any other experience quite like this one and you will come away re-energized as well as transformed

by the power of your new divine connection

Phone (707) 795-8047

mythicimcnorg

PO Box 758

Cotati CA 94931

Tryst ndash Handfasting Commitment Ceremonies

Z is back sisters And shersquos available to officiate your Trysting wedding ceremonies again The most popular pagan Goddess wedding ceremony was created by Z Budapest in The Holy Book of Womens Mysteries where Z coined the term Tryst Ritual as an expressly feminine marriage ceremony and rite of passage that can be used for heterosexual couples as well as same sex couples

Z Budapest has been conducting Pagan marriage rituals for over 40 years as a celebrated High Priestess within the Dianic Tradition which she founded Z is available to officiate your handfasting ceremony as well Whether its a civil union or a licensed marriage certificate Z is able to offer you her services as clergy She has legal standings through the Womens Spirituality Forum an IRS 501(c)3 non-profit in the state of California making your clergy fees tax deductible You can learn more about Zrsquos Trysting Ritual and schedule your wedding ceremony with her in 2010

Crete Archaeologists discover skeleton covered with gold foil in 2700-year-old grave

Greek archaeologists have found an ancient skeleton covered with gold foil in a grave on the island of Crete officials said Tuesday

Excavator Nicholas Stampolidis said his team discovered more than 3000 pieces of gold foil in the 7th-century BC twin grave near the ancient town of Eleutherna

Cemeteries there have produced a wealth of outstanding artifacts in recent years

The tiny gold ornaments from 1 to 4 centimetres (04 to 15 inches) long had been sewn onto a lavish robe or shroud that initially wrapped the body of a woman and has almost completely rotted away but for a few off-white threads

The whole length of the (grave) was covered with small pieces of gold foil mdash square circular and lozenge-shaped Stampolidis told The Associated Press We were literally digging up gold interspersed with earth not earth with some gold in it

The woman who presumably had a high social or religious status was buried with a second skeleton in a large jar sealed with a stone slab weighing more than half a ton It was hidden behind a false wall to confuse grave robbers

Experts are trying to determine the other skeletons sex The grave also contained a copper bowl pottery perfume bottles imported from Egypt or Syria and Palestine hundreds of amber rock crystal and faience beads as well as a gold pendant in the form of a bee goddess that probably was part of a rock crystal and gold necklace

If you look at it one way up its shaped like a lily said Stampolidis a professor of archaeology at the University of Crete who has worked at Eleutherna for the 25 years Turned upside down you see a female figure holding her breasts whose lower body is shaped as a bee with wings The workmanship is exquisite

The ruins of Eleutherna stand on the northern foothills of Mount Ida mdash the mythical birthplace of Zeus chief of the ancient Greek gods Past excavations have discovered a citadel homes and an important cemetery with lavish female burials

The town flourished from the 9th century BC mdash the dark ages of Greek archaeology that followed the fall of Cretes great Minoan palatial culture mdash and endured until the Middle Ages

httparchaeologynewsnetworkblogspotcom201009archaeologists-on-crete-find-skeletonhtml

SWEET TASTE OF SPRING Susun S Weed

March winds blow the sweet scent of maple sap boiling to my questing nose When the days are warm

and sunny and the nights below freezing the sap rises in the trees If those trees are sugar maples then

it is worth drilling a hole in the bark inserting a tap and collecting their sweet sap There is so much

sugar in sugar maple sap that it can be boiled and turned into maple syrup and maple sugar

Therersquos about one gallon of maple syrup and ninety-nine gallons of water in one hundred gallons of

maple sap A hot fire and a slow but steady boil send that sweet-smelling water vapor high in the clear

cold sky The March wind blows it to me I close my eyes and remember my years of ldquosugaringrdquo making

maple syrup

Therersquos something special about a task that requires one to stay up all night Maple sap starts to ferment

if it is left at normal temperatures for very long Once ten or so gallons of sap have been collected the

boiling begins hellip and cannot be stopped until the finished syrup is achieved many many many hours

later

I have never sugared without at least one overnighter and sometimes two A large operation boils sap

for weeks without stopping just drawing off the syrup as it forms if the run is steady and copious

It was a picture of Helen Nearing driving a team of horses through the woods standing on a sleigh

loaded with buckets of maple sap that made me long for a homestead where I could lead The Simple

Life like her Two years later I had my own ldquosugar bushrdquo (an acre or more of woodlot where large sugar

maples grow) Spring equinox found me with my drill in hand a pocket full of taps and a bunch of funny

buckets with lids to hang from the taps ldquoTing tingrdquo the ping of sap filling the metal buckets echoes

tying me through time to every woman who has ever sugared and bringing a smile to my heart and

face

My groves of sugar maples have never been large enough to require a team of horses or a sleigh Irsquove

always lugged a big bucket out to the trees and poured the sap from the collecting buckets into it When

I have two or three buckets full I pour them into a big galvanized tub set up on cinder blocks over a fire

and commence to boil it down

Native peoples valued maple sugar so highly that they set up camp in the sugar bush and lived there

until the sap stopped flowing Lacking metal drill bits they cut a shallow groove in the bark and pressed

hollow elder stems into service as taps to direct the flow of sap into birch bark containers

I can heat the sap directly in my metal tub while they had to hollow out a log put smooth rocks into the

fire heat them and put the hot rocks into the sap in the hollowed out log to boil it down into maple

syrup and sugar Whew I am impressed with the power of the desire for sweet It takes far more

calories in fuel and human energy to make maple syrup or maple sugar than it returns

Grandmother Twylah taught us that maple trees are friendly and companionable colorful and

expressive They always have a positive attitude and are adept at helping us see solutions to impossible

problems Maple trees are devoted and true Make friends with a maple and you will have a friend for

life she advised

Ellen Everet Hopman green witch reminds us that maple-syrup-making time is Eostrersquos time Eostre

(ee-oh-stir) is the Teutonic goddess of fertility and manifestation Her symbols are the egg and the

rabbit her time is Spring Equinox A lovely custom still enacted but without the underlying magic is to

paint a picture of something you desire on an egg and plant it in the ground so Eostre can help it grow

and become real

If itrsquos too late to tap your maples or you live too far south for the sap to flow strongly you can still be

blessed and embraced by maple A decoction of maple bark boiled in water can be used to ease sore

eyes externally and to tonify the uterus after birth internally

A magical wand of maple wood is used for spells that bring harmony especially in the home And maple

leaves sewn into a charm made of green flannel tied with a golden string will bring abundance into

your life

Indulge your desire for sweet Celebrate spring equinox and Eostre who loves sweet things Have a

stack of pancakes swimming in butter and maple syrup Or pour maple syrup over plain vanilla ice cream

and savor the sweet taste of the friendly maple tree

Green blessings

How much sugar per gallon of sap is quite variable depending on the type of maple the growing

conditions and especially the amount of sun the tree gets Sugar maple (Acer saccharum) sap is the

sweetest followed by the saps of silver maple (Acer saccharinum) Northern red maple (Acer rubrum)

and Norway maple (Acer platanoides)

Susun Weed

PO Box 64

Woodstock NY 12498

Fax 1-845-246-8081

Visit Susun Weed at wwwsusunweedcom and wwwashtreepublishingcom

Vibrant passionate and involved Susun Weed has garnered an international reputation for her

groundbreaking lectures teachings and writings on health and nutrition She challenges conventional

medical approaches with humor insight and her vast encyclopedic knowledge of herbal medicine

Unabashedly pro-woman her animated and enthusiastic lectures are engaging and often profoundly

provocative

Susun is one of Americas best-known authorities on herbal medicine and natural approaches to

womens health Her four best-selling books are recommended by expert herbalists and well-known

physicians and are used and cherished by millions of women around the world Learn more at

wwwsusunweedcom

Susun Weedrsquos books include

Wise Woman Herbal for the Childbearing Year

Author Susun S Weed Simple safe remedies for pregnancy childbirth lactation and

newborns Includes herbs for fertility and birth control Foreword by Jeannine Parvati

Baker 196 pages index illustrations

Healing Wise

Author Susun S Weed Superb herbal in the feminine-intuitive mode Complete

instructions for using common plants for food beauty medicine and longevity

Introduction by Jean Houston 312 pages index illustrations

Menopausal Years the Wise Woman Way

Author Susun S Weed The best book on menopause is now better Completely

revised with 100 new pages All the remedies women know and trust plus hundreds

of new ones New sections on thyroid health fibromyalgia hairy problems male

menopause and herbs for women taking hormones Recommended by Susan Love

MD and Christiane Northrup MD Foreword by Juliette de Bairacli Levy 304 pages

index illustrations

For more info on menopause visit wwwmenopause-metamorphosiscom

Breast Cancer Breast Health

Author Susun S Weed Foods exercises and attitudes to keep your breasts healthy

Supportive complimentary medicines to ease side-effects of surgery radiation

chemotherapy or tamoxifen Foreword by Christiane Northrup MD 380 pages index

illustrations

UPCOMING DIANIC EVENTS

Pagan Examiner ndash Read the articles written by Bobbie and myself Zrsquos Calendar of Events ndash Want to know where I am appearing Goddess Festival ndash You think the last was good Goddess is Alive Tarot Social - A joyful coming-together of the Womenrsquos Tarot community a

Revival of the 70rsquos TRAVELING MAGIC SHOW by a FOREMOTHER of GODDESS SPIRITUALITY The QUEEN of TAROT READINGS and the woman responsible for LEGALIZING TAROT in California hellip Z Budapest

Z Budapest is conducting a most entertaining Tarot Social at her home in

Oakland CA on April 23rd For more information and registration go to

TarotSocialcom

The Dianic University for Women in Goddess

Study the Dianic Tradition with Z Budapest the woman who rebirthed it into modern culture Classes at the Dianic University are designed for women only

Sisterhood of the Moon ~ Womenrsquos Spirituality Coven in the Z Budapest Dianic Tradition

Events in the Sisterhood of the Moon are for women-born-women only Located in Hayward CA You must contact Jesamyn Angelica for more information Many of the members of this group are also members of the Susan B Anthony Coven No1 Facebookpage

Hands of Demeter ~ Womenrsquos Spirituality Coven in the Z Budapest Dianic Tradition

Events in the Hands of Demeter are for women-born-women only Located in Semi Valley CA You must contact httpearthmothercovenantcom for more information Many of the members of this group are also members of the Susan B Anthony Coven No1 Facebook page

The Sacred Circle ~ Recovering amp Reclaiming Ancient Ways to Heal

Events in The Sacred Circle are for members only unless otherwise stated Call JoAnna 775-882-1599 for membership inquiries

Sisterhood of the Turning Tides ~ Womenrsquos Spirituality Coven in the Z Budapest Dianic Tradition

They meet on Esbats and Sabbats and have a Tuesday night drumritual circle Located in Mendocino CA You must contact Sage Simon for more information Many of the members of this group are also members of the Susan B Anthony Coven No1 Facebookpage

You can sponsor Goddess magazine too Click here to helphellip

Deepest Gratitude to Sisters in Goddess for their Donations

The Application for Dianic Clergy Priestess is online

Follow the Goddess Festival on Facebook And Twitter

Thank you sisters who have donated $1 a month to help support our Goddess efforts

You can sponsor Goddess magazine too Click here to helphellip

Vicki Scotti LuAnn Morris and Amy Otero are

Hecatersquos Wheel an acoustic folk trio Their

music is inspired by and dedicated to the

Goddess in all her guises They sing an eclectic

variety of cover songs and original music

Hecatersquos Wheel has been playing and

singing together for several years and their

voices have found a natural harmonious blend

We VERY much enjoyed their Beltaine concert

Goddess Resource Links Z Budapest Website Goddess College Online Goddess Blog ndash Sponsored by the Susan B Anthony Coven Z Budapest Blog Goddess Festival Susan B Anthony Coven Dianic Wicca Tarot Social Witch Trial ndash the last great witch trial in America Zs Events Schedule Zs University Calendar

Zs Books Summoning the Fates Holy Book of Womens Mysteries Celestial Wisdom Grandmother of Time Grandmother Moon Goddess in the Office Goddess in the Bedroom

Page 16: Goddess Magazine (March 2011)

ZSUZSANNA BUDAPEST ndash TAROT SOCIAL

I am doing another women-only Tarot Social on April 23rd at my own home Who wants to host a Tarot

Social For more information visit TarotSocialcom and contact me

After more than thirty years in circulation The Holy Book of Womenrsquos Mysteries is still a ground-breaking book in the forefront of womenrsquos spirituality

Get your own copy of Zrsquos out of print books and DVDs at the Womenrsquos Spirituality Forum online store

Irsquom also available for Tarot Readings I know many of you are going through some tough times and

thatrsquos really when you should be reaching out for a reading Irsquom here if you need me

This magazine is sponsored by the Womenrsquos Spirituality Forum

Please help support our efforts to help keep the Goddess Alive

The Application for Dianic Clergy Priestess is online

Goddess College Updates amp More

We have changed the way the online school is doing business After offering free memberships over

the last four years the changes in the economy have forced us to make changes hellip good changes

The Dianic University has now become the Goddess College and has its own website to boot It was

necessary to update the schoolrsquos software but with all the free accounts the database had gotten too

big to migrate So we were forced to start over from scratch eliminating all the free accounts If you

were a student in good standing and part of a paid class in old Dianic University then we are working to

grandmother you into the new school

The way to gain entry into the new Goddess College is through membership in the Susan B Anthony

Coven 1 Everyone in the Goddess College will be active members of the SBA with only a handful of

exceptions Join the Susan B Anthony Coven 1 - You can apply for membership here

The Susan B Anthony Coven 1 now meets inside the Goddess College and the old DU area is closed

We have updated and moved over the Dianic Feminist Philosophy class and the first Holy Book class The

Holy Book series of classes is being totally reworked and improved Thatrsquos partly due to an alliance wersquove

made with the Ocean Seminary College which will allow us to offer degrees for our course of study We

are currently in process with meeting their requirements to make this happen Very exciting stuff for

womenrsquos spirituality I will keep you updated in my column here in the Goddess Magazine

We are networked up the Hoola-Hoop in Facebook Itrsquos hard to miss everything wersquore doing and yet

some of you are still contacting me and saying you hadnrsquot heard of this or that Get your face into

Facebook my sisters and friend the following pages so you can stay in the know

Z Budapest on Facebook

Z Budapest Fan Page

Goddess Magazine Radio Show Fan Page

Goddess Festival Fan Page

Food Magic Fan Page

Susan B Anthony Coven Fan Page

Why arenrsquot you more active in the Dianic Tradition We have a lot of women who read this Goddess

Magazine every month and it would awesome to have more of you join in with us at the Susan B

Anthony Coven 1 A membership into the worldrsquos most famous all-womenrsquos coven makes for a nice gift

to yourself Give it some thought and then come join us The Womens Spirituality Forum is an IRS

501(c)3 non-profit Your registration fees and your membership are tax deductible

Check out our mobile-friendly portal website wwwGoddessLivecom hellip Wersquove pulled all our

information and articles into one location for you and it doesnrsquot matter if yoursquore a computer user or a

mobile user because wersquove programmed the site to be able to switch back and forth

Goddess Magazine Radio Show

Goddess Magazine Radio Show will be forced to go to a half hour program because of changes at

Blogtalk Radio We will bring you more chats with Z very soon Promise

Look for announcements of the new Goddess Magazine Radio Shows on our Facebook fan page Are you

a member of the Goddess Magazine Radio Show Fan page And now you can listen to Goddess

Magazine Radio Shows on iTunes So open you iTunes and subscribe to our podcasted show

Itrsquos free

Goddess Live Toolbar

Every Sister in Goddess who wants to stay linked in to what Z Budapest is doing should have this

toolbar Itrsquos free Itrsquos easy to install and itrsquos secure Get your own Goddess Live Toolbar right now by

clicking here

Follow the Goddess Festival on Facebook And Twitter

Get your new copy here

OTHER WOMENrsquoS SACRED EVENTS amp TOURS TELL THEM Z SENT YOU A WOMENrsquoS RITUAL RETREAT IN CRETE A JOURNEY TO THE GODDESS MAY 23-JUNE 5TH 2011

Facilitated by Ruth Barrett and Catherine Ridder YES We still have spaces still available for our fourth

ritual retreat to Crete Space is limited to 13 women on a first-come basis If you are interested in

hearing more information about this incredible trip contact Catherine Ridder at 626-793-7520 or email

caridder2netzerocom

Sacred Sites of Avalon England with Donna Virgilio April 27 to May 3 2011 Travel to Stonehenge for a private ceremony in the inner circle Walk to the Tor considered to be the legendary Camelot Tour Roman and Medieval Baths and honor the Goddess Minerva visit and pray at the Chalice Well and see the Sacred Gardens Tour the Glastonbury Goddess Temple and participate in the official Beltaine Festivities and Ceremony See the Boscastle Witchcraft Museum and Journey to Tintagel the mystical birthplace of King Arthur and peek inside Merlinrsquos Cave Walk through Avebury Stonecircle West Kennet Long Barrows Silsbury Hill and see Crop Circles Finally dance at the Avalon Beltaine Fairy Ball featuring Doreen Virtues Band Obsidian

On the Trail of the Goddess in Turkey - Anatolia - Land of the Nourishing Mothers

ON THE TRAIL OF THE GREAT GODDESS

Sacred Journey to Turkey

November 2 - 14 2011

featuring

Karen and Roy Tate

Guided by Rashid Ergener

Visit the sacred goddess sites in Turkey Catalhoyuk Lagina Ephesus Troy and Sardis

httpwwwexaminercomwomen-s-goddess-spirituality-in-los-angelessacred-tour-of-goddess-sites-turkey-coming-november-2011-for-women-men

Check out the new video of sacred places in Turkey Hear the hauntingly beautiful music as the Ancient Mother calls httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=Twbcx8IicxI

8th ANNUAL WISE WOMANS FESTIVAL IN FLORIDA

Come and Greet the Springtime with Our Lady of the Faery

Greenwood April 9th and 10th

Nymphs Dryads Devas Kami Apsaras and Sprites Oh My What is the connection between Goddesses

and Faeryfolk Itrsquos Springtime and even though we have April showers you wonrsquot have to wait for May

to enjoy the flowers Join Morning Glory Zell noted Goddess historian and Priestess for the latest in her

series of Great Goddess Retreats and find out why the Green Goddess is more than a salad dressing

With her 36 years of experience and a collection of over 200 votive Goddess statues get ready for an

unforgettable weekend journey of sacred learning and transformational experience

This Retreat will be held at the Raven Haven Morning Gloryrsquos beautiful 10 acre home in Sonoma County

California Raven Haven is nice and roomy with a deck a pool and a spa and a special magickal Faery

Porch covered with flowering wisteria The Temple Room has huge floor to ceiling glass cases displaying

her collection of Goddess figurines and a large altar covered in beautiful Goddess images If you come

from out of town there is room to camp out (if itrsquos dry) sleep over if you like or you can choose from the

many excellent nearby hotels

The Retreat begins on Saturday the 24th at 200pm and ends on Sunday the 25th at 800pm Saturday

we will devote ourselves to learning and exploring the many Goddesses who have a connection to the

realm of Faery from Danu to Ma Ku Hold the images in your hands and hear their fascinating stories

Later we will journey deep in guided meditation to discover the special one which calls to you

Sunday starts with fun and relaxation as we learn the ancient art of weaving wreaths of living flowers

and plants to make a magickal faery wreath or perhaps you would like to learn how to make a faery

house outside on the Faery Porch that will be covered with blooming wisteria Later we will have a ritual

bath in the spa and a procession to decorate the various Goddess shrines around the property The

Retreat culminates with a ceremony to honor the Goddesses and the Fae in a Council where we sing

together and where each Goddess or Faery can share Her Truth

The fee for the entire weekend Retreat is only $10000 or you may attend only Saturdayrsquos program of

the lecture and meditation for $6000 Sunday however is not open to anyone who has not already

attended the Saturday session Meals are shared in an easygoing potluck fashion You truly have never

had any other experience quite like this one and you will come away re-energized as well as transformed

by the power of your new divine connection

Phone (707) 795-8047

mythicimcnorg

PO Box 758

Cotati CA 94931

Tryst ndash Handfasting Commitment Ceremonies

Z is back sisters And shersquos available to officiate your Trysting wedding ceremonies again The most popular pagan Goddess wedding ceremony was created by Z Budapest in The Holy Book of Womens Mysteries where Z coined the term Tryst Ritual as an expressly feminine marriage ceremony and rite of passage that can be used for heterosexual couples as well as same sex couples

Z Budapest has been conducting Pagan marriage rituals for over 40 years as a celebrated High Priestess within the Dianic Tradition which she founded Z is available to officiate your handfasting ceremony as well Whether its a civil union or a licensed marriage certificate Z is able to offer you her services as clergy She has legal standings through the Womens Spirituality Forum an IRS 501(c)3 non-profit in the state of California making your clergy fees tax deductible You can learn more about Zrsquos Trysting Ritual and schedule your wedding ceremony with her in 2010

Crete Archaeologists discover skeleton covered with gold foil in 2700-year-old grave

Greek archaeologists have found an ancient skeleton covered with gold foil in a grave on the island of Crete officials said Tuesday

Excavator Nicholas Stampolidis said his team discovered more than 3000 pieces of gold foil in the 7th-century BC twin grave near the ancient town of Eleutherna

Cemeteries there have produced a wealth of outstanding artifacts in recent years

The tiny gold ornaments from 1 to 4 centimetres (04 to 15 inches) long had been sewn onto a lavish robe or shroud that initially wrapped the body of a woman and has almost completely rotted away but for a few off-white threads

The whole length of the (grave) was covered with small pieces of gold foil mdash square circular and lozenge-shaped Stampolidis told The Associated Press We were literally digging up gold interspersed with earth not earth with some gold in it

The woman who presumably had a high social or religious status was buried with a second skeleton in a large jar sealed with a stone slab weighing more than half a ton It was hidden behind a false wall to confuse grave robbers

Experts are trying to determine the other skeletons sex The grave also contained a copper bowl pottery perfume bottles imported from Egypt or Syria and Palestine hundreds of amber rock crystal and faience beads as well as a gold pendant in the form of a bee goddess that probably was part of a rock crystal and gold necklace

If you look at it one way up its shaped like a lily said Stampolidis a professor of archaeology at the University of Crete who has worked at Eleutherna for the 25 years Turned upside down you see a female figure holding her breasts whose lower body is shaped as a bee with wings The workmanship is exquisite

The ruins of Eleutherna stand on the northern foothills of Mount Ida mdash the mythical birthplace of Zeus chief of the ancient Greek gods Past excavations have discovered a citadel homes and an important cemetery with lavish female burials

The town flourished from the 9th century BC mdash the dark ages of Greek archaeology that followed the fall of Cretes great Minoan palatial culture mdash and endured until the Middle Ages

httparchaeologynewsnetworkblogspotcom201009archaeologists-on-crete-find-skeletonhtml

SWEET TASTE OF SPRING Susun S Weed

March winds blow the sweet scent of maple sap boiling to my questing nose When the days are warm

and sunny and the nights below freezing the sap rises in the trees If those trees are sugar maples then

it is worth drilling a hole in the bark inserting a tap and collecting their sweet sap There is so much

sugar in sugar maple sap that it can be boiled and turned into maple syrup and maple sugar

Therersquos about one gallon of maple syrup and ninety-nine gallons of water in one hundred gallons of

maple sap A hot fire and a slow but steady boil send that sweet-smelling water vapor high in the clear

cold sky The March wind blows it to me I close my eyes and remember my years of ldquosugaringrdquo making

maple syrup

Therersquos something special about a task that requires one to stay up all night Maple sap starts to ferment

if it is left at normal temperatures for very long Once ten or so gallons of sap have been collected the

boiling begins hellip and cannot be stopped until the finished syrup is achieved many many many hours

later

I have never sugared without at least one overnighter and sometimes two A large operation boils sap

for weeks without stopping just drawing off the syrup as it forms if the run is steady and copious

It was a picture of Helen Nearing driving a team of horses through the woods standing on a sleigh

loaded with buckets of maple sap that made me long for a homestead where I could lead The Simple

Life like her Two years later I had my own ldquosugar bushrdquo (an acre or more of woodlot where large sugar

maples grow) Spring equinox found me with my drill in hand a pocket full of taps and a bunch of funny

buckets with lids to hang from the taps ldquoTing tingrdquo the ping of sap filling the metal buckets echoes

tying me through time to every woman who has ever sugared and bringing a smile to my heart and

face

My groves of sugar maples have never been large enough to require a team of horses or a sleigh Irsquove

always lugged a big bucket out to the trees and poured the sap from the collecting buckets into it When

I have two or three buckets full I pour them into a big galvanized tub set up on cinder blocks over a fire

and commence to boil it down

Native peoples valued maple sugar so highly that they set up camp in the sugar bush and lived there

until the sap stopped flowing Lacking metal drill bits they cut a shallow groove in the bark and pressed

hollow elder stems into service as taps to direct the flow of sap into birch bark containers

I can heat the sap directly in my metal tub while they had to hollow out a log put smooth rocks into the

fire heat them and put the hot rocks into the sap in the hollowed out log to boil it down into maple

syrup and sugar Whew I am impressed with the power of the desire for sweet It takes far more

calories in fuel and human energy to make maple syrup or maple sugar than it returns

Grandmother Twylah taught us that maple trees are friendly and companionable colorful and

expressive They always have a positive attitude and are adept at helping us see solutions to impossible

problems Maple trees are devoted and true Make friends with a maple and you will have a friend for

life she advised

Ellen Everet Hopman green witch reminds us that maple-syrup-making time is Eostrersquos time Eostre

(ee-oh-stir) is the Teutonic goddess of fertility and manifestation Her symbols are the egg and the

rabbit her time is Spring Equinox A lovely custom still enacted but without the underlying magic is to

paint a picture of something you desire on an egg and plant it in the ground so Eostre can help it grow

and become real

If itrsquos too late to tap your maples or you live too far south for the sap to flow strongly you can still be

blessed and embraced by maple A decoction of maple bark boiled in water can be used to ease sore

eyes externally and to tonify the uterus after birth internally

A magical wand of maple wood is used for spells that bring harmony especially in the home And maple

leaves sewn into a charm made of green flannel tied with a golden string will bring abundance into

your life

Indulge your desire for sweet Celebrate spring equinox and Eostre who loves sweet things Have a

stack of pancakes swimming in butter and maple syrup Or pour maple syrup over plain vanilla ice cream

and savor the sweet taste of the friendly maple tree

Green blessings

How much sugar per gallon of sap is quite variable depending on the type of maple the growing

conditions and especially the amount of sun the tree gets Sugar maple (Acer saccharum) sap is the

sweetest followed by the saps of silver maple (Acer saccharinum) Northern red maple (Acer rubrum)

and Norway maple (Acer platanoides)

Susun Weed

PO Box 64

Woodstock NY 12498

Fax 1-845-246-8081

Visit Susun Weed at wwwsusunweedcom and wwwashtreepublishingcom

Vibrant passionate and involved Susun Weed has garnered an international reputation for her

groundbreaking lectures teachings and writings on health and nutrition She challenges conventional

medical approaches with humor insight and her vast encyclopedic knowledge of herbal medicine

Unabashedly pro-woman her animated and enthusiastic lectures are engaging and often profoundly

provocative

Susun is one of Americas best-known authorities on herbal medicine and natural approaches to

womens health Her four best-selling books are recommended by expert herbalists and well-known

physicians and are used and cherished by millions of women around the world Learn more at

wwwsusunweedcom

Susun Weedrsquos books include

Wise Woman Herbal for the Childbearing Year

Author Susun S Weed Simple safe remedies for pregnancy childbirth lactation and

newborns Includes herbs for fertility and birth control Foreword by Jeannine Parvati

Baker 196 pages index illustrations

Healing Wise

Author Susun S Weed Superb herbal in the feminine-intuitive mode Complete

instructions for using common plants for food beauty medicine and longevity

Introduction by Jean Houston 312 pages index illustrations

Menopausal Years the Wise Woman Way

Author Susun S Weed The best book on menopause is now better Completely

revised with 100 new pages All the remedies women know and trust plus hundreds

of new ones New sections on thyroid health fibromyalgia hairy problems male

menopause and herbs for women taking hormones Recommended by Susan Love

MD and Christiane Northrup MD Foreword by Juliette de Bairacli Levy 304 pages

index illustrations

For more info on menopause visit wwwmenopause-metamorphosiscom

Breast Cancer Breast Health

Author Susun S Weed Foods exercises and attitudes to keep your breasts healthy

Supportive complimentary medicines to ease side-effects of surgery radiation

chemotherapy or tamoxifen Foreword by Christiane Northrup MD 380 pages index

illustrations

UPCOMING DIANIC EVENTS

Pagan Examiner ndash Read the articles written by Bobbie and myself Zrsquos Calendar of Events ndash Want to know where I am appearing Goddess Festival ndash You think the last was good Goddess is Alive Tarot Social - A joyful coming-together of the Womenrsquos Tarot community a

Revival of the 70rsquos TRAVELING MAGIC SHOW by a FOREMOTHER of GODDESS SPIRITUALITY The QUEEN of TAROT READINGS and the woman responsible for LEGALIZING TAROT in California hellip Z Budapest

Z Budapest is conducting a most entertaining Tarot Social at her home in

Oakland CA on April 23rd For more information and registration go to

TarotSocialcom

The Dianic University for Women in Goddess

Study the Dianic Tradition with Z Budapest the woman who rebirthed it into modern culture Classes at the Dianic University are designed for women only

Sisterhood of the Moon ~ Womenrsquos Spirituality Coven in the Z Budapest Dianic Tradition

Events in the Sisterhood of the Moon are for women-born-women only Located in Hayward CA You must contact Jesamyn Angelica for more information Many of the members of this group are also members of the Susan B Anthony Coven No1 Facebookpage

Hands of Demeter ~ Womenrsquos Spirituality Coven in the Z Budapest Dianic Tradition

Events in the Hands of Demeter are for women-born-women only Located in Semi Valley CA You must contact httpearthmothercovenantcom for more information Many of the members of this group are also members of the Susan B Anthony Coven No1 Facebook page

The Sacred Circle ~ Recovering amp Reclaiming Ancient Ways to Heal

Events in The Sacred Circle are for members only unless otherwise stated Call JoAnna 775-882-1599 for membership inquiries

Sisterhood of the Turning Tides ~ Womenrsquos Spirituality Coven in the Z Budapest Dianic Tradition

They meet on Esbats and Sabbats and have a Tuesday night drumritual circle Located in Mendocino CA You must contact Sage Simon for more information Many of the members of this group are also members of the Susan B Anthony Coven No1 Facebookpage

You can sponsor Goddess magazine too Click here to helphellip

Deepest Gratitude to Sisters in Goddess for their Donations

The Application for Dianic Clergy Priestess is online

Follow the Goddess Festival on Facebook And Twitter

Thank you sisters who have donated $1 a month to help support our Goddess efforts

You can sponsor Goddess magazine too Click here to helphellip

Vicki Scotti LuAnn Morris and Amy Otero are

Hecatersquos Wheel an acoustic folk trio Their

music is inspired by and dedicated to the

Goddess in all her guises They sing an eclectic

variety of cover songs and original music

Hecatersquos Wheel has been playing and

singing together for several years and their

voices have found a natural harmonious blend

We VERY much enjoyed their Beltaine concert

Goddess Resource Links Z Budapest Website Goddess College Online Goddess Blog ndash Sponsored by the Susan B Anthony Coven Z Budapest Blog Goddess Festival Susan B Anthony Coven Dianic Wicca Tarot Social Witch Trial ndash the last great witch trial in America Zs Events Schedule Zs University Calendar

Zs Books Summoning the Fates Holy Book of Womens Mysteries Celestial Wisdom Grandmother of Time Grandmother Moon Goddess in the Office Goddess in the Bedroom

Page 17: Goddess Magazine (March 2011)

Irsquom also available for Tarot Readings I know many of you are going through some tough times and

thatrsquos really when you should be reaching out for a reading Irsquom here if you need me

This magazine is sponsored by the Womenrsquos Spirituality Forum

Please help support our efforts to help keep the Goddess Alive

The Application for Dianic Clergy Priestess is online

Goddess College Updates amp More

We have changed the way the online school is doing business After offering free memberships over

the last four years the changes in the economy have forced us to make changes hellip good changes

The Dianic University has now become the Goddess College and has its own website to boot It was

necessary to update the schoolrsquos software but with all the free accounts the database had gotten too

big to migrate So we were forced to start over from scratch eliminating all the free accounts If you

were a student in good standing and part of a paid class in old Dianic University then we are working to

grandmother you into the new school

The way to gain entry into the new Goddess College is through membership in the Susan B Anthony

Coven 1 Everyone in the Goddess College will be active members of the SBA with only a handful of

exceptions Join the Susan B Anthony Coven 1 - You can apply for membership here

The Susan B Anthony Coven 1 now meets inside the Goddess College and the old DU area is closed

We have updated and moved over the Dianic Feminist Philosophy class and the first Holy Book class The

Holy Book series of classes is being totally reworked and improved Thatrsquos partly due to an alliance wersquove

made with the Ocean Seminary College which will allow us to offer degrees for our course of study We

are currently in process with meeting their requirements to make this happen Very exciting stuff for

womenrsquos spirituality I will keep you updated in my column here in the Goddess Magazine

We are networked up the Hoola-Hoop in Facebook Itrsquos hard to miss everything wersquore doing and yet

some of you are still contacting me and saying you hadnrsquot heard of this or that Get your face into

Facebook my sisters and friend the following pages so you can stay in the know

Z Budapest on Facebook

Z Budapest Fan Page

Goddess Magazine Radio Show Fan Page

Goddess Festival Fan Page

Food Magic Fan Page

Susan B Anthony Coven Fan Page

Why arenrsquot you more active in the Dianic Tradition We have a lot of women who read this Goddess

Magazine every month and it would awesome to have more of you join in with us at the Susan B

Anthony Coven 1 A membership into the worldrsquos most famous all-womenrsquos coven makes for a nice gift

to yourself Give it some thought and then come join us The Womens Spirituality Forum is an IRS

501(c)3 non-profit Your registration fees and your membership are tax deductible

Check out our mobile-friendly portal website wwwGoddessLivecom hellip Wersquove pulled all our

information and articles into one location for you and it doesnrsquot matter if yoursquore a computer user or a

mobile user because wersquove programmed the site to be able to switch back and forth

Goddess Magazine Radio Show

Goddess Magazine Radio Show will be forced to go to a half hour program because of changes at

Blogtalk Radio We will bring you more chats with Z very soon Promise

Look for announcements of the new Goddess Magazine Radio Shows on our Facebook fan page Are you

a member of the Goddess Magazine Radio Show Fan page And now you can listen to Goddess

Magazine Radio Shows on iTunes So open you iTunes and subscribe to our podcasted show

Itrsquos free

Goddess Live Toolbar

Every Sister in Goddess who wants to stay linked in to what Z Budapest is doing should have this

toolbar Itrsquos free Itrsquos easy to install and itrsquos secure Get your own Goddess Live Toolbar right now by

clicking here

Follow the Goddess Festival on Facebook And Twitter

Get your new copy here

OTHER WOMENrsquoS SACRED EVENTS amp TOURS TELL THEM Z SENT YOU A WOMENrsquoS RITUAL RETREAT IN CRETE A JOURNEY TO THE GODDESS MAY 23-JUNE 5TH 2011

Facilitated by Ruth Barrett and Catherine Ridder YES We still have spaces still available for our fourth

ritual retreat to Crete Space is limited to 13 women on a first-come basis If you are interested in

hearing more information about this incredible trip contact Catherine Ridder at 626-793-7520 or email

caridder2netzerocom

Sacred Sites of Avalon England with Donna Virgilio April 27 to May 3 2011 Travel to Stonehenge for a private ceremony in the inner circle Walk to the Tor considered to be the legendary Camelot Tour Roman and Medieval Baths and honor the Goddess Minerva visit and pray at the Chalice Well and see the Sacred Gardens Tour the Glastonbury Goddess Temple and participate in the official Beltaine Festivities and Ceremony See the Boscastle Witchcraft Museum and Journey to Tintagel the mystical birthplace of King Arthur and peek inside Merlinrsquos Cave Walk through Avebury Stonecircle West Kennet Long Barrows Silsbury Hill and see Crop Circles Finally dance at the Avalon Beltaine Fairy Ball featuring Doreen Virtues Band Obsidian

On the Trail of the Goddess in Turkey - Anatolia - Land of the Nourishing Mothers

ON THE TRAIL OF THE GREAT GODDESS

Sacred Journey to Turkey

November 2 - 14 2011

featuring

Karen and Roy Tate

Guided by Rashid Ergener

Visit the sacred goddess sites in Turkey Catalhoyuk Lagina Ephesus Troy and Sardis

httpwwwexaminercomwomen-s-goddess-spirituality-in-los-angelessacred-tour-of-goddess-sites-turkey-coming-november-2011-for-women-men

Check out the new video of sacred places in Turkey Hear the hauntingly beautiful music as the Ancient Mother calls httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=Twbcx8IicxI

8th ANNUAL WISE WOMANS FESTIVAL IN FLORIDA

Come and Greet the Springtime with Our Lady of the Faery

Greenwood April 9th and 10th

Nymphs Dryads Devas Kami Apsaras and Sprites Oh My What is the connection between Goddesses

and Faeryfolk Itrsquos Springtime and even though we have April showers you wonrsquot have to wait for May

to enjoy the flowers Join Morning Glory Zell noted Goddess historian and Priestess for the latest in her

series of Great Goddess Retreats and find out why the Green Goddess is more than a salad dressing

With her 36 years of experience and a collection of over 200 votive Goddess statues get ready for an

unforgettable weekend journey of sacred learning and transformational experience

This Retreat will be held at the Raven Haven Morning Gloryrsquos beautiful 10 acre home in Sonoma County

California Raven Haven is nice and roomy with a deck a pool and a spa and a special magickal Faery

Porch covered with flowering wisteria The Temple Room has huge floor to ceiling glass cases displaying

her collection of Goddess figurines and a large altar covered in beautiful Goddess images If you come

from out of town there is room to camp out (if itrsquos dry) sleep over if you like or you can choose from the

many excellent nearby hotels

The Retreat begins on Saturday the 24th at 200pm and ends on Sunday the 25th at 800pm Saturday

we will devote ourselves to learning and exploring the many Goddesses who have a connection to the

realm of Faery from Danu to Ma Ku Hold the images in your hands and hear their fascinating stories

Later we will journey deep in guided meditation to discover the special one which calls to you

Sunday starts with fun and relaxation as we learn the ancient art of weaving wreaths of living flowers

and plants to make a magickal faery wreath or perhaps you would like to learn how to make a faery

house outside on the Faery Porch that will be covered with blooming wisteria Later we will have a ritual

bath in the spa and a procession to decorate the various Goddess shrines around the property The

Retreat culminates with a ceremony to honor the Goddesses and the Fae in a Council where we sing

together and where each Goddess or Faery can share Her Truth

The fee for the entire weekend Retreat is only $10000 or you may attend only Saturdayrsquos program of

the lecture and meditation for $6000 Sunday however is not open to anyone who has not already

attended the Saturday session Meals are shared in an easygoing potluck fashion You truly have never

had any other experience quite like this one and you will come away re-energized as well as transformed

by the power of your new divine connection

Phone (707) 795-8047

mythicimcnorg

PO Box 758

Cotati CA 94931

Tryst ndash Handfasting Commitment Ceremonies

Z is back sisters And shersquos available to officiate your Trysting wedding ceremonies again The most popular pagan Goddess wedding ceremony was created by Z Budapest in The Holy Book of Womens Mysteries where Z coined the term Tryst Ritual as an expressly feminine marriage ceremony and rite of passage that can be used for heterosexual couples as well as same sex couples

Z Budapest has been conducting Pagan marriage rituals for over 40 years as a celebrated High Priestess within the Dianic Tradition which she founded Z is available to officiate your handfasting ceremony as well Whether its a civil union or a licensed marriage certificate Z is able to offer you her services as clergy She has legal standings through the Womens Spirituality Forum an IRS 501(c)3 non-profit in the state of California making your clergy fees tax deductible You can learn more about Zrsquos Trysting Ritual and schedule your wedding ceremony with her in 2010

Crete Archaeologists discover skeleton covered with gold foil in 2700-year-old grave

Greek archaeologists have found an ancient skeleton covered with gold foil in a grave on the island of Crete officials said Tuesday

Excavator Nicholas Stampolidis said his team discovered more than 3000 pieces of gold foil in the 7th-century BC twin grave near the ancient town of Eleutherna

Cemeteries there have produced a wealth of outstanding artifacts in recent years

The tiny gold ornaments from 1 to 4 centimetres (04 to 15 inches) long had been sewn onto a lavish robe or shroud that initially wrapped the body of a woman and has almost completely rotted away but for a few off-white threads

The whole length of the (grave) was covered with small pieces of gold foil mdash square circular and lozenge-shaped Stampolidis told The Associated Press We were literally digging up gold interspersed with earth not earth with some gold in it

The woman who presumably had a high social or religious status was buried with a second skeleton in a large jar sealed with a stone slab weighing more than half a ton It was hidden behind a false wall to confuse grave robbers

Experts are trying to determine the other skeletons sex The grave also contained a copper bowl pottery perfume bottles imported from Egypt or Syria and Palestine hundreds of amber rock crystal and faience beads as well as a gold pendant in the form of a bee goddess that probably was part of a rock crystal and gold necklace

If you look at it one way up its shaped like a lily said Stampolidis a professor of archaeology at the University of Crete who has worked at Eleutherna for the 25 years Turned upside down you see a female figure holding her breasts whose lower body is shaped as a bee with wings The workmanship is exquisite

The ruins of Eleutherna stand on the northern foothills of Mount Ida mdash the mythical birthplace of Zeus chief of the ancient Greek gods Past excavations have discovered a citadel homes and an important cemetery with lavish female burials

The town flourished from the 9th century BC mdash the dark ages of Greek archaeology that followed the fall of Cretes great Minoan palatial culture mdash and endured until the Middle Ages

httparchaeologynewsnetworkblogspotcom201009archaeologists-on-crete-find-skeletonhtml

SWEET TASTE OF SPRING Susun S Weed

March winds blow the sweet scent of maple sap boiling to my questing nose When the days are warm

and sunny and the nights below freezing the sap rises in the trees If those trees are sugar maples then

it is worth drilling a hole in the bark inserting a tap and collecting their sweet sap There is so much

sugar in sugar maple sap that it can be boiled and turned into maple syrup and maple sugar

Therersquos about one gallon of maple syrup and ninety-nine gallons of water in one hundred gallons of

maple sap A hot fire and a slow but steady boil send that sweet-smelling water vapor high in the clear

cold sky The March wind blows it to me I close my eyes and remember my years of ldquosugaringrdquo making

maple syrup

Therersquos something special about a task that requires one to stay up all night Maple sap starts to ferment

if it is left at normal temperatures for very long Once ten or so gallons of sap have been collected the

boiling begins hellip and cannot be stopped until the finished syrup is achieved many many many hours

later

I have never sugared without at least one overnighter and sometimes two A large operation boils sap

for weeks without stopping just drawing off the syrup as it forms if the run is steady and copious

It was a picture of Helen Nearing driving a team of horses through the woods standing on a sleigh

loaded with buckets of maple sap that made me long for a homestead where I could lead The Simple

Life like her Two years later I had my own ldquosugar bushrdquo (an acre or more of woodlot where large sugar

maples grow) Spring equinox found me with my drill in hand a pocket full of taps and a bunch of funny

buckets with lids to hang from the taps ldquoTing tingrdquo the ping of sap filling the metal buckets echoes

tying me through time to every woman who has ever sugared and bringing a smile to my heart and

face

My groves of sugar maples have never been large enough to require a team of horses or a sleigh Irsquove

always lugged a big bucket out to the trees and poured the sap from the collecting buckets into it When

I have two or three buckets full I pour them into a big galvanized tub set up on cinder blocks over a fire

and commence to boil it down

Native peoples valued maple sugar so highly that they set up camp in the sugar bush and lived there

until the sap stopped flowing Lacking metal drill bits they cut a shallow groove in the bark and pressed

hollow elder stems into service as taps to direct the flow of sap into birch bark containers

I can heat the sap directly in my metal tub while they had to hollow out a log put smooth rocks into the

fire heat them and put the hot rocks into the sap in the hollowed out log to boil it down into maple

syrup and sugar Whew I am impressed with the power of the desire for sweet It takes far more

calories in fuel and human energy to make maple syrup or maple sugar than it returns

Grandmother Twylah taught us that maple trees are friendly and companionable colorful and

expressive They always have a positive attitude and are adept at helping us see solutions to impossible

problems Maple trees are devoted and true Make friends with a maple and you will have a friend for

life she advised

Ellen Everet Hopman green witch reminds us that maple-syrup-making time is Eostrersquos time Eostre

(ee-oh-stir) is the Teutonic goddess of fertility and manifestation Her symbols are the egg and the

rabbit her time is Spring Equinox A lovely custom still enacted but without the underlying magic is to

paint a picture of something you desire on an egg and plant it in the ground so Eostre can help it grow

and become real

If itrsquos too late to tap your maples or you live too far south for the sap to flow strongly you can still be

blessed and embraced by maple A decoction of maple bark boiled in water can be used to ease sore

eyes externally and to tonify the uterus after birth internally

A magical wand of maple wood is used for spells that bring harmony especially in the home And maple

leaves sewn into a charm made of green flannel tied with a golden string will bring abundance into

your life

Indulge your desire for sweet Celebrate spring equinox and Eostre who loves sweet things Have a

stack of pancakes swimming in butter and maple syrup Or pour maple syrup over plain vanilla ice cream

and savor the sweet taste of the friendly maple tree

Green blessings

How much sugar per gallon of sap is quite variable depending on the type of maple the growing

conditions and especially the amount of sun the tree gets Sugar maple (Acer saccharum) sap is the

sweetest followed by the saps of silver maple (Acer saccharinum) Northern red maple (Acer rubrum)

and Norway maple (Acer platanoides)

Susun Weed

PO Box 64

Woodstock NY 12498

Fax 1-845-246-8081

Visit Susun Weed at wwwsusunweedcom and wwwashtreepublishingcom

Vibrant passionate and involved Susun Weed has garnered an international reputation for her

groundbreaking lectures teachings and writings on health and nutrition She challenges conventional

medical approaches with humor insight and her vast encyclopedic knowledge of herbal medicine

Unabashedly pro-woman her animated and enthusiastic lectures are engaging and often profoundly

provocative

Susun is one of Americas best-known authorities on herbal medicine and natural approaches to

womens health Her four best-selling books are recommended by expert herbalists and well-known

physicians and are used and cherished by millions of women around the world Learn more at

wwwsusunweedcom

Susun Weedrsquos books include

Wise Woman Herbal for the Childbearing Year

Author Susun S Weed Simple safe remedies for pregnancy childbirth lactation and

newborns Includes herbs for fertility and birth control Foreword by Jeannine Parvati

Baker 196 pages index illustrations

Healing Wise

Author Susun S Weed Superb herbal in the feminine-intuitive mode Complete

instructions for using common plants for food beauty medicine and longevity

Introduction by Jean Houston 312 pages index illustrations

Menopausal Years the Wise Woman Way

Author Susun S Weed The best book on menopause is now better Completely

revised with 100 new pages All the remedies women know and trust plus hundreds

of new ones New sections on thyroid health fibromyalgia hairy problems male

menopause and herbs for women taking hormones Recommended by Susan Love

MD and Christiane Northrup MD Foreword by Juliette de Bairacli Levy 304 pages

index illustrations

For more info on menopause visit wwwmenopause-metamorphosiscom

Breast Cancer Breast Health

Author Susun S Weed Foods exercises and attitudes to keep your breasts healthy

Supportive complimentary medicines to ease side-effects of surgery radiation

chemotherapy or tamoxifen Foreword by Christiane Northrup MD 380 pages index

illustrations

UPCOMING DIANIC EVENTS

Pagan Examiner ndash Read the articles written by Bobbie and myself Zrsquos Calendar of Events ndash Want to know where I am appearing Goddess Festival ndash You think the last was good Goddess is Alive Tarot Social - A joyful coming-together of the Womenrsquos Tarot community a

Revival of the 70rsquos TRAVELING MAGIC SHOW by a FOREMOTHER of GODDESS SPIRITUALITY The QUEEN of TAROT READINGS and the woman responsible for LEGALIZING TAROT in California hellip Z Budapest

Z Budapest is conducting a most entertaining Tarot Social at her home in

Oakland CA on April 23rd For more information and registration go to

TarotSocialcom

The Dianic University for Women in Goddess

Study the Dianic Tradition with Z Budapest the woman who rebirthed it into modern culture Classes at the Dianic University are designed for women only

Sisterhood of the Moon ~ Womenrsquos Spirituality Coven in the Z Budapest Dianic Tradition

Events in the Sisterhood of the Moon are for women-born-women only Located in Hayward CA You must contact Jesamyn Angelica for more information Many of the members of this group are also members of the Susan B Anthony Coven No1 Facebookpage

Hands of Demeter ~ Womenrsquos Spirituality Coven in the Z Budapest Dianic Tradition

Events in the Hands of Demeter are for women-born-women only Located in Semi Valley CA You must contact httpearthmothercovenantcom for more information Many of the members of this group are also members of the Susan B Anthony Coven No1 Facebook page

The Sacred Circle ~ Recovering amp Reclaiming Ancient Ways to Heal

Events in The Sacred Circle are for members only unless otherwise stated Call JoAnna 775-882-1599 for membership inquiries

Sisterhood of the Turning Tides ~ Womenrsquos Spirituality Coven in the Z Budapest Dianic Tradition

They meet on Esbats and Sabbats and have a Tuesday night drumritual circle Located in Mendocino CA You must contact Sage Simon for more information Many of the members of this group are also members of the Susan B Anthony Coven No1 Facebookpage

You can sponsor Goddess magazine too Click here to helphellip

Deepest Gratitude to Sisters in Goddess for their Donations

The Application for Dianic Clergy Priestess is online

Follow the Goddess Festival on Facebook And Twitter

Thank you sisters who have donated $1 a month to help support our Goddess efforts

You can sponsor Goddess magazine too Click here to helphellip

Vicki Scotti LuAnn Morris and Amy Otero are

Hecatersquos Wheel an acoustic folk trio Their

music is inspired by and dedicated to the

Goddess in all her guises They sing an eclectic

variety of cover songs and original music

Hecatersquos Wheel has been playing and

singing together for several years and their

voices have found a natural harmonious blend

We VERY much enjoyed their Beltaine concert

Goddess Resource Links Z Budapest Website Goddess College Online Goddess Blog ndash Sponsored by the Susan B Anthony Coven Z Budapest Blog Goddess Festival Susan B Anthony Coven Dianic Wicca Tarot Social Witch Trial ndash the last great witch trial in America Zs Events Schedule Zs University Calendar

Zs Books Summoning the Fates Holy Book of Womens Mysteries Celestial Wisdom Grandmother of Time Grandmother Moon Goddess in the Office Goddess in the Bedroom

Page 18: Goddess Magazine (March 2011)

Goddess College Updates amp More

We have changed the way the online school is doing business After offering free memberships over

the last four years the changes in the economy have forced us to make changes hellip good changes

The Dianic University has now become the Goddess College and has its own website to boot It was

necessary to update the schoolrsquos software but with all the free accounts the database had gotten too

big to migrate So we were forced to start over from scratch eliminating all the free accounts If you

were a student in good standing and part of a paid class in old Dianic University then we are working to

grandmother you into the new school

The way to gain entry into the new Goddess College is through membership in the Susan B Anthony

Coven 1 Everyone in the Goddess College will be active members of the SBA with only a handful of

exceptions Join the Susan B Anthony Coven 1 - You can apply for membership here

The Susan B Anthony Coven 1 now meets inside the Goddess College and the old DU area is closed

We have updated and moved over the Dianic Feminist Philosophy class and the first Holy Book class The

Holy Book series of classes is being totally reworked and improved Thatrsquos partly due to an alliance wersquove

made with the Ocean Seminary College which will allow us to offer degrees for our course of study We

are currently in process with meeting their requirements to make this happen Very exciting stuff for

womenrsquos spirituality I will keep you updated in my column here in the Goddess Magazine

We are networked up the Hoola-Hoop in Facebook Itrsquos hard to miss everything wersquore doing and yet

some of you are still contacting me and saying you hadnrsquot heard of this or that Get your face into

Facebook my sisters and friend the following pages so you can stay in the know

Z Budapest on Facebook

Z Budapest Fan Page

Goddess Magazine Radio Show Fan Page

Goddess Festival Fan Page

Food Magic Fan Page

Susan B Anthony Coven Fan Page

Why arenrsquot you more active in the Dianic Tradition We have a lot of women who read this Goddess

Magazine every month and it would awesome to have more of you join in with us at the Susan B

Anthony Coven 1 A membership into the worldrsquos most famous all-womenrsquos coven makes for a nice gift

to yourself Give it some thought and then come join us The Womens Spirituality Forum is an IRS

501(c)3 non-profit Your registration fees and your membership are tax deductible

Check out our mobile-friendly portal website wwwGoddessLivecom hellip Wersquove pulled all our

information and articles into one location for you and it doesnrsquot matter if yoursquore a computer user or a

mobile user because wersquove programmed the site to be able to switch back and forth

Goddess Magazine Radio Show

Goddess Magazine Radio Show will be forced to go to a half hour program because of changes at

Blogtalk Radio We will bring you more chats with Z very soon Promise

Look for announcements of the new Goddess Magazine Radio Shows on our Facebook fan page Are you

a member of the Goddess Magazine Radio Show Fan page And now you can listen to Goddess

Magazine Radio Shows on iTunes So open you iTunes and subscribe to our podcasted show

Itrsquos free

Goddess Live Toolbar

Every Sister in Goddess who wants to stay linked in to what Z Budapest is doing should have this

toolbar Itrsquos free Itrsquos easy to install and itrsquos secure Get your own Goddess Live Toolbar right now by

clicking here

Follow the Goddess Festival on Facebook And Twitter

Get your new copy here

OTHER WOMENrsquoS SACRED EVENTS amp TOURS TELL THEM Z SENT YOU A WOMENrsquoS RITUAL RETREAT IN CRETE A JOURNEY TO THE GODDESS MAY 23-JUNE 5TH 2011

Facilitated by Ruth Barrett and Catherine Ridder YES We still have spaces still available for our fourth

ritual retreat to Crete Space is limited to 13 women on a first-come basis If you are interested in

hearing more information about this incredible trip contact Catherine Ridder at 626-793-7520 or email

caridder2netzerocom

Sacred Sites of Avalon England with Donna Virgilio April 27 to May 3 2011 Travel to Stonehenge for a private ceremony in the inner circle Walk to the Tor considered to be the legendary Camelot Tour Roman and Medieval Baths and honor the Goddess Minerva visit and pray at the Chalice Well and see the Sacred Gardens Tour the Glastonbury Goddess Temple and participate in the official Beltaine Festivities and Ceremony See the Boscastle Witchcraft Museum and Journey to Tintagel the mystical birthplace of King Arthur and peek inside Merlinrsquos Cave Walk through Avebury Stonecircle West Kennet Long Barrows Silsbury Hill and see Crop Circles Finally dance at the Avalon Beltaine Fairy Ball featuring Doreen Virtues Band Obsidian

On the Trail of the Goddess in Turkey - Anatolia - Land of the Nourishing Mothers

ON THE TRAIL OF THE GREAT GODDESS

Sacred Journey to Turkey

November 2 - 14 2011

featuring

Karen and Roy Tate

Guided by Rashid Ergener

Visit the sacred goddess sites in Turkey Catalhoyuk Lagina Ephesus Troy and Sardis

httpwwwexaminercomwomen-s-goddess-spirituality-in-los-angelessacred-tour-of-goddess-sites-turkey-coming-november-2011-for-women-men

Check out the new video of sacred places in Turkey Hear the hauntingly beautiful music as the Ancient Mother calls httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=Twbcx8IicxI

8th ANNUAL WISE WOMANS FESTIVAL IN FLORIDA

Come and Greet the Springtime with Our Lady of the Faery

Greenwood April 9th and 10th

Nymphs Dryads Devas Kami Apsaras and Sprites Oh My What is the connection between Goddesses

and Faeryfolk Itrsquos Springtime and even though we have April showers you wonrsquot have to wait for May

to enjoy the flowers Join Morning Glory Zell noted Goddess historian and Priestess for the latest in her

series of Great Goddess Retreats and find out why the Green Goddess is more than a salad dressing

With her 36 years of experience and a collection of over 200 votive Goddess statues get ready for an

unforgettable weekend journey of sacred learning and transformational experience

This Retreat will be held at the Raven Haven Morning Gloryrsquos beautiful 10 acre home in Sonoma County

California Raven Haven is nice and roomy with a deck a pool and a spa and a special magickal Faery

Porch covered with flowering wisteria The Temple Room has huge floor to ceiling glass cases displaying

her collection of Goddess figurines and a large altar covered in beautiful Goddess images If you come

from out of town there is room to camp out (if itrsquos dry) sleep over if you like or you can choose from the

many excellent nearby hotels

The Retreat begins on Saturday the 24th at 200pm and ends on Sunday the 25th at 800pm Saturday

we will devote ourselves to learning and exploring the many Goddesses who have a connection to the

realm of Faery from Danu to Ma Ku Hold the images in your hands and hear their fascinating stories

Later we will journey deep in guided meditation to discover the special one which calls to you

Sunday starts with fun and relaxation as we learn the ancient art of weaving wreaths of living flowers

and plants to make a magickal faery wreath or perhaps you would like to learn how to make a faery

house outside on the Faery Porch that will be covered with blooming wisteria Later we will have a ritual

bath in the spa and a procession to decorate the various Goddess shrines around the property The

Retreat culminates with a ceremony to honor the Goddesses and the Fae in a Council where we sing

together and where each Goddess or Faery can share Her Truth

The fee for the entire weekend Retreat is only $10000 or you may attend only Saturdayrsquos program of

the lecture and meditation for $6000 Sunday however is not open to anyone who has not already

attended the Saturday session Meals are shared in an easygoing potluck fashion You truly have never

had any other experience quite like this one and you will come away re-energized as well as transformed

by the power of your new divine connection

Phone (707) 795-8047

mythicimcnorg

PO Box 758

Cotati CA 94931

Tryst ndash Handfasting Commitment Ceremonies

Z is back sisters And shersquos available to officiate your Trysting wedding ceremonies again The most popular pagan Goddess wedding ceremony was created by Z Budapest in The Holy Book of Womens Mysteries where Z coined the term Tryst Ritual as an expressly feminine marriage ceremony and rite of passage that can be used for heterosexual couples as well as same sex couples

Z Budapest has been conducting Pagan marriage rituals for over 40 years as a celebrated High Priestess within the Dianic Tradition which she founded Z is available to officiate your handfasting ceremony as well Whether its a civil union or a licensed marriage certificate Z is able to offer you her services as clergy She has legal standings through the Womens Spirituality Forum an IRS 501(c)3 non-profit in the state of California making your clergy fees tax deductible You can learn more about Zrsquos Trysting Ritual and schedule your wedding ceremony with her in 2010

Crete Archaeologists discover skeleton covered with gold foil in 2700-year-old grave

Greek archaeologists have found an ancient skeleton covered with gold foil in a grave on the island of Crete officials said Tuesday

Excavator Nicholas Stampolidis said his team discovered more than 3000 pieces of gold foil in the 7th-century BC twin grave near the ancient town of Eleutherna

Cemeteries there have produced a wealth of outstanding artifacts in recent years

The tiny gold ornaments from 1 to 4 centimetres (04 to 15 inches) long had been sewn onto a lavish robe or shroud that initially wrapped the body of a woman and has almost completely rotted away but for a few off-white threads

The whole length of the (grave) was covered with small pieces of gold foil mdash square circular and lozenge-shaped Stampolidis told The Associated Press We were literally digging up gold interspersed with earth not earth with some gold in it

The woman who presumably had a high social or religious status was buried with a second skeleton in a large jar sealed with a stone slab weighing more than half a ton It was hidden behind a false wall to confuse grave robbers

Experts are trying to determine the other skeletons sex The grave also contained a copper bowl pottery perfume bottles imported from Egypt or Syria and Palestine hundreds of amber rock crystal and faience beads as well as a gold pendant in the form of a bee goddess that probably was part of a rock crystal and gold necklace

If you look at it one way up its shaped like a lily said Stampolidis a professor of archaeology at the University of Crete who has worked at Eleutherna for the 25 years Turned upside down you see a female figure holding her breasts whose lower body is shaped as a bee with wings The workmanship is exquisite

The ruins of Eleutherna stand on the northern foothills of Mount Ida mdash the mythical birthplace of Zeus chief of the ancient Greek gods Past excavations have discovered a citadel homes and an important cemetery with lavish female burials

The town flourished from the 9th century BC mdash the dark ages of Greek archaeology that followed the fall of Cretes great Minoan palatial culture mdash and endured until the Middle Ages

httparchaeologynewsnetworkblogspotcom201009archaeologists-on-crete-find-skeletonhtml

SWEET TASTE OF SPRING Susun S Weed

March winds blow the sweet scent of maple sap boiling to my questing nose When the days are warm

and sunny and the nights below freezing the sap rises in the trees If those trees are sugar maples then

it is worth drilling a hole in the bark inserting a tap and collecting their sweet sap There is so much

sugar in sugar maple sap that it can be boiled and turned into maple syrup and maple sugar

Therersquos about one gallon of maple syrup and ninety-nine gallons of water in one hundred gallons of

maple sap A hot fire and a slow but steady boil send that sweet-smelling water vapor high in the clear

cold sky The March wind blows it to me I close my eyes and remember my years of ldquosugaringrdquo making

maple syrup

Therersquos something special about a task that requires one to stay up all night Maple sap starts to ferment

if it is left at normal temperatures for very long Once ten or so gallons of sap have been collected the

boiling begins hellip and cannot be stopped until the finished syrup is achieved many many many hours

later

I have never sugared without at least one overnighter and sometimes two A large operation boils sap

for weeks without stopping just drawing off the syrup as it forms if the run is steady and copious

It was a picture of Helen Nearing driving a team of horses through the woods standing on a sleigh

loaded with buckets of maple sap that made me long for a homestead where I could lead The Simple

Life like her Two years later I had my own ldquosugar bushrdquo (an acre or more of woodlot where large sugar

maples grow) Spring equinox found me with my drill in hand a pocket full of taps and a bunch of funny

buckets with lids to hang from the taps ldquoTing tingrdquo the ping of sap filling the metal buckets echoes

tying me through time to every woman who has ever sugared and bringing a smile to my heart and

face

My groves of sugar maples have never been large enough to require a team of horses or a sleigh Irsquove

always lugged a big bucket out to the trees and poured the sap from the collecting buckets into it When

I have two or three buckets full I pour them into a big galvanized tub set up on cinder blocks over a fire

and commence to boil it down

Native peoples valued maple sugar so highly that they set up camp in the sugar bush and lived there

until the sap stopped flowing Lacking metal drill bits they cut a shallow groove in the bark and pressed

hollow elder stems into service as taps to direct the flow of sap into birch bark containers

I can heat the sap directly in my metal tub while they had to hollow out a log put smooth rocks into the

fire heat them and put the hot rocks into the sap in the hollowed out log to boil it down into maple

syrup and sugar Whew I am impressed with the power of the desire for sweet It takes far more

calories in fuel and human energy to make maple syrup or maple sugar than it returns

Grandmother Twylah taught us that maple trees are friendly and companionable colorful and

expressive They always have a positive attitude and are adept at helping us see solutions to impossible

problems Maple trees are devoted and true Make friends with a maple and you will have a friend for

life she advised

Ellen Everet Hopman green witch reminds us that maple-syrup-making time is Eostrersquos time Eostre

(ee-oh-stir) is the Teutonic goddess of fertility and manifestation Her symbols are the egg and the

rabbit her time is Spring Equinox A lovely custom still enacted but without the underlying magic is to

paint a picture of something you desire on an egg and plant it in the ground so Eostre can help it grow

and become real

If itrsquos too late to tap your maples or you live too far south for the sap to flow strongly you can still be

blessed and embraced by maple A decoction of maple bark boiled in water can be used to ease sore

eyes externally and to tonify the uterus after birth internally

A magical wand of maple wood is used for spells that bring harmony especially in the home And maple

leaves sewn into a charm made of green flannel tied with a golden string will bring abundance into

your life

Indulge your desire for sweet Celebrate spring equinox and Eostre who loves sweet things Have a

stack of pancakes swimming in butter and maple syrup Or pour maple syrup over plain vanilla ice cream

and savor the sweet taste of the friendly maple tree

Green blessings

How much sugar per gallon of sap is quite variable depending on the type of maple the growing

conditions and especially the amount of sun the tree gets Sugar maple (Acer saccharum) sap is the

sweetest followed by the saps of silver maple (Acer saccharinum) Northern red maple (Acer rubrum)

and Norway maple (Acer platanoides)

Susun Weed

PO Box 64

Woodstock NY 12498

Fax 1-845-246-8081

Visit Susun Weed at wwwsusunweedcom and wwwashtreepublishingcom

Vibrant passionate and involved Susun Weed has garnered an international reputation for her

groundbreaking lectures teachings and writings on health and nutrition She challenges conventional

medical approaches with humor insight and her vast encyclopedic knowledge of herbal medicine

Unabashedly pro-woman her animated and enthusiastic lectures are engaging and often profoundly

provocative

Susun is one of Americas best-known authorities on herbal medicine and natural approaches to

womens health Her four best-selling books are recommended by expert herbalists and well-known

physicians and are used and cherished by millions of women around the world Learn more at

wwwsusunweedcom

Susun Weedrsquos books include

Wise Woman Herbal for the Childbearing Year

Author Susun S Weed Simple safe remedies for pregnancy childbirth lactation and

newborns Includes herbs for fertility and birth control Foreword by Jeannine Parvati

Baker 196 pages index illustrations

Healing Wise

Author Susun S Weed Superb herbal in the feminine-intuitive mode Complete

instructions for using common plants for food beauty medicine and longevity

Introduction by Jean Houston 312 pages index illustrations

Menopausal Years the Wise Woman Way

Author Susun S Weed The best book on menopause is now better Completely

revised with 100 new pages All the remedies women know and trust plus hundreds

of new ones New sections on thyroid health fibromyalgia hairy problems male

menopause and herbs for women taking hormones Recommended by Susan Love

MD and Christiane Northrup MD Foreword by Juliette de Bairacli Levy 304 pages

index illustrations

For more info on menopause visit wwwmenopause-metamorphosiscom

Breast Cancer Breast Health

Author Susun S Weed Foods exercises and attitudes to keep your breasts healthy

Supportive complimentary medicines to ease side-effects of surgery radiation

chemotherapy or tamoxifen Foreword by Christiane Northrup MD 380 pages index

illustrations

UPCOMING DIANIC EVENTS

Pagan Examiner ndash Read the articles written by Bobbie and myself Zrsquos Calendar of Events ndash Want to know where I am appearing Goddess Festival ndash You think the last was good Goddess is Alive Tarot Social - A joyful coming-together of the Womenrsquos Tarot community a

Revival of the 70rsquos TRAVELING MAGIC SHOW by a FOREMOTHER of GODDESS SPIRITUALITY The QUEEN of TAROT READINGS and the woman responsible for LEGALIZING TAROT in California hellip Z Budapest

Z Budapest is conducting a most entertaining Tarot Social at her home in

Oakland CA on April 23rd For more information and registration go to

TarotSocialcom

The Dianic University for Women in Goddess

Study the Dianic Tradition with Z Budapest the woman who rebirthed it into modern culture Classes at the Dianic University are designed for women only

Sisterhood of the Moon ~ Womenrsquos Spirituality Coven in the Z Budapest Dianic Tradition

Events in the Sisterhood of the Moon are for women-born-women only Located in Hayward CA You must contact Jesamyn Angelica for more information Many of the members of this group are also members of the Susan B Anthony Coven No1 Facebookpage

Hands of Demeter ~ Womenrsquos Spirituality Coven in the Z Budapest Dianic Tradition

Events in the Hands of Demeter are for women-born-women only Located in Semi Valley CA You must contact httpearthmothercovenantcom for more information Many of the members of this group are also members of the Susan B Anthony Coven No1 Facebook page

The Sacred Circle ~ Recovering amp Reclaiming Ancient Ways to Heal

Events in The Sacred Circle are for members only unless otherwise stated Call JoAnna 775-882-1599 for membership inquiries

Sisterhood of the Turning Tides ~ Womenrsquos Spirituality Coven in the Z Budapest Dianic Tradition

They meet on Esbats and Sabbats and have a Tuesday night drumritual circle Located in Mendocino CA You must contact Sage Simon for more information Many of the members of this group are also members of the Susan B Anthony Coven No1 Facebookpage

You can sponsor Goddess magazine too Click here to helphellip

Deepest Gratitude to Sisters in Goddess for their Donations

The Application for Dianic Clergy Priestess is online

Follow the Goddess Festival on Facebook And Twitter

Thank you sisters who have donated $1 a month to help support our Goddess efforts

You can sponsor Goddess magazine too Click here to helphellip

Vicki Scotti LuAnn Morris and Amy Otero are

Hecatersquos Wheel an acoustic folk trio Their

music is inspired by and dedicated to the

Goddess in all her guises They sing an eclectic

variety of cover songs and original music

Hecatersquos Wheel has been playing and

singing together for several years and their

voices have found a natural harmonious blend

We VERY much enjoyed their Beltaine concert

Goddess Resource Links Z Budapest Website Goddess College Online Goddess Blog ndash Sponsored by the Susan B Anthony Coven Z Budapest Blog Goddess Festival Susan B Anthony Coven Dianic Wicca Tarot Social Witch Trial ndash the last great witch trial in America Zs Events Schedule Zs University Calendar

Zs Books Summoning the Fates Holy Book of Womens Mysteries Celestial Wisdom Grandmother of Time Grandmother Moon Goddess in the Office Goddess in the Bedroom

Page 19: Goddess Magazine (March 2011)

Why arenrsquot you more active in the Dianic Tradition We have a lot of women who read this Goddess

Magazine every month and it would awesome to have more of you join in with us at the Susan B

Anthony Coven 1 A membership into the worldrsquos most famous all-womenrsquos coven makes for a nice gift

to yourself Give it some thought and then come join us The Womens Spirituality Forum is an IRS

501(c)3 non-profit Your registration fees and your membership are tax deductible

Check out our mobile-friendly portal website wwwGoddessLivecom hellip Wersquove pulled all our

information and articles into one location for you and it doesnrsquot matter if yoursquore a computer user or a

mobile user because wersquove programmed the site to be able to switch back and forth

Goddess Magazine Radio Show

Goddess Magazine Radio Show will be forced to go to a half hour program because of changes at

Blogtalk Radio We will bring you more chats with Z very soon Promise

Look for announcements of the new Goddess Magazine Radio Shows on our Facebook fan page Are you

a member of the Goddess Magazine Radio Show Fan page And now you can listen to Goddess

Magazine Radio Shows on iTunes So open you iTunes and subscribe to our podcasted show

Itrsquos free

Goddess Live Toolbar

Every Sister in Goddess who wants to stay linked in to what Z Budapest is doing should have this

toolbar Itrsquos free Itrsquos easy to install and itrsquos secure Get your own Goddess Live Toolbar right now by

clicking here

Follow the Goddess Festival on Facebook And Twitter

Get your new copy here

OTHER WOMENrsquoS SACRED EVENTS amp TOURS TELL THEM Z SENT YOU A WOMENrsquoS RITUAL RETREAT IN CRETE A JOURNEY TO THE GODDESS MAY 23-JUNE 5TH 2011

Facilitated by Ruth Barrett and Catherine Ridder YES We still have spaces still available for our fourth

ritual retreat to Crete Space is limited to 13 women on a first-come basis If you are interested in

hearing more information about this incredible trip contact Catherine Ridder at 626-793-7520 or email

caridder2netzerocom

Sacred Sites of Avalon England with Donna Virgilio April 27 to May 3 2011 Travel to Stonehenge for a private ceremony in the inner circle Walk to the Tor considered to be the legendary Camelot Tour Roman and Medieval Baths and honor the Goddess Minerva visit and pray at the Chalice Well and see the Sacred Gardens Tour the Glastonbury Goddess Temple and participate in the official Beltaine Festivities and Ceremony See the Boscastle Witchcraft Museum and Journey to Tintagel the mystical birthplace of King Arthur and peek inside Merlinrsquos Cave Walk through Avebury Stonecircle West Kennet Long Barrows Silsbury Hill and see Crop Circles Finally dance at the Avalon Beltaine Fairy Ball featuring Doreen Virtues Band Obsidian

On the Trail of the Goddess in Turkey - Anatolia - Land of the Nourishing Mothers

ON THE TRAIL OF THE GREAT GODDESS

Sacred Journey to Turkey

November 2 - 14 2011

featuring

Karen and Roy Tate

Guided by Rashid Ergener

Visit the sacred goddess sites in Turkey Catalhoyuk Lagina Ephesus Troy and Sardis

httpwwwexaminercomwomen-s-goddess-spirituality-in-los-angelessacred-tour-of-goddess-sites-turkey-coming-november-2011-for-women-men

Check out the new video of sacred places in Turkey Hear the hauntingly beautiful music as the Ancient Mother calls httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=Twbcx8IicxI

8th ANNUAL WISE WOMANS FESTIVAL IN FLORIDA

Come and Greet the Springtime with Our Lady of the Faery

Greenwood April 9th and 10th

Nymphs Dryads Devas Kami Apsaras and Sprites Oh My What is the connection between Goddesses

and Faeryfolk Itrsquos Springtime and even though we have April showers you wonrsquot have to wait for May

to enjoy the flowers Join Morning Glory Zell noted Goddess historian and Priestess for the latest in her

series of Great Goddess Retreats and find out why the Green Goddess is more than a salad dressing

With her 36 years of experience and a collection of over 200 votive Goddess statues get ready for an

unforgettable weekend journey of sacred learning and transformational experience

This Retreat will be held at the Raven Haven Morning Gloryrsquos beautiful 10 acre home in Sonoma County

California Raven Haven is nice and roomy with a deck a pool and a spa and a special magickal Faery

Porch covered with flowering wisteria The Temple Room has huge floor to ceiling glass cases displaying

her collection of Goddess figurines and a large altar covered in beautiful Goddess images If you come

from out of town there is room to camp out (if itrsquos dry) sleep over if you like or you can choose from the

many excellent nearby hotels

The Retreat begins on Saturday the 24th at 200pm and ends on Sunday the 25th at 800pm Saturday

we will devote ourselves to learning and exploring the many Goddesses who have a connection to the

realm of Faery from Danu to Ma Ku Hold the images in your hands and hear their fascinating stories

Later we will journey deep in guided meditation to discover the special one which calls to you

Sunday starts with fun and relaxation as we learn the ancient art of weaving wreaths of living flowers

and plants to make a magickal faery wreath or perhaps you would like to learn how to make a faery

house outside on the Faery Porch that will be covered with blooming wisteria Later we will have a ritual

bath in the spa and a procession to decorate the various Goddess shrines around the property The

Retreat culminates with a ceremony to honor the Goddesses and the Fae in a Council where we sing

together and where each Goddess or Faery can share Her Truth

The fee for the entire weekend Retreat is only $10000 or you may attend only Saturdayrsquos program of

the lecture and meditation for $6000 Sunday however is not open to anyone who has not already

attended the Saturday session Meals are shared in an easygoing potluck fashion You truly have never

had any other experience quite like this one and you will come away re-energized as well as transformed

by the power of your new divine connection

Phone (707) 795-8047

mythicimcnorg

PO Box 758

Cotati CA 94931

Tryst ndash Handfasting Commitment Ceremonies

Z is back sisters And shersquos available to officiate your Trysting wedding ceremonies again The most popular pagan Goddess wedding ceremony was created by Z Budapest in The Holy Book of Womens Mysteries where Z coined the term Tryst Ritual as an expressly feminine marriage ceremony and rite of passage that can be used for heterosexual couples as well as same sex couples

Z Budapest has been conducting Pagan marriage rituals for over 40 years as a celebrated High Priestess within the Dianic Tradition which she founded Z is available to officiate your handfasting ceremony as well Whether its a civil union or a licensed marriage certificate Z is able to offer you her services as clergy She has legal standings through the Womens Spirituality Forum an IRS 501(c)3 non-profit in the state of California making your clergy fees tax deductible You can learn more about Zrsquos Trysting Ritual and schedule your wedding ceremony with her in 2010

Crete Archaeologists discover skeleton covered with gold foil in 2700-year-old grave

Greek archaeologists have found an ancient skeleton covered with gold foil in a grave on the island of Crete officials said Tuesday

Excavator Nicholas Stampolidis said his team discovered more than 3000 pieces of gold foil in the 7th-century BC twin grave near the ancient town of Eleutherna

Cemeteries there have produced a wealth of outstanding artifacts in recent years

The tiny gold ornaments from 1 to 4 centimetres (04 to 15 inches) long had been sewn onto a lavish robe or shroud that initially wrapped the body of a woman and has almost completely rotted away but for a few off-white threads

The whole length of the (grave) was covered with small pieces of gold foil mdash square circular and lozenge-shaped Stampolidis told The Associated Press We were literally digging up gold interspersed with earth not earth with some gold in it

The woman who presumably had a high social or religious status was buried with a second skeleton in a large jar sealed with a stone slab weighing more than half a ton It was hidden behind a false wall to confuse grave robbers

Experts are trying to determine the other skeletons sex The grave also contained a copper bowl pottery perfume bottles imported from Egypt or Syria and Palestine hundreds of amber rock crystal and faience beads as well as a gold pendant in the form of a bee goddess that probably was part of a rock crystal and gold necklace

If you look at it one way up its shaped like a lily said Stampolidis a professor of archaeology at the University of Crete who has worked at Eleutherna for the 25 years Turned upside down you see a female figure holding her breasts whose lower body is shaped as a bee with wings The workmanship is exquisite

The ruins of Eleutherna stand on the northern foothills of Mount Ida mdash the mythical birthplace of Zeus chief of the ancient Greek gods Past excavations have discovered a citadel homes and an important cemetery with lavish female burials

The town flourished from the 9th century BC mdash the dark ages of Greek archaeology that followed the fall of Cretes great Minoan palatial culture mdash and endured until the Middle Ages

httparchaeologynewsnetworkblogspotcom201009archaeologists-on-crete-find-skeletonhtml

SWEET TASTE OF SPRING Susun S Weed

March winds blow the sweet scent of maple sap boiling to my questing nose When the days are warm

and sunny and the nights below freezing the sap rises in the trees If those trees are sugar maples then

it is worth drilling a hole in the bark inserting a tap and collecting their sweet sap There is so much

sugar in sugar maple sap that it can be boiled and turned into maple syrup and maple sugar

Therersquos about one gallon of maple syrup and ninety-nine gallons of water in one hundred gallons of

maple sap A hot fire and a slow but steady boil send that sweet-smelling water vapor high in the clear

cold sky The March wind blows it to me I close my eyes and remember my years of ldquosugaringrdquo making

maple syrup

Therersquos something special about a task that requires one to stay up all night Maple sap starts to ferment

if it is left at normal temperatures for very long Once ten or so gallons of sap have been collected the

boiling begins hellip and cannot be stopped until the finished syrup is achieved many many many hours

later

I have never sugared without at least one overnighter and sometimes two A large operation boils sap

for weeks without stopping just drawing off the syrup as it forms if the run is steady and copious

It was a picture of Helen Nearing driving a team of horses through the woods standing on a sleigh

loaded with buckets of maple sap that made me long for a homestead where I could lead The Simple

Life like her Two years later I had my own ldquosugar bushrdquo (an acre or more of woodlot where large sugar

maples grow) Spring equinox found me with my drill in hand a pocket full of taps and a bunch of funny

buckets with lids to hang from the taps ldquoTing tingrdquo the ping of sap filling the metal buckets echoes

tying me through time to every woman who has ever sugared and bringing a smile to my heart and

face

My groves of sugar maples have never been large enough to require a team of horses or a sleigh Irsquove

always lugged a big bucket out to the trees and poured the sap from the collecting buckets into it When

I have two or three buckets full I pour them into a big galvanized tub set up on cinder blocks over a fire

and commence to boil it down

Native peoples valued maple sugar so highly that they set up camp in the sugar bush and lived there

until the sap stopped flowing Lacking metal drill bits they cut a shallow groove in the bark and pressed

hollow elder stems into service as taps to direct the flow of sap into birch bark containers

I can heat the sap directly in my metal tub while they had to hollow out a log put smooth rocks into the

fire heat them and put the hot rocks into the sap in the hollowed out log to boil it down into maple

syrup and sugar Whew I am impressed with the power of the desire for sweet It takes far more

calories in fuel and human energy to make maple syrup or maple sugar than it returns

Grandmother Twylah taught us that maple trees are friendly and companionable colorful and

expressive They always have a positive attitude and are adept at helping us see solutions to impossible

problems Maple trees are devoted and true Make friends with a maple and you will have a friend for

life she advised

Ellen Everet Hopman green witch reminds us that maple-syrup-making time is Eostrersquos time Eostre

(ee-oh-stir) is the Teutonic goddess of fertility and manifestation Her symbols are the egg and the

rabbit her time is Spring Equinox A lovely custom still enacted but without the underlying magic is to

paint a picture of something you desire on an egg and plant it in the ground so Eostre can help it grow

and become real

If itrsquos too late to tap your maples or you live too far south for the sap to flow strongly you can still be

blessed and embraced by maple A decoction of maple bark boiled in water can be used to ease sore

eyes externally and to tonify the uterus after birth internally

A magical wand of maple wood is used for spells that bring harmony especially in the home And maple

leaves sewn into a charm made of green flannel tied with a golden string will bring abundance into

your life

Indulge your desire for sweet Celebrate spring equinox and Eostre who loves sweet things Have a

stack of pancakes swimming in butter and maple syrup Or pour maple syrup over plain vanilla ice cream

and savor the sweet taste of the friendly maple tree

Green blessings

How much sugar per gallon of sap is quite variable depending on the type of maple the growing

conditions and especially the amount of sun the tree gets Sugar maple (Acer saccharum) sap is the

sweetest followed by the saps of silver maple (Acer saccharinum) Northern red maple (Acer rubrum)

and Norway maple (Acer platanoides)

Susun Weed

PO Box 64

Woodstock NY 12498

Fax 1-845-246-8081

Visit Susun Weed at wwwsusunweedcom and wwwashtreepublishingcom

Vibrant passionate and involved Susun Weed has garnered an international reputation for her

groundbreaking lectures teachings and writings on health and nutrition She challenges conventional

medical approaches with humor insight and her vast encyclopedic knowledge of herbal medicine

Unabashedly pro-woman her animated and enthusiastic lectures are engaging and often profoundly

provocative

Susun is one of Americas best-known authorities on herbal medicine and natural approaches to

womens health Her four best-selling books are recommended by expert herbalists and well-known

physicians and are used and cherished by millions of women around the world Learn more at

wwwsusunweedcom

Susun Weedrsquos books include

Wise Woman Herbal for the Childbearing Year

Author Susun S Weed Simple safe remedies for pregnancy childbirth lactation and

newborns Includes herbs for fertility and birth control Foreword by Jeannine Parvati

Baker 196 pages index illustrations

Healing Wise

Author Susun S Weed Superb herbal in the feminine-intuitive mode Complete

instructions for using common plants for food beauty medicine and longevity

Introduction by Jean Houston 312 pages index illustrations

Menopausal Years the Wise Woman Way

Author Susun S Weed The best book on menopause is now better Completely

revised with 100 new pages All the remedies women know and trust plus hundreds

of new ones New sections on thyroid health fibromyalgia hairy problems male

menopause and herbs for women taking hormones Recommended by Susan Love

MD and Christiane Northrup MD Foreword by Juliette de Bairacli Levy 304 pages

index illustrations

For more info on menopause visit wwwmenopause-metamorphosiscom

Breast Cancer Breast Health

Author Susun S Weed Foods exercises and attitudes to keep your breasts healthy

Supportive complimentary medicines to ease side-effects of surgery radiation

chemotherapy or tamoxifen Foreword by Christiane Northrup MD 380 pages index

illustrations

UPCOMING DIANIC EVENTS

Pagan Examiner ndash Read the articles written by Bobbie and myself Zrsquos Calendar of Events ndash Want to know where I am appearing Goddess Festival ndash You think the last was good Goddess is Alive Tarot Social - A joyful coming-together of the Womenrsquos Tarot community a

Revival of the 70rsquos TRAVELING MAGIC SHOW by a FOREMOTHER of GODDESS SPIRITUALITY The QUEEN of TAROT READINGS and the woman responsible for LEGALIZING TAROT in California hellip Z Budapest

Z Budapest is conducting a most entertaining Tarot Social at her home in

Oakland CA on April 23rd For more information and registration go to

TarotSocialcom

The Dianic University for Women in Goddess

Study the Dianic Tradition with Z Budapest the woman who rebirthed it into modern culture Classes at the Dianic University are designed for women only

Sisterhood of the Moon ~ Womenrsquos Spirituality Coven in the Z Budapest Dianic Tradition

Events in the Sisterhood of the Moon are for women-born-women only Located in Hayward CA You must contact Jesamyn Angelica for more information Many of the members of this group are also members of the Susan B Anthony Coven No1 Facebookpage

Hands of Demeter ~ Womenrsquos Spirituality Coven in the Z Budapest Dianic Tradition

Events in the Hands of Demeter are for women-born-women only Located in Semi Valley CA You must contact httpearthmothercovenantcom for more information Many of the members of this group are also members of the Susan B Anthony Coven No1 Facebook page

The Sacred Circle ~ Recovering amp Reclaiming Ancient Ways to Heal

Events in The Sacred Circle are for members only unless otherwise stated Call JoAnna 775-882-1599 for membership inquiries

Sisterhood of the Turning Tides ~ Womenrsquos Spirituality Coven in the Z Budapest Dianic Tradition

They meet on Esbats and Sabbats and have a Tuesday night drumritual circle Located in Mendocino CA You must contact Sage Simon for more information Many of the members of this group are also members of the Susan B Anthony Coven No1 Facebookpage

You can sponsor Goddess magazine too Click here to helphellip

Deepest Gratitude to Sisters in Goddess for their Donations

The Application for Dianic Clergy Priestess is online

Follow the Goddess Festival on Facebook And Twitter

Thank you sisters who have donated $1 a month to help support our Goddess efforts

You can sponsor Goddess magazine too Click here to helphellip

Vicki Scotti LuAnn Morris and Amy Otero are

Hecatersquos Wheel an acoustic folk trio Their

music is inspired by and dedicated to the

Goddess in all her guises They sing an eclectic

variety of cover songs and original music

Hecatersquos Wheel has been playing and

singing together for several years and their

voices have found a natural harmonious blend

We VERY much enjoyed their Beltaine concert

Goddess Resource Links Z Budapest Website Goddess College Online Goddess Blog ndash Sponsored by the Susan B Anthony Coven Z Budapest Blog Goddess Festival Susan B Anthony Coven Dianic Wicca Tarot Social Witch Trial ndash the last great witch trial in America Zs Events Schedule Zs University Calendar

Zs Books Summoning the Fates Holy Book of Womens Mysteries Celestial Wisdom Grandmother of Time Grandmother Moon Goddess in the Office Goddess in the Bedroom

Page 20: Goddess Magazine (March 2011)

Get your new copy here

OTHER WOMENrsquoS SACRED EVENTS amp TOURS TELL THEM Z SENT YOU A WOMENrsquoS RITUAL RETREAT IN CRETE A JOURNEY TO THE GODDESS MAY 23-JUNE 5TH 2011

Facilitated by Ruth Barrett and Catherine Ridder YES We still have spaces still available for our fourth

ritual retreat to Crete Space is limited to 13 women on a first-come basis If you are interested in

hearing more information about this incredible trip contact Catherine Ridder at 626-793-7520 or email

caridder2netzerocom

Sacred Sites of Avalon England with Donna Virgilio April 27 to May 3 2011 Travel to Stonehenge for a private ceremony in the inner circle Walk to the Tor considered to be the legendary Camelot Tour Roman and Medieval Baths and honor the Goddess Minerva visit and pray at the Chalice Well and see the Sacred Gardens Tour the Glastonbury Goddess Temple and participate in the official Beltaine Festivities and Ceremony See the Boscastle Witchcraft Museum and Journey to Tintagel the mystical birthplace of King Arthur and peek inside Merlinrsquos Cave Walk through Avebury Stonecircle West Kennet Long Barrows Silsbury Hill and see Crop Circles Finally dance at the Avalon Beltaine Fairy Ball featuring Doreen Virtues Band Obsidian

On the Trail of the Goddess in Turkey - Anatolia - Land of the Nourishing Mothers

ON THE TRAIL OF THE GREAT GODDESS

Sacred Journey to Turkey

November 2 - 14 2011

featuring

Karen and Roy Tate

Guided by Rashid Ergener

Visit the sacred goddess sites in Turkey Catalhoyuk Lagina Ephesus Troy and Sardis

httpwwwexaminercomwomen-s-goddess-spirituality-in-los-angelessacred-tour-of-goddess-sites-turkey-coming-november-2011-for-women-men

Check out the new video of sacred places in Turkey Hear the hauntingly beautiful music as the Ancient Mother calls httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=Twbcx8IicxI

8th ANNUAL WISE WOMANS FESTIVAL IN FLORIDA

Come and Greet the Springtime with Our Lady of the Faery

Greenwood April 9th and 10th

Nymphs Dryads Devas Kami Apsaras and Sprites Oh My What is the connection between Goddesses

and Faeryfolk Itrsquos Springtime and even though we have April showers you wonrsquot have to wait for May

to enjoy the flowers Join Morning Glory Zell noted Goddess historian and Priestess for the latest in her

series of Great Goddess Retreats and find out why the Green Goddess is more than a salad dressing

With her 36 years of experience and a collection of over 200 votive Goddess statues get ready for an

unforgettable weekend journey of sacred learning and transformational experience

This Retreat will be held at the Raven Haven Morning Gloryrsquos beautiful 10 acre home in Sonoma County

California Raven Haven is nice and roomy with a deck a pool and a spa and a special magickal Faery

Porch covered with flowering wisteria The Temple Room has huge floor to ceiling glass cases displaying

her collection of Goddess figurines and a large altar covered in beautiful Goddess images If you come

from out of town there is room to camp out (if itrsquos dry) sleep over if you like or you can choose from the

many excellent nearby hotels

The Retreat begins on Saturday the 24th at 200pm and ends on Sunday the 25th at 800pm Saturday

we will devote ourselves to learning and exploring the many Goddesses who have a connection to the

realm of Faery from Danu to Ma Ku Hold the images in your hands and hear their fascinating stories

Later we will journey deep in guided meditation to discover the special one which calls to you

Sunday starts with fun and relaxation as we learn the ancient art of weaving wreaths of living flowers

and plants to make a magickal faery wreath or perhaps you would like to learn how to make a faery

house outside on the Faery Porch that will be covered with blooming wisteria Later we will have a ritual

bath in the spa and a procession to decorate the various Goddess shrines around the property The

Retreat culminates with a ceremony to honor the Goddesses and the Fae in a Council where we sing

together and where each Goddess or Faery can share Her Truth

The fee for the entire weekend Retreat is only $10000 or you may attend only Saturdayrsquos program of

the lecture and meditation for $6000 Sunday however is not open to anyone who has not already

attended the Saturday session Meals are shared in an easygoing potluck fashion You truly have never

had any other experience quite like this one and you will come away re-energized as well as transformed

by the power of your new divine connection

Phone (707) 795-8047

mythicimcnorg

PO Box 758

Cotati CA 94931

Tryst ndash Handfasting Commitment Ceremonies

Z is back sisters And shersquos available to officiate your Trysting wedding ceremonies again The most popular pagan Goddess wedding ceremony was created by Z Budapest in The Holy Book of Womens Mysteries where Z coined the term Tryst Ritual as an expressly feminine marriage ceremony and rite of passage that can be used for heterosexual couples as well as same sex couples

Z Budapest has been conducting Pagan marriage rituals for over 40 years as a celebrated High Priestess within the Dianic Tradition which she founded Z is available to officiate your handfasting ceremony as well Whether its a civil union or a licensed marriage certificate Z is able to offer you her services as clergy She has legal standings through the Womens Spirituality Forum an IRS 501(c)3 non-profit in the state of California making your clergy fees tax deductible You can learn more about Zrsquos Trysting Ritual and schedule your wedding ceremony with her in 2010

Crete Archaeologists discover skeleton covered with gold foil in 2700-year-old grave

Greek archaeologists have found an ancient skeleton covered with gold foil in a grave on the island of Crete officials said Tuesday

Excavator Nicholas Stampolidis said his team discovered more than 3000 pieces of gold foil in the 7th-century BC twin grave near the ancient town of Eleutherna

Cemeteries there have produced a wealth of outstanding artifacts in recent years

The tiny gold ornaments from 1 to 4 centimetres (04 to 15 inches) long had been sewn onto a lavish robe or shroud that initially wrapped the body of a woman and has almost completely rotted away but for a few off-white threads

The whole length of the (grave) was covered with small pieces of gold foil mdash square circular and lozenge-shaped Stampolidis told The Associated Press We were literally digging up gold interspersed with earth not earth with some gold in it

The woman who presumably had a high social or religious status was buried with a second skeleton in a large jar sealed with a stone slab weighing more than half a ton It was hidden behind a false wall to confuse grave robbers

Experts are trying to determine the other skeletons sex The grave also contained a copper bowl pottery perfume bottles imported from Egypt or Syria and Palestine hundreds of amber rock crystal and faience beads as well as a gold pendant in the form of a bee goddess that probably was part of a rock crystal and gold necklace

If you look at it one way up its shaped like a lily said Stampolidis a professor of archaeology at the University of Crete who has worked at Eleutherna for the 25 years Turned upside down you see a female figure holding her breasts whose lower body is shaped as a bee with wings The workmanship is exquisite

The ruins of Eleutherna stand on the northern foothills of Mount Ida mdash the mythical birthplace of Zeus chief of the ancient Greek gods Past excavations have discovered a citadel homes and an important cemetery with lavish female burials

The town flourished from the 9th century BC mdash the dark ages of Greek archaeology that followed the fall of Cretes great Minoan palatial culture mdash and endured until the Middle Ages

httparchaeologynewsnetworkblogspotcom201009archaeologists-on-crete-find-skeletonhtml

SWEET TASTE OF SPRING Susun S Weed

March winds blow the sweet scent of maple sap boiling to my questing nose When the days are warm

and sunny and the nights below freezing the sap rises in the trees If those trees are sugar maples then

it is worth drilling a hole in the bark inserting a tap and collecting their sweet sap There is so much

sugar in sugar maple sap that it can be boiled and turned into maple syrup and maple sugar

Therersquos about one gallon of maple syrup and ninety-nine gallons of water in one hundred gallons of

maple sap A hot fire and a slow but steady boil send that sweet-smelling water vapor high in the clear

cold sky The March wind blows it to me I close my eyes and remember my years of ldquosugaringrdquo making

maple syrup

Therersquos something special about a task that requires one to stay up all night Maple sap starts to ferment

if it is left at normal temperatures for very long Once ten or so gallons of sap have been collected the

boiling begins hellip and cannot be stopped until the finished syrup is achieved many many many hours

later

I have never sugared without at least one overnighter and sometimes two A large operation boils sap

for weeks without stopping just drawing off the syrup as it forms if the run is steady and copious

It was a picture of Helen Nearing driving a team of horses through the woods standing on a sleigh

loaded with buckets of maple sap that made me long for a homestead where I could lead The Simple

Life like her Two years later I had my own ldquosugar bushrdquo (an acre or more of woodlot where large sugar

maples grow) Spring equinox found me with my drill in hand a pocket full of taps and a bunch of funny

buckets with lids to hang from the taps ldquoTing tingrdquo the ping of sap filling the metal buckets echoes

tying me through time to every woman who has ever sugared and bringing a smile to my heart and

face

My groves of sugar maples have never been large enough to require a team of horses or a sleigh Irsquove

always lugged a big bucket out to the trees and poured the sap from the collecting buckets into it When

I have two or three buckets full I pour them into a big galvanized tub set up on cinder blocks over a fire

and commence to boil it down

Native peoples valued maple sugar so highly that they set up camp in the sugar bush and lived there

until the sap stopped flowing Lacking metal drill bits they cut a shallow groove in the bark and pressed

hollow elder stems into service as taps to direct the flow of sap into birch bark containers

I can heat the sap directly in my metal tub while they had to hollow out a log put smooth rocks into the

fire heat them and put the hot rocks into the sap in the hollowed out log to boil it down into maple

syrup and sugar Whew I am impressed with the power of the desire for sweet It takes far more

calories in fuel and human energy to make maple syrup or maple sugar than it returns

Grandmother Twylah taught us that maple trees are friendly and companionable colorful and

expressive They always have a positive attitude and are adept at helping us see solutions to impossible

problems Maple trees are devoted and true Make friends with a maple and you will have a friend for

life she advised

Ellen Everet Hopman green witch reminds us that maple-syrup-making time is Eostrersquos time Eostre

(ee-oh-stir) is the Teutonic goddess of fertility and manifestation Her symbols are the egg and the

rabbit her time is Spring Equinox A lovely custom still enacted but without the underlying magic is to

paint a picture of something you desire on an egg and plant it in the ground so Eostre can help it grow

and become real

If itrsquos too late to tap your maples or you live too far south for the sap to flow strongly you can still be

blessed and embraced by maple A decoction of maple bark boiled in water can be used to ease sore

eyes externally and to tonify the uterus after birth internally

A magical wand of maple wood is used for spells that bring harmony especially in the home And maple

leaves sewn into a charm made of green flannel tied with a golden string will bring abundance into

your life

Indulge your desire for sweet Celebrate spring equinox and Eostre who loves sweet things Have a

stack of pancakes swimming in butter and maple syrup Or pour maple syrup over plain vanilla ice cream

and savor the sweet taste of the friendly maple tree

Green blessings

How much sugar per gallon of sap is quite variable depending on the type of maple the growing

conditions and especially the amount of sun the tree gets Sugar maple (Acer saccharum) sap is the

sweetest followed by the saps of silver maple (Acer saccharinum) Northern red maple (Acer rubrum)

and Norway maple (Acer platanoides)

Susun Weed

PO Box 64

Woodstock NY 12498

Fax 1-845-246-8081

Visit Susun Weed at wwwsusunweedcom and wwwashtreepublishingcom

Vibrant passionate and involved Susun Weed has garnered an international reputation for her

groundbreaking lectures teachings and writings on health and nutrition She challenges conventional

medical approaches with humor insight and her vast encyclopedic knowledge of herbal medicine

Unabashedly pro-woman her animated and enthusiastic lectures are engaging and often profoundly

provocative

Susun is one of Americas best-known authorities on herbal medicine and natural approaches to

womens health Her four best-selling books are recommended by expert herbalists and well-known

physicians and are used and cherished by millions of women around the world Learn more at

wwwsusunweedcom

Susun Weedrsquos books include

Wise Woman Herbal for the Childbearing Year

Author Susun S Weed Simple safe remedies for pregnancy childbirth lactation and

newborns Includes herbs for fertility and birth control Foreword by Jeannine Parvati

Baker 196 pages index illustrations

Healing Wise

Author Susun S Weed Superb herbal in the feminine-intuitive mode Complete

instructions for using common plants for food beauty medicine and longevity

Introduction by Jean Houston 312 pages index illustrations

Menopausal Years the Wise Woman Way

Author Susun S Weed The best book on menopause is now better Completely

revised with 100 new pages All the remedies women know and trust plus hundreds

of new ones New sections on thyroid health fibromyalgia hairy problems male

menopause and herbs for women taking hormones Recommended by Susan Love

MD and Christiane Northrup MD Foreword by Juliette de Bairacli Levy 304 pages

index illustrations

For more info on menopause visit wwwmenopause-metamorphosiscom

Breast Cancer Breast Health

Author Susun S Weed Foods exercises and attitudes to keep your breasts healthy

Supportive complimentary medicines to ease side-effects of surgery radiation

chemotherapy or tamoxifen Foreword by Christiane Northrup MD 380 pages index

illustrations

UPCOMING DIANIC EVENTS

Pagan Examiner ndash Read the articles written by Bobbie and myself Zrsquos Calendar of Events ndash Want to know where I am appearing Goddess Festival ndash You think the last was good Goddess is Alive Tarot Social - A joyful coming-together of the Womenrsquos Tarot community a

Revival of the 70rsquos TRAVELING MAGIC SHOW by a FOREMOTHER of GODDESS SPIRITUALITY The QUEEN of TAROT READINGS and the woman responsible for LEGALIZING TAROT in California hellip Z Budapest

Z Budapest is conducting a most entertaining Tarot Social at her home in

Oakland CA on April 23rd For more information and registration go to

TarotSocialcom

The Dianic University for Women in Goddess

Study the Dianic Tradition with Z Budapest the woman who rebirthed it into modern culture Classes at the Dianic University are designed for women only

Sisterhood of the Moon ~ Womenrsquos Spirituality Coven in the Z Budapest Dianic Tradition

Events in the Sisterhood of the Moon are for women-born-women only Located in Hayward CA You must contact Jesamyn Angelica for more information Many of the members of this group are also members of the Susan B Anthony Coven No1 Facebookpage

Hands of Demeter ~ Womenrsquos Spirituality Coven in the Z Budapest Dianic Tradition

Events in the Hands of Demeter are for women-born-women only Located in Semi Valley CA You must contact httpearthmothercovenantcom for more information Many of the members of this group are also members of the Susan B Anthony Coven No1 Facebook page

The Sacred Circle ~ Recovering amp Reclaiming Ancient Ways to Heal

Events in The Sacred Circle are for members only unless otherwise stated Call JoAnna 775-882-1599 for membership inquiries

Sisterhood of the Turning Tides ~ Womenrsquos Spirituality Coven in the Z Budapest Dianic Tradition

They meet on Esbats and Sabbats and have a Tuesday night drumritual circle Located in Mendocino CA You must contact Sage Simon for more information Many of the members of this group are also members of the Susan B Anthony Coven No1 Facebookpage

You can sponsor Goddess magazine too Click here to helphellip

Deepest Gratitude to Sisters in Goddess for their Donations

The Application for Dianic Clergy Priestess is online

Follow the Goddess Festival on Facebook And Twitter

Thank you sisters who have donated $1 a month to help support our Goddess efforts

You can sponsor Goddess magazine too Click here to helphellip

Vicki Scotti LuAnn Morris and Amy Otero are

Hecatersquos Wheel an acoustic folk trio Their

music is inspired by and dedicated to the

Goddess in all her guises They sing an eclectic

variety of cover songs and original music

Hecatersquos Wheel has been playing and

singing together for several years and their

voices have found a natural harmonious blend

We VERY much enjoyed their Beltaine concert

Goddess Resource Links Z Budapest Website Goddess College Online Goddess Blog ndash Sponsored by the Susan B Anthony Coven Z Budapest Blog Goddess Festival Susan B Anthony Coven Dianic Wicca Tarot Social Witch Trial ndash the last great witch trial in America Zs Events Schedule Zs University Calendar

Zs Books Summoning the Fates Holy Book of Womens Mysteries Celestial Wisdom Grandmother of Time Grandmother Moon Goddess in the Office Goddess in the Bedroom

Page 21: Goddess Magazine (March 2011)

OTHER WOMENrsquoS SACRED EVENTS amp TOURS TELL THEM Z SENT YOU A WOMENrsquoS RITUAL RETREAT IN CRETE A JOURNEY TO THE GODDESS MAY 23-JUNE 5TH 2011

Facilitated by Ruth Barrett and Catherine Ridder YES We still have spaces still available for our fourth

ritual retreat to Crete Space is limited to 13 women on a first-come basis If you are interested in

hearing more information about this incredible trip contact Catherine Ridder at 626-793-7520 or email

caridder2netzerocom

Sacred Sites of Avalon England with Donna Virgilio April 27 to May 3 2011 Travel to Stonehenge for a private ceremony in the inner circle Walk to the Tor considered to be the legendary Camelot Tour Roman and Medieval Baths and honor the Goddess Minerva visit and pray at the Chalice Well and see the Sacred Gardens Tour the Glastonbury Goddess Temple and participate in the official Beltaine Festivities and Ceremony See the Boscastle Witchcraft Museum and Journey to Tintagel the mystical birthplace of King Arthur and peek inside Merlinrsquos Cave Walk through Avebury Stonecircle West Kennet Long Barrows Silsbury Hill and see Crop Circles Finally dance at the Avalon Beltaine Fairy Ball featuring Doreen Virtues Band Obsidian

On the Trail of the Goddess in Turkey - Anatolia - Land of the Nourishing Mothers

ON THE TRAIL OF THE GREAT GODDESS

Sacred Journey to Turkey

November 2 - 14 2011

featuring

Karen and Roy Tate

Guided by Rashid Ergener

Visit the sacred goddess sites in Turkey Catalhoyuk Lagina Ephesus Troy and Sardis

httpwwwexaminercomwomen-s-goddess-spirituality-in-los-angelessacred-tour-of-goddess-sites-turkey-coming-november-2011-for-women-men

Check out the new video of sacred places in Turkey Hear the hauntingly beautiful music as the Ancient Mother calls httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=Twbcx8IicxI

8th ANNUAL WISE WOMANS FESTIVAL IN FLORIDA

Come and Greet the Springtime with Our Lady of the Faery

Greenwood April 9th and 10th

Nymphs Dryads Devas Kami Apsaras and Sprites Oh My What is the connection between Goddesses

and Faeryfolk Itrsquos Springtime and even though we have April showers you wonrsquot have to wait for May

to enjoy the flowers Join Morning Glory Zell noted Goddess historian and Priestess for the latest in her

series of Great Goddess Retreats and find out why the Green Goddess is more than a salad dressing

With her 36 years of experience and a collection of over 200 votive Goddess statues get ready for an

unforgettable weekend journey of sacred learning and transformational experience

This Retreat will be held at the Raven Haven Morning Gloryrsquos beautiful 10 acre home in Sonoma County

California Raven Haven is nice and roomy with a deck a pool and a spa and a special magickal Faery

Porch covered with flowering wisteria The Temple Room has huge floor to ceiling glass cases displaying

her collection of Goddess figurines and a large altar covered in beautiful Goddess images If you come

from out of town there is room to camp out (if itrsquos dry) sleep over if you like or you can choose from the

many excellent nearby hotels

The Retreat begins on Saturday the 24th at 200pm and ends on Sunday the 25th at 800pm Saturday

we will devote ourselves to learning and exploring the many Goddesses who have a connection to the

realm of Faery from Danu to Ma Ku Hold the images in your hands and hear their fascinating stories

Later we will journey deep in guided meditation to discover the special one which calls to you

Sunday starts with fun and relaxation as we learn the ancient art of weaving wreaths of living flowers

and plants to make a magickal faery wreath or perhaps you would like to learn how to make a faery

house outside on the Faery Porch that will be covered with blooming wisteria Later we will have a ritual

bath in the spa and a procession to decorate the various Goddess shrines around the property The

Retreat culminates with a ceremony to honor the Goddesses and the Fae in a Council where we sing

together and where each Goddess or Faery can share Her Truth

The fee for the entire weekend Retreat is only $10000 or you may attend only Saturdayrsquos program of

the lecture and meditation for $6000 Sunday however is not open to anyone who has not already

attended the Saturday session Meals are shared in an easygoing potluck fashion You truly have never

had any other experience quite like this one and you will come away re-energized as well as transformed

by the power of your new divine connection

Phone (707) 795-8047

mythicimcnorg

PO Box 758

Cotati CA 94931

Tryst ndash Handfasting Commitment Ceremonies

Z is back sisters And shersquos available to officiate your Trysting wedding ceremonies again The most popular pagan Goddess wedding ceremony was created by Z Budapest in The Holy Book of Womens Mysteries where Z coined the term Tryst Ritual as an expressly feminine marriage ceremony and rite of passage that can be used for heterosexual couples as well as same sex couples

Z Budapest has been conducting Pagan marriage rituals for over 40 years as a celebrated High Priestess within the Dianic Tradition which she founded Z is available to officiate your handfasting ceremony as well Whether its a civil union or a licensed marriage certificate Z is able to offer you her services as clergy She has legal standings through the Womens Spirituality Forum an IRS 501(c)3 non-profit in the state of California making your clergy fees tax deductible You can learn more about Zrsquos Trysting Ritual and schedule your wedding ceremony with her in 2010

Crete Archaeologists discover skeleton covered with gold foil in 2700-year-old grave

Greek archaeologists have found an ancient skeleton covered with gold foil in a grave on the island of Crete officials said Tuesday

Excavator Nicholas Stampolidis said his team discovered more than 3000 pieces of gold foil in the 7th-century BC twin grave near the ancient town of Eleutherna

Cemeteries there have produced a wealth of outstanding artifacts in recent years

The tiny gold ornaments from 1 to 4 centimetres (04 to 15 inches) long had been sewn onto a lavish robe or shroud that initially wrapped the body of a woman and has almost completely rotted away but for a few off-white threads

The whole length of the (grave) was covered with small pieces of gold foil mdash square circular and lozenge-shaped Stampolidis told The Associated Press We were literally digging up gold interspersed with earth not earth with some gold in it

The woman who presumably had a high social or religious status was buried with a second skeleton in a large jar sealed with a stone slab weighing more than half a ton It was hidden behind a false wall to confuse grave robbers

Experts are trying to determine the other skeletons sex The grave also contained a copper bowl pottery perfume bottles imported from Egypt or Syria and Palestine hundreds of amber rock crystal and faience beads as well as a gold pendant in the form of a bee goddess that probably was part of a rock crystal and gold necklace

If you look at it one way up its shaped like a lily said Stampolidis a professor of archaeology at the University of Crete who has worked at Eleutherna for the 25 years Turned upside down you see a female figure holding her breasts whose lower body is shaped as a bee with wings The workmanship is exquisite

The ruins of Eleutherna stand on the northern foothills of Mount Ida mdash the mythical birthplace of Zeus chief of the ancient Greek gods Past excavations have discovered a citadel homes and an important cemetery with lavish female burials

The town flourished from the 9th century BC mdash the dark ages of Greek archaeology that followed the fall of Cretes great Minoan palatial culture mdash and endured until the Middle Ages

httparchaeologynewsnetworkblogspotcom201009archaeologists-on-crete-find-skeletonhtml

SWEET TASTE OF SPRING Susun S Weed

March winds blow the sweet scent of maple sap boiling to my questing nose When the days are warm

and sunny and the nights below freezing the sap rises in the trees If those trees are sugar maples then

it is worth drilling a hole in the bark inserting a tap and collecting their sweet sap There is so much

sugar in sugar maple sap that it can be boiled and turned into maple syrup and maple sugar

Therersquos about one gallon of maple syrup and ninety-nine gallons of water in one hundred gallons of

maple sap A hot fire and a slow but steady boil send that sweet-smelling water vapor high in the clear

cold sky The March wind blows it to me I close my eyes and remember my years of ldquosugaringrdquo making

maple syrup

Therersquos something special about a task that requires one to stay up all night Maple sap starts to ferment

if it is left at normal temperatures for very long Once ten or so gallons of sap have been collected the

boiling begins hellip and cannot be stopped until the finished syrup is achieved many many many hours

later

I have never sugared without at least one overnighter and sometimes two A large operation boils sap

for weeks without stopping just drawing off the syrup as it forms if the run is steady and copious

It was a picture of Helen Nearing driving a team of horses through the woods standing on a sleigh

loaded with buckets of maple sap that made me long for a homestead where I could lead The Simple

Life like her Two years later I had my own ldquosugar bushrdquo (an acre or more of woodlot where large sugar

maples grow) Spring equinox found me with my drill in hand a pocket full of taps and a bunch of funny

buckets with lids to hang from the taps ldquoTing tingrdquo the ping of sap filling the metal buckets echoes

tying me through time to every woman who has ever sugared and bringing a smile to my heart and

face

My groves of sugar maples have never been large enough to require a team of horses or a sleigh Irsquove

always lugged a big bucket out to the trees and poured the sap from the collecting buckets into it When

I have two or three buckets full I pour them into a big galvanized tub set up on cinder blocks over a fire

and commence to boil it down

Native peoples valued maple sugar so highly that they set up camp in the sugar bush and lived there

until the sap stopped flowing Lacking metal drill bits they cut a shallow groove in the bark and pressed

hollow elder stems into service as taps to direct the flow of sap into birch bark containers

I can heat the sap directly in my metal tub while they had to hollow out a log put smooth rocks into the

fire heat them and put the hot rocks into the sap in the hollowed out log to boil it down into maple

syrup and sugar Whew I am impressed with the power of the desire for sweet It takes far more

calories in fuel and human energy to make maple syrup or maple sugar than it returns

Grandmother Twylah taught us that maple trees are friendly and companionable colorful and

expressive They always have a positive attitude and are adept at helping us see solutions to impossible

problems Maple trees are devoted and true Make friends with a maple and you will have a friend for

life she advised

Ellen Everet Hopman green witch reminds us that maple-syrup-making time is Eostrersquos time Eostre

(ee-oh-stir) is the Teutonic goddess of fertility and manifestation Her symbols are the egg and the

rabbit her time is Spring Equinox A lovely custom still enacted but without the underlying magic is to

paint a picture of something you desire on an egg and plant it in the ground so Eostre can help it grow

and become real

If itrsquos too late to tap your maples or you live too far south for the sap to flow strongly you can still be

blessed and embraced by maple A decoction of maple bark boiled in water can be used to ease sore

eyes externally and to tonify the uterus after birth internally

A magical wand of maple wood is used for spells that bring harmony especially in the home And maple

leaves sewn into a charm made of green flannel tied with a golden string will bring abundance into

your life

Indulge your desire for sweet Celebrate spring equinox and Eostre who loves sweet things Have a

stack of pancakes swimming in butter and maple syrup Or pour maple syrup over plain vanilla ice cream

and savor the sweet taste of the friendly maple tree

Green blessings

How much sugar per gallon of sap is quite variable depending on the type of maple the growing

conditions and especially the amount of sun the tree gets Sugar maple (Acer saccharum) sap is the

sweetest followed by the saps of silver maple (Acer saccharinum) Northern red maple (Acer rubrum)

and Norway maple (Acer platanoides)

Susun Weed

PO Box 64

Woodstock NY 12498

Fax 1-845-246-8081

Visit Susun Weed at wwwsusunweedcom and wwwashtreepublishingcom

Vibrant passionate and involved Susun Weed has garnered an international reputation for her

groundbreaking lectures teachings and writings on health and nutrition She challenges conventional

medical approaches with humor insight and her vast encyclopedic knowledge of herbal medicine

Unabashedly pro-woman her animated and enthusiastic lectures are engaging and often profoundly

provocative

Susun is one of Americas best-known authorities on herbal medicine and natural approaches to

womens health Her four best-selling books are recommended by expert herbalists and well-known

physicians and are used and cherished by millions of women around the world Learn more at

wwwsusunweedcom

Susun Weedrsquos books include

Wise Woman Herbal for the Childbearing Year

Author Susun S Weed Simple safe remedies for pregnancy childbirth lactation and

newborns Includes herbs for fertility and birth control Foreword by Jeannine Parvati

Baker 196 pages index illustrations

Healing Wise

Author Susun S Weed Superb herbal in the feminine-intuitive mode Complete

instructions for using common plants for food beauty medicine and longevity

Introduction by Jean Houston 312 pages index illustrations

Menopausal Years the Wise Woman Way

Author Susun S Weed The best book on menopause is now better Completely

revised with 100 new pages All the remedies women know and trust plus hundreds

of new ones New sections on thyroid health fibromyalgia hairy problems male

menopause and herbs for women taking hormones Recommended by Susan Love

MD and Christiane Northrup MD Foreword by Juliette de Bairacli Levy 304 pages

index illustrations

For more info on menopause visit wwwmenopause-metamorphosiscom

Breast Cancer Breast Health

Author Susun S Weed Foods exercises and attitudes to keep your breasts healthy

Supportive complimentary medicines to ease side-effects of surgery radiation

chemotherapy or tamoxifen Foreword by Christiane Northrup MD 380 pages index

illustrations

UPCOMING DIANIC EVENTS

Pagan Examiner ndash Read the articles written by Bobbie and myself Zrsquos Calendar of Events ndash Want to know where I am appearing Goddess Festival ndash You think the last was good Goddess is Alive Tarot Social - A joyful coming-together of the Womenrsquos Tarot community a

Revival of the 70rsquos TRAVELING MAGIC SHOW by a FOREMOTHER of GODDESS SPIRITUALITY The QUEEN of TAROT READINGS and the woman responsible for LEGALIZING TAROT in California hellip Z Budapest

Z Budapest is conducting a most entertaining Tarot Social at her home in

Oakland CA on April 23rd For more information and registration go to

TarotSocialcom

The Dianic University for Women in Goddess

Study the Dianic Tradition with Z Budapest the woman who rebirthed it into modern culture Classes at the Dianic University are designed for women only

Sisterhood of the Moon ~ Womenrsquos Spirituality Coven in the Z Budapest Dianic Tradition

Events in the Sisterhood of the Moon are for women-born-women only Located in Hayward CA You must contact Jesamyn Angelica for more information Many of the members of this group are also members of the Susan B Anthony Coven No1 Facebookpage

Hands of Demeter ~ Womenrsquos Spirituality Coven in the Z Budapest Dianic Tradition

Events in the Hands of Demeter are for women-born-women only Located in Semi Valley CA You must contact httpearthmothercovenantcom for more information Many of the members of this group are also members of the Susan B Anthony Coven No1 Facebook page

The Sacred Circle ~ Recovering amp Reclaiming Ancient Ways to Heal

Events in The Sacred Circle are for members only unless otherwise stated Call JoAnna 775-882-1599 for membership inquiries

Sisterhood of the Turning Tides ~ Womenrsquos Spirituality Coven in the Z Budapest Dianic Tradition

They meet on Esbats and Sabbats and have a Tuesday night drumritual circle Located in Mendocino CA You must contact Sage Simon for more information Many of the members of this group are also members of the Susan B Anthony Coven No1 Facebookpage

You can sponsor Goddess magazine too Click here to helphellip

Deepest Gratitude to Sisters in Goddess for their Donations

The Application for Dianic Clergy Priestess is online

Follow the Goddess Festival on Facebook And Twitter

Thank you sisters who have donated $1 a month to help support our Goddess efforts

You can sponsor Goddess magazine too Click here to helphellip

Vicki Scotti LuAnn Morris and Amy Otero are

Hecatersquos Wheel an acoustic folk trio Their

music is inspired by and dedicated to the

Goddess in all her guises They sing an eclectic

variety of cover songs and original music

Hecatersquos Wheel has been playing and

singing together for several years and their

voices have found a natural harmonious blend

We VERY much enjoyed their Beltaine concert

Goddess Resource Links Z Budapest Website Goddess College Online Goddess Blog ndash Sponsored by the Susan B Anthony Coven Z Budapest Blog Goddess Festival Susan B Anthony Coven Dianic Wicca Tarot Social Witch Trial ndash the last great witch trial in America Zs Events Schedule Zs University Calendar

Zs Books Summoning the Fates Holy Book of Womens Mysteries Celestial Wisdom Grandmother of Time Grandmother Moon Goddess in the Office Goddess in the Bedroom

Page 22: Goddess Magazine (March 2011)

8th ANNUAL WISE WOMANS FESTIVAL IN FLORIDA

Come and Greet the Springtime with Our Lady of the Faery

Greenwood April 9th and 10th

Nymphs Dryads Devas Kami Apsaras and Sprites Oh My What is the connection between Goddesses

and Faeryfolk Itrsquos Springtime and even though we have April showers you wonrsquot have to wait for May

to enjoy the flowers Join Morning Glory Zell noted Goddess historian and Priestess for the latest in her

series of Great Goddess Retreats and find out why the Green Goddess is more than a salad dressing

With her 36 years of experience and a collection of over 200 votive Goddess statues get ready for an

unforgettable weekend journey of sacred learning and transformational experience

This Retreat will be held at the Raven Haven Morning Gloryrsquos beautiful 10 acre home in Sonoma County

California Raven Haven is nice and roomy with a deck a pool and a spa and a special magickal Faery

Porch covered with flowering wisteria The Temple Room has huge floor to ceiling glass cases displaying

her collection of Goddess figurines and a large altar covered in beautiful Goddess images If you come

from out of town there is room to camp out (if itrsquos dry) sleep over if you like or you can choose from the

many excellent nearby hotels

The Retreat begins on Saturday the 24th at 200pm and ends on Sunday the 25th at 800pm Saturday

we will devote ourselves to learning and exploring the many Goddesses who have a connection to the

realm of Faery from Danu to Ma Ku Hold the images in your hands and hear their fascinating stories

Later we will journey deep in guided meditation to discover the special one which calls to you

Sunday starts with fun and relaxation as we learn the ancient art of weaving wreaths of living flowers

and plants to make a magickal faery wreath or perhaps you would like to learn how to make a faery

house outside on the Faery Porch that will be covered with blooming wisteria Later we will have a ritual

bath in the spa and a procession to decorate the various Goddess shrines around the property The

Retreat culminates with a ceremony to honor the Goddesses and the Fae in a Council where we sing

together and where each Goddess or Faery can share Her Truth

The fee for the entire weekend Retreat is only $10000 or you may attend only Saturdayrsquos program of

the lecture and meditation for $6000 Sunday however is not open to anyone who has not already

attended the Saturday session Meals are shared in an easygoing potluck fashion You truly have never

had any other experience quite like this one and you will come away re-energized as well as transformed

by the power of your new divine connection

Phone (707) 795-8047

mythicimcnorg

PO Box 758

Cotati CA 94931

Tryst ndash Handfasting Commitment Ceremonies

Z is back sisters And shersquos available to officiate your Trysting wedding ceremonies again The most popular pagan Goddess wedding ceremony was created by Z Budapest in The Holy Book of Womens Mysteries where Z coined the term Tryst Ritual as an expressly feminine marriage ceremony and rite of passage that can be used for heterosexual couples as well as same sex couples

Z Budapest has been conducting Pagan marriage rituals for over 40 years as a celebrated High Priestess within the Dianic Tradition which she founded Z is available to officiate your handfasting ceremony as well Whether its a civil union or a licensed marriage certificate Z is able to offer you her services as clergy She has legal standings through the Womens Spirituality Forum an IRS 501(c)3 non-profit in the state of California making your clergy fees tax deductible You can learn more about Zrsquos Trysting Ritual and schedule your wedding ceremony with her in 2010

Crete Archaeologists discover skeleton covered with gold foil in 2700-year-old grave

Greek archaeologists have found an ancient skeleton covered with gold foil in a grave on the island of Crete officials said Tuesday

Excavator Nicholas Stampolidis said his team discovered more than 3000 pieces of gold foil in the 7th-century BC twin grave near the ancient town of Eleutherna

Cemeteries there have produced a wealth of outstanding artifacts in recent years

The tiny gold ornaments from 1 to 4 centimetres (04 to 15 inches) long had been sewn onto a lavish robe or shroud that initially wrapped the body of a woman and has almost completely rotted away but for a few off-white threads

The whole length of the (grave) was covered with small pieces of gold foil mdash square circular and lozenge-shaped Stampolidis told The Associated Press We were literally digging up gold interspersed with earth not earth with some gold in it

The woman who presumably had a high social or religious status was buried with a second skeleton in a large jar sealed with a stone slab weighing more than half a ton It was hidden behind a false wall to confuse grave robbers

Experts are trying to determine the other skeletons sex The grave also contained a copper bowl pottery perfume bottles imported from Egypt or Syria and Palestine hundreds of amber rock crystal and faience beads as well as a gold pendant in the form of a bee goddess that probably was part of a rock crystal and gold necklace

If you look at it one way up its shaped like a lily said Stampolidis a professor of archaeology at the University of Crete who has worked at Eleutherna for the 25 years Turned upside down you see a female figure holding her breasts whose lower body is shaped as a bee with wings The workmanship is exquisite

The ruins of Eleutherna stand on the northern foothills of Mount Ida mdash the mythical birthplace of Zeus chief of the ancient Greek gods Past excavations have discovered a citadel homes and an important cemetery with lavish female burials

The town flourished from the 9th century BC mdash the dark ages of Greek archaeology that followed the fall of Cretes great Minoan palatial culture mdash and endured until the Middle Ages

httparchaeologynewsnetworkblogspotcom201009archaeologists-on-crete-find-skeletonhtml

SWEET TASTE OF SPRING Susun S Weed

March winds blow the sweet scent of maple sap boiling to my questing nose When the days are warm

and sunny and the nights below freezing the sap rises in the trees If those trees are sugar maples then

it is worth drilling a hole in the bark inserting a tap and collecting their sweet sap There is so much

sugar in sugar maple sap that it can be boiled and turned into maple syrup and maple sugar

Therersquos about one gallon of maple syrup and ninety-nine gallons of water in one hundred gallons of

maple sap A hot fire and a slow but steady boil send that sweet-smelling water vapor high in the clear

cold sky The March wind blows it to me I close my eyes and remember my years of ldquosugaringrdquo making

maple syrup

Therersquos something special about a task that requires one to stay up all night Maple sap starts to ferment

if it is left at normal temperatures for very long Once ten or so gallons of sap have been collected the

boiling begins hellip and cannot be stopped until the finished syrup is achieved many many many hours

later

I have never sugared without at least one overnighter and sometimes two A large operation boils sap

for weeks without stopping just drawing off the syrup as it forms if the run is steady and copious

It was a picture of Helen Nearing driving a team of horses through the woods standing on a sleigh

loaded with buckets of maple sap that made me long for a homestead where I could lead The Simple

Life like her Two years later I had my own ldquosugar bushrdquo (an acre or more of woodlot where large sugar

maples grow) Spring equinox found me with my drill in hand a pocket full of taps and a bunch of funny

buckets with lids to hang from the taps ldquoTing tingrdquo the ping of sap filling the metal buckets echoes

tying me through time to every woman who has ever sugared and bringing a smile to my heart and

face

My groves of sugar maples have never been large enough to require a team of horses or a sleigh Irsquove

always lugged a big bucket out to the trees and poured the sap from the collecting buckets into it When

I have two or three buckets full I pour them into a big galvanized tub set up on cinder blocks over a fire

and commence to boil it down

Native peoples valued maple sugar so highly that they set up camp in the sugar bush and lived there

until the sap stopped flowing Lacking metal drill bits they cut a shallow groove in the bark and pressed

hollow elder stems into service as taps to direct the flow of sap into birch bark containers

I can heat the sap directly in my metal tub while they had to hollow out a log put smooth rocks into the

fire heat them and put the hot rocks into the sap in the hollowed out log to boil it down into maple

syrup and sugar Whew I am impressed with the power of the desire for sweet It takes far more

calories in fuel and human energy to make maple syrup or maple sugar than it returns

Grandmother Twylah taught us that maple trees are friendly and companionable colorful and

expressive They always have a positive attitude and are adept at helping us see solutions to impossible

problems Maple trees are devoted and true Make friends with a maple and you will have a friend for

life she advised

Ellen Everet Hopman green witch reminds us that maple-syrup-making time is Eostrersquos time Eostre

(ee-oh-stir) is the Teutonic goddess of fertility and manifestation Her symbols are the egg and the

rabbit her time is Spring Equinox A lovely custom still enacted but without the underlying magic is to

paint a picture of something you desire on an egg and plant it in the ground so Eostre can help it grow

and become real

If itrsquos too late to tap your maples or you live too far south for the sap to flow strongly you can still be

blessed and embraced by maple A decoction of maple bark boiled in water can be used to ease sore

eyes externally and to tonify the uterus after birth internally

A magical wand of maple wood is used for spells that bring harmony especially in the home And maple

leaves sewn into a charm made of green flannel tied with a golden string will bring abundance into

your life

Indulge your desire for sweet Celebrate spring equinox and Eostre who loves sweet things Have a

stack of pancakes swimming in butter and maple syrup Or pour maple syrup over plain vanilla ice cream

and savor the sweet taste of the friendly maple tree

Green blessings

How much sugar per gallon of sap is quite variable depending on the type of maple the growing

conditions and especially the amount of sun the tree gets Sugar maple (Acer saccharum) sap is the

sweetest followed by the saps of silver maple (Acer saccharinum) Northern red maple (Acer rubrum)

and Norway maple (Acer platanoides)

Susun Weed

PO Box 64

Woodstock NY 12498

Fax 1-845-246-8081

Visit Susun Weed at wwwsusunweedcom and wwwashtreepublishingcom

Vibrant passionate and involved Susun Weed has garnered an international reputation for her

groundbreaking lectures teachings and writings on health and nutrition She challenges conventional

medical approaches with humor insight and her vast encyclopedic knowledge of herbal medicine

Unabashedly pro-woman her animated and enthusiastic lectures are engaging and often profoundly

provocative

Susun is one of Americas best-known authorities on herbal medicine and natural approaches to

womens health Her four best-selling books are recommended by expert herbalists and well-known

physicians and are used and cherished by millions of women around the world Learn more at

wwwsusunweedcom

Susun Weedrsquos books include

Wise Woman Herbal for the Childbearing Year

Author Susun S Weed Simple safe remedies for pregnancy childbirth lactation and

newborns Includes herbs for fertility and birth control Foreword by Jeannine Parvati

Baker 196 pages index illustrations

Healing Wise

Author Susun S Weed Superb herbal in the feminine-intuitive mode Complete

instructions for using common plants for food beauty medicine and longevity

Introduction by Jean Houston 312 pages index illustrations

Menopausal Years the Wise Woman Way

Author Susun S Weed The best book on menopause is now better Completely

revised with 100 new pages All the remedies women know and trust plus hundreds

of new ones New sections on thyroid health fibromyalgia hairy problems male

menopause and herbs for women taking hormones Recommended by Susan Love

MD and Christiane Northrup MD Foreword by Juliette de Bairacli Levy 304 pages

index illustrations

For more info on menopause visit wwwmenopause-metamorphosiscom

Breast Cancer Breast Health

Author Susun S Weed Foods exercises and attitudes to keep your breasts healthy

Supportive complimentary medicines to ease side-effects of surgery radiation

chemotherapy or tamoxifen Foreword by Christiane Northrup MD 380 pages index

illustrations

UPCOMING DIANIC EVENTS

Pagan Examiner ndash Read the articles written by Bobbie and myself Zrsquos Calendar of Events ndash Want to know where I am appearing Goddess Festival ndash You think the last was good Goddess is Alive Tarot Social - A joyful coming-together of the Womenrsquos Tarot community a

Revival of the 70rsquos TRAVELING MAGIC SHOW by a FOREMOTHER of GODDESS SPIRITUALITY The QUEEN of TAROT READINGS and the woman responsible for LEGALIZING TAROT in California hellip Z Budapest

Z Budapest is conducting a most entertaining Tarot Social at her home in

Oakland CA on April 23rd For more information and registration go to

TarotSocialcom

The Dianic University for Women in Goddess

Study the Dianic Tradition with Z Budapest the woman who rebirthed it into modern culture Classes at the Dianic University are designed for women only

Sisterhood of the Moon ~ Womenrsquos Spirituality Coven in the Z Budapest Dianic Tradition

Events in the Sisterhood of the Moon are for women-born-women only Located in Hayward CA You must contact Jesamyn Angelica for more information Many of the members of this group are also members of the Susan B Anthony Coven No1 Facebookpage

Hands of Demeter ~ Womenrsquos Spirituality Coven in the Z Budapest Dianic Tradition

Events in the Hands of Demeter are for women-born-women only Located in Semi Valley CA You must contact httpearthmothercovenantcom for more information Many of the members of this group are also members of the Susan B Anthony Coven No1 Facebook page

The Sacred Circle ~ Recovering amp Reclaiming Ancient Ways to Heal

Events in The Sacred Circle are for members only unless otherwise stated Call JoAnna 775-882-1599 for membership inquiries

Sisterhood of the Turning Tides ~ Womenrsquos Spirituality Coven in the Z Budapest Dianic Tradition

They meet on Esbats and Sabbats and have a Tuesday night drumritual circle Located in Mendocino CA You must contact Sage Simon for more information Many of the members of this group are also members of the Susan B Anthony Coven No1 Facebookpage

You can sponsor Goddess magazine too Click here to helphellip

Deepest Gratitude to Sisters in Goddess for their Donations

The Application for Dianic Clergy Priestess is online

Follow the Goddess Festival on Facebook And Twitter

Thank you sisters who have donated $1 a month to help support our Goddess efforts

You can sponsor Goddess magazine too Click here to helphellip

Vicki Scotti LuAnn Morris and Amy Otero are

Hecatersquos Wheel an acoustic folk trio Their

music is inspired by and dedicated to the

Goddess in all her guises They sing an eclectic

variety of cover songs and original music

Hecatersquos Wheel has been playing and

singing together for several years and their

voices have found a natural harmonious blend

We VERY much enjoyed their Beltaine concert

Goddess Resource Links Z Budapest Website Goddess College Online Goddess Blog ndash Sponsored by the Susan B Anthony Coven Z Budapest Blog Goddess Festival Susan B Anthony Coven Dianic Wicca Tarot Social Witch Trial ndash the last great witch trial in America Zs Events Schedule Zs University Calendar

Zs Books Summoning the Fates Holy Book of Womens Mysteries Celestial Wisdom Grandmother of Time Grandmother Moon Goddess in the Office Goddess in the Bedroom

Page 23: Goddess Magazine (March 2011)

Come and Greet the Springtime with Our Lady of the Faery

Greenwood April 9th and 10th

Nymphs Dryads Devas Kami Apsaras and Sprites Oh My What is the connection between Goddesses

and Faeryfolk Itrsquos Springtime and even though we have April showers you wonrsquot have to wait for May

to enjoy the flowers Join Morning Glory Zell noted Goddess historian and Priestess for the latest in her

series of Great Goddess Retreats and find out why the Green Goddess is more than a salad dressing

With her 36 years of experience and a collection of over 200 votive Goddess statues get ready for an

unforgettable weekend journey of sacred learning and transformational experience

This Retreat will be held at the Raven Haven Morning Gloryrsquos beautiful 10 acre home in Sonoma County

California Raven Haven is nice and roomy with a deck a pool and a spa and a special magickal Faery

Porch covered with flowering wisteria The Temple Room has huge floor to ceiling glass cases displaying

her collection of Goddess figurines and a large altar covered in beautiful Goddess images If you come

from out of town there is room to camp out (if itrsquos dry) sleep over if you like or you can choose from the

many excellent nearby hotels

The Retreat begins on Saturday the 24th at 200pm and ends on Sunday the 25th at 800pm Saturday

we will devote ourselves to learning and exploring the many Goddesses who have a connection to the

realm of Faery from Danu to Ma Ku Hold the images in your hands and hear their fascinating stories

Later we will journey deep in guided meditation to discover the special one which calls to you

Sunday starts with fun and relaxation as we learn the ancient art of weaving wreaths of living flowers

and plants to make a magickal faery wreath or perhaps you would like to learn how to make a faery

house outside on the Faery Porch that will be covered with blooming wisteria Later we will have a ritual

bath in the spa and a procession to decorate the various Goddess shrines around the property The

Retreat culminates with a ceremony to honor the Goddesses and the Fae in a Council where we sing

together and where each Goddess or Faery can share Her Truth

The fee for the entire weekend Retreat is only $10000 or you may attend only Saturdayrsquos program of

the lecture and meditation for $6000 Sunday however is not open to anyone who has not already

attended the Saturday session Meals are shared in an easygoing potluck fashion You truly have never

had any other experience quite like this one and you will come away re-energized as well as transformed

by the power of your new divine connection

Phone (707) 795-8047

mythicimcnorg

PO Box 758

Cotati CA 94931

Tryst ndash Handfasting Commitment Ceremonies

Z is back sisters And shersquos available to officiate your Trysting wedding ceremonies again The most popular pagan Goddess wedding ceremony was created by Z Budapest in The Holy Book of Womens Mysteries where Z coined the term Tryst Ritual as an expressly feminine marriage ceremony and rite of passage that can be used for heterosexual couples as well as same sex couples

Z Budapest has been conducting Pagan marriage rituals for over 40 years as a celebrated High Priestess within the Dianic Tradition which she founded Z is available to officiate your handfasting ceremony as well Whether its a civil union or a licensed marriage certificate Z is able to offer you her services as clergy She has legal standings through the Womens Spirituality Forum an IRS 501(c)3 non-profit in the state of California making your clergy fees tax deductible You can learn more about Zrsquos Trysting Ritual and schedule your wedding ceremony with her in 2010

Crete Archaeologists discover skeleton covered with gold foil in 2700-year-old grave

Greek archaeologists have found an ancient skeleton covered with gold foil in a grave on the island of Crete officials said Tuesday

Excavator Nicholas Stampolidis said his team discovered more than 3000 pieces of gold foil in the 7th-century BC twin grave near the ancient town of Eleutherna

Cemeteries there have produced a wealth of outstanding artifacts in recent years

The tiny gold ornaments from 1 to 4 centimetres (04 to 15 inches) long had been sewn onto a lavish robe or shroud that initially wrapped the body of a woman and has almost completely rotted away but for a few off-white threads

The whole length of the (grave) was covered with small pieces of gold foil mdash square circular and lozenge-shaped Stampolidis told The Associated Press We were literally digging up gold interspersed with earth not earth with some gold in it

The woman who presumably had a high social or religious status was buried with a second skeleton in a large jar sealed with a stone slab weighing more than half a ton It was hidden behind a false wall to confuse grave robbers

Experts are trying to determine the other skeletons sex The grave also contained a copper bowl pottery perfume bottles imported from Egypt or Syria and Palestine hundreds of amber rock crystal and faience beads as well as a gold pendant in the form of a bee goddess that probably was part of a rock crystal and gold necklace

If you look at it one way up its shaped like a lily said Stampolidis a professor of archaeology at the University of Crete who has worked at Eleutherna for the 25 years Turned upside down you see a female figure holding her breasts whose lower body is shaped as a bee with wings The workmanship is exquisite

The ruins of Eleutherna stand on the northern foothills of Mount Ida mdash the mythical birthplace of Zeus chief of the ancient Greek gods Past excavations have discovered a citadel homes and an important cemetery with lavish female burials

The town flourished from the 9th century BC mdash the dark ages of Greek archaeology that followed the fall of Cretes great Minoan palatial culture mdash and endured until the Middle Ages

httparchaeologynewsnetworkblogspotcom201009archaeologists-on-crete-find-skeletonhtml

SWEET TASTE OF SPRING Susun S Weed

March winds blow the sweet scent of maple sap boiling to my questing nose When the days are warm

and sunny and the nights below freezing the sap rises in the trees If those trees are sugar maples then

it is worth drilling a hole in the bark inserting a tap and collecting their sweet sap There is so much

sugar in sugar maple sap that it can be boiled and turned into maple syrup and maple sugar

Therersquos about one gallon of maple syrup and ninety-nine gallons of water in one hundred gallons of

maple sap A hot fire and a slow but steady boil send that sweet-smelling water vapor high in the clear

cold sky The March wind blows it to me I close my eyes and remember my years of ldquosugaringrdquo making

maple syrup

Therersquos something special about a task that requires one to stay up all night Maple sap starts to ferment

if it is left at normal temperatures for very long Once ten or so gallons of sap have been collected the

boiling begins hellip and cannot be stopped until the finished syrup is achieved many many many hours

later

I have never sugared without at least one overnighter and sometimes two A large operation boils sap

for weeks without stopping just drawing off the syrup as it forms if the run is steady and copious

It was a picture of Helen Nearing driving a team of horses through the woods standing on a sleigh

loaded with buckets of maple sap that made me long for a homestead where I could lead The Simple

Life like her Two years later I had my own ldquosugar bushrdquo (an acre or more of woodlot where large sugar

maples grow) Spring equinox found me with my drill in hand a pocket full of taps and a bunch of funny

buckets with lids to hang from the taps ldquoTing tingrdquo the ping of sap filling the metal buckets echoes

tying me through time to every woman who has ever sugared and bringing a smile to my heart and

face

My groves of sugar maples have never been large enough to require a team of horses or a sleigh Irsquove

always lugged a big bucket out to the trees and poured the sap from the collecting buckets into it When

I have two or three buckets full I pour them into a big galvanized tub set up on cinder blocks over a fire

and commence to boil it down

Native peoples valued maple sugar so highly that they set up camp in the sugar bush and lived there

until the sap stopped flowing Lacking metal drill bits they cut a shallow groove in the bark and pressed

hollow elder stems into service as taps to direct the flow of sap into birch bark containers

I can heat the sap directly in my metal tub while they had to hollow out a log put smooth rocks into the

fire heat them and put the hot rocks into the sap in the hollowed out log to boil it down into maple

syrup and sugar Whew I am impressed with the power of the desire for sweet It takes far more

calories in fuel and human energy to make maple syrup or maple sugar than it returns

Grandmother Twylah taught us that maple trees are friendly and companionable colorful and

expressive They always have a positive attitude and are adept at helping us see solutions to impossible

problems Maple trees are devoted and true Make friends with a maple and you will have a friend for

life she advised

Ellen Everet Hopman green witch reminds us that maple-syrup-making time is Eostrersquos time Eostre

(ee-oh-stir) is the Teutonic goddess of fertility and manifestation Her symbols are the egg and the

rabbit her time is Spring Equinox A lovely custom still enacted but without the underlying magic is to

paint a picture of something you desire on an egg and plant it in the ground so Eostre can help it grow

and become real

If itrsquos too late to tap your maples or you live too far south for the sap to flow strongly you can still be

blessed and embraced by maple A decoction of maple bark boiled in water can be used to ease sore

eyes externally and to tonify the uterus after birth internally

A magical wand of maple wood is used for spells that bring harmony especially in the home And maple

leaves sewn into a charm made of green flannel tied with a golden string will bring abundance into

your life

Indulge your desire for sweet Celebrate spring equinox and Eostre who loves sweet things Have a

stack of pancakes swimming in butter and maple syrup Or pour maple syrup over plain vanilla ice cream

and savor the sweet taste of the friendly maple tree

Green blessings

How much sugar per gallon of sap is quite variable depending on the type of maple the growing

conditions and especially the amount of sun the tree gets Sugar maple (Acer saccharum) sap is the

sweetest followed by the saps of silver maple (Acer saccharinum) Northern red maple (Acer rubrum)

and Norway maple (Acer platanoides)

Susun Weed

PO Box 64

Woodstock NY 12498

Fax 1-845-246-8081

Visit Susun Weed at wwwsusunweedcom and wwwashtreepublishingcom

Vibrant passionate and involved Susun Weed has garnered an international reputation for her

groundbreaking lectures teachings and writings on health and nutrition She challenges conventional

medical approaches with humor insight and her vast encyclopedic knowledge of herbal medicine

Unabashedly pro-woman her animated and enthusiastic lectures are engaging and often profoundly

provocative

Susun is one of Americas best-known authorities on herbal medicine and natural approaches to

womens health Her four best-selling books are recommended by expert herbalists and well-known

physicians and are used and cherished by millions of women around the world Learn more at

wwwsusunweedcom

Susun Weedrsquos books include

Wise Woman Herbal for the Childbearing Year

Author Susun S Weed Simple safe remedies for pregnancy childbirth lactation and

newborns Includes herbs for fertility and birth control Foreword by Jeannine Parvati

Baker 196 pages index illustrations

Healing Wise

Author Susun S Weed Superb herbal in the feminine-intuitive mode Complete

instructions for using common plants for food beauty medicine and longevity

Introduction by Jean Houston 312 pages index illustrations

Menopausal Years the Wise Woman Way

Author Susun S Weed The best book on menopause is now better Completely

revised with 100 new pages All the remedies women know and trust plus hundreds

of new ones New sections on thyroid health fibromyalgia hairy problems male

menopause and herbs for women taking hormones Recommended by Susan Love

MD and Christiane Northrup MD Foreword by Juliette de Bairacli Levy 304 pages

index illustrations

For more info on menopause visit wwwmenopause-metamorphosiscom

Breast Cancer Breast Health

Author Susun S Weed Foods exercises and attitudes to keep your breasts healthy

Supportive complimentary medicines to ease side-effects of surgery radiation

chemotherapy or tamoxifen Foreword by Christiane Northrup MD 380 pages index

illustrations

UPCOMING DIANIC EVENTS

Pagan Examiner ndash Read the articles written by Bobbie and myself Zrsquos Calendar of Events ndash Want to know where I am appearing Goddess Festival ndash You think the last was good Goddess is Alive Tarot Social - A joyful coming-together of the Womenrsquos Tarot community a

Revival of the 70rsquos TRAVELING MAGIC SHOW by a FOREMOTHER of GODDESS SPIRITUALITY The QUEEN of TAROT READINGS and the woman responsible for LEGALIZING TAROT in California hellip Z Budapest

Z Budapest is conducting a most entertaining Tarot Social at her home in

Oakland CA on April 23rd For more information and registration go to

TarotSocialcom

The Dianic University for Women in Goddess

Study the Dianic Tradition with Z Budapest the woman who rebirthed it into modern culture Classes at the Dianic University are designed for women only

Sisterhood of the Moon ~ Womenrsquos Spirituality Coven in the Z Budapest Dianic Tradition

Events in the Sisterhood of the Moon are for women-born-women only Located in Hayward CA You must contact Jesamyn Angelica for more information Many of the members of this group are also members of the Susan B Anthony Coven No1 Facebookpage

Hands of Demeter ~ Womenrsquos Spirituality Coven in the Z Budapest Dianic Tradition

Events in the Hands of Demeter are for women-born-women only Located in Semi Valley CA You must contact httpearthmothercovenantcom for more information Many of the members of this group are also members of the Susan B Anthony Coven No1 Facebook page

The Sacred Circle ~ Recovering amp Reclaiming Ancient Ways to Heal

Events in The Sacred Circle are for members only unless otherwise stated Call JoAnna 775-882-1599 for membership inquiries

Sisterhood of the Turning Tides ~ Womenrsquos Spirituality Coven in the Z Budapest Dianic Tradition

They meet on Esbats and Sabbats and have a Tuesday night drumritual circle Located in Mendocino CA You must contact Sage Simon for more information Many of the members of this group are also members of the Susan B Anthony Coven No1 Facebookpage

You can sponsor Goddess magazine too Click here to helphellip

Deepest Gratitude to Sisters in Goddess for their Donations

The Application for Dianic Clergy Priestess is online

Follow the Goddess Festival on Facebook And Twitter

Thank you sisters who have donated $1 a month to help support our Goddess efforts

You can sponsor Goddess magazine too Click here to helphellip

Vicki Scotti LuAnn Morris and Amy Otero are

Hecatersquos Wheel an acoustic folk trio Their

music is inspired by and dedicated to the

Goddess in all her guises They sing an eclectic

variety of cover songs and original music

Hecatersquos Wheel has been playing and

singing together for several years and their

voices have found a natural harmonious blend

We VERY much enjoyed their Beltaine concert

Goddess Resource Links Z Budapest Website Goddess College Online Goddess Blog ndash Sponsored by the Susan B Anthony Coven Z Budapest Blog Goddess Festival Susan B Anthony Coven Dianic Wicca Tarot Social Witch Trial ndash the last great witch trial in America Zs Events Schedule Zs University Calendar

Zs Books Summoning the Fates Holy Book of Womens Mysteries Celestial Wisdom Grandmother of Time Grandmother Moon Goddess in the Office Goddess in the Bedroom

Page 24: Goddess Magazine (March 2011)

Tryst ndash Handfasting Commitment Ceremonies

Z is back sisters And shersquos available to officiate your Trysting wedding ceremonies again The most popular pagan Goddess wedding ceremony was created by Z Budapest in The Holy Book of Womens Mysteries where Z coined the term Tryst Ritual as an expressly feminine marriage ceremony and rite of passage that can be used for heterosexual couples as well as same sex couples

Z Budapest has been conducting Pagan marriage rituals for over 40 years as a celebrated High Priestess within the Dianic Tradition which she founded Z is available to officiate your handfasting ceremony as well Whether its a civil union or a licensed marriage certificate Z is able to offer you her services as clergy She has legal standings through the Womens Spirituality Forum an IRS 501(c)3 non-profit in the state of California making your clergy fees tax deductible You can learn more about Zrsquos Trysting Ritual and schedule your wedding ceremony with her in 2010

Crete Archaeologists discover skeleton covered with gold foil in 2700-year-old grave

Greek archaeologists have found an ancient skeleton covered with gold foil in a grave on the island of Crete officials said Tuesday

Excavator Nicholas Stampolidis said his team discovered more than 3000 pieces of gold foil in the 7th-century BC twin grave near the ancient town of Eleutherna

Cemeteries there have produced a wealth of outstanding artifacts in recent years

The tiny gold ornaments from 1 to 4 centimetres (04 to 15 inches) long had been sewn onto a lavish robe or shroud that initially wrapped the body of a woman and has almost completely rotted away but for a few off-white threads

The whole length of the (grave) was covered with small pieces of gold foil mdash square circular and lozenge-shaped Stampolidis told The Associated Press We were literally digging up gold interspersed with earth not earth with some gold in it

The woman who presumably had a high social or religious status was buried with a second skeleton in a large jar sealed with a stone slab weighing more than half a ton It was hidden behind a false wall to confuse grave robbers

Experts are trying to determine the other skeletons sex The grave also contained a copper bowl pottery perfume bottles imported from Egypt or Syria and Palestine hundreds of amber rock crystal and faience beads as well as a gold pendant in the form of a bee goddess that probably was part of a rock crystal and gold necklace

If you look at it one way up its shaped like a lily said Stampolidis a professor of archaeology at the University of Crete who has worked at Eleutherna for the 25 years Turned upside down you see a female figure holding her breasts whose lower body is shaped as a bee with wings The workmanship is exquisite

The ruins of Eleutherna stand on the northern foothills of Mount Ida mdash the mythical birthplace of Zeus chief of the ancient Greek gods Past excavations have discovered a citadel homes and an important cemetery with lavish female burials

The town flourished from the 9th century BC mdash the dark ages of Greek archaeology that followed the fall of Cretes great Minoan palatial culture mdash and endured until the Middle Ages

httparchaeologynewsnetworkblogspotcom201009archaeologists-on-crete-find-skeletonhtml

SWEET TASTE OF SPRING Susun S Weed

March winds blow the sweet scent of maple sap boiling to my questing nose When the days are warm

and sunny and the nights below freezing the sap rises in the trees If those trees are sugar maples then

it is worth drilling a hole in the bark inserting a tap and collecting their sweet sap There is so much

sugar in sugar maple sap that it can be boiled and turned into maple syrup and maple sugar

Therersquos about one gallon of maple syrup and ninety-nine gallons of water in one hundred gallons of

maple sap A hot fire and a slow but steady boil send that sweet-smelling water vapor high in the clear

cold sky The March wind blows it to me I close my eyes and remember my years of ldquosugaringrdquo making

maple syrup

Therersquos something special about a task that requires one to stay up all night Maple sap starts to ferment

if it is left at normal temperatures for very long Once ten or so gallons of sap have been collected the

boiling begins hellip and cannot be stopped until the finished syrup is achieved many many many hours

later

I have never sugared without at least one overnighter and sometimes two A large operation boils sap

for weeks without stopping just drawing off the syrup as it forms if the run is steady and copious

It was a picture of Helen Nearing driving a team of horses through the woods standing on a sleigh

loaded with buckets of maple sap that made me long for a homestead where I could lead The Simple

Life like her Two years later I had my own ldquosugar bushrdquo (an acre or more of woodlot where large sugar

maples grow) Spring equinox found me with my drill in hand a pocket full of taps and a bunch of funny

buckets with lids to hang from the taps ldquoTing tingrdquo the ping of sap filling the metal buckets echoes

tying me through time to every woman who has ever sugared and bringing a smile to my heart and

face

My groves of sugar maples have never been large enough to require a team of horses or a sleigh Irsquove

always lugged a big bucket out to the trees and poured the sap from the collecting buckets into it When

I have two or three buckets full I pour them into a big galvanized tub set up on cinder blocks over a fire

and commence to boil it down

Native peoples valued maple sugar so highly that they set up camp in the sugar bush and lived there

until the sap stopped flowing Lacking metal drill bits they cut a shallow groove in the bark and pressed

hollow elder stems into service as taps to direct the flow of sap into birch bark containers

I can heat the sap directly in my metal tub while they had to hollow out a log put smooth rocks into the

fire heat them and put the hot rocks into the sap in the hollowed out log to boil it down into maple

syrup and sugar Whew I am impressed with the power of the desire for sweet It takes far more

calories in fuel and human energy to make maple syrup or maple sugar than it returns

Grandmother Twylah taught us that maple trees are friendly and companionable colorful and

expressive They always have a positive attitude and are adept at helping us see solutions to impossible

problems Maple trees are devoted and true Make friends with a maple and you will have a friend for

life she advised

Ellen Everet Hopman green witch reminds us that maple-syrup-making time is Eostrersquos time Eostre

(ee-oh-stir) is the Teutonic goddess of fertility and manifestation Her symbols are the egg and the

rabbit her time is Spring Equinox A lovely custom still enacted but without the underlying magic is to

paint a picture of something you desire on an egg and plant it in the ground so Eostre can help it grow

and become real

If itrsquos too late to tap your maples or you live too far south for the sap to flow strongly you can still be

blessed and embraced by maple A decoction of maple bark boiled in water can be used to ease sore

eyes externally and to tonify the uterus after birth internally

A magical wand of maple wood is used for spells that bring harmony especially in the home And maple

leaves sewn into a charm made of green flannel tied with a golden string will bring abundance into

your life

Indulge your desire for sweet Celebrate spring equinox and Eostre who loves sweet things Have a

stack of pancakes swimming in butter and maple syrup Or pour maple syrup over plain vanilla ice cream

and savor the sweet taste of the friendly maple tree

Green blessings

How much sugar per gallon of sap is quite variable depending on the type of maple the growing

conditions and especially the amount of sun the tree gets Sugar maple (Acer saccharum) sap is the

sweetest followed by the saps of silver maple (Acer saccharinum) Northern red maple (Acer rubrum)

and Norway maple (Acer platanoides)

Susun Weed

PO Box 64

Woodstock NY 12498

Fax 1-845-246-8081

Visit Susun Weed at wwwsusunweedcom and wwwashtreepublishingcom

Vibrant passionate and involved Susun Weed has garnered an international reputation for her

groundbreaking lectures teachings and writings on health and nutrition She challenges conventional

medical approaches with humor insight and her vast encyclopedic knowledge of herbal medicine

Unabashedly pro-woman her animated and enthusiastic lectures are engaging and often profoundly

provocative

Susun is one of Americas best-known authorities on herbal medicine and natural approaches to

womens health Her four best-selling books are recommended by expert herbalists and well-known

physicians and are used and cherished by millions of women around the world Learn more at

wwwsusunweedcom

Susun Weedrsquos books include

Wise Woman Herbal for the Childbearing Year

Author Susun S Weed Simple safe remedies for pregnancy childbirth lactation and

newborns Includes herbs for fertility and birth control Foreword by Jeannine Parvati

Baker 196 pages index illustrations

Healing Wise

Author Susun S Weed Superb herbal in the feminine-intuitive mode Complete

instructions for using common plants for food beauty medicine and longevity

Introduction by Jean Houston 312 pages index illustrations

Menopausal Years the Wise Woman Way

Author Susun S Weed The best book on menopause is now better Completely

revised with 100 new pages All the remedies women know and trust plus hundreds

of new ones New sections on thyroid health fibromyalgia hairy problems male

menopause and herbs for women taking hormones Recommended by Susan Love

MD and Christiane Northrup MD Foreword by Juliette de Bairacli Levy 304 pages

index illustrations

For more info on menopause visit wwwmenopause-metamorphosiscom

Breast Cancer Breast Health

Author Susun S Weed Foods exercises and attitudes to keep your breasts healthy

Supportive complimentary medicines to ease side-effects of surgery radiation

chemotherapy or tamoxifen Foreword by Christiane Northrup MD 380 pages index

illustrations

UPCOMING DIANIC EVENTS

Pagan Examiner ndash Read the articles written by Bobbie and myself Zrsquos Calendar of Events ndash Want to know where I am appearing Goddess Festival ndash You think the last was good Goddess is Alive Tarot Social - A joyful coming-together of the Womenrsquos Tarot community a

Revival of the 70rsquos TRAVELING MAGIC SHOW by a FOREMOTHER of GODDESS SPIRITUALITY The QUEEN of TAROT READINGS and the woman responsible for LEGALIZING TAROT in California hellip Z Budapest

Z Budapest is conducting a most entertaining Tarot Social at her home in

Oakland CA on April 23rd For more information and registration go to

TarotSocialcom

The Dianic University for Women in Goddess

Study the Dianic Tradition with Z Budapest the woman who rebirthed it into modern culture Classes at the Dianic University are designed for women only

Sisterhood of the Moon ~ Womenrsquos Spirituality Coven in the Z Budapest Dianic Tradition

Events in the Sisterhood of the Moon are for women-born-women only Located in Hayward CA You must contact Jesamyn Angelica for more information Many of the members of this group are also members of the Susan B Anthony Coven No1 Facebookpage

Hands of Demeter ~ Womenrsquos Spirituality Coven in the Z Budapest Dianic Tradition

Events in the Hands of Demeter are for women-born-women only Located in Semi Valley CA You must contact httpearthmothercovenantcom for more information Many of the members of this group are also members of the Susan B Anthony Coven No1 Facebook page

The Sacred Circle ~ Recovering amp Reclaiming Ancient Ways to Heal

Events in The Sacred Circle are for members only unless otherwise stated Call JoAnna 775-882-1599 for membership inquiries

Sisterhood of the Turning Tides ~ Womenrsquos Spirituality Coven in the Z Budapest Dianic Tradition

They meet on Esbats and Sabbats and have a Tuesday night drumritual circle Located in Mendocino CA You must contact Sage Simon for more information Many of the members of this group are also members of the Susan B Anthony Coven No1 Facebookpage

You can sponsor Goddess magazine too Click here to helphellip

Deepest Gratitude to Sisters in Goddess for their Donations

The Application for Dianic Clergy Priestess is online

Follow the Goddess Festival on Facebook And Twitter

Thank you sisters who have donated $1 a month to help support our Goddess efforts

You can sponsor Goddess magazine too Click here to helphellip

Vicki Scotti LuAnn Morris and Amy Otero are

Hecatersquos Wheel an acoustic folk trio Their

music is inspired by and dedicated to the

Goddess in all her guises They sing an eclectic

variety of cover songs and original music

Hecatersquos Wheel has been playing and

singing together for several years and their

voices have found a natural harmonious blend

We VERY much enjoyed their Beltaine concert

Goddess Resource Links Z Budapest Website Goddess College Online Goddess Blog ndash Sponsored by the Susan B Anthony Coven Z Budapest Blog Goddess Festival Susan B Anthony Coven Dianic Wicca Tarot Social Witch Trial ndash the last great witch trial in America Zs Events Schedule Zs University Calendar

Zs Books Summoning the Fates Holy Book of Womens Mysteries Celestial Wisdom Grandmother of Time Grandmother Moon Goddess in the Office Goddess in the Bedroom

Page 25: Goddess Magazine (March 2011)

Crete Archaeologists discover skeleton covered with gold foil in 2700-year-old grave

Greek archaeologists have found an ancient skeleton covered with gold foil in a grave on the island of Crete officials said Tuesday

Excavator Nicholas Stampolidis said his team discovered more than 3000 pieces of gold foil in the 7th-century BC twin grave near the ancient town of Eleutherna

Cemeteries there have produced a wealth of outstanding artifacts in recent years

The tiny gold ornaments from 1 to 4 centimetres (04 to 15 inches) long had been sewn onto a lavish robe or shroud that initially wrapped the body of a woman and has almost completely rotted away but for a few off-white threads

The whole length of the (grave) was covered with small pieces of gold foil mdash square circular and lozenge-shaped Stampolidis told The Associated Press We were literally digging up gold interspersed with earth not earth with some gold in it

The woman who presumably had a high social or religious status was buried with a second skeleton in a large jar sealed with a stone slab weighing more than half a ton It was hidden behind a false wall to confuse grave robbers

Experts are trying to determine the other skeletons sex The grave also contained a copper bowl pottery perfume bottles imported from Egypt or Syria and Palestine hundreds of amber rock crystal and faience beads as well as a gold pendant in the form of a bee goddess that probably was part of a rock crystal and gold necklace

If you look at it one way up its shaped like a lily said Stampolidis a professor of archaeology at the University of Crete who has worked at Eleutherna for the 25 years Turned upside down you see a female figure holding her breasts whose lower body is shaped as a bee with wings The workmanship is exquisite

The ruins of Eleutherna stand on the northern foothills of Mount Ida mdash the mythical birthplace of Zeus chief of the ancient Greek gods Past excavations have discovered a citadel homes and an important cemetery with lavish female burials

The town flourished from the 9th century BC mdash the dark ages of Greek archaeology that followed the fall of Cretes great Minoan palatial culture mdash and endured until the Middle Ages

httparchaeologynewsnetworkblogspotcom201009archaeologists-on-crete-find-skeletonhtml

SWEET TASTE OF SPRING Susun S Weed

March winds blow the sweet scent of maple sap boiling to my questing nose When the days are warm

and sunny and the nights below freezing the sap rises in the trees If those trees are sugar maples then

it is worth drilling a hole in the bark inserting a tap and collecting their sweet sap There is so much

sugar in sugar maple sap that it can be boiled and turned into maple syrup and maple sugar

Therersquos about one gallon of maple syrup and ninety-nine gallons of water in one hundred gallons of

maple sap A hot fire and a slow but steady boil send that sweet-smelling water vapor high in the clear

cold sky The March wind blows it to me I close my eyes and remember my years of ldquosugaringrdquo making

maple syrup

Therersquos something special about a task that requires one to stay up all night Maple sap starts to ferment

if it is left at normal temperatures for very long Once ten or so gallons of sap have been collected the

boiling begins hellip and cannot be stopped until the finished syrup is achieved many many many hours

later

I have never sugared without at least one overnighter and sometimes two A large operation boils sap

for weeks without stopping just drawing off the syrup as it forms if the run is steady and copious

It was a picture of Helen Nearing driving a team of horses through the woods standing on a sleigh

loaded with buckets of maple sap that made me long for a homestead where I could lead The Simple

Life like her Two years later I had my own ldquosugar bushrdquo (an acre or more of woodlot where large sugar

maples grow) Spring equinox found me with my drill in hand a pocket full of taps and a bunch of funny

buckets with lids to hang from the taps ldquoTing tingrdquo the ping of sap filling the metal buckets echoes

tying me through time to every woman who has ever sugared and bringing a smile to my heart and

face

My groves of sugar maples have never been large enough to require a team of horses or a sleigh Irsquove

always lugged a big bucket out to the trees and poured the sap from the collecting buckets into it When

I have two or three buckets full I pour them into a big galvanized tub set up on cinder blocks over a fire

and commence to boil it down

Native peoples valued maple sugar so highly that they set up camp in the sugar bush and lived there

until the sap stopped flowing Lacking metal drill bits they cut a shallow groove in the bark and pressed

hollow elder stems into service as taps to direct the flow of sap into birch bark containers

I can heat the sap directly in my metal tub while they had to hollow out a log put smooth rocks into the

fire heat them and put the hot rocks into the sap in the hollowed out log to boil it down into maple

syrup and sugar Whew I am impressed with the power of the desire for sweet It takes far more

calories in fuel and human energy to make maple syrup or maple sugar than it returns

Grandmother Twylah taught us that maple trees are friendly and companionable colorful and

expressive They always have a positive attitude and are adept at helping us see solutions to impossible

problems Maple trees are devoted and true Make friends with a maple and you will have a friend for

life she advised

Ellen Everet Hopman green witch reminds us that maple-syrup-making time is Eostrersquos time Eostre

(ee-oh-stir) is the Teutonic goddess of fertility and manifestation Her symbols are the egg and the

rabbit her time is Spring Equinox A lovely custom still enacted but without the underlying magic is to

paint a picture of something you desire on an egg and plant it in the ground so Eostre can help it grow

and become real

If itrsquos too late to tap your maples or you live too far south for the sap to flow strongly you can still be

blessed and embraced by maple A decoction of maple bark boiled in water can be used to ease sore

eyes externally and to tonify the uterus after birth internally

A magical wand of maple wood is used for spells that bring harmony especially in the home And maple

leaves sewn into a charm made of green flannel tied with a golden string will bring abundance into

your life

Indulge your desire for sweet Celebrate spring equinox and Eostre who loves sweet things Have a

stack of pancakes swimming in butter and maple syrup Or pour maple syrup over plain vanilla ice cream

and savor the sweet taste of the friendly maple tree

Green blessings

How much sugar per gallon of sap is quite variable depending on the type of maple the growing

conditions and especially the amount of sun the tree gets Sugar maple (Acer saccharum) sap is the

sweetest followed by the saps of silver maple (Acer saccharinum) Northern red maple (Acer rubrum)

and Norway maple (Acer platanoides)

Susun Weed

PO Box 64

Woodstock NY 12498

Fax 1-845-246-8081

Visit Susun Weed at wwwsusunweedcom and wwwashtreepublishingcom

Vibrant passionate and involved Susun Weed has garnered an international reputation for her

groundbreaking lectures teachings and writings on health and nutrition She challenges conventional

medical approaches with humor insight and her vast encyclopedic knowledge of herbal medicine

Unabashedly pro-woman her animated and enthusiastic lectures are engaging and often profoundly

provocative

Susun is one of Americas best-known authorities on herbal medicine and natural approaches to

womens health Her four best-selling books are recommended by expert herbalists and well-known

physicians and are used and cherished by millions of women around the world Learn more at

wwwsusunweedcom

Susun Weedrsquos books include

Wise Woman Herbal for the Childbearing Year

Author Susun S Weed Simple safe remedies for pregnancy childbirth lactation and

newborns Includes herbs for fertility and birth control Foreword by Jeannine Parvati

Baker 196 pages index illustrations

Healing Wise

Author Susun S Weed Superb herbal in the feminine-intuitive mode Complete

instructions for using common plants for food beauty medicine and longevity

Introduction by Jean Houston 312 pages index illustrations

Menopausal Years the Wise Woman Way

Author Susun S Weed The best book on menopause is now better Completely

revised with 100 new pages All the remedies women know and trust plus hundreds

of new ones New sections on thyroid health fibromyalgia hairy problems male

menopause and herbs for women taking hormones Recommended by Susan Love

MD and Christiane Northrup MD Foreword by Juliette de Bairacli Levy 304 pages

index illustrations

For more info on menopause visit wwwmenopause-metamorphosiscom

Breast Cancer Breast Health

Author Susun S Weed Foods exercises and attitudes to keep your breasts healthy

Supportive complimentary medicines to ease side-effects of surgery radiation

chemotherapy or tamoxifen Foreword by Christiane Northrup MD 380 pages index

illustrations

UPCOMING DIANIC EVENTS

Pagan Examiner ndash Read the articles written by Bobbie and myself Zrsquos Calendar of Events ndash Want to know where I am appearing Goddess Festival ndash You think the last was good Goddess is Alive Tarot Social - A joyful coming-together of the Womenrsquos Tarot community a

Revival of the 70rsquos TRAVELING MAGIC SHOW by a FOREMOTHER of GODDESS SPIRITUALITY The QUEEN of TAROT READINGS and the woman responsible for LEGALIZING TAROT in California hellip Z Budapest

Z Budapest is conducting a most entertaining Tarot Social at her home in

Oakland CA on April 23rd For more information and registration go to

TarotSocialcom

The Dianic University for Women in Goddess

Study the Dianic Tradition with Z Budapest the woman who rebirthed it into modern culture Classes at the Dianic University are designed for women only

Sisterhood of the Moon ~ Womenrsquos Spirituality Coven in the Z Budapest Dianic Tradition

Events in the Sisterhood of the Moon are for women-born-women only Located in Hayward CA You must contact Jesamyn Angelica for more information Many of the members of this group are also members of the Susan B Anthony Coven No1 Facebookpage

Hands of Demeter ~ Womenrsquos Spirituality Coven in the Z Budapest Dianic Tradition

Events in the Hands of Demeter are for women-born-women only Located in Semi Valley CA You must contact httpearthmothercovenantcom for more information Many of the members of this group are also members of the Susan B Anthony Coven No1 Facebook page

The Sacred Circle ~ Recovering amp Reclaiming Ancient Ways to Heal

Events in The Sacred Circle are for members only unless otherwise stated Call JoAnna 775-882-1599 for membership inquiries

Sisterhood of the Turning Tides ~ Womenrsquos Spirituality Coven in the Z Budapest Dianic Tradition

They meet on Esbats and Sabbats and have a Tuesday night drumritual circle Located in Mendocino CA You must contact Sage Simon for more information Many of the members of this group are also members of the Susan B Anthony Coven No1 Facebookpage

You can sponsor Goddess magazine too Click here to helphellip

Deepest Gratitude to Sisters in Goddess for their Donations

The Application for Dianic Clergy Priestess is online

Follow the Goddess Festival on Facebook And Twitter

Thank you sisters who have donated $1 a month to help support our Goddess efforts

You can sponsor Goddess magazine too Click here to helphellip

Vicki Scotti LuAnn Morris and Amy Otero are

Hecatersquos Wheel an acoustic folk trio Their

music is inspired by and dedicated to the

Goddess in all her guises They sing an eclectic

variety of cover songs and original music

Hecatersquos Wheel has been playing and

singing together for several years and their

voices have found a natural harmonious blend

We VERY much enjoyed their Beltaine concert

Goddess Resource Links Z Budapest Website Goddess College Online Goddess Blog ndash Sponsored by the Susan B Anthony Coven Z Budapest Blog Goddess Festival Susan B Anthony Coven Dianic Wicca Tarot Social Witch Trial ndash the last great witch trial in America Zs Events Schedule Zs University Calendar

Zs Books Summoning the Fates Holy Book of Womens Mysteries Celestial Wisdom Grandmother of Time Grandmother Moon Goddess in the Office Goddess in the Bedroom

Page 26: Goddess Magazine (March 2011)

If you look at it one way up its shaped like a lily said Stampolidis a professor of archaeology at the University of Crete who has worked at Eleutherna for the 25 years Turned upside down you see a female figure holding her breasts whose lower body is shaped as a bee with wings The workmanship is exquisite

The ruins of Eleutherna stand on the northern foothills of Mount Ida mdash the mythical birthplace of Zeus chief of the ancient Greek gods Past excavations have discovered a citadel homes and an important cemetery with lavish female burials

The town flourished from the 9th century BC mdash the dark ages of Greek archaeology that followed the fall of Cretes great Minoan palatial culture mdash and endured until the Middle Ages

httparchaeologynewsnetworkblogspotcom201009archaeologists-on-crete-find-skeletonhtml

SWEET TASTE OF SPRING Susun S Weed

March winds blow the sweet scent of maple sap boiling to my questing nose When the days are warm

and sunny and the nights below freezing the sap rises in the trees If those trees are sugar maples then

it is worth drilling a hole in the bark inserting a tap and collecting their sweet sap There is so much

sugar in sugar maple sap that it can be boiled and turned into maple syrup and maple sugar

Therersquos about one gallon of maple syrup and ninety-nine gallons of water in one hundred gallons of

maple sap A hot fire and a slow but steady boil send that sweet-smelling water vapor high in the clear

cold sky The March wind blows it to me I close my eyes and remember my years of ldquosugaringrdquo making

maple syrup

Therersquos something special about a task that requires one to stay up all night Maple sap starts to ferment

if it is left at normal temperatures for very long Once ten or so gallons of sap have been collected the

boiling begins hellip and cannot be stopped until the finished syrup is achieved many many many hours

later

I have never sugared without at least one overnighter and sometimes two A large operation boils sap

for weeks without stopping just drawing off the syrup as it forms if the run is steady and copious

It was a picture of Helen Nearing driving a team of horses through the woods standing on a sleigh

loaded with buckets of maple sap that made me long for a homestead where I could lead The Simple

Life like her Two years later I had my own ldquosugar bushrdquo (an acre or more of woodlot where large sugar

maples grow) Spring equinox found me with my drill in hand a pocket full of taps and a bunch of funny

buckets with lids to hang from the taps ldquoTing tingrdquo the ping of sap filling the metal buckets echoes

tying me through time to every woman who has ever sugared and bringing a smile to my heart and

face

My groves of sugar maples have never been large enough to require a team of horses or a sleigh Irsquove

always lugged a big bucket out to the trees and poured the sap from the collecting buckets into it When

I have two or three buckets full I pour them into a big galvanized tub set up on cinder blocks over a fire

and commence to boil it down

Native peoples valued maple sugar so highly that they set up camp in the sugar bush and lived there

until the sap stopped flowing Lacking metal drill bits they cut a shallow groove in the bark and pressed

hollow elder stems into service as taps to direct the flow of sap into birch bark containers

I can heat the sap directly in my metal tub while they had to hollow out a log put smooth rocks into the

fire heat them and put the hot rocks into the sap in the hollowed out log to boil it down into maple

syrup and sugar Whew I am impressed with the power of the desire for sweet It takes far more

calories in fuel and human energy to make maple syrup or maple sugar than it returns

Grandmother Twylah taught us that maple trees are friendly and companionable colorful and

expressive They always have a positive attitude and are adept at helping us see solutions to impossible

problems Maple trees are devoted and true Make friends with a maple and you will have a friend for

life she advised

Ellen Everet Hopman green witch reminds us that maple-syrup-making time is Eostrersquos time Eostre

(ee-oh-stir) is the Teutonic goddess of fertility and manifestation Her symbols are the egg and the

rabbit her time is Spring Equinox A lovely custom still enacted but without the underlying magic is to

paint a picture of something you desire on an egg and plant it in the ground so Eostre can help it grow

and become real

If itrsquos too late to tap your maples or you live too far south for the sap to flow strongly you can still be

blessed and embraced by maple A decoction of maple bark boiled in water can be used to ease sore

eyes externally and to tonify the uterus after birth internally

A magical wand of maple wood is used for spells that bring harmony especially in the home And maple

leaves sewn into a charm made of green flannel tied with a golden string will bring abundance into

your life

Indulge your desire for sweet Celebrate spring equinox and Eostre who loves sweet things Have a

stack of pancakes swimming in butter and maple syrup Or pour maple syrup over plain vanilla ice cream

and savor the sweet taste of the friendly maple tree

Green blessings

How much sugar per gallon of sap is quite variable depending on the type of maple the growing

conditions and especially the amount of sun the tree gets Sugar maple (Acer saccharum) sap is the

sweetest followed by the saps of silver maple (Acer saccharinum) Northern red maple (Acer rubrum)

and Norway maple (Acer platanoides)

Susun Weed

PO Box 64

Woodstock NY 12498

Fax 1-845-246-8081

Visit Susun Weed at wwwsusunweedcom and wwwashtreepublishingcom

Vibrant passionate and involved Susun Weed has garnered an international reputation for her

groundbreaking lectures teachings and writings on health and nutrition She challenges conventional

medical approaches with humor insight and her vast encyclopedic knowledge of herbal medicine

Unabashedly pro-woman her animated and enthusiastic lectures are engaging and often profoundly

provocative

Susun is one of Americas best-known authorities on herbal medicine and natural approaches to

womens health Her four best-selling books are recommended by expert herbalists and well-known

physicians and are used and cherished by millions of women around the world Learn more at

wwwsusunweedcom

Susun Weedrsquos books include

Wise Woman Herbal for the Childbearing Year

Author Susun S Weed Simple safe remedies for pregnancy childbirth lactation and

newborns Includes herbs for fertility and birth control Foreword by Jeannine Parvati

Baker 196 pages index illustrations

Healing Wise

Author Susun S Weed Superb herbal in the feminine-intuitive mode Complete

instructions for using common plants for food beauty medicine and longevity

Introduction by Jean Houston 312 pages index illustrations

Menopausal Years the Wise Woman Way

Author Susun S Weed The best book on menopause is now better Completely

revised with 100 new pages All the remedies women know and trust plus hundreds

of new ones New sections on thyroid health fibromyalgia hairy problems male

menopause and herbs for women taking hormones Recommended by Susan Love

MD and Christiane Northrup MD Foreword by Juliette de Bairacli Levy 304 pages

index illustrations

For more info on menopause visit wwwmenopause-metamorphosiscom

Breast Cancer Breast Health

Author Susun S Weed Foods exercises and attitudes to keep your breasts healthy

Supportive complimentary medicines to ease side-effects of surgery radiation

chemotherapy or tamoxifen Foreword by Christiane Northrup MD 380 pages index

illustrations

UPCOMING DIANIC EVENTS

Pagan Examiner ndash Read the articles written by Bobbie and myself Zrsquos Calendar of Events ndash Want to know where I am appearing Goddess Festival ndash You think the last was good Goddess is Alive Tarot Social - A joyful coming-together of the Womenrsquos Tarot community a

Revival of the 70rsquos TRAVELING MAGIC SHOW by a FOREMOTHER of GODDESS SPIRITUALITY The QUEEN of TAROT READINGS and the woman responsible for LEGALIZING TAROT in California hellip Z Budapest

Z Budapest is conducting a most entertaining Tarot Social at her home in

Oakland CA on April 23rd For more information and registration go to

TarotSocialcom

The Dianic University for Women in Goddess

Study the Dianic Tradition with Z Budapest the woman who rebirthed it into modern culture Classes at the Dianic University are designed for women only

Sisterhood of the Moon ~ Womenrsquos Spirituality Coven in the Z Budapest Dianic Tradition

Events in the Sisterhood of the Moon are for women-born-women only Located in Hayward CA You must contact Jesamyn Angelica for more information Many of the members of this group are also members of the Susan B Anthony Coven No1 Facebookpage

Hands of Demeter ~ Womenrsquos Spirituality Coven in the Z Budapest Dianic Tradition

Events in the Hands of Demeter are for women-born-women only Located in Semi Valley CA You must contact httpearthmothercovenantcom for more information Many of the members of this group are also members of the Susan B Anthony Coven No1 Facebook page

The Sacred Circle ~ Recovering amp Reclaiming Ancient Ways to Heal

Events in The Sacred Circle are for members only unless otherwise stated Call JoAnna 775-882-1599 for membership inquiries

Sisterhood of the Turning Tides ~ Womenrsquos Spirituality Coven in the Z Budapest Dianic Tradition

They meet on Esbats and Sabbats and have a Tuesday night drumritual circle Located in Mendocino CA You must contact Sage Simon for more information Many of the members of this group are also members of the Susan B Anthony Coven No1 Facebookpage

You can sponsor Goddess magazine too Click here to helphellip

Deepest Gratitude to Sisters in Goddess for their Donations

The Application for Dianic Clergy Priestess is online

Follow the Goddess Festival on Facebook And Twitter

Thank you sisters who have donated $1 a month to help support our Goddess efforts

You can sponsor Goddess magazine too Click here to helphellip

Vicki Scotti LuAnn Morris and Amy Otero are

Hecatersquos Wheel an acoustic folk trio Their

music is inspired by and dedicated to the

Goddess in all her guises They sing an eclectic

variety of cover songs and original music

Hecatersquos Wheel has been playing and

singing together for several years and their

voices have found a natural harmonious blend

We VERY much enjoyed their Beltaine concert

Goddess Resource Links Z Budapest Website Goddess College Online Goddess Blog ndash Sponsored by the Susan B Anthony Coven Z Budapest Blog Goddess Festival Susan B Anthony Coven Dianic Wicca Tarot Social Witch Trial ndash the last great witch trial in America Zs Events Schedule Zs University Calendar

Zs Books Summoning the Fates Holy Book of Womens Mysteries Celestial Wisdom Grandmother of Time Grandmother Moon Goddess in the Office Goddess in the Bedroom

Page 27: Goddess Magazine (March 2011)

SWEET TASTE OF SPRING Susun S Weed

March winds blow the sweet scent of maple sap boiling to my questing nose When the days are warm

and sunny and the nights below freezing the sap rises in the trees If those trees are sugar maples then

it is worth drilling a hole in the bark inserting a tap and collecting their sweet sap There is so much

sugar in sugar maple sap that it can be boiled and turned into maple syrup and maple sugar

Therersquos about one gallon of maple syrup and ninety-nine gallons of water in one hundred gallons of

maple sap A hot fire and a slow but steady boil send that sweet-smelling water vapor high in the clear

cold sky The March wind blows it to me I close my eyes and remember my years of ldquosugaringrdquo making

maple syrup

Therersquos something special about a task that requires one to stay up all night Maple sap starts to ferment

if it is left at normal temperatures for very long Once ten or so gallons of sap have been collected the

boiling begins hellip and cannot be stopped until the finished syrup is achieved many many many hours

later

I have never sugared without at least one overnighter and sometimes two A large operation boils sap

for weeks without stopping just drawing off the syrup as it forms if the run is steady and copious

It was a picture of Helen Nearing driving a team of horses through the woods standing on a sleigh

loaded with buckets of maple sap that made me long for a homestead where I could lead The Simple

Life like her Two years later I had my own ldquosugar bushrdquo (an acre or more of woodlot where large sugar

maples grow) Spring equinox found me with my drill in hand a pocket full of taps and a bunch of funny

buckets with lids to hang from the taps ldquoTing tingrdquo the ping of sap filling the metal buckets echoes

tying me through time to every woman who has ever sugared and bringing a smile to my heart and

face

My groves of sugar maples have never been large enough to require a team of horses or a sleigh Irsquove

always lugged a big bucket out to the trees and poured the sap from the collecting buckets into it When

I have two or three buckets full I pour them into a big galvanized tub set up on cinder blocks over a fire

and commence to boil it down

Native peoples valued maple sugar so highly that they set up camp in the sugar bush and lived there

until the sap stopped flowing Lacking metal drill bits they cut a shallow groove in the bark and pressed

hollow elder stems into service as taps to direct the flow of sap into birch bark containers

I can heat the sap directly in my metal tub while they had to hollow out a log put smooth rocks into the

fire heat them and put the hot rocks into the sap in the hollowed out log to boil it down into maple

syrup and sugar Whew I am impressed with the power of the desire for sweet It takes far more

calories in fuel and human energy to make maple syrup or maple sugar than it returns

Grandmother Twylah taught us that maple trees are friendly and companionable colorful and

expressive They always have a positive attitude and are adept at helping us see solutions to impossible

problems Maple trees are devoted and true Make friends with a maple and you will have a friend for

life she advised

Ellen Everet Hopman green witch reminds us that maple-syrup-making time is Eostrersquos time Eostre

(ee-oh-stir) is the Teutonic goddess of fertility and manifestation Her symbols are the egg and the

rabbit her time is Spring Equinox A lovely custom still enacted but without the underlying magic is to

paint a picture of something you desire on an egg and plant it in the ground so Eostre can help it grow

and become real

If itrsquos too late to tap your maples or you live too far south for the sap to flow strongly you can still be

blessed and embraced by maple A decoction of maple bark boiled in water can be used to ease sore

eyes externally and to tonify the uterus after birth internally

A magical wand of maple wood is used for spells that bring harmony especially in the home And maple

leaves sewn into a charm made of green flannel tied with a golden string will bring abundance into

your life

Indulge your desire for sweet Celebrate spring equinox and Eostre who loves sweet things Have a

stack of pancakes swimming in butter and maple syrup Or pour maple syrup over plain vanilla ice cream

and savor the sweet taste of the friendly maple tree

Green blessings

How much sugar per gallon of sap is quite variable depending on the type of maple the growing

conditions and especially the amount of sun the tree gets Sugar maple (Acer saccharum) sap is the

sweetest followed by the saps of silver maple (Acer saccharinum) Northern red maple (Acer rubrum)

and Norway maple (Acer platanoides)

Susun Weed

PO Box 64

Woodstock NY 12498

Fax 1-845-246-8081

Visit Susun Weed at wwwsusunweedcom and wwwashtreepublishingcom

Vibrant passionate and involved Susun Weed has garnered an international reputation for her

groundbreaking lectures teachings and writings on health and nutrition She challenges conventional

medical approaches with humor insight and her vast encyclopedic knowledge of herbal medicine

Unabashedly pro-woman her animated and enthusiastic lectures are engaging and often profoundly

provocative

Susun is one of Americas best-known authorities on herbal medicine and natural approaches to

womens health Her four best-selling books are recommended by expert herbalists and well-known

physicians and are used and cherished by millions of women around the world Learn more at

wwwsusunweedcom

Susun Weedrsquos books include

Wise Woman Herbal for the Childbearing Year

Author Susun S Weed Simple safe remedies for pregnancy childbirth lactation and

newborns Includes herbs for fertility and birth control Foreword by Jeannine Parvati

Baker 196 pages index illustrations

Healing Wise

Author Susun S Weed Superb herbal in the feminine-intuitive mode Complete

instructions for using common plants for food beauty medicine and longevity

Introduction by Jean Houston 312 pages index illustrations

Menopausal Years the Wise Woman Way

Author Susun S Weed The best book on menopause is now better Completely

revised with 100 new pages All the remedies women know and trust plus hundreds

of new ones New sections on thyroid health fibromyalgia hairy problems male

menopause and herbs for women taking hormones Recommended by Susan Love

MD and Christiane Northrup MD Foreword by Juliette de Bairacli Levy 304 pages

index illustrations

For more info on menopause visit wwwmenopause-metamorphosiscom

Breast Cancer Breast Health

Author Susun S Weed Foods exercises and attitudes to keep your breasts healthy

Supportive complimentary medicines to ease side-effects of surgery radiation

chemotherapy or tamoxifen Foreword by Christiane Northrup MD 380 pages index

illustrations

UPCOMING DIANIC EVENTS

Pagan Examiner ndash Read the articles written by Bobbie and myself Zrsquos Calendar of Events ndash Want to know where I am appearing Goddess Festival ndash You think the last was good Goddess is Alive Tarot Social - A joyful coming-together of the Womenrsquos Tarot community a

Revival of the 70rsquos TRAVELING MAGIC SHOW by a FOREMOTHER of GODDESS SPIRITUALITY The QUEEN of TAROT READINGS and the woman responsible for LEGALIZING TAROT in California hellip Z Budapest

Z Budapest is conducting a most entertaining Tarot Social at her home in

Oakland CA on April 23rd For more information and registration go to

TarotSocialcom

The Dianic University for Women in Goddess

Study the Dianic Tradition with Z Budapest the woman who rebirthed it into modern culture Classes at the Dianic University are designed for women only

Sisterhood of the Moon ~ Womenrsquos Spirituality Coven in the Z Budapest Dianic Tradition

Events in the Sisterhood of the Moon are for women-born-women only Located in Hayward CA You must contact Jesamyn Angelica for more information Many of the members of this group are also members of the Susan B Anthony Coven No1 Facebookpage

Hands of Demeter ~ Womenrsquos Spirituality Coven in the Z Budapest Dianic Tradition

Events in the Hands of Demeter are for women-born-women only Located in Semi Valley CA You must contact httpearthmothercovenantcom for more information Many of the members of this group are also members of the Susan B Anthony Coven No1 Facebook page

The Sacred Circle ~ Recovering amp Reclaiming Ancient Ways to Heal

Events in The Sacred Circle are for members only unless otherwise stated Call JoAnna 775-882-1599 for membership inquiries

Sisterhood of the Turning Tides ~ Womenrsquos Spirituality Coven in the Z Budapest Dianic Tradition

They meet on Esbats and Sabbats and have a Tuesday night drumritual circle Located in Mendocino CA You must contact Sage Simon for more information Many of the members of this group are also members of the Susan B Anthony Coven No1 Facebookpage

You can sponsor Goddess magazine too Click here to helphellip

Deepest Gratitude to Sisters in Goddess for their Donations

The Application for Dianic Clergy Priestess is online

Follow the Goddess Festival on Facebook And Twitter

Thank you sisters who have donated $1 a month to help support our Goddess efforts

You can sponsor Goddess magazine too Click here to helphellip

Vicki Scotti LuAnn Morris and Amy Otero are

Hecatersquos Wheel an acoustic folk trio Their

music is inspired by and dedicated to the

Goddess in all her guises They sing an eclectic

variety of cover songs and original music

Hecatersquos Wheel has been playing and

singing together for several years and their

voices have found a natural harmonious blend

We VERY much enjoyed their Beltaine concert

Goddess Resource Links Z Budapest Website Goddess College Online Goddess Blog ndash Sponsored by the Susan B Anthony Coven Z Budapest Blog Goddess Festival Susan B Anthony Coven Dianic Wicca Tarot Social Witch Trial ndash the last great witch trial in America Zs Events Schedule Zs University Calendar

Zs Books Summoning the Fates Holy Book of Womens Mysteries Celestial Wisdom Grandmother of Time Grandmother Moon Goddess in the Office Goddess in the Bedroom

Page 28: Goddess Magazine (March 2011)

Native peoples valued maple sugar so highly that they set up camp in the sugar bush and lived there

until the sap stopped flowing Lacking metal drill bits they cut a shallow groove in the bark and pressed

hollow elder stems into service as taps to direct the flow of sap into birch bark containers

I can heat the sap directly in my metal tub while they had to hollow out a log put smooth rocks into the

fire heat them and put the hot rocks into the sap in the hollowed out log to boil it down into maple

syrup and sugar Whew I am impressed with the power of the desire for sweet It takes far more

calories in fuel and human energy to make maple syrup or maple sugar than it returns

Grandmother Twylah taught us that maple trees are friendly and companionable colorful and

expressive They always have a positive attitude and are adept at helping us see solutions to impossible

problems Maple trees are devoted and true Make friends with a maple and you will have a friend for

life she advised

Ellen Everet Hopman green witch reminds us that maple-syrup-making time is Eostrersquos time Eostre

(ee-oh-stir) is the Teutonic goddess of fertility and manifestation Her symbols are the egg and the

rabbit her time is Spring Equinox A lovely custom still enacted but without the underlying magic is to

paint a picture of something you desire on an egg and plant it in the ground so Eostre can help it grow

and become real

If itrsquos too late to tap your maples or you live too far south for the sap to flow strongly you can still be

blessed and embraced by maple A decoction of maple bark boiled in water can be used to ease sore

eyes externally and to tonify the uterus after birth internally

A magical wand of maple wood is used for spells that bring harmony especially in the home And maple

leaves sewn into a charm made of green flannel tied with a golden string will bring abundance into

your life

Indulge your desire for sweet Celebrate spring equinox and Eostre who loves sweet things Have a

stack of pancakes swimming in butter and maple syrup Or pour maple syrup over plain vanilla ice cream

and savor the sweet taste of the friendly maple tree

Green blessings

How much sugar per gallon of sap is quite variable depending on the type of maple the growing

conditions and especially the amount of sun the tree gets Sugar maple (Acer saccharum) sap is the

sweetest followed by the saps of silver maple (Acer saccharinum) Northern red maple (Acer rubrum)

and Norway maple (Acer platanoides)

Susun Weed

PO Box 64

Woodstock NY 12498

Fax 1-845-246-8081

Visit Susun Weed at wwwsusunweedcom and wwwashtreepublishingcom

Vibrant passionate and involved Susun Weed has garnered an international reputation for her

groundbreaking lectures teachings and writings on health and nutrition She challenges conventional

medical approaches with humor insight and her vast encyclopedic knowledge of herbal medicine

Unabashedly pro-woman her animated and enthusiastic lectures are engaging and often profoundly

provocative

Susun is one of Americas best-known authorities on herbal medicine and natural approaches to

womens health Her four best-selling books are recommended by expert herbalists and well-known

physicians and are used and cherished by millions of women around the world Learn more at

wwwsusunweedcom

Susun Weedrsquos books include

Wise Woman Herbal for the Childbearing Year

Author Susun S Weed Simple safe remedies for pregnancy childbirth lactation and

newborns Includes herbs for fertility and birth control Foreword by Jeannine Parvati

Baker 196 pages index illustrations

Healing Wise

Author Susun S Weed Superb herbal in the feminine-intuitive mode Complete

instructions for using common plants for food beauty medicine and longevity

Introduction by Jean Houston 312 pages index illustrations

Menopausal Years the Wise Woman Way

Author Susun S Weed The best book on menopause is now better Completely

revised with 100 new pages All the remedies women know and trust plus hundreds

of new ones New sections on thyroid health fibromyalgia hairy problems male

menopause and herbs for women taking hormones Recommended by Susan Love

MD and Christiane Northrup MD Foreword by Juliette de Bairacli Levy 304 pages

index illustrations

For more info on menopause visit wwwmenopause-metamorphosiscom

Breast Cancer Breast Health

Author Susun S Weed Foods exercises and attitudes to keep your breasts healthy

Supportive complimentary medicines to ease side-effects of surgery radiation

chemotherapy or tamoxifen Foreword by Christiane Northrup MD 380 pages index

illustrations

UPCOMING DIANIC EVENTS

Pagan Examiner ndash Read the articles written by Bobbie and myself Zrsquos Calendar of Events ndash Want to know where I am appearing Goddess Festival ndash You think the last was good Goddess is Alive Tarot Social - A joyful coming-together of the Womenrsquos Tarot community a

Revival of the 70rsquos TRAVELING MAGIC SHOW by a FOREMOTHER of GODDESS SPIRITUALITY The QUEEN of TAROT READINGS and the woman responsible for LEGALIZING TAROT in California hellip Z Budapest

Z Budapest is conducting a most entertaining Tarot Social at her home in

Oakland CA on April 23rd For more information and registration go to

TarotSocialcom

The Dianic University for Women in Goddess

Study the Dianic Tradition with Z Budapest the woman who rebirthed it into modern culture Classes at the Dianic University are designed for women only

Sisterhood of the Moon ~ Womenrsquos Spirituality Coven in the Z Budapest Dianic Tradition

Events in the Sisterhood of the Moon are for women-born-women only Located in Hayward CA You must contact Jesamyn Angelica for more information Many of the members of this group are also members of the Susan B Anthony Coven No1 Facebookpage

Hands of Demeter ~ Womenrsquos Spirituality Coven in the Z Budapest Dianic Tradition

Events in the Hands of Demeter are for women-born-women only Located in Semi Valley CA You must contact httpearthmothercovenantcom for more information Many of the members of this group are also members of the Susan B Anthony Coven No1 Facebook page

The Sacred Circle ~ Recovering amp Reclaiming Ancient Ways to Heal

Events in The Sacred Circle are for members only unless otherwise stated Call JoAnna 775-882-1599 for membership inquiries

Sisterhood of the Turning Tides ~ Womenrsquos Spirituality Coven in the Z Budapest Dianic Tradition

They meet on Esbats and Sabbats and have a Tuesday night drumritual circle Located in Mendocino CA You must contact Sage Simon for more information Many of the members of this group are also members of the Susan B Anthony Coven No1 Facebookpage

You can sponsor Goddess magazine too Click here to helphellip

Deepest Gratitude to Sisters in Goddess for their Donations

The Application for Dianic Clergy Priestess is online

Follow the Goddess Festival on Facebook And Twitter

Thank you sisters who have donated $1 a month to help support our Goddess efforts

You can sponsor Goddess magazine too Click here to helphellip

Vicki Scotti LuAnn Morris and Amy Otero are

Hecatersquos Wheel an acoustic folk trio Their

music is inspired by and dedicated to the

Goddess in all her guises They sing an eclectic

variety of cover songs and original music

Hecatersquos Wheel has been playing and

singing together for several years and their

voices have found a natural harmonious blend

We VERY much enjoyed their Beltaine concert

Goddess Resource Links Z Budapest Website Goddess College Online Goddess Blog ndash Sponsored by the Susan B Anthony Coven Z Budapest Blog Goddess Festival Susan B Anthony Coven Dianic Wicca Tarot Social Witch Trial ndash the last great witch trial in America Zs Events Schedule Zs University Calendar

Zs Books Summoning the Fates Holy Book of Womens Mysteries Celestial Wisdom Grandmother of Time Grandmother Moon Goddess in the Office Goddess in the Bedroom

Page 29: Goddess Magazine (March 2011)

Vibrant passionate and involved Susun Weed has garnered an international reputation for her

groundbreaking lectures teachings and writings on health and nutrition She challenges conventional

medical approaches with humor insight and her vast encyclopedic knowledge of herbal medicine

Unabashedly pro-woman her animated and enthusiastic lectures are engaging and often profoundly

provocative

Susun is one of Americas best-known authorities on herbal medicine and natural approaches to

womens health Her four best-selling books are recommended by expert herbalists and well-known

physicians and are used and cherished by millions of women around the world Learn more at

wwwsusunweedcom

Susun Weedrsquos books include

Wise Woman Herbal for the Childbearing Year

Author Susun S Weed Simple safe remedies for pregnancy childbirth lactation and

newborns Includes herbs for fertility and birth control Foreword by Jeannine Parvati

Baker 196 pages index illustrations

Healing Wise

Author Susun S Weed Superb herbal in the feminine-intuitive mode Complete

instructions for using common plants for food beauty medicine and longevity

Introduction by Jean Houston 312 pages index illustrations

Menopausal Years the Wise Woman Way

Author Susun S Weed The best book on menopause is now better Completely

revised with 100 new pages All the remedies women know and trust plus hundreds

of new ones New sections on thyroid health fibromyalgia hairy problems male

menopause and herbs for women taking hormones Recommended by Susan Love

MD and Christiane Northrup MD Foreword by Juliette de Bairacli Levy 304 pages

index illustrations

For more info on menopause visit wwwmenopause-metamorphosiscom

Breast Cancer Breast Health

Author Susun S Weed Foods exercises and attitudes to keep your breasts healthy

Supportive complimentary medicines to ease side-effects of surgery radiation

chemotherapy or tamoxifen Foreword by Christiane Northrup MD 380 pages index

illustrations

UPCOMING DIANIC EVENTS

Pagan Examiner ndash Read the articles written by Bobbie and myself Zrsquos Calendar of Events ndash Want to know where I am appearing Goddess Festival ndash You think the last was good Goddess is Alive Tarot Social - A joyful coming-together of the Womenrsquos Tarot community a

Revival of the 70rsquos TRAVELING MAGIC SHOW by a FOREMOTHER of GODDESS SPIRITUALITY The QUEEN of TAROT READINGS and the woman responsible for LEGALIZING TAROT in California hellip Z Budapest

Z Budapest is conducting a most entertaining Tarot Social at her home in

Oakland CA on April 23rd For more information and registration go to

TarotSocialcom

The Dianic University for Women in Goddess

Study the Dianic Tradition with Z Budapest the woman who rebirthed it into modern culture Classes at the Dianic University are designed for women only

Sisterhood of the Moon ~ Womenrsquos Spirituality Coven in the Z Budapest Dianic Tradition

Events in the Sisterhood of the Moon are for women-born-women only Located in Hayward CA You must contact Jesamyn Angelica for more information Many of the members of this group are also members of the Susan B Anthony Coven No1 Facebookpage

Hands of Demeter ~ Womenrsquos Spirituality Coven in the Z Budapest Dianic Tradition

Events in the Hands of Demeter are for women-born-women only Located in Semi Valley CA You must contact httpearthmothercovenantcom for more information Many of the members of this group are also members of the Susan B Anthony Coven No1 Facebook page

The Sacred Circle ~ Recovering amp Reclaiming Ancient Ways to Heal

Events in The Sacred Circle are for members only unless otherwise stated Call JoAnna 775-882-1599 for membership inquiries

Sisterhood of the Turning Tides ~ Womenrsquos Spirituality Coven in the Z Budapest Dianic Tradition

They meet on Esbats and Sabbats and have a Tuesday night drumritual circle Located in Mendocino CA You must contact Sage Simon for more information Many of the members of this group are also members of the Susan B Anthony Coven No1 Facebookpage

You can sponsor Goddess magazine too Click here to helphellip

Deepest Gratitude to Sisters in Goddess for their Donations

The Application for Dianic Clergy Priestess is online

Follow the Goddess Festival on Facebook And Twitter

Thank you sisters who have donated $1 a month to help support our Goddess efforts

You can sponsor Goddess magazine too Click here to helphellip

Vicki Scotti LuAnn Morris and Amy Otero are

Hecatersquos Wheel an acoustic folk trio Their

music is inspired by and dedicated to the

Goddess in all her guises They sing an eclectic

variety of cover songs and original music

Hecatersquos Wheel has been playing and

singing together for several years and their

voices have found a natural harmonious blend

We VERY much enjoyed their Beltaine concert

Goddess Resource Links Z Budapest Website Goddess College Online Goddess Blog ndash Sponsored by the Susan B Anthony Coven Z Budapest Blog Goddess Festival Susan B Anthony Coven Dianic Wicca Tarot Social Witch Trial ndash the last great witch trial in America Zs Events Schedule Zs University Calendar

Zs Books Summoning the Fates Holy Book of Womens Mysteries Celestial Wisdom Grandmother of Time Grandmother Moon Goddess in the Office Goddess in the Bedroom

Page 30: Goddess Magazine (March 2011)

Breast Cancer Breast Health

Author Susun S Weed Foods exercises and attitudes to keep your breasts healthy

Supportive complimentary medicines to ease side-effects of surgery radiation

chemotherapy or tamoxifen Foreword by Christiane Northrup MD 380 pages index

illustrations

UPCOMING DIANIC EVENTS

Pagan Examiner ndash Read the articles written by Bobbie and myself Zrsquos Calendar of Events ndash Want to know where I am appearing Goddess Festival ndash You think the last was good Goddess is Alive Tarot Social - A joyful coming-together of the Womenrsquos Tarot community a

Revival of the 70rsquos TRAVELING MAGIC SHOW by a FOREMOTHER of GODDESS SPIRITUALITY The QUEEN of TAROT READINGS and the woman responsible for LEGALIZING TAROT in California hellip Z Budapest

Z Budapest is conducting a most entertaining Tarot Social at her home in

Oakland CA on April 23rd For more information and registration go to

TarotSocialcom

The Dianic University for Women in Goddess

Study the Dianic Tradition with Z Budapest the woman who rebirthed it into modern culture Classes at the Dianic University are designed for women only

Sisterhood of the Moon ~ Womenrsquos Spirituality Coven in the Z Budapest Dianic Tradition

Events in the Sisterhood of the Moon are for women-born-women only Located in Hayward CA You must contact Jesamyn Angelica for more information Many of the members of this group are also members of the Susan B Anthony Coven No1 Facebookpage

Hands of Demeter ~ Womenrsquos Spirituality Coven in the Z Budapest Dianic Tradition

Events in the Hands of Demeter are for women-born-women only Located in Semi Valley CA You must contact httpearthmothercovenantcom for more information Many of the members of this group are also members of the Susan B Anthony Coven No1 Facebook page

The Sacred Circle ~ Recovering amp Reclaiming Ancient Ways to Heal

Events in The Sacred Circle are for members only unless otherwise stated Call JoAnna 775-882-1599 for membership inquiries

Sisterhood of the Turning Tides ~ Womenrsquos Spirituality Coven in the Z Budapest Dianic Tradition

They meet on Esbats and Sabbats and have a Tuesday night drumritual circle Located in Mendocino CA You must contact Sage Simon for more information Many of the members of this group are also members of the Susan B Anthony Coven No1 Facebookpage

You can sponsor Goddess magazine too Click here to helphellip

Deepest Gratitude to Sisters in Goddess for their Donations

The Application for Dianic Clergy Priestess is online

Follow the Goddess Festival on Facebook And Twitter

Thank you sisters who have donated $1 a month to help support our Goddess efforts

You can sponsor Goddess magazine too Click here to helphellip

Vicki Scotti LuAnn Morris and Amy Otero are

Hecatersquos Wheel an acoustic folk trio Their

music is inspired by and dedicated to the

Goddess in all her guises They sing an eclectic

variety of cover songs and original music

Hecatersquos Wheel has been playing and

singing together for several years and their

voices have found a natural harmonious blend

We VERY much enjoyed their Beltaine concert

Goddess Resource Links Z Budapest Website Goddess College Online Goddess Blog ndash Sponsored by the Susan B Anthony Coven Z Budapest Blog Goddess Festival Susan B Anthony Coven Dianic Wicca Tarot Social Witch Trial ndash the last great witch trial in America Zs Events Schedule Zs University Calendar

Zs Books Summoning the Fates Holy Book of Womens Mysteries Celestial Wisdom Grandmother of Time Grandmother Moon Goddess in the Office Goddess in the Bedroom

Page 31: Goddess Magazine (March 2011)

UPCOMING DIANIC EVENTS

Pagan Examiner ndash Read the articles written by Bobbie and myself Zrsquos Calendar of Events ndash Want to know where I am appearing Goddess Festival ndash You think the last was good Goddess is Alive Tarot Social - A joyful coming-together of the Womenrsquos Tarot community a

Revival of the 70rsquos TRAVELING MAGIC SHOW by a FOREMOTHER of GODDESS SPIRITUALITY The QUEEN of TAROT READINGS and the woman responsible for LEGALIZING TAROT in California hellip Z Budapest

Z Budapest is conducting a most entertaining Tarot Social at her home in

Oakland CA on April 23rd For more information and registration go to

TarotSocialcom

The Dianic University for Women in Goddess

Study the Dianic Tradition with Z Budapest the woman who rebirthed it into modern culture Classes at the Dianic University are designed for women only

Sisterhood of the Moon ~ Womenrsquos Spirituality Coven in the Z Budapest Dianic Tradition

Events in the Sisterhood of the Moon are for women-born-women only Located in Hayward CA You must contact Jesamyn Angelica for more information Many of the members of this group are also members of the Susan B Anthony Coven No1 Facebookpage

Hands of Demeter ~ Womenrsquos Spirituality Coven in the Z Budapest Dianic Tradition

Events in the Hands of Demeter are for women-born-women only Located in Semi Valley CA You must contact httpearthmothercovenantcom for more information Many of the members of this group are also members of the Susan B Anthony Coven No1 Facebook page

The Sacred Circle ~ Recovering amp Reclaiming Ancient Ways to Heal

Events in The Sacred Circle are for members only unless otherwise stated Call JoAnna 775-882-1599 for membership inquiries

Sisterhood of the Turning Tides ~ Womenrsquos Spirituality Coven in the Z Budapest Dianic Tradition

They meet on Esbats and Sabbats and have a Tuesday night drumritual circle Located in Mendocino CA You must contact Sage Simon for more information Many of the members of this group are also members of the Susan B Anthony Coven No1 Facebookpage

You can sponsor Goddess magazine too Click here to helphellip

Deepest Gratitude to Sisters in Goddess for their Donations

The Application for Dianic Clergy Priestess is online

Follow the Goddess Festival on Facebook And Twitter

Thank you sisters who have donated $1 a month to help support our Goddess efforts

You can sponsor Goddess magazine too Click here to helphellip

Vicki Scotti LuAnn Morris and Amy Otero are

Hecatersquos Wheel an acoustic folk trio Their

music is inspired by and dedicated to the

Goddess in all her guises They sing an eclectic

variety of cover songs and original music

Hecatersquos Wheel has been playing and

singing together for several years and their

voices have found a natural harmonious blend

We VERY much enjoyed their Beltaine concert

Goddess Resource Links Z Budapest Website Goddess College Online Goddess Blog ndash Sponsored by the Susan B Anthony Coven Z Budapest Blog Goddess Festival Susan B Anthony Coven Dianic Wicca Tarot Social Witch Trial ndash the last great witch trial in America Zs Events Schedule Zs University Calendar

Zs Books Summoning the Fates Holy Book of Womens Mysteries Celestial Wisdom Grandmother of Time Grandmother Moon Goddess in the Office Goddess in the Bedroom

Page 32: Goddess Magazine (March 2011)

You can sponsor Goddess magazine too Click here to helphellip

Deepest Gratitude to Sisters in Goddess for their Donations

The Application for Dianic Clergy Priestess is online

Follow the Goddess Festival on Facebook And Twitter

Thank you sisters who have donated $1 a month to help support our Goddess efforts

You can sponsor Goddess magazine too Click here to helphellip

Vicki Scotti LuAnn Morris and Amy Otero are

Hecatersquos Wheel an acoustic folk trio Their

music is inspired by and dedicated to the

Goddess in all her guises They sing an eclectic

variety of cover songs and original music

Hecatersquos Wheel has been playing and

singing together for several years and their

voices have found a natural harmonious blend

We VERY much enjoyed their Beltaine concert

Goddess Resource Links Z Budapest Website Goddess College Online Goddess Blog ndash Sponsored by the Susan B Anthony Coven Z Budapest Blog Goddess Festival Susan B Anthony Coven Dianic Wicca Tarot Social Witch Trial ndash the last great witch trial in America Zs Events Schedule Zs University Calendar

Zs Books Summoning the Fates Holy Book of Womens Mysteries Celestial Wisdom Grandmother of Time Grandmother Moon Goddess in the Office Goddess in the Bedroom

Page 33: Goddess Magazine (March 2011)

Vicki Scotti LuAnn Morris and Amy Otero are

Hecatersquos Wheel an acoustic folk trio Their

music is inspired by and dedicated to the

Goddess in all her guises They sing an eclectic

variety of cover songs and original music

Hecatersquos Wheel has been playing and

singing together for several years and their

voices have found a natural harmonious blend

We VERY much enjoyed their Beltaine concert

Goddess Resource Links Z Budapest Website Goddess College Online Goddess Blog ndash Sponsored by the Susan B Anthony Coven Z Budapest Blog Goddess Festival Susan B Anthony Coven Dianic Wicca Tarot Social Witch Trial ndash the last great witch trial in America Zs Events Schedule Zs University Calendar

Zs Books Summoning the Fates Holy Book of Womens Mysteries Celestial Wisdom Grandmother of Time Grandmother Moon Goddess in the Office Goddess in the Bedroom