Author Archives: Glenys D. Livingstone
Lammas Dedication
In Lammas ceremony as it has been done in PaGaian tradition over some decades, each participant has been invited by Dark Ancient Creative and Compassionate One to make a dedication to Deep Self. She says: “Step forward, one at a time, as you are ready, offer your bread figure, and speak if you wish. What would […]
Lammas/Imbolc Moment – Planet Earth Feb 2016
On February 4th at 9:30 “Universal Time” (as it is named) EarthGaia crosses the midpoint in Her orbit between Solstice and Equinox. In the Southern Hemisphere it is the Season of Lammas – the welcoming of the Dark, post-Summer Solstice. In the Northern Hemisphere it is the welcoming of the Light, post-Winter Solstice. All planetary times […]
Solstice Season Give-Away
Give-Away [i] I offer freely the Summer Solstice/Litha Meditation from my PaGaian Cosmology Meditations CDs (disc 3, tracks 1 and 2, both the preparation and the meditation). It may not be Summer where you are, but the Summerland is always within, and its truth may be expressed in every moment. Summer Solstice/Litha Preparation (1:21) […]
Situating in the Womb of Gaia: a PaGaian Contemplation
Situating in the Womb of Gaia: a PaGaian Contemplation of Her Creative Place together with Casting the Circle, MoonCourt Australia (PaGaian style): a poetic variation of how the elements are referred to in PaGaian Solstice ceremony for both Summer and Winter, using metaphor from Brian Swimme‘s book “The Universe is a Green Dragon”.
We are the Bread of Life – Communion
This Cosmos, this Earth, this life, is a Communion event – a relational, reciprocal, sacred interchange. With our lives do we feed the world, as we also are fed by Her. We may feed the world with our radiance, which is our everyday creativity, as Mother Sun does feed us in every moment – […]
Foremothers of Women’s Spirituality Movement Anthology
I am honoured to be a contributor to this anthology. Foremothers of the Women’s Spirituality Movement: Elders and Visionaries edited by Miriam Robbins Dexter and Vicki Noble The thematic focus is the “seeming explosion of creative religious expression on the part of contemporary Western women is the thematic focus of this book; the 33 chapters […]
Solstice Moment – Summer/Winter – December 2015 C.E.
Earth enters the Season of Solstice, as Her tilt in relationship with Sun leans us to the furthest point, in both Southern and Northern Hemispheres: see Her there in your mind’s eye, where She is – where we are – in Her orbit … For the Southern Hemisphere December Solstice is the awesomeness of the return to the dark, […]
(Essay) Mary as Christian Goddess by Glenys Livingstone Ph.D.
” … the people offered bread in her name; as they had always done in the name of various Great Goddesses. According to Ashe, the Christian church of the fifth century integrated into itself the flourishing Mariology, thus taking the sting out of a rival religion … The Great Mother as She survived in the […]
PaGaian Cosmology Book
In praise of the book PaGaian Cosmology: Re-inventing Earth-based Goddess Religion by Glenys Livingstone Ph.D. … from THOMAS BERRY, cultural historian, co-author of The Universe Story, and author of The Dream of the Earth and The Great Work. … (I am) impressed with your work and with the vision, courage, and ardor with which you have followed through on a major aspect […]
Seeing Her Land: the Twin Fires of Beltaine
Once cast from the sun, light streams onto planet Earth like liquid. It freely enters us as both photon and wave. In daylight, we ingest billions of photons during every open-eyed moment. As waves, light vibrates into us. It is transduced, within several layers of retinal tissue, into electrobiochemical pulses surging deeply into the tissue […]
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