Burning Woman

An initiation by fire part of the Lost Archetypes of the Feminine series. Nautilus Silver Award 2017 in the category Women. A wordofmouth phenomenon. Referenced by CNN in their reporting on the rise of modern witchcraft, as well as by WeMoon, and shared by the singer P!nk on her social media. Ever present in social media memes, and has inspired spinoff art, music, tattoos and even a festival. A popular pick for book clubs. Burning Woman is a breathtaking and controversial womans journey through history personal and cultural on a quest to find and free her own power.Uncompromising and allencompassing, Pearce uncovers the archetype of the Burning Women of days gone by Joan of Arc and the witch trials, through to the way women are burned today in cyber bullying, acid attacks, shaming and burnout, fearlessly examining the roots of Feminine power what it is, how it has been controlled, and why it needs to be unleashed on the world during our modern Burning Times.Burning Woman explores: Burning from within: a womans powerhow to build it, engage it and not be destroyed by it. Burning from without: the role of shame, and honour in the timeworn ways the dominant culture uses fire to control the Feminine. The darkness: overcoming our fear of the dark, and discovering its importance in cultivating power. This incendiary text was written for women who burn with passion, have been burned with shame, and who at another time, in another place, would have been burned at the stake. With contributions from leading burning women of our era: Isabel Abbott, ALisa Starkweather, Shiloh Sophia McCloud, Molly Remer, Julie Daley, Bethany Webster ...Lucy Pearce has given voice to what a generation of women are feeling and burning to express. This book is filled with our collective calling, and inspires women to burn with our wild, fierce wisdom and creativity, and to push forwards to fully occupy our equality. I celebrate this book and celebrate and acknowledge Lucy Pearce as a wise, wild and courageous woman who has written a very important book of our time. A mustread for all women! A lifechanging book that fills the reader with a burning passion and desire for change! Glennie Kindred, author and illustrator of eleven books on celebrating the Earth and ourselvesBurning Woman is a passionate call to wake up both to our present reality and to entrance ourselves to the remembrance of our power. Lucys prose is poetic, raw and dances on the edge of outrageous where outrageous means to defy what we have been taught and have accepted to our detriment. I am proud to call myself a burning woman. . . Jane Meredith, author of Journey to the Dark Goddess and Circle of EightLucy H. Pearces Burning Woman carries the torch of the sacred Feminine into the dark corners of womens unexpressed and unfulfilled desire and power. She dares us to burn down that which does not serve life, to use our fire to transform the world. Oriah Mountain Dreamer HouseLucy Pearce is a gifted writer, a gentle wayshower, and a fierce pioneer in these times of global transformation. This book is a true gift and, if you are a woman ripe for transformation, it can fan the inner flames, sparking you to own that fire and let it burn all that is false within you, revealing the power that was yours all along. Every woman should read this book! Thank you Lucy! Bethany Webster, Healing the Mother WoundIn an era when Western feminism seems too often about loudly celebrating woman as victim, this is a refreshing book. Lucys vibrant words are a sound reminder, and a joy to read. Emma Restall Orr, author of Kissing the Hag