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Susan's Favorite Links

Political Thoughts

Huffington Post The news that the Mainstream Media doesn't always tell you about, and bloggers comments on it.
Daily Kos This blog of politics and life almost always has something interesting.

Plastic Bottle Overload

BPA
Do you eat or drink anything from cans or plastic bottles? You may want to know how to protect against BPA (Bisphenol-A).

Body

Trillium Organics The woman behind this company is a Nordic Amazon, and she makes wonderful all natural skin products, which I use and wholly recommend.

Lunapads Pads, sea sponges, and other menstrual products by a women-owned company.

Jade and Pearl A woman-owned company that has natural body products and a Moon Maiden kit for girls who have just begun to menstruate. Be sure to give them a Lunar Phase Card to go with it!


Books or 'zines

National Geographic Fun animal videos, a kid's section, and lots of beautiful photographs of people and places all around the world.

 New Moon Magazine A magazine for girls and their dreams. Their focus encourages girls to maintain a strong and positive self image as they transform into young women.

Yoni - women's zine by and about maidens, mothers and crones.

Cool Calendars

We'Moon Calendars A diverse collection of women have been creating this day planner for many years. It has lunar and astrological information, plus fine artwork and inspirational words. They also have a standard wall calendar, which shows every day's lunar phase. I make a smaller version of my LPC which goes near the back of their day planner.

Calendar Zone Lists many types of calendars online and off.

Gardening by the Moon Calendar This is available for several different planting zones.


Goddess Inspired Art

Wellstone Jewelry Some of this jewelry is sold here at Snake and Snake, but they have many more lovely designs of wicca, pagan, goddess, tarot, angel, celtic, totem, mystical, fetility, pregnancy and birthing motifs. Contact me if you wish to order something I don't carry, or buy it directly from them. This jewelry is handcrafted in sterling silver or 14K gold, many with semi-precious gems. Family made in USA since 1978.  
Sacred Source - statuettes of over 300 goddesses and deities from around the world.

Goddess paintings by Sandra M. Stanton: This artist uses her friends as models so her goddesses look very real. She has also done a lot of research and soul-searching about each Goddess, and sells affordable laser prints of her striking sacred images.

Craftswomen.com A website of craftswomen, many of whom sell their wares at women's music festivals. Now you can see their work and shop even if you can't get to the festivals.

Goddess Spirituality

Tara's Sheela-na-gig website - all about this celtic Goddess of Gateways.

Spiral Goddess Grove by Abby Willowroot - a gigantic goddess site with lots of sacred groves on many goddesses, & one for the green man.

PaganPath.com Articles about gardening,tarot, herbs; Book of Shadows with spells, recipes, basic beliefs, traditions: A forum, pagan greetings, free email accounts.

Mythology

Encyclopedia Mythica 5000 articles, 300 illustrations, on topics such as Arthurian legend,& "mythology"[religion] of Aztec, Celtic, Chinese, Egyptian, Etruscan, Greek, Haitian, Hindu, Japanese, Latvian, Mayan,... and that's just half the alphabet.

Ancient Art This site has info on Amazons in Greek Mythology, Camelot & Arthurian Legend, The Bestiary, Celtic Deities and Myths, &Voodoo

Diotima Resources for studying Women and Gender in the Ancient World. This is pretty academic, but there are some nice images if you click enough.

Outer Space

Astronomy Picture of the Day Archive These outer space images are very beautiful (some quite large). Each is explained by an astromomer.

Eclipse Home Page Fred Espenak (of NASA) has the most complete eclipse info, both for Solar and Lunar Eclipses.

The Moon

The Nine Planets




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