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	<title type="text">The Goddess Files</title>
	<subtitle type="text">Learning from the best...</subtitle>

	<updated>2008-05-28T05:21:18Z</updated>
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		<author>
			<name>Suzann Kale</name>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Listening to Whispers]]></title>
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		<updated>2008-05-01T10:39:59Z</updated>
		<published>2007-01-25T06:53:40Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://www.thegoddessfiles.com" term="Musings" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[
&#160;

Contemporary, historical, fictional, imaginary - from Xena to Rosa Parks - each woman tells us her part of a code.

Perhaps we can arrange these codes into a coherent whole, and hear what the goddesses are saying.

I think it&#8217;s something about peace by tenacity. It&#8217;s probably important. 






Nene Thomas&#8217; Frostmoon, used with kind permission. 







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		<entry>
		<author>
			<name>Suzann Kale</name>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Xena Rocks]]></title>
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		<updated>2008-05-28T05:21:18Z</updated>
		<published>2008-05-28T04:30:33Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://www.thegoddessfiles.com" term="Goddesses" /><category scheme="http://www.thegoddessfiles.com" term="Eve" /><category scheme="http://www.thegoddessfiles.com" term="Gabrielle" /><category scheme="http://www.thegoddessfiles.com" term="Xena" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Say you have a rock.
The Pros:You can sit on it. Xena and Gabrielle often sit on rocks.
You can place rocks in your lily pool so that people can cross the water without getting their feet wet.
Small rocks can be used to crack nuts open.
You can build roads with rocks.
You can wonder how Stonehenge got there.
The [...]]]></summary>
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		<author>
			<name>Suzann Kale</name>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Armine Abrahamyan: Goddess of the Rising Star]]></title>
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		<updated>2008-05-18T04:23:37Z</updated>
		<published>2008-05-18T04:03:45Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://www.thegoddessfiles.com" term="Goddesses" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[You know how the violin can bring tears to your eyes? The viola, played by Armine Abrahamyan, can make you seriously weep.
&#160;
Slightly lower and richer in tone than the violin, the viola - in the right hands - can reach effortlessly down into your psyche, take hold of your hidden agendas, and bring them up [...]]]></summary>
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		<author>
			<name>Suzann Kale</name>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Xena Whisperer]]></title>
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		<updated>2008-05-01T10:06:46Z</updated>
		<published>2008-05-01T10:06:46Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://www.thegoddessfiles.com" term="Goddesses" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[If Xena were alive today - which she was in The Xena Scrolls (Season 2), Deja Vu All Over Again (Season 4), and Send in the Clones (Season 6) - she would never wear fur.
She respects animals.Look at Xena&#8217;s relationship with her horse Argo. They are soul-mates. They talk to each other psychically. Xena respects [...]]]></summary>
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		<author>
			<name>Suzann Kale</name>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Máiréad Nesbitt: Goddess of Fiery Hope]]></title>
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		<updated>2008-04-14T21:03:10Z</updated>
		<published>2008-04-13T09:19:52Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://www.thegoddessfiles.com" term="Goddesses" /><category scheme="http://www.thegoddessfiles.com" term="A New Journey" /><category scheme="http://www.thegoddessfiles.com" term="Celtic" /><category scheme="http://www.thegoddessfiles.com" term="Celtic Woman" /><category scheme="http://www.thegoddessfiles.com" term="fiddle" /><category scheme="http://www.thegoddessfiles.com" term="Ireland" /><category scheme="http://www.thegoddessfiles.com" term="Irish music" /><category scheme="http://www.thegoddessfiles.com" term="Mairead Nesbitt" /><category scheme="http://www.thegoddessfiles.com" term="Sing Out" /><category scheme="http://www.thegoddessfiles.com" term="violin" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[
You&#8217;re watching a live performance of Celtic Woman&#8217;s, A New Journey, and your heart is already in your throat. It&#8217;s trying to leap out of your mouth and dance with the angelic sopranos from Ireland. Suddenly, your heart simply stops - M&#225;ir&#233;ad has landed. 
&#160;
Standing in the spotlight upstage center, wearing a gown woven from [...]]]></summary>
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		<author>
			<name>Suzann Kale</name>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Transformation Part III: What Is Death? (from The Xena Notebooks)]]></title>
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		<updated>2008-03-24T19:33:17Z</updated>
		<published>2008-03-24T05:17:26Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://www.thegoddessfiles.com" term="The Xena Notebooks" /><category scheme="http://www.thegoddessfiles.com" term="Amazon afterlife" /><category scheme="http://www.thegoddessfiles.com" term="death" /><category scheme="http://www.thegoddessfiles.com" term="life after death" /><category scheme="http://www.thegoddessfiles.com" term="soul" /><category scheme="http://www.thegoddessfiles.com" term="soul transmigration" /><category scheme="http://www.thegoddessfiles.com" term="Xena" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[According to the 6 seasons of Xena, death is basically moving from one place to another. Granted, there is a lot of trauma involved, especially if you&#8217;re going to be nailed to a cross.
I&#8217;m trying to think &#8211; did anyone ever really &#34;die&#34;? Ever? Because everytime we have an episode where Xena goes into the [...]]]></summary>
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		<author>
			<name>Suzann Kale</name>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Joan Didion: Goddess of Witnessing]]></title>
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		<updated>2008-03-28T04:52:43Z</updated>
		<published>2008-03-22T23:49:53Z</published>
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If I really want to know what&#8217;s going on, I turn to Joan Didion. Reading her essays and novels is like standing by the sea in late spring, inhaling a yoga-style whole-body breath and filling myself with fresh, sun-blessed, early evening air. Her writing is pure. It cuts through fog. It accepts paradoxes without blinking.&#160;&#160; [...]]]></summary>
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		<entry>
		<author>
			<name>Suzann Kale</name>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Ada Lovelace: &#8220;Enchantress of Numbers&#8221;]]></title>
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		<updated>2008-03-28T04:51:51Z</updated>
		<published>2008-03-15T21:33:08Z</published>
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Ada Byron Lovelace - whose essence is forever stored in the most protected part of the U.S. Pentagon -&#160;will be a part of each of our lives forever.
&#160;
She was drop-dead gorgeous; she was the daughter of the English romantic poet Lord Byron; she was said to be a &#34;hard drinking mathematician&#34;1; and oh yes, she [...]]]></summary>
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		<entry>
		<author>
			<name>Suzann Kale</name>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Ruthie: Goddess of Art and Sandalwood]]></title>
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		<updated>2008-02-20T05:27:19Z</updated>
		<published>2008-02-18T07:34:59Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://www.thegoddessfiles.com" term="Goddesses" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[
My soul lives in this small, incense-filled Vedanta prayer room. In the center of Manhattan, this room is hushed; washed in a deep, velvety red except for some amber somewhere. It was lush with depth, like being inside a cushioned chamber. Even fifty years later, I am comforted by the sanctity of having been enclosed&#160;and [...]]]></summary>
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		<entry>
		<author>
			<name>Suzann Kale</name>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Transformation Part I: Sparkling Futures (from The Xena Notebooks)]]></title>
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		<updated>2008-02-03T10:46:37Z</updated>
		<published>2008-02-03T09:24:35Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://www.thegoddessfiles.com" term="The Xena Notebooks" /><category scheme="http://www.thegoddessfiles.com" term="Gabrielle" /><category scheme="http://www.thegoddessfiles.com" term="transformation" /><category scheme="http://www.thegoddessfiles.com" term="Xena" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Xena&#8217;s Transformations
One of the main themes of the Xena series is transformation. Change - personal and cultural - arcs each of the six seasons, and transcends the plotline. Nothing stays the same. The ending is a beginning. The road never has a stopping point.Even in death, Xena is on a mission.Hard as it is to [...]]]></summary>
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