#GirlTalk – Alysse Aallyn

Becoming a Warrior – the Warrior Oracle by Alysse Aallyn

Wildflowers – Beauty; If This Card Chooses You – Some shy glory is awaiting your consideration. It could be your own Self. Are your dreams so beautiful you regret waking up? Do you imagine possessing great beauty yourself, caressing another’s gorgeous flesh, or having a dream lover turn those diamond eyes on you? Do you…
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Secrets of the Self -how I became a warrior by Alysse Aallyn

The Rose – Vulnerability – Sharing poetry is the most painful vulnerability. That was when I realized for the first time that pursuing life of art requires the warrior sensibility. You have to keep going, no matter what other people say and what they recommend. Some advice is good and some isn’t. We all need…
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Secrets of the Self – how I became a warrior by Alysse Aallyn

Dawn – Relief – After the birth of my first child I bought a printing press – an adorable little toy that printed a 3×5 inch page and elegant “Egyptian” type. I wanted to print my own book of poems – The Hot Skin – and I didn’t want to ”delegate” anything. I also bought…
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Secrets of the Self – how I became a warrior by Alysse Aallyn

The Sun – Truth – High school for me was a religious boarding school whose faculty asserted their monopoly on truth. I considered myself an honorable person and despised lies. So when asked straightforward questions, I told the truth and accepted my punishment. However, I gradually discovered that they reserved the right to lie to…
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Secrets of the Self – how I became a warrior by Alysse Aallyn

Danger Antioch Columbia decided it didn’t give grades, a fact my father, who was paying for it, found unsettling. They also told me if I wanted a class on Women’s Lit I would have to teach it myself. I could handle that, what I couldn’t handle was my writing teacher’s outspoken preference for and devotion…
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Secrets of the Self – becoming a warrior by Alysse Aallyn

The Lovers My husband and I frequently refer to each other as our “cuttle bone/cuddlebone.” We keep each other’s warrior blades sharp. When trying to explain how I became a warrior, deepest emotional relationships we form by choice paint a picture of a quest for support and validation. My coed boarding school had rigid social…
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Secrets of the Self – how I became a warrior by Alysse Aallyn

The Life Force We teenagers at our co-ed religious boarding school wanted to mate. This desire was more powerful than the faculty, it was more powerful than anything. They were always digging us out of bushes, rescuing us from ponds, chasing us out of the woods. We were lustfully ablaze. They kept trying to demand…
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Secrets of the Self – how I became a warrior by Alysse Aallyn

The Goddess – One of my earliest jobs was an office work temp – ending up as receptionist at an architecture firm. In my hegira through multiple workplaces I did not find one where I liked the lowly way I was treated. But Warriors, by definition, don’t put up with the Status Quo. Seeking to…
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Embattled Love – the diaries of Alysse Aallyn

Stormfall Farm Sat Jan 2 – ’82 – 6:15 PM At last, fireside peace. Finally got the baby to sleep pressed against my body in the bed, then managed to substitute a pillow. He seems fussy lately – reacting I think to the general disorganization of streams of family & visitors. Also, I may be…
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Embattled Love – the diaries of Alysse Aallyn

12:45 PM Sun 8 Nov 81 This AM Toss told me that putting my name on his accounts makes him 50% poorer in the eyes of those who read his financial statements. I cold say the same, except that I am worth nothing right now. I want this marriage to work. Men contribute money and…
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