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

JUDITH SEELIG - WOMEN ON FIRE EVENT - ROYAL ALBERT HALL

This is an event being oraganised by Changemaker and Shaman Judith Seelig and Environmental Lawyer Polly Higgins to coincide with International Women's Day 2011.


A couple of years ago Judith 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. Her theme included the reminder that some seeds require fire to germinate.

'Economic and environmental crises have been burning brightly since that spring. The seeds sprouting in my department have matured at their own pace. Now I have much to transplant.

ROYAL ALBERT HALL 13 MARCH 2011 WOMEN ON FIRE

I'm teaming up with the environmental lawyer Polly Higgins to create a Women on Fire day at the Albert Hall next March.
We are planning simultaneous events in Jerusalem and New York.
The idea is to connect women around the globe through the earth, literally using the planet as a transmitter.

We have a broad spectrum agenda. Polly set up a trust on behalf of the earth. I've been looking at bridging the gap between man-made law and natural law, as in the cycles of nature.. Both of us see fundamental change coming through women.

Would you like to contribute to/participate in this event?

Here are a few pointers. I have given up trying to modify the language that I use. What I'm proposing is unusual, radical. Some might think it ridiculous. So be it. We need to be thinking miles outside the box to save ourselves from ourselves.

1 the female pelvis is specifically designed to grow the new.
Let's use it creatively, to the power of a unified female field

2 balancing out masculine and feminine principles, male and female, isn't going to happen men to women, continuing patriarchy makes too strong an imprint. I'm proposing to facilitate women connecting to women via the earth, that connection rising as fire into each pelvis, employing the existing route of fire in the human body, as in risen kundalini **

3. inviting Gaia* to guide and inform women across the globe we cannot live without the earth and its cycles, so to offer the intelligence of our bodies to the intelligence of what sustains and maintains us is intelligent

4. decisions about the earth and its resources are still made predominantly by men yet worldwide it’s women’s hands and feet that do most of the cultivating, gathering and gleaning.

5. the aim is to underwrite clear thinking, strong voices, wise and loving hearts with fire in our bellies

6 to invite the fire at the centre of the earth to ignite and power creativity in women for the mending of our human part in the web of life

7. to make the fire in the female pelvis our common, impersonal thread that funds, interconnects and sustains spectacular diversity

8. to connect up our individual brilliance, intelligence, creativity and female power via the earth

9. to use the earth as a transmitter

10. to offer the fire to named projects, causes, peoples

* the earth as a sentient being

**kundalini is its Sanskrit name. The goddess lies coiled at the base of the spine like a sleeping serpent. When awakened she travels up the spine as fire. (risen kundalini substantially alters one's life, as it did mine, and is possibly the root of this inspiration: birthing itself or herself)'

http://www.judithseelig.com/

If you would like to get involved, particularly if you work in the art, dance, music or fashion areas, a meeting is being held at:

Dragon Hall in Covent Garden
17 Stukeley Street, London, WC2B 5LT
11th April 2010 - 3.00 - 5.00 pm.
Tickets on the door: £5 with invite to pay more