Whether it was for food, for sex, or for comfort, hunger was something I was taught to fear and to keep under control…

You could argue that pole dancing is just another aspect of our ascension culture: always climbing, reaching, going up up up. But pole is also a descending art — it beckons us inward and down, into the sensual and primal sensations of the body…

I dreamt last night that I was giving birth to a Deer. I was surrounded by shadowed faces, none of them…

We live in a culture obsessed with ascension. We are rising, striving, climbing, trying so hard to go up up up…

Artemis is a paradox. On one hand, she safeguards young children and wild animals, acting as a midwife and protectress of life. On the other hand, she is a bringer of death. She exacts unflinching violence on those who break the sacred rules of her forest, hunting them down and killing them with her bow and arrow.