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A Woman of Wisdom: Karen Tate By Kris Steinnes


Sacred Feminism and Social Transformation


Karen Tate is an advocate for the Goddess. She first discovered the Goddess when she was exploring the feminine face of God. Growing up in a Judeo Christian culture, we were taught man was created in God’s image. Now she believes that sets up a gender disparity in our culture. When she realized that the God- dess had been worshipped for 40,000 years long before male gods were, it opened a totally new horizon for her.


She began her studies of the God- dess after moving to California and she found two books that changed her life - Riane Eisler’s The Chalice and The Blade: Our History, Our Future and Merlin Stone’s When God Was a Woman.


In Karen’s book, Walking an Ancient Path, Rebirthing Goddess on Planet Earth, she shares her personal story with emotional honesty, how she felt alone and abandoned. She found herself in communities sur- rounded by toxic people, or people who have a problem with sharing leadership, and she realized it was better to walk away from that com- munity even if she had a big invest- ment, in money, time, and energy.


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She had the courage to step back and reassess what was important to her as a person, what she was looking for in a community, and what she wouldn’t be able to live with in a community. Now look- ing back she knows everything happens for a reason. She sees the people who devalued her and made her life miserable as her teachers. After some soul searching she had to be willing to be alone for a while, and learned it was better to be alone than be in a toxic environment. If she hadn’t walked through that fire and adversity, she wouldn’t be who she is today and accomplished all that she has. It taught her tenacity, strength, and it also changed her direction in life.


Her discovery of the feminine face of God set Karen’s path for the next two decades, which started as a personal journey. Like many women she became empowered when she realized that the face of God is not just man, but women are equally created in the face of the divine. And when we have that it puts women at par with men, as it doesn’t allow for gender discrimi- nation that we have so much of in our society.


Aug/Sept 2011


Karen states if you don’t want to believe in her as a Goddess in the heavens you can look at her as an archetype, or consider the ideals of Goddess spiri- tuality in how we treat one other, so there is something for every body, even the athe- ist or agnostic believers.


So first it’s a personal journey and then you start to look at the different god- desses across the globe, because they are across the globe in living traditions still today, and you see all the different archetypes that women can use as role mod- els to be the best that they can be.


Then you begin to take it outside to your immediate community and share it publicly, expressing it in ritual and celebrations and you


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