Labyrinth of Healing

Today, I graduated. Not from university (though I’m still working on the dissertation for my master’s degree), but from something just as difficult and just as transformational. Today, I graduated from radiation treatments for breast cancer. It’s been a long,

Seeking Brigid: Sacred Well, Holy Flame – 2012 Pilgrimage to Ireland

Registration is now open for the Seeking Brigid: Sacred Well, Holy Flame 2012 Pilgrimage to Ireland, presented by the Sisterhood of Avalon. For more information and a registration packet, please contact our pilgrimage coordinator. There are only 12 spots available, so if you feel called to make this journey with us, please don’t delay in claiming a space. We hope you will be able to join us on this exciting journey of the spirit!

Why a Sisterhood of Avalon?

While we know that both men and women could serve their communities as Druids, it appears that there also existed groups of women who dwelt apart from Celtic society, yet who, nonetheless, served their people. These women were famous for their healing arts, divinitory skills, the ability to shape shift and control the weather, as well as for tending sacred precincts and being learned in the sciences, mathematics, language, and music.