Spiral Muse

We've decided to change our name. This decision didn't come lightly, but it did come quickly. We are four white/white-passing women who have chosen a Sanskrit name for our band. We've come to realize that this is problematic and as such we want to create an open dialogue around this issue. Our early experiences of the Divine Feminine were through contact with Hindu and Sikh traditions that include goddess-worship alongside the worship of gods. The Christian traditions each of

This past Sunday, we recorded three very powerful pieces of music for our upcoming c.d. The song "Pele" is dedicated to the Indigenous people of Hawaii and their fierce volcano goddess Pele. She represents the transformative power of anger, a theme relevant to all colonized and oppressed people finding voice and fighting back against injustice. "Somebody Calling" tells the tale of the suppression of women's spirituality by patriarchal religious forces. The song focuses on the

We all know the story of Medusa. She is the terrifying female creature with snakes for hair who turns good, heroic men into stone. We are supposed to be relieved when the hero cuts off her head, for now he, and the rest of us, are safe from her unjustified and irrational vengeance. This is the part of her tale that we are all familiar with. But when you read the entire story, you learn that before she was transformed into this violent monster, she was raped. A central theme i