Art In Odd Places and The Golden Dome School PRESENT:
SHE HAS RISEN!
A Procession For the Goddess of Love
Friday the 13th, starting at 6pm
This project is made possible by support from the Foundation For Contemporary Arts
Beginning at 14th Street and 8th Avenue and winding our way toward Union Square, we will be carrying an effigy representing the Goddess of Love and proselytizing on behalf of the Sacred Feminine.
With sacred artists: Adolfo Ibanez Ayerve, Lily Benson, Anais Delsol, Catherine Feliz, Allison Halter, Nina Isabelle, Lenora Jayne, Grace Kredell, Kaitlyn LeBlang, Jennifer McDermott, Mollie McKinley, Loren Nosan, Samantha Rehark, Jean Rim, Adrian Shirk, Eliza Swann, Kim Tran, Emilia Turner, Tamara Wyndham, Alice Sparkly Kat, Jennifer Zackin
We define “feminine” not as a gender, but as a construct encompassing many aspects of our world that have been erased, conquered, and shamed such as: women, emotions, the body, creativity, sensitivity, care, interdependence, nurturance, and love. "She Has Risen" is a celebration of these things, as well as a rallying cry for us to care for each other during this time of climate change, political tension, and war.
"We give gratitude to the GODDESS OF LOVE, to the dust of stars that congealed into the body of this planet, our home, and that gives form and solidity to our bones and flesh. We honor the rocks and their long slow cycles. We give thanks to the living soil, and the billion creatures that haunt her caves and pores and chasms, to the beetles and the ants and the termites, to the soil bacteria swimming in the slick of water that clings to her mineral archways, to the worms, wriggling, eating, coupling, and transforming within her. We bless the plants, the roots and stems and boughs, the great trees reaching upward and the deep-rooted herbs pushing down, all who contribute to the cycles of birth and growth and death and decay that lead to NEW GROWTH. For THE GODDESS that feeds and sustains life, for all that grows, runs, leaps, and flies, we give thanks. Blessed be THE GODDESS OF LOVE.
Great forces of creativity, growth, and love, great inventive imagination that has grown the diversity of life, mystery of the unfolding of form from energy, great powers of the trees and the grasses, the sunlight and the rain, great currents that move the continents and tides of the ocean, we send you love and gratitude and ask for your help. DEAR GODDESS OF LOVE - HELP US TO OVERTHROW ALL TOXIC CAPITALISTIC SYSTEMS OF GREED AND EXPLOITATION IN FAVOR OF LIFE AND LOVE FOR THE BENEFIT OF ALL BEINGS. HELP US END ALL WAR AND ALL HIERARCHY. LOVE IS THE GATEWAY TO PARADISE. LOVE IS YOUR WAY. It seems impossible. It seems beyond human strength. Please lend us some of your power. Open our eyes and ears to inspiration. Release the obstacles that confront us, and draw in the resources, the luck, the ideas, and the energies that we need. Help us to succeed beyond our expectations for the restoration of Earth's health and bounty and the reinstatement of human harmony with all of creation. BLESSED IS LIFE AND LOVE. BLESSED AM I. SHE HAS RISEN. SHE IS LOVE. SHE IS HERE. I HAVE RISEN. I AM LOVE. I AM HERE. *prayer based on Starhawk's BLESSINGS from her book "The Earth Path"
