How can women turn birthday parties, baby showers, and other rites of passage into empowering celebrations brimming with meaning and fiery feminine spirit?
Emphasizing the Dianic Wiccan tradition, Barrett shows women how they can create empowering, transformative rituals that strengthen their profound connection to the Goddess. Instead of providing shortcuts, scripts, or rote rituals, she teaches women how to think like a ritualist. Step by step, readers learn the ritual-making process: developing a purpose and theme, building an altar, preparing emotionally and mentally (energetics), spellcasting, and more. For beginners or experienced ritualists, solitaries or groups, this thorough, engaging guide to the art of ritual-making can help women commemorate every sacred milestone-from menstruation to marriage to menopause-that touches their lives.
"Ruth Barrett brings her many years of experience in teaching and priestessing in the Dianic tradition to this book. Her thoughtfulness, intelligence and depth of understanding make it a valuable resource and will open a new perspective for many Pagans." -Starhawk, best-selling author of
The Spiral Dance and The Fifth Sacred Thing
Every year we write about the joys of Yule that brighten the season: creative gift-giving ideas, the burning of the Yule Log, the festive boughs of fir and holly – and of course, much-needed ways to de-stress after all the holiday madness. But can Yule be done differently, with a different focus? How can we celebrate the Winter Solstice in a way that might enrich us even more?Here are a couple of...
New Worlds: Why are rituals important? What benefits do they provide that something like silent prayer and meditation do not? Ruth Barrett: Rituals are important because they provide a form to convey meaning to us through manipulating symbolic objects and enacting specific activities with the purpose of initiating transformation. You can design a ritual to initiate a life change or attitude,...
I wrote Women’s Rites, Women’s Mysteries as a one-of-a-kind resource guide for the creation and facilitation of Goddess and woman-centered personal and group rituals from beginning to end. During my 27 years as a Dianic Wiccan High Priestess, through teaching classes in Dianic Wiccan tradition, I’ve consistently found that while women have a great hunger for ritual to reflect...
We are all feeling the effects of a tough economy and having to make difficult choices about how we spend whatever money we still have. And this concern can affect our Witchy lives as well as our mundane one. Let’s face it—Witchcraft can cost you a lot of money if you’re not careful: ritual garb and velvet cloaks, athames and wands, crystals,... read this article
