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‘INITIATION INTO DAUGHTERS OF GAIA MYSTERY’
With

Jasmin Starrchild

? Medicine Woman
? Red Tent Facilitator
? Founder and creator at RED MOON Medicine Movement
www.goldendove.net
Ever since I was a child I have heard a voice within the Earth. She is alive and I have always known
this, but as a child it is not something one can easily put into words. Over the years I learned to listen
to that voice, which appears as thought in my own mind. It would come to me as guidance and I found
great wisdom and teachings when I truly listened.

During times of sadness I would leave the people to be alone and go off into nature
seeking solace. It was later in life that I realized I was never alone… for She was always
there; it was Her I was turning to.
As a young woman I began to question the way we were living in the world. The ways we treated each
other and how we discarded items so absentmindedly seemed so immature and selfish to me. I
struggled to understand certain systems that had been put in place and why there were no
alternatives to these ways. None of this resonated with my ancient soul that remembers the way it
was. I became deeply inspired to inquire WHY?
I looked up to that place I dream of as Source and asked, repeatedly.
To my joyful surprise I always received a satisfying answer. My curious mind led me to explore
metaphysics and older pagan belief systems in order to explain some of the innate connections we
have to nature. I learned of the Moon, its timing and how that affects the planet, I learned of quantum
mechanics, otherworldly beings, true stories of our history and ways of living in this world that are
rarely spoken of. So many teachings came to me through simply following my curious heart.
In 1999 I parted ways with my fiancé, took off my diamond ring and replaced it with a Moonstone ring
telling myself I was going to figure out what this ‘Goddess’ was that I keep reading about. A few weeks
later my father died and I turned powerfully inward, spending lots of time exploring magic and its
potential to help me access alternate realms.
This is when I took my first Initiation to serve Her, the Goddess, that omnipotent, all loving force
that lifted me up inspiring me to live with purpose.

On this path life makes sense. The initiation was about
proclaiming my truth and dedicating my life to Goddess.

It was a rite of passage, a marking of the choice I had
made to live in service. Saying ‘Yes’ to the alternative… even
though that meant living a life others may not understand.
Daughter of Gaia © Jasmin Starrchild
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