Synopsis
Sisters of the Thirteen Moons: Rituals Celebrating Women's Lives is a book of thirteen rituals celebrating ordinary events in women's lives that are often minimized and trivialized in our culture. It begins with a Welcoming ritual to the girl-child and ends with a Crone celebration. Other rituals include times of leaving home, menarche, commitment, healing, grieving losses and menopause.
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How can we honor significant moments in women's lives? In the course of a year, the moon goes through its ritual of change thirteen times: New Moon to Crescent to Full Moon. A pattern of change occurs in women's lives as well: Girl to Adult to Old Woman. Throughout time people have noted these changes with ritual celebrations. Our culture, however, has forgotten how to mark these developments and often minimizes their significance. Sisters of the Thirteen Moons remedies that lack with thirteen celebrations that imbue women's lives and their everyday experiences with a sense of their sacred meaning. Shared with groups or read as individual meditations, these rituals provide time of tears, laughter and profound understanding.
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From A Significant Achievement Ritual--Oftentimes our accomplishments as women go unnoticed because we fail to pay proper attention to them, or to recognize them with celebration or ritual. As women we certainly work hard enough to reach our goals whether they are public or private in nature. Many of us will earn an advanced degree, write a book, or earn a well-deserved promotion at work; many of us will come to terms with personal demons and set aside harmful addictions such as cigarettes or alcohol, leave abusive relationships, or reconcile what we had come to believe are irreconcilable differences. Whatever our achievements, often when we reach a goal we simply set another. We fail to stop, to reflect on the meaning of that experience, to count its cost, and to celebrate our success. This ritual is a guide to doing just that. Most of the celebratory moments in women's lives hinge on their relationships to the male experience. When we marry, we are given bridal showers; when we give birth, we are given baby showers. In this ritual we wish to celebrate any achievement in a woman's life which has demanded that she change her lifestyle, alter an attitude, or conquer a system and its institutional rigor. The form of the ritual may be dependent on the nature of the achievement: for someone who has recently graduated whether by earning a general equivalency diploma, an MFA or Ph.D., it might be appropriate to honor her with a "Senior Banquet" in which the community gathers for a celebratory supper. Into that event, the following kinds of activities might be incorporated. If the accomplishment is one of a more private nature such as reconciling old differences, the ritual might be characterized with a more solemn atmosphere. Again, you must rely on the wisdom of the community to find its own way of being, of interacting, of voicing itself in celebration.
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