feminist history – Moonzie Momma

From The Goddess Companion May 10

A group of women in 19th-century Shaker attire, wearing bonnets and long dresses, dancing in a circle within a simple, sunlit wooden room.

~May 10 Oh, I love Mother, I love her power, I know it helps in every trying hour.Help me to shake off, help me to break off, Help me to shake off every bond and fear. —American Shaker song In nineteenth-century America, a new religion arose called the Shakers. Its […]

From The Goddess Companion May 7

An elderly woman and a young girl sit on a blanket in a blooming spring meadow, cradling a small green sapling together under a flowering tree.

~ May 7 Mother, you carried me for nine long months.Mother, you carried me for nine long months and gave birth in an hour.Mother, you carried me for nine long months and bore me and raised me to be kind and fair and generous.Mother, you carried me for nine long […]