Table of Contents
I Want You to Know xiii
It's Happening xv
Tools for Your Rising xvi
Part I My Story
The Unbinding 2
The Wise Women 3
Work Baby 5
Shakti Rising 7
Imramma: British Isles 9
Making It in a Man's World 11
Imramma: Petra 13
Imramma: Wadi Rum 15
The Crumbling 16
Shakti Rising II 17
Imramma: Santa Fe 20
Freeing My Voice 22
No Longer Sustainable 24
Returning to Avalon 27
Merlin's Cave 29
White Springs Ritual 31
Healing the Female Line 38
The Chain 39
Part II Birthing A New Age
We Were Made for These Times 45
Shakti Always Rises 48
The Holy Grail Is Within You 50
Returning 52
The Mystery of Woman 53
When One Woman Heals 54
A New Paradigm of Change 56
The Never-ending Process of Rising 58
Transformation and Recalibration 61
Of All That Fails and Rises and Rises and Falls 63
Shattering to Set Yourself Free 64
A New Matrix 65
With Every New Breath 66
Reclaiming Herstory, and the Shadow of Patriarchy 67
A Prayer for Her Rising 72
Balancing the Masculine and Feminine in You 74
Goodbye to the Good Girl 76
Let's Burn the Archetypes 78
You Don't Get to Say Who I Am 81
Own Who You Are 83
Embracing Your 'Too Much' 85
It's OK to Soften 88
Divine Mother 89
Old Identities and What's No Longer Sustainable 90
Grandmother Moon 93
Part III Remembering Our Cyclic Nature
You Are Spirit Earthed 97
You'll Find Your True Nature in Nature 99
When Whispers Turn into Shouts 103
Whispers from Mother Earth 104
Your Relationship with the Seasons 105
Honoring Your Inner Rhythm 107
The Mystery of She 109
Your Monthly Cycle as Your Teacher 110
The Four Stages of Womanhood and Unlocking the Power of Your Period 114
Being Human Is Hard 120
It's Your Humanness That Inspires Me 122
Pray into the Anxiety 123
Pleasure Not Pressure 125
Mother Earth Is Busy Weaving the Threads of Your Life 127
Held 128
Leading from the Feminine 131
A Life's Work, Not a Season 133
Filling Up Your Well 134
Healing the Mother Line 137
Breaking the Chain 139
The Importance of Ritual 140
Journeying to Sacred Places 145
Part IV Unbinding the Wise, Wild Woman
The Suppression of the Female Voice 149
The Mystic Always Rises 151
Finding Mary 152
The Return of the Magdalenes 154
Unbound, Unbound, Forever Unbound 157
Spiritual Closets 160
Reclaiming 'Witch' (The Natural Witch) 163
Healers, We Need You 165
Set Your Soul's Voice Free 167
Ritual: Releasing Vows of Silence and Calling Back Your Power 168
Soul Stories 170
Past Lives and Unshackling Your Soul 171
You Can Be Scared and Still Be Safe 174
Let Shakti Sing You (The Power of Chanting) 176
The Most Powerful Sound Current 178
Tell the Truth About Your Life 180
Your Life Is Your Message 181
What Is Yours to Do? 183
You Are Boundless 185
Untangle Yourself 186
The Unclaimed Shadow 188
We Have a Lot to Be Angry About 189
Divine Mother Durga Ma 191
Channeling Your Inner Kali 192
Control Freak Tendencies 194
Dark Mother Kali Ma 195
All of Your Feelings Are Holy 197
How Do Your Subtle Bodies Most Like to Move? 201
Letting Shakti Dance You 204
Choosing to Be Here Now 207
I Got Body 210
You Do Not Get to Determine My Worth 213
Ritual: Calling Back Your Power 216
Part V Redefining Sisterhood
The Reunion 219
The Ones Who Came Before Us 220
When Women Circle 222
Your Constellation of Sisters 224
Calling in Your Sisters 225
Genuine Sisterhood 227
Can You Hold Space for Another? 229
The New Form of Persecution 230
Is She Mad at Me? 232
Who Triggers You? 234
Why Jealousy Is a Good Thing 235
There Is No Competition 236
Raise Them Up Don't Cut Them Down 238
Don't Put Another on a Pedestal 239
Acknowledge Your Sisters 240
Your Inner Circle 241
Your Support Team 243
The Women Who Came Before You 244
We Are the Marguerites, the Magdalenes, and the Crones 247
Part VI Doing the Work
What Is Rising in You? 251
Rising Feminine Archetypes 252
New World Rising Birthed by You 255
Let the Universe Use You 257
Be a Clear Channel 259
A Prayer for Times of Remembering 260
It's Not Your Job to Save the World 261
The Age of the Struggling Artist and Healer Is Over 263
You Can't Buy Devotion 265
The Creative Process Is an Act of Faith 267
Keeping Your Work and Creations Potent 269
Create What Is Yours to Create 271
Self-care Before Service (No More Wounded Healers) 272
Beloved Mother Mary 273
Be OK with Where You Are 274
Create for You and You Alone 275
Don't Believe Your Own PR 278
You Don't Need Saving 280
Lightworkers Gotta Work 282
Unfollow and Lead 284
Don't Look Behind You 286
What Would Make the Best Chapter? 288
Ritual: Plant Your Prayers 289
You Have Been Called 290
Being the Change Before It Is the Norm 293
The Initiation 295
Rise Sister Rise 297
Keep on Rising 300
Acknowledgments 301
About the Author 303
