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January 2013

January 30, 2013

Wednesday Wisdom: The gates of life and death

How close is birth to death? What can death teach us about birth?

January 28, 2013

All about my Birth book

"I want to give kudos to the author for writing a text that recognizes that...

January 25, 2013

Community wisdom for the NICU

After Niki's review last week of Pagan Parenting in the NICU, there was some great...

January 24, 2013

Midwife’s Invocation

Opening ourselves to the spirit of compassion, inspired by a Midwife's Invocation.

January 23, 2013

Wednesday Wisdom: Mothers, fathers, and grandmothers

What makes a person a mother? A father? A grandmother? A grandfather? Are mothers and...

January 22, 2013

Body Blessing to and from the Mother

Feet planted solidly on Mother Earth Drawing up Solid Gaia energy

January 15, 2013

Reviewing ‘Pagan Parenting in the NICU’

Janet Callahan has written a short pamphlet with advice for Pagan parents dealing with a...

January 10, 2013

December link round-up

On Twitter, Google+, and especially Facebook, I share lots of links and things associated with...

January 09, 2013

Wednesday Wisdom: Birthing bodies

Birthing bodies: What is this body? What can it do? What does it mean to...

January 02, 2013

Wednesday Wisdom: Altered states

A weekly Wednesday Wisdom post with two or three profound or beautiful thoughts on a...

December 2012

December 31, 2012

My favorite posts of 2012

It's fun to look back over the blog posts of 2012. This was the year...

December 27, 2012

How you envision birth at the deepest level

Birth art can be meditative, relaxing, problem solving and fun. You don’t have to be...

December 19, 2012

Wednesday Wisdom: Sacred Space

A weekly Wednesday Wisdom post with two or three profound or beautiful thoughts on a...

December 17, 2012

Dar a luz on Solstice

When we light the candles, and tell the story of the Mother goddess pushing out...

December 13, 2012

Holidays After Loss: Spirit Babies Ceremony

Perhaps for the first time, we were not alone facing our grief. Isa said to...

November 2012

November 20, 2012

Guardian of the Womb

By Molly Sometimes for me the Goddess is a symbol—of my own personal power, of...

November 15, 2012

There is a crack in everything

"I have always believed in the need to acknowledge life's darkness in order to fully...

October 2012

October 29, 2012

From the editor’s desk: Samhain

‎Let yourself love and be loved by your Ancestors, your Mighty Dead, your Beloved Dead,...

July 2012

July 23, 2012

30 days of peace

By Janet Callahan Not every pregnancy goes according to plan. After 5 years of on-again,...

May 2012

May 31, 2012

A big week at Pagan Families

I totally missed that Pagan Families turned one year old last weekend. I have a...

April 2012

April 24, 2012

Book Review: Pagan Pregnancy

It is important to think of pregnancy as a process, not a condition... pregnancy changes...

February 2012

February 27, 2012

Birth Guardians: Ben Houshour

Today we continue the series profiling people who work with pregnancy, birth, or the postpartum...

February 07, 2012

Ten Moons: The Inner Journey of Pregnancy, Preparation for Natural Birth

A review by Niki Whiting I admit I am completely intrigued by the idea of...

January 2012

January 26, 2012

CDC data: home birth on the rise

The CDC released new data today on home births in the U.S., finding that "the...

January 16, 2012

Birth Guardians: Jane Hardwicke Collings

This is the first in a new series, inspired by Radical Doula Profiles, profiling people...

January 11, 2012

Review: Birthrites

Birth is the archetypal rite of passage for a woman, containing the essential elements of...

October 2011

October 20, 2011

The Pagan Health Survey on Pagan pregnancies

Here's the part that's particularly relevant for Pagans having babies. An enormous 96.9% of respondents...

September 2011

September 15, 2011

Responding to Ina May: The sacred is multiple

Like Gaskin, I feel the sacred in some of our most basic biological processes: in...

September 14, 2011

Responding to Ina May: Not a universal experience

Editor’s note: I asked some of our regular contributors to each respond to a quote...

September 13, 2011

Responding to Ina May: I was The Goddess at that moment

Editor's note: This week we're trying something new. I asked some of our regular contributors...