Author Archives: Glenys D. Livingstone
Restoring Dea – Female Metaphor for Deity (Essay Part 3) by Glenys Livingstone Ph.D
This essay is the third part in a series of edited excerpts from chapter 3 of the author’s book,PaGaian Cosmology: Re-inventing Earth-based Goddess Religion. She is grain/food Before She appeared in human form, there were stones, trees, pools, fruits and animals that She either lived in or were identified with Her or parts of Her. For […]
A Poem for the Dark Seasons
CRONE Sliding into the Old One’s merciful Darkness – into Her unknown blanking out of previous understandings It is an act of mercy It is an act of love. She covers me with her Darkness The blood that fills this space, this Womb is not for death it is for life. Drawing […]
(Book Review) Hallie Iglehart Austen’s The Heart of the Goddess
This beautiful and ovarian work, The Heart of the Goddess by Hallie Iglehart Austen, has a new edition. I have the original edition which was published in 1990, and my copy is very worn with zealous use. The images, teachings and meditations within it have been essential to my journey – personally, and professionally, and do […]
PaGaian Cosmology Course 2019-2020
The on-line PaGaian Cosmology course for the Southern Hemisphere year is starting with the Introduction anytime now, before the forthcoming Samhain/Deep Autumn season in late April/early May. Your participation in the course may be a method for you to become more familiar with the work of PaGaian Cosmology which is a unique synthesis; of […]
Lammas Goddess Slideshow
On February 3rd at 14:40 UTC EarthGaia crosses the midpoint in Her orbit between Solstice and Equinox: for this year of 2021 C.E., and this date varies each year. In the Southern Hemisphere it is the Season of Lammas – the welcoming of the Dark, post-Summer Solstice. Lammas, and all of the dark part of the cycle, […]
Lammas/Imbolc @ EarthGaia 2019 C.E.
In the Southern Hemisphere it is the season of the waxing dark, post-Summer Solstice; and in the Northern Hemisphere it is the season of the waxing light, post-Winter Solstice. At this time in Earth’s annual orbit, which is our everyday sacred journey, Earth makes the post-Solstice transition, crossing the midpoint (the “cross-quarter”) between Solstice and […]
(Book Review) Myths Shattered and Restored, editors Marion Dumont & Gayatri Devi
What a pleasure to read this collection of diverse scholarly voices who speak of global mythological/spiritual traditions from within a Goddess frame: that is, from within a frame where She is understood as primal in an organic way, and without any apology. This is Volume 1 of proceedings from an annual conference of the Association […]
Summer Solstice: Omega Gateway
This essay is an edited excerpt from Chapter 5 of the author’s book PaGaian Cosmology: Re-inventing Earth-based Goddess Religion. Dates for Summer Solstice: Southern Hemisphere – December 20-23 Northern Hemisphere – June 20-23 The “moment of grace”[1]that is Summer Solstice, marks the stillpoint in the height of Summer, when Earth’s tilt and orbit cause the […]
Summer Solstice Moment of Union
In the traditional PaGaian Summer Solstice ceremony, the fullness and wholeness/unity of being that is celebrated in the peaking of Sun’s light at this time, is expressed in the ceremonial invocation as a dyad poem, or “Conversation of Union” as I name it. It is my adaptation of Starhawk’s “Invocation to the Ground of Being”” […]
Video Interview with Glenys Livingstone, PaGaian Cosmology author
Interview with Glenys Livingstone author of PaGaian Cosmology: Re-inventing Earth-based Goddess Religion, by Vajra Ma for the online resource of Foremother’s of Women’s Spirituality and Their Living Wisdom for Today The book PaGaian Cosmology, which is grounded in decades of ceremonial practice, is an outcome of Glenys Livingstone’s doctoral work in Social Ecology at the Western Sydney […]
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