Author Archives: Glenys D. Livingstone
Restoring Dea – Female Metaphor for Deity (essay 1) by Glenys Livingstone Ph.D.
“Almost every ancient culture’s creation myth begins with Her.[1]In the beginning was the Matrix, and the Matrix was all there was. “Before creation a presence existed …(which)… pervaded itself with unending motherhood.”[2] This Matrix was not “feminine”, in any stereotypical way, which would limit Her to a certain mode of being. She was beyond all […]
Imbolc/Lammas Moment August 2016 C.E.
As Earth continues Her/our everyday sacred journey around Mother Sun, the Seasonal Moment of Imbolc/Lammas is next in the orbit: it depends on your Hemisphere as to which aspect of the Moment you experience. We – all beings – do not need to go anywhere for this everyday pilgrimage: we are already travelling, and maybe walking it. […]
(She Rises Volume 2) Endorsement by Kathryn Rountree
Originally posted on MAGO BOOKS:
See book info here. This second volume of She Rises addresses the practical question of how Goddess feminism makes a concrete, vital difference to the everyday lives of its 96 contributors, and, in turn, how these women make vital, concrete differences in the world. It is a glorious and robust…
thea Gaia: Feminist Foremother and a Great “Ponderer”
Originally posted on Feminism and Religion:
Rev. Dorothy Wacker (thea Gaia) On 15th May, 2016 thea Gaia left this earth which was her home for 85 years. thea was born Dorothy Ivy Wacker in Gatton, Australia on 9th February, 1931, the eldest of four children. Her family were descendants of German immigrants who came to…
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 […]
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