“There are no mass meetings, only circles.”

— Starhawk

Bodhi Tree lecture (1999)
Context: I'm going to end with a vision I have for the winter solstice: There are bonfires everywhere strung along the beaches, blazing on twin peaks on all the high places. In the parks and on rooftops small groups gather around cauldrons. There are no mass meetings, only circles.

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American author, activist and Neopagan 1951

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