Author Archives: Glenys D. Livingstone
Threads of Gold in the Compost
There are threads of gold in the compost, if one has the vision for it. And we may take the golden thread, exclaim the strongest natural fibre known – our creative selves, our imaginations – for the building of a new world made sacred, of our conceiving: yet beyond our knowings, across the vast Darkness between […]
PaGaian Cosmology Course
The PaGaian Cosmology course is about to begin for the Southern Hemisphere, with the coming of Autumn.It is: A Celebration of Goddess and Cosmogenesis in the Wheel of the Year … for the experienced or the novice: the course may expand your perspective and poetic/ceremonial expression of Earth’s Seasonal Creativity, or it may serve to help […]
Restoring Her as Creative Triplicity: part 2, Place of Being By Glenys Livingstone Ph.D.
This essay is the second part in a series of edited excerpts from Chapter 3 of the author’s book, PaGaian Cosmology: Re-inventing Earth-based Goddess Religion. It may also be found in Chapter 1 of the author’s recent book, A Poiesis of the Creative Cosmos: Celebrating Her within PaGaian Sacred Ceremony. Author’s note: In this three part series […]
We Live in a Sentient Cosmos
We live in a sentient Cosmos. That is the premise of much of the Seasonal ceremonial celebration as it is done in the PaGaian tradition, the ceremonial marking of Her creative cycle: that is, with the understanding that ceremony is a conversation, a relationship with One who hears, as we listen also. This Cosmos is […]
Lammas Breath Meditation
… from PaGaian Cosmology Lammas/Late Summer ceremony: “Breathe this breath that is yours, as if it were your first … do you remember that it was so? Breathe this breath that is yours, as if it were your last … do you remember that it will be so? Breathe it now, this breath that is […]
As we turn towards the Dark: the Season of Lammas
After the peaking of Summer Solstice, there is the turn into the dark. Traditionally in Pagan circles, where this Seasonal transition is celebrated as “Lughnasad”, a straw man is burned, representing the passing of the fulfillment of Summer: all is given over, the harvest of the light part of the cycle is set, as the […]
A PaGaian Breath Meditation
(from Chapter 8 PaGaian Cosmology) Going within for the moment and becoming aware of your breath, feeling this cycle within. With your imagination, remember all the breathing happening right now on the planet – feel/sense it with each breath. The entire planet is breathing. Remember the constant dawning and setting of the Sun – happening […]
Celebrate Summer Solstice: Decolonise the Mind
To celebrate Summer Solstice in Summer, and indeed the Wheel of Earth’s orbit around Sun, the Seasonal Moments as they express themselves in your region, is an act of decolonising the mind. It is to set your self free of imposed arbitrary calendar, imposed by colonisers who have had an agenda of what constitutes a […]
We bless you and the Gift that you are
Each one/being is gift: that gift is all that is required, presence, the giving of your fullness of being. If you don’t have that, you might feel you have to go the shops (to buy a gift). But in the contemplation of your own self as gift, how you feed the world with your being […]
Some Thoughts About Holy Desire
All being knows desire in elemental ways, for water, for food, for sustenance: and many beings also know desire for air, and most creatures and plants know desire for relationship in some form, and for care. We come into being with these primordial desires, this hunger, this longing – we don’t make it up[i]. Each […]
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