Starhawk Quotes

The Goddess does not rule the world; She is the world. Manifest in each of us, She can be known internally by every individual, in all her magnificent diversity.

Solidarity is based on the principle that we are willing to put ourselves at risk to protect each other.

The Goddess does not rule the world; She is the world.

To work magic is to weave the unseen forces into form; to soar beyond sight; to explore the uncharted dream realm of the hidden reality.

Earth Mother, you who are called by a thousand names. May all remember we are cells in your body and dance together.

The long sleep of Mother Goddess is ended. May She awaken in each of our hearts - Merry meet, merry part, and blessed be.

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.

Through the Goddess, we can discover our strength, enlighten our minds, own our bodies, and celebrate our emotions.

Energy moves in cycles, circles, spirals, vortexes, whirls, pulsations, waves, and rhythms—rarely if ever in simple straight lines.

Community means strength that joins our strength to do the work that needs to be done. Arms to hold us when we falter. A circle of healing. A circle of friends. Someplace where we can be free.

We cannot change the world alone. To heal ourselves, to restore the earth to life, to create the situations in which freedom can flourish, we must work together in groups.

What shames us, what we most fear to tell, does not set us apart from others; it binds us together if only we can take the risk to speak it.

Let there be beauty and strength, power and compassion, honor and humility, mirth and reverence within you.

Only those who must bear the consequences of a decision have the right to make it.

Somewhere a circle of hands will open to receive us, eyes will light up as we enter, voices will celebrate with us whenever we come into our own power.

For great as the powers of destruction may be, greater still, are the powers of healing.

I am a witch, by which I mean that I am somebody who believes that the earth is sacred, and that women and women's bodies are one expression of that sacred being.

Spirituality leaps where science cannot yet follow, because science must always test and measure, and much of reality and human experience is immeasurable.

The terrain of the mysteries is the ordinary. To seek out mystery, we don't have to go anywhere. We must simply change our preception, our description, our consciousness of where we are.

To practice magic is to bear the responsibility for having a vision.

In Witchcraft, each of us must reveal our own truth.

She changes everything she touches. And everything she touches changes.

Any ritual is an opportunity for transformation.

In the Craft the Goddess is not omnipotent. The cosmos is interesting rather than perfect, and everything is not part of some greater plan, nor is all necessarily under control.

Magic has always been an element of Witchcraft, but in the Craft its techniques were practiced within a context of community and connection.

To choose is also to begin.

The antidote to climate change is community.

Each being is sacred - meaning that each has inherent value that cannot be ranked in a hierarchy or compared to the value of another being.

Any creative work that is truly alive is influenced by a thousand chance factors in its generation.

Identifying as a Pagan, feminist, Witch, and anarchist is possibly a way to alarm great segments of the general public, but at least it keeps me from sinking into a boring and respectable middle age.

Panic is not an effective long-term organizing strategy.

Creations, whether they are children, poems, or organizations, take on a life of their own.

Insanity is repeating the same actions and expecting different results.

Love is the glue that holds the world together.

At this moment in history, we are called to act as if we truly believe that liberty and justice for all is a desirable thing.

Fascination with the psychic - or the psychological - can be a dangerous sidetrack on any spiritual path.

In a culture where profit has become the true God, self-sacrifice can seem incomprehensible rather than noble.

On some deep cosmic level, we are all one, and within us we each contain the potential for good and for destruction, for compassion and hate, for generosity and greed.

Despair breeds fundamentalism, fanaticism, and terrorism. A world of truly shared abundance would be a safer world.

Systems don't change easily. Systems try to maintain themselves, and seek equilibrium. To change a system, you need to shake it up, disrupt the equilibrium. That often requires conflict.

Without a vision human beings are nasty creatures.

The witches, the wise women, and the healers were also always the counselors. It's a whole other tradition of knowledge and learning that has been suppressed because it had political implications.

What affects one thing affects, in some way, all things: All is interwoven into the continuous fabric of being. Its warp and weft are energy, which is the essence of magic.

There are two kinds of power. One is power over, which is always destructive, and the other is power from within, which is a transcendent and creative power.

Life demands honesty, the ability to face, admit, and express oneself.

My spirituality has always been linked to my feminism. Feminism is about challenging unequal power structures.

Ritual and myth are like seed crystals of new patterns that can eventually reshape culture around them.

All began in love, all seeks to return in love. Love is the law, the teacher of wisdom, and the great revealer of mysteries.

Force, punishment, and violence are patriarchy's answer to conflicts and social problems. Patriarchy finds its ultimate expression in war.

The test of a true myth is that each time you return to it, new insights and interpretations arise.