For access to the Manitoba Goddess Festival community and to keep up to date on all the latest Baba Yaga information and events, like us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/#!/manitobagoddessfestival. Thanks!

Hello Everyone! I just wanted to contribute a post to say I’m very excited about this year’s goddess.

Baba Yaga seems by all accounts a mystery and maze of contradictions ~ reminding us that everything is relative, and that there is something important about learning to traverse a spectrum of meaning. Working to appreciate and experience (rather than label or shut down to) landscapes of darkness and light, life and death, interiors and exteriors, endings and beginnings, in as fluid and attentive a way as possible is great for sharpening instinct and intuition. Learning how to handle intuition in time leads to the kind of action that taps into your own unlimited potential. And then the fun begins! Baba Yaga has the strong femininity and wisdom of a crone goddess. She is stern, and requires respect, but also presents you with the importance of your own healing and being true to yourself.

I hope to discover more to do with my own creativity ~ a longstanding subject of interest ~ and find that preparing for this kind of discovery leads to hearing about the journeys of others, and to plenty of meaningful coincidence. Please visit us here, and on Facebook, and share your stories!

Janine from the festival recommends looking into Clarissa Pinkola Estes’ Women Who Run With the Wolves for information on Baba Yaga – a great idea. There’s also a helpful meditation on http://www.orderwhitemoon.org/goddess/babayaga/BabaYaga.html for an encounter with the goddess. Make sure to bring her a question and a gift!

All the Best,

Margaret-Eve ~ MGFI Organizer