Jailbreaking the Goddess: A Radical Revisioning of Feminist Spirituality - Softcover

Allen, Lasara Firefox

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0738747971 ISBN 13: 9780738747972

Publisher: Llewellyn Publications, 2016

Synopsis

"Jailbreaking the Goddess is an important contribution to the writings on Goddess tradition and feminist spirituality. . . . I love her political savvy, her sensitivity around issues of diversity and cultural awareness and appropriation, and her unabashed celebration of pleasure, sensuality, and life!"―Starhawk

Jailbreaking the Goddess is a revolutionary revisioning of the feminine divine. Where the maiden, mother, crone archetypal system is tied to female biology and physical stages of life, the fivefold model liberates the female experience from the shackles of the reproductive model.

In a woman's lifetime, she will go through several different cycles of beginnings, potential, creation, mastery, and wisdom. This fivefold model is not an adaption of the threefold. It is a new system that embraces the powerful, fluid nature of the lived experience of women today.

Join Lasara Firefox Allen as she explores the nature of the five archetypes; gives examples of what areas of life each might preside over; lists goddesses that fit within each archetype; suggests ways to begin building relationship with the different archetypes; and provides simple rituals for recognition, transition, and invocation.

Praise:

"Lasara Firefox Allen has liberated the divine feminine from her tired tropes and set her free in a single step toward our collective embrace of a decolonized spirituality."
―Darcy Totten and Jasper James, Activism Articulated
"This fiercely inspired body of work is art, theory, and passion. Genius."
―Rosa De Anda, from her foreword

"Lasara Firefox Allen delves deep into the ways in which colonialist language has shaped our experience of the divine feminine. . . . This is an innovative work that has the potential to change the face of modern feminist spirituality."
―Suzanne Sterling, founder of Voice of Change

"Jailbreaking The Goddess is a delicious tool for dismantling (and reimagining) the way we think about women's spirituality and power. [The] fivefold goddess model honors the divine nature in all women, regardless of age, ability, sexual orientation, gender identity, race, and economic status. This is an exciting, smart, and practical approach to liberating the mind, body, and spirit."
―Laurie Lovekraft, Reclaiming Witch, priestess, and Huffington Post columnist

"In Allen's vision the goddess is young and old,creative and wise, and above all strong. This is a Goddess who can map onto our own journeys at any part of our life. Allen's gentle, fierce,and wise work guides us through the process of rebuilding our sense of ourselves as holy through relationship to these new faces of the Goddess."
―Brandy Williams, author of For the Love of the Gods and The Woman Magician

"Jailbreaking the Goddess is challenging, unabashed and wild, yet thoughtful and articulate. I found pieces of myself and my personal Goddess journey that have never been illuminated by any other text. Lasara Firefox Allen has truly broken the Goddess out of an antiquated jail. The world needs this freed Goddess.This book is part of that liberation."
―Courtney Weber, author of Brigid: History, Mystery, and Magick

"Reading Jailbreaking the Goddess is a view into a world that but rarely exposes itself to the likes of me.The magic is classic, but updated to self-rooted authority, and the politics are heart-felt, leading to a vision of societal transformation centered on the Woman of Power, Wisdom, and Compassion."
―Sam Webster,PhD, MDiv, Executive Director of the Pantheon Foundation

"Whilst honoring the roots of Goddess worship, Lasara has successfully opened up avenues of exploration for anyone who identifies with worship of the feminal divine in clear and loving guidance towards a stronger community of men, women, and all in between."
―Xochiquetzal Duti Odinsdottir,HPs/x, Wayfarer Tradition

About this title

About the Author

Lasara Firefox Allen (Mendocino County, CA) is the best-selling author of Sexy Witch (2005), and the upcoming Jailbreaking the Goddess: A Radical Revisioning of Feminist Spirituality (2016), both published by Llewellyn Worldwide. A wild hearted change agent, Lasara delivers tools for transformation, provides strategies for embodiment, and creates vibrant spaces forpersonal and collective liberation. Lasara's coaching and teaching work weaves together themes of empowerment, embodiment, body positivity, sexual liberation, feminism, and owning our whole selves.

From the Back Cover

Jailbreaking the Goddess
A Radical Revisioning of Feminist Spirituality
Lasara Firefox Allen
Body, Mind & Spirit / Goddess Worship

$22.99 US
$26.50 CAN

Jailbreaking the Goddess is a revolutionary revisioning of the feminal divine. Where the traditional maiden, mother, crone archetypal system is tied to female biology and physical stages of life, the fivefold model presented here welcomes all women and seeks to liberate the female experience from the shackles of the reproductive model.

"This fiercely inspired body of work is art, theory, and passion. Genius."--Rosa De Anda, from her foreword

"LaSara Firefox Allen delves deep into the ways in which colonialist language has shaped our experience of the divine feminine. . . . This is an innovative work that has the potential to change the face of modern feminist spirituality."--Suzanne Sterling, founder of Voice of Change

"Moving beyond our feminine biology as a definition of who we are, and how we relate to the divine feminine, Lasara Firefox Allen creates a whole new template more suitable for women today."--Anodea Judith, PhD, author of Wheels of Life and Anodea Judith's Chakra Yoga
"Lasara has brought us the goddesses who speak across time and space, who invite us to be inclusive and intersectional in our worship. . . . They remind us that the survival of our species, of all species of life, requires that we create diverse, complex, dynamic communities."--Mai'a Williams, journalist, teacher, activist, and editor of Revolutionary Mothering

"This book makes room for discussions that include colonization, appropriation, representation, binary gender concerns, sexuality, and many other elements of dominant culture. . . . Each section gives a wealth of information on the ways in which we can connect to the five archetypes that Firefox Allen has presented."--Crystal Blanton, MSW, editor of Bringing Race to the Table

"Lasara Firefox Allen has liberated the divine feminine from her tired tropes and set her free in a single step toward our collective embrace of a decolonized spirituality."--Darcy Totten and Jasper James, Activism Articulated

"[The] fivefold goddess model honors the divine nature in all women, regardless of age, ability, sexual orientation, gender identity, race, and economic status."--Laurie Lovekraft, Reclaiming Witch and priestess, and Huffington Post columnist

"Jailbreaking the Goddess provides countless possibilities for everyone to meet and engage with archetypal feminine power on their own terms."--Barbara Carrellas, author of Urban Tantra: Sacred Sex for the Twenty-First Century

Lasara Firefox Allen (Mendocino County, CA) is a family traditions Witch and a second generation ordained Pagan priestess. She is a writer, ritualist, sex-positive activist, and a designer/facilitator of a wide variety of interactive workshops on identity, sexuality, spirituality, sovereignty, and body love. Visit Lasara online at LasaraFirefoxAllen.com.

From the Inside Flap

Part how-to guide, part intersectional feminist manifesta, Jailbreaking the Goddess supports a co-creative, collaborative process of reclaiming your divine nature.

In your lifetime, you will go through several different cycles of beginnings, potential, creation, mastery, and wisdom. Join Lasara Firefox Allen as she deconstructs the traditional maiden, mother, crone archetypal system and explores the faces and phases of a revolutionary fivefold model. As a liberationist book of shadows, Jailbreaking the Goddess suggests practices for decolonizing your magick, building magickal community, deepening your relationship with the Goddess and goddesses, and creating effective, consensual rites of passage.

The Five Faces of the Feminal Divine:

Femella means girl. She is the primal child, the divine child.

Potens means able (to), potent, mighty, strong, powerful. She is the woman of strength, full of potential and power, bursting forth.

Creatrix means female creator. She is the creator, the mother, the maker, the author.

Sapientia means wisdom, discernment, memory, forethought, intellect, perfection of character, a science. She is the wise woman, master of her craft, teacher, leader, woman of science and art.

Antiqua means old, ancient, aged, time-honored, simple, venerable, traditional, essential. She is the old woman, the dreamer, the storyteller, the witch at the gate.

Edition details

• Publisher: Llewellyn Publications
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0738747971
• ISBN 13: 9780738747972
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288