East Central Illinois Pagan Women

03/20/2025

Happy Ostara!

02/01/2025

Blessed Imbolc. 💜

06/20/2024

Blessed Litha. 💚

03/19/2024

💚Blessed Ostara💚

03/17/2024

12/21/2023

Solstice Blessings, Sisters.

09/01/2023

Divine feminine focused women are by definition anti-patriarchy.

06/21/2023

Blessed Litha, happy Summer Solstice.

“Summer Solstice is a celebration of the Fullness of the Mother – in ourselves, in Earth, in the Cosmos. It is the ripening of Her manifestation, which fulfills itself in the awesome act of dissolution. It is a celebration of Communion, the Feast of Life – which is for the enjoying, not for the holding onto. I represent this Seasonal Moment on my Wheel of the Year with a horseshoe, because its yonic shape may represent Goddess’ “Great Gate”, Her gateway, as many cultures understood it, some building sacred sites in that shape. It is also the shape of the last letter of the Greek alphabet, Omega, literally ‘great O’, a great ending, a consummation. Summer Solstice is such a Gateway. At this interchange, the Virgin’s face has passed through the Mother into the Crone. The process of the three Seasonal Moments of Beltaine, Summer Solstice and Lammas, as a group, may be felt as the three faces of Cosmogenesis in the movement towards entropy.”
-Glenys Livingstone Ph.D., A Poiesis of the Creative Cosmos: Celebrating Her within PaGaian Sacred Ceremony – Girl God Books

Art by Victoria Lisi

05/28/2023

Patriarchal religions are based on a lie.

"Psychologist of religion Naomi Goldenberg has argued that a simple, basic, and fundamental lie must be maintained for patriarchy to function. This lie is the denial of the womb that gives us birth. The lie of patriarchy tells us that the Father is the only true parent. Its corollary is that whatever the father does is justified because he is the Father. Goldenberg argues that the lie of patriarchy is contrary to fact and experience. Everyone knows that it is the Mother who gives birth. There can be very little doubt about who the mother is, while the identity of the father can always be questioned. But if the lie of patriarchy is so obvious, why is it believed? Why doesn't the audience laugh when Apollo and Athena speak nonsense? Why have whole cultures believed that powerful women are monsters and dragons who must be slain because they are the source of sin and evil in the world? Goldenberg's answer is simple. We believe the patriarchal lie because it is 'performed,' repeated, reenacted, read, told, sung, and taught again and again in so many contexts that we finally accept it as true."

~ Carol P. Christ, "Rebirth of the Goddess: Finding Meaning in Feminist Spirituality"

Art: "And you will be like God" - Liz Darling Art

05/22/2023

Wake up, Danville, Illinois. Mayor Rickey Williams is trying to establish The Republic of Gilliad.

05/22/2023

This is the mission.