Author Archives: Glenys D. Livingstone

Winter Solstice Dawn June 2013 C.E.

… over the Triple Spiral window @ MoonCourt Blue Mountains Australia. May the new being within come forth This was after a lovely ceremony the night before under clear sky, with a close to full Moon – t’was cold but we had a good time, and called in all others across space and time who […]

Bolivia article back on-line!

Please note that this article which was lost when pagaian.org went down some months ago, has just been re-posted here: Bolivia: Earth-worshippers in power, sort of

Mother-Matrix for Winter Solstice

MOTHER Mother … mother     Matrix of whom I am a part Elements flux in and out     a continuation of the Original Ovulation. In silence I reach to    increase the space inside of me. As traction decompresses the spine Silence and stillness decompress my spirit,     quickening new electro-chemical impulses […]

Celebrating Cosmogenesis @ Winter Solstice

Winter Solstice Dawn through MoonCourt window   Traditionally Winter Solstice has been celebrated by the ancients – our Gaian ancestors in many regions – as the birth of Light, the birth of Form. The stories of many cultures tell of the Great Mother giving birth to the Divine Child at this time of year. It is this […]

Winter Solstice reflections

Winter Solstice table at Bru-na-BigTree, Blue Mountains, Australia: June 2012 Today I got the maroon fabrics and white ribbons out ready for decorating our place – for ceremony in MoonCourt  on the 21st June, and I printed copies of the ritual script for myself and students who will be coming on the 9th June for preparation: that […]

Integrating the Co-essential Darkness of the Cosmological Unfolding

Integrating the Co-essential Darkness of the Cosmological Unfolding by Glenys Livingstone Ph.D. This article was first published in 2007 at what was called Integrative Spirituality site,  now known as Universe Spirit  We live in times of the witnessing of global transformation. Such a scale of planetary changes has happened before, but humans are integral to this one […]

A Time for Conceiving the More

Samhain is a celebration of the Crone’s process of the transformation of death. She is the Old One who remembers, and from whose sentient depths the new is drawn forth. The imagined conceptions gestate in the fertility of the Old One’s growing dark. Samhain is a profound celebration of the Void – the Void before […]

Orbit: Earth’s everyday sacred Journey

The orbit of Earth around Mother Sun is our everyday sacred journey … we are Earth making this journey. It is our everyday pilgrimage: where are and who we are. We may walk this journey around Sun, make it a “turas” as the Celts name the circular prayer around a sacred site: and remember all others who […]

Samhain Sense

Gradually over the years of practicing the Seasonal ceremonies, I understand more of the depth of the Poetry that I/we have spoken … I sense it more; words like “the Space between the breaths”. I feel its reality, fertility and presence more each time around the wheel of the year. The ceremonial art process,  religiously practiced, has been […]

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