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Starhawk

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Starhawk is an author, activist, permaculture designer and teacher, and a prominent voice in modern Goddess religion and earth-based spirituality. She is the author or coauthor of thirteen books, including the classics The Spiral Dance and The Fifth Sacred Thing. Her latest is the newly published fiction novel City of Refuge, the long-awaited sequel to The Fifth Sacred Thing.

Starhawk directs Earth Activist Training, (www.earthactivisttraining.org), teaching permaculture design grounded in spirit and with a focus on organizing and activism. “Social permaculture”—the conscious design of regenerative human systems, is a particular focus of hers.

She lives on Golden Rabbit Ranch in Western Sonoma County, CA, where she is developing a model of ca ...more

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Why Outdoor Living Is More Than Just a Design Trend

The benefits of outdoor living come from changes in your brain and body. Research shows outdoor spaces trigger brain responses like better attention, higher relaxation, and improved creativity that indoor spaces simply can’t match.

You’ve probably experienced it too when you took a walk in nature, and it instantly lifted you up. Many people shared the same feeling with me when we worked on outdoor

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Average rating: 4.1 · 29,644 ratings · 1,579 reviews · 60 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Great Goddess 4.04 avg rating — 10,549 ratings — published 1979 — 37 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Fifth Sacred Thing (Maya Greenwood, #1) 4.22 avg rating — 7,763 ratings — published 1993 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dreaming the Dark : Magic, Sex, and Politics 3.94 avg rating — 2,465 ratings — published 1982 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Earth Path: Grounding Your Spirit in the Rhythms of Nature 3.95 avg rating — 2,374 ratings — published 2004 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Circle Round: Raising Children in Goddess Traditions by Starhawk (Goodreads Author), Diane Baker, Anne Hill (Goodreads Author) 4.31 avg rating — 1,294 ratings — published 1998 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Pagan Book of Living and Dying: Practical Rituals, Prayers, Blessings, and Meditations on Crossing Over by Starhawk (Goodreads Author), M. Macha NightMare (Goodreads Author) 4.23 avg rating — 963 ratings — published 1997 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Walking to Mercury (Maya Greenwood, #2) 3.97 avg rating — 968 ratings — published 1997 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	City of Refuge (Maya Greenwood, #3) 4.58 avg rating — 600 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Truth or Dare: Encounters with Power, Authority, and Mystery 4.16 avg rating — 554 ratings — published 1987 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Twelve Wild Swans: A Journey to the Realm of Magic, Healing, and Action by Starhawk (Goodreads Author), Hilary Valentine 4.02 avg rating — 569 ratings — published 2000 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“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.”
― Starhawk

tags: dreaming-the-dark, paganism

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“A spiritual organization with a hierarchical structure can convey only the consciousness of estrangement, regardless of what teachings or deep inspirations are at its root.The structure itself reinforces the idea that some people are inherently more worthy than others.”
― Starhawk

tags: estrangement, heirarchy, paganism

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“Life demands honesty, the ability to face, admit, and express oneself.”
― Starhawk

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August 2018 Climate Fiction Sci-Fi

Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler

50 votes, 33.8%

Borne by Jeff VanderMeer

40 votes, 27.0%

New York 2140 by Kim Stanley Robinson

35 votes, 23.6%

The Girl in the Road by Monica Byrne

15 votes, 10.1%

The Fifth Sacred Thing by Starhawk

8 votes, 5.4%

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“The brush that is tinder dry from decades of drought, the warming of the earth's climate that sends the storms away north, the hole in the ozone layer. Not punishment, not even justice, but consequence.”
― Starhawk, The Fifth Sacred Thing

tags: 2048, california-drought, starhawk, the-fifth-sacred-thing, urban-fantasy

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