Author Archives: Glenys D. Livingstone
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 […]
PaGaian Cosmology Course
Starting now for the Northern Hemisphere Autumn: “… This year-long course is suitable for both the novice and the experienced. It is offered as a ceremonial journey into the Creativity of the Cosmos as it is expressed in the Seasonal Moments of our Planet, in your particular place, and with Goddess metaphor. The Triple Spiral motif […]
Gaian Powers
Spring Equinox is a good time to invoke and recognise our Gaian powers, the truth and power of who we are, as the light in your region grows stronger and the flora feels and responds to the power of our Sun. The calling of the elements as it has been scripted in PaGaian Spring Equinox/Eostar […]
Goddesses in Myth, History and Culture
Announcing the new and beautiful book Goddesses in Myth, History and Culture Editors Mary Ann Beavis and Helen Hye-Sook Hwang Publisher Mago Books (Lytle Creek, CA) This book fills the very real need for an affordable, accessible, academic textbook featuring Goddesses from a wide range of world religious, cultural and mythological traditions. As a textbook, […]
The Sea of Generosity
“Take a deep breath, and as you let the breath go, follow it down to the Space before your next breath. Imagine this Space, this Emptiness, as the Sea of Generosity … from which All springs forth. Feel the Urge of Creation springing forth – as the Urge to Breathe arises. Imagine this breath as […]
Misirlou Dance for Imbolc
For years this dance has been done at PaGaian Imbolc/Early Spring ceremonies, as referred to in PaGaian Cosmology Chapter 7 (p.207 if you have the book), and also in the Imbolc/Early Spring Meditation on PaGaian Cosmology Meditations CDs The music for it is Sto Perigiali by Mikis Theodorakis, sung by Maria Farantouri, but you may like to buy it: […]
Imbolc-Lammas Moment @ EarthGaia August 2018
In the Southern Hemisphere, we are in the Season of the growing light celebrated as “Imbolc”/Early Spring: it is the first Seasonal Moment after Winter Solstice, the “cross-quarter” or meridian point between Solstice and Spring Equinox. In the North of the Planet it is the Season of the growing dark, celebrated as Lammas/Lughnasad: the first […]
Imbolc Process of Her Red Carpet: Her Flow
In PaGaian Imbolc ceremony there is a tradition of each participant processing on a red aisle/carpet with lit candle in hand; this processing is done upon making a dedication to the unique self, to tending and nurturing its unique gifts and beauty. This dedication is a commitment to Being, expressed as a commitment to the […]
June Solstice 2018 C.E.
Earth enters the Season of Solstice in our orbit around Mother Sun: She/we are tilted in both hemispheres to the furthest point; either away from, or toward, Sun – our source of life and energy. For the Southern Hemisphere it is the Winter Solstice – the time of longest hours of dark. For the Northern Hemisphere […]
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