FaceBook kind of announced this today (Friday, March 20.) But it was harder than heck to find the description of the event...where are they going?
I finally found it under "discussion."
Sure I support this. Not going to take part unfortunately, due to health. Great to share about it, and I wish them well. Hope they have as much success as the Buddhist Monks.
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The Great Mother March: A Women’s Empowerment Pilgrimage • A Return to Balance 🌸 March 21st to April 22nd, 2026
Asheville, NC to the U.S. Capitol - a sort of "walk-a-thon" to empower women & men. The destination is intended to replace what comes to mind now when someone says U.S.Capitol with the love & compassion of the empowered, loving feminine.
Welcome to the official community space for The Great Mother March — a powerful 32-day pilgrimage rooted in love, creativity, and co-creation. We are walking for unity, for healing, for balance, and for the flourishing of all people and our planet.
✨ This is a movement of inspired action — grounded in compassion, art, wisdom, joy, and ancestral connection.
It is a humanitarian, creative expression, with women & men collaborating to BE the change we desire in our world.
Together, we are embodying the return of the wise, empowered feminine, walking hand-in-hand with the healthy masculine, to seed new patterns of peace, possibility, and mutual respect.
Those curious about joining the March in spirit, in steps, or in support.
People passionate about women's empowerment, community connection, and collective transformation.
Artists, organizers, spiritual leaders, creatives, activists, and allies ready to co-create a future that honors all life.
We march for the Earth.
We march for our children.
We march for creativity, freedom, love, and the reclamation of feminine leadership.
Let this be a container of hope, courage, and collaboration — where we focus on what’s possible when we come together in sacred purpose.
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The web site gives this:
We are walking alongside the Appalachian Mountains, the oldest mountain chain in the United States, weaving the mutual respect, unconditional love, reciprocity, and radiant self-expression of the Great Mother through rural communities in NC and VA.
Perhaps the march along the “spine” of the U.S. is symbolic of the awakening to the natural balance of feminine and masculine?
Perhaps, just like our own spines, the healing and transformation will ripple out from this pathway.
We are intentionally walking through communities, not mountain pathways, to make the Great Mother, her frequency, visible. We intend to BE the change we desire, one step, one community, at a time.
We kick off The Great Mother March with a music & arts event at Pack Square in Asheville, NC on March 21st and begin our pilgrimage of devotion and celebration on March 22nd.
Nights one through six, take us to Black Mountain, Old Fort, Marion, Linville, and Boone.
Then, we make our way to the Peace Pentagon, outside of Independence, VA via Todd, West Jefferson, the River Country Campground along the New River.
We walk into Galax, VA on April 1st, then Hillsville, Floyd, Ferrum and Rocky Mount, arriving in Rocky Mount on April 5th.
Then, we make our way to Lynchburg, arriving on 4/9, up Hwy 29 to Waynesboro, arriving 4/12.
We arrive in Charlottesville on 4/13 and spend the day of 4/14 at IX Art Park, resting and preparing for our final leg to D.C. There, you will be invited to learn our fun & simple dance moves for the FLASH MOB we will be expressing as we enter into D.C. SO exciting!
From Charlottesville, we plan to spend nights in Barboursville, Orange, Culpeper and Warrenton. We arrive in Manasass on 4/19, then Workhouse Arts Center in Lorton, VA, and Alexandria, VA, our last stop before arriving in D.C. on April 22nd, Earth Day!
It is an aggressive time frame and there is zero pressure or expectation that everyone will feel called to walk every step of the way. TOGETHER, as a community, we will allow our steps to kiss the ground, our voices to bless the waters, our hearts to create connection and understanding, compassion and a softening, everywhere we go.
If you are familiar with any of these towns, have contacts, suggestions for sponsors, etc, please comment below or email us info@greatmothermarch.com
Please consider end of year donations to The Great Mother March. Tax deductible donations can be made from our home page at GreatMotherMarch.com or mailed to our 501c3 sponsor. Click HERE to access the Sponsorship Deck in our Google Drive.
There is no charge to join the March. It is purely volunteer led. Monies go to ensuring safety and health along the way, basics like port-a-potties, our HQ tents, drinking water (ZERO plastic water bottles on the March), signage, costs around our stopovers (campgrounds, event venues), sound equipment for our Flash Mob, and all the miscellaneous support items that are required to facilitate the best possible pilgrimage for ALL!
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A Manifesto for the Great Mother
We are walking.
Not away from something—but toward what we know is possible.
We walk not as individuals seeking power, but as a community remembering our wholeness.
We walk because we are ready to embody the world we long for. A world where:
Care is currency and compassion is strength
Earth is not a resource, but a living relative
Feminine wisdom is honored in all its forms
Communities thrive through collaboration, not competition
Diversity is celebrated as sacred design
Leadership flows from empathy, vision, and integrity
Action is taken out of love, not fear
Change is not a concept—it is a practice. And that the future is not waiting for us—it is asking to be co-created through us. Step by step. Breath by breath. Together.
We walk in devotion to the feminine principle—not as a gender, but as a sacred intelligence that
lives in all of us, regardless of identity:
The power to nurture.
The courage to feel.
The wisdom to listen.
The resilience to care, create, include, and imagine.
We honor the feminine not by excluding the masculine,
but by restoring the harmony
between doing and being,
action and reflection,
striving and surrender.
We gather to reconnect—with the Earth,
with each other, and with the part of ourselves that remembers we belong.
This is not a protest—it is a living prayer.
This is not a spectacle—it is sacred work.
This is not for them to fix—it is for us to become.
We march for justice, for healing, for regeneration.
We march for the mothers and the waters,
the teachers and the trees,
the future generations and the ancestral wisdom
that still lives in our bones.
We believe in practical magic—shared meals,
shelter offered, feet sore from the road.
We believe in circles over hierarchies.
In conversation over competition.
In art as medicine and movement as truth.
We are not waiting for permission.
We are not counting on existing structures.
We are moving & creating as one—
a body of many hearts,
in service to life, love,
and the Great Mother who lives in us all.
This is how we rise.
This is how we remember.
This is how we walk the way forward.
Join us. Walk with us. Embody LOVE.
A Walk for LOVE.
