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Deanne Quarrie is a Priestess of The Goddess, and author of six books. She teaches online at the Liminal Thealogical Seminary and is the Founder at Apple Branch - A Dianic Tradition. She is also an Adjunct Professor at Ocean Seminary College. She teaches classes in Feminist Dianic Wicca, Druidism, Celtic Shamanism, the Ogham, Ritual Creation, Ethics for Neopagan Clergy, Exploring Sensory Awareness, Energetic Boundaries, and many other classes on the use of magic. She is the founder of Global Goddess, a worldwide organization open to all women who honor some form of the divine feminine.

Through the years Deanne has organized many women’s festivals, seasonal celebrations, taught workshops and formed groups of women to honor the age-old tradition of women coming together to share.

Deanne’s books can be found Here

For more information about Deanne, visit:

The Apple Branch
The Blue Roebuck
Her Breath
Global Goddess

• Birds, Their Song Stills My Heart by Deanne Quarrie

  By Deanne Quarrie on May 25, 2019 • ( 11 )

  

  Bluejay I see you perched on the tree checking the perimeter for cats lurking. The feeder below, inviting you down but you, ever cautious, make sure that none are about. Suddenly the sparrows swarm in, eagerly eating the seed offered…. Read More ›

• Hekate, Goddess of Liminality and Intermediary by Deanne Quarrie

  By Deanne Quarrie on April 18, 2019 • ( 15 )

  

  Let me share with you the Goddess most honored as the Goddess of liminal time and space.  It is our beloved Hekate, Great Goddess of the Three Ways, bridging Earth, Sea and Sky as we travel between worlds. In modern… Read More ›

• Persephone’s Return and the Lesser Eleusinian Mysteries by Deanne Quarrie

  By Deanne Quarrie on March 23, 2019 • ( 7 )

  

  Many of us are quite familiar with the story of Persephone and Demeter, the Greek myth behind the changing of seasons each year. “The story basically goes that Zeus arranges a marriage for Hades, the God of the Underworld and… Read More ›

• My Original Uncultured Mother by Deanne Quarrie

  By Deanne Quarrie on November 23, 2018 • ( 15 )

  In the earliest of times, I believe humans did not see themselves as separate from all that was around them.  All of life was interdependent.  I see this in my own practice today.  When we are born, we are born… Read More ›

• My Life with Goddess (Part Two) by Deanne Quarrie

  By Deanne Quarrie on September 21, 2018 • ( 10 )

  

  Read Part One here. My way of honoring this Goddess is to be with Her.  I feel Her as my hands when touch Her soil, when I sit on Her body, or when I am walking with Her trees.  I… Read More ›

• My Life with Goddess (Part One) by Deanne Quarrie

  By Deanne Quarrie on September 16, 2018 • ( 15 )

  

  The Goddess is the “All of Creation.”  She is the Creatress and the Created.  She is the life force of all there is.  She is one, whole, and complete.  Before Her, nothing was. She arose from the Great Void, the… Read More ›

• Reflections on the First Harvest by Deanne Quarrie and Belladonna Thomas

  By Deanne Quarrie on July 28, 2018 • ( 9 )

  

  The harvest season of the first fruits is here. It is a time to be thankful for the labor and struggles needed for the harvest. We are at the height of the heat of the summer season. Our greatest wish… Read More ›

• Meeting my Disr by Deanne Quarrie

  By Deanne Quarrie on May 26, 2018 • ( 7 )

  

  Who are the Dsir? Freyja, known as “Ancestor Spirit”, is viewed as the timeless, self-renewing energy in the universe. She witnesses and shapes the direction of creation and undoing. She is not the originating, creating Goddess, but rather a conduit… Read More ›

• Elen of the Ways and the Antlered Goddess (Part 2 of 2) by Deanne Quarrie

  By Deanne Quarrie on March 24, 2018 • ( 14 )

  

  Click here to read Part 1, published Sunday March 18. Imagine a fairy chain stretched from mountain peak to mountain peak, as far as the eye could reach, and paid out til it touched the high places of the earth… Read More ›

• Elen of the Ways and the Antlered Goddess (Part 1 of 2) by Deanne Quarrie

  By Deanne Quarrie on March 18, 2018 • ( 14 )

  

  Why would a goddess have antlers when only male deer have antlers? These ancient goddesses come from a time when people were closely connected with reindeer.  They were hunter gatherers and followed the Deer trods of the reindeer in their… Read More ›

• A Time to Make New by Deanne Quarrie

  By Deanne Quarrie on January 27, 2018 • ( 11 )

  

  We, Goddess types, are getting ready to celebrate Imbolc, beginning on the evening on February 1st through the following day, until dusk.  Many ask, “well, just what is Imbolc?” To give you a quick etymology …. From Old Irish it… Read More ›

• When You are Called to Her Service by Deanne Quarrie

  By Deanne Quarrie on March 25, 2017 • ( 6 )

  

  When I came to Goddess, I was in my mid-forties and I suddenly had this huge fire burning in my soul. I felt like I had missed opportunities to practice my “calling” for forty-five years. I finally knew what I… Read More ›

• The Halcyon Days by Deanne Quarrie

  By Deanne Quarrie on December 24, 2016 • ( 15 )

  

  There is a Greek myth that tells there were fourteen “halcyon days” in every year, seven of which fell before the winter solstice, seven after; peaceful days when the sea was smooth as a pond and the hen-halcyon built a… Read More ›

• Gratitude Expressed by Deanne Quarrie

  By Deanne Quarrie on November 26, 2016 • ( 8 )

  

  We are all experiencing troubled times.  Many are moaning and groaning, crying and screaming out.  Both sides are bringing such huge negative energy to our world. For just an hour – a day – if you can sustain it –… Read More ›

• Tlachtga, a Light for the New Year (Samhain) by Deanne Quarrie

  By Deanne Quarrie on October 22, 2016 • ( 14 )

  

  This is the story of Tlachtga. Her name means “Earth Spear.” Her story gives us the name for a famous place in Ireland where to this day, the rites of Samhain are held in her honor. This location is called… Read More ›

• Festival of the Goddess by Deanne Quarrie

  By Deanne Quarrie on October 16, 2016 • ( 8 )

  

  In late August, I wrote an article about the Tjet or the Knot of Isis, also called the Blood of Isis. I thought it a good idea to come back and write about the festival, now ended. We gathered in… Read More ›

• To Every Season by Deanne Quarrie

  By Deanne Quarrie on September 23, 2016 • ( 6 )

  

  We are closing in on the last of the season of abundance. Wherever we look we see Her harvest around us. Purple grapes hang from their vines. Branches hang heavy from the weight of fruit and sweet nuts. All the… Read More ›

• The Blood of Isis by Deanne Quarrie

  By Deanne Quarrie on August 27, 2016 • ( 7 )

  

  Over the years I have seen the image of the amulet called the Knot of Isis but in all honesty, never paid it much attention. I am on the organizing committee for our annual Goddess Festival here in Austin this… Read More ›

• The Adjectives We Use by Deanne Quarrie

  By Deanne Quarrie on July 23, 2016 • ( 32 )

  

  As a practicing witch, feminist, energy worker and a student of life, I am often puzzled as to why, in this day and age, we continue using the terms “masculine” and “feminine” as descriptive modifiers. What exactly does it mean… Read More ›

• Epona – Goddess of the Land by Deanne Quarrie

  By Deanne Quarrie on June 29, 2016 • ( 21 )

  

  This week I bought a pendant that caught my attention.  It is Celtic knot work of horses, meant to represent Epona.  This triggered my interest in Epona and off I went to learn more. Epona is a goddess from Gaul. … Read More ›

• Letting Go by Deanne Quarrie, D. Min.

  By Deanne Quarrie on May 28, 2016 • ( 10 )

  For the last year, I have been scheduled and planning a trip to Brazil, having been invited to speak, plus do a workshop at a conference in Sao Paulo and then two workshops in Brasilia. Four weeks ago, and three… Read More ›

• She Changes Everything She Touches by Deanne Quarrie

  By Deanne Quarrie on April 23, 2016 • ( 19 )

  

  She Changes Everything She Touches and … Everything She Touches Changes…. As a way of entry to this post, I wish to let readers know that this is not a typical kind of post for this blog. It is however,… Read More ›

• A Crone’s Life, an Embodied Experience by Deanne Quarrie 

  By Deanne Quarrie on March 26, 2016 • ( 4 )

  

  In January of 2013, I wrote an article here for FAR called Embody the Sacred. In it I wrote, “If we are to fully embrace living a magical life it is important to remember how to live in our bodies… Read More ›

• The Nine Maidens by Deanne Quarrie

  By Deanne Quarrie on February 27, 2016 • ( 26 )

  

  Many years ago, in the group of women I work with, we all had a marvelous epiphany. It was spontaneous combustion that fueled our collective desire to learn about the “Nine Maidens.” It was as though some unknown force was… Read More ›

• Becoming by Deanne Quarrie

  By Deanne Quarrie on December 26, 2015 • ( 4 )

  The Year 2015 is coming to a close. It is a time of endings and a time of beginnings. That is the wonderful thing about our cycles. We all have the opportunity to end and begin – over and over…. Read More ›

• Ananke’s Promise by Deanne Quarrie

  By Deanne Quarrie on November 28, 2015 • ( 8 )

  

  I have recently been looking at the Goddess Ananke. Ananke and Her consort Khronos, were primal energies emerging from chaos, producing the world egg and then wrapping themselves around it causing it to burst. Out of that egg came the… Read More ›

• Do You Believe in Magic? by Deanne Quarrie

  By Deanne Quarrie on October 24, 2015 • ( 6 )

  

  I went online to dictionary.com and pulled three definitions for the word “magic.” The art of producing illusions as entertainment by the use of sleight of hand, deceptive devices, etc., conjuring. To pull a rabbit out of a hat by… Read More ›

• The Great Dragon, Níðhöggr by Deanne Quarrie

  By Deanne Quarrie on August 20, 2015 • ( 16 )

  

  I am a student of the Northern European/Old Icelandic worldview known as Seidr. What I find particularly fascinating in my studies are not the deities but rather the creatures living on the World Tree, along with the Primordial Giants who… Read More ›

• Aine and the Giant Leap by Deanne Quarrie

  By Deanne Quarrie on June 27, 2015 • ( 5 )

  

  For our full moon rites coming up on the first of July we will be honoring Aine, Goddess of Love, Light, and Fertility who is also Queen of the Faeries. Aine’s name means “Bright” and She is typically honored at… Read More ›

• Miley Cyrus and the Happy Hippie Foundation by Deanne Quarrie

  By Deanne Quarrie on May 23, 2015 • ( 7 )

  

  I almost got in a big fight with my son on Facebook yesterday. I posted a link to an article talking about the work that Miley Cyrus is doing for homeless teenagers. He immediately responded to my post by calling… Read More ›