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Deanne Quarrie is a Priestess of The Goddess, and author of five books. She teaches online at the Apple Branch Grove and Beyond the Ninth Wave as well as being 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, as well as The Apple Branch - A Dianic Tradition where she mentors women and men who wish to serve as priestesses and priests.

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

• 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 • ( 12 )

  

  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 • ( 13 )

  

  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 • ( 24 )

  

  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 ›

• It is a Matter of Focus by Deanne Quarrie

  By Deanne Quarrie on April 25, 2015 • ( 14 )

  

  Many of the young women I meet tell me that they think feminism is not what they are about, that they prefer to work for the good of all. I understand that and certainly we can all choose where we… Read More ›

• Spring by Deanne Quarrie

  By Deanne Quarrie on March 28, 2015 • ( 5 )

  

  We celebrate the Spring Equinox as a reflection of the birthing time of the year. We have made it through the winter’s cold and ice, experienced the warming of the Earth and the flood waters that prepared for the birth… Read More ›

• Connection by Deanne Quarrie

  By Deanne Quarrie on February 28, 2015 • ( 18 )

  

  As an introvert, I do a lot of listening. However, I have noticed that when I am in a group and think I am listening, quite often I have tuned out and am lost in my own thoughts. That doesn’t… Read More ›

• Sequana and Blessed Water by Deanne Quarrie

  By Deanne Quarrie on January 24, 2015 • ( 10 )

  

  Water is the daily necessity for earth’s creatures. When the Continental Celts were looking for a new homeland, they ventured west from the known river valleys of the great landmass we call Eurasia. Just beyond the great mountains, the Alps,… Read More ›

• What is a Crone? By Deanne Quarrie

  By Deanne Quarrie on December 25, 2014 • ( 22 )

  

  First of all a Crone is a woman. She has lived most of her life already and has accumulated many life experiences and therefore, can relate to those younger than her with greater understanding. She has acquired the wisdom associated… Read More ›

• One Small Red Leaf by Deanne Quarrie

  By Deanne Quarrie on November 22, 2014 • ( 8 )

  

  It seems to me that the goal of most people is to be happy. We seek it ourselves and hope that those we love find it as well. Happy is an elusive state. At best it is hard to define… Read More ›

• The Descent of Inanna to the Underworld by Deanne Quarrie

  By Deanne Quarrie on October 25, 2014 • ( 9 )

  

  Inanna provides a many-faceted image of the feminine. She is a goddess of order, fertility, grains, love, war, heaven and earth, healing, and emotion. She is called the “Lady of Myriad Offices”. Most of the powers once held by her,… Read More ›