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Changing Woman
The Myth and Collective Remembrance
Myth and remembrance draw us to the energy of Changing
Woman who is known to all Native Americans by many names:
White Painted Woman, White Shell Woman, Corn Maiden, First
Woman. Changing Woman represents our connection to the
divine feminine, to our irresistible, unmistakable conceptive
energy. Her persona can be found woven in the archetypes
of all communities as the pre-eminent Mother, who sustains
us through Earth’s bounty. Birthing Grandmother possesses
the abilities to merge with her younger selves, to renew
her cycles of magic and mystery with the gift of strength and
the power of cycles.
According to Navajo or Dine myth, Great Spirit guided Changing
Woman to create the menarche ceremony for young women, to
instruct them in the mystery of Change and the rites of womanhood.
We call upon these important traditions to resurrect and re-member
ourselves as women and to heal our community.
Changing Woman, whose name can be translated to mean “the
woman who is transformed time and time again,” was chosen
as the metaphor for the Changing Woman Sisterhood. We strive
to minister to women, to nurture their own inner knowing,
teach them to remember, heal and strengthen connection to their
essential self.
The Changing Woman Sisterhood is dedicated to the peace and
harmony essential to the perpetuation of all living species
and to the soul growth of all women who have forgotten or who
never knew the majesty and power of the goddess within.
The Changing Woman Sisterhood offers experiential weekend
programs in the Spring and Fall of each year. The first
weekend is “The Changing Woman Initiation” and the second
is “Healing the Wounded Heart.” Both experiences are designed
to explore profound, and enduring inner relationships between
mother and child, and man and woman.
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