Become the creatrix you've always wanted to be!

We crochet, knit, bead, cross stitch, and more. This is the opportunity you've been waiting for to develop and practice your craft.

Option to bring (Good) Food for (Positive) Thought.

There will always be some tea brewing and a potluck dish. Feel free to bring a potluck dish, dessert, or drink. We love to eat!!

We'll meet once or twice a month, most often on a week night, 6:30pm to 9:00pm for Stitch 'n Bitch or Dianic Goddess Circle

(Over 21yrs & up please, although we will have one Maiden Circle ~ which is all ages ~ in January). 

All events are C.A.Y.A~Come as you are because you are perfect like that!!

We also have "field trips" and other classes held on other days/weekend days.  Field trips are a mix of crafty events, wise woman events, drum circles, festivals and classes that cover everything from living off the land to learning about goddess culture.  

Look at our upcoming calendar when you join us. It is usually full of great things to do together.

For Stitch 'n Bitch & Dianic Goddess Circle we ask for donations to help with the meet up costs. Some of the field trips do have varying fees, just check the message board and calendar for amounts.

Everyone is welcome, beginners to experienced. We can work on projects together, teach each other or just chat, eat and have a great time.  Even if you don't have a craft or project come on anyhow. 

We are here to celebrate conscious communication, the alchemy potential of women, and more -- inspiring us all to reclaim & express our Feminine Mojo.

All kind of fiber, yarn, needle work and crafting & Crafting is welcome here.

All women are welcome here...

(Sorry, no boys at our meetups)

Please note: After you join, look around and become acquainted with all that we do. Our message board is full of great ideas and field trips.  We are friends with other meetup groups as well.  We would love to get to know you.

The Dianic tradition is a vibrantly creative and evolving Women's Mystery tradition that is inclusive of all women. Our practices include celebrating and honoring the numerous physical, emotional and other life cycle passages that women share by having been born female. Contemporary Dianic tradition recognizes the greater or lesser effects and influences of the dominant culture on every aspect of women's lives. Since 1971, the Dianic movement has inspired and provided healing rituals to counter the effects of living in patriarchy, and has worked to understand, deconstruct, and heal from the dominant culture wherein we live and practice our faith. We define "patriarchy" as the use of "power-over" thinking and action to oppress others, either institutionally, or within the personal sphere of our lives.

The Goddess is celebrated in Her triple aspects of Maiden, Mother, and Crone as a manifestation of the entire life cycle: birth, maturation, and death. The Goddess has the power to bring forth life, nurture life, protect life, sustain life, and destroy life. This concept contains nature's entire continuum.

-- Dianic tradition is a Women's Mysteries ritual tradition that celebrates women's life cycle events.
Dianics recognize that it is within our own power to restore meaning to our lives by honoring the rites of passage we call Women's Mysteries. We recognize that our human experience is filtered through, and informed by our women's bodies and specifically female physiology. Dianics are committed to valuing equally all phases of women's lives, from childhood to becoming an elder. As with the turning of the seasons, each phase in honored in its time.

Our vision is to empower women and transform our global culture so that women and men live in true equality worldwide.

 As women, we honor the ways that we are informed by our female physiology, cellular memory, and our ability to work power from within our wombs and outward. Even if a woman has had her womb removed later in life, her body of wisdom has been informed by her physical experiences of girlhood and womanhood. She will continue to work power from her womb-space all her life. Because Dianic Tradition focuses on rites to heal women from the effects of personal and global oppression, we deal with growing up female in woman-hating cultures worldwide. The depth to which patriarchy has shaped and affected our lives as women cannot truly be understood unless one has experienced it from birth

Dianics honor our foremothers' voices, thoughts, and ideas.
The Dianic tradition is committed to uncovering, examining, reclaiming, or ascribing contemporary meanings to the lost or forgotten legacies, traditions, and magical practices of our foremothers from earliest times, and to recover herstory. We recognize that women's practices of the past are time- and place-specific, and that it is up to us to ascribe and reconstruct new meanings for spiritual practices within today's cultural contexts.

We honor our ancestors, and the wombs from which we sprang, understanding that without honoring our past, we have no present or future. We honor our foremothers whose courageous pioneering efforts forged the way for us and made our path easier.

 Power is sourced through our wombs.
Our wombs are literally and metaphorically our personal cauldrons of creation, our centers. Power, defined as the ability to do, comes from within and with, not from exercising power over another. We recognize that womb-space is still the energetic source of power, even if a woman has had a hysterectomy.

Dianics honor the body of a woman as a manifestation of the Goddess.
Dianic believe that it is healing and joyous for a woman to have a personal and direct experience of herself as a sacred manifestation of the Goddess, not just intellectually, but on an ecstatic cellular level. Dianic tradition promotes the spiritual, religious, and celebratory use of female imagery as one of the many manifestations of the Goddess, as we recognize ourselves and all our children as born in Her divine image.

Sacred play is a form of spiritual practice.
Finding ways to enjoy and appreciate the gifts of life offered by the Goddess daily is a way to worship Her. Partaking fully of these pleasurable moments counters despair and fuels our courage and activism.

 Dianic tradition is a teaching tradition.
Women teaching, sharing, and passing down knowledge is an act of sharing power. Teaching the next generation will help ensure that the Dianic tradition will endure and women's wisdom survives.

Dianic ritual and magical practices honor women's creativity, intuition, and ability to improvise.
Rather than scripted or set liturgy as the consistent or expected norm, Dianics encourage improvisation (authentic creative expression in the moment)in the arts, dance, writing, inspired speech and song in ritual design and during the ritual itself. Beloved songs, chants, poetry, and invocations often become tradition when repeated over time and as they continue to provide meaningful ritual experiences for a group or a solitary practitioner.

 By Ruth Rhiannon Barrett, Dianic High Priestess, Author and founder of Temple of Diana, the motherhouse of Sisters of the Moon and a legally recognized religious organization.