{"id":1205,"date":"2013-03-20T06:00:51","date_gmt":"2013-03-20T10:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/thequeenofmyself\/?p=1205"},"modified":"2013-03-06T20:10:12","modified_gmt":"2013-03-07T01:10:12","slug":"her-green-pulse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/thequeenofmyself\/2013\/03\/her-green-pulse.html","title":{"rendered":"Her Green Pulse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\" align=\"center\">In honor of the Verna; Equinox, I would .like to offer this beautiful poem:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\" align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\"><strong>Her Green Pulse<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong><em>by <a href=\"http:\/\/feraferia.org\/joomla\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=114:her-green-pulse&amp;catid=36:the-fey&amp;Itemid=56\" target=\"_blank\">Jo Carson<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong><em>The opening poem from &#8220;Dancing With Gaia&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\nBlood of Her veins, the rivers<br \/>\nVoice of Her breath, the wind<br \/>\nFire of Her will, erupting volcanoes<br \/>\nGreen of Her hair, the rolling grass hills<br \/>\nStrength of Her spine, mountains&#8217; tall backs.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\nPersephone, Moon Maiden, whose returning steps<br \/>\nGrant springtime once more<br \/>\nOld Spider Grandmother<br \/>\nWeaving worlds from Her womb.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\nSnake Woman<br \/>\nShedding and renewing Her skin<br \/>\nIn wrinkled and wriggling forms<br \/>\nEarth Mother who birthed us<br \/>\nHer furry babes, Her leafy litter.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\nYou listen to Her rhythms<br \/>\nHer passionate drumbeat<br \/>\nIn the undulating hills<br \/>\nAs She dances, turning and trembling<br \/>\nIn circles of chants.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\nThe dance of Her green pulse unfolds all bodies<br \/>\nAnd all blessings from earth&#8217;s fragrant form.<br \/>\nYou sense Her energy bubbling upward<br \/>\nPast spine and skull, chakras glowing gold<br \/>\nA geyser bridge to star and sky.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\" align=\"center\">Happy Spring!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\" align=\"center\">xxQueen Mama Donna<\/p>\n<p>*****<\/p>\n<p>Donna Henes is the author of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thequeenofmyself.com\"><em>The Queen of My Self: Stepping into Sovereignty in Midlife<\/em><\/a>. She offers counseling and upbeat, practical and ceremonial guidance for individual women and groups who want to enjoy the fruits of an enriching, influential, purposeful, passionate, and powerful maturity. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.donnahenes.net\/queen\/consult.shtml\">Consult the MIDLIFE MIDWIFE\u2122<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Queen welcomes questions concerning all issues of interest to women in their mature years. Send your inquiries to <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/thequeenofmyself\/wp-admin\/thequeenofmyself@aol.com\">thequeenofmyself@aol.com.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In honor of the Verna; Equinox, I would .like to offer this beautiful poem: Her Green Pulse by Jo Carson The opening poem from &#8220;Dancing With Gaia&#8221; Blood of Her veins, the rivers Voice of Her breath, the wind Fire of Her will, erupting volcanoes Green of Her hair, the rolling grass hills Strength of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":218,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,2,6],"tags":[190,218,777,174,59,81,13,440,47,120,280,775,60,778,776],"class_list":["post-1205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-goddess","category-inspiration","category-spirituality","tag-celebrate","tag-ceremony","tag-green-goddess","tag-growth","tag-healing","tag-heart","tag-holistic-living","tag-life","tag-love","tag-nurturing","tag-passion","tag-spring-spring-equinox","tag-transformation","tag-verdant-growth","tag-vernal-equinox"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Her Green Pulse - The Queen of My Self<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/thequeenofmyself\/2013\/03\/her-green-pulse.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Her Green Pulse - The Queen of My Self\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In honor of the Verna; Equinox, I would .like to offer this beautiful poem: Her Green Pulse by Jo Carson The opening poem from &#8220;Dancing With Gaia&#8221; Blood of Her veins, the rivers Voice of Her breath, the wind Fire of Her will, erupting volcanoes Green of Her hair, the rolling grass hills Strength of&hellip;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/thequeenofmyself\/2013\/03\/her-green-pulse.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"The Queen of My Self\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2013-03-20T10:00:51+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2013-03-07T01:10:12+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Donna Henes\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Her Green Pulse - The Queen of My Self","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/thequeenofmyself\/2013\/03\/her-green-pulse.html","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Her Green Pulse - The Queen of My Self","og_description":"In honor of the Verna; Equinox, I would .like to offer this beautiful poem: Her Green Pulse by Jo Carson The opening poem from &#8220;Dancing With Gaia&#8221; Blood of Her veins, the rivers Voice of Her breath, the wind Fire of Her will, erupting volcanoes Green of Her hair, the rolling grass hills Strength of&hellip;","og_url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/thequeenofmyself\/2013\/03\/her-green-pulse.html","og_site_name":"The Queen of My Self","article_published_time":"2013-03-20T10:00:51+00:00","article_modified_time":"2013-03-07T01:10:12+00:00","author":"Donna Henes","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/thequeenofmyself\/2013\/03\/her-green-pulse.html","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/thequeenofmyself\/2013\/03\/her-green-pulse.html","name":"Her Green Pulse - The Queen of My Self","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/thequeenofmyself\/#website"},"datePublished":"2013-03-20T10:00:51+00:00","dateModified":"2013-03-07T01:10:12+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/thequeenofmyself\/#\/schema\/person\/544e888db264d2e1c6e32fd2f80c031a"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/thequeenofmyself\/2013\/03\/her-green-pulse.html#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/thequeenofmyself\/2013\/03\/her-green-pulse.html"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/thequeenofmyself\/2013\/03\/her-green-pulse.html#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/thequeenofmyself"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Her Green Pulse"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/thequeenofmyself\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/thequeenofmyself\/","name":"The Queen of My Self","description":"Beliefnet Voices - Donna Henes","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/thequeenofmyself\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/thequeenofmyself\/#\/schema\/person\/544e888db264d2e1c6e32fd2f80c031a","name":"Donna Henes","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/thequeenofmyself\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/thequeenofmyself\/wp-content\/wphb-cache\/gravatar\/0c6\/0c683cd428803d35cf10fae85f8125ebx96.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/thequeenofmyself\/wp-content\/wphb-cache\/gravatar\/0c6\/0c683cd428803d35cf10fae85f8125ebx96.jpg","caption":"Donna Henes"},"description":"Donna Henes is an internationally renowned urban shaman, ritual expert, award-winning author, popular speaker and workshop leader whose joyful celebrations of celestial events have introduced ancient traditional rituals and contemporary ceremonies to millions of people in more than 100 cities since 1972. She has published four books, a CD, an acclaimed Ezine and writes for The Huffington Post and UPI Religion and Spirituality Forum. Mama Donna, as she is affectionately called, maintains a ceremonial center, spirit shop, ritual practice and consultancy where she works with individuals, groups, institutions, municipalities and corporations to create meaningful ceremonies for every imaginable occasion.","sameAs":["http:\/\/www.thequeenofmyself.com"],"url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/thequeenofmyself\/author\/dhenes"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/thequeenofmyself\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/thequeenofmyself\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/thequeenofmyself\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/thequeenofmyself\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/218"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/thequeenofmyself\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1205"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/thequeenofmyself\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1206,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/thequeenofmyself\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205\/revisions\/1206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/thequeenofmyself\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/thequeenofmyself\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/thequeenofmyself\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}