Situated in the urban landscape of Los Angeles, the mythical Amazon goddess appears at home in the freeway environment. Poetry with a West Coast sensibility, a fiercely lyrical style caught up in the motion of fast cars, earthquake tremors, city animals, and the migration of the homeless. Winner of the 1992 Los Angeles Poetry Prize.

This "excellent feminist/lesbian novel" (Library Journal) is set on a remote Scottish island with a rambling castle and ruined monastery harking back to more matriarchal times. Maria Milleny, a visiting artist from the mainland, arrives and is quickly seduced by Catriona MacEochan -- clan chieftain, doctor, witch -- and by Cailleach's strange charm.

"Why should feminists bother with astrology, or astrologers with feminism? To the feminists, the author offers goddess mythology based on the stars; to the astrologers, she points out that astrology was, at its [origin], a woman's science.... She writes engagingly and fluently; she also keeps her facts straight and does not weaken her arguments with historical inaccuracies." (Booklist)