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Comment on SHEELA NA GIG—THE DIVINE HAG by Jessica Deguara

Jessica Deguara — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 23:11:25 +0000

Love this information about the Sheelas! very intruiging and empowering: lifting the skirts to ward off dangers and the ancient and sacred geometry of the vesica piscis. I’ve now read that this shape is like a vulva and also the Mandorla which is depicted behind saints and Mother Mary – perhaps showing that their holy spirits have come through the ‘holy passage’ of the vulva into this material world.
The other interesting fact is that I discovered that there is one of these Sheelas in Oxford, England which is my local city. Apparently the brides of that church were shown it before they got married perhaps to enhance their fertility. It just so happens that I also got married there and had two gorgeous daughters! all piecing together! Thanks for the blog 🙂 Jessica x

Comment on SHEELA NA GIG—THE DIVINE HAG by Laura Phares

Laura Phares — Tue, 03 Oct 2023 21:16:02 +0000

We saw a very old Sheela Na Gig at Killnaboy

Comment on SHEELA NA GIG—THE DIVINE HAG by Emma

Emma — Fri, 23 Jun 2023 16:05:27 +0000

Hi,

the second one to the left on the top, which looks a bit like a pirate skeleton, where is it from please?
Thank you

Emma

Comment on SHEELA NA GIG—THE DIVINE HAG by nick

nick — Sat, 04 Mar 2023 17:50:18 +0000

Thanks for this. Insightful. as an artist I once proposed a marriage between Sheela and the Cerne Abbas Giant:-)

Comment on Sex-based language: vital for women’s rights by Fleur

Fleur — Fri, 21 Oct 2022 11:27:16 +0000

Thank you for your post Kristina, it was very interesting to read. I have spent the last 5 yrs living rather reclusively and going through the menopause experience. I must say I am no fan of the current ideology stalking the globe. I think it serves no-one and instead causes huge societal division.
When I was much younger I called myself a feminist and at the instruction of the “societal engineers” foolishly believed the mantras about the malignancies of our male counterparts. The Universe has treated me to the life lesson about what males are really all about. I had the joy of giving birth to 4 very different little boys and 1 determined girl. They have all taught me so much.
Now on the other side of my reproductive life I have a completely different view of the “Masculine & Feminine” energies. I think that many of the modern misunderstandings between women and men, may have have their genesis in the Victorian passion for the classification and commodification of everything. I see it in the sense of an obsession for the “scientific method”.
Unfortunately as is with many endeavors of our species ,we tend to take things beyond where they should have gone. Not to mention when something creates a perceived “benefit” for one demographic over another, the one with the benefit it reticent to relinquish said “benefit”. This should be food for thought. We should ALL be looking for what unites us as opposed to the smaller things that don’t.
Beyond that I would like to see an end to the current rubbish about “personal pronouns” and the fear around causing “offense”. Dam it, humans are lets face it, periodically offensive and that is okay. We need to have sufficient abrasion applied as we grow-up, in order to gain the quality of resilience in order to become the BEST us we can. As a parent I had to learn that preventing this process for my children was a really bad idea. The problem is you only see the fruits of your actions AFTER the horse has bolted as it were and then it’s too late. The DAMAGE is done and is hard to undo. Kids will try all sorts of things on for size as they grow but most things come out in the wash and they end up right where they should be. Teach them to always put their best foot forward, to care and be able to put themselves in others shoes and they will be fine. Don’t sweat the small things.

Comment on Älskade Mens Summit Dag 2 – Gäst Kristina Turner by Agneta Eriksson

Agneta Eriksson — Wed, 08 Dec 2021 11:56:20 +0000

Jag arbetar för att läka Moder Jord, och att hjälpa kvinnorna att öppna upp för sin inre Gudinna, genom att lotsa dem i en vägledande behandling.

Comment on IMBOLC / CANDLEMAS by Sam Boys

Sam Boys — Mon, 01 Feb 2021 13:19:26 +0000

Who is the artist of this painting?
I love your article

Comment on DEN GYNOCENTRISKA KALENDERN – ett år med tolv månader stör menscykeln by Sara

Sara — Fri, 07 Jun 2019 20:07:22 +0000

“Regelbundenheten gör att kvinnornas heliga tal 13, den trettonde, alltid infaller på en fredag ”

..veckan innan den 13e infaller på en torsdag..

Ta din medicin, du mår uppenbarligen inte bra.

Comment on DEN GYNOCENTRISKA KALENDERN – ett år med tolv månader stör menscykeln by MB Capener

MB Capener — Fri, 07 Jun 2019 17:30:06 +0000

Den judiska kalendern liksom den muslimska fortsätter följa månkalenderrytmen. Deras påsk och ramadan förflyttar sig hela tiden i förhållande till den gregorianska kalendern.
Men deras förhållningssätt är inte mycket mindre patriarkalt, eller hur? Att de tillber en manlig gud spelar även stor roll för samhällsklimatet. Hur ser du på det?

Comment on IMBOLC / CANDLEMAS by Maria Mosstig

Maria Mosstig — Mon, 04 Feb 2019 11:46:27 +0000

Jag har mycket glädje av dina texter och lär mig mycket