Product Description

Adults have a wide array of books to help explore earth-based spirituality. But what if they want to include their children? Here is a handbook to help parents, caregivers, teachers, and counselors create meaningful spiritual experiences that will inspire children of all ages. The ideas, suggestions, and activities collected here show how to bring children into rituals that celebrate seasonal cycles and help reclaim the spiritual roots of today's modern holidays. With surprisingly little effort, earth-centered activities and rituals can be incorporated into simple daily routines.

Part 1, "Handbook for Earth-Connected Parenting," gives techniques for developing a child's inner wisdom and sense of the sacred: dream journals, visualization, Tarot play, talismans, and interactions with the natural world

Part 2 is a guide to the specific seasonal festivals, and offers a comprehensive collection of practical and enjoyable ways to celebrate the sacred days of our ancestors. Make a bean rune divination system, gather smudge sticks, grow grass pots, assemble a "dream pillow," create altars the authors offer easy-to-follow suggestions.

Includes suggested reading and resource sections for locating additional information and materials for creative projects.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #184280 in Books
• Published on: 1995-06-01
• Released on: 1995-06-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 248 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780892815500
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Review
For those who have devoted themselves to reawakening Earth Goddess worship, this book will be like coming home, bringing together a multitude of ideas on living with honor, insight and great love. For those who've shied away from earth centered ritual and worship, this book is a map which provides a route of safety through unknown territory. Celebrating the Great Mother is a well-written book with hauntingly beautiful artwork and lovely illustrations throughout, which takes one on a journey of honoring the earth, our families, and our relations with all beings. A journey well worth taking. -- Karin Kaplowitz Talking Leaves

The ideas, suggestions, and activities collected here bring children into rituals that celebrate seasonal cycles and help reclaim the spiritual roots of today's modern holidays. -- Feminist Bookstore News

This handbook of Earth-honoring activities for parents and children provides a family-oriented approach to the rituals of celebration, giving parents and adults insights into the spiritual experiences which will inspire kids and help them to understand holiday meanings. Techniques ranging from visualization to Tarot play are developed with kids in mind. -- Midwest Book Review

This is a handbook for those of us--regardless of religious or spiritual beliefs--who want to share our love of the earth with our children, who know how important this is for the future of our planet, and who use some ideas on how to do it. -- The Wellspring Guide

Review
"Deeply satisfying to read--the real joy is making the celebration/renewal of life real in our own lives and with the children who will bring us a new world."
( Brooke Medicine Eagle )

"The ideas, suggestions, and activities collected here bring children into rituals that celebrate seasonal cycles and help reclaim the spiritual roots of today's modern holidays."
(Feminist Bookstore News )

"For those who have devoted themselves to reawakening Earth Goddess worship, this book will be like coming home, bringing together a multitude of ideas on living with honor, insight and great love. For those who've shied away from earth centered ritual and worship, this book is a map which provides a route of safety through unknown territory.Celebrating the Great Mother is a well-written book with hauntingly beautiful artwork and lovely illustrations throughout, which takes one on a journey of honoring the earth, our families, and our relations with all beings. A journey well worth taking."
(Karin Kaplowitz, Talking Leaves )

"This is a handbook for those of us--regardless of religious or spiritual beliefs--who want to share our love of the earth with our children, who know how important this is for the future of our planet, and who use some ideas on how to do it."
(The Wellspring Guide  )

About the Author
Cait Johnson is an artist and writer who teaches workshops on the Tarot, dream work, and ritual-making. She is the author of Tarot for Every Day: Ideas and Activities for Bringing Tarot Wisdom into Your Daily Life. She lives in the Hudson Valley of New York.

Maura D. Shaw, a writer and editor, teaches workshops on creative writing and the Tarot. She is the author of Owl's Journey: Four Centuries of an American County, and co-author (with Sydna A. Byrne) of Foods from Mother Earth: A Basic Cookbook for Young Vegetarians (and Anybody Else). She lives in Wappingers Falls, New York.

Cait Johnson and Maura Shaw are also the co-authors of Tarot Games: 45 Playful Ways to Explore Tarot Cards Together, published by Harper San Francisco.

Customer Reviews

Not Just for Parents
I actually bought this book not knowing it was directed towards parents. I was in search of a book with ideas on how to celebrate the year that were more Nature and Earth-oriented than the "common" Pagan ceremonies. I am also a pantheist who prefers not to incorporate the worship of deities into my holidays. Although the authors refer to the Earth as the Goddess (which I do not do), the book is amazingly easy to sympathize with and embrace. I particularly like their idea of the talking stick for use during the Winter to help shed the stress of being so cooped up. I heavily recommend this book to anyone in search of Nature-oriented ways to celebrate the holidays and especially to Pagans in search of creating their own traditions.

GREAT BOOK FOR ALL AGES
I love this book! It has so many activities, ideas, crafts, and parental wisdom that I just had to have it in my home library! Many books tend to be for the pagan family with younger children, but this book also works with older kids too. We are an eclectic family and this book is written with a broad minded philosophy. It works as well for us as it would a more traditionally religious family that wants to add seasonal elements to their worship and home. It is a creative resource that I will be using for years to come. We have already made our dream pillows and they were a huge success with the teens as well as the little ones. Gotta have it!

The Best of Non-Religious, Earth Celebrations...
..For the whole family!

I was looking for a book the whole family would enjoy, no matter what religion you are. Pagan, Wiccan, Christian, Jewish...This book is it!

Wonderful ideas for celebrating Nature and life all around us. All the items needed for the crafts are easy to find, or cheap to buy. Nothing complicated in the book.

Great family projects you will soon make a tradition every Summer, Winter, Spring and Fall in your home!