Monthly Archives: April 2022
Gate of the Year – for Samhain
I said to the one who stood at the Gate of the Year: “Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown.” And the angel said: “Go out into the darkness and put your hand in the hand of the One. That will be to you better than a light […]
Samhain/Beltaine @ EarthGaia May 2022 C.E.
In our orbit around Mother Sun, our everyday sacred journey[i], Earth’s tilt moves us into the Seasons of Samhain and Beltaine, as they are named in Old European traditions. It is the cross-quarter Moment between Equinox and Solstice: that is, in the Southern Hemisphere between Autumn Equinox and the Winter Solstice, and in the Northern […]
there is nothing we have not been
Ancient peoples, our ancestors knew this: “I have flown as an eagle, Been a coracle on the sea, I have been a drop in a shower. A sword in hand, A shield in battle, A string in a harp, Nine years in enchantment, In water, in foam, I have absorbed fire, I have been a […]
Theology of War: the Enemy Behind All Enemies
This is an edited excerpt from PaGaian Cosmology: Re-inventing Earth-based Goddess Religion, by Glenys Livingstone Ph.D., p. 73-74. Philosopher Paul Ricoeur describes how in the “creation” story of the Enuma Elish, the creative act “which distinguishes, separates, measures and puts into order”, is inseparable from the murder of the “oldest gods” (who is in fact […]
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