Tag Archives: Gaian spirituality

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 […]

Beltaine/Samhain @ GaiaEarth November 2017

The actual Moment of this cross-quarter, the midpoint between Equinox (Spring/Autumn) and Solstice (Summer/Winter) is 5:25 UT (Universal Time) on the 7th November … that’s November 7th 15:25 EST Australia – my place: other global times are available at archaeoastronomy.com.                 In the Southern Hemisphere it is the Season of […]

We Are the Ancestors

… for the current Samhain Season (in the Southern Hemisphere), as well as the planetary meltdown we witness: may we remember a deeper story always present. This was originally published in Gaian Voices Volume 6, Number 1 & 2, 2008 (by Glenys Livingstone Ph.D.) In the last couple of years two significant friends of mine have passed, trans-formed. […]

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 […]

Equinox – Spring/Autumn September 2016 C.E.

The Seasonal Moment of Equinox @ EarthGaia comes around again at 14:21 UT on the 22nd September – the second for this Gregorian calendar year of 2016, and it is Spring in the Southern Hemisphere, Autumn in the Northern Hemisphere.  At my place East Coast Australia that is 0:21 on the 23rd September … and all global times may be […]

PaGaian Cosmology On-line Course

September is a good time for Northern Hemisphere people to begin this course, as Autumn rolls in. It is a very rich course, with material that will last you for years … you can keep coming back to it, grazing, following your threads of interest and developing it with your own creativity … some do […]

Imbolc/Lammas Moment August 2016 C.E.

As Earth continues Her/our everyday sacred journey around Mother Sun, the Seasonal Moment of Imbolc/Lammas is next in the orbit: it depends on your Hemisphere as to which aspect of the Moment you experience. We – all beings – do not need to go anywhere for this everyday pilgrimage: we are already travelling, and maybe walking it. […]

June Solstice 2016 C.E. EarthGaia

It is the Season of Solstice – Earth’s tilt in relationship with Mother Sun, our Source  of life and being, leans us to the furthest point, in both the South and the North: see Her there in your mind’s eye, as She orbits … The actual Moment of June Solstice 2016 @ EarthGaia is 10:44 UT […]

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