“A circle of women may be the most powerful force known to humanity. If you have one, embrace it. If you need one, seek it. If you find one, for the love of all that is good and holy, Dive in. Hold on. Love it up. Get naked. Let them see you. Let them hold you. Let your reluctant tears fall. Let yourself rise fierce and love great. You will be changed. The very fabric of your Being will be altered by this. If you allow it. Please, Allow it.” Author Unknown
The Goddess Circle refers to doll-making sessions with artists Robin Alice aka Brigit Snyder and myself, Lili McGovern. After meeting once a week for a couple of months, we decided to give our sessions a name to encompass what we were doing and what we represent, as women and artists. As we brainstormed, the name 'The Goddess Circle' emerged and we both agreed this name contained everything that we were experiencing as we transformed a humble branch found in nature with bits of fabric, yarn and beads to create a Spirit Doll filled with healing energy and the mysterious power to heal & change lives, even save lives. There is no judgement in the circle, allowing each woman to be herself, express her creativity and help nurture others. Visit the Goddess Circle Gallery to see the results of dolls that had their genesis within this sacred feminine circle.
"There are many ways and many reasons to sit in circle. At its very core, a sacred circle of women is an opportunity to be loved and held in a way that only women can provide." from essential-wisdom.com
"You have noticed that everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the Power of the World always works in circles, and everything tries to be round. Everything the Power of the World does is done in a circle. The sky is round, and I have heard that the earth is round like a ball, and so are all the stars. The wind, in its greatest power, whirls. Birds make their nests in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours. The sun comes forth and goes down again in a circle. The moon does the same, and both are round. Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing, and always come back again to where they were. The life of a man is a circle from childhood to childhood, and so it is in everything where power moves. Our teepees were round like the nests of birds, and these were always set in a circle, the nation's hoop, a nest of many nests, where the Great Spirit meant for us to hatch our children."
Black Elk Speaks, John G. Neihardt, University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln and London, 1932, 1961, 1979.