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Águila Talks about Her Memoir

Águila Talks about Her Memoir

Maria Cristina Moroles, known now by her ceremonial name Águila, is an Indigenous curandera, shaman, and landyke who has lived at Santuario Arco Iris, rugged women’s land in the Ozark Mountains near Ponca, Arkansas, since 1974. The land offers over a hundred acres of sanctuary for women and children, especially women and children of color. In 2000, she founded the Arco Iris Earth Care Project, a nonprofit that preserves 400 acres of neighboring wilderness land.

Posted on August 14, 2024 Posted in Lesbian Land Groups, Publishing, Publications, and Booksellers, Spirituality and Religion Tagged with Aguila, Águila, Águila The Vision Life Death and Rebirth of a Two-Spirit Shaman in the Ozark Mountains, Arco Iris, Arco Iris Earth Care Project, Arkansas, curandera, Diana Rivers, Fayetteville Arkansas, indigenous sustainability skills, interns, land stewards, Landyke, Lauri Umansky, Luisa, Maria Cristina Moroles, Ozark Mountains, Patti Cardozo, Ponca, Rancho Arco Iris, Santuario Arco Iris, Sassafras, shaman, Shiner, Sun Hawk, Woofer, World Wide Organization of Organic Farms, WWOOF

Águila: The Vision, Life, Death and Rebirth of a Two-Spirit Shaman in the Ozark Mountains

Águila: The Vision, Life, Death and Rebirth of a Two-Spirit Shaman in the Ozark Mountains

Maria Cristina Moroles, Águila (eagle), has lived at Santuario Arco Iris in the Ozark mountains since 1976. It is one of the few women’s land communities in the United States founded by women of color. An Indigenous Mexican American curandera (healer), Águila turned this very, very rugged mountain land into a sanctuary for women and girls.

Posted on August 12, 2024 Posted in Lesbian Land Groups, Spirituality and Religion Tagged with Águila, Arco Iris Earth Care Project, Arkansas, curandera, Dallas, Fayetteville, Indigenous, José Moroles, Landykes of the South, Lauri Umansky, Maria Cristina Moroles, memoir, Mexican, Ozarks, Rainbow Land, Santuario Arco Iris, Sassafras, shaman, SunHawk, Texas

Maria Cristina Moroles (Águila): Building Sacred Community on the Land

Maria Cristina Moroles (Águila): Building Sacred Community on the Land

It’s a very complex thing that I’ve taken very seriously as a sacred responsibility. Our mission now is to heal our community, our local community, our Ozark community, and our indigenous community; and to bring all the colors into sacred union again.

Posted on May 24, 2024 Posted in Lesbian Land Groups, Social and Political Groups, Spirituality and Religion Tagged with Aguila, Arco Iris Earth Care Project, Coahiulateco, cristina morales, curandera, epidemic of hepatitis, Ester Martinez, Fayetteville Arkansas, healer, hippie commune, indigenous daughters, indigenous women of color, Maria Christina Moroles Águila, master massage therapist, Mexica nation, Mexico, Michigan Womyns Music Festival, Native American, organic farming, Ozark Food Coop Warehouse, Ozark Natural Foods Co op, Ozark Womens Trucking Collective, Rainbow Goddess, Rainbow Ranch, Rancho Arco Iris, raped, recurring dream, Santa Maria, Sassafras, Sassafras Women’s Collective, separatist, Shiner Patti Cardozo, South Texas, spiritual medicine lodge, SunHawk, survival camp, vision, women’s community

Diana Rivers: From Atheist to Pagan

Diana Rivers: From Atheist to Pagan

Diana Rivers’s sculpture called Goddess Rising is the centerpiece of her home altar. Courtesy of Diana Rivers

Diana Rivers goes from atheist to pagan while serving cakes for the Queen of Heaven.

Posted on October 1, 2022 Posted in Culture and the Arts, Lesbian Land Groups, Publishing, Publications, and Booksellers, Spirituality and Religion Tagged with Bea Howard, City of Strangers, Clouds of War, Dancer for The Goddess, Diana Rivers, Fayetteville Arkansas, Goddess Festival, Goddess Productions, Journey to Zelindar, Matriarts, OLHA, Ozark Land Holding Association, Path Hennon, Sassafras, Snake Memories and Other Stories, speculative fiction, the Hadra, The Red Line of Yarmald, The Smuggler The Spy and the Spider, Vick Kelley, WomanVision

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