Monica Sjöö 

1938 - 2005                             

 visionary artist - feminist - activist - writer   

 

Links Page

Below are some links of websites, which Monica would have endorsed. Many of the sites are those of her friends and of organisations she supported.

Ray, Monica, Jill and Philippa at the walk from Silbury to Stonehenge to ' liberate'  the  Stones  on the Full Moon Eclipse at Beltane - May1985


Jill Smith - artist, writer, performer  
Lovely website of a wonderful woman, one of Monica's best friends - Artworks of the Goddess, sacred site themes and much more.
Highly recommended.

www.monicasjoo.com  
A beautiful website made by Monica's friend Geraldine Charles - featuring Monica's 2004 Retrospective Exhibition "
Through Space and Time The Ancient Sisterhoods Spoke To Me".

Active REMEDY  
R.e.m.e.d.y. stands for  "Reforesting Earth's Mountains Environmental Development Yoga" which is a non-for-profit company set up by Monica's good friends Stella and Tara Joy. Active Remedy has a practical and innovative plan to help to reforest Earths Mountains as fast as possible to prevent the threatening collapse of Earth's vital fresh water cycle. The difficulty is whether governments and the rest of us can be convinced before it is too late? 
Highly recommended!

We'Moon diary  
Website of the famous We'Moon dairy and its community. Monica contributed many of her images and writing to the diary over the years.

Goddess Alive  
A magazine of Goddess celebration with news, research, artwork, photos, personal experiences and ritual, that aims to reflect the diverse community of Goddess spirituality reclaimed from the past and alive in the world today.

Sekhmet Temple  
The Temple of Goddess Spirituality Dedicated to Sekhmet is a project of the Center for the Study of the Gift Economy under the direction of Genevieve Vaughan, a friend of Monica. In this temple, feminine values are honored and the Mother is revered. Owners of  Monica's painting: "Solar Lionheaded Sekhmet of Primordial Fire".

Dor Dama press  
Dor Dama Press, which means "Earth Mother" in Cornish, is a new imprint, dedicated to publishing books on Goddess studies and research by leading authors in the field. Publishers of Monica's "The Norse Goddess".

The Temple of Diana 
Website of Ruth Barrett, owner of two of Monica's paintings: " Bride/Brigid with Her Tree" and " Well and Stone".

Visionary Art in the 20th century 
A book the web by Edward Lucie-Smith.
See Chapter 9 for a discussion of feminist art, including Monica's "God Giving Birth" (1968).

Goddess Festival 2004 in the Czech Republic
Web page by Monica's friend Hana Evans with an article by Monica about her journey to the Czech republic.

Marija Gimbutas  
Marija Gimbutas, the late Professor Emeritus of Archaeology at UCLA and author of the ground-breaking book on Neolithic religion, The Language of the Goddess  was one the sources of Monica's inspiration. Marija's  discoveries have taken on great symbolic importance for feminist theologians who found in her vision of a peaceful, egalitarian, nature-revering society a sense of hope for the future based on this foundation in the distant past.

Starhawks Tangled Web  
Starhawk is the author of many works celebrating the Goddess movement and Earth-based, feminist spirituality. She is also a peace, environmental, and global justice activist and trainer, a permaculture designer and teacher, a Pagan and Witch. An inspiring woman to say the least!
 

The-Tree  
A
huge website by Monica's friend, Anna Fraser, who together with Annie Johnston also built this Monica Sjöö Memorial website. The-Tree is a non-profit website dedicated to sharing information about the many different facets of knowledge about trees and forests,  including an extensive section on British Trees. The-Tree was one of the first sites on the web to feature a small Sjöö gallery in its Sacred Grove!

Goddess Pages 
A website by Monica's friend Geraldine Charles, celebrating the return of the Goddess in the new millennium, which mostly takes the form of artistic expression: poetry, art and other work and ideas inspired by the Goddess.

Midwifing Death  
Website of Leslene della Madre's book "Midwifing Death". Leslene is a friend of Monica. Monica's beautiful art illustrates the book and she has also contributed to the introduction. 

Motherpeace Tarot 
Website of Monica's friend Vicki Nobel, who together with Karen Vogel created the Motherpeace tarot. Vicki is also author of several books.

Meyn Mamvro  
Website of Monica's friend
Cheryl Straffon's magazine of ancient stones and sacred sites in Cornwall. It has been published regularly 3 times a year since 1986, and, taken together, all the editions contain a wealth of original material about the prehistory and ancient customs of Cornwall.

Museum Anna Nordlander   
Womens Art Museum in Skellefteå, Sweden in which many of Monica's earlier works are housed.

Psi Research Centre UK  
Website of
Monica's friend Serena Roney-Dougal, who is one of the few people in Britain to have obtained a PhD for a parapsychological thesis, exploring the relationship between subliminal perception and psychic awareness. She is the author of "Where Science and Magic Meet" and "The Faery Faith".

Goddessing Regenerated Journal  
Journal edited and produced by Willow La Monte, which published some of Monica's articles. 

Wikipedia article about Alice Walker  
Alice Walker, the well known writer and activist was a friend of Monica and owns two of her paintings: "The Matronae" and "Shaman Woman On Glastonbury Tor".

Glastonbury Goddess Conference  
Find out details here about this unique conference and see some amazingly wonderful pictures!

Women And Life on Earth  
Website of Women in international cooperation for peace, ecology and social justice weaving on the web ecological-feminism in the 21st century

Womens Environmental Network UK  
WEN is a unique, vital and innovative campaigning organisation, which represents women and campaigns on issues, which link women, environment and health. Formed in 1988.

Z. Budapest 
Website of Monica's friend Z. Budapest, the wel lknown Dianic witch, author and psychic.

Geomancy  
Website of Sid Lonegren, friend of Monica. Sid is geomancer, who explores the realm where human consciousness meets and dialogues with the Spirit of the Earth.
He is also the owner of two of Monica's paintings: " West Kennet Long Barrow" , " Abode of the Dark/Light Mother".

 

 
  


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