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Ahavah Ariel Sacred ArtsClass starting Wednesday!Details: 6 online sessions, April 16-May 21, 2025, Wednesdays 5:30-7:30pm Pacific/ 8:30-10:30 Eastern    Tickets are by donation, all are welcome!   We will have live ASL interpretation and automated captioning.    The ritual will be recorded and emailed, for those who can not attend live.Registration: <a href="https://earthactivisttraining.org/magic-for-challenging-times/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://earthactivisttraining.org/magic-for-challenging-times/</a><a href="https://handmade.social/tags/Starhawk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Starhawk</a> <a href="https://handmade.social/tags/Magick" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Magick</a> <a href="https://handmade.social/tags/Ritual" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ritual</a> <a href="https://handmade.social/tags/Mysticism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mysticism</a> <a href="https://handmade.social/tags/Activism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Activism</a> <a href="https://handmade.social/tags/Tarot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Tarot</a> <a href="https://handmade.social/tags/Magic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Magic</a> <a href="https://handmade.social/tags/Goddess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Goddess</a> <a href="https://handmade.social/tags/Grounding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Grounding</a> <a href="https://handmade.social/tags/Meditation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Meditation</a> <a href="https://handmade.social/tags/Pagan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Pagan</a> <a href="https://handmade.social/tags/Ceremony" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ceremony</a>

StrypeyIf you haven't read a novel called The Fifth Sacred Thing, written by a peace activist called Starhawk, now would be a good time. I'm planning to get hold of a copy and read it again, along with the prequel and sequel novels, which I only recently learned about.It's about how a nonviolent solarpunk community resists invasion by a brutal and expanding authoritarian empire. Due warning, unless you're made of stone, you will cry while reading.<a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/novels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#novels</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/SciFi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SciFi</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/Starhawk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Starhawk</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/peace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#peace</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/NVDA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NVDA</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/NonViolence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NonViolence</a>

StrypeyFYI Starhawk is the author of a powerful proto-solarpunk novel called The Fifth Sacred Thing, which I highly recommend. There was an attempt to make a film version about a decade ago, which produced this proto video;"Tell your enemies this; there is a place set for you at our table, if you will choose to join us."<a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/StarHawk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#StarHawk</a>, 2013<a href="https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=lROCSDQg9WM" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=lROCSDQg9WM</a>TBH one film couldn't do justice to this story. You'd need a trilogy, or maybe a steaming series.

Strypey"In a healthy group, power is balanced by responsibility—that is, people earn power by taking on and fulfilling responsibilities. And when people take on responsibilities, they are empowered by the group to carry them out."<a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/Starhawk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Starhawk</a>, 2016<a href="https://www.ic.org/social-permaculture-what-is-it/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.ic.org/social-permaculture-what-is-it/</a>In Uncle Ben's famous warning to a young Peter Parker;"With great power comes great responsibility."What Starhawk is saying is that the opposite is equally true. If you want more influence, take on more responsibility.

Strypey"Christopher Alexander and his group of architects, back in the ’70s, compiled the groundbreaking book A Pattern Language, which looks at the built environment from a city scale down to the décor on your house walls in terms of the human relations that structures and spaces elicit."<a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/Starhawk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Starhawk</a>, 2016<a href="https://www.ic.org/social-permaculture-what-is-it/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.ic.org/social-permaculture-what-is-it/</a>AFAIK this is where digital design pattern thinking comes from too (eg Dark Patterns).<a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/PatternLanguage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PatternLanguage</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/ChristopherAlexander" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ChristopherAlexander</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/architecture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#architecture</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/Psychogeography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Psychogeography</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/DarkPatterns" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DarkPatterns</a>

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