![]() ![]() ![]() Starhawk explored the roots of the Wiccan revival through the lens of the anthropological Great Goddess hypothesis, connecting the modern Wiccan movement to prehistorical goddess religions that continued in secret to the modern-day. Acting as both an introduction to early Wicca and as a manifesto for a spirituality that was focused around feminism and the divine feminine but that still welcome men amongst its ranks. This would lead to the development of her views of Wicca and witchcraft as a goddess religion and the creation of her first book The Spiral Dance: A Re-birth of the Ancient Religion of the Great Goddess in 1979. She worked as a psychotherapist in San Francisco from 1983 to 1986, then taught at Antioch West and other colleges in the San Francisco Bay Area focusing on feminism within the mental health field.Īfter becoming active in the Bay Area pagan scene and training with both Zsuzsanna Budapest and Victor Henry Anderson, Starhawk became a major voice in the feminist spirituality movement. In 1982 she received a Master's degree in the feminist therapy program at Antioch University West. On June 17, 1951, Miriam Simos (who later took the name Starhawk) was born in St. Starhawk is a leading theologian, writer, and activist of feminist Wicca, eco-feminism. ![]()
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