Author Archives: Glenys D. Livingstone
Summer Solstice Poetry
Summer Solstice is primarily about fulfilment of purpose – as Sun reaches Her peak in the annual cycle, as the fruit ripens, as the rose/flower comes to full blossom: what has been born and come into being, finds its fulfilment … that is the idea – a good one if it may be achieved. Thomas […]
Solstice – Summer/Winter @ EarthGaia
It is the Season of Solstice – Earth’s tilt in relationship with Sun leans us to the furthest point, either South or North: see Her there in your mind’s eye, where She is in Her orbit … For the Southern Hemisphere December Solstice is the awesomeness of the return to the dark, the turn out of […]
Solstice Preparation – Summer/Winter – On-Line
Solstice – Summer/Winter (depending on your hemisphere) – Preparation On-line … for contemplation of the significance of this Seasonal Moment – with teaching, readings, links, experiential process: e-notes and images by email, and photocopied material and CD posted to your snail address. This rich material may be referred to for years of celebration of this […]
(Book Review) LUPA and LAMB by Susan Hawthorne, reviewed by Glenys Livingstone Ph.D.
My heart opened to this book of poems with the very beginning quote from Monique Wittig – one that I have loved and used often myself: a call to remember another time and place when we “bathed bare-bellied”, full of laughter, or, “failing that, invent.” This book by Susan Hawthorne fulfills this promise: it does […]
Becoming Beauty to Ignite Beauty
… we become beauty to ignite the beauty of others: so it is with all the allurements of life. Brian Swimme The Universe is a Green Dragon (1984, p. 79) The above phrase concludes this paragraph by Brian Swimme regarding allurements and pleasure: Do I desire to have this pleasure? or rather, do I desire to […]
Book Review by Eileen Haley: Naming the Goddess
BOOK REVIEW by Eileen Haley, Sydney-based crone, poet and PaGaian: Naming the Goddess. Edited Trevor Greenfield, Foreword by Cheryl Straffon, Introduction by Selena Fox. Moon Books. 2014. Thanks to Moon Books for sending this book to Goddess Association in Australia for review. ‘Naming the Goddess’ is an eclectic collection of articles by over 70 contributors. […]
Conceptions of Samhain
Conceptions of Samhain by Glenys Livingstone Ph.D. as published in Goddess Alive! Issue 26 Autumn/Winter 2014 Samhain preparation and ceremony at my place begin with this breath meditation: Breathe deep … and as you let go of your breath, follow it down, and notice the Space between your breaths. Don’t hold it, just notice it. […]
Creativity of Beltaine Moment
Beltaine is commonly understood in recent times to be a celebration of sexuality, and frequently in particular heterosexuality … but this is a simple reduction, and only one of the valencies of a deeper significance of the Seasonal Moment, which is the extant creativity of Sun and Moon in relationship, with Earth. The notable and […]
Desire, the Universe and Earth-Sun Creativity
For Beltaine especially, and the celebration of Holy Desire/Allurement “We awake to a universe permeated with allurement, and our most primal desire is to become this allurement.” (Brian Swimme, The Universe is a Green Dragon, p.55) ” This bonding is the perdurable fact of the universe and happens primievally in each fresh instant, a welling-up […]
Eostar – Persephone Returns!
This is the time of Spring’s return in our Southern Hemisphere. Warmth and growth may be sensed in the land, the flowers can be smelt in the air. The young light that we celebrated at Imbolc, has grown strong and come to balance with the dark. Life bursts forth with new strength. The story of […]
PaGaian Cosmology 
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