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By: All Things Sandra Oles » Blog Archive » Aging and Women, from Huffington Post, By Julie Daley

Thu, 27 Jan 2011 19:13:25 +0000

[...] old woman was once revered, when people revered the Great Mother, when they saw the beauty of birth, death and rebirth, the power of transformation. Now, we sit [...]

By: Feminine Power: Awakening to the Creative Force of Life « medicineWords

Feminine Power: Awakening to the Creative Force of Life « medicineWords — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 12:02:15 +0000

[...] Julie Daley, one my revered feminine guides, writes about what I am experiencing with these women in her blog: [...]

By: Julie

Julie — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 17:07:29 +0000

Thank you, Lynn. Welcome. I’m glad you’re here.

By: Lynn Baldwin-Rhoades / Power Chicks

Lynn Baldwin-Rhoades / Power Chicks — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 02:02:11 +0000

Julie, I’m new to your site but see I’ll find much richness here. Thank you!

By: Anne Cressy

Anne Cressy — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 04:13:49 +0000

Wonderful read, it did my heart good. I was called by the Great Mother about four years ago through a series of dreams and visions. It was time to own the lifetime I had spent repudiating my own femininity. I knew how to embody masculine energy, had to learn to get by in the world. Already in my crone years there was no refusing that call. Basically She made it clear to me that I needed to join with women in circles and that I should also facilitate these circles myself. I had been studying for years, had been yearning to do just that, yet when that call came I still didn’t feel ready. No matter She said…and I did.

I can’t to describe the steps of the journey, way too many words. Today I facilitate a weekly womens dance circle and continue to deepen in relationship with She of A Thousand Names. I share in a monthly New Moon intention teleconference and Satsang teleconference with Mary MacNab. And yes, She is calling me again during this Dark season to burrow deeper into Her Arms and listen as She says .“I love you…I love you and I need you to bring forth your self.”
Blessings of Peace

By: Old Woman, Wise Woman, Powerful Woman

Old Woman, Wise Woman, Powerful Woman — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 17:53:11 +0000

[...] old woman was once revered, when people revered the Great Mother, when they saw the beauty of birth, death and rebirth, the power of transformation. Now, we sit [...]

By: Three Minutes of Silence #3MoS | Dian Reid — Authentic Realities

Three Minutes of Silence #3MoS | Dian Reid — Authentic Realities — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 18:37:55 +0000

[...] Some days I’ll focus on love. Some days I might focus on fun or love or creativity or The Great Mother or children or granny smith apples and peanut butter. I don’t know what these 3 minutes will [...]

By: Lindsey

Lindsey — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 13:55:23 +0000

This is glorious and just what I need to hear right now. I’ve been so confused by the advisory voices, who I now know have both good and bad intentions, that I’ve lost sight of the fact that only I can know my inner knowing, as you say … I am hearing that in a roaring, rising way, and these words join in that chorus. Thank you. Thank you, thank you.

By: Ronna Detrick

Ronna Detrick — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 05:40:01 +0000

So beautiful, Julie. What I think I’m most grateful for in this post – and its truth – is the expression of naming our ability to find life, healing, hope, and wholeness in the darkness; that down-deep, inner place within. As you so eloquently state, we have been trained to seek toward light. That ethereal, outside-ourselves radiance is lovely in and of itself, but women carry even more radiance and powerful, provocative loveliness in what we know of darkness – those germinating, alive, seed-nurturing, underground, oft’ hidden places. So redemptive! Thank you.

By: Jennifer Prentice

Jennifer Prentice — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 04:58:59 +0000

So much of what everyone has said above resonates with me. Most recently, I have felt the intense, deep reservoir of emotion that is being female as I start to grapple with the possibility of not being able to have children (I only have one kidney and my body may not be able to physically withstand a pregnancy).
Julie, what you said above about about “whether or not a woman gives birth to babies, she is always a mother,” really hit home. It is the responsibility of all women–whether mothers or not–to nurture each other and those around them. I am both scared and excited to continue to seek ways to do so, as a daughter, as a friend, as a mother and most importantly, as a woman.