Monthly Archives: November 2014

Solstice Preparation – Summer/Winter – On-Line

Solstice – Summer/Winter (depending on your hemisphere) – Preparation On-line … for contemplation of the significance of this Seasonal Moment – with teaching, readings, links, experiential process: e-notes and images by email, and photocopied material and CD posted to your snail address.  This rich material may be referred to for years of celebration of this […]

(Book Review) LUPA and LAMB by Susan Hawthorne, reviewed by Glenys Livingstone Ph.D.

My heart opened to this book of poems with the very beginning quote from Monique Wittig – one that I have loved and used often myself: a call to remember another time and place when we “bathed bare-bellied”, full of laughter, or, “failing that, invent.” This book by Susan Hawthorne fulfills this promise: it does […]

Becoming Beauty to Ignite Beauty

 … we become beauty to ignite the beauty of others: so it is with all the allurements of life. Brian Swimme The Universe is a Green Dragon (1984, p. 79) The above phrase concludes this paragraph by Brian Swimme regarding allurements and pleasure: Do I desire  to have this pleasure? or rather, do I desire to […]

Book Review by Eileen Haley: Naming the Goddess

BOOK REVIEW by Eileen Haley, Sydney-based crone, poet and PaGaian: Naming the Goddess. Edited Trevor Greenfield, Foreword by Cheryl Straffon, Introduction by Selena Fox. Moon Books. 2014. Thanks to Moon Books for sending this book to Goddess Association in Australia for review. ‘Naming the Goddess’ is an eclectic collection of articles by over 70 contributors. […]

Conceptions of Samhain

Conceptions of Samhain by Glenys Livingstone Ph.D. as published in Goddess Alive! Issue 26 Autumn/Winter 2014   Samhain preparation and ceremony at my place begin with this breath meditation: Breathe deep … and as you let go of your breath, follow it down, and notice the Space between your breaths. Don’t hold it, just notice it. […]

Naturalistic Paganism

A community of Naturalistic & Humanistic Pagans

Celebration of Gaia

Marking Our Time on Earth

Feminism and Religion

Exploring the F-word in religion at the intersection of scholarship, activism, and community.

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Feral Words

Blog posts/essays & photos by William A. Young, linking travel, hiking, mythology, and some associated odds-and-ends