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Deborah Lipp's Merry Meet Again

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Deborah Lipp’s (2013) memoir, Merry Meet Again: Life and Love on the Path of a Wiccan High Priestess, explores Wicca, feminism, and sexuality through Lipp’s spiritual journey as she describes her relationships with family, lovers, teachers, the divine, and herself. As a part of the Women’s Spirituality Movement, Lipp reflects many characteristics of Carol Christ’s (1986) model highlighting the stages of Women’s Spiritual Quest, recognizing the importance of the Goddess symbol, language, and women writers. As Deborah Lipp continually overcomes feelings of nothingness during her spiritual journey, she is awakened through feminism, psychology, and sexuality, sharing her insights and experiences with a new naming as she overcomes the dualities …show more content…

With a change in consciousness due to a mystical experience, women need language that articulates the nothingness that they have endured into an opportunity for awareness and validation. During this stage of insight and new naming, women have the ability to put their experiences into a language that corresponds with women’s orientations in the world, overcoming male-dominated dualities. Naming women’s experiences in literature and fiction allows other women to then find their own awakening and validation (23). This model of Women’s Spiritual Quest is exemplified throughout Deborah Lipp’s memoir, as she goes through victimization and questioning her spirituality, to overcoming dualities and expressing her understanding of the …show more content…

God and Goddess, male and female, light and dark, winter and summer, youth and age: polar forces support, create, transform, and empower each other. We do ritual by dividing the poles and bringing them together… In all cases, each “opposite” also contains the other. Each pole exists in relation to its counterpart, so that gray is the dark counterpoint to white, but is the light counterpart to black. Indeed, most polar opposites are actually simply the extreme end points of a long continuum. We use the polar extremes as a magical tool, but they shouldn’t limit our perception of reality” (Lipp, 2013,

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