“The Spiral Dance is a seed planted twenty years ago.”

— Starhawk

Bodhi Tree lecture (1999)
Context: The Spiral Dance is a seed planted twenty years ago. Over the last two decades, the goddess movement has grown from many seeds like a garden of long-life flowers and healing herbs. It's a big garden — I've tended only one corner of it.

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American author, activist and Neopagan 1951

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