The Mahdi Times The Mahdi Times Issue #25 December 2014 | Page 49

Sacred Women’s Circle
By Karin

We can speculate that many
moons ago in ancient Druid times,
the Ovate Wise Woman would
have met other women quietly
around a fire at night. They might
have shared knowledge of the
blood mysteries, the secrets of the
unseen world of the spirits and the
healing qualities of herbs. Across
the Atlantic Ocean, Native
American women would have
pretty much done the same,
sitting together in the Moon
Lodge whilst the moon was dark.

Women from many lands,
cultures, religions and walks of
life have come together since the
beginning of humankind in small
groups to talk about themselves
and their families as well as about
issues which face us in wider
society, those of poverty, viole