During these times of rapid change and uncertainty, it is the wise women at the edge of the forest, communing with the nature spirits, embodying the elements and building altars to the goddess that keep the hearth fires burning, the stories circulating, the sacred well songs bellowing.

We are the wise women, keepers of the wild places.

Our bodies contain the depth of mystery and infinite vital creation.

While the Man works to keep us down, we dance to keep the divine feminine alight. This is our power, this is our purpose, this is our emergence.

We call on a new world, a Great Turning, one in which women and the Earth are honored, cared for and in balance.

We call on Mother Earth to show us the way. We call on each other for support.

Let's return to the forest together and recall our wild souls. We will draw on the energy of the New Moon to guide what is emerging in us, and steer what is emerging in the world, to care for ourselves and each other, so we may return with blooming hope, grounded energy and mud under our nails.