The Sacred Sexual Roots of Easter

In pre-Christianized Europe, this spring festival time was dedicated to the Goddess of Renewal, Ostara. It is from her name that the word Easter derives, as well as the word East, the direction of the rising sun. She is the shining one, the goddess that brings renewal, rebirth, fertility and abundance. Many of her symbols--eggs, the rabbit, flowers, sweets--are incorporated into the Christian festival which co-opted her name.

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Winter Solstice Cake

A rich buttery spirit-filled cake for the holy days, made grainfree/sugar free. Almost keto except for the essential presence of dried fruit soaked in port and rum.

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Carla Sanders
Why You Need the Cosmic Orgasm

The Goddess Vesta is an archetype of two apparently contradictory energies: your spiritual calling and your inner erotic fire. These are only contradictory in modern times. Our ancestors knew that there is no separation between our erotic being and our spiritual being.

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Carla Sanders
My Top Three Values

I live by my expansive and liberating values of Freedom, Sovereignty, and Pleasure. Everything I do, think, say, or create is measured by alignment with these three values.

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Expand Your Capacity for Bliss

“When our problems become too big for us our healthiest response is to expand our capacities . . . We become deeper, kinder to ourselves and others, and grow more capable of bliss.”

When I read these words, it dawned on me: This is what I do!

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Carla Sanders
Find the Jewel in Shame

HAVE YOU FOUND THE JEWEL IN YOUR SHAME?
A month ago on the longest night of the year, I took a walk as dusk began to enfold the woods. The message came:

There is a JEWEL IN YOUR SHAME.

WAIT. PAUSE. BREATHE.

I know you don't want to read about shame. I am commanded to write it, by the Goddess who adores you and calls you to her!

Shame doesn't want me to write this article, which I started a month ago!

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Hoodathunkit?!

One year ago I was beginning the grueling process of getting my old farmhouse ready to put on the market. 

I was beginning the hard emotional work of letting go of 24 years of my home, my family, my late husband, my successes, and some broken dreams and failures along the way. 

I didn't know what what coming... whether Charlie and I would stay together, whether I would have the money to live, a home somewhere, or a room in someone's attic. 

(I can get melodramatic when facing big change!)

Now a year later, I can look back on a magical, blessed year!

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Carla Sanders