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Monthly Newsletter | February 2026
Feb 1 • Gabriela Gutierrez
Aphrodite: She Who Initiates Through Beauty
On the Prehistoric Roots of the Greek Gods (Part 3)
Dec 7, 2025 • Gabriela Gutierrez
I think I made this little girl proud
On submitting my manuscript, the tenderness of realising a dream, and doing the work for the child we once were
Nov 9, 2025 • Gabriela Gutierrez
Death of an Elder
The Legacy of Jane Goodall
Oct 5, 2025 • Gabriela Gutierrez
Singing over the bones of the Red Lady
On the 19,000-year-old female shaman of Northern Spain
Sep 7, 2025 • Gabriela Gutierrez
The Sacred Oak
Dodona and the Origins of the Oracular Tradition
Aug 3, 2025 • Gabriela Gutierrez
My book has found a publishing home!
Monthly Newsletter | July 2025
Jul 6, 2025 • Gabriela Gutierrez
Ritual Dismemberment
On the wisdom of symbolic death
Jun 1, 2025 • Gabriela Gutierrez
One Hundred Letters
Monthly Newsletter | May 2025
May 4, 2025 • Gabriela Gutierrez
Where gum trees are countrymen
Monthly Newsletter | April 2025
Apr 6, 2025 • Gabriela Gutierrez
An untamed wild that cuts out the heart
Monthly Newsletter | March 2025
Mar 2, 2025 • Gabriela Gutierrez
Letting go of the ground we stand on and cling to every day*
Monthly Newsletter | Victoria, February 2025
Feb 1, 2025 • Gabriela Gutierrez
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