Barbara Ardinger is reoccurring Guest on
WomensRadio, a professional editor of books for beginning authors, and she is the author of
Pagan Everyday and
A Woman’s Book of Rituals and Celebrations. Ardinger returns to
Speak Up! to share stories and insights about the Winter Solstice.
More about Barbara ArdingerBarbara is the author of
Through The Darkness a Midwinter Night's Dream;
Quicksilver Moon, a novel;
Finding New Goddesses: Reclaiming Playfulness in Our Spiritual Lives;
Practicing the Presence of the Goddess;
Goddess Meditations, and
Seeing Solutions.
A decade ago, Barbara self-published a small book of revisionist fairy tales, for which she also drew the cover art. Her poetry has been published, initially in
Science of Mind Magazine (late 1970s),
The Isis Papers (1995), and
Oxymoron (1997) and on a web site called
Pegasus Dreaming.
More recently, three of her poems are included in the anthology
The Pagan’s Muse, edited by
Jane Raeburn. An anti-war story (set in ancient Delphi) is included in a Wiccan deployment pamphlet published at
McGuire Air Force Base; an autobiographical story called
Inanna on the Rocks is included in
Celebrating the Pagan Soul, edited by
Laura Wildman; and
A Vision of Sacred Fire is included in
Sacred Fire, edited by
Maril Crabtree.