{"id":7495,"date":"2012-07-15T22:59:22","date_gmt":"2012-07-15T22:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/?p=7495"},"modified":"2012-07-15T22:59:22","modified_gmt":"2012-07-15T22:59:22","slug":"bewitched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/bewitched\/","title":{"rendered":"Bewitched"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Via <\/a>Guernica<\/em>, another reminder of the permanence of superstition, the reinvention of the past (the Goddess?) and the magpie \u201cspirituality\u201d of the West:<\/p>\n

Photographer Katarzyna Majak shoots her subjects in vivid color, posing each one as a healer, a goddess, or a queen. These Polish women combine the rituals of the Cherokee, Sufis, Daoists, Wiccans, Druids, and others in search of greater spiritual meaning. With these photos, Majak looks at the prejudice against witchery, the acceptance of aging, and a growing appreciation for feminine divinity.<\/p>\n

Guernica: What do you mean by \u201cthe women\u2019s time\u201d? From a quote with your interview with Maria Ela, one of your portrait subjects, she says she \u201cthinks it\u2019s a time of transformation,\u201d that she has \u201cto let go of the feeling of being victimized by men,\u201d in order to gain awareness of the \u201ccycle of the Goddess that helped me let go of thinking \u2018against.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Katarzyna Majak: So, it is the time when more and more people, especially women, resonate with the energy of the Earth\u2019s upheaval. They do not want to think \u201cagainst\u201d and are not interested in fighting. They would rather use their own empowerment to balance the feminine and the masculine. Another explanation may also be connected with the fact that the Goddess, and one may treat that as an equivalent of women\u2019s power, in Judeo-Christianity, has been living \u201cin hiding,\u201d which is now coming to its end. There is a noticeable women\u2019s spiritual awakening, which is aimed to balance the feminine and masculine, to raise the feminine so that they are both on the same level and neither gets excluded or diminished\u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Okey dokey.<\/p>\n

H\/t: Andrew Sullivan<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Via Guernica, another reminder of the permanence of superstition, the reinvention of the past (the Goddess?) and the magpie \u201cspirituality\u201d of the West: Photographer Katarzyna Majak shoots her subjects in vivid color, posing each one as a healer, a goddess, … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[334,250,942,376],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7495"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7495"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7537,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7495\/revisions\/7537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}