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	<title>Angela Raincatcher &#124; Nine Ravens Studio</title>
	<link>http://www.nineravens.com</link>
	<description>with a strong and open heart</description>
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		<title>Prayer to Brighid</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Goddes of the Flame,&#8221; digital collage by Angela Raincatcher, 2007. O holy Brighid of the Eternal Flame You who inspire the hearts and minds of the poets, warriors, and healers, You of the flaming hair and starry cloak, We honor you and give you thanks. You breathe the words that evoke beauty, honorable deeds, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Protecting What&#8217;s Ours</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After about 12 years of visioning and fundraising, the Open Hearth Foundation is opening a community center for pagans of all paths here in the District of Columbia. The center officially opens December 31, 2011, but Becoming has the honor of facilitating the cleansing, warding, and blessing of the center at its monthly circle of connection [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Remembering Women I Never Met</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Five Generations and Rosemary, originally uploaded by Ninth Raven. These are my maternal ancestors, photographed in Oklahoma in the mid-1920s . The baby is my grandmother&#8217;s older sister, Hazel Fulmer. The woman holding her is her great-grandmother, Betsy Strickland. Clockwise from her is my great-grandmother, Mabel Fulmer; her mother, Betsy McWhorter-White; and Granny Gepford, Hazel&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nineravens.com/archives/remembering-women-i-never-met/</link>
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		<title>Problematic Family History</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;When We Talk to Our Dead, They Talk Back&#8221; ancestor altar, installed at the Torpedo Factory Art Center, Alexandria, VA, for &#8220;Dia de los Muertos: The Art of Remembrance&#8221; exhibition, 2011 How do we relate to problematic ancestors, family secrets, and past betrayals of faith and trust? Honoring the ancestors seems to imply that you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nineravens.com/archives/problematic-family-history/</link>
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		<title>Short Film &amp; Remembrance: Dionysus</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Damn, I am excited. I am transfixed, mesmerized, and pulled inexorabily forward into the world of this film: go to Youtube.com to see it. I remember in my late teens and early twenties being fascinated by Dionysus, but never quite having the courage to surrender fully to the madness and the ecstasy. This film, by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nineravens.com/archives/short-film-remembrance-dionysus/</link>
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		<title>Tarot Blessing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of my spiritual groups, Becoming, is undergoing a time of transitions. I am stepping down as the Presiding Celebrant after eight and a half years of service, and handing the responsibility over to my dear spirit sister Ketzirah and her vision. We have also been struggling with the continual search for a permanent home [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nineravens.com/archives/tarot-blessing/</link>
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		<title>Shrine for the Guardian of Life and Death</title>
		<description><![CDATA[  I&#8217;ve been working on this piece for two and a half years. It was supposed to take only two months. The vision from the Baron was so clear. I felt all I had to do was gather the pieces and put them together. And yet it took so long. If I have learned anything [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nineravens.com/archives/shrine-for-the-guardian-of-life-and-death/</link>
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		<title>Sacred Heart of the Elements</title>
		<description><![CDATA[New artwork completed back in April 2011. Acrylic on canvas.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nineravens.com/archives/sacred-heart-of-the-elements/</link>
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		<title>What is magic?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What is magic? The young child asks. Imagine, if you will, a scintillating light wandering through all time and space, linking my heart to you heart, to the heart of our cat, to the heart of the pine tree, to the heart of a virus, to the heart of the homeless man across the street, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nineravens.com/archives/what-is-magic/</link>
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		<title>Beautiful Wise Women</title>
		<description><![CDATA[  &#8220;As we age, we have the chance to reinvent ourselves and to have new adventures. Arthritis took me away from painting. Now I use my artistic abilities to design clothes. As we age, our connection to our deeper womb powers increase and we are often blessed with new gifts of magic.&#8221; —Ingeborg Ten Haeff, [...]]]></description>
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