Tag: desire
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The Light that made me New

I will not be taken by that which is not mine, nor will I be given the burden of a spell to worry me. My dear heart, I am yours and yours alone. It is my heart that lingers in the morning, in the night and at noon. I allow my heart to befriend my…
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The Light Within the Living Cell

For many years, I have been fascinated by the idea that light is not simply something that shines upon us, but something that is also intimately connected with life itself. When I speak about the Living Attributes Codex, I often use the language of light because, for me, light is more than a metaphor. It…
Elizabeth Ellames
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The Dream, the Circle and the Spiral

When I look back now across more than three decades of my work, I can see that some of the foundational symbols of The Living Attributes Codex were present long before I had the language to describe them. One of the earliest experiences that I now recognise as significant occurred in 1993, when I was…
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The Sacred Circle and the Living Attributes Codex

There is a deeper connection here with the framework of The Living Attributes Codex. A women’s circle can be understood as a living expression of the same principle that sits at the heart of the Codex: that wholeness is not created by one quality, one archetype or one individual standing alone. Wholeness emerges through the…
Elizabeth Ellames
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Returning to the book Spiral Dance

The Word That Awakened Something in Me There are some books we read once and put back on the shelf, while others seem to become part of our story. Starhawk’s The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Great Goddess is one of those books for me. I first read it around…
Elizabeth Ellames
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What Happened to the Feminine?

There is a question that has been arising for me more and more deeply as I work on the Living Attributes Codex: What happened to the feminine? Not simply to women, but to the feminine as a source of wisdom, intuition, spiritual authority, healing, creation and embodied knowing. When I look back through history, I see many…
