Through her writing, workshops, public rituals and activism she actively honors life s sacred things air, fire, water, and earth even going so far as to put her life on the line in civil disobedience to protest nuclear power plants or the logging of the last remaining old-growth redwoods in northern California. In her classic text on wicca, The Spiral Dance, Starhawk speaks about magic and power, explaining the link between having the personal power to keep even the smallest commitments in one s life and the ability to work with magic in larger spheres. When we drop the barriers and let power pour through, it floods the body, pulsing through every nerve, arousing every artery, coursing like a river that cleanses as it moves. In the eye of the storm, we rise on the winds that roar through mind and body, throbbing a liquid note as the voice pours out shimmering honey in waves of golden light, that as they pass, leave peace. No drug can take us so high, no thrill pierce us so deep because we have felt the essence of all delight, the heart of joy, the end of desire.
Energy is love, and love is magic.
I also see that women have not come into as much power with as I would have liked to see after the lifetime I've spent as a feminist. I think, in general, men are still listened to more and taken more seriously, and I've also seen, alas, that when women are in positions that allow us to wield power over, we behave no better than men. Then go for it. Devote your passion, your life energies, your work to it, and don't let anything deflect you or scare you or turn you aside. You ll live a life filled with passion and you ll make a difference to the world.