Category Winter Solstice
The Solstices as a Pouring Forth – into Light or Dark
Winter Solstice ceremony is about celebrating the fullness of the dark, which involves at the same time the birthing of light. This fullness of dark may be understood as the fullness of emptiness, which many religious mystical traditions and poets have understood as a quality of emptiness: that is, that emptiness is full and sentient. […]
Cosmogenesis Dance
At Winter Solstice ceremony in MoonCourt on 17th June we filmed our Cosmogenesis Dance. Its three layers are resonant with the three qualities of Cosmogenesis and the three aspects of the Female Metaphor/Goddess. There is a bit of story about the dance here (Appendix I of PaGaian Cosmology).
We Are Cosmic Dynamics
At the Solstices, in traditional PaGaian ceremony, we recognize and recall the sacred space (that is, in traditional Pagan language, “call the directions”), with recognition that we are Cosmic Dynamics of the elements, as poetically inspired by cosmologist Brian Thomas Swimme’s perception of water, fire, earth and air.[1] This recalling, and “creating of sacred space” […]
Gate of the Year
I said to the one who stood at the Gate of the Year: “Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown.” And the angel said: “Go out into the darkness and put your hand in the hand of the One. That will be to you better than a light […]
Creation Stories @ Winter Solstice
In PaGaian Cosmology, and sometimes explicitly expressed in other traditions, Winter Solstice/Yule essentially celebrates the Birth of All, Origins (capitalized because it needs to be noted as a sacred and ultimate event). Winter Solstice is a good time to contemplate Creation stories. Here is one – a Poem from Jami 1414, with an image (from […]
(Essay) Winter Solstice – Celebrating Birthing New Being by Glenys Livingstone Ph.D.
Winter Solstice thoughts … “We celebrate the birth of the new Being, which/who is always beyond us, beyond our knowing … yet is within us, burgeoning within us – and within Gaia. What will save us is already present within – forming within us.” For full essay see link below: Return to Mago E-Zine
Poetry for Birthing New Being
This is one of my favourite poems to contemplate at the Seasonal Moment of Winter Solstice: it expresses so much for me of the journey into new being, and continues to at this time. Birthing is a shamanic act – it is frought with challenge and often takes one to the limits, yet eventually the […]
