Women's Circle of Guadalajara Mexico

Welcome to Circulo de Mujeres
Circle of Guadalajara Mexico

Hello from Mexico!

For a year now, my cousin Gabriela Velázquez and I started a women's circle based on El Millionth Circle. At the beginning we were only 4  including my cousin and I, but today we are 30 women.
Our meetings are once a month. We decided to read a tale in each of our meetings as they are pieces of ancestral feminine wisdom,  then each of us  share about our life experiences (happiness, sadness, uncertainty...) related to the theme of the story we read.

We just want to let you know how happy and grateful we are because this activity has been extremely healing for all the women who are part of  the circle.

Best Regards
Eva Velázquez
velazquezbarrera@gmail.com

Our meetings are called “Círculo de Mujeres” (Women’s circle). We are currently 40 members between 23 and 60 years old. We meet once a month and there are currently 3 different groups. The first circle was created in November 2020 in Guadalajara City located in west-central Mexico.

Nuestras reuniones se llaman “Círculo de Mujeres”. Actualmente somos 40 miembros oscilando entre las edades de 23 a 60 años. Nos reunimos una vez al mes y actualmente hay 3 grupos diferentes. El primer círculo se creó en noviembre de 2020 en la ciudad de Guadalajara, ubicada en el centro-oeste de México.

Power of Circle Video

conveners of Millionth Circle presented a workshop EXPERIENCE THE POWER OF CIRCLE ON Oct. 18th that was hosted by Women's Perspective.  Click on the link and give the password for using as a teaching tool.

Meeting Recording:

Access Passcode: vh3Px!Hq

Goddess Files

Calling all Goddesses to serve as superheroes. Stay tuned to Goddess stories that dismantle patriarchy and care for all creatures of Mother Earth by protecting, educating, preserving, protesting and more.  

 

Women’s Circle- Flores de Mariposa

Women’s Circle- Flores de Mariposa
Cagliari- Sardinia- Italy
Litha- 21st June 2020- local time: 5.30 a.m.

Choosing the date of the Summer Solstice to conclude, with a last meeting, the 2019-2020 Women's Circle activity, was for me to pursue a deep intuition. Everything was born from the awareness of the loss, fear, uncertainty that we all experienced during the lockdown due to COVID 19. In those long months it was like feeling the darkness enveloping Mother Earth and being unable to do anything except remain motionless, still, in silence. Just as animals teach us, with their survival instinct, when the danger is so great that it becomes useless to face it or even worse to run away, the only salvation is to pretend to be dead.


Now they are telling us to return to Life, to start meeting in presence again and no longer through a remote screen but always at a distance, with masks ... I felt that there was a great contradiction in this message, which sent a distorted command that was generating even more confusion.


The desire to hug each other again, to take each other's hand, to stay close once again denied by the fear that the Predator, invisible to the naked eye, could destroy us. How to get out of all this, I thought, if not turning to the force of nature that nourishes with its warmth, its light, its energy?


The sun, so precious and available at all latitudes, that every June 21st for millennia has brought a message of hope illuminating the Earth on the longest day of the year, has been an inspiration to mark the starting point. The male principle, in its positive sense, represented by the Sun, has come to help.
Defeating the darkness dictated by terror and a sense of inevitability, this inspired me to create the ritual that saw us sing, dance and raise our hands towards the rising sun.



We have created an altar where each has placed a red candle, hypericum and lavender flowers, ears of wheat to witness the abundant harvest we will receive after an extraordinary year of emotional work just concluded within Cagliari Women's Circle.


Everything took place in a beautiful garden, scented with Mediterranean bush, facing the sea: the dream come true of one of us who found a concrete evidence in a wonderfully welcoming home. The desire that Antonella has cultivated for many years until she reaches the point of being able to inaugurate it together with all of us.


We met in the dark, at 05.30 a.m. in silence, entering the garden almost on tiptoe, respecting the nature that was slowly awakening. The rhythmic sound of the drum, a propitiatory chant that lastly, at sunrise, was sung in unison, the colorful clothes, 24 women ... and a half (one of us is in her ninth month of a baby girl's pregnancy!). Our life plans written in the sheets we held in the right hand and finally a collective hug of a female humanity ready to smile at Life! A delicious breakfast, prepared with love, brought further happiness ... to celebrate the joy of being together!


This is the wish that we want to send to all the Women who with courage and determination are helping to form the Millionth Circle all over the world!

Maria Rosaria Loi Guttuso

The Women’s Circle “Flores de Mariposa” – Cagliari (Sardinia-Italy)

The Women’s Circle “Flores de Mariposa” – Cagliari (Sardinia-Italy)

In August 2014 my Spanish colleague and friend Carmen Hernandez Rosety talked to me for the first time about the book “The Millionth Circle” written by Jean Shinoda Bolen, and about “The International Council of the Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers”.
She suggested about opening one in my homeland, Sardinia, whicis full of history and traditions on the Mother Goddess. Loving this proposition, I organized an encounter on August 30th 2014 at 10:30 a.m. in which 15 women attended and gave life to the first Women’s Circle of Cagliari.

We named the circle like Cuba’s national flower “Flores de Mariposa”, in honor of the bravery and the hard work of the Cuban women that, during the independence wars, wore these kind of flowers on their hair to hide messages containing secret communications for the liberation army.

To this day, October 18th 2019, I am carrying on what I consider to be a life mission with the Circle, that counts, in Cagliari, the sacred circle of 60 women. Fully sharing Bolen’s proposition, meaning that the intention is not to replace patriarchy with matriarchy, since doing so would just propose the same hierarchy with the two extremities reversed, I proposed to the Circle an always growing inclusion of men.

Therefore, on March 23rd 2019, we invited them to the exhibit of the Mother Goddess in the Museum of Cagliari… not many men adhered, but it was a start! “Wholeness is possible when human qualities, now habitually defined as masculine or feminine, are seen as an integrated part of the totality of anyone.” This is what Bolen writes in the “Urgent Message from Mother”. Therefore, the desire to bring together the women of Sardinia was born in my soul, following the indications of “The Millionth Circle” and the profound wisdom of the Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers, I wanted to create “a critical mass that provokes a change of values and method in the current society based on patriarchy, where strength, fear, attack are considered much more important than the values traditionally attributed to women: hospitality, tolerance, listening, pacific resolution of conflicts, care”.

My goal is to spread to Sardinian women the principles of “The Millionth Circle” and of the Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers, to make it possible for everyone to contribute, starting in my motherland, to the changing of the world.

Written by Maria Rosaria

Alchemy of Women's Circles

The Charter For Compassion Women and Girls sector is proud to welcome you to a very special call featuring Jean Shinoda Bolen and Ann Smith in the V2020 webinar series called The Alchemy and Power of Women's Collective Power in Circle on Oct 10th at 8:00 AM PST, 11:00 AM EST. 

This will be a power-packed conversation and every bit about what we will be nurturing and manifesting together in Toronto.

All are welcome to register and soak up the wisdom of these two amazing experts in their fields. Both are providing leadership for our event as well!

Please pass this on to all the women and men in your life to join us on this call. Following their discussion, the lines will be opened up for more voices to be heard in the "After Party".  Please try to log on with your computer so we can see your face!

I hope to see you all on Oct 10th and look forward to greeting you in Toronto on Nov 1st with the rest of the Alchemy team.

Please follow the link to Register. It's free! https://charterforcompassion.org/v2020

 

 

Power of Circle

Here is an excellent article to give to people about the power of circle written by Kelly Jane Farrell, Managing Editor of e’Bella magazine.  Circles and Sisterhood: Meeting in Circles Provides an Alternative Power Structure.

http://ebellamag.com/images/eBella_AugSept18_Empowered_FeminineLeadership.pdf

There are many different kinds of circles.  Circle organizations are becoming the preferred organizational structure because everyone is fully engaged, respected and leadership and resources shared.

Circle Events at the Parliament of World Religions

Alchemy Women and Girl’s Collective Wisdom & Power
Thursday November 1, 2018
8.30 AM – 12.30 PM
Delta Hotel
75 Lower Simcoe Street

How to Start a Circle and Circle Organization
Friday November 2 2018
12:15 PM - 1:45 PM
Room 201AB Convention Center

Wa’akwa Kerlathenhs We Rise Together: Sacred Circles Healing and Empowerg Women and Girls
Saturday, November 3
12:15-1:45pm, Room 201F Convention Center

Women's Coalitions Addressing Global Problems
Sunday November 4 2018
12:15 PM - 1:45 PM, Room 709 Convention Center

Alchemy of Women's Wisdom and Power November 1st

Help make this the largest circle event worldwide.  Join us by hosting a circle on November 1st and sending this flyer to organizations, circles and friends.

Join us on Facebook  https://www.facebook.com/groups/2160215494246503/

UN Circle Workshop

Lauren Oliver and Ann Smith, Millionth Circle Conveners, are featured in the latest issue of the prestigious women's magazine of Southwest Florida, e'Bella. Thanks to Lisette Morales, the fabulous photographer who accompanied Ann to the UN Commission on the Status of Women, we were given a four-page spread. The article highlighted the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, CIW) Fair Food Campaign rally in NYC and UN Commission on the Status of Women workshop, Circle Empowering Rural Women and Girls for a Sustainable Future. CIW has won many awards for stopping slavery in the fields, women's rights and protection against rape and harassment, and bringing fair wages and workers rights. CIW is based on Circle Principles of shared leadership, equality, listening, respect for all. The UN workshop continues to have a global influence, circle by circle.

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