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Lammas/Imbolc Season @ EarthGaia 2025 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”) […]

Solstice @ EarthGaia December 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 June. For the Southern Hemisphere December Solstice is the Summer fullness and peaking of the light, and the awesomeness of the turn /return to the dark part […]

Beltaine/Samhain @ EarthGaia November 2024 C.E.

In our everyday sacred journey around Mother Sun we move into the Seasonal Moment of Beltaine/Samhain, as these Seasons are named in many Old European traditions. It is the cross-quarter transition between Equinox and Solstice. In the Southern Hemisphere it is the transition into High Spring/Beltaine, towards the Summer Solstice, and in the Northern Hemisphere it […]

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 […]

Appropriating Her Maternal Creativity

As poet Robin Morgan asks in The Network of the Imaginary Mother: What have they dared, Sucking at man’s wounds for wine,  Celebrating his flesh as food? …  Who have they dared to hang on that spine instead and then deny, across millennia? … She goes on and proclaims: … this cup, this chalice, this primordial […]

December Solstice 2023 – Summer/Winter

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 June. For the Southern Hemisphere December Solstice is the awesomeness of the Summer fullness and peaking of the light, and the turn /return to the growing dark […]

Lammas/Imbolc Season @ EarthGaia 2023 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”) […]

Imbolc/Lammas Season @ EarthGaia 2022C.E.

As Earth/we make our/Her everyday sacred journey around Sun, in the Southern Hemisphere the young light ‘born’ at Winter Solstice is waxing and in the Northern Hemisphere the young dark ‘born’ at Summer Solstice is waxing. We as Earth cross the midpoint (the “cross-quarter”) between Solstice and Equinox on August 7th at 12:36 UTC. All […]

PaGaian Cosmology Course 2021 -2022

The PaGaian Cosmology course for the Northern Hemisphere begins with the coming of Autumn there: with the Introduction material sent anytime in September, and then Samhain/Deep Autumn material sent out in early-mid October. Students may set their own pace within alignment to the Seasonal transitions. … The year-long on-line course is suitable for the novice […]

Solstice – Winter/Summer June 2021 C.E.

Earth enters the Season of Solstice at this time in Her orbit around Mother Sun. In the Southern Hemisphere it is the Winter Solstice: the lengthening dark part of the day will peak and there will be the turn/ return to the growing light out of that fullness of darkness. It is a Moment for celebrating the […]

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