If Women Rose Rooted : A Journey to Authenticity and Belonging

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We are guided deftly on a life-changing journey from the wasteland of modern society to a place of nourishment and connection.

Sharon is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and has taught and lectured at several academic institutions, Jungian organisations, retreat centres and cultural festivals around the world. I don't think Blackie really made these three ideas into a cohesive whole, and the book got more predictable with every page. She dreams of a night sky from which the stars have not fled in horror, and of wild-pawed, stinking foxes yapping in a moonlit wood. I was born in the north-east of England, a Celt through and through: my family and ancestry is both Scottish and Irish, and I was raised on an imaginatively rich diet of Irish myth, poetry, music and history. I found it so life-giving, filled with beautiful Celtic stories and the stories of women leading healing lives, helping others, rooted in the land.This is the "antidote to the swashbuckling adventure that is the hero's journey: it is a woman's journey, based on a woman's way of being in the world". Most women experience major change in these middle years: physical change or professional; social or psychological; changes in our family and our relationships. While I'm all up for this kinda stuff and was interested in what the author had to say, in the end I just found it too long and way too baggy - an edit would have been good. This is free download If Women Rose Rooted: The Power of the Celtic Woman by Sharon Blackie complete book soft copy. Sharon Blackie leads us on a quest to find our place in the world, drawing inspiration from powerful women in Celtic mythology and guidance from contemporary women re-rooting with the land and community.

The timing of this book seems to be particularly apt, as we witness the words and actions of the current U. I don't know, it seemed like a book I would like, and there was some food for thought but a lot of it just annoyed me. I love the green and the growing, the treasures of the hedgerows, and the always astonishing abundance of the land which surrounds me.This book marks the Rites of Passage we transition through in life and explores how these experiences may be painful and unauthentic for individuals in our contemporary culture. If Women Rose Rooted is a heroine's Journey to Authenticity and Belonging, a memoir examined in light of the feminine power in Celtic mythology.

Kate Forsyth | 'It is heartening to read a progressive view of the women's movement and one that links with care for the Earth and all living beings. All of us – both men and women – go through an intense period of re-evaluation, questioning, challenging, during this time in our lives. In this extraordinary book of myth, memoir and modern day mentors, Blackie faces the wasteland of Western culture, the repression of women, and the devastation of our planet.

I run online courses and residential retreats working with myth and storytelling to help people along their individual paths of transformation. Something opens up in me then – something soft and deep and glowing – which is far too shy to expose itself to the inexhaustible light of summer. I agree that the world is literally burning up because the patriarchy only allows for one half of the population to make decisions, and that without the voices of women nothing will change.

One cool thing you can do with Bookshelves is see which other members have read or want to read a certain book. Each chapter seemed to be split into three parts, an incredibly tedious and drawn out description, a somewhat interesting folklore story, and a fascinating personal exploration at the end.It made me feel that it's never to late to deepen our lives, my life, and a sense that life can be renewed at any stage. For many years I was a crofter, both in the far north-west Highlands of Scotland and in the Outer Hebrides, sandwiched between mountains and sea in one of the wildest and most remote places in the country. but that makes up like 20 pages of what is otherwise an unnecessarily long biography about a woman I don't know and wouldn't want to sit next to at a wedding.