Author Archives: Glenys D. Livingstone
A Story of Origins: ever present and unfolding
We, all who live on this Earth, are gift of the ancient Star exploding as supernova, which(who) gave birth to our Solar system, our Sun and Her planets. Our planet Earth was/is in the Goldilocks location of “just right”, and also had the Goldilocks size of “just right”: all enabling a balance of cosmic dynamics […]
(Poem) REFRACTIONS
camped on the frontier of my life, pregnant with the future I am comforted by you star fixed in my sky think of your courage a knife being born in your belly you fear a painful birth … for the world does not yet contain the contours of our sharp new selves we had known […]
Review of Danica Anderson’s Blood and Honey book
… The methods applied and described by Danica Anderson, the author, in this beautifully presented book, may provide a model for approach to healing deep trauma, which is becoming more common on a global scale in these times. The method primarily begins with “bearing witness”: most chapters begin with the paragraph heading “When and Where […]
We are the Ancestors: May We be Interesting Food
Our present lives are formed by all who came before us. We are in-formed by them, whether conscious or not. In PaGaian Samhain ceremony as it has been done traditionally, participants are invited to remember the ancestors in this way: Let us remember our ancestors, those who have gone before, whose lives have been harvested, […]
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 […]
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