Starhawk (born Miriam Samos in 1951) is a writer E American and a Activiste which is asserted like Sorcière.
Life
It is known as theorician of the Paganisme; she is one of the most listened voices ecofeminism. Starhawk lives with San Francisco, where she works on the tradition Reclaiming of sorcery, tradition which she contributed to found through courses, workshops, the ritual camps and public ones in spirituality based on the ground, with for objective d'" to unify spirituality and politique".She is known in the whole world for her formations with the Non-violence and the direct action, and like Activiste in the movement Pacifiste, the feminist movement, the movement ecologist, and the movement Altermondialiste. She travels and teaches a little everywhere in North America, Europe and with the the Middle East, giving conferences and animating workshops.
She currently collaborates in the projects of United for Peace and Justice, in the collective of trainers RANT, Earth Activist Training, and other groups.
Works
She is the auteure of several best-sellers:- Spiral Dance (1979, 1989,1999)
- Dreaming the Dark (1982, 1988,1997), translated into French under the title Women, Magic and Political (2003) and postface by Isabelle Stengers
- Truth gold Dare (1988)
- Webs off Power: Notes from the Total Uprising (2003)
- The Earth Path (2004)
- “How We Shut Down the WTO " (“How we blocked OMC”) as well as writings activists on the Web partially translated into French in the collection Parcours of a altermondialist (2003)
It is with Hilary Valentine that she wrote
- The Twelve Wild Swans: With Journey Into Magic, Healing and Action (2000), a basic book for the “pagan ”
- The Pagan Book off Living room and Dying (1997)
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Circle Round: Raising Children in the Goddess Tradition (1998) was Co-writing with Anne Hill and Diane Baker.
Inter alia fictions of Starhawk, one will find
- The Fifth Sacred Thing (1993)
- Walking to Mercury (1997, ISBN 0553102338).
Films, music, etc
Starhawk was consulted or contributed to following films:- Signs Out off Time: The Story off Archeologist Marija Gimbutas * Goddess Remembered
- The Burning Times
- Full Circle .
Quotations
- “the concrete one reveals the invisible one: microcosm takes form by the same forces which give form to the macrocosm. Such as it is above, thus this is below. What is personal is political; the forces which give form to our individual lives are the same forces which give form to the collective life as a culture. The feminist awakening is a process based on robust magic principles. If we speak one the other as about equal not about abstract things but of concrete things which arrived to us, we see the common forces which modelled our lives. ” ( Women, magic and political )
- “Remember that the control is not all; remember the major part of yourself, still untamed, whose force is that of the instinct; remember that you bleed, that you feel and feel, that you can have in your body an animal grace, that there is an elegance, a control, who are not imposed by the spirit on nature, but which emanates from the body, which emanates because of being in the world, at each moment, as if we were there on our premises, as an animal is at his place where it is. ” ( Women, magic and political )
- “When we live with somebody, we owe also enraciner the relation by taking care of all the terrestrial things. Through the fight, we start to see that our partner is very different from our images and our dreams, is a real and distinct human being, for whom what account is what is real in us (and not our idealized image nor our reduction with an object with the service of the needs for another). ” ( Women, magic and political )
Internal bonds
External bonds
- To leave the dry land of the certainty, in connection with “Women, Magic and Policy” (Mona Chollet, Peripheries)
- “what we try to do”
- “Only poetry…”
- capitalist Sorcery (Isabelle Stengers)
- Starhawk
- Reclaiming
- Serpentine Music
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