Two more months till Gathering the Goddesses
Sept 5-7th in La Honda
I have produced nine Goddess festivals in the woods, but the last time in ‘03 we didn’t get enough women to attend. This has discouraged me. Where is the new generation? Where is generation Z?
I promised myself … No more festivals unless I have a producing staff to fill the beds. “Oh I help! I Help!” They cried. But “they” didn’t know how, and teaching them is the same as doing it. Good will is not enough. You need computer savvy and relentless pursuit of advertising.
Why are women no longer aggressive? I aged out of this category. Back in the younger years I could write and produce at the same time. How does one develop producers? Only by producing. Doing is learning.
I have missed doing those splendid […]
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The 13 year old girl who silenced the world at the United Nations for 5 minutes.
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If mothers were loved, not just profited from …
I am just now feeling the aftermath of Mother’s Day. The day comes long heralded by TV commercials and ideas what to do for Moms, this year my telephone company put a commercial on my phone line, before I get to reach the person I am calling, this voice comes up taunting me: have you decided what you are going to do for Mothers yet? If not, here is an idea… blah.
My own mother is long dead. When she was alive we didn’t make too much about mothers day in Hungary, its more popular now, but back then under the ugly commies, Mother’s Day was just a private matter. You did it on your own time. Flowers. Kisses. Movie tickets. May be theater. A lovely shawl. Today following in the bad old capitalists example, mothers are […]
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Feminist Politics
Don’t call Susun Weed that name, it’s reserved only to friends of long, long standing. Like thirty years. I’ve called her Weedie for a long time out of sheer affection for this wild woman who walks the green walk. Her place is near Woodstock, it’s set outside in the green rocky fields, trees and millions of singing frogs.
When she picks me up at the airport, after 12 hours of grueling transit, I am tired. Its usually late, she takes me for an hour drive and installs me in that little house in the Nettle Patch. It has turned into Tulip Patch of hot red and yellow flowers.
My room is decorated with just some flowers, a good bed, and there I can exhale at last.
As the night grows deeper I can hear the Leopard frogs begin their rehearsal. They just bring […]
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Seasonal
An old friend came to visit today. Such joy. An old friend who knew me when we both were young. She scaled the stairs a bit slow this time, not the old Olympic contender swimmer as before. Her joints a bit achy. She arrived, but not out of breath. We embraced.
You look so much better than the last time! I confessed.
Thank you, she said.
We sat on my couch. She was once in love with me. I thought many of our contemporaries didn’t make into the third destiny. We called out the names of friends who passed away. It made us feel very special suddenly, like survivors guilt, how come we are still standing? After all we are still in the sixties, pushing seventy. Not so old if you think about it. Sixty-eight must be the new fifty-eight. Who knows? Doesn’t matter. […]
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Musings
Take my eyes off the computer, take back my feelings from watching the elections, put down my research materials, its spring time!
The main event in my front yard was the blooming pink flowers of the decoration plumb tree. She who enchants me every year by throwing pink petals in my path, falling from the tree like snowflakes.
My front yard is self-planted.
Some flowers are very imperialistically inclined. One spring there were just a few firepoker flowers, ill named for sure, they look more like orchids, in brick red. The next year they have colonized the entire front yard, and a year later they moved all the way down to the sidewalk.
I have noticed that my Morning Glories are also into expansion. I have planted one bush in the backyard to have something nice run up, on my aging old bamboo hedges. I watered […]
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Seasonal
URGENT: Halt Woman’s Execution for ‘Witchcraft’
To Those Who Share Our Deep Concern:
Please join us in calling for the immediate pardon and release of FAWZA FALIH [DEL:Falwah Faliz], a Saudi Arabian woman who has been sentenced to death by beheading for the alleged crime[DEL:s] of “witchcraft.” As Human Rights Watch has declared, the conviction of Fawza Falih is a travesty of justice.
A letter to His Royal Highness KING ABDULLAH has been drafted and signed by clergy and members of various faith traditions. The letter may be read online where you may also sign it. Please do so as soon as possible at:
http://www.petitiononline.com/AIDFAWZA/petition.html
Please help to circulate this request for support as widely as possible — time is of the essence.
Further information on the case is available at:
CNN Reports Saudi Witch Case
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/world/2008/02/15/verjee.saudi.witchcraft.cnn
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH Saudi Arabia: Fawza Falih’s Case Reveals Deep
Flaws in Saudi Justice System
http://hrw.org/english/docs/2008/02/14/saudia18051.htmT
To read the letter from Human Rights Watch to King Abdullah:
http://hrw.org/english/docs/2008/02/13/saudia18046.htm
BBC News Pleas for condemned Saudi
‘witch’http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_ east/7244579.stm
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I was interviewed today by Jennifer Lee, director / producer, who is making a documentary called Wavelength.
It chronicles the Second Wave Feminist Movement.
Wavelength is a documentary film by Jennifer Lee about the women’s liberation movement (1965 - 1977). As clips become available, I’ll post them for you.
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Interviews
Blessings,Dianic women from the east coast have been asking when and where Z Budapest will be appearing, and we wanted to let you know that she will be in Woodstock, New York in May 2008. Here’s the scoop!
Zsuzsanna BudapestGoddess Teach-In of the Holy Book of Women’s Mysteries
May 2 -4, 2008Woodstock, NY
Goddess Teach-In of the Holy Book of Women’s Mysteries
We are Gathering the Goddesses, a journey through shared experience and discussions of philosophy and practice of the Goddess Path. Where did the Women’s Spirituality Movement begin? Rediscover The Holy Book of Women’s Mysteries … the book that changed the minds and hearts of American women … applauded widely in historical accounts of the Feminist Movement. But do you actually know what’s in this book? Why is it so effective? How it came to be birthed? And, behind the scenes personal stories that shaped Feminist Spirituality and the world.
Z Budapest talks intimately about her origins, Feminist Spirituality and the women who participated in it. Join Z as she shares the stories and concepts through new eyes and extended experiences. She will bring you to a deeper and more inspired journey to rediscovering the Goddess within.
Z Budapest is the foremother of the Women’s Spirituality Movement, founder of the Feminist Dianic Tradition and a hereditary witch from a long line of Hungarian witches and healers.
Z Budapest will talk about the origins of this work, and the women who participated in it. Together you’ll reread the Manifesto of the Susan B Anthony Coven Number 1 with the woman who channeled it, you’ll read the Shaman Women’s Songs, and journey through the Holy Book with new eyes.
Mysterious woman, you are magic. Come spin spells with me, learn the hidden passages of your power, face your fears, make your dreams real, and reclaim yourself as Goddess and Witch.
The Holy Book was written when the majority of the new fangled spirituality had to come from far, far away, and when the then gurus were always men of color. Women served the herbal teas, the men preached and got rich. Into this milieu came Women’s Spirituality. No gurus, hardly any money was involved, and all women were welcome. And the teachings were an eclectic mix of global choices of white people’s paganism, and all nations paganism. Integrated into one cohesive practical common-sense spirituality which allied Women’s Spirituality with the Universe.
As Florence Nightingale once asked in her diary: Could there be ever a religion whose essence is common sense?” We answered a resounding Yes. That’s what the Holy Book contains even today.
At the end we do the Self-Blessings Ritual, together, in front of a mirror skyclad. (It leaves you with a major impression)
3 days: $500. $100 deposit.Register online: http://www.ashtreepublishing.com/bookshop/proddetail.php?prod=902a or via mail, to: Wise Woman Center PO Box 64 Woodstock NY 12498
Zsuzsanna Budapest - “grandmother of the goddess movement” - has led rituals, lectured, taught classes, given workshops, written articles tirelessly, and published in hundreds of women’s newspapers across the country for many decades. She has powerfully influenced many of the future teachers and writers about the Goddess.
Z Budapest wrote The Holy Book of Women’s Mysteries which was originally published in 1975 as The Feminist Book of Lights and Shadows. This book served as the first hands-on book to lead women into their own spiritual/Goddess heritage.
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