Author Archives: Glenys D. Livingstone

Creation Stories @ Winter Solstice

In PaGaian Cosmology, and sometimes explicitly expressed in other traditions, Winter Solstice/Yule essentially celebrates the Birth of All, Origins (capitalized because it needs to be noted as a sacred and ultimate event). Winter Solstice is a good time to contemplate Creation stories. Here is one – a Poem from Jami 1414, with an image (from […]

June Solstice 2016 C.E. EarthGaia

It is the Season of Solstice – Earth’s tilt in relationship with Mother Sun, our Source  of life and being, leans us to the furthest point, in both the South and the North: see Her there in your mind’s eye, as She orbits … The actual Moment of June Solstice 2016 @ EarthGaia is 10:44 UT […]

My Name is Medusa – an Eco-Fable

“A wonderful book of Snake Wisdom for kids, or not-kids, with insights about life, growth, change, dreams, and our relationship to the Whole.” Max Dashu, Suppressed Histories Archives Order at  Amazon Books – available in Kindle and paperback, or The Girl God  “What a beautiful book! If we can learn to love the what we have been taught […]

Transformation (a poem)

Transformation Completely dismantled – all the stock taken out of the cupboards. Strip them bare Pull apart my knowings – rip them open, let the connections be severed. … Expose all the parts, every cell to the sunlight de-toxify throw away move it all around mix it, mix it skim the dross …. With mortar […]

Medusa: Sister, Mother, Abyss – Mirror

By Glenys Livingstone Ph.D. originally posted at The Girl God blog In the writing of this essay I wish to acknowledge the wisdom of those women who were my earliest re-storative informants about Medusa. The first perhaps was Hélène Cixous with her essay The Laugh of the Medusa which I read in 1980 for my […]

Signs out of Time Interviews

Behind the Screen: the Uncut Interviews made for the documentary Signs Out of Time by Donna Read and Starhawk about the life and work of esteemed archaeologist Marija Gimbutas I have been given permission to publish them all. They are a valuable resource for a group you might like to gather, or that is already […]

Jesus, Muhammad and the Goddess

I am a contributor to this recent publication available now at The Girl God Contributors include: Dr. Amina Wadud, Andrew Gurevich, Anna Ruiz, Bonnie Odiorne, Ph.D., Carol P. Christ, Ph.D., Dominique Christina, Donna Snyder, Glenys Livingstone, Ph.D., Helen Hye-Sook Hwang, Ph.D., Rev. Dr. Karen Tate, Kelly Stewart Hall, Kim Mohiuddin, Laurence Galian, Liona Rowan, Lisa Artis, Marianne […]

It’s Autumn in the Southern Hemisphere – not Spring/Eostar by Glenys Livingstone

Originally posted on Feminism and Religion:
Despite the chocolate bunnies, eggs and toy chickens in the shops along with the coaxing to buy and celebrate Easter at this time in Australia, it is not Spring: Earth here does not seem to co-operate with the Consumer Faith, built as it is around the Northern Hemisphere and…

Equinox @ EarthGaia March 2016 C.E.

The Seasonal Moment of Equinox @ EarthGaia, as our Planet may be named,[i] will occur at 4.30 UT March 20th (that’s “Universal Time” as it is named – measured at Greenwich England). At my Place in the Blue Mountains of Australia, it is the Season of the Autumn Equinox – the midpoint between Summer and Winter […]

Universe Story and Autumn Equinox

Every moment of life is lost – it dissolves, and is never repeated. Every moment in our lives and in the entire history of Gaia-Universe is never repeated – it is lost. That means it is also ever-new. That is the mystery – it is lost, but it is ever-new. The Beloved One descends: it […]

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