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Creativity of Beltaine Moment
Beltaine is commonly understood in recent times to be a celebration of sexuality, and frequently in particular heterosexuality … but this is a simple reduction, and only one of the valencies of a deeper significance of the Seasonal Moment, which is the extant creativity of Sun and Moon in relationship, with Earth. The notable and […]
Eostar – Persephone Returns!
This is the time of Spring’s return in our Southern Hemisphere. Warmth and growth may be sensed in the land, the flowers can be smelt in the air. The young light that we celebrated at Imbolc, has grown strong and come to balance with the dark. Life bursts forth with new strength. The story of […]
Why We Celebrate Her in Seasonal Ceremony
Why do we do this? … create sacred space wherein She may be spoken, wherein She may be embodied in Her Seasonal expression according to your place? Herewith some reason for celebrating a Gynocentric Cosmology, with religious/spiritual practice: it is more urgent than ever. From PaGaian Cosmology Chapter 4: Charlene Spretnak has noted that: When […]
Wheel of Year Ceremony: En-trancing Gaia’s Womb
By Glenys Livingstone Ph.D. Published in G.A.I.A. Newsletter October 2008, and re-published at Return to Mago blog as En-trancing Gaia’s Womb Through Seasonal Ceremony: Re-creating Her Sacred Site in 2012. In the earliest of Her stories, Gaia – also known as “Ge”, meaning Earth – was the possessor of the oracle in Delphi, the place at the […]
Cosmogenesis Dance for Winter Ceremony
Celebrating the three qualities of Cosmogenesis – differentiation … each unique being: to be is to be unique – communion … the related web: to be is to be related – autopoiesis/subjectivity … the sentience of the Creative Cosmos: to be is to be a centre of creativity.[1] oOo We may say in the Winter […]
Samhain Ceremony and Cosmogenesis
A core inspiration for the processes of the Samhain/Deep Autumn seasonal rite as it has been done here at my place for over a decade, is Robin Morgan’s poem, “The Network of the Imaginary Mother“.[1] The whole poem helped me through a gateway into new language and perceptions some 34 years ago (1980), but the main […]
Autumn Equinox – Thanksgiving and Grieving
In the traditional Autumn Equinox ceremony here, it is said: “In our part of Earth, the balance is tipping into the dark. Feel the shift within you, see in your mind’s eye the descent ahead, the darkness growing, remember the coolness of it. This is the time when we give thanks for our harvests – […]
Lammas Thoughts … and a few Imbolc ones
We drift towards Lammas in the Southern Hemisphere … after the Summer Solstice, the peaking of light, the fullness of being, there comes the falling apart: the rose, the flower, peaks in beauty, then she fades, falls apart … the petals drop, and the seed is exposed. Sometimes the falling apart, the dissolution, comes abruptly […]
Moon Goddess – Primordial Trinity
Moon Goddess: Primordial Trinity and Cosmic/Personal Heritage by Glenys Livingstone Ph.D. This essay is an evolved version of an excerpt from Chapter 2 of my book PaGaian Cosmology: Re-inventing Earth-based Goddess Religion. I am a regular contributor to the Return to Mago blog – you may like to check it for other essays, poems and art as […]
Beltaine Poiesis – allurement, beauty, sight
Some of the Beltaine Poiesis as it has been celebrated in my PaGaian tradition (in the Southern Hemisphere) in early November – the Season of High Spring: – the traditional red is commonly understood in more recent historical times to represent the fertility of the maturing female: the menarche, the first menstrual flow. Perhaps the earlier significance […]
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