Vol 1, No. 1 (1986: Fall)

Contents: Shaman, Woman / story by Rosalind K. Bland – The Woman Who Listens to Stones / poem by Jay Reed – Weaving Transformation / Carol SheBear – The World Above//and the World Below / poem by Roberta Buchanan – Ishta Chikala (Young Girl) / poem by Wi I ni napa (Ms. P.J. Brown) – Woman and Music / poem by Louise Mattlage – the Green Tortoise 5 / poem by Donna Dimaulo – The Norse Runes: an Introduction / Lady Felice – Norn / poem by Roberta Buchanan – Talking to the Trees / Frodo Okulam – Equinox / poem by Barbara J. McGrath – Center Song / poem by Noel-Anne Brennan – Laughing Goddesses of India: Durga and Kali / Kathleen Alexander-Berghorn – The Passing of Blood / P. M. H. Atwater – Primal Earth Dance / poem by Yana Breeze – The True Story of the Myth of Demeter and Persephone and Hades / Louise Mattlage – The Mothers of Olumo Rock / Gerwine Sybil -- guises of the goddess / Mary Winfrey Trautmann – after medusa fell / Mary Winfrey Trautmann – Becoming Visible / Noel-Anne Brennan – “I Search You Out” / poem by Linda Whelan Marks – Night Flyer / poem by Diane de Hunt – “I sit in my cell” / poem by Maria Resto – The Statue of Libert-- Queen of the Burning West / Gail Schine – Halloween / poem by Dancing Wind – Rootworks Revisited - August '86 Lammas / an interview with Jean Mountaingrove by Bonne Holbrook – Circles of Exchange / Nan Hawthorne – Lionesses / poem by Robin Fre – Epiphany / poem by Nan Hawthorne – darksong / poem by Kira Moonsister – Laughing Bridget / Beverly Miller – At Home with The Golden Bough / cartoon by Joyce Baker -- The Book of Found Goddesses / Morgan Grey – Pagan Puzzles—Self-Healing Ritual / Luisa Fraancia – At Fall Equinox / poem by Luis eBudde DeLaurentis – Self-Blessing Belly Dance (Dance of the Womb) / Judith Laura – Anger Ritual / Bonne Holbrook – – Binding and Banishing Spell / Shekhinah Mountainwater – Rose Mediation / Cathe Hill

– Book Reviews: "Working Inside Out" by Margo Adler / reviewed by Crystal Leighty ; Changing the Book of Changes: "The Kwan Yin Book of Changes" by Diane Stein / reviewed by Nan Hawthorne ; Quilt of Women’s Live: "Seven Windows" by F. Zarod Rominski / reviewed by Raven Aurora ; "The Mother’s Songs" by Meinrad Craighead / reviewed by Fran Benson –Announcements and Networking -- Letters to SageWoman

-- Art: [untitled (leaves)] / zana -- [untitled (dancer)] / photograph by Louise Mattlage -- [untitled (Mother earth)] / Abby Willowroot -- [untitled (teepees along the tree line) / zana -- Prints of Durga and Kali / Indian women artists from the province of Mithila -- [untitled (female figure)] -- [untitled (African woman profile)] / Abby Willowroot -- [untitled (drumming)] / Abby Willowroot -- [untitled (snake goddess)] -- [untitled (sheilds)] / Abby Willowroot -- [untitled (womb)] / zana -- [untitled (leaf) / zana -- [untitled (crone)] -- [untitled (portrait of a woman)] / [Abby Willowroot?] -- [untitled (gardener profile)] / zana -- [untitled (cats)] / Abby Willowroot -- [untitled (ritual of a woman)] / unattributed photographs -- [untitled (frond)] / zana -- [untitled (dancer)] / Crystal Leighty -- A Woman Shield / photograph by Fran Benson -- [untitled (garlic strand)] / zana -- [untitled (warrioress)] / Abby Willowroot -- [untitled (psychic)] / Prairie Jackson -- [untitled (sprig)] -- [untitled (Snake Circle)] / Abby Willowroot -- [untitled (Goddess)] / Abby Willowroot -- [untitled (Bastet)] / Abby Willowroot -- [untitled (woman holding a candle)] / Kira Moonsister –

-- Cover art: [untitled (The turn of the wheel)] / front cover art by Abby Wiilowroot -- [untitled (woman gardening)] / inside front cover zana -- [untitled (quills) / inside back cover by zana -- [untitled (staring at the full moon)] / backcover by Prairie Jackson

Vol. 1, no. 2 (!986: Winter)

Contents: Just Who is That Jolly Old Elf / Beverly Miller – Listen to the Dance of the Mango / Ruthann Robson – When a Father Takes His Daughter to Wife / poem by Camille J. Compo – The Rose is a Swordless Warrior / poem by Diane de Hunt – The Quest / poem Wi i ni napa (Ms. P.J. Brown) – Pandora / poem by Doris Henderson – Initiation into the Feminine with Tarot / Christine Payne-Towler – Hibernation Exercises I / poem by Jay Reed -- Hibernation Exercises II / poem by Jay Reed – Humphrey’s Story / Amy Brown – “ In the Center of my Heart” / Gabrielle – Kore’s Descent, 9986 / Shekhinah Mountainwater – We Are SisterSpirit / Patti Long – Wooden bowls and old caves / poem by Pat Andrus – High Dive / / Judith Louise -- In the Bathtub With "The Tale of Genii" / cartoon by Lady Murasaki Shikibu (Joyce Brabner) -- A Winter Depression: What is It / Chris Arthur -- A Spree / poem by Carol Jean Logue – A Different Creation Poem / poem by Lisa Yount – Death and Vision / Pearl Time’s Child – A Winter Depression / poem by Chris Carol – Woman the Weaver / Noel-Anne Brennan – Dear Mother / poem by Carol Browning – Spiderwoman’s Journey Within / poem by Carol Browning – Chains / Nan Hawthorne -- Letters to SageWoman -- Announcements and Networking -- News from SageWoman -- The Bag of Bones / poem by Lisa Yount

-- Reviews: Women’s Rites by Beverly Byrne / reviewed by Judith Laura; Feminist Spirituality Annotated by Anne Carson / reviewed by Beverly Miller

– Art: [untitled (salamandar in the fire)] / Crystal Leighty -- [untitled (ancestors)] / Abby Willowroot -- [untitled (moonbeams)] / Crystal Leighty -- [untitled (tree)] / Crystal Leighty -- [untitled (between two worlds)] / tapestry photo by Jeff Carroll -- [untitled (Spider Woman)] / Abby Willowroot -- [untitled (Creatrix)] / Prairie Jackson -- [untitled (with a cloud over my head)] -- Abby Willowroot -- Chanukah Menorah / photography and creation by zana – Ethnic Dolls / created and photographed by Laurie Hall -- “Velvet red” / Judith Luoise – Answer to “Pagan Puzzles” / Jenny Stanton -- Cover art: "Cerridwen" / Abby Willowroot (1985) -- [untitled (wood stove)] / inside front cover by zana -- "Spider Woman" / inside back cover art by Abby Willowroot (1985)

Vol 2, No. 6 (9988 [1988]: Beltane=Summer Solstice). Theme: "Power"

Contents: WomanRunes bindrunes for SageWoman / Shekhinah -- Lunaea’s Corner – Homage to the Moon (and to the ever-changing goddess) / poem by Rashani (Tori Réa) – Power / Joanna Macy, from a talk given at Women's Alliance Summer Solstice Camp, 1987 – The Lessons of Power / through Shekhinah – Granny the Samurai / Diane DeHunt – Vocal Self-Defense / Victoria Singer – Evening Breeze / unattributed music – Beauty and the Body / Ruah Bull – How to Become a Warrior Woman / poem by Donna Dimaulo – My First Sweat / Carol Jean Logue – The Raining Day / Michelle Ritchie – A Secret Poem to Tiger Lil / Zoe Calder – Power Animals / Lauren Cruden – Blood of My Ancestors / Spider – Z Budapest on Power – The Awakening (Haleakala Crater) / poem by Rashani (Tori Réa) – The Summer Journal of The RiverWind Women / Kaitlin Mara Meadows – Great Spirit Chant [Wakanyan make loa wakanyan make lo] / unattributed music – Birth Empowerment / Jane M. Hearren – Networking / Peggy – Comparing Shopping with St. Claire / comic by Joyce Brabner -- Tools for Transformation – The Rattle / Judith -- Full Fat Moon / poem by Naomi Strichartz – Gatherings & Events -- Goods & Services -- Letters – Rainbow Cone Meditation / through Shekinah -- I'm Beating a Heart Beat" / poem by Melody Oakroot

-- New & Recommended: The Goddess Obscured: Transformation of the Grain Protectress from Goddess to Stain by Pamela Berger / reviewed by Jennifer Bess; Peace Pilgrim, Her Life and Word / autobiography reviewed by Becca Harber

– Art: [untitled (Goddess of the sea and air)] / Sudie Rakusin (1983) -- [untitled ([Web of Life)] / Sudie Rakusin 1987 from Dreams & Shadows -- [untitled (Power)] / Sudie Rakusin 1987 from Dreams & Shadows --Three of Flames / Daughters of the Moon Tarot -- [untitled (Onna-musha)] / Beth Garrett -- [untitled (Onna-musha kneeling) / Beth Garrett -- [untitled (singer with maracas)] / Sudie Rakusin 1987 from Dreams & Shadows -- Two of Flames / from Daughters of the Moon Tarot -- [untitled (drum with holes)] / Wahaba Heartsun -- [untitled (drum with art)] / Wahaba Heartsun -- [untitled (woman and eagle)] / Wahaba Heartsun -- [untitled (woman carrying her cat)] / Sudie Rakusin 1987 from Dreams and Shadows -- [untitled (tarot reader)] / Sudie Rakusin (1983) -- [untitled (cat in tree)] / photograph by Donne Teague -- Five of Flames / Daughters of the Moon Tarot -- [untitiled (pregnant woman)] / Jesse Sweetwater -- [untitled (mother and child) / Jesse Sweetwater (2 version) -- [untitled (bonding of women) / Victoria Singer -- [untitled (elemental circle)] / Wahaba Heartsun -- [untitled (dancing under the full moon)] / Abby Willowroot -- Ten of Blades / from Daughters of the Moon Tarot

-- Cover art: Kali, the Awakener / Daughters of the Moon Tarot, Ffiona Morgan & Kate Taylor -- Advertisements: SilverRiver Productions (North Brunswick, N.J.) -- WomanRunes / created by Shekhinah -- Medicine Star Productions (East Palo Alto, Calif.) -- Of a Like Mind (Madison, Wis.) -- Spiritual Women's Times (Seattle, Wash.) -- Goddess Gowns (Metairie, La.) -- In Her Image (Portland, Or.) -- Eve's Hands (Wauwatosa, Wis.) -- Tools for Change (San Francisco, Calif.) [Margo Adair]

Vol. 2, No. 8 (9988 [1988]: Winter Solstice). Theme: "Looking Within"

Contents: Formula for Self-Transformation / Ann Keith -- Luanea’s Corner – Searching for Letters from Home: An Aftermoon in the Metropolitan Museum / poem by Oriethyia – Keepers of the Flame: An Interview with Diane Mariechild and Shuli Goodman / Lunaea Weathersome – Excerpt from: Earth and Sky II / a meditation form The Inner Dance by Diane Mariechild and Shuli Goodman – Altars -- Keeping Silence / Carol Jean Logue – Beginnings / Jania Korab – Solstice Song / poem by Joanna Cazden – On Journal Keeping / Stephanie Edwards – A Rainbow Journal / Jennifer Cobb – Journal Writing as Entering the Underworld / Joann Colbert – Darkness is My Oldest Friend / Anne Newkirk Niven – A Mediation to Meet the Crone of Winter / Shirley Schnirel

– Journeys Within: Guided Visualization Tapes for Women: "Inner Women" series by Denise Linn ; "Inner Sancturary" ; "Initiation into the Mysteries of the Goddess" ; "Moon Priestess" ; "Reclaiming Women's Spirituality Series" by Amber Wolfe ; "Moon Dancing" with Kay Gardner ; "Shamana" ; "Rainflowers" / summerized and reviewed by Mona Dubow – Thirteen Days of Solstice / Shekhinah Mountainwater – Solstice Carols: Lyrics to "Triple Solstice Goddess / words by Lunaea Weatherstone ; "The First Noël / words by Louise Budde DeLaurentis ; "The Solstice Child" / words by Lunaea Weatherstone ; "O Holy Night" / words by Shekhinah Mountainwater ; "A Feminist Solstice Song" / words by Louise Budde DeLaurentis ; "Joy to the World" / words by Lunaea Weatherstone – Looking Within / Pam Sekula – Invocation to Diana / Francesca Dubie – Spirit Guides / Peggy – Winter Solstice / poem by Rashani – Powerful Spirits of Magic / Spider – Learning and Growing through Dream Progressions / Becca Harber – “I am not afraid” / Bird Woman -- “Deepening skies” / Pam Sekula – Tools for Transformation: "The '89 Lunar Calendar" ; "Take Back the Night" ; "Mountain Moving Women" / calendars reviewed by Lunaea – Aradia: A Ritual for Candlemas / Shekhinah Mountainwater – From Hygeia’s Garden / Becca Harber – Networking – Web Weavers – The Rattle / Wahaba Heartson – The Coming of Winter / poem by Joanna Cazden – Learning to Meditate, Part one. We Learn to Be Still… Results of the SageWoman Summer Survey -- ceremony / by Frances Benson

-- Reviews: The Feminist Tarot by Jean Freer / reviewed by Tracey Hoover ; "Festivals: A Bimonthly Journal of Ritual and Celebration" / reviewed by Lunaea

– Art: Black Madonna / Joann Colbert -- [untitled (four of hearts)] / Becca Harber -- [photographs of altars] / Fran Benson ; Lunaea ; Claire jones -- Isis: The Priestess / Ffiona Morgan, Daughters of the Moon Tarot -- [Untitled (winter solstice)] / Nuit-Cat (1983) [Wahaba heartsun] -- [Untitled (Journaling)] / Wahaba Heartsun -- [untitled (Eight of Cups)] / Ffiona Morgan, Daughters of the Moon Tarot -- [untitled (offering to the dark)] / Victoria Singer -- [untitled (crone witch)] / Wahaba Heartsun -- [untitled (visions)] / Wahaba Heartsun -- [untitled (woman and nautalis)] / Sudie Rakusin -- [untitled (Seven of Pipes)] / Carol Bridges, Earth Nation, Medicine Woman Tarot -- [untitled (The Grandmothers)] / Carol Bridges, Earth Nation, Medicine Woman Tarot -- [untitled (Hygieia?)] / Becca Harber -- Ten of Blades / from Daughters of the Moon Tarot

-- Cover art: "Looking Within'' / Roma Heillig Morris

-- Advertisements: StarRiver Productions (North Brunswick, N.J.) -- Sinister Wisdom (Berkeley, Calif.) -- Heartsong Review (Cottage Grove, Or.) -- Womongathering, May 19-21, 1989, near Oxford Pennsylvania -- [assorted bumper stickers] from SageWoman -- Rising Signs (Summit Park, Utah) -- Octava (Clear Lake, Wash.) -- Spiritual Women's Times (Seattle, Wash.) -- Jane Sipe, Jeweler -- Sequoia Graphics (Cypress, Calif.) [Joann Colbert] -- Moonbear (Houston, Tex.) -- Thunder Studio (Cedar Ridge, Calif.0 -- Goddess Gowns (Metairie, La.) [S.G. Fountain] -- Tarot Counseling by Lunaea Weatherstone -- Llethtovar Creations (Urbana, Ohio) -- Of a Like Mind (Madison, Wish.) -- Creative Carvings (Palisades, N.Y.) -- eve's Hands (Wauwatosa, Wis.) Stuffing Sheet: SageWoman Magazine envelope for mailing in subscriptions. Moved to Folder 16