Category Seasonal Moments @ EarthGaia

Equinox – Spring/Autumn @ Earth-Gaia September 2024 C.E.

Our Planet – “Earth” or “Gaia” as we may name Her (and both are Goddess names[i]), comes to one of Her annual points of balance in Her orbit around Sun on September 22nd 12:44 UTC (that’s 22:44 East Coast Australia, where I am). Other global times can be found at  archaeoastronomy.com. This is one of two […]

Imbolc/Lammas @ EarthGaia August 2024 C.E.

With the passing of the Solstice Season, our Planet enters into the waxing light Seasons in the Southern Hemisphere and the waxing dark Seasons in the Northern Hemisphere. These first transition Seasonal Moments after Solstice are frequently named in Old European tradition as Imbolc and Lammas respectively. We as Earth cross the midpoint (the “cross-quarter”) […]

Packing it Up after Winter Solstice – Entering Larger New Being

As I clear and put away the decorations after Winter Solstice this year, I feel it as perhaps the ending of the decades of the Winter Solstice ceremonies I have created and facilitated. I have gathered and created these decorations in those years. I feel the words “I am packing it up.”  I am an old […]

Solstice @ EarthGaia June 2024 C.E.

Earth enters the Season of Solstice at this time in Her orbit around our Mother Sun. It is one of two Solstices for the year, the other being in December. The Southern Hemisphere enters the magic of the Winter Solstice fullness of the dark, and out of that fullness of darkness, the turn/ return to the growing […]

Samhain/Beltaine @ EarthGaia May 2024 C.E.

As Earth’s tilt moves us into the Seasons of Samhain and Beltaine – as they are commonly named in Old European traditions, the dark part of the day continues to grow and dominate in the Southern Hemisphere, and the light part of the day continues to grow and dominate in the Northern Hemisphere. The actual […]

Equinox @ EarthGaia March 2024 C.E.

The Seasonal Moment of Equinox @ EarthGaia as our Planet may be named,[i] will occur March 20th at 3:06 UTC (that’s “Universal Time” as it is named – measured at Greenwich England). Equinox is a moment of balance of dark and light for the Planet, when the dark and the light in the South and in the […]

A Lammas Ceremony

This video (16:45 minutes) was created with a collage of footage and photos from the recent Lammas ceremony I facilitated at my place in Wakka Wakka Country, South East Queensland Australia, and from previous Lammas ceremonies in MoonCourt over the decades. The script for this Lammas/Late Summer ceremony is offered in Chapter 10 of my […]

A Southern Hemisphere Wheel of the Year

I was born in the Southern Hemisphere – in the Great South Land of Australia – and as a white Western European girl child.  Most of the texts and graphics explaining the Cosmos to an Australian and white child were (and still often are) drawn from the Northern Hemisphere perspective. The Moon in her phases were […]

Lammas/Imbolc Season @ EarthGaia February 2024 C.E.

With the passing of Solstice Season our Planet enters into the waxing dark Seasons in the Southern Hemisphere and the waxing light Seasons in the Northern Hemisphere. These first of the transition Moments after Solstice are frequently named in Old European tradition as Lammas and Imbolc respectively. We as Earth cross the midpoint (the “cross-quarter”) […]

A Summer Solstice Ceremony

This video (about 25 minutes) is a collage of footage from a homely Summer Solstice ceremony in December 2023 (as it is in Southern Hemisphere) with my partner Robert Taffy Seaborne, and photos from past Summer Solstice ceremonies in MoonCourt over the years, with my voiceover – and some music added in places. The script […]

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