Links to articles written by Ashra

 The links provided below are of articles written by Ashra, originally published in Spellcraft magazine.

Please note, all material is protected by copyright.

• Spellcraft Issue # 13
  Athena

• Spellcraft Issue # 12
  Inanna

• Spellcraft Issue # 10
  New Light
  

• Spellcraft Issue # 9
  The Bird Goddess - tracing Her story through history Part 2
  
  
• Spellcraft Issue # 8
  The Bird Goddess - tracing Her story through history Part 1
  
  
• Spellcraft Issue # 7
  Goddess Spirituality 4 - Elder Wisdom
  
  
• Spellcraft Issue # 6
  Goddess Spirituality 3 - The Great Mother
  
  
• Spellcraft Issue # 5
  Goddess Spirituality 2 - Maiden
  
  
• Spellcraft Issue # 4
  Goddess Spirituality 1

MoonTree Recommended Reading List

Following is a list of some of my favourite books, covering a range of topics on the Sacred Feminine, Goddess Spirituality, Earth-Based traditions and ancient social history. A combination of general interest, spiritual and scholarly publications are included….Enjoy!

• Baring, A. & Cashford, J. 1991, The Myth of the Goddess: Evolution of an Image, Penguin, London.

• Barrett, R. 2007, Women’s Rites, Women’s Mysteries, Llewellyn, Woodbury.

• Blundell, S. & Williamson, M. 1998, The Sacred and the Feminine in Ancient Greece, Routledge, London.

• Clow, B.H. 1995, The Pleiadian Agenda. A New Cosmology for the Age of Light, Bear& Co., Vermont.

• Clow, B.H. 2005, The Alchemy of Nine Dimensions, Bear & Co., Vermont.

• Clow, B.H. 2007, The Mayan Code. Time Acceleration and Awakening the World Mind, Bear & Co., Vermont.

• Cohen, C. 2003, La femme des origines, Belin-Herscher (French. The best compilation of images of European Stone Age Goddess figurines I have come across).

• Concannon, M. 2004, The Sacred Whore: Sheela Goddess of the Celts, The Collins Press, Cork.

• Connelly, J.B. 2007, Portrait of a Priestess, Princeton University Press, New Jersey.

• Diamant, A. 1997, The Red Tent, St Martin’s Press.

• Estes, C.P. 1992, Women Who Run with the Wolves, Rider, London.

• Friedrich, P. 1978, The Meaning of Aphrodite, the University of Chicago Press, Chicago.

• Gadon, E. 1989, The Once and Future Goddess, Harper Collins, New York.

• George, D. 1992, Mysteries of the Dark Moon, Harper Collins, New York.

• Gimbutas, M. 1999, The Living Goddesses, University of California Press, London.

• Goodison, L. & Morris, C. (eds.) 1998, Ancient Goddesses, British Museum Press, London.

• Green, M. 1996, Celtic Goddesses: Warriors, Virgins, Mothers, George Braziller.

• Harrison, J.E. 1991 [1903], Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion, 3rd edn., Princeton University Press, New Jersey.

• Hawking, S. 2001, The Universe in a Nutshell, Bantam Press, London.

• Jones, K. 2006, Priestess of Avalon, Priestess of the Goddess, Ariadne Publications, Glastonbury.

• Kinstler, C. 1991, The Moon Under Her Feet, Harper Collins, New York.

• Livingston, G. 2005, Pagaian Cosmology, iUniverse, New England.

• MacLeod Nic Mhacha, S. 2005, Queen of the Night. Rediscovering the Celtic Moon Goddess, Red Wheel/Weiser, Boston.

• Marinatos, N. 2000, The Goddess and the Warrior, Routledge, London.

• Meador, B.D. 2000, Inanna. Lady of the Largest Heart, University of Texas Press.

• Minmia (Maureen Smith), 2007, Under the Quandong Tree, Quandong Dreaming Publishing, Mogo, NSW, Australia.

• Monaghan, P. 2002, The Goddess Path, Llewellyn, Woodbury.

• Mountainwater, S. 1991, Ariadne’s Thread, The Crossing Press, California.

• Nilsson, M. P. 1949, The Minoan-Mycenaean Religion and its Survival in Greek Religion, 2nd edn., Biblo & Tannen, New York.

• Noble, V. 1991, Shakti Woman, Harper Collins, New York.

• Okri, B. 2007, Starbook: A Magical Tale of Love and Regeneration, Rider, London.

• Patai, R. 1990, The Hebrew Goddess, 3rd edn., Wayne State University Press, Michigan.

• Pinchbeck, D. 2007, 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl, Penguin, New York.

• Pollack, R. 2003, The Body of the Goddess, Vega, London.

• Pomeroy, S. 1975, Goddesses, Whores, Wives and Slaves: Women in Classical Antiquity, Schocken Books, New York.

• Ross, A. 1997, Pagan Celtic Britain, Hutchinson Radius.

• Sjöö, M. & Mor, B. 1987, The Great Cosmic Mother, Harper Collins, New York.

• Spiraldancer 2002, Moon Rites, Lothian Books, Melbourne.

• Stone, M. 1976, When God Was a Woman, Harcourt Inc. New York.
  

• Straffon, C. 1997, The Earth Goddess: Celtic and Pagan Legacy of the Landscape, Blanford Books, London.

• Vermeule, E. 1979, Aspects of Death in Early Greek Art and Poetry, University of California Press, Los Angeles.

• Vernant, J.P., Zeitlin, F.I. (ed.) 1991, Mortals and Immortals. Collected Essays, Princeton University Press, New Jersey.

• Walker, B. 1983, Women’s Encyclopaedia of Myths and Secrets, Harper Collins, New York.

• Wolkstein, D. & Kramer, S. 1983, Inanna. Queen of Heaven and Earth, Harper & Row, New York.