Women are spinners and weavers. We are the ones who spin the threads and weave them into meaning and pattern. Like silkworms, we create those threads out of our own substance, pulling the strong, fine fibers out of our own hearts and wounds. It’s time to make some new threads. Time to strengthen the frayed, wild edges of our being and then weave ourselves back into the fabric of our culture. Once we knew the patterns for weaving the world, we can piece them together again. We can remake the world.
Sharon Blackie, British author who wrote If Women Rose Rooted
“This is what women do. This is our work. And I find a lot of meaning in this, because I very much subscribe to the fact that the rise of women in our authentic power is needed if the world is to be reconstituted or protected. Many spiritual teachers have pointed to this need for the rise of the feminine and I love that she talks about women being spinners and weavers. I myself was a textile designer earlier in my life and I consider that my book is a big weaving of many dimensions of life, the inner, the outer, the mundane, the holy, all of it of a piece. This metaphor of a textile is profound for me as she talks about the fine fibers of our own hearts and wounds equally is embodied. Learning to weave ourselves back into our bodies, back into our hearts, back into the land around us, back into our instinctual selves and intuitive knowing, to me, is what I write about. It’s a theme very strong for me in my book.”
Diana Badger author of Dance Of The Archetypes:
How Astrology Informs Our Lives And Connects Us To The Earth
