Embracing Female Fierceness

Our Determined Struggle

Leaping over the barriers of time, space and custom.

Into strengths forged by strife.

Women we are coming.

Unbinding the imagery fed by industry,

We seek to define our own truest selves;

Separating from artificial roles and cultural boundaries;

Women we are coming. 

Grasping our fates that determine the world,

Challenging dictates that conform and oppress,

Controlling the energy that creates life.

Women we are coming.

copyright T.Truesdale 

The Fate of the World

The fate of the world

Is in the hands holding female energy;

That seeks to balance Earth

From the pillage of resources,

Destruction of the environment,

Murder of others…

It is time to come forward,

 Women of all cultures, all ages;

And rejoin all the fibers of the damaged elements

Reweaving the weft and warp of the world

Connecting all, into the future foretold.

ToniTruesdale.com

T.Truesdale copyright 2016

Women of Power:

Celtic Morgana; War and Peace

The Ancient Divine Female

Held War and Peace

Dark and Light

Night and Day

Life, Death, Rebirth

Within the cycles of the seasons, passages of initiation

She holds in her sacred hands...

The Imprint of the human species is female;

Women are the source of life.

Within each female is the vital essence, water of the womb;

Our fecundity is the renewal of the generations.

Each Woman reflects the great Mother Earth

In ancient Egypt the ankh is the symbol of Water, Woman

and Life, Eternal.

“Cycles and Seasons”

By Toni Truesdale

The recurrence of the seasons continue to encircle our lives,

Just as it gave celebrations to our ancestors.

Spring Equinox, Summer Solstice,

Fall Equinox, and Winter Solstice

Mark those passages in a yearly cycle all over the world.

We have learned to plant food and medicines

According to the agricultural calendar.

We dance in a circle to celebrate the planting,

Harvest, and the storing of food.

Buildings, monuments, and spiritual spaces have been built

To align with the celestial movements that determine

The four seasons at the point of each transition.

“Harvest”

Fall Equinox

Corn to the Americas is a sacred staple,

Native farmers cultivated over 500 varieties before 1492.

Tomatoes, beans, potatoes,

Chocolate, chili, squash, peppers

Avocado, vanilla, cashews, blueberries..

Are just a few foods from  indigenous gardens.

Foods of the Americas feed the world.

T. Truesdale copyright 2005

“The Sacredness of Water”

We  inhabit the Blue Planet;

Waters ebbing and flowing,

Necessary for all life.

The Ancestors knew the

Sacredness of the waters.

They drank water every day

And, made soothing herbal teas,

Using the traditional knowledge

Of the natural world

Passed down through generations.

The ancestors remembered to give thanks

To all the elements, medicinal and food plants

That nurture and heal.

Today, we can honor

Those that came before us;

By remembering the Earth,

Our Mother,

The Blue Planet

Full of beautiful waters.

Truesdale copyright 2010

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“Women are breaking through the bitter darkness,

Caused by centuries of patriarchal domination after stealing the Mother Right.

Millennia of struggle, against poverty, plagues,

Disease, persecution, inquisition, rape, genocide, slavery, feudalism, imperialism...

The last one hundred years of unprecedented toll on human life:

Europe, Hiroshima, Africa, Indochina,

Central and South America,

Balkan wars, the Mideast....

The continued destruction of indigenous cultures, spirituality, languages;

The extinction of species;

Poisoning of the planet.

Women need to come forward to rebalance the forces of life with the children of the world. May we will speak in one unified multicultural voice of peace, preservation and protection.

And we will break through....”

“Women Breaking Through” was featured on the cover of WEMoon Datebook 2007

Women Breaking Through

women and wars

Women of Troy

by Toni Truesdale

If we could relook at recorded history

We might see violence in actuality

For war was never an anomaly

But an established heritage.

Atmospheric metaphors of

Bloody aggression

Fill archaic epics of tragedy

Words describe vivid exploits of blood

Weigh in simplistic heroic glory

Subtle crafting of patriarchal theology

Create the continuing spiral

Oppression of all living things., esp. femininity.

Destroys the “other”

Vilifying victims.

Who, in turn, rise up in eventuality

The mimicry learned

To terrorize too, in

The cycles of destruction

Could we see the futility of male conquest and beyond

Through the eyes of women?

Who see immediately the true cost of forceful power.

And reverse the emulation of annihilation