Tag Archives: Creativity

Attending to Summer Solstice Poetry

In the Southern Hemisphere, the Poetry of Summer Solstice is particularly ignored because at this Seasonal Moment, mainstream is celebrating Christmas, which is really a Winter Solstice thing appropriated by Christian faith long ago, and now appropriated by the capitalist consumer faith. Frequently even in Southern Hemisphere Pagan circles, where Summer Solstice is celebrated, the […]

PaGaian Cosmology Preface

The term “PaGaian” requires some explanation: it expresses a reclaiming of the term “Pagan” as meaning a person who dwells in “country”, yet with “Gaian” spliced in, it expresses a renewed and contemporary understanding of that “country”. “Gaia” is a name for humanity’s Habitat, an ancient yet new name, which I understand to include whole […]

Everyday Acts – the Bread of Life

In Summer Solstice ceremony we may remember that “the Creativity that pours forth from us is Divine, Sacred – is what the Cosmos is made of.” We remember “that it is the Sun that ripens in us, we are the Bread of Life – that our Passion released, may feed the world.” May there be […]

Lammas/Imbolc@ EarthGaia Feb 2017

In the Southern Hemisphere it is the season of the waxing dark, post-Summer Solstice, and in the Northern Hemisphere it is the season of the waxing light, post-Winter Solstice.  At this place and time in Earth’s annual orbit – our everyday sacred journey – Earth makes the post-Solstice transition, crossing the midpoint (the “cross-quarter”) between […]

Re-Visioning Mythologies of Gender/Sex

This essay was first published in Goddess Pages in 2008, isssue 9. ‘Gender’ might be described as “one’s perception of their self as being” either female or male, and ‘sex’ as “the physical appearance of one’s body” as either female or male.[1]   The “sex” of a body is commonly understood to necessarily be able to […]

Making Sacred: Space for the Not-Yet

It seems timely … as well as Seasonal (for both Hemispheres): originally published in Goddess Pages issue 6 (2008) As the Wheel turns into Imbolc in the Northern Hemisphere, it is the Seasonal Moment of Lammas in the Southern Hemisphere. For those in the planet’s South, Earth’s tilt is delivering the post-Summer Solstice welcoming of the new Dark, the […]

Brian Swimme Quotes

From Cosmologist Brian Swimme whose teaching has been a major part of the inspiration of PaGaian Cosmology. The universe began as an eruption of space, time, matter, and energy out of all-nourishing abyss, the hidden source of all creativity. The universe began as a titanic bestowal, a stupendous quantum of free energy given forth from the […]

Pagan Review of My Name is Medusa

MY NAME IS MEDUSA By Glenys Livingstone Ph.D., Illustrated by Arna Baartz. Review by Veronica Scoot, for The Small Tapestry, Pagan Awareness Network newsletter, Spring 2016. I was thrilled when Glenys Livingstone asked me to review this delicious book. It was put to me as a children’s book, but to be honest, I can’t endorse […]

The Equinoxes as Story of Redemption: Sacred Balance of Maternal Creativity

Each year in March and September, the Autumn and Spring Equinoxes occur at the same time on the Planet – they are the Seasonal Moments of balance of light and dark, in the dark part and in the light part of the year respectively. The story essentially enacted and told at these seasonal transitions is […]

Sacred Words of Spring Equinox

When we have been lost and lost others – when we have lost beloved ones, including ourselves … When we have wandered the barren fields of our psyches, minds and our lives … When we feel we have failed and our hearts are broken … When we know we have made terrible errors of judgement […]

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