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ample waist in order that all the smaller dolls fit inside. With
immense satisfaction I played with their glossy little bodies, taking
them apart (some of them, all of them), arranging them in patterns,
returning them to their sisters' bellies, and counting them with all
the dreamy keenness of a miser with her gold.

My seven Goddess principles feel like those Russian nesting dolls as I
fondle their intricacies and imagine how they may fit together. The
principles seem not hierarchical but concentric in relation to each
other. The most flexible concept of the Goddess's totality of light
and dark seems like the mama doll that holds within her all the other
concepts. Like each doll, each principle can be examined separately,
but each is fully itself when played with as part of a spiral of
questions and truths.

Goddess principles invite wondering and questions along with their
truths. This sense of continuous pondering and unfolding, like the
surprise of the next doll in those sweet onion layers, is perhaps most
precious of all to me on this spiritual path. Continual discovery and
truth-from-within counters the dogmatic forcefulness of the
fundamentalist Christianity in which I was raised. In that religion,
absolute truth lay in a book, and authorities frowned when I used my
mind to question or object to the "facts" I was taught.

Goddess As Metaphor

Earth is Woman. This is the basic metaphor of Goddess-centered
spirituality. Resacralizing Her, Earth and Woman, is now our task.
Such a task it is! In it we stand, shadows and fiery projections of
the women who will be and have been. Figures we are, like the Great
Metaphoress Herself, with mountainous breasts and soft, valleyed
bellies. Like rivers, the blood of Woman runs in us, encoding,
preserving, and brandishing the rage, the tenderness, the sorrow, and
the stories that change us.

How do we change? First, we take back, over and over again, the
sacredness of our W7oman selves: our bodies; our sexualities; our
birth-giving, creation-making beings. Then we retrieve from misuse and
abuse all the concepts the patriarchy relates to our femaleness: body,
blood, under, deep, color, dark, below, wetness, depth, intuition,
divination.

Next, when we open emotionally and spiritually to realizing Earth
Herself as sacred W7oman, we are stunned at the similarities between
Her physical and psychological rapes and our own. Repeatedly, we find
our new notions of individual selfhood curled like fetuses inside our
understanding of our relationship to ourselves as Planet. When we
think not as scientists but in service of our hearts, we find our
personal recoveries paralleling the ecological recovery of the
Planet.