Women On Fire - Judith Seelig

I am posting an update on a previous post regarding the 'Women On Fire' event in 2011

Myself and other artists will be taking part in an exhibition to be held at Central Hall Westminster

Here is Judith's update.

Women on Fire meet St George

A couple of years ago I led a retreat at St George's in Windsor Castle for women in senior decision-making roles. The subject was Fire and the Feminine Principle. My theme included the reminder that some seeds require fire to germinate. Economic and environmental crises have been burning brightly since that spring. Now we have seedlings to transplant.

I have teamed up with the environmental lawyer Polly Higgins to create Women on Fire, something that was initially seen as a one-day event but that has now burgeoned into something much bigger.

First the event: Celebrating Women on Fire at Central Hall Westminster, London SW1, 10am to 7.30pm (doors open 9am) on 23rd April 2011 which is Easter Saturday and St George's Day. The date is significant. Rarely does Easter fall so late that it coincides with April 23rd, the date on which England celebrates its patron saint George, slayer of the dragon. Dragons represent evil in medieval Europe, yet wisdom, strength and hidden knowledge in the Far East.

In many cultures the earth's own energy lines are symbolised by dragons uniting earth, air, fire and water in the form of a winged, fire-breathing serpent. Dragon energy is also synonymous with risen kundalini, the phenomenon by which the human spine experiences great heat rising from beneath the coccyx to fire changes in consciousness within the skull.

Renewal is a fundamental of Easter, not only in the Christian tradition but as Eostre the goddess worshipped in pre-Christian Britain, particularly in the fourth month of the year when the sun brought renewed fire to meet the earth's abundant waters. Seven hundred and eighty nine years after April 23rd was declared St George's Day we thought we might give the dragon another chance...

About Women on Fire
PURPOSE to power women as decision makers
WHY to develop and promote confidence in female intelligence, instinct and leadership
HOW
• connecting with the fire at the centre of the earth
• using the planet as a transmitter to connect women to women, cause to cause
• developing awareness of something that's freely available to all yet impossible to appropriate
• establishing banking facilities, financial education and advice for women by women
Celebrating Women on Fire is for women of all ages, creeds and nations. It will offer ground-breaking speakers in the fields of ecology, evolution, economics, fashion, wellbeing and women's place in politics and society. More news to follow.

Judith Seelig September 2010

http://www.womenonfire.co.uk