Author Archives: Glenys D. Livingstone
We are Sun, we are Food
As of Old, so was She understood … Her Power was/is to give Life – to feed and sustain the world (Inanna/Ishtar in “Mother of Living Nature” Adele Getty, p.39) May we graciously receive Her infinite daily abundance. May we experience fullness of being, that demands to be poured forth: may we be radiant like […]
Moon Goddess – Primordial Trinity
Moon Goddess: Primordial Trinity and Cosmic/Personal Heritage by Glenys Livingstone Ph.D. This essay is an evolved version of an excerpt from Chapter 2 of my book PaGaian Cosmology: Re-inventing Earth-based Goddess Religion. I am a regular contributor to the Return to Mago blog – you may like to check it for other essays, poems and art as […]
Thomas Berry Anniversary – some lectures
It is the 99th anniversary of Thomas Berry’s birth (9th November 1914). Thomas Berry has been a major inspiration for the evolution of PaGaian Cosmology, along with Brian Swimme and many Mothers and Spin-sters (acknowledged here:http://pagaiancosmology.com/book/acknowledgements/). Here are some lectures by Thomas Berry that are being offered in honour of his birthday anniversary:http://thomasberry.org/Biography/lectures.html Gaia Institute Lecture […]
More on Holy Desire
Our desire, our longing, is the Beloved, is the Universe, desiring in us. (PaGaian Beltaine script 2013) Brian Swimme says: “I didn’t make up this desire: it is the Universe desiring in me.” and “Where does the Universe experience its ultimate desire?” … “within any particular.” (somewhere in Canticle to the Cosmos) We are united […]
Beltaine Poiesis – allurement, beauty, sight
Some of the Beltaine Poiesis as it has been celebrated in my PaGaian tradition (in the Southern Hemisphere) in early November – the Season of High Spring: – the traditional red is commonly understood in more recent historical times to represent the fertility of the maturing female: the menarche, the first menstrual flow. Perhaps the earlier significance […]
Her Desire is Felt Throughout Cosmos
As is spoken in this prayer Our Mother:[i] … Her desire is felt/received throughout the Cosmos. I think it is a good prayer for Beltaine … a time for contemplating the Deeper Alluring Power of the Cosmos, which we can actually all feel – present and uniting the Cosmos. We feel it in so many ways […]
(Seasonal essay) Spring Equinox Southern Hemisphere September 2013 by Glenys Livingstone Ph.D.
(Seasonal essay) Spring Equinox Southern Hemisphere September 2013 by Glenys Livingstone Ph.D..
Demeter @ Spring Equinox
The story of Old tells us that Persephone beloved Daughter, returns from Her journey to the Underworld. Demeter, the Mother, stretches out Her arms – to receive and rejoice. The beloved One, the Lost One, returns with new Wisdom from the depths.[1] In the Spring Equinox ceremonial Poetry, as I have written it, I have […]
Eostar thoughts
Spring Equinox (or Eostar as it may be named) may be storied as the Seasonal Moment of Heraic Return, and so it is on the PaGaian Wheel of the Year: PaGaian Cosmology Ch.5 . I have summarized the Moment as ‘stepping into the power of Joy and Being’ … the light has grown strong now, and warmth […]
One Who Hears, Let Me Speak
Sacred ceremony may be an exercise and practice of Speaking new language, a speaking WITH the Mother/Place of Being … a “Con-course” as I name it in PaGaian Cosmology Introduction (p.9, and also p.45). We need to find new language for speaking with our Place of Being, so that we may shape our thinking anew […]
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