Close your eyes, relax, and breathe deeply. Let your breathing become slow, deep, easy. Relax and continue breathing deeply and gently…. As you continue breathing, relax each part of your body; first your feet, then your legs, your knees, your thighs; your sex organs, relax, relax, your abdomen relax, your stomach relax, your chest and […]
Autumn Equinox Meditation by Judith Laura
Before this meditation begins, light a fire outside or in a fireplace indoors, or light one or several candles. Breathe deeply and relax. Close your eyes. Let your breathing become slow, even, more and more relaxing. Relax, relax into the darkness. Relax deeper into yourself. Descend into yourself as deeply as you desire. As you […]
Book Review: ‘The Stars in Their Courses’ by Martha Shelley Second in Trilogy {Judith Laura}
The Stars in Their Courses, a novel, by Martha Shelley (Ebisu Publications 2014), trade paperback, 324 pages. This is the second novel in a trilogy by spiritual feminist Martha Shelley. It continues the story begun in the first of the three novels, The Throne in the Heart of the Sea, and like that novel is […]
Book Review – The Hebrew Priestess by Jill Hammer and Taya Shere {Judith Laura}
The Hebrew Priestess: Ancient and New Visions of Jewish Women’s Spiritual Leadership by Jill Hammer and Taya Shere (Ben Yehuda Press 2015), trade paperback, 330 pages. [The authors are co-founders of Kohenet Hebrew Priestess Institute. In an email response to my query, Rabbi Hammer explains that the title rav kohenet was given to them both by […]
Book Review – Did God Have a Wife? by William Dever about the Goddess Asherah {Judith Laura}
Did God Have a Wife? Archeology and Folk Religion in Ancient Israel by William G. Dever, (Eerdmans 2005) hardcover. This book establishes with strong archeological evidence that the Goddess Asherah was among the deities worshiped by Israelites, Judeans, and other peoples of the Ancient Near East (ANE). It’s a shame that William G. Dever couldn’t accomplish […]
Winter Solstice Invocation by Judith Laura {Rhythms Winter 2015}
Holy and blessed Mother, who brings forth the sun in the passion of sacred orgasm, May all children born of you and of us know the fullness of their sexuality and feel the pleasure of your love May all children born of you and of us know the freedom of their body’s gifts and bear […]
Book Review: Jeri Studebaker’s Breaking the Mother Goose Code {Judith Laura}
Breaking the Mother Goose Code: How a Fairy-Tale Character Fooled the World for 300 Years by Jeri Studebaker (Moon Books 2015), trade paperback, 319 pages. Also available as an e-book. Breaking the Mother Goose Code is written with a scholarly approach, yet in a style and language that is easy to understand. The book seemed […]
