November 2010
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September 2010
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Harvest Moon
Can you feel the change in the air? A chilly edge to the wind, the taste of rain on the horizon, the smell of wet earth and damp woodlands. The rose hips bob in the hedgerows, almost ready, and the elderberries glisten, apples fall~ Autumn comes.
I am somehow taken unaware this year. Even though I knew that Autumn was here, the equinox energy is strong and flowing suddenly, like a river in...
August 2010
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Happy Birthday...
One balmy Sunday afternoon at the end of July, the women of The Red Thread came together in celebration of our merry band.
We brought our children, our partners and lunch to share and spent the afternoon in the summer garden. There was much playing, exploring and bouncing on the trampoline (and that was just the Dads!)
walks by the pond, piano playing, duck watching, lots of picnic rug...
July 2010
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“Only when we stop reaching off balance for the light, and equally welcome the darkness of our souls, will we find the exquisite inspiration that comes from being rooted, nourished and blessed by nature. Open to the sanctity of nature’s currents, can we then experience the vibrant flood of energy that is offered us as life, finding the deep resources of wisdom and fuel within our...
April 2010
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I am the sea
I am the mountains
I am the light
I am eternal
This confusion is fog There is light beyond I sense it and feel its warmth I move toward it but not headlong I fear to stumble, to fall with pain.
There are women everywhere with fragments When we learn to come together we are whole When we learn to recognize the enemy we will come to recognize what we need to know to learn how...
March 2010
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Blessing the Way to far far away...
This Thursday at The Red Thread, we held a Blessingway ceremony for Tracey, who is not only journeying to birth for the 3rd time, but is also travelling back to her native New Zealand to live.
This was a moving occasion for us~ our first Blessingway as a group for one of our beautiful Mamas and a fond farewell too. Tracey has been an inspiring and important part of our circle for a while now...
January 2010
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Walking with you
Tonight as I walk
Past the moon in the dark, I realise I’m walking with you.
With millions of long walking women
With silvery, moon walking women
With willowy lake walking women
With you.
I know as I lose all sight of myself And I smile and I spy on the world,
I am safe in the steps of my infinite walk
As the long line of women unfurls.
I shudder in mists and in dusks at the lake...
December 2009
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As the wheel turns
Mistletoe graced our central table for our last Red Thread Mothers Circle of 2009. Revered for its magical and medicinal uses, its primary symbolism is for love, protection and fertility.
It is with this in mind that I asked for Mistletoe’s blessings today ~ blessings of Love and protection on all the things that really matter as we wend our way through another festive season. Upon our...
November 2009
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what the red thread means to me...
The Red Thread is that which unites us all as women, weaving through our hearts, breathe, bodies and lives; it is the blood and bone essence of Woman. Whether we bear children in this lifetime or not, we all once grew in the waters of our mothers womb, and were born cradling within us the eggs that will be our future children. Motherhood, although not for everyone this time around, is a powerful...