The Goddess movement is an overall trend in religious or spiritual beliefs or practices which emerged out of second-wave feminism, predominantly in North America, Western Europe, Australia and New Zealand in the 1970s. Spurred by centuries of male dominated organized religion (or a supreme deity referred to by masculine pronouns i.e. "he"), some women embraced the idea of a female deity that was more in keeping with feminist beliefs and the inherent value of women. A unifying theme of the movement was that the gender of deity characterizes the political gender-bias of the religion, so a Goddess Worshipping religion is held to be matriarchal and a "God" worshipping religion is held to be patriarchal.

Goddess beliefs can take many forms; some people in the Goddess movement recognize multiple goddesses. Some also include gods. While others honor what they refer to as "the Goddess", which is not necessarily seen as monotheistic, but is often understood to be an inclusive, encompassing term incorporating many goddesses in many different cultures. The term "the Goddess" may also be understood to include a multiplicity of ways to view deity personified as female, or as a metaphor, or as a process. (Christ 1997, 2003)

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Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92, in 1811, was the seventh of his nine symphonies. He worked on it while staying in the Bohemian spa town of Teplice in the hope of improving his health. It was completed in 1812, and was dedicated to Count Moritz von Fries.

At its debut, Beethoven was noted as remarking that it was one of his best works.^[1] The second movement Allegretto was the most popular movement and had to be encored.^[1] The instant popularity of the Allegretto resulted in its frequent performance separate from the complete symphony.^[2]

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I a stranger have also journeyed

To strange lands

Have beheld the sunsets of other worlds

The looks of  fear & desire

In the eyes of women & faces of men

In somber streets of evening

I have fallen in Love with princesses

Songstresses poetesses dancers & actresses

I have been given intangible gifts

By these & nurtured secret  fiery

Passions in their midst

Hidden away

In places none may touch

Islands cities nations  I might see

Or perhaps never see again

I have chased my visions

Over seas & waste

High & low

& will do everything I've said

I'd do or find my end in haste

Taking none with me

Down ways I do not know

Beneath skies unfamiliar

With long cloud-cast shadows

This very morning I walked

In the cold toward the East

Then stood transfixed

At once comprehending my place

In all this

The crescent of the New Moon

And the Morning Star

My spacial relationship

To these as well the fronds

Of yonder palm

Moving gently in soft

Micro-climate breeze

No more Time for losers

& flakes in the Valley of Fruits & Nuts

Or the follies of war

The frauds of peace

Deviant deities 

Or filthy lucre's increase

--JSW aka GP