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Starhawk

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Starhawk is an author, activist, permaculture designer and teacher, and a prominent voice in modern Goddess religion and earth-based spirituality. She is the author or coauthor of thirteen books, including the classics The Spiral Dance and The Fifth Sacred Thing. Her latest is the newly published fiction novel City of Refuge, the long-awaited sequel to The Fifth Sacred Thing.

Starhawk directs Earth Activist Training, (www.earthactivisttraining.org), teaching permaculture design grounded in spirit and with a focus on organizing and activism. “Social permaculture”—the conscious design of regenerative human systems, is a particular focus of hers.

She lives on Golden Rabbit Ranch in Western Sonoma County, CA, where she is developing a model of ca ...more

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Why Protecting Dark Skies Benefits Both Wildlife and People

Dark sky conservation reduces light pollution, protects wildlife from disrupted behaviour, and gives communities clearer views of the night sky. And when you aim a floodlight down instead of sideways, you’ll change what feeds, breeds, and finds its way home after dark.

Yet most of us grew up under a permanent orange glow of electric light. That constant glow can make light pollution seem normal, ev

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	The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Great Goddess 4.04 avg rating — 10,683 ratings — published 1979 — 36 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Fifth Sacred Thing (Maya Greenwood, #1) 4.23 avg rating — 8,023 ratings — published 1993 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dreaming the Dark : Magic, Sex, and Politics 3.94 avg rating — 2,483 ratings — published 1982 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Earth Path: Grounding Your Spirit in the Rhythms of Nature 3.94 avg rating — 2,387 ratings — published 2004 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Circle Round: Raising Children in Goddess Traditions by Starhawk (Goodreads Author), Diane Baker, Anne Hill (Goodreads Author) 4.31 avg rating — 1,306 ratings — published 1998 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Pagan Book of Living and Dying: Practical Rituals, Prayers, Blessings, and Meditations on Crossing Over by Starhawk (Goodreads Author), M. Macha NightMare (Goodreads Author) 4.24 avg rating — 973 ratings — published 1997 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Walking to Mercury (Maya Greenwood, #2) 3.98 avg rating — 992 ratings — published 1997 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	City of Refuge (Maya Greenwood, #3) 4.59 avg rating — 630 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Truth or Dare: Encounters with Power, Authority, and Mystery – Creative Alternatives for Positive Change in Our Lives and World 4.16 avg rating — 562 ratings — published 1987 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Twelve Wild Swans: A Journey to the Realm of Magic, Healing, and Action by Starhawk (Goodreads Author), Hilary Valentine 4.02 avg rating — 573 ratings — published 2000 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Beware of organizations that proclaim their devotion to the light without embracing, bowing to the dark; for when they idealize half the world they must devalue the rest.”
― Starhawk

tags: dreaming-the-dark, paganism

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“A spiritual organization with a hierarchical structure can convey only the consciousness of estrangement, regardless of what teachings or deep inspirations are at its root.The structure itself reinforces the idea that some people are inherently more worthy than others.”
― Starhawk

tags: estrangement, heirarchy, paganism

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“Life demands honesty, the ability to face, admit, and express oneself.”
― Starhawk

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August 2018 Climate Fiction Sci-Fi

Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler

49 votes, 33.3%

Borne by Jeff VanderMeer

40 votes, 27.2%

New York 2140 by Kim Stanley Robinson

35 votes, 23.8%

The Girl in the Road by Monica Byrne

15 votes, 10.2%

The Fifth Sacred Thing by Starhawk

8 votes, 5.4%

147 total votes

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“The brush that is tinder dry from decades of drought, the warming of the earth's climate that sends the storms away north, the hole in the ozone layer. Not punishment, not even justice, but consequence.”
― Starhawk, The Fifth Sacred Thing

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