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Also known as Miriam Simos, Miriam Samos, Starhawk (Miriam Simos)

Starhawk (born Miriam Simos on June 17, 1951) is an American feminist and writer. She is known as a theorist of feminist neopaganism and ecofeminism. In 2013, she was listed in Watkins' Mind Body Spirit magazine as one of the 100 Most Spiritually Influential Living People.

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Born
17 June 1951
Works
31

Top works

  • The Empowerment Manual
  • Exploring the Pagan Path
  • The twelve wild swans
  • Truth or dare
  • City of Refuge

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There are two known artists going by the name Starhawk: 1) Starhawk (born Miriam Simos) (June 17, 1951) is an American writer, anarchist activist,[1] and self-described witch. She is well known as a theorist of Paganism, a columnist on Beliefnet.com, and is one of the foremost popular voices of ecofeminism. Born in Saint Paul, Minnesota, Starhawk lives in San Francisco, where she works with Reclaiming, a tradition of Witchcraft that she co-founded in the late 1970s. <a href="https://www.last.fm

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5 total works indexed

  1. Magia, visão e ação

    · 2018 · cited 5x

  2. Queemess in the Contemporary Goddess Movement

    · 2010 · cited 3x

  3. Comment nous avons bloqué l'OMC

    · 2000 · cited 2x

  4. The Sacredness of Pleasure

    · 2018 · cited 1x

  5. The Sacredness of Pleasure

    · 2010 · cited 1x

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Quotes

  • The witches, the wise women, and the healers were also always the counselors. It's a whole other tradition of knowledge and learning that has been suppressed because it had political implications.
  • Each being is sacred — meaning that each has inherent value that cannot be ranked in a hierarchy or compared to the value of another being.
  • Any ritual is an opportunity for transformation. To do a ritual, you must be willing to be transformed in some way. The inner willingness is what makes the ritual come alive and have power. If you aren't willing to be changed by the ritual, don't do it.
  • Spirituality leaps where science cannot yet follow, because science must always test and measure, and much of reality and human experience is immeasurable.
  • In the Craft, we do not believe in the Goddess — we connect with her; through the moon, the stars, the ocean, the earth, through trees, animals, through other human beings, through ourselves. She is here. She is within us all.
  • The test of a true myth is that each time you return to it, new insights and interpretations arise.

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Key facts

Person.name
Starhawk
Person.image
Starhawk 2.JPG
Person.caption
Starhawk at a Sicilian workshop in 2007
Person.birth_name
Miriam Simos
Person.birth_place
Saint Paul, Minnesota, U.S.
Person.awards
Samuel Goldwyn Writing Award
Person.education
UCLA (B.A.)Antioch University West (M.A.)
Person.website
starhawk.org
Person.spouse
David Miller

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starhawk.org
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date of birth
1951-06-17
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Starhawk
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Contents
  • Early life
  • ''The Spiral Dance''
  • Beliefs
  • Feminism
  • Projects
  • Written works
  • Non-fiction
  • As coauthor
  • Fiction
  • Filmography
  • Discography
  • Other media
  • Personal life
  • See also
  • References
  • Citations
  • General and cited sources
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Starhawk (born Miriam Simos on June 17, 1951) is an American feminist and writer. She is known as a theorist of feminist neopaganism and ecofeminism. In 2013, she was listed in Watkins' Mind Body Spirit magazine as one of the 100 Most Spiritually Influential Living People.

==Early life== Starhawk was born in 1951 in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Her father, Jack Simos, died when she was five. Her mother, Bertha Claire Goldfarb Simos, was a professor of social work at UCLA. Both of her parents were the children of Jewish immigrants from Ukraine.

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