Author Archives: Glenys D. Livingstone
Persephone’s Return or Departure?
Sometimes one can’t tell – is it a departure? or is it a return? It is often both – a return involves a departure. Persephone leaves one world to return to another; always it is so. Sometimes She is escaping miraculously from oppression of some kind, yet other times it seems She is simply making […]
Celebrating Her Creativity: in self, other and All
The Northern Hemisphere year for the PaGaian Cosmology on-line course begins now in the Autumn: September/October (Introduction material then Samhain). You are invited to participate in this year long Conversation with the Cosmos, celebrated in the Seasonal transitions of the Solstices, Equinoxes and cross-quarter Moments. It is a PaGaian Cosmology that celebrates each unique self, […]
Celebrating Seasons of the Goddess
“Celebrating Seasons of the Goddess restores the original vision of celebrating cultural and natural landmarks from the perspective of Goddess feminist activism. By taking such categories as time, seasons, nature and the female divine as a point of departure, this book brings modern minds out of patriarchal holiday conventions and invites the reader to join […]
Video Review of Godless Paganism
Originally posted on Naturalistic Paganism:
A great review of Godless Paganism: Voices of Non-Theistic Pagans by Katey Flowers. Check it out – both the praise and the criticisms are interesting to hear! Click below.
Contemplating Triple Goddess as Creative Triad, a Depth of Love
This essay is an edited excerpt from the conclusion of chapter 3 of the book, PaGaian Cosmology: Re-inventing Earth-based Goddess Religion, by Glenys Livingstone Ph.D. She has three faces, but She is One. These faces kaleidoscope into each other, they blur, they support each other, they are in each other – if they were not […]
Cosmogenesis Dance
At Winter Solstice ceremony in MoonCourt in 2017 we filmed our Cosmogenesis Dance. The Dance has three layers which are resonant with the three qualities of Cosmogenesis and the three aspects of the Female Metaphor/Goddess. There is a bit of story about the dance, and instructions here (Appendix I of PaGaian Cosmology), and also in this […]
Re-visioning Medusa anthology
My proof copy arrived! yay! … almost ready for publication on June Solstice! Re-visioning Medusa: from Monster to Divine Wisdom edited by Glenys Livingstone Ph.D., Trista Hendren and Pat Daly Check out the Table of Contents Pre-order here
We Are Cosmic Dynamics
At the Solstices, in traditional PaGaian ceremony, we recognize and recall the sacred space (that is, “call the directions”), with recognition that we are Cosmic Dynamics of the elements, as poetically inspired by cosmologist Brian Thomas Swimme’s perception of water, fire, earth and air.[1] This recalling, and “creating of sacred space” is ceremoniously invited and […]
June Solstice @ EarthGaia 2017 C.E.
It is the Season of Solstice, when Earth’s tilt leans both hemispheres, South and North, to the furthest point in relationship with Mother Sun, our Source of life and being. Thus the hours of dark or light peak, come to fullness; and there is a turning, a re-turning, to the other again. Solstice may be […]
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